Speaker 1: Welcome to More Outdoors on News Talk five sixty KLV.
Speaker 1: This is Chester Moore. If she caught the program. Last week,
Speaker 1: I was up at Captain Steve Steby's place and we
Speaker 1: did a really what I think was a fun and
Speaker 1: informative show about warm water fly fishing, which means most
Speaker 1: people think of fly fishing up in Montana, but like
Speaker 1: warm water fisheries, bluegal, crappie, bass, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: And I was gonna do.
Speaker 1: A part two of that and kind of switch back
Speaker 1: to the cold water fisheries, and he started interviewing me.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna run this interview because it gives you
Speaker 1: a deep, deep look at me that you normally might
Speaker 1: not get on this show, especially about the work we
Speaker 1: do with kids in wildlife. So here's me being interviewed
Speaker 1: by Captain Steve Stuby.
Speaker 2: And sit back, relax.
Speaker 3: I got a very legendary person sitting across from me
Speaker 3: wearing a mudfish hat this morning on Rod Chop.
Speaker 2: Mister Chester Moore, I am here. You are here, You're
Speaker 2: in my zone. You're in my area.
Speaker 1: So I'm in an interesting area here, you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm I'm used to tuluda Ben of
Speaker 1: course living in an Orange you know, been up here
Speaker 1: my whole life. But we're up here in kind of
Speaker 1: your facility, and we're seeing all these experimental flies, and
Speaker 1: I Mitch you to get on the water because I
Speaker 1: have this love for long This long eared sunfish.
Speaker 2: Is really beautiful. I've got them, I got this, and.
Speaker 4: They're right behind us.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take his three way purple cook ousso
Speaker 1: some purple purchase pluckers, fly rod, and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: out back. I'm probably gonna don't tell Scooby, put one
Speaker 1: of my crazy little tiny flies on, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go catch the new Lake records.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna, oh that'd be cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely well, even way out here at a facility
Speaker 3: that actually has certified to work from the Parks of
Speaker 3: Wildlife yeap. And we have a lot of records here,
Speaker 3: so welcome and come get us another number twenty seven record.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's gonna have twenty six.
Speaker 4: Just having a great time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll be here for a couple of days and
Speaker 3: take you out and put you on the gator tail.
Speaker 3: We'll go we get some flats, yep, and we'll see
Speaker 3: if we can find some mass today hopefully. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: I know the brim er out there because the full
Speaker 3: moon it's just on the backside, so I know they're
Speaker 3: still in their little potholes doing their little happy thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love it. Okay, so we'll go do that
Speaker 2: some of that today. Well, Chester, what have you been
Speaker 2: in here too late? I'd watched you on Instagram and
Speaker 2: you got the shark thing going on. Kind of open
Speaker 2: up about that. Just a little bit. That's happening this
Speaker 2: weekendn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got some crazy stuff going on. So I
Speaker 1: love sharks and I was a weird kid. I saw
Speaker 1: Jaws and want to get in the water.
Speaker 2: You know, Ah, you crazy? Yeah, well you know, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Had mister Hooper played by Richard Dreyfuss, who was the
Speaker 1: researcher the cage, and he had Captain Quinn, who was
Speaker 1: the old salt in the boat. You know.
Speaker 4: I came out a hybrid between the two somehow.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I've been doing great white shark
Speaker 1: research as a journalist for since at least.
Speaker 2: Still five in the golfing Wow that far back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very early in my career when a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Ryan warhola who was a charter captain and I believe
Speaker 1: he still is.
Speaker 4: Had an encounter with a great white on a charter.
Speaker 1: Trip in the golf of Mexico has have been passed
Speaker 1: and I wrote an article. I wrote an article about it,
Speaker 1: and it was for Tide magazine award that year from
Speaker 1: Texas out there writers. But a lot of people are like,
Speaker 1: there's no great whites in the Gulf and that's bad, bad,
Speaker 1: bad bad bah. Well, like six years later, a group
Speaker 1: called O Search started putting satellite transmitters in great white
Speaker 1: sharks and when the shark dorsal fin surfaces, it pings
Speaker 1: to a satellite.
Speaker 2: Okay, only when the surfaces, only the surfaces. Why is that?
Speaker 4: Because of trackers?
Speaker 1: But the satellite tracker like a clear shot, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: clear that makes sense, you know. And you know, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Panama City, Florida is having great whites
Speaker 1: show up, and you know, Biloxi, Mississippi. And I said,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have one pop up and one of these
Speaker 1: great one of these O Search fish gonna pop.
Speaker 4: Up in Texas.
Speaker 1: And in twenty twenty one, this is a total Chester story.
Speaker 1: I am in the Sky Islands area of southeastern Arizona
Speaker 1: photographing the fifth and mysterious member of the subspecies of
Speaker 1: turkey in America, the gulds turkey for a quest.
Speaker 2: I was doing. I never heard one.
Speaker 4: Yeah in an area.
Speaker 1: There just been a jaguar photographed two weeks earlier on
Speaker 1: the Mexico line. And uh, come back to the hotel
Speaker 1: that night, I'm doing some photo editing work and you know,
Speaker 1: I look on in my email and someone say, hey,
Speaker 1: did you see the video someone posted of the orcas
Speaker 1: in the Great and the Golf. I knew there was
Speaker 1: a pod of orcs or two that had been seeing
Speaker 1: by research his way out, but you know, it had
Speaker 1: been years. A charter captain and Galveson had gotten video
Speaker 1: mini orcas.
Speaker 2: So I like, what do you call a pod? Is
Speaker 2: that four to five? Or that this was a dozen?
Speaker 2: A bunch? This was a bunch. Okay, like a lot,
Speaker 2: a lot of them.
Speaker 4: A whole lot.
Speaker 1: So I found a guy I message in my FUNDI
Speaker 1: on Facebook say it's chest from war. I'm a text
Speaker 1: fishing game. I would love to do something for our
Speaker 1: newsletter about the orca thing. And I embed your video.
