Ep. 901: Trump’s Turkey Ammo, Venison at Wimbledon, Death Threats in Alabama, Texas Turns Soft

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A local goose population gets eradicated and death threats ensue. Spencer ties up loose ends. Wimbledon, the tennis thing, is serving venison. Florida coyotes are living off iguanas, seriously. Dope and weed are sorta like synonyms. Politicians are wetting their beaks, as a Godfather reference, on tungsten metals and more. But first, our news. I'll tell you about our news. Auction House of Oddities. I'm firing away the biggest Auction House of Oddities ever. Now, just, what the Auction House of Oddities is, it's a fundraiser we do for our own land access initiative. All the money that comes in from the Auction House of Oddities goes to the land access initiative. The land access, our land access initiative is used to fund access enhancement projects around the country. We help fund a project in Maine. We help fund a project in Montana. We're working on one down in North Carolina. We're working on one down in Wyoming. That's what we use the money for. I think it's important to mention that we help just because the magnitude of these projects and why we ask for help. Because we couldn't do it ourselves. homemade items from their own pantry stocks chutneys smoked salmon smoked salmon apple butter pickled pike bear grease no bear grease oh an og oh a really old camera that we filmed a bunch of meat eater episodes with it's called the og meat eater cinema camera first light cody gloves with custom artwork on them mark kenyon's tethered saddle hunting kit signed and here's okay brent reeves bow so matthews we have a thing that was donated to us in order to put in the auction house of oddities which is a model a model 94 lever action rifle chambered in 30 30 and then here's one that i feel guilty having because we shouldn't have it a box of fly fishing memorabilia from the personal collection of lefty Cray lefty craze personal correspondence ties that lefty Cray tied ties that got flies tied flies that he tied flies that his friends tied and gave to him people are annoyed that we wound up with this yeah I'll bet well if they're annoyed they should buy it did their did his estate yes yes gifted to us his estate gifted to us a museum should be buying it yeah if I could pick one thing from our auction house to have I'd pick this Harvard has a history of fishing ex exhibit this should be there this shouldn't be in our office and it should it should the collection should be called if it if it ain't chartreuse if any chartreuse ain't no use um there you have it auction house bodies live now goes for two weeks it's gonna be big get your bids in now some of the stuff you get there's a couple items you got to pick most of the stuff we just mail to you you can read all about it if that ain't enough fundraising Yanni is it too early to start thinking about turkey honey no because it's time to start planning planning yeah we've got plans um probably in I'm guessing middle of April again we're gonna go back to the same farm that you and I and a couple of trcp hunt winners from last year we're at uh in mid-April we're gonna be back there in 2027 with the sweepstakes and the sweepstakes is going on right now so you can buy tickets there's some pictures up here on if you're watching oh there's our boys uh day one John Clowner so the winner actually didn't come he had was his wife was about to give birth and so he sent his two brother brothers-in-law and uh you know we had we later had him for dinner oh yeah how how was he it's great me and Spencer hosted them for dinner oh cool uh so there's one of his brothers-in-law and himself on day one and then same day actually Steve you killed with Steven right we killed three I think the first day there's Steven helping uh the boys butcher their birds uh what else it's the next one oh there's some awesome fishing there that's a little guy that's the only guy we took pictures of but there are some like three foot plus musky that I'm going to be prepared to catch when we go back next private this is private pond fishing yeah there are reclaims an old gravel reclaimed Quarries yeah um anyways great farm great turkey hunting and uh for a great cause uh you know what's trcp does is uh ensuring guaranteeing Americans quality places to hunt and fish there you go so we cover all the expenses we cover your airfare transportation tags lodging we bring in a cook yeah yeah which is probably going to be Andy again I hope so yeah which is amazing yeah let's not leave let's not leave let's not leave let's not leave let's not leave let's not leave let's not forget Guy Grunwald is hosting us yeah we've had on you've had on the interview show um very entertaining host I mean if you're interested in all about the fur business in the United States of America the guy has answers and more and he he'll host us for tacos oh it's it's awesome it's a great great time and like I said it's for a great cause um so go buy some raffle tickets I think you can get 10 for 25. and then then there's more options as if you want to spend more money thanks oh I have another another piece of our news I just got some input on this too oh on trcp no on what you're going to talk about right now oh great you're doing a little little little research okay a ducks unlimited a duck the guy I know in life that knows the most about ducks uh-huh next to Max Barta yep he responded to you only the hens quack in the air ducks make a noise they don't quack Drake's making noise I'm sorry okay he's saying that he watched some Drake's going right right not yeah just the other day maybe two three weeks ago I was fishing with Tony Peterson uh doing a little fishing show on his uh local Lake catching uh smallies and largemouth and there were not a lot but uh quite a few ducks here and you'd see him sitting on people's docks or you know up against the shore and multiple times we had Drake's fly by us quacking when you say quack do you mean does it quite sound like a hen's quack maybe not exactly was it it was not that sound it was not the Drake whistle compliments to you Steve you're good at that yeah you got that one that's the same noise I make for a turkey spitting and um spitting parts the best I just don't know how those turkeys do it with that funny little tongue of theirs and they spit you make the noise you heard it was a it was a quack it was just and Max Bart it was like a duck maniac duck maniac saying that you must be hearing a hand somewhere else yes yes but the drink was just sinking it was it wasn't just my me versus Max there was another angler in the boat Tony Peterson who is seeing and hearing the exact same thing we're watching a Drake literally fly by us his mouth opens and you hear a quack not a whistle and then he does it again and then we see another Drake the next day and he does it again pull up pull up Drake Mallard quacking you should have Phil pull it up and then Phil can put it on the screen that's a whole ton of ducks that's no good that's a dumb video yeah you'd have to be like yeah never mind that'd take a little more time anyways okay so I did make noise again my my my my theory is that it's one of those things like uh yeah all wild game tastes bad it's what it's it's like someone told Max and my brother-in-law who's a huge duck Hunter and every other dude that's just a hardcore duck Hunter that only the hens quack that's what I've always been like how antelope don't go over fences except the ones that do exactly yeah Nate expect some emails about this one I think and so that even though he's literally seeing a Drake flying by quacking he still is just like nope there's a hand over on the bank somewhere that's quacking and it just happens to be coinciding with that Drake opening his mouth okay I got hit I got a Cornell ornithology lab open oh here we go this is under mail calls huh that's a lot like a quack now do a hen quacking it's more like a quack yeah it's more like a quack she's gonna get it yeah I see your point now just so that the the viewers and listeners also can hear play play the Drake whistle is that also right there in the list of mail calls no well you can hear you can hear in the background will they do a longer one the Cornell lab also says definitively the mail does not quack instead he gives a quieter rasping one or two noted call that's right it's like a quack with a capital Q and a quack with a little cue there you go somewhere in the middle this is the last bit of our news over