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A Look Back at the Outdoor Journal | Fish'n Canada Live
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Mar 26, 2025
Introducing a new recurring segment for Fish'n Canada Live, co-hosts Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman reflect on their many adventures as hosts of the Outdoor Journal, a decade-spanning reality tv program that sent the two outdoorsmen travelling to some of the most exotic and fascinating places on Earth. In this particular segment, they introduce the show to their new audience and tease what's to come from future installments. ► Subscribe http://bit.ly/youtube-fishncanada Don't forget to leave a COMMENT and give us a LIKE if you enjoyed what you saw. SUBSCRIBE for new videos and episodes released weekly! CONNECT WITH US -------------------------------- ► WEBSITE http://fishncanada.com ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/FishnCanada/ ► INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/fishncanada... ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/angeloviolafnc/ One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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now one of the other segments that i
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want to talk about
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that we're going to bring on the program
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or we're going to try
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we're going to try well this i think we
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can do a pretty good job of this i think
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we got an up in the bank for this i
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think peter and i had another career
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for a decade uh actually a parallel
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career
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uh while we were doing the fishing
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canada show we did a tv
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program called of the outdoor journal
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and it was the precursor to outdoor
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journal radio which was on the fan 590
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for almost three decades and
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we shot some incredible we we we were so
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blessed
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with the opportunity of traveling around
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the world doing these
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crazy insane things that most people
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would only dream of
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and getting paid for it we were under
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contract
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uh with a company out of la at the time
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i think was a travel channel it wasn't a
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network
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anyways they hired us to go around the
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world
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shooting these crazy adventure programs
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which are all the rage today today
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they're in vogue
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when when pete and i did them
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nobody like people look at him saying
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what are you doing riding a camel across
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the saharan desert what are you crazy
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but hey it's it's the thing to do right
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yeah so we've shot
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a decade of that stuff um nine seasons
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10 years
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lots of footage we have lots of footage
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from a lot of places
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we literally were shooting fish in
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canada and the show at the same time so
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we had no lives i mean it was a great
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life
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but we had no home life it was like uh
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it's a single man's game
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for sure because it was if you had a
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family your aunts had a family at the
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time it was tough to do right you come
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home
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and you spend a couple days but we were
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we were from new zealand one time you
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come home but in a day or two then you
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go to northwest territories for another
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trip and then you come back
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it was nuts it was absolutely insane but
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great memories and we got a lot of them
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on tape still right that's the nice part
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about it
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we have memories to show people
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now at the time too you have to
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appreciate the fact that uh the
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situation was quite different television
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was different audiences were different
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there were a lot of restrictions that we
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had on us of things that we could and
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could not show
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and talk about on air
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but we shot a lot of stuff that never
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made it there so we're going to endeavor
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over the course of the next several
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months we're gonna try and
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get our boys to go into the archives and
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uh
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go mining for some gold some real gold
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and and
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and digitize some of the rarest stuff
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you'll ever
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that never did get seen actually on
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television there will be stuff that did
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get seen obviously we're going to show
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you a couple of clips
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here and there uh from the program
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itself but we are going to endeavor to
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dig out the stuff that never made it to
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air because back then it just was not
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kosher if you will to show some of the
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stuff
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that we captured on film and uh
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and i i think you're gonna have a blast
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you're gonna see a couple of young
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yahoos with mullets and hair and all
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kind and dark some
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dark hair like they asked for earlier
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but uh we're looking forward to it it's
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going to be quite a chore because the
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guys
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have to not only go into the archives
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and source the footage and view it
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on what we by today's standards call
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archaic methods and then capture it
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digitize it
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and be able to format it so that we can
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view it today
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with our technology building standard
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definition like if we don't even have it
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in high definition so the guy's got to
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kind of upres it as best they can and it
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still looks like crap but
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but it's still good i mean we can still
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make out what it is but back in those
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yeah i remember a long time ago we were
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shooting on beta tape you know what i
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mean back then so
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it's a lot different than digital right
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now so by the way just uh
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we're gonna answer a bunch of questions
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that you're asking here in a minute but
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just
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because it's timing is perfect uh todd
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dowell
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wants to know uh are you guys filming
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shows at all
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and uh we have not as of yet uh
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we will be here in the weeks to come
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it's very difficult to do
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uh because it's not just pete and i
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involved you know there are several
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people that work on the program and we
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just want to
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we're not comfortable with with you know
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telling the troops to
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buckle up here we go let's jump out of
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the plane together right so
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um we will in the next few weeks we will
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we will
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start uh producing fishing canada shows
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so
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worry not you will see new episodes of
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the fish encounter show sometime
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uh soon i just can't tell you when at
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this point
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so um some of the episodes that we'll be
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talking about
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or seeing or or or sharing with you uh
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we were
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i'm just gonna try and recall one or two
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of them but but
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the anaconda journal again now right now
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um some of the the more memorable
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moments
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people when we were in the savannah in
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south america
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uh have chase and anacondas oh my god
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you gotta have a look at this lump on
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its head this is you want to carry on
