March 16, 2024 • 51 mins
In today's epsisode, the gang discuss all the things you're surprisingly able to buy on the internet, as well as what happens when Fred's coworker called him a dork. He decided to commemorate.
Thanks, as always, to Captain Paul Tyre for joining the show. If you’re interested in going fishing with Paul, visit lakeseminolefishingguides.com or find them on Facebook @LakeSeminoleFishingGuides.
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Man, Welcome to the Town OutdoorShow. I'm Charlie, I'm J d
up Fred, and I'm Grant andand and Captain Paul's there on the speakerphone.
Yeah, there we go, Therewe go. We have got this
calling thing licked. Now. Wehave figured out what all the technology we
have access to and all of thesoftware and everything else. We just call
and put you on speakerphone and holdit up to the microphone. Hold it
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up to the microphone. Man,I ain't gonna tell you how much it
cost us to get to this pointwent out anyway. Now. So,
uh so we're gonna do the fishingsegment a little early in the show today
because, uh because Captain Paul apparentlyyou're on the fish or what. Yes,
sir, I'm out here with MikeJinkson from Benwood to Georgia and Greg
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kenn from Live Oak, Florida.And we don't call what's our numbers day,
we don't call it now this morningnineteen I think guys there, they
are really biting what you catching,man? You know that's latch what you're
catching those things on. I'll tellyou what we're catching. A fish all
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is a sinker worm mister Gregg,he came down here. He's a saltwater
fish. He had a thirty poundtest leader on this and he's kind of
putting the heartening on on this therefor a little bit. But I'll tell
you what. Thirty pound leader Floracarbon leader j D. And it's only
about twelve inches long. Yep,I tell you man, the Flora carbon
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is amazing, amazing stuff. Itis the most invisible fishing line made in
uh in the in the Gulf.That's it's also highly embracing brasion resistance.
Good stuff. That's right. Really, it makes a difference right now.
You know when folks hear this,the beverage is flood and the river's flooded.
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The lake is really muddy. Iwas fishing out yesterday day, which
have been Thursday, and the muddywater has made it down about below big
Gems or people familiar with that.Now it's almost all the way down the
ceiling. So we're trying to findsome clear water. But find clear water.
It seems like we can get thatabsolutely. Yeah, every every river
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around here is is rolling right nowwith all the rain we've had, and
it's still still headed down the north. I went over the Chattahoochie River and
the Flint River in the past fewdays and crossed over both of them,
and I thought to myself, rightthen, yeah, that's my granddaddy would
have said, he's seen some raccoontracks floating down the river as we went
over in the mud more mud thanwater, right, that's exactly right.
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But the creek is about as muddyas I've ever seen it. There's a
lot of stuff floating down in soit's really muddy. But the fish all
bying. It is March. It'sthat time of year when the fish are
moving up Shallie, getting ready tospine and are spawning, and we're just
trying to find some big ones.Now we're fishing sand bars and about six
seven foot of water, and that'swhere you got to find that clear water.
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That fresh MUD's kind of tough.So when you like stay, have
anybody listening coming up this weekend,and be careful running around the way because
there's some stuff floating around. Butfind that clear water for sure. Very
good sir, Well, we appreciateit, Paul, And tell folks how
they can get ahold of you ifthey want to go fishing man, and
give me a call. At eightfive zero two six four seven five three
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four. Then they can reach outto me on at Facebook on Captain Paul
tar fishing, All right, buddy, will y'all be careful up there and
keep putting them in the boat.That is kind of good fishing. Brother,
Yeah, I know, I know. Hey, the Lord look at
that's a good one. How manykids read on the fall men your friends?
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Yeah, I might be a transfish or something that me. We
got to know how big. Wegot to know how big it is.
Yes, that's how big he is. He's pulling at me. I got
to know. Now he might beshort and feisty, butter and a half
three pound. Let me get allright. That's why everybody they're sworn it
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all right, we'll get it allright. But if we'll get him into
net and we'll we'll talk to younext time. See you, see y'all.
So so Paul says things. Sometimesit took on me in and you'd
I'd have to explain why. Butanyway, oh man, what have you
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let me do this? Real quick? I last week supposed to and you
didn't. Yeah, well I wantedto wait, doctor Miller, Doctor Joseph
Miller, thank you back, you'llfeel better. Yeah. He's one of
our advertisers and a and a friendand he has he's uh, he's worked
on me a few times. Andshe came in and dropped off something for
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me because I had asked him oneday about, you know, my feet
hurting, and he said, yougot planning faciat us and I'm like,
no, I don't. He justyeah, that you do. He says,
let me bring you something, saybrought by these power step inserts that
he's got in his office, anddropped off a pair. And I suspect
he wanted me to mention it becausehe left his business card on the box,
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and he knows that I know howto reach him, so so I
threw him in my shoes and normallywill how long do you wear something for
you notice different? I noticed thedifference right away, And when I'm wearing
the shoes that I wear now thatI get at the shoe box another one
of our advertisers. But I putthese inserts in it, and my feet
quit hurting. I get up outof a chair and all of a sudden
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they don't hurt like they did.Now. The last three days I've been
standing on the gun range three daysthis week I was teaching the Sheriff's office
in Jackson County, doing a littlelostter survival class at the chriff invited me
to do. And the first twodays I was wearing a different pair of
shoes with just a stock insert andmy feet were killing me. The third
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day, I put these shoes onwith those inserts in them, and my
feet didn't hurt when I got home. And that was a clue that apparently
these things work. So these arenow might go to Keen shoes with that
particular insert in it. That's that'suh. So do you get these from
him or yeah? Well, Idon't know he delivered that one. He
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personally brought those out here and leftthem on Charlie's desk because I was I
don't know. He could have wentto Walmart to CBS for all I know,
but they come from his I'm prettysure he carries stuff like this in
his office. He'll you can goin there and you can get you a
massage. You can go in thereand get your back crack, your neck
crack, you can get a theydo physical therapy there, and they got
all kinds of stuff going on.So these things I'm looking at them.
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They they look like skis. Wellwas because I wear a size thirteen.
What do you wear size seven?Well they got that in the kids section.
I'm for sure seven seven? Youwear seven? Yeah, size seven?
I got a little feat. Igot a big heart. So is
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that seven in the youth the youthsize, or said the even call men's.
I don't think they call them men'ssize till you get the eights.
I recall from having a child themen's I can't buy shoes in the store
because they don't have size sevens anywhere. Ses I bet you do. Oh
man. There was a that auctionsite that JD We were looking at an
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auction site trying to get a pickuptruck for the range, and uh I
got to looking and we were successful. Yes, absolutely, And we've sold
our side besides out here at theranging. And now I have a pickup
truck picking up this week and that'sgonna be now thing. Now now the
kids work for us, can goto the store legally, ride the buggy
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up to the flying Yeah, runto the bank for us. And so
I was looking on that auction siteand they auctioned off things from all kinds
just like gov go deals, govdeals dot whatever. And they had they
had of all things, tennis shoesfrom some of the different football teams and
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Collie sixteen sixteens. Why would they, Lord have Mercy and Fred, you
could use those for skis, exceptthey got cleats on the clown shoes like
clown shoes on Fred. Yeah,my Lord, I'm looking at him,
and I'm going, man, there'sa brand new things find the auction office.
I saw sixteen seventeen. I'm like, but hold on that are you're
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looking at? You? Look Govedeals? What why are you in private
browsing? I don't know, justsomebody had defaulted, so Fred, it
is a it is a national auctionsite that deals with government. Some of
them are seized the vehicles. Someof the vehicles are seized. Some of
them are like City of Tallahassee gettingrid of their vehicles because you know,
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City Tallahassee is going green and electric, isn't they nice? Yeah, so
they wanted to get rid of theirsome of these. I bought a I
bought my daughter an F one fiftyfour wheel drive that with it's a two
thousand and nine, but it hadlike seventy something by all the miles on
it, so it ain't wore out. And that's what she's going to get
to drive. What's the site,gove deals, gove deals. Yeah,
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two words, one word just totype it out. G O V D
E A L S the A LS. All right, we're gonna find
you buy everything from research equipment,from universities to shoes to guns to I'm
kind of kind I'm being very Uh, I'm concerned. I'm looking over Fred
over here at what he's googling.I'm looking at his search history, and
it's kind of concerning. Well,I probably ought not to be. Don't
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do that. I don't know thatI'm old enough to say some of this
stuff. I was researching a case. I mean, you know, I
gotta learn there it is. That'sa site right there. Sure enough,
look at all this stuff. Uhhuh. You can bid, you sign
up, give them your only hadlike they had like three thousand vita.
You can buy fire trucks, youbuy airplane, you can buy airplanes,
you can buy boat. We'll beright back. Have you been diagnosed with
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I'm wondering, Fred, what anythingyou want to say about that website.
I don't think they sell the kindof stuff you normally I was gonna get
that Amy, Yeah, they gotan chaser, ain't you? Yeah?
That way, I'm getting shape.I have my wife around the neighborhood.
Open the back door and get yousome business cards and see if you can
throw them in there with your fingerswhile you're running along behind. Well,
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we actually had I don't know ifyou saw this, they did, like
the first annual Florida Man Games.Yeah, of course you can't say first
that he has been inaugural, butyeah, they had like one of them,
like you could run from real copsand like while carrying a TV or
a sword or whatever, you know, like Florida Man does. So when
I was in law school, wehad our annual law day every year and
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we started the ambulance chase. Sowe would get the one of the EMTs
to show up and you'd have arace. And so whoever caught the ambulance
first, you know, won anaward. And I wanted three years in
a row. And said, man, let me tell you that size seven
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and going down the road, getshort legs moving now, I mean's a
fellow in the lobby, how appropriateis that? Well, there was a
fellow just today in the lobby wantedto know if he could have one of
my business cards. And the problemwas there was the name of us.