to Spencer I was just on the Oregon Coast for a week and I got two highlights were you with Mrs Newhart I was okay yes for most of the trip we split up for here and there oh yeah we were on the Oregon Coast together you ever split up for a whole night um no the closest was like seven hours where I went fishing and she went shopping really man my wife does not approach vacations that way well if you plan it then you should be like here's what we're doing during this seven hour stretch there's no way your wife doesn't have a little alone time during your vacation I went away if I went like just her and I went away on a trip and I said hey I got an idea for today that's not no no if I was like I'm taking all the kids and we're gonna go fishing then it'd be like knock yourselves out yeah no no but if it was just the two of you and you're like hey didn't you want to go to the spa who which i know that she loves hitting the spa yeah but that's not gonna be like seven out no i mean we go away the two of us like once every decade yeah you want to hang out yeah like for me to be like doesn't have kids different all right what was the high what were the highlights two highlights the first highlight we were together for uh primarily why we went there was to see uh the puffins there's a few million yeah there's a few million tufted puffins on on the earth uh but if you want to see them you like need to get on a boat to go somewhere far away or go to alaska but in the lower 48 if you want to be standing on shore and see a puffin there's like one place you go it's called haystack rock uh it's in this is haystack rock that's a famous rock it gets its picture taken a lot it does yes it's not a canon beach oregon covered in birds but there's only about a hundred tufted puffins that live here now is the best time to go see them like literally right now you can't see them you can't see them you can't see them uh because the parents will get out of their den they'll go fish out at sea and then they'll come back with a mouthful of fish and then they'll feed their young so they're just like extra visible especially in the morning uh so we go to see the puffed puffed or the tufted puffins um and you know only a hundred of them up there my wife spots one right away and so we pull up the the binos and we've got a spotting scope and we're looking at this this is not this is a different one we saw later in total uh no you're good phil in total we saw nine of the tufted puffins of the hundred we saw them and the first one we see there's like one that looks like this it's got the white face mask and we saw another one had the black face mask so all the birds in that picture are not uh only the one in the middle of the screen with the orange orange beak that's your tufted puff there's one that quacks there up high a lot of birds up there so the first first two we see uh you know one with the white face mask one of the black face mask every other one we saw had a white face mask just like this one um and so we go up to a volunteer who volunteer there what are they volunteering about right now is the great puffin watch there's a three-day period in july where you go during the great puffin watch and they'll be like you know they come back every year and they're monogamous and uh they feed their so they're volunteering about to give you information and also be like don't touch that starfish and like you know step back things like that are you are you a birder and throughout life no not just no just something i'll dabble in here and there yeah uh but we want to see the tufted was there a bunch of hard core birders with their giant cameras there yeah but if you were a hardcore birder you wouldn't be there during the great puffin watch because that's just lame yeah i mean it's just like too many people too much going on yeah so we go up to one of these volunteers who's there to you know answer all your questions we're like why why did the one have a black face mask we didn't see any other ones like that they're like you saw that one we're like yeah it was like on this side of the rock they're like well two weeks ago um one during a different puffin count at this rock uh one of the volunteers there also spotted one with a black face mask and that's not normal in my head it was like oh that's the female yeah the white face mask is the male and she's like i can't remember what they called it but it's a thing where they're like all black and i was like melanistic and she's like yes melanistic um so we saw sounds like they need a new uh volunteer volunteer yeah so we saw the rare tufted puffin that was melanistic on haystack rock and just real tickled congratulations it's now like one of the rarest animals that i feel like we've collected uh is the the melanistic puffin when you google melanistic tufted puffin there's no results either so this is not like a thing yeah that that is happening often in this population that's great did you get a picture of this one i did not because we didn't know it was special at the time so i didn't take a picture it was like a joe blow puffin it was the first two we saw was the a regular puffin in the melanistic one uh so we're thrilled about that i'm gonna contact them again and be like what what new information you got uh do we know anything about this this melanistic tufted puffin or not um so that is going to make me a burger now i'm like well i've collected this one so like therefore i i should be a burger yeah but if you can't if you're like a space alien and you show up in the in america or the world and the first guy you're running he's like hulk hogan yeah or you like o'neill yeah you'd be like huh you catch ante right off the rip that's right yeah so we collected rare tufted puffin that was um highlight number one highlight number two was i got to catch north america's biggest freshwater puffin puffin i got to catch north america's biggest fresh water fish uh which is the white sturgeon oh damn and this is while my wife was shopping uh i went fishing with a guy i met out there and uh caught two of them the white sturgeon did you get the great so much that they do uh yes so this is also the best time of year to be doing that because they'll be up in shallows uh we like we caught three white sturgeon that day and we caught them in four feet of water and 20 feet of water um so just a variety four feet of water four feet of water that one was an aerial sturgeon yeah he came up right away whole body out of the water and then just like the whole day about every half hour you'd see a sturgeon come out of the water um don't know what they're doing i don't think anybody has a good idea that bad boy they just free jump yeah they do free jump and it's like uh you see a variety of moves that they do sometimes they'll come out like a whale where they like you know they fully breach and then they land on their side other times it'd be like a dolphin uh other times they just roll on the surface like you'd see a paddle fish or a carp do uh so just like a lot of a lot of sturgeon being seen did the guide like you did he like me yeah yeah i think i think he liked me i met him last year uh at his food truck that he owns it's called pacific root and he's like hey i also served no he serves donuts he's like so you're snacking on a donut and he says uh hey you know apropos nothing yeah i'm a sturgeon guide uh he's a steelhead and trout guide this he sort of dabbles in on the side but he's like hey if you ever want to come out fish and let me know and i'm like well don't offer that if you don't mean it because yeah i will do it i i would love to catch uh one of these bucket list fish well how heavy would you say the biggest one was uh six and a half feet long and i think googling that was like i don't know 130 to 160 pounds wow somewhere in there caught my cut bait on cut bait yeah it's very familiar if you can't fish right um it's just like using like a seven inch frozen anchovy uh sometimes it would just be a smorgasbord of of bait on there you do an anchovy plus two earthworms plus a sand shrimp and they were just trolling the bottom looking looking for dead stuff and you're you're you're anchored up anchored up yep it's just soaking lead on the bottom yeah just very familiar if you were gonna go catch a catfish and then we're on the continent all of a sudden that thing's just swimming away it's not like you get like a nibble um you do get a nibble yeah it's it's that part you know it's kind of like watching a bobber go down do they bobber but it's