Speaker 1: Thank god, you regular. I grew up reading your stuff please,
Speaker 1: and I interviewed even at the end of that conversation.
Speaker 1: At the end of that conversation, he goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's getting crazy out there. Yesterday one of the osearch
Speaker 1: Great Whites pinged it such and such rig. And when
Speaker 1: it pinged at the rig, I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: So I went on the O search app and that
Speaker 1: night I broke two stories.
Speaker 4: Nobody had the Orca story.
Speaker 2: I got to do that.
Speaker 1: He had posted it on, but I did, like, had
Speaker 1: an interview with him, and then after that I did
Speaker 1: this story about this O search great white it pinged
Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty miles out of Galveston, pretty
Speaker 1: far out but Texas waters and which was awesome, you know.
Speaker 1: But last year, I mean, actually this year, everything changed
Speaker 1: to a whole dynamic on on Instagram one day and
Speaker 1: someone posts, hey, man, this app this great white pinged
Speaker 1: one hundred yards from the beach at South Padrea no.
Speaker 4: Way, and I'm like, what dude.
Speaker 1: So I went on that app and I didn't see it,
Speaker 1: but I noticed it was a different group called the
Speaker 1: Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. They have a killer app called
Speaker 1: shark Tivity, and they tagged sharks in the Cape Cod
Speaker 1: area in South Carolina on the Atlantic coast. And this
Speaker 1: great white was tagged in December of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: and it showed up so like December to eighth February
Speaker 1: twenty sixth. It was from South Carolina and one hundred
Speaker 1: yards off the beach at South Padre.
Speaker 2: But it had to service in order to get to
Speaker 2: that such.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is the most surfacing shark in the
Speaker 4: history of satellite tagging.
Speaker 2: He knows it.
Speaker 1: Her name is Leebeth Okay Lee Beth's a little old girl,
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half feet, twenty six hundred pounds, oh.
Speaker 2: Just twenty six It is the big deal.
Speaker 1: A hundred yards off the beach, Yeah, and a big,
Speaker 1: huge shark. And she made her little journey up the
Speaker 1: coast of Texas, and she made it to Sabine, where
Speaker 1: I'm from.
Speaker 2: And like in a week or are they staying for
Speaker 2: a couple of days? She hung? What are they feeding
Speaker 2: on or what is she trying to? Look?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of mysteries of worth they're eating. They're
Speaker 1: assuming dolphins and stuff, but also there's been old studies
Speaker 1: that were eating redfish and sharks and everything else anything.
Speaker 4: I mean it's a great white.
Speaker 2: They can they want.
Speaker 4: Turtles turtles in South text.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the guy Ryan Worehol who saw the White in
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and he was like twenty years
Speaker 1: old out there doing that text me when it pinged
Speaker 1: off a sabine and goes to think they thought we
Speaker 1: were crazy twenty years ago. He goes, that was probably
Speaker 1: ten miles from where I saw the White in two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and five.
Speaker 1: So cool, full circle moment and they observe it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really incredible, and he's a very knowledgeable guy. She made
Speaker 1: her journey around the golf kind of went out around Biloxi,
Speaker 1: out to around Panama City. Then she went out in
Speaker 1: the open golf and she went around the straight to Florida,
Speaker 1: ended up and guess where she is and we're recording
Speaker 1: this here in the early late summer.
Speaker 4: She's in Nova Scotia.
Speaker 2: She was crazy. Yeah, I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: So we're working on I have a new blog, Golf
Speaker 1: Great Whites dot Com, and it's all about the great
Speaker 1: white shark issues in the golf in Mexico, like they're
Speaker 1: here and great White Shark research. Plus I throw other
Speaker 1: shark stuff in the golf and they're like cool stuff happens,
Speaker 1: Like someone catches us fifteen foot tiger shark at the
Speaker 1: beach or whatever crazy thing happens. I'm in Hammerhead. That's
Speaker 1: what's kind of going on. Tiger shark would be cool too.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a tiger whale. No, I've seen
Speaker 3: one off shore where they're beautiful.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. He's on an old rig out there.
Speaker 3: Everybody went to the rail, like you said, one day, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and we just watched this thing just cruised their reels slowly,
Speaker 3: just like a well shark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whale shark. We've had like panther dots all over it.
Speaker 4: So there's a there's a crazy thing that happens.
Speaker 1: And eighty two, I think it was maybe eighty one
Speaker 1: eighty two a well shark got in Sabine Link. It
Speaker 1: must have been sick and it ended up in Sabine
Speaker 1: Link and it was got on a mud flat okay,
Speaker 1: and it got a warm welcome. It got shot a
Speaker 1: bunch of times and killed. There's no reason, yeah, no reason.
Speaker 1: And they end up having the hault back out to
Speaker 1: the They ended up having the haul it back out
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know. But just a crazy little weird
Speaker 1: this is all the stuff, Scooby that's in my.
Speaker 2: My brain, my little you know, the fascinating man. That's
Speaker 2: a crazy old wildlife journalists bringing back.
Speaker 1: Then you know, no, and those are the kind of
Speaker 1: things I remember.
Speaker 2: I couldn't have remembered.
Speaker 4: Any math garbage I learned at the school.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you exactly about that this well
Speaker 1: shark ended up being late because I think that that's
Speaker 1: an important.
Speaker 2: Memory, the date and all that.
Speaker 4: That's an important memory.
Speaker 3: So when she did the journey from Padrea all the
Speaker 3: way back up north, and were we talking a year?
Speaker 3: We're talking six months?
Speaker 1: Oh no, brother, Well, first off, she was some think
Speaker 1: about this December eight, twenty twenty three. She's she's in
Speaker 1: South Carolina, the Atlantic coast. February twenty sixth, she's a
Speaker 1: South Padre.
Speaker 2: Moving.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so February twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: You know, she makes her journey across the gulf, hangs
Speaker 1: out in the spring and then like she was up
Speaker 1: I think in Nova Scotia by like June maybe July.
Speaker 2: They swam in every day all day and its amazing.
