00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kell And now here's kel over the lips and pass the gums, lookout stomach, here it comes. Ecologist and researcher with Kobe University Shinji Sugiura set out to write a paper on the predator prey relationship between Regimbartia at tenu Wata and Palo Philax nigro maculottas that's some fancy Latin for water beetle and a frog that cohabitate in Japan's rice field, published in the journal Current Biology. Shinji observed a water beetle disappear into the mouth of a hungry frog. Then a hundred and fifteen minutes later, he observed the reappearance of the still swimming water beetle, Only this time beetle was observed as it emerged from the frog's anus. The water beetle had apparently gone the length of the frog's digestive system and re emerged on the other end unharmed. Like all good researchers, Shinji had to verify his observation by feeding more water beetles to frogs. Like the first beetle. Almost of the test beetles eaten went over the lips, past the gums, through the esophagus. Lookout, stomach, large intestine, and small intestine. This beetle is coming through and actively. Shinji found that beetles had to have been swimming the length of the frog as the legless test beetles were digested. It is also theorized, not proven, that legs are necessary to irritate the frog's sphincter in order to get the frog's anal vent to open, kind of like knowing the key code on the locked door. I guess the longest it took beetles to let's call it, swim the frog was four hours. Some of the test swimmers swam the frog in as little as six minutes. All of them, including the leg lists, came out the other end covered in feces. According to Kobe University, this is the first time prey has been witnessed actively, not passively, escaping from a predator after being eaten. The question remains as to why the frog still pursue the beetles even though the beetles aren't providing any nutritional benefit. But you know, to be fair. We sure eat our share of corn, and look at all these popular cleanses on the market. Those live swimming water beetles could be the frog version of a detox. I suppose the water beetle maybe inspiring if you think about it, like if you were to find yourself swallowed by a whale. And keeping in mind there are over two thousand known species of water beetle, and not all of those water beetles are able to swim the frog, proving yet again that sometimes there really is away when there is a will, it's not over until it's over, kids, and you can't rely on indigestion to save you. But maybe the old water beetle swim and tickle trick will. That's why the doctor as underwear test. This week, we've got hot cronyism in Arkansas, listener emails hound Honey in New York City, and so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about my week, as everyone knows my week, and this podcast is sponsored by Steel Power Equipment. In fact, one listener will shortly end up with one of my personal saws, the m s A two twenty. We'll have a powerful low hours electric saw, and they did so by helping everyone who loves the out of doors by spending cash during our auction to fund the purchase of the Shiloh Pond property in Main. And I've talked about so much. That's two fifteen acres of public access. I thank you more personally, but I don't know who you are just yet. We went fishing on the yellow Stone the other day a bunch of US meat eater folks and Dave Seminette of the band Trampled by Turtles. He's also got a solo album called The Red Tail. He just released that one recently. He is also a budding bird hunter and gardener. Like Snow, Where's foods coming From? I suppose you'll be hearing Dave for free on a future meat Eater podcast. I gave him two thumbs up, and I have big thumbs on that float. I made a bunch of sandwiches and I'm pretty much down to the last in my sandwich meat, which got me thinking. And I want to share a few things with you as we head back into big game hunting seasons or just hunting seasons in general. Savior critter tongues and hearts people. That's fantastic sandwich meat to get a meat slicer. I know it seems superfluous, but my goodness, do they take up a little bit of space and provide a huge time savings. Three. If you and the fam are constantly going through processed lunch meat, try processing your own this season. It is shocking how fast meat disappears out of the freezer. Commit to a couple of big batches Brian and smoked turkey breasts are large roasts from your big game. Let them cool in the refrigerator for like twelve hours, and maybe throw them in the freezer for an additional thirty minutes prior to slicing, and then you slice, bag, seal, label it appropriately and you are set for the next weekend, the ball game, next hunting trip, whatever you got going on. Number four, Canada geese or dark geese get a bad rap getting lunch meat game. Roast them slow, don't dry them out, and slice them thin you want to goose hunt more. Number five The lunch meat game helps you rotate the freezer. It has allowed me and admitted meat order to do a lot more with my game meat still making fancy and tasty stuff you can't get anywhere else but it's just packaged conveniently for the road, and consequently, I'm going through the meat supply a lot faster. Some folks, this is number six, by the way, are intimidated by wild game. Turn game meat into something more recognizable like thin slice, tasty lunch meat will help folks utilize their game in new ways and help the non game getters understand why it is they see you the crazy person in the neighborhood, pulling out of your driveway at four thirty in the morning, painting decoys on beautiful weekends, buying old canoes that should be thrown away or kayaks on Craigslist, and you know, constantly having a small smoker fire in the backyard. Our river sandwiches this past weekend, we're on sour dough filled with corned elk tongue, roast goose, and roast CU's deer, made a basil, aoli from the garden, had pickled cucumbers from mom's garden. Give some whole grain mustard, and a little bit of a rugula. If you're paying attention, that's three animals in one sandwich. That's a lot of bang for your buck. That's efficient Venicone diplomacy Hey, look at us, Look at us. Who would have thought not me? Moving on to the ask cow desk. That's where you know, listeners to the show finally get your your questions answered. Uh. First up from Misrepresented in Florida. As everyone is aware, we are heading into an election cycle that oh so divisive word politics, We just can't escape it. Well disappointed rights in expressing the dismay of