just like small rod to 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old man joke to even call it dope smoking but when it back you know whatever time ago whatever time ago 20 years ago or whatever that's it if you go look at the internet and go look at any definition dope 100 a dope smoker is 100% dope smoker is 100% dope smoker can be a weed smoker now it's not as accurate as saying a marijuana smoker but it puts you in the right ballpark you'll get pushback on the whole marijuana thing too i don't care you listen of all the groups to offend it's one you're least worried about no no i'm not like that worried about many of them that you get like oh the whatever like you know the catch release guys are mad the high fence guys are mad the dope smokers are mad like okay let's get back to back to that's the thing about the dope smokers though is they don't get mad they do apparently they came after you unless these weren't dope smokers yeah these were the heroin another big correction huge correction that nate mason needs to make yeah in your in our news your news talking about michigan elk a number of alert listeners or viewers i should say pointed out that there was no blue dots on that rocky mountain elk foundation map in the state of michigan and molt of many people confirmed that there are probably 700 elk in the state of michigan we applied every year as a kid was it just a real old map or they know it's no it's just i don't i couldn't figure it out i can i can get a hold anyone at uh rmf but uh yeah they've been there for a long time a long time yeah long time i didn't i didn't even look to notice that's a huge mistake on your big time big time current distribution michigan's got them my old man used to bow hunt whitetails up in that neck of the woods and uh it's kind of like if you were to if you make a michigan map with your hand and you go to your it's the the elk are kind of between the first and second knuckle on your middle finger that might not be totally accurate that's pretty good they're around that ballpark yep um he used to hunt whitetails up there and do nothing but sit in his tree stand taking photos elk oh it's like you're sitting around drowning an elk hoping a whitetail comes by do you ever know anybody who killed one there nope never you know anybody who drew one nope do not it's a slim draw yep those elk are how i learned about the mud vein thing oh where i had a client in colorado who had had a friend who had gotten a tag killed an elk and then when uh the guide was clean gutting it said hey do you want the mud veins and the guy was like mud veins like off a crayfish yeah off a crayfish i don't know mud vein like the little ship tube yeah you're talking about something about a tenderloin yeah i know but he's using the terminology yeah yeah yeah as though it's like a poop tube yeah and and the guy cut out the tenderloins and said he was going to feed the mud veins to his dog because they're stinky and gross oh last night i guess i had some trim i was like trimming a heart you know that all that fat and junk so i had that in a bowl to give my dog and then like my dog was at your house so i put it in there and i put it in there and i put it in there in the freezer yeah then i got it back out and it sat a lot longer and i pulled it out last night it was pretty rotten my wife's like oh my god don't give that to the dog i'm like that dog don't care so i gave it to the dog and that dog i'm not kidding man dog hadn't finished 10 seconds right up on the carpet and i'm like there's no way it's related to the rot on that thing there has to be coincidence how'd you take that out of the freezer yeah i got it back out and it sat a lot longer and i pulled it out last night it was pretty rotten my wife's like oh my god don't give that to the dog i'm like that dog don't care so i gave it to the dog and that dog i'm not kidding man that dog hadn't finished 10 seconds right up on the carpet and i'm like there's no way it's related to the rot on that thing there has to be coincidence something to date yesterday i was like there's no way that did it poor tracker yeah and i'm i'm really surprised that she wouldn't take a few hours off and just go hang out at the spa all right on to the the news the actual news and spencer's gonna start out with a roundup of spencer stories yeah so i i just want to i think that's something i'll do in the future you like cover something you reach out for quotes they don't come in in time or development happens like the day we put out the podcast so i think that's something i'll do in the future so i had three stories i want to circle back to first one is the west virginia golden trout update uh if you don't remember an angler set the new state record for palomino trout with a 28 inch uh 12 pound fish it was caught on the south bend of the potomac river now as i talked about that day it's likely the fish was stocked there a few days prior by the west virginia dnr but i wanted to hear them say it so i reached out to them looks like a stalker don't it ronnie yeah we david wellman the assistant chief of fish management for the dnr he got back to me we can't leave yanni's comment hang i didn't know this brody said what you're seeing is wrong with its tail is it hanging it's it's a braiding its tail on its tank so david wellman the assistant chief of fish management for the dnr he got back to me and here's what he said quote that fish was stocked this year as most west river trout due to the warm temps during the summer and fall so confirmed the dnr stocked a state record that was caught just a few days later so we we already knew that but they didn't say it they wouldn't come out and directly say it and so now somebody did and now i'm just like extra amused by the whole thing they're like yeah it's a state record uh that was living in a raceway you know 72 i wonder if the guy grabs that thing to stock it record baby oh yeah and i'm not trying like i had a few times when i caught him not knowing that there had been a stocking recently one time it was on i was angling myself and just under happened to be fishing at a put in by a bridge and they literally dumped the fish off the bridge and all of a sudden i yank in this i don't know two foot plus rainbow and i'm like oh my gosh you know biggest fish i've seen all summer and then another time you know our dear friend lindsey meyer i mean she caught the biggest trout i've i ever guided anyone to how big i don't know i don't know yeah i mean 30 inches i mean it's a giant and you think that one just came off a truck oh yeah they just don't like you can't fish for 10 years on the same river like not not know somebody that catches a fish like that and then all of a sudden one day there's like 10 of them in one pool the funny thing is a few days after yannis and my client she caught it a few days later alvin doe's client got the same damn fish on the same bridge huh oh there you go anyway all right update number two this is for the iowa forty four thousand dollar walleye there was a fishing contest held by the iowa great lakes area chamber of commerce anglers had two days to catch a tagged walleye in okoboji to win the forty four thousand dollar grand prize multiple anglers tried to claim the money but both were rejected first angler caught a fish that was tagged in 2025 so that didn't count the other angler he brought in a fish that was tagged in 2026 but it was dead so that made it ineligible we have an update you the contest carries on after walleye weekend end it goes for the rest of the summer but the prize money is significantly reduced uh two weeks after it ended ken williams caught himself one of those lucky walleye and he won six thousand dollars for it uh so at least some money got handed out anglers have until august 31st to claim the last two cash prizes of the extended contest which of those guys is the guy who's it is the dude with the uh second from the left the guy on the far left he's the one in the video and he's the one who's going to be the winner of the contest video we watched who had to break the news that the dead walleye came in. Also some more news from the same body of water. West Lake Okoboji just had their first paddlefish caught since 1919. It was captured in net by biologists just a couple of weeks ago. The fish was once common in that area, but it disappeared after a bunch of dams were put in place. The Iowa DNR started a paddlefish stocking program a few years ago. This is the first one that they've recaptured. It weighed 12 