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This week's hottest news was the shocking story of a Manitoba woman who sustained serious injury when she fell victim to a rare Musky attack. In this exclusive interview segment taken from the most recent weekly Live Webcast, Kim Driver and her husband Terry recount their harrowing experience for the Fish'n Canada hosts.
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i want to just make sure we all
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understand this is a
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very very extremely
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rare case a
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manitoba woman and her husband were
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fishing in manaki ontario
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on the winnipeg river well i i'm
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assuming they were fishing we're going
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to find out here in a minute and
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lo and behold she was accosted by
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a muskie a costume wow
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that was big enough to drag her under
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the water
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and uh she joins us now and i really
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appreciate you joining us
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good morning kim good morning
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hi guys oh first of all thank you so
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much for joining us
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uh we know you i'm sure you're fielding
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a lot of uh
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phone calls and messages and and
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everybody wants you on
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but so interesting for us
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for a number of reasons uh we we are
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you know we love fishing for muskie have
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been most of our lives a lot of the
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folks who are on
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watching this with us have grown up
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fishing muskie but this puts a whole new
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slant on that species
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can you tell us what happened uh give
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walk us through the whole the whole
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process if you could
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well there was about 10 to 12 of us we
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were down on the beach at
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north star village just floating on
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floaties
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and then we decided to hop in the water
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and go for a swim
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and i was just standing there and oh
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the water was just up to my chest
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and all of a sudden i felt this thing
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brush up against my left leg
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i thought it was weeds or something that
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rubbed on me and then
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all of a sudden they grabbed my right
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leg and i looked down
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and it was a huge musky
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both of you guys fish right both of you
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are our anglers
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yes have you ever seen or heard of
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anything like this before in your lives
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i've heard of people if they sit on
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their docks and have them
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hanging over but i have never heard of a
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fish
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actually coming up and grabbing a hold
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of you
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and pulling you under so terry cam
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i was saying earlier i thought you know
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i thought maybe it was
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we were speculating because we've been
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out i mean so we see a lot of times in
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the world of muskie and pike and big
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predator fish with it
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where a fish is swimming along and they
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grab like that right but you're saying
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you're
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hiccups your legs were in a vertical
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position and you come over and grab like
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this fabulous right it came in and
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turned and t-boned her in the castle
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that is incredible that is crazier than
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crazy and then has continued to
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thrash hard enough and pull to pull her
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head under the water from a standing
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position that's
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and there was all of us standing there
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literally 20 feet away from her
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in disbelief like we're not even sure
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what's going on
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yeah have you guys ever fished that area
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for musky
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there has been many people that cast
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lures across there and have raised them
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a friend of mine actually had a big one
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very close to that vicinity a couple of
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weeks ago
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that he had no help so it got off he
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couldn't get to the net so
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he estimated that one to be around 50
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inches so
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wow oh yeah there's definitely lots in
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the area but
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nobody ever thinks that they'd fish away
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from people
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that's that's all we've ever seen uh you
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know
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as as we pursue these creatures
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that's why this behooves us because it's
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such an unusual
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thing to happen with this animal it's
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just what's the water
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right there could you get a good look at
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the fish
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clear down there was actually a little
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tainted turtle swimming around
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bobbing around with us while we were
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swimming and i think it might actually
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been screaming
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get out
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if turtles could talk right
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yeah you could see clearly into the
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water and
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they're sneaky obviously how big do you
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think that fish was kim or
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terry if you had it was uh a 50 had to
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be a 50 plus inch it had to be
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yeah the bite width like on the
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bite runner and anybody can measure it
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probably forever
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because there it was around
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seven inches wide wow i've googled
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48 inch muskies where the guy would have
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had a measuring stick inside its mouth
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and it was five and a half
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inches wide really yes sorry
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plus i think that's the teeth seven
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inches
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wide right terry
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i want to take you back to that moment
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if if
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we could so you're you're you're you're
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in the water with your wife and
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you guys have done this by the way
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you've been visiting that area since 207
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i believe so you're very familiar with
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that whole stretch and everything else
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you probably
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you've probably done this 100 times i'm
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assuming yes yes
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so so you're standing there in the water
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with your wife
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and all of a sudden she behaves in a
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totally irrational manner i'm assuming
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that that's kind of what the first thing
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that you see
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but what's going through your head when
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you know there's something going on down
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there
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like you're not thinking this is a giant
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muskie pulling my wife down
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down into the water like what's going
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through your head at that moment
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i i had no idea at first i thought maybe
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she got stung by a horse fly in the back
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or something and was just trying to
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get it off her back like i had no idea
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that was the most
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like surreal scene like there like
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there was numerous people standing there
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just going
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uh what's going on like nobody had a
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clue