Speaker 1: So as a shark fan, when we come back on
Speaker 1: more out doors, the tables remain turned as I get
Speaker 1: interviewed about sharks and other cool stuff. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: More Outdoors on News Talk five sixty KLV. I don't
Speaker 1: forget to catch the show every Friday year from six
Speaker 1: to seven pm Central Standard Time. You can catch the
Speaker 1: program also on the iHeartRadio app in all places you
Speaker 1: listen to podcast. And last week I got the tables
Speaker 1: turned on me when I was interviewing Captain Steve Stuoby,
Speaker 1: and he did just pulled a lot of stuff out
Speaker 1: of me, sending across from the microphone. Things you've never
Speaker 1: really heard, perspectives on the work we do with kids
Speaker 1: in wildlife, and some other stuff. And we're gonna air
Speaker 1: that tonight because I think he kind of nailed me
Speaker 1: in the interview.
Speaker 2: So check this out.
Speaker 1: Continuing our conversation up at Toledo Band and I got
Speaker 1: to go. There's a group called the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
Speaker 1: Please download their app shar Activity. Oh Search is another
Speaker 1: awesome group. They have the.
Speaker 4: Shark Tracker app and both great groups.
Speaker 1: I got to go to a media day in Cape
Speaker 1: cod at the White Shark Conservations headquarters, which was amazing,
Speaker 1: And there will be something other media wise I can't
Speaker 1: talk about.
Speaker 2: You've got a big smile on his face right now.
Speaker 2: He's holding back on.
Speaker 4: My boys and girls.
Speaker 2: Very soon he's holding out on me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that that's just fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You know what I like about that is, you know,
Speaker 1: you and I could talk about fishing, fly fishing, duck honting, yeah, turkey, honey, everything,
Speaker 1: and that's fun. But and there'll be a certain amount
Speaker 1: of people. But when I mentioned great white sharks, the
Speaker 1: audience opens up people. So it's a great gateway into
Speaker 1: getting people interested in nature.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not going to tell you more about that.
Speaker 3: I donim was spoiling with surprises. I know there's some
Speaker 3: other things going on. It's as a day prespared. Let's
Speaker 3: get back to fly ship place it a little bit, okay.
Speaker 3: I know you kind of got your feet in that
Speaker 3: so many years back and you haven't stopped.
Speaker 2: You've gone how many different states now just fly fishing.
Speaker 4: I think it's eight eight?
Speaker 2: And what all the species? What number of species have you?
Speaker 1: I hit twenty five twenty five two weeks ago from
Speaker 1: this recording.
Speaker 2: Well, can you give us a hint what some of
Speaker 2: that would be?
Speaker 4: It was a little rock bass in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I've caught everything from you know, brook trout,
Speaker 1: rainbow trout, cut west slope cutthroat, yellowstone cutthroat, a cut bow,
Speaker 1: which is a hybrid. I've caught butterfly, peacock, bass, mayan cichlids,
Speaker 1: large bass in Florida, redfish, you know, I've caught speckled
Speaker 1: trouts before, and saltwater you know. I've caught you know,
Speaker 1: my beloved long ear sunfish, red air sunfish, crappie, white crappie,
Speaker 1: black coppie, you know. And it's been a fun adventure.
Speaker 1: And like I tell people, look, I'm a I'm not
Speaker 1: a bowl in a China closet. I'm a cake buffalo
Speaker 1: with rabies in a China closet.
Speaker 4: And I somehow managed to still catch fish.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's not just a pursuit for the
Speaker 1: dainty and the very skill. It's a pursuit for anyone
Speaker 1: who wants to go have fun.
Speaker 2: Just go have fun.
Speaker 3: So how many youngsters have you introduced fly fishing too?
Speaker 3: I know we did some special rods for you for that.
Speaker 2: While yeah, you know, I've done several.
Speaker 1: We've had a couple of expeditions for Guadeloo pay bass
Speaker 1: out of the Texas Hill Country. Have taken several out
Speaker 1: there and done fly fishing, but most of our only
Speaker 1: taking kids fishing and just to put them on fish.
Speaker 1: So you spinning year, you know, because they did. They're
Speaker 1: like any level kids. They taking a few and taking
Speaker 1: them out the beautiful Dwexus River. You know, they're sitting
Speaker 1: in three feet of water casting and it's you know,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like.
Speaker 4: Crystal clear water.
Speaker 1: Beautiful areas and stuff like that for our native Guadeloupe bash,
Speaker 1: you know, and that is fun stuff, you know. And
Speaker 1: I learned something through uh someone who does h a
Speaker 1: gun in Chris Johnson was Living Water's fly shop up
Speaker 1: in the Round Rock. I just so I wish we
Speaker 1: had trout or native try to Texas be goes we do,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know that the Rio grand cutthroat was
Speaker 1: a native to Texas. There there was an old Texas
Speaker 1: Parks and Wildlife document shows out in the trans Pakos
Speaker 1: before some mining activities screwed up some streams and stuff.
Speaker 1: There were Rio grand cutthroat trout native to Texas. You
Speaker 1: can go to Higher Calling dot net and read my
Speaker 1: blog search cutthroat and you'll see an article I did
Speaker 1: call the native trout of Texas, and it was not
Speaker 1: about speckled trout.
Speaker 4: It was about a true trout.
Speaker 2: And what did you catch that on?
Speaker 4: Like they're no longer there?
Speaker 2: Oh they were native okay?
Speaker 1: And you know, and I think he has wanted to
Speaker 1: maybe find some places they may still be able to
Speaker 1: hang and put them back, you know, maybe get a
Speaker 1: movement to put them back. But we had a native
Speaker 1: trout of Texas. It's just because of changes done out there,
Speaker 1: they were gone.
Speaker 2: They're gone, so they're they're extinct now.
Speaker 4: They're not in Texas. There in New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, we can get the breed back that way,
Speaker 2: there were native trout cut through my mind blowing.