Came by threw them all out ofme, so I didn't have any giving.
Uh yeah, so yeah, yeah, well, so, yeah,
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that that site is cool. Uh, it's they it's all kind of stuff,
a lot of junk, a lotof junk. Yeah, you can
buy a fire truck, well,you can buy a junk like old patrol
cars that are stripped down and moreout. But there's agencies can buy other
agencies cars that they're upgrading to somethingprobably more fuel efficient. They're not faster
anymore, they're trying to. Butthere's a there's a lot like seized vehicles,
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and you know, I mean youcan find old Mac computers in there,
and and you know, if you'reinto that kind of thing, there's
a bunch of stuff that goes extremelycheap because nobody wants, which is you
know, just very very much thatit's applying to man. You could get
you a car a car load ofold government computers and if you were into
that, you could probably piecing togetherand make one, yeah, make one
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decent one, or you know,and talk to the aliens or whatever it
is you do with your tenfold hat. And I get the kick out of
some of the research research equipment fromthe universities when they're getting rid of their
old whatever research stuff, and likewho would actually go in there and buy
a centrifuge. I mean I needone to make math because that was I
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don't know. I don't if youdo, they probably got something handmade over
to turn the crank or so,I don't know what. You can turn
the centrifuge into an ice cream maker, now, that would be cool,
a high speed ice cream machine.Maybe you could get a flux capacitor.
You might could get a flux capacitor. Yeah, I did that once.
You'd have to put it in oneof Tesla cyber trucks now, because I
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say, closest thing they got tothe old aluminum body or stainless steel body.
Deloreum. Yeah, the story.A few years ago, I was
in mental health court. That placeis crazy. You were you were representing
somebody? Yeah, because there's adifferent fread. I just yeah, we
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were, and so, uh,you know, I got my client over
there, and he's all, there'ssomething called mental health court. It's for
the purfect, is it to seeif you're it's basically you go through this
process and it's for people who ain'tall there, uh and might not have
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the capacity to stand trial. Ohokay, you're trying to determine. Yeah,
we got to do something with him. You've got to have some supervision.
Now you've got to go to Chattahoobefore you get easy, easy,
Easy, that's where you go.Artist State Hospital. Let's let's don't call
it the town where I grew up. That's my hometown. So there's a
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sensitive to that. Yeah, soyou're you're trigger me. Okay, So
you were in there and you andmy clients he's he's out there, and
we we had reset the case.This was like in July, and uh
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so the judge said, well,let's set it for eight six, you
know, August sixth. And myclient looks at he's eight six, What
does that mean? And the judgestarted to answer, and I put my
hand ups and hold up, judge, I speak this language. I can,
I can, I can, Ican, I can fix this.
And so I looked at my client. I said, eight six is the
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speed that the DeLorean must reach inorder for the flux capacitor to activate.
The cloent said, oh, okay, that's cool. It was actually eighty
eight. I think, well,of course it was. But he didn't
know the difference. I don't.That was what was so wrong about that
whole movie. Is not the wholetime travel thing beingossible is getting the delairem
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to go to go eighty eight milesan hour? How many chicken watch you
have to It was giggle battle.It was a chick watch gigawatts chicka wat.
I don't though it was something.This is the thing that the lightning
has you measured in chickaway. Idon't know if chicka wat's giggle watts.
I thought he said chickawat. Youwould think that, but it's not what
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he said. Chick a watt mustbe something that it has to do with,
like, you know, poultry orchickens. Yeah, all right,
so what's this? What? Whatare you walking around here handing out these
little short pencils for? Yeah,so this is walking here and left.
You know, I know you're tryingto tell us something. You got some
lead pencil or this was that justthat length or what? It's a golf
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pencil with an eraser. I neverplayed I never played golf with Fred.
There you go, has an eraseron it. So my secretary knows that
I'm a big golf fan. Imean I've always been a golf fan.
Not really good golf player, althoughI do like the shirts and so I
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always put on the calendar every yearwhen it's the Masters, and I love
to talk about the Master. LovedWat's the Masters. I'm fascinated by the
Masters, love the tradition of theMasters, the sportsmanship and everything about golf
is just a good pageantry. Yeah, it's a cool thing to me.
It is not a cool thing tomy secretary. And so she put on
the calendar last year where I hadput the Masters on the calendar, she
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added, this is only for dorks. Then she sent out an inner office
memo everyone, this is everybody inmy office now. As you may know,
Thursday, April sixth, twenty twentythree is International Freedom to Be a
Dork Day. This day, whichwe are celebrating for the first time this
year, is a day to recognizethe existence and right to exist of all
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members of the dork community. It'sa day to free or inner dork mainly
by watching the Masters and celebrate yourdorkiness. The Law Office of Frederick M.
Conrad stands in solidary with its dorkybosses. That would be me and
other dorky members of the community.As a law office, we are committed
to social justice, which we arenot but to that end, I invite
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all Office community members to celebrate withour dorky colleagues by watching the Masters.
If you cannot bring yourself to watchyour Masters, you may whisper all day
instead. So this year are comingup on the seventeenth green this year.
I tell her as I'm walking outof the door, I say, she
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said, what you're going to dothis weekend? So I'm all right over
watch the players in Jacksonville. Andshe said, well, shoot, I
bought you a Master's present and nowyou're going to Sawgrass. And so she
hands me a pack of pencils thatare all engraved with the phrase proud dork.
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I thought you guys should have oneas well. We appreciate it.
Never been to the Masters, know, and I remember you telling you I
went two years ago, got thegot the opportunity to go like the froze
slapped the death. But man,amazing just heard. It's just I think
that would I don't know if theylet you go see the course when the
Masters is not. I know it'sa very private club, but just the
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grounds, the grounds alone, thegrounds keeping, the grounds alone are just
worth going and looking at those beautiful, beautifully manicured place I've ever been to.
It's just crazy. Yeah, thereis a dress code. There is
in fact a dress can bring in. Had to leave cell phone completely.
They check you. You can't havea cell phone on the property. Even
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if you're just playing, it doesmatter. You can't have ride by what
what a what A duke's a hazardhorn or they gonna say what it plays,
or or a train horn and sitacross the highway. You don't get
close enough to it for anybody thereto hear you. There you're a train
horn. Yeah, maybe a trainhorn, but there's I think they don't
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fly jets over that place during theduring the tournament. Wow, I didn't
see. I didn't see or hearany any airplanes. And you know,
it's just just just something to behold. It really is to be ashamed.
I've always the privilege that these peoplehave. It's just a shame. Okay,
it's amazing. If you ever geta chance. It's hard to get
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tickets. Oh yeah, I putit. I've been putting in for the
lottery for years. I've never drawnon. I guess you could spend you
know, mortgage your house and buyone on Stubb Yeah, and there they've
cut wee back. They have reallystarted stopping that even. Yeah, the
thing that my biggest pet peeve andwatching a golf tournament is that idiot that's
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always there that yells getting the hole. Yeah, and that's what I want
it used to. Yeah, yeah, what are your so so not to
get off on a complete golf tangent, because this is really not a show
about golf, But what are yourthoughts on the live live or live or
whatever the heck they call it theNew Tour where they're playing all the music
and never I don't like it personally, you know, it's I want to
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be I go to a golf courseto be quiet, back when I used
to play golf. I'm not realkeen on the music thing. And I'm
also not a big fan of themwearing shorts. Uh. I mean it's
I don't know, it's kind oflike court. You know, lawyers expected
to wear Coaton ties, and youknow that's just we were we were raised
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in a different era. We're froma different you know that the whole gen
X thing or whatever. You goto church, you should, you know,
you wear a tie. I mean, yeah, you dress that dress
up a little bit at least andYeah, that's I don't go anywhere I
have to wear a tie. Well, he's wearing the Church of the Rattle.
You want me to wear a tie? You don't expect me to be
there? That's Hey, we're gonnahave what's the dress code? Oh uh?
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This this fundraiser that we've invited youto is a black tie. I'm
like, first off, I'm notwearing any tie. Certainly not. I
went on that TI function last weekdid my peacock feather bow tie. But
you did as you didn't wear apenguin outfit understould. Well, I mean
look I like one in a tuckseto bit, you know. Yeah,
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I can see that. You justgotta do the funny walk that you do.
Yeah, it works. Want wedon't have to try. We'll be
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An we're back. What you wannatalk about? Well, this is the
bottom of the hour segment. Alabama. I've been in Alabama for the whole
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last weekend and part of the weekI was in Alabama driving through it tomorrow.
Yeah, this week there's a story. Uh, there's a zoo close
by there. I guess Albany islike pretty close Alabama, Albany, Yeah,
no, Georgia, Well it's notthat far. Like saying Panama City's
style. Yeah, go ahead,all right. So apparently there's a zoo
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in Alabama and a tiger has escapedfrom the zoo and has made its way
to Chee Hall Park. Okay uhand in roaming Chee Hall Park and the
residents are afraid because there's a tiger'srunning around out like that sounds like an
opportunity to get a new rug toyou. We got to be careful about
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escaped wild animals in Alabama or NorthFlorida because if it don't look right,
somebody gonna either eat it or wearit. Because nobody's gonna believe you saw
a tiger unless you shoot it inpoint on Facebook and send it to all
your ken boat look what I got. If it makes its way to walk
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on, they'll call it a skuncapebecause they ain't gonna ain't gonna ask if
it's legal that you did it.L after it's done, Hey man,
is it legal? Think you're allright with it because it's not anti species?