pounds, measured 28 inches from the eye to the fork in the tail. And here's a look at one of the last paddlefish. fish that was ever caught in that lake uh weighed 185 pounds and it was speared by an ice angler go the guy put two spears in it he couldn't get out of the hole himself so he ran up to shore got one of his buddies named charlie and then charlie came to help him drag it out of the that's a serious looking man right there dude i got beat brody's ass 185 pounds i'd take him man came out of okoboji one of the final paddle fish to ever be caught there that's a serious looking man i don't want a hat like that that's a good hat he looks like a dude who would spear a paddle fish yeah one of the only paddle two spears yeah that's been speared through the ice in north america i'm sure all right last update or if he's drunk on beer when that happened you have to be he was he was in 50 foot of water uh and he speared it 15 feet below him which is a heck of a shot with a spear it is he was yeah that's what the story said from 1919 that it was and there's no way they got confused over time you no no not a chance that's totally legit all right last update is the ohio bigfoot update if you don't remember in a span in a five-day span back in march there were seven bigfoot sightings around portage county uh four of those happened in the exact same day i reached out to some sasquatch experts for their take on this rash of sightings here's what they told me first one was jeremiah byron via the bigfoot society he said that the weather was unseasonably warm that week which resulted in bigfoots being more active plus people were being more active uh so it just resulted in kicking them out flushing them out yeah they were encountering each other more oh i see with good weather for humans with good weather for bigfoots it was it was a warm week in march yeah they were just bumping into each other out in the woods they're both out that's what jeremiah said about that uh cliff berrickman from the big from the north american bigfoot center uh i asked cliff if there's a chance that the bigfoots were migrating uh or they were rutting or responding to a certain moon phase and he said quote that is nonsense and pretty sensationalized so he did not like that theory of mine that that sensationalized yeah no there's some good stuff uh cliff says he's not convinced that the reports were properly vetted oh uh he he noted that some of the witnesses weren't interviewed until days after the sightings uh that's bad procedure from his perspective he said the sightings were being gathered by bigfootmaps.com however the bigfoot field researchers organization uh which cliff told me is the most reliable source for bigfoot sightings did not have an uptick in sightings that week so to recap bigfootmaps.com had the bunch of had you know the report of increase in sightings the bigfoot field researchers organization did not so bigfoot maps is kind of like they're like chumps they are so i reached out to the bigfoot field researchers organization for their take yeah so matt moneymakers who i talked to he's one of the founding members of the bigfoot it's a great logo researchers organization uh mat said that they sent an investigator to interview the very first witness in this string of sightings uh and he told me that this investigator is someone who tends to give the benefit of the doubt to people uh and the investigator concluded that this was not a legitimate sighting by that first witness the witness he interviewed was a 15 year old boy who is an aspiring cryptozoologist oh who is an aspiring cryptozoologist and the investigator who just started his own local bigfoot group and so the investigator said you know he's maybe doing this to get himself some street yeah that's like like a fox garden hen house that's not the right thing uh-huh but that's a thing what would it be it's not the fox garden the hen house yeah i mean it's it's the bigfoot person seeing a bigfoot yeah it's like that it's just like that yeah that's what it sounds like uh now matt's team matt's team he's tested bigfootmaptic.com before he sent them obviously fake reports to see what would happen uh from their experience those reports get published within a few hours with no follow-up questions one time they even submitted like a joke name and the email address was bigfoot maps own email address and it still got reported like it still went up as legit so they're like totally like just phoning in yeah so there's like there's a commercializing there's a rivalry there is yes and and matt was um very hot about this subject now matt did tell me that bigfoot do live in northeast ohio it's actually one of the hot spots on the continent uh matt had his very first face-to-face encounter there back in 1994 uh he saw two bigfoots at once one of them got to within 15 feet and it growled at him until he left the area man northeast ohio is close yeah so despite despite matt being a skeptic of the reports in portage county he's not a skeptic back in march no he did tell me that their organization has gotten some credible reports from around the ohio river in jefferson county so if you're in the area and want to find a bigfoot he recommends starting in jefferson county not portage county because the portage county folks are just a hoax bigfoot's got that far now you know man that's a great report thanks for that spencer you're welcome moving from that area down to madison alabama where one of our you know the term citizen scientist a citizen journalist apprises of this but we got a tip we had a tip they want to remain anonymous oh they do yeah because of the uh yeah it's there's death threats flying over there we're going to talk about a canada goose issue that's good that's got the fbi fbi's involved on it now so a citizen tipped us off for this story but he wants to stay out of it because all the death threats getting thrown around down here alabama basically here's how it goes yet two large communities in the madison alabama area each of them is struggling with what they perceive to be a goose problem they certain members of each of these communities perceive to be suffering from overpopulated geese some say that the goose crisis is so acute that pets are dying pets are dying now pets always die in any community there's a pet dying somewhere you follow me but these pet deaths are attributed to these geese to like fecal matter or something i thought it was a tax i wish they have swans way more interesting seven the geese there's so many geese people are saying that these geese are spreading avian influenza and now 75 of the local swans are dead from these geese they say in their pond this is a hoa pond it's a private hoa pond one of these places the one i'm going to focus on is a private hoa pond they're even saying that there's a fish die off in the pond related to all the nutrient loading from goose ship okay so these hoas are suffering from geese but this is a tale of two hoas one hoa takes takes a draconian approach and they call in the feds who come in and round up and execute euthanize coal what have you 500 geese which i'll point out is not that's something that happens with geese around the country sure right sure a lot of geese yeah i'm not even telling you what i think about the whole thing how'd they do it don't know it's not been released they trapped them some people are saying they gassed them wow that makes sense to me i don't know what they did to them and i don't know if they went to a food bank the other hoa they didn't use a punk gun they didn't use a gun they did not punt gun them the other hoa is exploring other options the hoa that did the death dealing those hoa members are now being subject to death threats bad death threats you got the madison subdivision you got the heritage plantation subdivision just based off those names who do you think did the dude i when you used the breath this i thought you were going to say madison wisconsin and then you said alabama i wonder if these two uh subdivisions have alabama partisan partisan voting differences oh heritage plantation chose to euthanize madison alabama chose to seek other alternatives the facebook comments page is is a great representation just of american sentiment um a thing that strikes me about going through the facebook comments on this news source are how little people will do to find out if what they're saying makes sense before they put it down so here you have people saying they're federally protected here you have people saying they're