Speaker 1: Another thing that I found out which is mind blowing,
Speaker 1: I just in general research. You know, the only year
Speaker 1: long trout stream in Texas is the tail Race Blank
Speaker 1: Canyon Lake in New bron Files and it's to go
Speaker 1: out Lupe River the tail Race. It's about ten miles shot,
Speaker 1: cool enough year around trout can live there. There is
Speaker 1: a lake in Guadaloupe Mountains National Park on the Texas
Speaker 1: New Mexico border that before it was public land. Someone
Speaker 1: owned it and they stocked rainbow and there was a
Speaker 1: self producing rainbow trout population in a lake in the
Speaker 1: Guadaloupe Mountain.
Speaker 2: How big is that lake?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but they won't like it fishing.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, crazy, But anyway, that's just one of those
Speaker 1: crazy Chester facts, you know, stuff.
Speaker 3: Like did you like fish moving water or do you
Speaker 3: like you prefer lake water, which is steal water, warm
Speaker 3: water to reach a little cold, you've done both.
Speaker 2: I like it all, you like it all.
Speaker 1: I like it all, but I'm a lot more comfortable
Speaker 1: in the warm water stuff, okay, and cause you know,
Speaker 1: let's ait trouter snobs, and every once in a while
Speaker 1: they get too snobby. I was in the Big Thompson Canyon.
Speaker 1: We do one of our higer ConA wilife expeditions for
Speaker 1: kids there. My priority isn't fishing. My priority was taking
Speaker 1: the kids out. But I had, like every day, I
Speaker 1: have like an hour or two gap. One day I
Speaker 1: went out and I went to a spot I know
Speaker 1: in the Big Thompson Canyon between my favorite place on
Speaker 1: planet Earth.
Speaker 4: If you want to buy me a cabin, please buy me.
Speaker 4: I will take a donation as.
Speaker 1: This part it be a sponsorship, Yeah, sponsor me please.
Speaker 1: That's this park, Colorado, my dream beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Between that's this park and Loveland. The Big Thompson came
Speaker 1: in one of the most beautiful places in the world. And
Speaker 1: I know spots got a lot of trout.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 4: I bet I had I fished a hopper dropper combo.
Speaker 4: I finished it.
Speaker 1: It was a simple It was a it was like
Speaker 1: an ant pattern midge, a little ant kind of like
Speaker 1: an ant and it had just a regular little kind.
Speaker 2: Of brown hoppy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I bet I had thirty trout come up and swipe
Speaker 1: at my at my hopper.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Not one would take it. And there's trout and the
Speaker 1: Big Thompson and that essence park are notoriously snooty. It's
Speaker 1: considered one of the harder streams to fish.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I've been there like the year before and me
Speaker 1: and me and Paul and my buddy Cameron Gorbett.
Speaker 2: We did really good, you know.
Speaker 1: But that day they come up and go no, and
Speaker 1: they would hit at it. They wouldn't touch the midge,
Speaker 1: but they wanted that hopper and they would not take it.
Speaker 1: They would bump it and look at it, and they
Speaker 1: get swirled by it and they're done. You know, I
Speaker 1: tried different, you know everything, know, and it just they
Speaker 1: just keep trying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's fun, you know.
Speaker 1: And and it's it's become more of an adventure for
Speaker 1: me because I can take my fly rod and a
Speaker 1: little tiny box of flies anywhere in America and I
Speaker 1: can go, I can go fishing. There you go and that,
Speaker 1: and I take it in the back of my truck.
Speaker 1: And it's been exciting and it's a it's also a
Speaker 1: great conversation started with people because in other than the West,
Speaker 1: anywhere in the South, unless you're maybe in the Smoky's
Speaker 1: or somewhere where there's a lot of trout fisheries, Uh,
Speaker 1: most people have never seen one fly fishing.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: And you go out in these ponds and like we
Speaker 1: doing out here, and I'm like, fly fishing, brother, because
Speaker 1: a little trout in here. I said, no, But you
Speaker 1: know what you got, You got a pile of rock
Speaker 1: bass and I'm about to catch everyone on for all
Speaker 1: my Well.
Speaker 2: Let's go back on.
Speaker 3: But you mentioned the higher calling. I know you got
Speaker 3: your own rod series that bun fish bills for you.
Speaker 3: Let's go into the higher calling.
Speaker 2: What you do for Gibbs. A lot of people don't
Speaker 2: know what you do on the side.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, it's it's it's a very blessed work that
Speaker 3: you're doing and nobody it's a special person to do that,
Speaker 3: and that's you.
Speaker 2: So let's open up a little bit about that. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: some of your kids your favorite.
Speaker 1: So me and my wife have the legal name of
Speaker 1: the ministry is Children's Kingdom Ministries, but we have three
Speaker 1: programs of the ministry. Right our facility is the Kingdoms
Speaker 1: of Wildlife and that's like where we have animals and
Speaker 1: stuff animals.
Speaker 2: It is like touch and field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got small collection of animals. It's not open
Speaker 1: to the public. Our missions to bring the love of
Speaker 1: Christ to hurting children through wildlife encounters. Hurting children meaning
Speaker 1: terminal illness, parental sibling loss sadly the last few years
Speaker 1: a big increased area for us as children who attempted suicide.
Speaker 1: We have another group that brings sex trafficking victims to
Speaker 1: US kids and we give them animal encounters.
Speaker 4: And the Lord put that on my heart.
Speaker 1: We put on me at least it's heart twelve years
Speaker 1: ago to start that and the wish part of our
Speaker 1: program came when I'm walking down the hallway at church
Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit the little girl named Mayeli walked
Speaker 1: past me, and I knew she just lost her daddy
Speaker 1: and oh okay, and I had no concept of doing
Speaker 1: this program. Our ministry has started teaching kids about creation
Speaker 1: through wildlife, just started like a year earlier. And the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit says, ask her a favorite animal, take her
Speaker 1: to meet it.
Speaker 4: I mean I heard that.
Speaker 1: My spirits start turning around and saying, Alie, baby, what's
Speaker 1: your favorite animal?
Speaker 4: She goes to Zebra. Okay, do you want to meet one?