No native species? Okay, thenso I can tell people, I
guess you could, unless they're unlessthey're internationally endangered. Because there's a fella
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in I don't think there's an fwC rag on tigers. No, I'm
sure there's not a state regulation,but the federal government might for some kind
of a Lacey Lacy Act. They'reprosecuting. There's a guy being prosecuted right
now, eighty year old men beingprosecuted that pled guilty out in I want
to say, Montana Utah, somewhereout west in the mountains out there,
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because he imported from Kazakhstan some somebig, huge species of sheep. There's
big, big goat, big sheep. It's endangered over there, not necessarily
endangered in the rest of the world, but in their native country they're endangered.
They're protected. Blah blah blah.He imported some of them with the
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full intention of breeding them or crossbreeding them and coming up with a very
large hybrid trophy animal of some swordor another. He wasn't gonna kill the
ones what he smuggled in over here. He was going crossbreeding with something to
make the mountain goats or the sheepover here bigger trophies. And the federal
government went after this eighty year oldguy for his intention to violate the Lacy
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Act. Just this hasn't been inthe news. I just read it a
couple of days ago. I don'tread a lot of the other news that
you talk about the Trump stuff.I stay away from that, but I
do read articles like that in thenews, and I found it quite obvious,
quite interesting that they're going to prosecutethis guy for trying to keep these
things alive and make them proliferate.I don't know if you read that story
a couple of years ago about theguy that killed the California condor. M
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yeah, I think I do remembersomething said something along. Yeah, he
had killed California condor. And heactually went to trial, and what happened
there is so he gives in trial, he says, look, I got
lost in the mountains California, andI had one bullet left and I was
I was hungry of starving so Californiacondor and I ate it. And they
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finally found him and he told himwhat he did and then prosecuted him for
it. So he goes to trialand judge says something about sanctity of human
life and whatnot. They end upfinding him not guilty. He comes out
of the courthouse steps, the reportersare standing around. They say, what
did that California condor taste like?He said? It was kind of a
cross between a bald eagle and spottedout. Yes, a little side amanite.
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I know, you know, Iknow, I remember talking to old
folks, uh, you know,when I was really young and these were
these were a lot of people mightlike my relatives that were born in the
late eighteen hundreds. I got tomeet some of them and talk to them,
and they talked about going from fromWashington County, Florida, you know,
right here, going down to thecoast on purpose and killing manatees for
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the meat, you know, inthe twenties. I'm talking about probably in
the nineteen the teens in the twenties, and they called it. He uncle
Willie called them sea cows. Hesaid, we get in there and kill
us one of them sea cows,because and bring the meat back and preserve
it and they live off of it. I mean, that was just food.
That was just food to them,and you know they's pretty good.
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Now you can't go down the riverwithout kayakers getting you away so you don't
run over them with your boat motor. Yeah, now you're blocking. I'm
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O seven sixty six thirteen four.Hey, I was just looking at the
member of the Bear Self Protection Actin Florida that was being passed. Oh
you did it pass? Will?It passed the House eighty three to twenty
eight, and it passed the Senateas well, and it had gone It
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has gone to Governor Desanus's disk andsaid law will allow you to if you
reasonably believe that your action i e. Shooting the bear was necessary to avoid
an eminent threat of death or seriousbody injury to yourself himself herself or to
another, an eminent threat of deathor serious body injury to a pet,
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or substantial damage to a dwelling.So if you if when he the Governor
signs it, and I'm pretty surehe will. It passed both and it
was We talked with one of theone of the sponsors right here in the
shop not long ago. And somepeople who shoot bears would be required to
notify f w C within twenty fourhours and show they did not intentionally place
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themselves or pets in situations where theyneeded to kill bears. I mean,
in other words, you weren't atyour food plot at the corn smearing molasses
on you. You're playing real steela bear corn bear here bear, And
oh my god, I was afraidfor my life. So I had was
trying to eat me. People wouldnot be allowed to possess, possess or
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sell bear carcasses after the killings.They turn them in. Wait a minute,
what's support to kill the bear?If you can't, well, it's
okay, So all right. SoCORYS. Simon and was one of the
sponsors, I think he was inthe Senate, and then Chauff was a
representative in the House that pushed this, and you know AJ down in Franklin
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County was kind of into it sowell, because bears are dangerous. So
I remember going out the highway twentyone night when I was at the Chaff's
office and we had a call thatthere was a bear in the yard.
And one of the deputy's call andsays, we got a bear up a
tree. What he wants to do? And I said, just give me.
I'll be there in a minute.So I pull in the yard and
look up in the tree with aspotlight and lower my hold. There's a
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black bear up there about the secondtree limb up just looking down at me
like I'm gonna stay up here tillyou leave. And the woman at the
house was just bawling. She wasand she was so upset and just I'm
just boo hooing, And I'm like, well, did the bear get you?
To know what happened? I hadmy dog and she had one of
the little winter dogs or it waseither that or one of the little little
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taco bell dogs. What is thingschihuah is something of those little yappy yappy
dogs. Yeah, and seventy twopounds. And in said, uh and
and and that. She said,I want to take the trash out.
And my dog was barking. AndI opened the door and walked outside,
and my dog ran up there andbarked at the bear, and the bear
ate my dog ate the whole dogdog right there, chomped it down,
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swallowed it gone, and then shescreamed, and the bear got scared and
went up the tree. And souh so we called off to w C.
Now this particular bear had been relocateda couple of times. What we
found out later on it just keptcoming back to civilization. Now under this
new law said was trying to eatyour dog, you kill that bear.
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I would kill it, but youcan't. But you can't keep the pauls
and the carcass, and you can'tdo don't get a rug or Hamburger meeting.
So what are they gonna do.Give it to the they'll dispose of
it the way they want to disposeof it. It might create the bear.
They'll probably take it and do someresearch on it or do something whatever,
and you'll see some f w Cguy with a bear claw. Yeah,
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O, kid, you know wheredid you get that? Know that
hen? That's kind of like thosecustoms guys got all my Cuban cigars.
Yeah, I'm sure he didn't smokeanother of them, ran them out to
his friend. That's kind of likewe used to come in the Hospel start
handing them out of new Fathers.We used to confiscate fireworks back in the
day. He can't have them fireworks. Y'all come on to the house for
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the July We're gonna have a goodtime. Yeah. It's like when you
when you the cop takes you beerwhen you're underage, you're supposed to pour
that out. I will do thatlater. Well, that's never had admitted
into evidence. Taking photographs of it. I've never seen cops take beer or
fireworks and anything like that and thengo do anything other than the appropriate stuff
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with it ever in my career.Me neither. I look the other way.
Well, when you when you're writeon the property receipt, it was
destroyed. There is no specifications asto the manner of destruction at that point.
Well, I look at it.But anyway, that's that's somebody ain't
gonna find that funny. But that'sokay. That was That was thirty forty
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years ago. Now things were differentback then. So how did you dispose
of that? Poured it out toa glass, poured it out. What
happened to fireworks? Should we burnthem? We burnt diffuses? Anyway,
there was fire involved at the atthe police department. Yes, seen that
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happen. I wasn't there for that, but I heard it happen. I
heard there was some some old crapgoing on. I think we probably can
tell that, probably can tell thatstory, and I'm gonna tell it just
that. I'm not I'm gonna leavethe names. I'm uninvolved. I'm not
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gonna involve the names. There wasat the old FSU Police department back in
the day, our police department wasthe dressing rooms and basement level below Ruby
Diamond Auditorium. You had ballerinas comingdown the hall. So when when the
Nutcracker Suite was going on upstairs,there's one hundred people from the ballet down
there using the same bathrooms as usand basically kicking us out of our dressing
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rooms and bathrooms so they could dothe production upstairs. And we were just
kind of had the basement down thereand we operated out of it and it
was fine, but anyway, itwas it was a nice facility, nice
bathrooms, nice facilities. There wasa certain TPD officer that would routinely go
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through their check on come to ourstation, our police station while we were
having check on, to use therestroom to do their their business, the
time consuming side of that business.Okay, okay, you're tracking so far.
Yeah, I'm with you. Well, it was kind of aggravating to
those of us that were in checkon when we had to go use the
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facilities after check on before we wentto work. And now the facilities are
let's just say contaminated and uh so, and this was a this was a
two or three night a week thinggoing on there so somebody another, one
of the f s U officers hadconfiscated some some fireworks and uh said,
hmm, I'm gonna fix this tonight. Gonna fix it right now, so
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said officers in the facilities, usingthe facilities, and another officer takes a
long string of firecrackers and lights themand opens the door and throws them,
throws them in there, and itgoes. I mean, it sounded like
a young war, you know,pop. And uh so, the the
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TPD alser that was was in therecalmly finishes their business, I guess,
and leaves the leaves the building andwe're all hiding around the corner laughing about
it. And it wasn't a coupleof hours later the TPD officer remembered their
gun belt and stuff and came backto RU, retrieved their equipment that was
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hastily abandoned in the bathroom, andit solved the problem. It never happened
again. It was, you know, different, like Charlie said, different
times we got away with. Iheard a story one time that somebody shot
a bottle rocket down the hallway andit went up underneath the door of either
the chief or hooker's door into theoffice, and they didn't have a key
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to that door, and they hadto take the air vent in the door
off and reach up and to findthe evidence, find reach up in there
and grab the doorknob from then breakinto the office. There was They would
put the vent back on after theyhad cleaned up. There were times when
you get the dispatcher involved in itand they would send you to fictitious burglar
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alarms or check this building, orwe got a door alarm. There was
a lot back in those days theymonitor We at the agency monitored certain alarms.