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well we still didn't have a clue until
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she got closer to shore and then we
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could see the clouds of blood in the
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water and
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it literally looked like something out
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of jaws
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how long did it have a hold i mean if we
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didn't time it but was it like uh
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five seconds and maybe three seconds
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it'll just
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stay on there i honestly don't really
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remember
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all because i remember it grabbing me
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and then thrashing me
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and then pulling me under and all i kept
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doing was
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kicking and hitting it with my hands
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because i do have cuts on my hands
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so maybe about 5-10 seconds it lasted
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but it seemed like it lasted forever
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oh my god what happened then it just
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decided to let go at that point
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i guess so and then once i got back up
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onto the surface
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and was really screaming
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then yeah then people actually realized
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that you know what kim's not joking
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around here there's something seriously
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going on
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pulled you under are you talking like
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completely submerged under the water
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yanked
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my leg down it submer pulled me
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right under wow oh my god
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wow that is incredible what about now so
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now kim
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you have not had plastic surgery as of
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yet is there time to heal or something
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like that what's going to be the next
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step go and see the plastic surgeon in
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three weeks
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and he wants to see how the skin is
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growing
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and then after six weeks he said we'll
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figure out what our plan will be
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to cover up all the scars i'm gonna have
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for skin crafting or whatever
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anybody watching this right now i'm sure
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they're in total shock just like we are
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because we live
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and play in that arena
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probably at least you know two or three
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days a week all of us
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we we swim and we we have our children
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swimming playing and in water that
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we know they're they're literally
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hundreds if not thousands of musky
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change that for you folks what what can
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you uh
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what can you help us with because right
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now we're we're all
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feeling i'm sure i'm not the only one
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we're all feeling a little bit concerned
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here
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yeah what can you tell us all right i i
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don't have any intention of going
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swimming again
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anytime soon i'm honestly i'm terrified
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i told my husband this weekend we're
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gonna head back out to the lake and i
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said i'm not even going in the fish
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in the boat to go fishing i'm just going
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to stay up in our trailer
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and i don't want to go down near the
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docks or
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the water because all i keep thinking is
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that she's probably there somewhere and
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she's just watching
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and it scares the crap out of me
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yeah yeah and justifiably so i mean that
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traumatic experience right that's
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something that
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you know i just have constant nightmares
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i mean that'll eventually go away but
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it's only been four days since it
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happened and
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yeah it's very traumatizing yeah i think
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it's going to be a few more weeks before
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the reality of this thing sets in with
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both of you i'll bet
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oh yeah because right now you're you're
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still just the the adrenaline is going
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to be
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insane i mean it's wow
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i've been helping with dressing changes
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every night it's a
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wonderful thing
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either one of you ever had an injury
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fish before
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you know i know pete and i we we hook
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ourselves all the time or
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or we'll we'll get bit by a fish when
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we're trying to you know take a hook out
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yeah does that happen to you guys before
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well
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we walleye fish like i'm not a muskie
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fisherman
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and we walleye fish and i mean yeah you
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have the fish and you'll get the little
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cut from their fins or something but
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nothing no we have brought up several
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muskie on our walleyes or smallmouth and
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they've been shredded
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i even got a couple in the net we had
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them in the boats she knows what a
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muskie looks like pulls up
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but oh my god yeah and that's what that
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fish looks like after it's been shredded
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by a big monster exactly and it shows
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the aggressiveness of
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of a muskie or a pike even because we've
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had pike do the same thing but they
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and they're fearless right and they i
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mean obviously
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it didn't know kim was a human or
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anything but it didn't care
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what it was it just grabbed a hold of
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them that it wanted you know it was
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thinking food
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or whatever or maybe an attack i doubt
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that like it was
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food obviously in their mind but they
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don't care when they get a big muskie
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like that gets on the roll it's the king
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of the
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king of the water right the lion of the
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jungle i i would like to sort of uh
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throw this out there if i could i i
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believe
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that this was a very rare moment yeah
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um i i i i don't think that you know we
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need to all be afraid of musky
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attacking us from now on because this is
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such a rare story we looked when we
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first heard about it
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yesterday we spent all day researching
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to see when when did we have the last
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actual documented real honest goodness
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case
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of a human being being attacked by a
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muskie and and we can't find any
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so so this is such a rare occasion you
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know this is that perfect storm that
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only comes by once in a lifetime i'm
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sure
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we have to we have to think that way
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because otherwise
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who who would ever collect water you
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know so
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you guys need to know that this this was
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uh for whatever reason
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this was just once in a lifetime it
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happened you were in the wrong place at
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the wrong time
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um and uh man oh man i i just
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i i i just can't put myself in your
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position both of you