Speaker 1: She goes, Is that possible? I said, it will be
Speaker 1: two months later she got to meet at Zebra. When
Speaker 1: we come back on More Outdoors, we're gonna talk more
Speaker 1: about the Wishes program and the impact that's had here
Speaker 1: in Southeast Texas and beyond. But if you have a
Speaker 1: kid facing some kind of a special challenge, and whether
Speaker 1: it's maybe depression or health issue or parental loss or
Speaker 1: something like that, make sure message me at Chester at
Speaker 1: Chestermore dot com. That's Chester at chestermore dot com.
Speaker 4: We would love to do something.
Speaker 2: Very very special for them.
Speaker 1: Give once again, email me at Chester at Chestermore dot com.
Speaker 1: We will continue more of this conversation here on More Outdoors.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to More Outdoors on News Talk five sixty klv.
Speaker 1: I Follow my blog at Higher Calling dot net. Follow
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Speaker 1: about great white sharks, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico
Speaker 1: at golf great Whites dot com. Please subscribe to that.
Speaker 1: And we're really excited about tonight's program because it's turning
Speaker 1: of the tables. I am getting interviewed by Captain Steve Study.
Speaker 1: Just kind of happened organically in a studio last week
Speaker 1: and up at his place where we're doing some filming
Speaker 1: for some fly fishing stuff, and he got some stuff
Speaker 1: out of me that I've never really talked about in
Speaker 1: this way, so I thought it'd be a proper thing
Speaker 1: to talk about here on More Outdoors. And we're continuing
Speaker 1: that conversation right now. How many years that was our
Speaker 1: first wish we in Yellowstone. We just granted our two
Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth wish.
Speaker 2: Oh congratulations, wow. And this is one kid once a month,
Speaker 2: one kid.
Speaker 1: Every year, depends on how they come along, like sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, the light just hit you and here they come.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, yeah, and so five years ago. I
Speaker 2: was praying.
Speaker 1: It was January third of twenty nineteen, and in my
Speaker 1: spirit I heard the words higher Calling.
Speaker 2: Fits to me.
Speaker 1: So I wrote it down and I knew immediately there's
Speaker 1: a scripture talks about the higher Calling and prayer and
Speaker 1: antercessory prayer. So I know I need to do more praying.
Speaker 1: But I believe the Lord was leading me to go
Speaker 1: like like I kept hearing like you need to go deeper.
Speaker 1: There's more layers, and I was. I kept in praying
Speaker 1: looking at scripture, and the Lord put on my heart
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm in the outdoors business. So when
Speaker 1: I started being a writer of the outdoors and wildlife,
Speaker 1: if you want to send me a check, I will
Speaker 1: write a story about coyotes for you. If you want
Speaker 1: to send me a check about redfish, I'll write a
Speaker 1: story about catching redfish. I'm in the outdoors business, so
Speaker 1: I write about what I am paying a right about.
Speaker 1: And early in my career, the opportunities really developed in
Speaker 1: the coastal fishing world, and living on the Gulf coast,
Speaker 1: it was a boom and coastal fishing, so a lot
Speaker 1: of my income came from coastal fishing, right so I
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to pursue some of the other things.
Speaker 1: The Lord said, go back, and you take your extra
Speaker 1: time what you would have if you could have chosen
Speaker 1: what you got paid rite for. And I wrote big runch,
Speaker 1: cheap mountain streams, mountain goats, elk and coastal flats like
Speaker 1: bone fishing stuff. That was January third, twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 1: in five and a half years, which is mind blowing
Speaker 1: to me, we found it higher calling wildlife. So we
Speaker 1: took our wild Wishes program instead of like captive animal encounters,
Speaker 1: we started a part of that where we take kids
Speaker 1: on expeditions into beautiful places, so they'll spend a day
Speaker 1: or so with us, just hanging out with us as
Speaker 1: we're doing wildlife photography. The most beautiful places in America Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,
Speaker 1: smoking mountains, Everglades and Texas hill country and places, and
Speaker 1: we take them and teach them to use wildlife photography,
Speaker 1: which is really easy to do. Everybody's got a phone, okay,
Speaker 1: and we use real cameras too, but use your phone
Speaker 1: and to use photography to raise awareness of wildlife. It's
Speaker 1: something they can get their skin in the game and
Speaker 1: let people know about wildlife issues and habitat issues by
Speaker 1: doing a photographer and we've done that and that turned
Speaker 1: into we've done expeditions, and we just did our fifth
Speaker 1: expedition in Rocky Mountain National Park and that's It's Park,
Speaker 1: Colorado we did our first, and Yellowstone National Park we're
Speaker 1: doing our first in the Smoky Mountains. We've done the
Speaker 1: Everglades in the Florida Keys and impacted kids all around.
Speaker 4: The nation doing that.
Speaker 1: And what happens, Scooby, is that something terrible happens to
Speaker 1: a person. Let's say something terrible happens on you know,
Speaker 1: March to sixteenth of whatever year. Well, in our minds,
Speaker 1: especially as a kid, life never gets better than March
Speaker 1: to fifteenth, okay, And there's a cap on what can
Speaker 1: happen in life, whether that's an abuse event, whether that's
Speaker 1: a health diagnosis, a loss. We want to be able
Speaker 1: to take them and show them that good things can
Speaker 1: still happen and they're still hope because you never know,
Speaker 1: you know, Scooby. One of the things that really impacted
Speaker 1: me is when a principal of a school that were
Speaker 1: a private school we had worked with call me in tears.
Speaker 1: She's not someone that is in tears a lot when
Speaker 1: I talk to her that there were two kids that
Speaker 1: had you know, in a short span that had suicide attempts.
Speaker 1: And we're talking twelve to thirteen year.
Speaker 2: Olds couldn't never be in their head.
Speaker 1: The highest suicide rate growth in America is twelve to fourteen.
Speaker 2: No way, yep, is that crim cell phones or just
Speaker 2: being bullied.
Speaker 4: But I'll just say this darkness is growing.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, good way easily put that, And.