There were no not like a centralagency where the alarm goes off at
your house and and uh, youknow, vector security calls and says,
hey, we got an alarm atyour house. And there were there's monitored
off site. We actually FSU monitored. There was a whole giant wall full
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of buzzers and and things. Whenthe alarm would go off in the building,
you get a little blinky light andall this stuff. They'd go,
hey, being rout in the sudden, such a building, there's a alarm
going off. So you're down thereinvestigating a burglary and you're sneaking around and
looking for bad guys and all thisstuff, and the rest of the squad
was hiding on the other side ofthe parking lot with four hundred and ninety
two bottle rockets. And about thetime you turned the corner, it just,
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you know, keeping the students weregoing home. Yeah, that was
always pranks during the summertime, chrispbrain breaks coming up, or it's this
Christmas break or some summer not alot to do. It's gonna be on
next week. You speak these copranks, I had clente one of those.
Are we all out of time?So young? But tell that story,
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it's a good one. Then weget back. I promise it's probably
something we have done. I thinkmaybe'all may have been involved. Okay,
oh me a good young man.We'll be right back. Hey, it's
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seventy five point fifty. We're back. Oh man, you'll miss the break
rolling around something every now and thenwhen I do there, every now and
then, when I do the whenI do the you two part, I
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just go ahead and include part ofthe breaks, so I just have to
go kicking, all right. Isthat gonna get us run off? Nope?
Is that gonna embarrass for it?Yeah? Twelve twelve people gonna see
it? Yeah? Yeah, Sogo ahead with your would we'd just prank
story. So I had a clientand this happens about once every couple of
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years. Uh, somebody will runa sting out of Tom Brown Park to
catch the yeah in the bathroom,yeah, bathroom. Yeah. So some
people go out to have an encounterthat they should be having, uh at
at Tom Brown Park, and youkids go to that park. You don't
want that kind of stuff out there, but some people don't care about that.
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And be careful with this story becauseI know some of these stories and
we don't want to tell some ofthese on there. Uh, this one,
it's pretty funny. Was it somebodynot comfortable? It was somebody not
comfortable? Okay, So it wasa it was a particular deputy. I
won't say his name who It washis birthday. And so the way these
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things work is they take a deputywho goes undercover to act like a person
who would have such an encounter.In this particular instance, they address this
deputy up in a pair of thoseshort shorts like the waitresses that Hooters wear,
and some long like knee sock typething and tennis shoes and bandanna around
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his head and a time ago thisis a back and uh one of those
tank top shirts you know, lookslike Freddie Mercury. Yeah, look the
part and uh and so he wouldsit, you know, in one of
the stalls, and uh, Icall them foot tappers. You know.
He just tapped the foot, youknow, and there's kind of a signal,
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you know, double flush, shuffleyour feet, stuff to be that
kind of thing. And that's asignal to the guy next door that,
you know, we'd be interested inbecoming friends. And before an arrest could
be made, there has to bean overt act. And so what would
happen is is that the undercover woulddo is thing to sort of entice the
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target to have to commit an overtact. When the overt act would happen,
he'd whisper into his microphone the codeword apple, whatever it is,
and they come running a bus theguy. So you've got other undercover stationed
in and around the area where thisis going on outside and when they hear
that co work, you know,that code work, coming in a bus
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a guy and haul him off.And next yeah, so it was this
particular decoy officer's birthday and such anevent took place, and the code word
was uttered, and the undercovers outsidedecided not to act on the code word
code word, and the code wordwas uttered again, and then the code
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word was uttered with profanity, andthe deputy decided something was about to happen
that he did not want to happento him, and so he got up
and ran out of the bathroom,only to find all of his fellow officers
on the ground laughing so hard thatone of them almost had a heart attack.
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And my client's going, I justdon't understand. I'm like, don't
worry about it. But you getfired for that now, oh big time.
All the stuff that all the storieswe've told in today's show would get
you fired today, completely fired,probably uh ostracized out of the industry,
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de certified, decertified. That's theword I was looking done. Well it
is and it is today too.It's just extremely politically incorrect, but it
was funny. You got to goto the smallest agency around to get away
with this stuff. Now I don'tthink you get away with it. One
of the fun tricks we used todo there on campus to the new guy
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driving around on campus, there wasa couple of the streets on campus that
went under archways that were between dormitories. Walking archways, you could walk from
Brightward Hall to Gilchrist Hall and therewas a pastor from Gilchrist to landers Landis
and their ivy way ran under it, and the stop sign there you have
to stop stop signed you have tostop at the crosswalk on the street level.
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And then there's a couple of well, we would take a five gallon
bucket of water and put about fourgallons of water in it and then go
buy a gallon of milk and pourthe milk in the water. So it
looked let me tell you it lookslike white paint. When you pour milk
into water like that, you thinkit's white paint. And the kids were
gone once again, this is springbreak or whatever. And uh, you
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wait till somebody, some unsuspecting poorguy driving around the patrol car comes up
to that stop sign and stops andyou dump that five gallons of what looks
like white paint all over the carand run hide and then listen to the
listen to the radio traffic. Isit just something nobody's supposed to be in
the building of you for us tojack keys? There was golf cart,
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uh, mumper cars and races andraces and just men, why is this
stuff still were out? I remembergoing to Airborne in a Crown vic one
day, out there chasing somebody footpursuit. He was running. I was
driving and he cut across and Iwant to run over a curb it and
curb it was three steps and Iwas God decided I might have to run
over this piece of PVC pipe inthe middle of this that was black and
(47:00):
that wasn't BBC, it was steel. I bent that sucker over. I
went up to the store. That'sCohen Jefferson and old Dave Marsh came up
there in my sergeant and uh,he said, what are you doing.
I'm bending the fenders back out becauseapparently when you jump a car and it
lands like the dukes of hazard,all this breaks things. All those friends
there's ben, I'm over there pullingthem back out. He goes, well,
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I can't tell it happened. Ijust don't say nothing. We started
this show talking about gove deals andgetting rid of the side by side and
getting to pick up truck. Ihave came come to the conclusion, the
determination that you can't give a twentysomething year old kid working at a gun
range anything that resembles a toy thatmight be fun to drive. So yeah,
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that's that's just never a good idea. So two will drive a little
Ford Ranger for you, sir.Yeah, that's what they get. Nothing
fun about this four cylinder, twowheel drive Ford Ranger with a little bitty
street turs On had to find anautomatic thing. Yeah, because nobody,
nobody three three of us on theproperty that can drive. Well, there
were there were a couple of guysdown there that could arrange manager and and
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is it yeah, Evan said hecould and and then nobody else could.
And I was like, well,you know, that's a good idea that
none of the rest of them driving. They got thinking about, well,
you know, we need sometimes weneed them to they run down there and
check the sporting clothes and put someclothes in there, and yeah, yeah,
it's amazing. My son his histruck got in an accident. Wasn't
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his fault, but sure, wellyou say so, lawyer didn't insurance claim,
had to replace truck, and sowe did all that yesterday, say
him out to go get the truck. And I didn't know the exact amount
of the check, you know,uh, And I don't want to go
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ahead and get it because you cando all that by email now. So
I said, we'll just take thischeck when you get out there. Just
write it for the amount. He'dnever written a check before. Yeah,
oh, yeah, for sure hehad not. And that's not that's not
that. I remember sitting my sondown when he was probably sixteen seventeen years
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old and said you need to Hehad a check in account. I said,
you need to write a check.You need to write me a check
to reimburse me for whatever it was. Deal we had made going on you
know, and he goes, howdo I do that? I was like,
well, come here, son,and it's sixteen years old and I
had to basically sit there and showhim how to write a check. Now
he knows how to write a check, but this was twenty two and I
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guess I'm gonna be doing that tonight. I mean, well, you know,
just show you times have changed.I learned to drive on a three
speed column shift too, with aclutch, you know, three speed,
three on the tree. Three onthe tree is what I learned to drive
on. And now you kids lookat that and they go, yeah,
I remember seeing one of those.They don't know what that is. I
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mean, it's a it's a it'sfour one three, nineteen seventy two.
All right, before we run outof time, I want to cover this
because this is the last show that'sgone air before the mariorn f f A
Alumni Chapters fundraiser for the mariorn ff A, the Sporting Class tournament that
j D and I are gonna setup. You do remember, you go,
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yeah, I do. We hadChris fell out here at a while
ago looking for a shot gun barrel. He's he's he's gonna come shoot it.
After talking to him, there's stillroom for a few teams left.
It's filling up that which is good, but I think they've still got room
for several teams by the time youhear this. And uh, it's gonna
be at my farm. So youget to come check out my house and
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see my defense is said. Youknow you don't want to come back without
being invited. And so there's aflight in the morning starting at nine am,
and a flight in the after.This is central time, not not
fast time. And another we're gonnahave lunch about noon. We're gonna feed
you and you can have a fourI don want to have a four or
five person team, and you can. We're gonna count the top four score
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so you can. You can comeshoot as an individual if you want to,
so you don't have to form awhole team. We will put you
on one. The way to signup will be right now. Call and
get this information or go to goto the Marianna FFA Alumni chapter Facebook page,
or go to our Facebook page ormy Facebook page and look at it
and you can call the range ateight five o five nine seven seventy five
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fifty is that right now. Yeah, and we'll give you the number to
call that lady on that and we'llgive you the number. I'm gonna give
you Allison's number because she's the onethat sent me a text to day and
go. Can you get some moreteams lined up? Y'all making me look
bad because you're not signing up,so I need If you listen, it's
gonna be a good time. It'llbe out on a farm in the open,
do a good time. So callus and sign up. Let's see
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y'all next time.