uh they're a non-native invasive you have all manner of opinions most of which could be solved with a very quick internet search one guy had an interesting observation where he said canadian geese are the kudzu of of birds another guy named glennie says without geese on a pond now follow this without geese on a pond cottonmouth snake population infestation increase on the way snakes will be hanging in the shrubs even snakes love sunning on concrete walks they serve as hot rocks to all snakes crawling up in the cars garage even inside those hoa houses before it's over without no geese that's why farms have geese on their ponds yep he says venomous state snake infestation prevention another guy just one one of the only people that was truly truly trying to be helpful was a guy that wrote in and said why hasn't anyone tried putting an egyptian duck in there he will run off any other bird trying to stay there by himself wow i didn't know that he'll chase people and dogs too but you'll have no geese and he proves that it works because he says that they did that at magnolia springs and no geese i here's i can't believe it came down to execute a lot of other people had dumb stuff to say like why don't they move them to a sanctuary it's like what what sanctuary or people like why don't they go put them on the river but well the problem is they have wings and they just kind of go like they just kind of go back where they want to be but i really can't i mean how would it be that a couple dogs well they have those dogs that are trained to haze them that's what i'm saying golf course just use them if one thing geese hunters know how to do like geese the one thing goose hunters know how to do is make it the geese don't come back to a spot it's like you can say a lot of bad things about hunting but i'll tell you one thing if there's geese in a spot and you hunt them real heavy those geese don't come back well it turns them off to a spot to be fair i think this is a problem that's happening in suburban and urban areas all over the country with canada geese it just seems you know i don't know i'm not there if i was living in that hoa i would have said come on are we honestly gonna have the government come out and trap and gas 500 geese we can't figure out a way to see ourselves through this or wait till they move on or get someone's dog that likes to chase geese or have some dudes shoot them are we really gonna call in the federal government dude people were getting ill too you missed that in the email people were getting ill i don't know i don't know people i got i got a cold the other day i don't know is it my blaming a goose on it well i mean i don't know this whole thing that we're reporting on is coming off in this one email isn't it i don't know i'm trying to apply some healthy skepticism to the whole thing that's it uh just did a quick google search about the egyptian uh geese is he is he a bad mofo yeah they are bad mofos oh i wouldn't mess with him yeah a very very fierce and they will run off all other birds or if they tried that i know they didn't try that no mad magnolia springs they did and it worked it just seems in all seriousness in all seriousness it just feels to me it's very dramatic it feels very dramatic to call in the federal government to trap and euthanize geese because you have a goose problem on a pond it just feels extreme i'm trying to find ways to justify it maybe maybe there was like a avian flu concern that they it just i'm just saying feels extreme for answers when a bear shows up in my neighborhood i always like to tell people just don't tattletale on the bear don't tattletale on the bear he'll be fine he'll do something different tomorrow but what if there's like 40 bears in your neighborhood don't tattletale on them either okay just love just just walk through the that bear just let it be we interviewed a town on media radio who was dealing with a goose problem at their local parks and they started using a goosenator it's called and it's like is that a shotgun no no it should be it's like a big orange floating rc car that's got teeth and eyes painted on it and they drive that thing like through the flock of geese and they just do it enough to the point where they don't want to come back and sure there's a hundred ways to make geese not want to come back somewhere yeah you could pay some little little boys to haze them if you every day sent 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oh right we're gonna get to celebrate some wild game being eaten but it's not really about that they could lower them even more by eating uh poultry it turns out oh is that right i don't know wild poultry if that's their objective so in an effort to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030 they've swapped beef for venison how are they handling these the emissions and the ratings they got a rating system developed by a company called food steps uh food steps helps food producers and food purveyors figure out what their carbon footprint is and how to reduce it they have a scoring system that rates of food's impact a is low f is high on average beef dish scores an f venison scores a c the move is criticized by beef farmers the dumbest thing i've ever heard saying if it's wild venison which there it could be how is it how is it what are they talking about uh this venison though came from behind a fence what do you mean what are they talking about I thought they were saying Wild Venison isn't an A. Wild Venison's an A. I think they're considering like. How would it not be? Because there's like. Go on, keep telling your story. I'll tell you here in a minute. Couple other things that I thought worth mentioning. Wimbledon's not like the first sort of event space to do this over there. It's become popular. So a bunch of England's premier soccer and rugby stadiums have also switched over to Venison. The comments at the end of this article were interesting. Most of the folks calling out Wimbledon for virtue signaling and not calling out the true source of carbon emissions associated with Wimbledon, which you can imagine is like the airplane travel that has to occur for everybody to get there to enjoy the sporting event, right? Like if you really gave a shit, you just probably wouldn't do it. Or tell people to stay at home and watch it, right? Watch on TV. But it's a money-making thing. So, speaking of wild, deer, hardly wild. No. These particular ones. Now, all over England, Scotland, they have a lot of deer. There's a bunch of different species. And they are culled. They are hunted all over these countries. And there with their system, they can be sold. Wild game can be sold, right? These particular ones that are being, served at Wimbledon come from Richmond Park and Bushy Park, which are suburban London parks. Big places, like 1,000 acres, I think one, and one was 2,000 acres. But they both have perimeter fencing or walls around them. So they do have like open passageways because they're open 24 hours a day. And so, you know, cars can get in and out and people can get in and out. So these deer aren't completely enclosed, but it's. Like I said, hardly wild. So there's a number of deer in there. Every year there's a cull. They take out whatever percentage it is. And then it's sold to a, like a wholesaler that they can then, you know, sell it on to the caterer that's gonna serve. - And they're sold to the tennis people. - They're sold to the, yeah. It's very, very manicured. Like even in these parks, there's more fencing and enclosures to basically keep those deer from eating the shrubbery and the flowers. And all the stuff that they have planted over there. What else did I have about that? Yeah, six deer species in England. Only two of them are native, which are the red and the roe deer. Four non-natives, fallow, seca, muntjac, and Chinese water deer. Yeah, so I don't know. They're trying to do it to be cool. - Do you know what dishes they're serving in? - No, I looked up for a little menu. There was a picture of one. It was tartar and I forget what the other one was. Can't remember. - Yeah, there was one that had like a piece of eggplant or a zucchini next to it with a little something on top. I mean, everybody's liking it. It's great. I don't know. I'm happy that they're doing it. I mean, why not? I just think it's like, I think the reasoning behind it is a little bit goofy. 