WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:16.199 This morning, when I was on my bike ride with my dogs. We 2 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:21.600 had not gone far and I kicked up a hen turkey and one polt that 3 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.399 was with her that I wouldn't call it a juvenile. I guess in human 4 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:29.239 terms you called a tobber. But it could fly anyway. I let my 5 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.840 fields grow. I just cut paths through them so we can walk through them 6 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.679 and ride our bikes through them. I just let them let them grow, 7 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.439 because I don't I'm not a farmer. I don't grow anything in there. 8 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:45.320 So I try to give the wildlife habitat. Deep grass is good habitat. 9 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:52.880 It's a good sanctuary for birds and snakes and insects and turkeys and all kinds 10 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.240 of critters like to get in that grass and it gives them cover. We 11 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.119 kicked up a turkey, as a hen turkey. She had a baby with 12 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.599 her, and the hen went one way and the little man, this little 13 00:01:03.959 --> 00:01:08.599 poult could fly. This thing flew off in the pine trees. I mean 14 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.959 the last time I saw it, it was still gaining altitude. Normally, 15 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.640 the turkeys will level out at some point and they'll hit the ground, but 16 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.359 this thing just kept on and on, and it worried me that I had 17 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:26.519 split up a hen in one polt. Now you have to expect that a 18 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.719 hen is going to hatch a clutch of at least three, sometimes four, 19 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:36.319 maybe five eggs. I don't know what the survival rate on small turkey polts 20 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:41.120 is, but it's low. It's very low. They're susceptible to predators until 21 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.959 they can fly, and until they're old enough to get away from a predator. 22 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.040 The mother will act as a decoy. Sometimes most times she'll just fly 23 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.120 off and leave them. But she only had one, so I'm assuming that 24 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.359 two or three, maybe even four have been either died or been caught by 25 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:01.680 our predators. And it worried me that I had split this hen in her 26 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:07.280 poult up because they went in two different directions. And I can only hope 27 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.960 that the hen will call that polp back to her, that baby back to 28 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.039 her, and I'm almost one hundred percent sure she'll start calling for that polp. 29 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.960 They're probably already back together. Now. This just happened thirty minutes ago. 30 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.680 Anyway, I pay attention to things like that. On our walks and 31 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:29.439 rides, we see all kinds of wildlife almost daily. One day a couple 32 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:32.280 of weeks ago, I was riding a different route, a different set of 33 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:38.840 trails, and let's see, we saw the turkeys are split up. Now 34 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:44.479 they're not together. The hens are off raising their babies, and the hens 35 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.000 that don't have babies, they're grouped together. But the hens that have babies 36 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:53.400 are solitary and they're just raising their own hens. And they'll start grouping back 37 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:59.520 up in the fall. But I saw a mother with four polts. Five 38 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:04.080 minutes later we kicked up a coyote. My little hairless dog chased it. 39 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:08.280 I was trying to call him back because those codies will just tear those little 40 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:13.199 dogs up. But luckily he came back, and I think it's a coyote 41 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.000 that's I have been seeing for like the last two years. I don't kill 42 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:21.639 coyotes. I don't that's a whole other topic. But I leave them alone 43 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:23.719 because if you kill them, there's just gonna be another one to take their 44 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:30.599 place. There's such a hearty and robust animal, probably the most persecuted animal 45 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:37.319 in the history of wildlife, and they still they have never gone down in 46 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:42.759 numbers. They only thrive in new habitats, and so I leave them alone. 47 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.759 I just leave them alone. And sometimes they take wildlife, but so 48 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:52.240 do dogs and so do cats, so I leave the coyotes alone. Anyway, 49 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:57.120 we saw a coyote that was really cool, and then like fifteen seconds 50 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:02.240 later, I was coming out under a cannop of oaks and pine trees onto 51 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:08.400 a levee and this giant it's one of the biggest herons I've ever seen, 52 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:13.639 must have just launched from the top of a tree. And as it was 53 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:18.560 swooping down into the pond I'm assuming to start feeding, it saw me and 54 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:24.480 it flared in front of me, about maybe twenty feet in front of me. 55 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:29.560 I got the most beautiful view of this heron, and oh I wish 56 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.040 I'd had a camera because I could see all its colors and I could see 57 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.319 the definition in its feathers, and of course it saw me, and it 58 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.959 picked up and it flew away. Now, herons and egrets are some of 59 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:47.519 the most wary birds in the world. You cannot get close to those things 60 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:50.959 at all. And if you're a duck hunter, you would do well to 61 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:57.040 stick a heron or some of these egrets in your decoy spread because they're confidence 62 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.199 builders. Anyway, that's another topic, but We used to do that. 63 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:01.439 I don't know if it worked or not, but we killed a lot of 64 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:05.560 ducks over those spreads. When we would stick a heron or something that looked 65 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:10.879 like a heron, especially something white like these white egrets, we'd kill a 66 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.759 lot of ducks over them. Anyway, went a little further, got up 67 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.040 on another levee and there was a snapping turtle going across the levee, and 68 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:23.079 we just my dogs are smart enough not to mess with a snapping turtle. 