Man, Welcome to the Town OutdoorShow. I'm Charlie, I'm J d
up Fred, and I'm Grant andand and Captain Paul's there on the speakerphone.
Yeah, there we go, Therewe go. We have got this
calling thing licked. Now. Wehave figured out what all the technology we
have access to and all of thesoftware and everything else. We just call
and put you on speakerphone and holdit up to the microphone. Hold it
(00:25):
up to the microphone. Man,I ain't gonna tell you how much it
cost us to get to this pointwent out anyway. Now. So,
uh so we're gonna do the fishingsegment a little early in the show today
because, uh because Captain Paul apparentlyyou're on the fish or what. Yes,
sir, I'm out here with MikeJinkson from Benwood to Georgia and Greg
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kenn from Live Oak, Florida.And we don't call what's our numbers day,
we don't call it now this morningnineteen I think guys there, they
are really biting what you catching,man? You know that's latch what you're
catching those things on. I'll tellyou what we're catching. A fish all
(01:06):
is a sinker worm mister Gregg,he came down here. He's a saltwater
fish. He had a thirty poundtest leader on this and he's kind of
putting the heartening on on this therefor a little bit. But I'll tell
you what. Thirty pound leader Floracarbon leader j D. And it's only
about twelve inches long. Yep,I tell you man, the Flora carbon
(01:29):
is amazing, amazing stuff. Itis the most invisible fishing line made in
uh in the in the Gulf.That's it's also highly embracing brasion resistance.
Good stuff. That's right. Really, it makes a difference right now.
You know when folks hear this,the beverage is flood and the river's flooded.
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The lake is really muddy. Iwas fishing out yesterday day, which
have been Thursday, and the muddywater has made it down about below big
Gems or people familiar with that.Now it's almost all the way down the
ceiling. So we're trying to findsome clear water. But find clear water.
It seems like we can get thatabsolutely. Yeah, every every river
(02:12):
around here is is rolling right nowwith all the rain we've had, and
it's still still headed down the north. I went over the Chattahoochie River and
the Flint River in the past fewdays and crossed over both of them,
and I thought to myself, rightthen, yeah, that's my granddaddy would
have said, he's seen some raccoontracks floating down the river as we went
over in the mud more mud thanwater, right, that's exactly right.
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But the creek is about as muddyas I've ever seen it. There's a
lot of stuff floating down in soit's really muddy. But the fish all
bying. It is March. It'sthat time of year when the fish are
moving up Shallie, getting ready tospine and are spawning, and we're just
trying to find some big ones.Now we're fishing sand bars and about six
seven foot of water, and that'swhere you got to find that clear water.
(03:00):
That fresh MUD's kind of tough.So when you like stay, have
anybody listening coming up this weekend,and be careful running around the way because
there's some stuff floating around. Butfind that clear water for sure. Very
good sir, Well, we appreciateit, Paul, And tell folks how
they can get ahold of you ifthey want to go fishing man, and
give me a call. At eightfive zero two six four seven five three
(03:22):
four. Then they can reach outto me on at Facebook on Captain Paul
tar fishing, All right, buddy, will y'all be careful up there and
keep putting them in the boat.That is kind of good fishing. Brother,
Yeah, I know, I know. Hey, the Lord look at
that's a good one. How manykids read on the fall men your friends?
(03:43):
Yeah, I might be a transfish or something that me. We
got to know how big. Wegot to know how big it is.
Yes, that's how big he is. He's pulling at me. I got
to know. Now he might beshort and feisty, butter and a half
three pound. Let me get allright. That's why everybody they're sworn it
(04:06):
all right, we'll get it allright. But if we'll get him into
net and we'll we'll talk to younext time. See you, see y'all.
So so Paul says things. Sometimesit took on me in and you'd
I'd have to explain why. Butanyway, oh man, what have you
(04:26):
let me do this? Real quick? I last week supposed to and you
didn't. Yeah, well I wantedto wait, doctor Miller, Doctor Joseph
Miller, thank you back, you'llfeel better. Yeah. He's one of
our advertisers and a and a friendand he has he's uh, he's worked
on me a few times. Andshe came in and dropped off something for
(04:47):
me because I had asked him oneday about, you know, my feet
hurting, and he said, yougot planning faciat us and I'm like,
no, I don't. He justyeah, that you do. He says,
let me bring you something, saybrought by these power step inserts that
he's got in his office, anddropped off a pair. And I suspect
he wanted me to mention it becausehe left his business card on the box,
(05:09):
and he knows that I know howto reach him, so so I
threw him in my shoes and normallywill how long do you wear something for
you notice different? I noticed thedifference right away, And when I'm wearing
the shoes that I wear now thatI get at the shoe box another one
of our advertisers. But I putthese inserts in it, and my feet
quit hurting. I get up outof a chair and all of a sudden
(05:30):
they don't hurt like they did.Now. The last three days I've been
standing on the gun range three daysthis week I was teaching the Sheriff's office
in Jackson County, doing a littlelostter survival class at the chriff invited me
to do. And the first twodays I was wearing a different pair of
shoes with just a stock insert andmy feet were killing me. The third
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day, I put these shoes onwith those inserts in them, and my
feet didn't hurt when I got home. And that was a clue that apparently
these things work. So these arenow might go to Keen shoes with that
particular insert in it. That's that'suh. So do you get these from
him or yeah? Well, Idon't know he delivered that one. He
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personally brought those out here and leftthem on Charlie's desk because I was I
don't know. He could have wentto Walmart to CBS for all I know,
but they come from his I'm prettysure he carries stuff like this in
his office. He'll you can goin there and you can get you a
massage. You can go in thereand get your back crack, your neck
crack, you can get a theydo physical therapy there, and they got
all kinds of stuff going on.So these things I'm looking at them.
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They they look like skis. Wellwas because I wear a size thirteen.
What do you wear size seven?Well they got that in the kids section.
I'm for sure seven seven? Youwear seven? Yeah, size seven?
I got a little feat. Igot a big heart. So is
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that seven in the youth the youthsize, or said the even call men's.
I don't think they call them men'ssize till you get the eights.
I recall from having a child themen's I can't buy shoes in the store
because they don't have size sevens anywhere. Ses I bet you do. Oh
man. There was a that auctionsite that JD We were looking at an
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auction site trying to get a pickuptruck for the range, and uh I
got to looking and we were successful. Yes, absolutely, And we've sold
our side besides out here at theranging. And now I have a pickup
truck picking up this week and that'sgonna be now thing. Now now the
kids work for us, can goto the store legally, ride the buggy
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up to the flying Yeah, runto the bank for us. And so
I was looking on that auction siteand they auctioned off things from all kinds
just like gov go deals, govdeals dot whatever. And they had they
had of all things, tennis shoesfrom some of the different football teams and
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Collie sixteen sixteens. Why would they, Lord have Mercy and Fred, you
could use those for skis, exceptthey got cleats on the clown shoes like
clown shoes on Fred. Yeah,my Lord, I'm looking at him,
and I'm going, man, there'sa brand new things find the auction office.
I saw sixteen seventeen. I'm like, but hold on that are you're
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looking at? You? Look Govedeals? What why are you in private
browsing? I don't know, justsomebody had defaulted, so Fred, it
is a it is a national auctionsite that deals with government. Some of
them are seized the vehicles. Someof the vehicles are seized. Some of
them are like City of Tallahassee gettingrid of their vehicles because you know,
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City Tallahassee is going green and electric, isn't they nice? Yeah, so
they wanted to get rid of theirsome of these. I bought a I
bought my daughter an F one fiftyfour wheel drive that with it's a two
thousand and nine, but it hadlike seventy something by all the miles on
it, so it ain't wore out. And that's what she's going to get
to drive. What's the site,gove deals, gove deals. Yeah,
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two words, one word just totype it out. G O V D
E A L S the A LS. All right, we're gonna find
you buy everything from research equipment,from universities to shoes to guns to I'm
kind of kind I'm being very Uh, I'm concerned. I'm looking over Fred
over here at what he's googling.I'm looking at his search history, and
it's kind of concerning. Well,I probably ought not to be. Don't
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do that. I don't know thatI'm old enough to say some of this
stuff. I was researching a case. I mean, you know, I
gotta learn there it is. That'sa site right there. Sure enough,
look at all this stuff. Uhhuh. You can bid, you sign
up, give them your only hadlike they had like three thousand vita.
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I'm wondering, Fred, what anythingyou want to say about that website.
I don't think they sell the kindof stuff you normally I was gonna get
that Amy, Yeah, they gotan chaser, ain't you? Yeah?
That way, I'm getting shape.I have my wife around the neighborhood.
Open the back door and get yousome business cards and see if you can
throw them in there with your fingerswhile you're running along behind. Well,
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we actually had I don't know ifyou saw this, they did, like
the first annual Florida Man Games.Yeah, of course you can't say first
that he has been inaugural, butyeah, they had like one of them,
like you could run from real copsand like while carrying a TV or
a sword or whatever, you know, like Florida Man does. So when
I was in law school, wehad our annual law day every year and
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we started the ambulance chase. Sowe would get the one of the EMTs
to show up and you'd have arace. And so whoever caught the ambulance
first, you know, won anaward. And I wanted three years in
a row. And said, man, let me tell you that size seven
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and going down the road, getshort legs moving now, I mean's a
fellow in the lobby, how appropriateis that? Well, there was a
fellow just today in the lobby wantedto know if he could have one of
my business cards. And the problemwas there was the name of us.