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uh obviously more so kim because you
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experience it but for you terry to see
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your wife
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being dragged under the water and that's
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just that i can't even imagine
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what that is like it was horrifying she
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was horrified obviously
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luckily for us at the time the people we
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were in the water with and our
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family out at northstar village all of
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our friends
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two of them are nurses two of them are
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opp officers so
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luckily for me so i got my own issues
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with my feet
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that's another story but luckily for me
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they were there to help because
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they took care of everything and i went
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up and got my truck came back she was
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ready to go to the hospital so that was
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fantastic because without those people i
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have no idea what i would have done
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you know i wrote a little article about
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this uh little blog about this
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that is being posted today and and i
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refer to it as the
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craziest year that we any of us will
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ever have to endure
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uh obviously covet is is high on our
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list but there's been a few strange
12:50
things happening this year
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this is going to be in our top 10 i'll
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guarantee you
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for 2020 we're going to be talking about
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this a long time
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and it's just one of those things and
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how ironic is it that it comes
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during i know people are gonna laugh at
13:05
me it comes during
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shark week on discovery right now yeah
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and you know what else was starting in
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manaki that day
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the locals muskie hunt started that day
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it's still on right now
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no way
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wow that is just unbelievable folks
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i i can't thank you enough for joining
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us there aren't any words
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for us all we we feel with when we saw
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and heard about this story we uh
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we all uh were there with you because we
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spent a lot of time in those waters too
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we have fished those waters
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and and uh for you to come on the show
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and talk to us in person it's just uh
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just at the moment we had a moment of
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disbelief obviously because kim you
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as you know you've never heard of it
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before we've never we lived fishing
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we've never heard of it really like that
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and the story
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when we read the story about what
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happened to you so thank you for coming
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on and
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proving to the vet the world
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that's another reason why we're like kim
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doesn't want to do this kind of stuff
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anymore i'm just trying to tell her get
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the right story out because
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she's reading stuff on social media and
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she's getting angry
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because you know people are saying uh uh
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some of the most ridiculous things
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ever it was a weed whacker
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like okay yeah yeah exactly it was a
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weed locker all right
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nobody ever wants to run into that weed
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to both of you
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i i will leave you with this message
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there are a lot of cooks out on the
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internet
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and this seems to bring the best out in
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them or the worst depending on which
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side you're on
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uh we've experienced it ourselves don't
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let it get you down
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they're going to be there and it doesn't
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matter what the issue is
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they lurk in those weeds
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um don't take it personal but uh once
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again
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i want to thank you for for joining us
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and uh let's stay in touch let's let's
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see how you
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i'd love to kim i would love to have you
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back on the program
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um you know in a few months or or
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or thereabouts and uh i i would like to
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hear that that
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you're back in the saddle you're fishing
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again uh
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you won't let this one isolated
15:23
little speck in time affect
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the way you look at things because i can
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tell from both of you speaking to you
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that you've got great attitude and great
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outlook on life
15:34
don't let this change it it it's a one
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in a million hey you just won a lottery
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let's put it that way
15:39
yeah we'll be buying tickets exactly
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i appreciate it you take care of there
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and uh we'll talk to you again
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all right thank you very much and i just
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like to say to 2020
15:51
enough already
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literally that's that's scary man
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that's like because i know a lot of
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people
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you just caught it with muskie legs they
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don't want it i'm in the lake just when
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they see a must like that and you know
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you're always thinking how whatever
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this is that's the reality yeah you're
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one that one in a million or one in a
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billion or whatever
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been being odds but it happened right
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here's what i'm afraid of i'm afraid of
16:23
you know this thing's good it's got legs
16:25
already but it those legs are going to
16:27
grow in
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in the days and weeks to come as this
16:30
story percolates
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and expands and uh and uh
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gets out in social media um i i i
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i wanna just make sure we all understand
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this is a
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very very extremely
16:48
rare okay and it might
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it might be a one of and if anybody's
16:53
got uh any information that would lead
16:56
us to discovering a similar story i'd
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like
16:58
i'd love for you to reach out to us but
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i think it's a one of
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uh i just think it was the perfect storm
17:05
everything
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led to this i don't think we can put
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anything
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the reason i'm saying is my daughter
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nikki's mother
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she has been terrified for years about
17:19
going in water
17:20
both salt water and fresh
17:23
and for years i have reassured her that
17:26
it's okay
17:28
and a story like this could affect
17:32
a person like that in a very negative
17:34
way
17:35
so i i just you know it really
17:40
the same in the same sense being like we
17:42
look at it like like and said the odds
17:44
are ridiculous that will happen i mean i
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swam my whole life i've never ever had
17:48
that and
17:48
everybody watching here on the sidebar
17:50
is watching us today has never had it
17:52
happen i'll pretty much guarantee that
17:53
you know i mean so
17:54
the odds are and you know what you
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really what we would appreciate
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and i know yeah everybody would
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appreciate is
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a few people share this actual cast
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with other people to see the real story
18:08
of what happened if you can get that put
18:10
on your facebook pages because
18:11
because the right game is right social
18:13
media idiots out there that
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want to take this and then flew into
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something kind of crap
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so if you can share this on your pages
18:20
tell people please
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check out this this interview that anger
18:24
pete had
18:25
with the real victim here and then they
18:27
will hear the story
18:28
uh that we'd appreciate that and i think
18:30
the whole fishing community would
18:31
appreciate that too so
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