69 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.240 They sniffed it and on they went. But I sat there and watched it 70 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.759 for a little while. Now it quit moving. Snapping turtles, if they 71 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.720 see a human around, they just stop. They're ready to fight. I 72 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.319 just watched that snapping turtle for a long time. Went a little further on 73 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.319 the levee. We saw a big cotton mouth snake, and I think that 74 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.680 was it that day. It was one of the best days of seeing wildlife 75 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.920 for me really all this spring and summer. But every day we see deer 76 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:54.920 codies, we see something some kind of reptile, some kind of fur bearing 77 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:58.560 animal, and I just love it. Okay, so that's a long. 78 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.759 That's a long. That's a long. Intro to this email that I got 79 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.480 from Jeremy. And this is not a cryptid story. I just had a 80 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:11.360 few minutes this morning before work, and I thought I would go ahead and 81 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:15.680 record the story because it's really good. It's not it's just things. This 82 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.959 guy who is tuned in and he's I'm sure he's teaching his son this. 83 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:25.480 He's tuned into nature and he's still got that wonder of a kid when he 84 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:30.439 sees animals in the woods, and that is so healthy in my view. 85 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.199 I'm that way, and I feel so lucky that I'm that way that when 86 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:38.120 I see things. It's almost like I'm if I've seen a heron a hundred 87 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:43.120 times to see a heron again, and we have. They're everywhere around here, 88 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.759 and the egrets, it's it's always like the first time, you know, 89 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.399 and it just takes your breath away to look at this while well, 90 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:55.040 this is I can tell reading this man's email that he's the same way. 91 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.160 So I'm going to read his email. I'm going to sign off. It's 92 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:00.680 a little different podcast, but I just felt like doing it. So I 93 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:05.800 hope you guys enjoy his story and you feel the sense of wonder and maybe 94 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:11.079 you will get out if you live in a city. Just get out in 95 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:15.399 the park and look at the squirrels, watch how they behave. And it's 96 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:23.120 amazing how animals have learned to survive in urban areas, and some urban animals 97 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:28.120 even like dogs and cats, which I can't stand. Cats out there wildlife 98 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.079 killers. Your cat is a wildlife killer. You may say, oh, 99 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.240 my cat's sweet. No, your cats go. If you let your cat 100 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:40.439 out, your cat is killing birds, bird after bird after bird, just 101 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.879 for sport. That's what they do. But anyway, even cats and dogs 102 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:49.360 can learn to go from urban areas wilderness areas and they learn to survive. 103 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:51.800 Now some of them can't. I know some of them can't, but some 104 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:57.199 of them do so. Anyway, the behavior of animals is and without getting 105 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.680 too scientific and reading all about them, etcetera, etc. To me, 106 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.000 they're just fun to watch. They're more fun to watch if I don't get 107 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.199 real scientific with it and just watch how they operate. It's just cool. 108 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.279 It's peaceful. Anyway, I'm gonna read his email and I'll shut up, 109 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.920 and you guys can move on with your day if you're still listening. I 110 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.439 know, I ramble. These things just pop in my mind, so I 111 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.079 say, I'm sorry if it annoys you. But here's the man's email. 112 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.120 He writes, my name is Jeremy, and first off, my son and 113 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:33.159 I love your show. He asked nearly every morning when I get in my 114 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.360 truck if there's a new Dixie podcast. Now my stories are not cryptid stories, 115 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.600 but they're interesting. Nonetheless, I love to hunt, and I've been 116 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:46.200 hunting on my own since i was twelve. I'm forty three years old, 117 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:52.320 and after years of working as a large animal vet tech, there are mornings 118 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.399 that I feel a hard and abuse ninety years old. The last five years, 119 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:01.159 I've hunted the same spot on our land and breck and Ridge, Texas. 