Speaker 1: It's growing in every capacity. It's easy to get through technology.
Speaker 1: The people's hearts are getting hardened. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: things going on. Sexual These weren't abuse cases, these kids weren't,
Speaker 1: but even you think about sexual abuse in America and
Speaker 1: children went up two hundred percent eighteen eighty according to statistics.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of darkness.
Speaker 1: And so what we want to do is shine that
Speaker 1: light of Christ to selfless sacrificial love to kids through
Speaker 1: a time investing in time, a little bit of time
Speaker 1: in there, your time of time, and that we love you,
Speaker 1: we value you. And what we found is that you know,
Speaker 1: they come through. And I've had parents that do our
Speaker 1: animal encounterpart that part of what we do, and they
Speaker 1: pull me aside. That's probably happened ten times over the years,
Speaker 1: and they think I'm going to charge them.
Speaker 2: What's this going to cost us? I'm like, oh, the
Speaker 2: trick at the end, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I would shut my ministry down before I
Speaker 1: charge you. I'll never charge a kid for anything.
Speaker 2: It's just not the way we do it, you know.
Speaker 1: And that gate shuts at our property, and I say,
Speaker 1: you know what, the public can't get here. No one
Speaker 1: can pay us unless you have a really rich uncle.
Speaker 1: I'll bill compare. Okay, always jo, but uh, if you
Speaker 1: got him, let's invite him. But I said that the
Speaker 1: public can't come through.
Speaker 2: It's for you. This is for you. If somebody wants
Speaker 2: to sponsor a kid or something, how do they get
Speaker 2: the funds to you? Yes? Is there a way to
Speaker 2: get funds to you to help?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So we're we're a five oh one C three
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: So we can take tax doctible donations and you can
Speaker 1: go to the website kingdom zoo dot com.
Speaker 4: Say that again, Kingdom like kingdom.
Speaker 1: Zoo dot com. Or you can go to higher Calling
Speaker 1: dot net in my blog and see the our youth
Speaker 1: Conservation Outreach link. There's a link all the information on there.
Speaker 1: And we are totally supported by private donors. We've been
Speaker 1: blessed to get grants from the Houston Safari Club Foundation.
Speaker 2: It's helping fund our Colorado trips. The last three years.
Speaker 1: The Coastal Conservation Association funded our Summer of the Shark program.
Speaker 1: This year we took kids in the shark cage at
Speaker 1: the text State Aquarium. How awesome is that? And so
Speaker 1: we're doing all of those things. But that is and
Speaker 1: what's interesting is the time element. Like I tell people like, man,
Speaker 1: I uh, you just opened something up here, Scooby, and
Speaker 1: the way you asked that, and it's good. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you did this because I don't get to talk about
Speaker 1: this now.
Speaker 2: I can see the passion and I don't get talking
Speaker 2: in your body and some of this publicly because it's
Speaker 2: dear to your heart. I can feel it. It's there.
Speaker 1: So when you have a girl who we met her
Speaker 1: when she was gonna give her name out, she was
Speaker 1: nine and I think and she's fourteen years old, and
Speaker 1: you know she stayed involved with us song Okay, she
Speaker 1: helping anyone particular kids, stayed involved for about four or
Speaker 1: five years. She stayed really involved. She was amount of talent,
Speaker 1: so it was an effort to conquact well. But then
Speaker 1: she looks at me and Lisa one day and says,
Speaker 1: you know, I was planning on killing myself five years
Speaker 1: later or back there.
Speaker 2: It was just but she was nine.
Speaker 4: No, no, she was couple of years later. But she
Speaker 4: We went and saw her.
Speaker 1: We made a trip to go Man and you guys
Speaker 1: showed up with your animals to surprise me, and I didn't. Wow.
Speaker 2: It's direction, you know, And so my dad's will have
Speaker 2: you out there.
Speaker 1: And that that's the ticket because what happens is, look,
Speaker 1: I'm a very intense person.
Speaker 4: I'm a very.
Speaker 1: Self motivated, you know person, and bro it gets hard
Speaker 1: for me. Before we've all had those moments. It's a
Speaker 1: little moment in life where you're like, you know what
Speaker 1: the rapture the church happens tonight, yay, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: because you know the world's crazy. They just had those moments.
Speaker 1: I've never been I'm not an easily depressed person. I've
Speaker 1: never been suicidal. But even me, as strong as I
Speaker 1: am emotionally have those moments, and I think about the
Speaker 1: ones who aren't that strong.
Speaker 2: You think they don't have the family support, or do
Speaker 2: you think it's technology.
Speaker 4: Or I think people are different too.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: Number one, this was never created. God never created the
Speaker 4: earth to be like this.
Speaker 1: It's unprecedented. The human spirit and the mind isn't ready
Speaker 1: for what's here. It's evil. And so when you have
Speaker 1: this stuff happens for a little bitty kid, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, we're just not it's not we're not ready
Speaker 1: for it. So, you know, so that's kind of I
Speaker 1: always try to keep it at like the basis of
Speaker 1: what what I would enjoy as a kid, because I
Speaker 1: haven't grown up that much. I reject the notion of
Speaker 1: completely that I have to be a certain way because
Speaker 1: I'm growing older.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just stupid, I'm gonna you know.
Speaker 1: And it's really interesting from a spiritual perspective because Christ
Speaker 1: specifically said unless you're humble yourself.
Speaker 2: Like a little child, you're not near the kingdom of habit.
Speaker 2: So think about that, you know.
Speaker 1: So when people are all like, well, I'm too dignified
Speaker 1: for this, shut up and get away from me. You know,
Speaker 1: if you want to write a check, great, we'll take
Speaker 1: the check. But if you want to be an idiot
Speaker 1: like that, stay away from me. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: have fun on me. We don't.
Speaker 2: We want to have a good time.
Speaker 1: We come back on More Outdoors. We get another in
Speaker 1: depth look at our outreach and what goes on. It
Speaker 1: makes me tick here on More Outdoors. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: More Outdoors on News Talk five sixty klv I. This
Speaker 1: is Chester More and we're wrapping up this really interesting conversation.