Came by threw them all out ofme, so I didn't have any giving.
Uh yeah, so yeah, yeah, well, so, yeah,
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that that site is cool. Uh, it's they it's all kind of stuff,
a lot of junk, a lotof junk. Yeah, you can
buy a fire truck, well,you can buy a junk like old patrol
cars that are stripped down and moreout. But there's agencies can buy other
agencies cars that they're upgrading to somethingprobably more fuel efficient. They're not faster
anymore, they're trying to. Butthere's a there's a lot like seized vehicles,
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and you know, I mean youcan find old Mac computers in there,
and and you know, if you'reinto that kind of thing, there's
a bunch of stuff that goes extremelycheap because nobody wants, which is you
know, just very very much thatit's applying to man. You could get
you a car a car load ofold government computers and if you were into
that, you could probably piecing togetherand make one, yeah, make one
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decent one, or you know,and talk to the aliens or whatever it
is you do with your tenfold hat. And I get the kick out of
some of the research research equipment fromthe universities when they're getting rid of their
old whatever research stuff, and likewho would actually go in there and buy
a centrifuge. I mean I needone to make math because that was I
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don't know. I don't if youdo, they probably got something handmade over
to turn the crank or so,I don't know what. You can turn
the centrifuge into an ice cream maker, now, that would be cool,
a high speed ice cream machine.Maybe you could get a flux capacitor.
You might could get a flux capacitor. Yeah, I did that once.
You'd have to put it in oneof Tesla cyber trucks now, because I
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say, closest thing they got tothe old aluminum body or stainless steel body.
Deloreum. Yeah, the story.A few years ago, I was
in mental health court. That placeis crazy. You were you were representing
somebody? Yeah, because there's adifferent fread. I just yeah, we
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were, and so, uh,you know, I got my client over
there, and he's all, there'ssomething called mental health court. It's for
the purfect, is it to seeif you're it's basically you go through this
process and it's for people who ain'tall there, uh and might not have
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the capacity to stand trial. Ohokay, you're trying to determine. Yeah,
we got to do something with him. You've got to have some supervision.
Now you've got to go to Chattahoobefore you get easy, easy,
Easy, that's where you go.Artist State Hospital. Let's let's don't call
it the town where I grew up. That's my hometown. So there's a
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sensitive to that. Yeah, soyou're you're trigger me. Okay, So
you were in there and you andmy clients he's he's out there, and
we we had reset the case.This was like in July, and uh
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so the judge said, well,let's set it for eight six, you
know, August sixth. And myclient looks at he's eight six, What
does that mean? And the judgestarted to answer, and I put my
hand ups and hold up, judge, I speak this language. I can,
I can, I can, Ican, I can fix this.
And so I looked at my client. I said, eight six is the
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speed that the DeLorean must reach inorder for the flux capacitor to activate.
The cloent said, oh, okay, that's cool. It was actually eighty
eight. I think, well,of course it was. But he didn't
know the difference. I don't.That was what was so wrong about that
whole movie. Is not the wholetime travel thing beingossible is getting the delairem
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to go to go eighty eight milesan hour? How many chicken watch you
have to It was giggle battle.It was a chick watch gigawatts chicka wat.
I don't though it was something.This is the thing that the lightning
has you measured in chickaway. Idon't know if chicka wat's giggle watts.
I thought he said chickawat. Youwould think that, but it's not what
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he said. Chick a watt mustbe something that it has to do with,
like, you know, poultry orchickens. Yeah, all right,
so what's this? What? Whatare you walking around here handing out these
little short pencils for? Yeah,so this is walking here and left.
You know, I know you're tryingto tell us something. You got some
lead pencil or this was that justthat length or what? It's a golf
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pencil with an eraser. I neverplayed I never played golf with Fred.
There you go, has an eraseron it. So my secretary knows that
I'm a big golf fan. Imean I've always been a golf fan.
Not really good golf player, althoughI do like the shirts and so I
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always put on the calendar every yearwhen it's the Masters, and I love
to talk about the Master. LovedWat's the Masters. I'm fascinated by the
Masters, love the tradition of theMasters, the sportsmanship and everything about golf
is just a good pageantry. Yeah, it's a cool thing to me.
It is not a cool thing tomy secretary. And so she put on
the calendar last year where I hadput the Masters on the calendar, she
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added, this is only for dorks. Then she sent out an inner office
memo everyone, this is everybody inmy office now. As you may know,
Thursday, April sixth, twenty twentythree is International Freedom to Be a
Dork Day. This day, whichwe are celebrating for the first time this
year, is a day to recognizethe existence and right to exist of all
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members of the dork community. It'sa day to free or inner dork mainly
by watching the Masters and celebrate yourdorkiness. The Law Office of Frederick M.
Conrad stands in solidary with its dorkybosses. That would be me and
other dorky members of the community.As a law office, we are committed
to social justice, which we arenot but to that end, I invite
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all Office community members to celebrate withour dorky colleagues by watching the Masters.
If you cannot bring yourself to watchyour Masters, you may whisper all day
instead. So this year are comingup on the seventeenth green this year.
I tell her as I'm walking outof the door, I say, she
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said, what you're going to dothis weekend? So I'm all right over
watch the players in Jacksonville. Andshe said, well, shoot, I
bought you a Master's present and nowyou're going to Sawgrass. And so she
hands me a pack of pencils thatare all engraved with the phrase proud dork.
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I thought you guys should have oneas well. We appreciate it.
Never been to the Masters, know, and I remember you telling you I
went two years ago, got thegot the opportunity to go like the froze
slapped the death. But man,amazing just heard. It's just I think
that would I don't know if theylet you go see the course when the
Masters is not. I know it'sa very private club, but just the
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grounds, the grounds alone, thegrounds keeping, the grounds alone are just
worth going and looking at those beautiful, beautifully manicured place I've ever been to.
It's just crazy. Yeah, thereis a dress code. There is
in fact a dress can bring in. Had to leave cell phone completely.
They check you. You can't havea cell phone on the property. Even
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if you're just playing, it doesmatter. You can't have ride by what
what a what A duke's a hazardhorn or they gonna say what it plays,
or or a train horn and sitacross the highway. You don't get
close enough to it for anybody thereto hear you. There you're a train
horn. Yeah, maybe a trainhorn, but there's I think they don't
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fly jets over that place during theduring the tournament. Wow, I didn't
see. I didn't see or hearany any airplanes. And you know,
it's just just just something to behold. It really is to be ashamed.
I've always the privilege that these peoplehave. It's just a shame. Okay,
it's amazing. If you ever geta chance. It's hard to get
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tickets. Oh yeah, I putit. I've been putting in for the
lottery for years. I've never drawnon. I guess you could spend you
know, mortgage your house and buyone on Stubb Yeah, and there they've
cut wee back. They have reallystarted stopping that even. Yeah, the
thing that my biggest pet peeve andwatching a golf tournament is that idiot that's
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always there that yells getting the hole. Yeah, and that's what I want
it used to. Yeah, yeah, what are your so so not to
get off on a complete golf tangent, because this is really not a show
about golf, But what are yourthoughts on the live live or live or
whatever the heck they call it theNew Tour where they're playing all the music
and never I don't like it personally, you know, it's I want to
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be I go to a golf courseto be quiet, back when I used
to play golf. I'm not realkeen on the music thing. And I'm
also not a big fan of themwearing shorts. Uh. I mean it's
I don't know, it's kind oflike court. You know, lawyers expected
to wear Coaton ties, and youknow that's just we were we were raised
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in a different era. We're froma different you know that the whole gen
X thing or whatever. You goto church, you should, you know,
you wear a tie. I mean, yeah, you dress that dress
up a little bit at least andYeah, that's I don't go anywhere I
have to wear a tie. Well, he's wearing the Church of the Rattle.
You want me to wear a tie? You don't expect me to be
there? That's Hey, we're gonnahave what's the dress code? Oh uh?
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This this fundraiser that we've invited youto is a black tie. I'm
like, first off, I'm notwearing any tie. Certainly not. I
went on that TI function last weekdid my peacock feather bow tie. But
you did as you didn't wear apenguin outfit understould. Well, I mean
look I like one in a tuckseto bit, you know. Yeah,
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I can see that. You justgotta do the funny walk that you do.
Yeah, it works. Want wedon't have to try. We'll be
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An we're back. What you wannatalk about? Well, this is the
bottom of the hour segment. Alabama. I've been in Alabama for the whole
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last weekend and part of the weekI was in Alabama driving through it tomorrow.
Yeah, this week there's a story. Uh, there's a zoo close
by there. I guess Albany islike pretty close Alabama, Albany, Yeah,
no, Georgia, Well it's notthat far. Like saying Panama City's
style. Yeah, go ahead,all right. So apparently there's a zoo
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in Alabama and a tiger has escapedfrom the zoo and has made its way
to Chee Hall Park. Okay uhand in roaming Chee Hall Park and the
residents are afraid because there's a tiger'srunning around out like that sounds like an
opportunity to get a new rug toyou. We got to be careful about
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escaped wild animals in Alabama or NorthFlorida because if it don't look right,
somebody gonna either eat it or wearit. Because nobody's gonna believe you saw
a tiger unless you shoot it inpoint on Facebook and send it to all
your ken boat look what I got. If it makes its way to walk
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on, they'll call it a skuncapebecause they ain't gonna ain't gonna ask if
it's legal that you did it.L after it's done, Hey man,
is it legal? Think you're allright with it because it's not anti species?