120 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.840 And both of these stories happened last year. The spot that I picked 121 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.000 a hunt is nearly perfect. There are two main trails, and I call 122 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.600 them I forty five and I twenty. The large oak tree that I sit 123 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.879 in stands right at their intersection. Now, I don't sit in a blind 124 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.159 or a chair. I sit on a wide branch. It's a little over 125 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.840 ten feet off the ground from that tree. I've had game that I passed 126 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:31.879 on and it stood within ten feet of me. And they never know I'm 127 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.000 there, a man? Is that fun? A young doe and her fawn 128 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.720 jumping and bucking and spinning like a bucking bull on a frosty morning. Or 129 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:45.879 the ridiculously fat squirrel who came by and got within inches and stared at me 130 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.279 for several minutes before barking once and waddling off. I like to get to 131 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.279 my spot well before legal light, and my walk to the tree is only 132 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:58.799 about three hundred yards, but it takes me quite a while to get there 133 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.600 because I'm slow, and I go slow is not to make noise and spook 134 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:07.799 any game that might be bedded down close. The first story happened not long 135 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.279 after I got to my spot and had climbed into the tree and settled in. 136 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.919 Dawn was still an hour and a half off. SAW laid back on 137 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:20.200 the branch and I got comfortable. It was quiet, and the insects and 138 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.279 the night birds were not very chatty, and I heard a clicking sound like 139 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.360 something was tapping on the rough bark of the oak tree not far from me. 140 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.960 I looked around without moving my head, and I didn't see anything, 141 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:37.360 so I just blew it off. But it kept happening, and it was 142 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.840 always in a different place, but always in my tree, and it was 143 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:45.960 close. I was getting ready to sit up and see what the hell was 144 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.360 causing that damn tapping, slashing, scraping sound. And then I saw it. 145 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.840 It landed on a branch I had broken off the season before to get 146 00:10:54.840 --> 00:11:00.399 a better alley to shoot through. It was perfectly silhouetted against the starry sky. 147 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:05.720 It was a small owl about eight inches tall. Well, I nearly 148 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.679 laughed out loud. It had been trying to figure out what the hell was 149 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:13.039 lying on the tree branch. He had been going from spot to spot and 150 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.840 trying to get a good look at me. And when he landed, he 151 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.600 was only four feet away, bobbing his head up and down. Now I 152 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.279 knew owls made little to no noise when they fly, but this little guy 153 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:30.080 was flying and landing around me for twenty minutes, within feet and I only 154 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.200 heard his feet grabbing the tree when he landed. It was so cool. 155 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:41.080 The next story happened a few weeks later on on an afternoon set. And 156 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.639 like everyone who has land we all hear coyotes shipping and howling, and we 157 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:50.519 know what they sound like. My dad had on more than one occasion that 158 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.080 year, and since he's been sitting on his porch having a drink when the 159 00:11:54.120 --> 00:12:00.840 coyotes start going off, and then a long howl that is not coyote would 160 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.879 sound and the coyotes would go quiet. Well, I joked that we could 161 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:09.960 have a wolf. Texas does have wolves, and in certain places still has 162 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.519 a few, though it is rare. Not long after, I was enjoying 163 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:18.440 a beautiful afternoon sitting the tree during hunting season. There was little wind, 164 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.080 and there was lots of sun, and the temperature was in the mid forties, 165 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.080 and out of the corner of my eye I caught movement. It was 166 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:31.360 coming toward me from the east, and I started to slowly turn my head, 167 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.159 and my first impression was that it was a huge coyote. The holy 168 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.879 crap, that code is massive, I thought, Sweet buttery Jesus, it 169 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:46.440 is not a coyote. It was twenty five yards away when it froze, 170 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.519 and it sniffed the air, and then it turned to its left and headed 171 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.600 north out of Trot, all the while looking for whatever had spooped it. 172 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.159 Now I would put money on it being what is called a Mexican red wolf. 173 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.759 Now the Mexican red wolf is a fairly contested species, with some scientists 174 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:09.519 arguing whether it's its own, separate species or a subspecies. Well, this 175 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:15.159 canid was about forty to forty five pounds, with slightly darker coat than a 176 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.559 cody, and its face was a little different as well, in that it 177 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:24.000 was a little bit wider. It was a gorgeous animal, and I'm hoping 178 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.039 what I saw that day was a Mexican red wolf. Thank you for your 179 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:33.799 channel and keep up your ways of off topic rants and an inability to pronounce 180 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:39.000 the names of locations. We're Southern Rednecks and we say it the way we 181 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.000 want to. God, God bless you and your family. Jeremy, I 182 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:48.240 don't know have I I must have that reputation. I don't know some things 183 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.559 I can't pronounce, and maybe I've gained a reputation for not being able to 184 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.000 pronounce some things. But if you've never heard it before, and it's spelled 185 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:03.200 kind of funky like most of the look travel through Mississippi almost every I bet 186 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:09.159 you sixty percent of the towns and counties and Mississippi are some Indian native name, 187 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:13.279 and I guarantee you you can't pronounce half of them we live here and 188 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.720 we can't even pronounce them all, or we say I'm wrong, that's a 189 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:22.360 fact. Anyway, I just love this email, and I felt like talking. 