Speaker 1: I've never really had this where I interviewed someone and
Speaker 1: they start interviewing me, and it turned out so interesting,
Speaker 1: a different perspective of things you mightn't be interested in
Speaker 1: about what I do with kids in a while life.
Speaker 1: We decided to running here on More Outdoors. This is
Speaker 1: the final part of that fascinating conversation. And that's that's
Speaker 1: why I've always tried to keep my media stuff as
Speaker 1: accomplished as I've been able to be blessed to be.
Speaker 1: And I'll put out of work, you know, the work clup.
Speaker 1: I know it's unbelievable, but I always try to let
Speaker 1: people know. Look, man if I'm I'm just a knucklehead
Speaker 1: from West Orange, taxis man if I can do this,
Speaker 1: whatever your dream is in life. Whatever your goal is
Speaker 1: in life, you can do it too. Because I'm no
Speaker 1: one special at all, just focus and movie and I
Speaker 1: get to do special things. But I'm not, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm one no one, no one to pick me to
Speaker 1: do this stuff.
Speaker 3: Or the youth that you've been helping as they've got
Speaker 3: up to be teenagers now or young adults or had
Speaker 3: their own family shed have they ever got to meet
Speaker 3: back up again?
Speaker 2: Do you keep track of those people? It's hard, curious. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we keep track, you know, do the best we can understand,
Speaker 2: you know, we have a list, you know, and stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: And then there are kids we can't because besides the
Speaker 1: Wish program and higher calling, we work with foster group
Speaker 1: homes a lot. And you can't just keep in touch
Speaker 1: with all these foster kids because of legal legal h
Speaker 1: they shut you down that tip. You can't then go
Speaker 1: there and hang out and visit with them and do
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But like they'll they'll leave and be
Speaker 1: in another foster system or a good you know.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: But we have kept up with a lot for sure. Okay,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, uh.
Speaker 1: I had one, a young young man named Amos when
Speaker 1: he graduated high school and he was young in the
Speaker 1: program and he went to help me do a wild
Speaker 1: wish on one of our expeditions in Colorado. So me
Speaker 1: and him went to do it for another little boy
Speaker 1: in Colorado. That call so he got to go help
Speaker 1: me do that means don't want to help out, And
Speaker 1: he went to Colorado with me and helped me work
Speaker 1: with this kid in Colorado.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if you have a young adult that's interested
Speaker 3: in helping as a volunteer, doesn't have a check, is
Speaker 3: there some way they can help or it's kind.
Speaker 2: Of hard, But we don't volunteer because it's legalities of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a.
Speaker 1: Small core of volunteers that we've vetted for years and
Speaker 1: we just don't throw our circle any bigger because when
Speaker 1: you start having like the trafficking victims come, you got
Speaker 1: to be uber careful of another group brings them, who's
Speaker 1: around them. And one of the things we don't do,
Speaker 1: we would never bring another teenager around them because the
Speaker 1: traffickers sometimes use other kids they worked with to recruit others.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a dark twisted Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 3: about it because I'm not in the world think about that.
Speaker 1: And we just don't and people will like because one
Speaker 1: of the things I'm adamant about is that it's people
Speaker 1: see what we do a lot of times and they
Speaker 1: think it's about the animals. It has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with him animals the gateway. Yeah, it's because that's I
Speaker 1: love that stuff.
Speaker 2: It's all you know.
Speaker 1: So it's sincere. But uh so if you come in
Speaker 1: and you want to like, I'll put it to you
Speaker 1: this way. Early on, before we developed the WISH program
Speaker 1: and even later, we got invited to do a lot
Speaker 1: of church events and stuff with our animals, and it
Speaker 1: was a great way to raise funds and also evangelize
Speaker 1: and we met WISH kids that way. But mainly it
Speaker 1: was a good fundraiser for us. I just say, whatever
Speaker 1: you can, you come, bring it to our vacation Bible school. Sure,
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, just give us an honorary and
Speaker 1: whatever you feel led to give. And it was a
Speaker 1: good fundraising mechanism. Uh And when we did more of
Speaker 1: that and we had more opportunities for people to be
Speaker 1: seen in public with animals and hang out, we had
Speaker 1: all kinds of people want to volunteer.
Speaker 2: Okay, but that's not what you do.
Speaker 4: But when it got to go into little.
Speaker 1: Girls' hospital rooms and tell them and goodbye when they're dying,
Speaker 1: that line gets real short.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, you know so uh So I'm like
Speaker 4: it's kind of like this.
Speaker 1: You know, Perry stone Is the Great Minister said if
Speaker 1: you can't scrub the toilets at your church, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be the past. You know. So if you can't, if
Speaker 1: you can't, if you don't care enough and want to
Speaker 1: get involved the level of actually doing the other part,
Speaker 1: don't really have time for you.
Speaker 4: It complicates it. So we're able.
Speaker 1: We have a small, wonderful little volunteer base that we
Speaker 1: work with of people and we but we have a
Speaker 1: lot of wonderful people that financially support us. And then
Speaker 1: we got people support us by things like animal access.
Speaker 1: They may have some crazy animal collection or ranch or
Speaker 1: something and they're like, bring kids. So that's been a
Speaker 1: huge help. So if you have some kind of exotic ranch,
Speaker 1: those kind of things, a private fishing facility, reach out
Speaker 1: to me because that's part of what we do, and
Speaker 1: that's a huge help. We got one friend to swim
Speaker 1: some some white tail wrench and Orange County can't tell
Speaker 1: me kids are right out there and and they're so
Speaker 1: wonderful to us, just letting spring kids and hang out
Speaker 1: and feed the psychad deer and watch the access come
Speaker 1: up and feed their giant feral hog Pappy who's bottle
Speaker 1: raysed and he's like three hundred pounds. And I'll eat
Speaker 1: out of your hand, you know. And and and really
Speaker 1: that's what that's what it's about, you know. And I'm
Speaker 1: very like I said, I'm very pulled some deep stuff
Speaker 1: out of I mean, David, Like, I'll just tell people like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not volunteering. I've never met you, and you're not
Speaker 1: gonna know I'm not gonna come to the girls. And
Speaker 1: you're a forty year old guy and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: come to the girls facility for foster girls tonight. No,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, I want to come do that? No, no,
Speaker 1: okay or whatever it is, you know, but we do
Speaker 1: have people that one way you can help, certainly is access.