No native species? Okay, thenso I can tell people, I
guess you could, unless they're unlessthey're internationally endangered. Because there's a fella
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in I don't think there's an fwC rag on tigers. No, I'm
sure there's not a state regulation,but the federal government might for some kind
of a Lacey Lacy Act. They'reprosecuting. There's a guy being prosecuted right
now, eighty year old men beingprosecuted that pled guilty out in I want
to say, Montana Utah, somewhereout west in the mountains out there,
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because he imported from Kazakhstan some somebig, huge species of sheep. There's
big, big goat, big sheep. It's endangered over there, not necessarily
endangered in the rest of the world, but in their native country they're endangered.
They're protected. Blah blah blah.He imported some of them with the
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full intention of breeding them or crossbreeding them and coming up with a very
large hybrid trophy animal of some swordor another. He wasn't gonna kill the
ones what he smuggled in over here. He was going crossbreeding with something to
make the mountain goats or the sheepover here bigger trophies. And the federal
government went after this eighty year oldguy for his intention to violate the Lacy
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Act. Just this hasn't been inthe news. I just read it a
couple of days ago. I don'tread a lot of the other news that
you talk about the Trump stuff.I stay away from that, but I
do read articles like that in thenews, and I found it quite obvious,
quite interesting that they're going to prosecutethis guy for trying to keep these
things alive and make them proliferate.I don't know if you read that story
a couple of years ago about theguy that killed the California condor. M
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yeah, I think I do remembersomething said something along. Yeah, he
had killed California condor. And heactually went to trial, and what happened
there is so he gives in trial, he says, look, I got
lost in the mountains California, andI had one bullet left and I was
I was hungry of starving so Californiacondor and I ate it. And they
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finally found him and he told himwhat he did and then prosecuted him for
it. So he goes to trialand judge says something about sanctity of human
life and whatnot. They end upfinding him not guilty. He comes out
of the courthouse steps, the reportersare standing around. They say, what
did that California condor taste like?He said? It was kind of a
cross between a bald eagle and spottedout. Yes, a little side amanite.
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I know, you know, Iknow, I remember talking to old
folks, uh, you know,when I was really young and these were
these were a lot of people mightlike my relatives that were born in the
late eighteen hundreds. I got tomeet some of them and talk to them,
and they talked about going from fromWashington County, Florida, you know,
right here, going down to thecoast on purpose and killing manatees for
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the meat, you know, inthe twenties. I'm talking about probably in
the nineteen the teens in the twenties, and they called it. He uncle
Willie called them sea cows. Hesaid, we get in there and kill
us one of them sea cows,because and bring the meat back and preserve
it and they live off of it. I mean, that was just food.
That was just food to them,and you know they's pretty good.
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Now you can't go down the riverwithout kayakers getting you away so you don't
run over them with your boat motor. Yeah, now you're blocking. I'm
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O seven sixty six thirteen four.Hey, I was just looking at the
member of the Bear Self Protection Actin Florida that was being passed. Oh
you did it pass? Will?It passed the House eighty three to twenty
eight, and it passed the Senateas well, and it had gone It
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has gone to Governor Desanus's disk andsaid law will allow you to if you
reasonably believe that your action i e. Shooting the bear was necessary to avoid
an eminent threat of death or seriousbody injury to yourself himself herself or to
another, an eminent threat of deathor serious body injury to a pet,
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or substantial damage to a dwelling.So if you if when he the Governor
signs it, and I'm pretty surehe will. It passed both and it
was We talked with one of theone of the sponsors right here in the
shop not long ago. And somepeople who shoot bears would be required to
notify f w C within twenty fourhours and show they did not intentionally place
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themselves or pets in situations where theyneeded to kill bears. I mean,
in other words, you weren't atyour food plot at the corn smearing molasses
on you. You're playing real steela bear corn bear here bear, And
oh my god, I was afraidfor my life. So I had was
trying to eat me. People wouldnot be allowed to possess, possess or
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sell bear carcasses after the killings.They turn them in. Wait a minute,
what's support to kill the bear?If you can't, well, it's
okay, So all right. SoCORYS. Simon and was one of the
sponsors, I think he was inthe Senate, and then Chauff was a
representative in the House that pushed this, and you know AJ down in Franklin
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County was kind of into it sowell, because bears are dangerous. So
I remember going out the highway twentyone night when I was at the Chaff's
office and we had a call thatthere was a bear in the yard.
And one of the deputy's call andsays, we got a bear up a
tree. What he wants to do? And I said, just give me.
I'll be there in a minute.So I pull in the yard and
look up in the tree with aspotlight and lower my hold. There's a
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black bear up there about the secondtree limb up just looking down at me
like I'm gonna stay up here tillyou leave. And the woman at the
house was just bawling. She wasand she was so upset and just I'm
just boo hooing, And I'm like, well, did the bear get you?
To know what happened? I hadmy dog and she had one of
the little winter dogs or it waseither that or one of the little little
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taco bell dogs. What is thingschihuah is something of those little yappy yappy
dogs. Yeah, and seventy twopounds. And in said, uh and
and and that. She said,I want to take the trash out.
And my dog was barking. AndI opened the door and walked outside,
and my dog ran up there andbarked at the bear, and the bear
ate my dog ate the whole dogdog right there, chomped it down,
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swallowed it gone, and then shescreamed, and the bear got scared and
went up the tree. And souh so we called off to w C.
Now this particular bear had been relocateda couple of times. What we
found out later on it just keptcoming back to civilization. Now under this
new law said was trying to eatyour dog, you kill that bear.
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I would kill it, but youcan't. But you can't keep the pauls
and the carcass, and you can'tdo don't get a rug or Hamburger meeting.
So what are they gonna do.Give it to the they'll dispose of
it the way they want to disposeof it. It might create the bear.
They'll probably take it and do someresearch on it or do something whatever,
and you'll see some f w Cguy with a bear claw. Yeah,
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O, kid, you know wheredid you get that? Know that
hen? That's kind of like thosecustoms guys got all my Cuban cigars.
Yeah, I'm sure he didn't smokeanother of them, ran them out to
his friend. That's kind of likewe used to come in the Hospel start
handing them out of new Fathers.We used to confiscate fireworks back in the
day. He can't have them fireworks. Y'all come on to the house for
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the July We're gonna have a goodtime. Yeah. It's like when you
when you the cop takes you beerwhen you're underage, you're supposed to pour
that out. I will do thatlater. Well, that's never had admitted
into evidence. Taking photographs of it. I've never seen cops take beer or
fireworks and anything like that and thengo do anything other than the appropriate stuff
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with it ever in my career.Me neither. I look the other way.
Well, when you when you're writeon the property receipt, it was
destroyed. There is no specifications asto the manner of destruction at that point.
Well, I look at it.But anyway, that's that's somebody ain't
gonna find that funny. But that'sokay. That was That was thirty forty
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years ago. Now things were differentback then. So how did you dispose
of that? Poured it out toa glass, poured it out. What
happened to fireworks? Should we burnthem? We burnt diffuses? Anyway,
there was fire involved at the atthe police department. Yes, seen that
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happen. I wasn't there for that, but I heard it happen. I
heard there was some some old crapgoing on. I think we probably can
tell that, probably can tell thatstory, and I'm gonna tell it just
that. I'm not I'm gonna leavethe names. I'm uninvolved. I'm not
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gonna involve the names. There wasat the old FSU Police department back in
the day, our police department wasthe dressing rooms and basement level below Ruby
Diamond Auditorium. You had ballerinas comingdown the hall. So when when the
Nutcracker Suite was going on upstairs,there's one hundred people from the ballet down
there using the same bathrooms as usand basically kicking us out of our dressing
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rooms and bathrooms so they could dothe production upstairs. And we were just
kind of had the basement down thereand we operated out of it and it
was fine, but anyway, itwas it was a nice facility, nice
bathrooms, nice facilities. There wasa certain TPD officer that would routinely go
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through their check on come to ourstation, our police station while we were
having check on, to use therestroom to do their their business, the
time consuming side of that business.Okay, okay, you're tracking so far.
Yeah, I'm with you. Well, it was kind of aggravating to
those of us that were in checkon when we had to go use the
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facilities after check on before we wentto work. And now the facilities are
let's just say contaminated and uh so, and this was a this was a
two or three night a week thinggoing on there so somebody another, one
of the f s U officers hadconfiscated some some fireworks and uh said,
hmm, I'm gonna fix this tonight. Gonna fix it right now, so
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said officers in the facilities, usingthe facilities, and another officer takes a
long string of firecrackers and lights themand opens the door and throws them,
throws them in there, and itgoes. I mean, it sounded like
a young war, you know,pop. And uh so, the the
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TPD alser that was was in therecalmly finishes their business, I guess,
and leaves the leaves the building andwe're all hiding around the corner laughing about
it. And it wasn't a coupleof hours later the TPD officer remembered their
gun belt and stuff and came backto RU, retrieved their equipment that was
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hastily abandoned in the bathroom, andit solved the problem. It never happened
again. It was, you know, different, like Charlie said, different
times we got away with. Iheard a story one time that somebody shot
a bottle rocket down the hallway andit went up underneath the door of either
the chief or hooker's door into theoffice, and they didn't have a key
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to that door, and they hadto take the air vent in the door
off and reach up and to findthe evidence, find reach up in there
and grab the doorknob from then breakinto the office. There was They would
put the vent back on after theyhad cleaned up. There were times when
you get the dispatcher involved in itand they would send you to fictitious burglar
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alarms or check this building, orwe got a door alarm. There was
a lot back in those days theymonitor We at the agency monitored certain alarms.