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do i want to carry them carry them where
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are you one
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do you oh my god
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oh goodness you got it
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[Laughter]
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oh my god the power of this animal is
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unbelievable have you got her get a good
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hold of her oh my god
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no look at this
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incredible this thing has got away what
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a hundred and
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how many pounds well here it's not
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purity
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okay i gotta put them down okay hold on
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wait till i move here
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i'm sorry baby sorry sweetheart
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wow that's an emotion test oh god
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fantastic
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wow how about those shorts huh
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i can't believe you talk about that a
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great big giant anaconda you're talking
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about your shorts that's awesome
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her name was uh and this is gonna be fun
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for pete and i because
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because we're gonna sort of try and
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recall
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uh the people and and and the situations
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and
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and all the things that happen as we go
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along here her name pete
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i remember her neighbor dr
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katarina her man hernandez i thought it
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was gabrielle
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no or gabrielle hernandez katharina with
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somebody else
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yeah yeah gabrielle commandos
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well i remember the first i don't
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remember her last name but she was great
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she was
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she was very smart remember the buddy's
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name the other guy that was helping you
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lift that up what was his name
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and he was good look at your face
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i never remember that oh if you ever
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remembered that
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that would be good right that would have
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been real good yeah
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but that was a great trip that i mean
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that's just a tiny portion of that whole
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trip that anaconda thing an inch
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on that show you did there was two or
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three encounters of different anacondas
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that was the biggest one i think but
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so the way they they find these and we
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are lucky with that particular one
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because
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as we were driving to another uh field
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to hunt for them this one just happened
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to be
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sunning itself in the middle of the road
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and so
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it we made it they made it easy but but
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the way they hunt them and the way we we
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experience this hunting for anaconda
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it's for research
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not hunting to kill but hunting to study
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and the way they do it is they walk
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through the savannah savannah is about
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you know anywhere from ten inches to two
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feet of water
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and it's a marsh it's mine with with a
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lot of vegetation
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and they walk through it barefoot and uh
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when they step on an anaconda they reach
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down and hope that they reach the part
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that's got the
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the blunt end as opposed to the pointy
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end because if you grab the pointy end
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which is the tail you better run real
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you have to quick down and kind of feel
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their way around in this murky marshy
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water
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and just grab it just behind the head
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and
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uh that's that's insanity when you think
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about it
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okay i love i used to love catching
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snakes as a kid and all that but right
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now to this day
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i would still be super cautious with a
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garter snake that's two feet long that
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would be like
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yeah you know imagine this cricket
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anacondas like that like they're doing
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that without seeing their heads even
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like you said that was an easy one
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that was easy and they eat a an animal
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called capibata which is
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the largest rodent in the world but it's
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a robot it's a pig
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it's the size of a normal you know
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it's like a free pig ready for market
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with the head of a beaver there it looks
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like
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it's like a canadian beaver great big
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ugly head on it and they and
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jump and swim and dive into the water
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they're the fastest and wonder they're
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fast living around those anacondas and
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crocodiles i guess they're all alike but
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oh my god what a trip that was it's
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great memories and they eat them whole
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and what they do they eat them and then
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they regurgitate
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the skeleton and so as we're walking you
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know doing this
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episode and we're getting closer and
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closer to the hot zones you start seeing
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capybara skeletons all over the place
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where they go my god what do we do
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graveyard and puped out by a snake
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we did a lot of snake shows in the ten
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years that we did that episode we did
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battle tricks and we did
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uh all kinds of great episodes and
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hopefully we get
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some out of the out of the fire for you
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um what other episode do you remember
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anything you saw yeah how about those
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this a lot of winter stuff we did lots
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of winter stuff man
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fun stuff
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wow
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oh medic
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yeah okay so we had a little fun along
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the way
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i remember that i remember that because
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i was standing right beside you
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shooting some stills trying to stay up
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with that toboggan you were ripping on
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that thing man
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that face plant that might be the best
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face plant and snow ever in the history
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of canadian television right there
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that was great where was that purcell
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lodge in bc
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right i believe beautiful place i don't
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know about that
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what a beautiful place for skiing and
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you know on winter sports
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and it was telemark skiing right that
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they did there if i remember correctly
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yeah they did that cross-country
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combination with something else that
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what that is
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yeah yeah they were very big in that so
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a very cool trip there
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rocky mountain pete mentioned taking
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pictures that's that's
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uh he did a lot in fact he was the uh
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the photographer on all of those shoots
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uh as well as hosting segments as well
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uh yeah
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what was there too oh yeah
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you got ants on his eyes should i get
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them off for him would you throw them
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off for him
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poor guy feel sorry for
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this is really smart isn't that
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crocodile out here and i'm kicking the
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bulb
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next crops
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and it looks like a pretty good sight oh