Speaker 1: You know, you might have a cool ranch or no,
Speaker 1: have a cabin in some place we go like in
Speaker 1: the Yellowstone area just park or Smoky Mountains, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're not there and you could use it for you know,
Speaker 1: your weekend. All that stuff is a huge and I
Speaker 1: want to sincerely say something here, whether you have I
Speaker 1: mean this, don't need one dollar or let a kid
Speaker 1: come to your place once.
Speaker 4: Thank you because you have helped change lives.
Speaker 1: There are kids alive today because of the generosity of
Speaker 1: donors and people and kids have heard the love of
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ because of it, and they have you know,
Speaker 1: seeing that people love him and got to do stuff. Man.
Speaker 1: I know we were in Yellowstone, our good buddy Paul
Speaker 1: Fazenski and Seth guy. We're filming for a documentary we
Speaker 1: were doing called Hope and Yellowstone and we were filming
Speaker 1: this documentary and we had four kids we worked with
Speaker 1: out of Wyoming to the National Big Arm Cheap Center
Speaker 1: there and to Boyce, Wyoming, great place by the way,
Speaker 1: you're ever going through that direction, and Seth Cooks, I said,
Speaker 1: I need some photos.
Speaker 2: I ever get photos of me with kids in the field.
Speaker 2: So if you can't, just take some stills.
Speaker 4: Too, okay, be good to have.
Speaker 2: He's a good guy.
Speaker 1: And Seth's got this photo. It's my covered photo on
Speaker 1: Facebook right now if you're on my Facebook, and it's
Speaker 1: me with two boys ones looking at the picture he
Speaker 1: had just taken the back of my camera. The other
Speaker 1: one has a camera in his hand, and we're on
Speaker 1: a little bluff looking down there's one hundred the kids
Speaker 1: counted one hundred and thirteen bison below and the Lamar
Speaker 1: Valley of Yellowstone with two young boys to face some
Speaker 1: pretty serious stuff in their life. And I'm like, how
Speaker 1: cool is this? And the cool part is those the
Speaker 1: best photos they took. I use this company called mpicks,
Speaker 1: and I sent them eight by tens of their best photos.
Speaker 1: So they got in the mill a couple of weeks later.
Speaker 1: And so next year, when we do Yellowstone again, we're
Speaker 1: gonna work trying to find new kids. But they're invited
Speaker 1: to come back and connect with us again next year,
Speaker 1: you know. So those are some of the things you
Speaker 1: told me when I was a kid. You gotta realize
Speaker 1: this is this.
Speaker 2: I can't fake. I can't fake anything, man too. I'm
Speaker 2: too uh. I was in metal bands eight feene years.
Speaker 2: I can't bs.
Speaker 4: I'm just out there and I love I've loved wildlife.
Speaker 1: Since I was could breathe, you know, whether it's fishing
Speaker 1: or hunting or watching mutual Lomaha's walking.
Speaker 2: We all did. Jacques Cousta, how we all got started, Jaques.
Speaker 1: Cousteau, Ocean Specials and all that stuff I grew up on.
Speaker 1: If you told me that one day that I would
Speaker 1: get to help all their kids feel loved in Yellowstone
Speaker 1: National Park looking at bison and then an hour later
Speaker 1: looking at a grizzly half a mile away walking across
Speaker 1: the stream, I'd have been like, you're crazy, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: And so I'm just so humble to get to do it.
Speaker 2: And it's a it's a.
Speaker 1: Very important thing in my family's life. And you know,
Speaker 1: I tell people like, but this is just thing that
Speaker 1: needs to be said that people are asking. This is
Speaker 1: like some people get the idea that we're out there
Speaker 1: and oh it's great, like you're on vacation, bro, I'm working.
Speaker 1: I got to make sure those kids have an experience.
Speaker 1: You know, if it was the Chester of having fun
Speaker 1: version of oh no, it'd have been a whole different deal. Ye.
Speaker 1: I'd have been in the Lamar Valley with a camera
Speaker 1: around my night. But I had a fly rod catching cutthroats, Okay, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean?
Speaker 1: A lot amazing And you know, like I had my
Speaker 1: wife quit her job eight years ago now, and we
Speaker 1: don't get a salary, so we took a fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars pay cut the more household to do this because
Speaker 1: we needed another person. I have a schedule like working
Speaker 1: for Texas Fishing Game and other things that I work
Speaker 1: for to do kind of my work on my own
Speaker 1: time because it's creative work.
Speaker 3: I can I don't know what you do with your
Speaker 3: time now, You're hard to get a hold of your
Speaker 3: somewhere everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's insanity. But you know, I guarantee you and lost income,
Speaker 1: including what I can't do. You can't take that with
Speaker 1: you worth three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in and
Speaker 1: believe me, if I had three fifty right now, that
Speaker 1: would change the entire trajectory of my life.
Speaker 2: So if you'd like to donate a.
Speaker 5: Personal donation of the three fifty k right now, our
Speaker 5: ranch thirty five thirty five hundred to begin. But in
Speaker 5: all sincerity, it takes a lot to do, and it's
Speaker 5: but it's the point is it's worth all of it.
Speaker 5: That was a good place to stop there. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm so grateful for the opportunities and everything that we
Speaker 5: put into this is worth all of it. It's by
Speaker 5: the grace of God and some wonderful supporters.
Speaker 1: But if you want to connect a kid with our program,
Speaker 1: email me at Chester at chestermore dot com. It's Chester
Speaker 1: at Chestermore dot God bless and have a great outdoors
Speaker 1: weekend