There were no not like a centralagency where the alarm goes off at
your house and and uh, youknow, vector security calls and says,
hey, we got an alarm atyour house. And there were there's monitored
off site. We actually FSU monitored. There was a whole giant wall full
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of buzzers and and things. Whenthe alarm would go off in the building,
you get a little blinky light andall this stuff. They'd go,
hey, being rout in the sudden, such a building, there's a alarm
going off. So you're down thereinvestigating a burglary and you're sneaking around and
looking for bad guys and all thisstuff, and the rest of the squad
was hiding on the other side ofthe parking lot with four hundred and ninety
two bottle rockets. And about thetime you turned the corner, it just,
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you know, keeping the students weregoing home. Yeah, that was
always pranks during the summertime, chrispbrain breaks coming up, or it's this
Christmas break or some summer not alot to do. It's gonna be on
next week. You speak these copranks, I had clente one of those.
Are we all out of time?So young? But tell that story,
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it's a good one. Then weget back. I promise it's probably
something we have done. I thinkmaybe'all may have been involved. Okay,
oh me a good young man.We'll be right back. Hey, it's
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seventy five point fifty. We're back. Oh man, you'll miss the break
rolling around something every now and thenwhen I do there, every now and
then, when I do the whenI do the you two part, I
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just go ahead and include part ofthe breaks, so I just have to
go kicking, all right. Isthat gonna get us run off? Nope?
Is that gonna embarrass for it?Yeah? Twelve twelve people gonna see
it? Yeah? Yeah, Sogo ahead with your would we'd just prank
story. So I had a clientand this happens about once every couple of
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years. Uh, somebody will runa sting out of Tom Brown Park to
catch the yeah in the bathroom,yeah, bathroom. Yeah. So some
people go out to have an encounterthat they should be having, uh at
at Tom Brown Park, and youkids go to that park. You don't
want that kind of stuff out there, but some people don't care about that.
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And be careful with this story becauseI know some of these stories and
we don't want to tell some ofthese on there. Uh, this one,
it's pretty funny. Was it somebodynot comfortable? It was somebody not
comfortable? Okay, So it wasa it was a particular deputy. I
won't say his name who It washis birthday. And so the way these
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things work is they take a deputywho goes undercover to act like a person
who would have such an encounter.In this particular instance, they address this
deputy up in a pair of thoseshort shorts like the waitresses that Hooters wear,
and some long like knee sock typething and tennis shoes and bandanna around
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his head and a time ago thisis a back and uh one of those
tank top shirts you know, lookslike Freddie Mercury. Yeah, look the
part and uh and so he wouldsit, you know, in one of
the stalls, and uh, Icall them foot tappers. You know.
He just tapped the foot, youknow, and there's kind of a signal,
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you know, double flush, shuffleyour feet, stuff to be that
kind of thing. And that's asignal to the guy next door that,
you know, we'd be interested inbecoming friends. And before an arrest could
be made, there has to bean overt act. And so what would
happen is is that the undercover woulddo is thing to sort of entice the
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target to have to commit an overtact. When the overt act would happen,
he'd whisper into his microphone the codeword apple, whatever it is,
and they come running a bus theguy. So you've got other undercover stationed
in and around the area where thisis going on outside and when they hear
that co work, you know,that code work, coming in a bus
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a guy and haul him off.And next yeah, so it was this
particular decoy officer's birthday and such anevent took place, and the code word
was uttered, and the undercovers outsidedecided not to act on the code word
code word, and the code wordwas uttered again, and then the code
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word was uttered with profanity, andthe deputy decided something was about to happen
that he did not want to happento him, and so he got up
and ran out of the bathroom,only to find all of his fellow officers
on the ground laughing so hard thatone of them almost had a heart attack.
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And my client's going, I justdon't understand. I'm like, don't
worry about it. But you getfired for that now, oh big time.
All the stuff that all the storieswe've told in today's show would get
you fired today, completely fired,probably uh ostracized out of the industry,
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de certified, decertified. That's theword I was looking done. Well it
is and it is today too.It's just extremely politically incorrect, but it
was funny. You got to goto the smallest agency around to get away
with this stuff. Now I don'tthink you get away with it. One
of the fun tricks we used todo there on campus to the new guy
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driving around on campus, there wasa couple of the streets on campus that
went under archways that were between dormitories. Walking archways, you could walk from
Brightward Hall to Gilchrist Hall and therewas a pastor from Gilchrist to landers Landis
and their ivy way ran under it, and the stop sign there you have
to stop stop signed you have tostop at the crosswalk on the street level.
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And then there's a couple of well, we would take a five gallon
bucket of water and put about fourgallons of water in it and then go
buy a gallon of milk and pourthe milk in the water. So it
looked let me tell you it lookslike white paint. When you pour milk
into water like that, you thinkit's white paint. And the kids were
gone once again, this is springbreak or whatever. And uh, you
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wait till somebody, some unsuspecting poorguy driving around the patrol car comes up
to that stop sign and stops andyou dump that five gallons of what looks
like white paint all over the carand run hide and then listen to the
listen to the radio traffic. Isit just something nobody's supposed to be in
the building of you for us tojack keys? There was golf cart,
(46:38):
uh, mumper cars and races andraces and just men, why is this
stuff still were out? I remembergoing to Airborne in a Crown vic one
day, out there chasing somebody footpursuit. He was running. I was
driving and he cut across and Iwant to run over a curb it and
curb it was three steps and Iwas God decided I might have to run
over this piece of PVC pipe inthe middle of this that was black and
(47:00):
that wasn't BBC, it was steel. I bent that sucker over. I
went up to the store. That'sCohen Jefferson and old Dave Marsh came up
there in my sergeant and uh,he said, what are you doing.
I'm bending the fenders back out becauseapparently when you jump a car and it
lands like the dukes of hazard,all this breaks things. All those friends
there's ben, I'm over there pullingthem back out. He goes, well,
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I can't tell it happened. Ijust don't say nothing. We started
this show talking about gove deals andgetting rid of the side by side and
getting to pick up truck. Ihave came come to the conclusion, the
determination that you can't give a twentysomething year old kid working at a gun
range anything that resembles a toy thatmight be fun to drive. So yeah,
(47:47):
that's that's just never a good idea. So two will drive a little
Ford Ranger for you, sir.Yeah, that's what they get. Nothing
fun about this four cylinder, twowheel drive Ford Ranger with a little bitty
street turs On had to find anautomatic thing. Yeah, because nobody,
nobody three three of us on theproperty that can drive. Well, there
were there were a couple of guysdown there that could arrange manager and and
(48:09):
is it yeah, Evan said hecould and and then nobody else could.
And I was like, well,you know, that's a good idea that
none of the rest of them driving. They got thinking about, well,
you know, we need sometimes weneed them to they run down there and
check the sporting clothes and put someclothes in there, and yeah, yeah,
it's amazing. My son his histruck got in an accident. Wasn't
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his fault, but sure, wellyou say so, lawyer didn't insurance claim,
had to replace truck, and sowe did all that yesterday, say
him out to go get the truck. And I didn't know the exact amount
of the check, you know,uh, And I don't want to go
(48:52):
ahead and get it because you cando all that by email now. So
I said, we'll just take thischeck when you get out there. Just
write it for the amount. He'dnever written a check before. Yeah,
oh, yeah, for sure hehad not. And that's not that's not
that. I remember sitting my sondown when he was probably sixteen seventeen years
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old and said you need to Hehad a check in account. I said,
you need to write a check.You need to write me a check
to reimburse me for whatever it was. Deal we had made going on you
know, and he goes, howdo I do that? I was like,
well, come here, son,and it's sixteen years old and I
had to basically sit there and showhim how to write a check. Now
he knows how to write a check, but this was twenty two and I
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guess I'm gonna be doing that tonight. I mean, well, you know,
just show you times have changed.I learned to drive on a three
speed column shift too, with aclutch, you know, three speed,
three on the tree. Three onthe tree is what I learned to drive
on. And now you kids lookat that and they go, yeah,
I remember seeing one of those.They don't know what that is. I
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mean, it's a it's a it'sfour one three, nineteen seventy two.
All right, before we run outof time, I want to cover this
because this is the last show that'sgone air before the mariorn f f A
Alumni Chapters fundraiser for the mariorn ff A, the Sporting Class tournament that
j D and I are gonna setup. You do remember, you go,
(50:20):
yeah, I do. We hadChris fell out here at a while
ago looking for a shot gun barrel. He's he's he's gonna come shoot it.
After talking to him, there's stillroom for a few teams left.
It's filling up that which is good, but I think they've still got room
for several teams by the time youhear this. And uh, it's gonna
be at my farm. So youget to come check out my house and
(50:40):
see my defense is said. Youknow you don't want to come back without
being invited. And so there's aflight in the morning starting at nine am,
and a flight in the after.This is central time, not not
fast time. And another we're gonnahave lunch about noon. We're gonna feed
you and you can have a fourI don want to have a four or
five person team, and you can. We're gonna count the top four score
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so you can. You can comeshoot as an individual if you want to,
so you don't have to form awhole team. We will put you
on one. The way to signup will be right now. Call and
get this information or go to goto the Marianna FFA Alumni chapter Facebook page,
or go to our Facebook page ormy Facebook page and look at it
and you can call the range ateight five o five nine seven seventy five
(51:30):
fifty is that right now. Yeah, and we'll give you the number to
call that lady on that and we'llgive you the number. I'm gonna give
you Allison's number because she's the onethat sent me a text to day and
go. Can you get some moreteams lined up? Y'all making me look
bad because you're not signing up,so I need If you listen, it's
gonna be a good time. It'llbe out on a farm in the open,
do a good time. So callus and sign up. Let's see
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y'all next time.
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