190 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:28.200 So half this podcast is me talking and half of it is his email. 191 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.240 But I appreciate Jeremy sending it. I remember when I was in my 192 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.840 twenties. Now I've told y'all, I'm a city boy. I am not 193 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.600 a country boy. I was born and raised in metropolitan Memphis, Tennessee. 194 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.080 And even though we did go hunting when I was little, we weren't country 195 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:50.639 people. Now, all of my ancestors, starting with just my grandparents, 196 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.679 they were country people. They were from Mississippi, and they all came up 197 00:14:54.759 --> 00:15:00.279 through the Depression and even before that, and they were farmers and you know, 198 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.519 and then the Industrial Revolution comes along and people start getting jobs in cities 199 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.840 and that's how we became city people. So I kind of had a country 200 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:13.639 person influence. But I'm a city boy. I'm not a country boy. 201 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.279 So when I was younger, I was hunting, maybe aside was probably in 202 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.480 my mid twenties. I was hunting at my uncle's place somewhere down around Coldwater, 203 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.399 Mississippi. He had just clearcut his land and he had built these shooting 204 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:33.039 houses. They're just little four foot by four foot boxes with a window cut 205 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:37.159 in them and a old metal chair stuck in them, maybe some old carpet 206 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.480 put in the floor to keep your feet quiet while you're sitting in there, 207 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:43.080 moving around waiting for a deer to come by. Anywhile I was in one 208 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:48.679 of those shooting houses, I kept hearing this sound on the back of the 209 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.759 shooting house, something crawling on the back of the shooting house. Well, 210 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.159 I had no idea what it was, and being a city boy, not 211 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:58.120 really you know, I had not been in the woods that much, so 212 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.519 I wasn't used to all the sounds in the woods. I am now because 213 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:06.440 I because I'm out in the woods every single day, but I wasn't then, 214 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:08.679 and uh, I couldn't figure out what this was. It's almost like 215 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:15.639 Jeremy's story about the owl. There were gaps in the walls, you know, 216 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.320 to the outside on these shooting houses, and anything, anything that could 217 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:23.320 squeeze through there could get in. And I just happened to look up over 218 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.919 my left shoulder and look at a sound and it was one of I don't 219 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:32.799 know, I think they call them sugar sugar flyers or flying They're little bitty 220 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:36.399 flying squirrels, is what they are, and they'll fit in the palm of 221 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:40.759 your hand. And that was just one of these little sugar sugar I can't 222 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:45.559 remember what they're called, sugar sugar flyers maybe, but it was just it 223 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:49.840 was latched on to the vertical wall of the shooting house and it was upside 224 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.559 down, and it was had its head cropped up, just looking at me, 225 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.000 and I thought the first thing, I thought, holy shit, that's 226 00:16:56.039 --> 00:17:00.960 a vampire bat. That thing's gonna that things going to eat me up. 227 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:04.160 And I started with the barrel of my rifle trying to trying to stop at 228 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.720 it and trying to get it to go out. But every time I would 229 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.559 do that, it would just move. It's like I could not catch this 230 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.079 thing. And eventually I could not get it to go out. So I 231 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:21.559 just eased out the side right by and it never moved it just watch me. 232 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:23.440 It moved his head as I went out, and I quit hunting that 233 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.079 day, and I was telling my uncles and cousins about it, and they 234 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:32.079 were just laughing their heads off at me because I thought it was a vampire 235 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:37.480 path anyway. That's it kind of goes along with Jeremy's email, and I'm 236 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:40.200 not trying to one up him at all, but it just reminds me of 237 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.759 these stories and that's what we do. But I here's what I appreciate. 238 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:51.480 I appreciate Jeremy's wonder and the capacity to notice beauty and funny and fun stuff 239 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:55.599 in nature and put it in a fun light. And that's why I read 240 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:59.279 this story. So I know this is a different podcast, but it's my 241 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.480 podcast, and by God, I think I can do whatever I want to 242 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:04.240 when I want to, and so that's what I wanted to do today. 243 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.880 All right, I'll have another one up here in a day or two. 244 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.079 I hope you guys are having a good week. Fourth July is coming up. 245 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:14.799 Everybody, be safe, don't drink too much beer, drink drink as 246 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.119 much as you can stand, and don't drive, and don't let a firecracker 247 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:22.279 blow your finger off, and have a good time. Hope you had a 248 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:26.200 bunch of barbecue and chicken and hamburgers and people out camping and stuff. I 249 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.480 just hope y'all have a great time. We're gonna have a nice Fourth July. 250 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.279 I love you all and we'll see you on the next podcast. Thank y'all.