'Cause if you really wanna delve into the whole, like what's better for you or like, what has, not better for you, what's better for what has less carbon emissions, right? Like is the wild game actually better? Well, turns out like if you basically hunt it very close or you call it very close to where you're going, where the meat is gonna end up. And again, they have like, they are taking in all this data about like, you know, how much water it takes for one animal to drink and how much sunlight it's absorbing and how much methane each animal is producing. 'Cause wild game can't be zero either or an A as you said, because it does produce methane the same way that a cow does, right? So wild game, like to really be the best that it can be, it has to be hunted efficiently and not far from where you live. So if you like to fly to Wisconsin and kill a couple of deer and then fly it back to Montana and eat it, it's the same thing as buying beef from the store probably. - It's the dude that shoots a deer out his window of his house. - Yeah. - Yes. - People might look, put down on him, but for carbon footprint, the guy that shoots it out of his window and then drags it back into his house and eats it, that's a low carbon dude. - A hundred percent. You made some notes too about like in how in the States, if we're gonna do it, it had to be farm-raised venison, right? - Yeah. - Well, farm-raised venison requires more resources than beef, oftentimes. - They have no moral high ground. - Yep. - They can't even claim that. - Mm-mm. - The funny thing is, is this is coming from like British newspapers, which, like, are the most anti-hunting newspapers in the world. Like, they have like, every day, it's like- - Those dudes are out of touch with nature, man. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Well, it just goes to show you that their nature, I mean, it's like what I described in this park, right? Like, that's their version of nature. - Yeah. - They haven't walked around in our backyard. - They've had no nature for so long, they can't even talk about it without getting crazy. Yeah. - Was there anything on that list that was an A? That's like, tasty? - I saw one thing that said like the lowest carbon emission plate that you could eat was a, it was like a, it was pea soup, and I forget what else it had in it. It might've been like broccoli and pea soup or something. It was like the most, you know- - I'll take a bowl of that, man. - Grown in your own garden. - I'll take a bowl of that. - Yeah, probably. - The Wimbledon chef also said it was a nutritional decision. - Sure. - Saying that the meat is leaner, more protein rich. - Oh. - So that was part of their calculus as well. - Is that what Spencer says to blow you off? - I think he, I don't know. - Sure? - No, no, no, no, it's not. I can't remember. - What did he say to blow somebody off? - I'm not gonna tell you guys. - No, it's the way he says, sure. He's like, "Sure." - No, it's a specific thing. - And then he goes, "Sure, sure, sure, sure." It's like him going, "Whatever, whatever." - Should we come back to America and go to Texas? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, San Antonio, this boils my blood, dude. - Oh God, this is not like. - This boils my blood. - It's the kind of thing you don't-- - You thought I was worked up about those four geese. - Just don't expect to hear this kind of stuff coming out of Texas. - No, sometimes Texas will let you down. - That's a country song. - So developers in Texas are shutting down the historic San Antonio Target Hunting and Fishing Club. It's one of Texas's oldest sporting clubs founded in 1955. And they need to permanently end their outdoor shooting after settling a lawsuit with a neighboring landowner. That landowner happens to be a developer, a real estate developer. - Given to fly. - Given to fly, affiliated with Mosaic Land Development. So that next door to the shooting range, there's a 40 acre undeveloped tract. And the lawsuit, they filed a lawsuit in late 2024. Basically saying that the shooting range is causing all kinds of problems and it's causing cow sales to collapse. And they're saying stray bullets, buckshot and birdshot regularly crossed onto their property. Specifically included claims that projectiles were being found on the neighboring property. And-- - Well, the projectiles also were trespassing on the property. - That's right, trespassing. - But I don't, like look me in the eye and tell me the last time you found not a casing. - A bullet laying on it, yeah. - The last time you found a stray bullet. - I'll tell you where, at a shooting range. - You did. - Like where, well, yeah, like backstop. - Oh, sure, okay. - You know, not, yeah, you're not gonna like walk around and be like, oh, there's a bullet laying on the ground. - Nate pointed out, if you're on like an old Civil War battlefield, that can happen. - Yeah. - But like generally like conical projectiles aren't just laying about. - Yeah. - Like, so there's that. There's also, they're also saying the club operated like a drinking fraternity and failed to adequately control their shooting activities. So unsafe environment, it's like bad for home sales. The developer, one of the developers, Blake Yanta said, "We had no problem with them being there, "doing what they did, but we had a real problem "with them shooting bullets into our property." So it's like, and then the gun club, of course, denies all of the allegations. 70 years, there was no evidence. Anyone, you know, was injured, no accidents. And they're saying that the allegations were greatly exaggerated. So it's like a he said, she said thing kind of going on. So the courts take over. They issue a temporary restraining order in December of 24. All shooting activities get halted. And that continued like as, this thing was going to trial. Trial was scheduled for May of 2026, just last month. It was canceled 'cause the settlement was reached. As this was going on, there was also a nearby school that briefly, school and daycare that briefly joined the lawsuit. They got out of this thing once the settlement came down. The unusual thing about this settlement is that the club's gonna pay $800,000. - To who? to the developer. um they say it's not an admission of guilt it's just like it's like a business decision so that they could move on with life where are they getting that money i don't know don't know maybe club dues i have no idea um the the more unusual thing is part of the settlement was a deed restriction was placed on the the club's property which permanently prohibits outdoor firearm use even if ownership changes so like it's not like they're not going to be able to ever shoot outdoors there again unless this deed restriction some style gets modified so kind of kind of a bummer i mean i i can't say if the allegations are true of like the drinking fraternity and things like that but it like it's an example of like nationally you know developed development versus existing land use um and and something that's happening around the country with other shooting ranges um kind of versus expanding residential development um and and yeah because this dude he's he buys 40 acres yeah and his intention is to put in hundreds of new homes but he can't put in all those new homes if these if these guys are shooting at the shooting range right someone comes to look at a lot boom boom boom people are like eh you know yeah you know like being like cows not condos yeah it's almost like guns not condos yep exactly and so there there's kind of this broader issue that that is described as the legalese as coming to nuisance coming to the nuisance um so for example a shooting range or a farm or a race track or an airport does its thing for decades oh then a developer comes in wants to build a new neighborhood right next door to this place and this is where the problem is start yeah um it's coming to a nuisance yeah coming to to the nuisance um so some states have range protection laws to shield established shooting facilities from these kind of things but they don't apply if the plaintiff can demonstrate uh like a genuine public safety hazard um so so that's what happened here but like as an example like elsewhere around the country who thought that madison alabama would be in the news twice in one day i thought surely it was a different um madison but madison county shooting range in alabama similar situation going on it's about projectiles leaving the property um clear creek gun club in california this one's a little different um the people that are going after this gun club are using a different strategy which is um permitting an environmental compliance rather than the