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he's huge
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look at his tail
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i'm gonna scare him watch this
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oh my god
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i got i i think i got a shot of his tail
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i think
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hey everybody warmer ranch
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yeah i know you see that i know that by
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the way that's those were crocodiles
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those were those uh long skinny nose
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they're uh but they weren't caymans i
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came here
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but if it was or local crock that's what
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they were they're called arnold
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um that was uh yeah the mullet man
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there was a good shot of the hair there
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boys and girls ladies and gentlemen
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um that was now that one that last one
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just to let everybody know what happened
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there so i i stopped the boat
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further out but i was in a flat bottomed
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aluminum so like
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uh what do you call a duck boat or a
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combo jumbo yeah
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jumbo and they're they're very drifty
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they're very there's no
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drag to them at all in the water so i
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stopped 15 feet out from this croc and i
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just got this that long lens that's a
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200 millimeter lens so i'm sitting there
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getting some shots but the wind is
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behind my back and i stopped the boat
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and it just kept drifting
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closer and closer and i didn't want to
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blow because i want to get closer to get
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the shots
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but literally i drifted right over top
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of that croc and that's
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that is that is one of the i like to say
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scared the [ __ ] out of me the most in my
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life is that right there because when
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that croc took off because that was a
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big
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animal that was a big crocodile so when
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he took off like the whole boat
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literally just
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rocked like that and you know i mean i
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guess i'd be safe i could say i was
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safe-ish
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but when you're in a situation like that
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your heart is just
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it's just going insane you know what i
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mean but again great memories great
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pictures or maybe
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maybe if we do something on that piece
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i'll get some of the photos that i took
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on that shoot because it was
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uh i mean you're talking about the crocs
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eye it was that close it was very cool
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so one of the other things i mean we
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interacted with animals an awful lot
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both wild
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uncaged animals in some case animals as
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you're going to see here in america
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we also we also met an awful lot of
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weird bizarre characters and
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one of them was this gentleman in
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costa rica on the on the pacific coast
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at the mouth of the uh
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rio general i think wasn't it real
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real yeah something like the rio grande
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colorado
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yeah yeah and and he had the
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lodge uh the tarpon lodge arctic fields
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archie fields uh
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an old tarpon lodge from way back this
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young
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lawyer from l.a bought it and uh
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he was there like he was kind of hiding
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out
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uh he was sort of you know didn't want
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to be
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like it was the weirdest thing but if if
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you wanted to hide
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hide somewhere this would be the perfect
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place to hide
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and he had this incredible
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the only way i could describe it was
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this a collection of
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of animals that were he had a little
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private zoo
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a private zoo but these animals were all
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like his buddies and
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and and like it was just bizarre and
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here's one of the things that we
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saw there
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okay well i'll hold it from you we can
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do it anytime but they love a good smoke
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he'd love a good stroke this guy's a
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refugee from the lab test
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he will he doesn't want to share it
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right now
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now he's going to what he does he sits
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there and he sniffs
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watch it a little talk often
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that is incredible oh that's super
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dark
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oh little bandit oh yeah you smell that
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that's pretty sexy huh
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what the hell no that's i mean you think
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about
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if you did that nowadays and somebody
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said you get crucified because obviously
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though that monkey was addicted
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to nicotine right nothing is smoking is
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because it's got an addiction it doesn't
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realize
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what this it doesn't stay the smoke
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tastes good or smells good there's no
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way it's the
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taste or smell of good freaking that was
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addicted
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to nicotine by the way i think calvin is
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sticking up for the
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cormorants down in south america there
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it says there's 41 species of coromants
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worldwide
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hopefully that that crocodile knocked
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out one of those full species in the
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2040 left gal okay
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no offense oh god yeah
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it was a bizarre we were there for i
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don't know three four days and there
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wasn't a moment that i didn't feel that
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this was
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a bizarre point yeah he had a tape here
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in there that big paper
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a pet that walked around and was as
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friendly as anything it was a big i
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think it's a couple hundred pounds he
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had uh
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do you remember those fish he had
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machaca
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with human teeth it looked like yeah i
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think there's like human teeth or
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whatever like that they had them all
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swimming underneath the docks and all
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that kind of
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oh what a crazy place that was
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we're going to try and uh and resurrect
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as much of that old footage as we can
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and there'll be some uh some really
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light-hearted stuff
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some funny stuff some curious stuff some
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bizarre stuff
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dramatic about the one scene that uh
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that you and i both we saw talked about
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the other day
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uh we'll we'll yeah we'll have to put
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all kinds of uh
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warnings out there because it's uh it's
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it hurt us even watching it the other
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day but it's a dandy i mean it's it's
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something part of reality i guess so
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but you know we couldn't show that stuff
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back back in the
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80s and 90s right so now it's it's an
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opportunity to be able to get some of
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that stuff out we got a couple more
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clips we'll just share with you real
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quick here
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so
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