shooting activity itself um but it demonstrates how local governments are like increasingly regulating ranges and however they can um other places michigan colorado there's there's litigation like this going on all over the country so it's something to keep an eye on god this uh madison county alabama yeah the place is hot yep hot on news like it's like washington dc over there yep hot bed i can't believe the settlement was 800 000 because how badly did they think they were going to get it handed to them i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know if that was the number that i don't know i mean without even doing that i guess that you know the the developer must have demonstrated this is my guess must have demonstrated like loss of sales of a certain dollar amount but they were already there shooting i'm just telling you like what's going on they're saying that it caused them to lose sales so they demonstrated a financial loss is my guess i thought the judge was said you got to give the gun guys eight hundred thousand dollars no no for messing with them no the club will pay no no i'm saying i feel like i could picture that being true especially in alabama in texas well texas yeah i thought higher texas i'm sorry yeah yeah so there you go texas is going to hell in a hand basket so join a jump gun club like way out in the country yeah i used to belong to a gun club that was in a like a somewhat populated era area and man that was the strictest gun club i've ever been in yeah and they had those oh you ever see those overhead things you couldn't launch one if you wanted to right you were shooting through a tunnel because they put these they put these overhead archway like these overhead barriers every whatever 10 yards yep so bullets can't yeah it's like these like picture like big rectangular concrete slabs sitting on goal posts and if you want to just just if you're just a freak and wanted to send one off into the into the netherlands you couldn't have done it yeah yeah yeah but and i but i do feel like those big like indoor ranges are also becoming more popular like my buddy in denver he shoots you know his deer rifle at an indoor range i've been there a couple times pretty sweet sounds and i think yeah it is we lost ours in bozeman i didn't know that there was one out on jackrabbit that just became a law enforcement range instead but that may be the way things the direction things go because of things like this you ever slung an arrow in a suburban environment many my kid's buddy shot up arrow into the neighbor's place i remember that i'll tell you the story i'll tell you the story that was more of a social experiment than anything no yeah i put one over 185 in georgia and just was waiting the big highway and was just waiting for the news that night yeah it's hard to tell what's going on the other side of the highway yes i was just some driver just whack yeah um coyotes are eating iguanas in florida oh buddy like crazy surprising yes um i you know spencer you ate a coyote would you imagine it if that coyote was predating on iguanas how to impact the taste fattened on iguanas yeah i bet i bet somebody would tell me that iguana tastes like chicken or like pork adjacent so i can't imagine it would be that much worse than whatever is you know usually in their diet iguana finished coyote yeah yeah probably better than the coyote fishy oh so a study published in the journal journal of urban ecology this year discovering coyote diet in a floridian urban area uh quick history on the coyotes in florida they they weren't there at the time of european contact there's there's 12 000 year old fossils and whatnot um but historically in recent history they haven't they haven't been there um a lot of this is because the red wolf population that occupied that niche um but as that population declined and was extirpated from regions of florida uh they moved back in especially as suburban sprawl increased they do really well in suburban areas and uh and and their range has increased uh concurrently iguanas have also spread um they were introduced to florida in the 1960s via the exotic pet trade and cargo ships kind of your typical introduction scheme uh but 1964 they got a major boost when a pet dealer purposely released 300 of them that's a crazy number of them usually these like non-in non-natives start with like two you know four when i was at 300 i had an iguana that escaped out of my house for like two months during the summer and then one day i saw him hanging on the screen a lot yeah hung out got him back what was the pet dealer doing with 300 iguanas dude it's it's like a mystery that's a lot that's what he was asking himself yeah i think he's like man i know i was feeling optimistic i definitely think there was a time when it kind of became fashionable to have these things as pets you know what i mean i'll be frank with you man like that that's not an appetizing animal to me no they get mean when they get bit like as a pet i'm just like i'm not an appetizer i don't look at a like i look at a deer oh you mean to go hunt them and eat i'm just saying i look at a deer it looks like a good thing to eat when i look at an iguana i look at a chicken for instance i see a chicken i'm like man someone should eat that chicken but when i look at an iguana this is not the feeling i get hey phil will you pull up that picture of that coyote holding that iguana oh yeah oh man that's cool imagine a like it just looks like a pheasant sitting in his mouth yeah that's a big that's a big chunk of food for a coyote go yeah he hasn't even bothered to try to kill that thing either has he they just shake them up there's a couple videos on the internet you should go find of them grabbing one iguana as big as he is yeah i imagine that ends with them just like biting into their guts no how do you how else do you do that i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know how else do you think he kills them i don't know shake them and well yeah but they eat the guts first and they you know that's a fact i'm just guessing like other coyote when they eat other animals listen to kyle man he don't want iguana guts like what's he what are you going for those hams what do you think a coyote does though to like make its heart stop beating in an iguana shake it i don't know i bet you just like break its back i bet he just starts eating yeah i don't know he cares starts eating in the guts yeah and then you're dead i'm just saying the iguana he's got there i don't know i just get a live vibe off that yeah no i agree that's why i think it ends with him like putting a paw on his you know front arm yeah i mean no they use that tail like a whip man yeah i'm a little surprised they're going to that size can't almost defend himself against just a little 20 pound coyote well that's what's interesting is back back to the news story back to the news story uh they'll freeze and just turn into little iguana pops they fall out of the trees fall right out of the trees and those coyotes are That's nom-nom. 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the rule they made and he has to live by the rule um so we can't talk about him but i'm gonna talk about tungsten and we've been like but to talk about tungsten i want to talk about my kids and ammo cans okay everyone knows an ammo can a green metal ammo can 50 or 30 cal just ammo cans my kids only know ammo cans through the context of geocache of a geocache they have just out of shit luck they have stumbled into two geocaches but not geocaching geocaching is like you take an ammo can and put some fun stuff in it and hide it and then guys use gps it's kind of like an early gps thing you can go use gps and you'll see that there's a pin in some remote area and you go to that pin and like lo and behold here's a geocache and you take a little trinket out of it and you leave a trinket in it we did it in my high school computer class to learn how to use a handheld gps got it i had a brief fling with geocaching and the best one i found was it was on a you know like a little electrical box and i was standing there and i was like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die standing on top of it could not find it and it was a magnetic bolt head on the side of the electrical box and you just barely unscrew that that's what you're after and that's very creative it's great so my kids just out of total shit luck have stumbled into two of these boxes did they pilfer it i told them you take something leave something oh i got you so in their head then we're at my buddies and there's an ammo can in his gun room and they're like he took the geocache because in their head an ammo can isn't an ammo can in their head an ammo can is a geocache can this is me and tungsten because i've only known my like when i hear the word tungsten i have thought of like turkey bullets tss tungsten super shot and then all of a sudden i started hearing about the tungsten this tungsten that and i've been forced to like come to terms with the broader scale of tungsten outside of turkey ammo turkey ammo doesn't weigh real heavily on the nothing yeah it's like if you looked at all the ammo cans on the planet and what they're doing how many are geocaching yeah none well i my view on tungsten was tss tungsten super shot and now i'm like waking up to this whole world of tungsten yeah if there was a pie chart for all the tungsten that would just be like folded into other or something like that it's the other of the other yeah 10 to 15 percent of the tungsten goes to munitions but that's military munitions they use it in cluster bombs they use it in uh what else i have here about warhead missile warheads tank ammunition um these like these penetrator bolts tungsten penetrator bolts which aren't as incendiary as depleted uranium and also you can use them in areas where if they're going to be littering the battlefield you don't have to worry about little kids playing with depleted uranium in the future use tungsten bolts military uses tons of this stuff in world war ii there's a thing called the wolfram crisis the nazis were using anti-tank rounds made out of tungsten rods the spaniards were selling it to them the wolfram crisis is when the u.s had to go to spain and threaten roughing them up to stop selling the nazis tungsten this is the whole world of tungsten now tungsten prices pull up that chart look at tungsten prices right now oh look at that they've since dropped off a bit so you go 2010 all these years you can think of all these years as us just shooting all kinds of turkeys oh man the glory days it was basically free shooting all kinds of turkeys 2015 2020 and tungsten is basically like they're giving it away okay it's like it's like what would that be like 250 bucks per one dry metric ton unit of tungsten or equivalent to 7.93 kilograms of tungsten you could get for about 250 bucks then it just right now with the war in iran and some other issues 3 000 bucks for 17 pounds for 17 pounds of tungsten it goes crazy china is hoarding the turkey ammo like china has been very strategic about tungsten they're like those american turkey hunters because they want to stick it to the turkey hunters the chinese they're like when they think of what bugs them they're like taiwan it's the t's taiwan and turkish turkey hunters so then it's like a strategic metal they call it a war metal okay it's it's of that strategic significance so now me still thinking about tungsten when i see the word tungsten i'm thinking about turkey schnitzel now it's all over reported all over the place about this new sort of like political scandal coming out of the tungsten world there's a huge reserve of tungsten in kazakhstan i don't know about how many turkeys they got but they got boatloads of tungsten in kazakhstan the commerce secretary trump's commerce secretary howard lutnik earlier i was going to make a saucy epstein tie-in to try to make the story seem more saucy it's tenuous he was on epstein's island he had lunch there yeah all the debate about who was and wasn't this he went he took his family for lunch he says he said it could be the howard lutnik files basically yeah yeah he of all the guys that were or were not or never did but did this gentleman had lunch there with his family he meets with the president of kazakhstan about all this turkey ammo no wild turkeys just looked it up well they do have interactions with turks but it's from the country not yeah so when they think of turks yeah they're thinking of their neighbors so he meets with them about how we're going to go get all this tss all this tungsten like by god i got to take care of those turkey out of kazakhstan okay they make they agree they get the president of kazakhstan to agree to let a little-known u.s mining a little-known mining organization get a contract to go do the thing all right to go do the mine then they vow it hasn't been handed over yet but the trump administration vows 1.6 billion in federal financing to invest in and get the tungsten mine up and running so now you're picturing just tungsten super shot flowing into ammo stores all around the world that that 1.6 billion was going to that small mining company yeah they're under yeah they're like they're they're yeah incentivizing lubricating making a vow for funding initial investment funding and also there's some other money where the u.s would actually take a stake in the mine but then this is the weird part this is like this is even reported in the new york post which is like a very conservative publication like a very trump friendly publication the new york post is even saying that this deal stinks because trump's boys then turn around and take a 20 stake in a corporate entity tied to the mine lutnik's boys take on the banking function of going out and finding the investors all around turkey ammo well when this gets investigated it will get investigated don jr's like dude i was hot on this for my turkey hunting exploits it'll want but it'll wind up going to investigate it's already getting investigated it'll get investigated but it won't happen because like remember with it's like it's like it's exactly like the hunter biden situation just they're not trying to hunter biden and burisma in ukraine and it's it's this situation here it's exactly the same but it'll just all end in pardons it'll end in pardons yeah all this reporting about this tungsten deal which now like my whole tungsten epiphany my whole tungsten education of like what what is up with this metal um part of this reporting comes out of um these financial disclosures right or like a lot of like a lot of investigation to financial disclosures where trump made 2.2 billion during his first year in office up from 622 million or a third as much the year before he returned to the white house so again even the new york post is like what is up with the tungsten deal if tungsten prices come back down and and turkey hunters are once again flush with tungsten super shot i'll look the other way i'll look the other way you'll pardon me i'll be like in the end you know it was the right thing for the american turkey hunter yeah i don't know it's kind of crazy it is a hot it's weird to see a metal like gold like gold drove world politics for centuries i mean gold drove world politics it put governments in power it took governments out of power it led to the colonial enterprises around the globe and then now like in this moment it is tungsten's it's like tungsten's time to shine yep from a lowly turkey ammo to the front pages of the new york post in the new york times tungsten that's it tungsten um if you want to look like a real know-it-all start calling tungsten wolfram why it's just another word for it okay oh let me tell you this last thing about tungsten it doesn't come out of the ground looking like what you think like turkey pellets yeah it comes out of the ground you don't just mine out number nine tungsten shot no it's a real elaborate process to get it but i was watching a video of a bullet hitting the block of tungsten the bullet vaporizes against the block of tungsten it vaporizes against the tungsten oh thanks for joining the news show ladies and gentlemen hmm max has got some good 410 tungsten he bought as a extreme discount from a from a poor guy that didn't know what he had oh dude you want to know how those uranium penetrators work see you next week cold morning spent outside and long days of hard work can really take a toll on your hands whether you're outside cleaning fish digging around in your garden or grinding through a long day of your day job your hands take a beating that is why o'keefe's working hands hand cream is an essential part of any daily routine it provides guaranteed relief for extremely dry cracked hands with a concentrated oxygen and it's a great way to keep your hands warm and un-scented formula designed to deliver serious hydration where it's needed most here's the best thing about this stuff it doesn't leave your hands all greasy i've been 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