having a representative that did not vote his way, and he's convinced that there's other constituents in this person's district that encouraged him to vote in favor of the Great American Outdoors Act, and in spite of that he voted against it. He wants to know what can be done. So here's the move, as I know, takes elbow grease, but you pull your representative of his constituency, the folks in their district, and keep in mind, you know, it's more than just you try to establish where this politician actually departs from their constituents. Get a lot of signatures on well ripped petitions that are specific to these issues. And if your representative does not recognize the fact that they are not performing their core responsibility, which is representing you, vote them out. You'll have the ammunition to do so. Next up, a New Brunswick story of duck hunting etiquette. You know, New Brunswick, home of the fiddle Head, Canada's oldest literary magazine. H not familiar with that one. How about New Brunswick, home to the world's second largest whirlpool. Anyway, this one is from Mike. I've heard so many horror stories about people fighting over blind locations and starting feuds that's duck blinds, by the way, even a few that ended up with pellets lying at each other. I've heard so many of these stories that I wanted to give a positive one in return. Around these parts. Speaking of New Brunzo, Canada, we mark our opening day duck blind spots early mid July or earlier. My standard area for my opening day blind is in a big marshy lake near a duck's unlimited man made marsh and it is a very popular opening day spot. Anyway, we put out a marker with names and telephone numbers on it, and a guy got in contact with me today. He sent me a satellite picture of the area with my blind marker on it and another marker showing where he was thinking about hunting, he wanted to make sure he wasn't crowding our blind. I thought this was very respectful, and we chatted for a bit came up with a plan to keep from crowding one another or shooting in general directions of each other. Then we agreed to go out together and set up the blinds to get an even better idea of each other footing lanes and layout plans so both parties get a chance at a few ducks. I've never met the man, but we had such a respectful, agreeable conversation that we both thanked each other for how well it went. I don't know about you, folks, but this just seems crazy to me that these folks would rather behave like adults and actually talk to each other and figure out a mutually beneficial plan for hunting public ground instead of, you know, just grumbling under their breath for a couple of months until opening morning and then actively cursing each other. Crazy Canadians. Huh. Great story. Might way to be an example, and thanks for writing in. For the record, I've always wanted to go to New Brunswick and fish. Next up the access desk calling all razorbacks little school history for you. The University of Arkansas in nineteen sixty was dated by the U S Soil Sir of US, which is a public entity, about eleven eight hundred fifty acres of prime ground in northeast Arkansas. The reason for the transfer and the agreed upon primary use and agricultural research facility which is now called Pine Tree Experimental Station. The secondary use public access, which makes sense. That's our collectively held public ground being transferred around. Under the conditions of the land transfer, it was stipulated that if the University of Arkansas were to come under some hardship and need to sell the property, the university would have to also provide for continued public use in that sale. Despite this, the University of Arkansas right now is under contract to sell the land to a private group that will not provide public access. It is speculated that this private group, and this will be no shocked people in Arkansas, are looking to make a private duck hunting club out of the property. At this point, it would be very appropriate to be wondering what the heck is going on here, and go ahead and please ponder that while I tell you about this place. Pine Tree Experimental station is located in the northeast part of the state. It's important to note that Arkansas has some great public hunting around, but not in the northeast portion of the state, which makes Pine Tree even more special. The experimental station is located just outside of the town of Colt, Arkansas, which, of course you know Colt, Arkansas because it's the world famous home of Charlie Rich who had a bunch of great songs, one of which being Behind Closed Doors, and it's a personal favorite of mine. It also entitled at least is very very appropriate for what is happening in razorback country over this land. Deal here anyway, for right now, visitors to Pine Tree can walk the roads, bird watch, fish hunt. The management area is regulated by permit quota. Hunting for deer. Small game like rabbits, quail, squirrels, fur bears, doves, ducks, turkeys are hunted under statewide seasons called that directly from the website and this as well. The area consists of hardwood timber intermixed with fields planted in various crops. Several beaver ponds provide habitat for wintering waterfowl and other wetland wildlife. Large tracts of pasture established with an occasional small fishing pond providing a water source for wildlife. The area comprises about eleven thousand, eight hundred and fifty acres, three thousand ninety acres in forest, five thousand, six hundred thirty pastures, and two thousand two acres and crops. Sounds great, right, So again, what the heck is going on? I will, of course apologize to the folks that currently hunt this spot, but in my defense, several of you hunters have contacted me asking to talk about this shady situation, saying this is a great spot, the only one we have, and we would rather compete with more hunters than lose it forever. We don't need just another duck club. And you know I agree. Here's a quick recap and this will lead into our call to action for the episode. University of Arkansas currently owns land that is legally supposed to remain open to the public. They have a deal on the table for seventeen million dollars that would make the land not public. In an official statement made by the University of Arkansas Communications director Mary hi Tower, the sale is for acres not in agriculture, and pending agreements, there would still be public access to forested acres, which, unfortunately, I gotta tell you, she's kind of saying, you have this guaranteed access right now, and pending some talks, we could possibly make it so you kind of have some access if everything goes right once you rather just stick with what you have now. According to the University of Arkansas, under the purpose of the property description, it states the management area purpose is twofold. One is to experiment in the agricultural field as to various needs of the farming industry. Secondly, is to provide under a cooperative effort with Arkansas Game Fish Commission, to manage the resource for public use. The land is managed for all species of resident wildlife and wintering migratory species. I didn't see where it's said that the sale of all of the properties water to a private entity somehow fulfills either folds of this twofold mission, and again the sale appears to be illegal. Anyway, here's another interesting tidbit for you which does fit under the stated purpose under cooperative effort with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to manage resource for public use. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is willing to pay twenty million for the property, do so in a legal manner, and of course, provide public access. If this UH further confuses you, you may want to check out the song also by Charlie Pratt called easy Money. So here's where you're called to action comes in which to use the University of Arkansas terms is twofold fold one razorback alumni, burn those phone lines down at your alma mater, and maybe mentioned the fact that crippling student debt and an uncertain job market and economy does not allow for all freedom loving Americans to be a part of a hunting lease. So please keep pine Tree publicly accessible, including the water. After all, you are a supposed institution of higher learning. At some point you probably covered not breaking the law in like a business ethics class Somewhere second fold, back Country Hunters and Anglers have started a petition which needs signatures to help stop this shady land deal. You can find that at back Country hunters dot org forward slash keep the Pine Tree Research Station public. On top of that, you need to call the county commissioner and your state and congressional representatives. Remember our Kansas. You may be in the South, but you aren't in Hazard County, right emails, make calls and save your public land from this behind closed door deal. You know that new boys never waiting over to the damn desk where it's damn time, all the time. The oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, a guy famous for being rich and eating like a parentless kid at a birthday party, is reported diet includes five cokes McDonald's and a Dairy Queen treat a day, which is kind of a treat to himself, considering he owns Berkshire Hathaway, which in turn owns a bunch of stuff like Dairy Queen. Anyway, he is now entering a long running damn removal debate in California. Governor A. Newsome wrote a letter to Buffett last week asking him to support the Klamath River Project, the twelve year campaign to reshape California's second largest river by enacting the largest damn removal in the history of our country. The much publicized project hopes to save essential salmon populations that have dwindled to almost nothing by demolishing four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon California border, co host salmon from the Klamath River are listed as threatened under federal and California law as their populations have fallen, as have Spring Chinook. Spring Chinook, or once the Klamath Basins the largest run, they've dwindled by Governor. Newsome wrote that the river is sick and urged Warren Buffett and Pacific Corps to end the delays and move the damn removal process forward immediately. So why Buffett and why no other than the fact that he's a smart dude. Buffett famously bought his for stock at age eleven and reportedly made thirty seven million a day back in two thousand thirteen. The multibillionaires real estate conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Owns Oregon based utilities company Pacific Court. There's your tie in, which in turn owns the dams that Newsome and many conservation groups would like to remove. Under a two thousand sixteen agreement, Pacific Corp. Would transfer its federal hydroelectric licenses for the dams to a nonprofit coalition called the Klamath River Renewal Court that was formed to oversee the demolition. This was all threatened two weeks ago when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made a decision to improve the license transfer on condition that Pacific Court remain a co license with the Klamath River Renewal Corp. The agency explained that it felt that the Renewal Corp might ultimately be faced with matters that it is not equipped to handle. Seems like a diluted and complicated process, right, Well, imagine if you're one of the many groups like American Rivers that have been fighting bureaucrats and manufactured roadblocks for years. The Conservation River is a meandering one full of boulder fields, my friends. Proponents of this move, like American Rivers, commercial fishermen, irrigators, and several sovereign nations, have long argued that removing these dams will improve water quality, revived fisheries, create jobs, and boost the economy in the form of tourism. Buffett is a capitalist with a capital seat, that is for sure, But the eighty nine year old investor also announced earlier this month that he donated two point nine billion dollars worth of stock to nonprofit groups. Additionally, he has pledged to give away nearly all of his fortune to philanthropic causes by the time he dies. This two point nine billion dollar donation was his fifteenth annual donation since two thousand six. Well, Mr Buffett, sat up, help us save these salmon. It'll be the best investment you've made in quite a while. Just to show you that there's a bit of give and take here. If I get the chance to salmon fish on a damn less Klamath, I'll tell everyone on Instagram that my fish was brought to you by a d Q, and I bet some others would be willing to do the same too. Now try our new sweet deals value onto the urban hunting desk. I bet all you moms and dads out there remember the cartoon Ratatui, the Pixar flick that attempted to prove that rats and humans could coexist, even in a restaurant. I, for one, never believe that for a second rats can't cook? What do I always say? Anyone can cook? I was just jealous of the nose, though a rat can definitely smell anyway. It turns out that there's no getting along with rats in New York City these days. The pandemic has emboldened the vermin, and they're running rampant all over the streets of the big app rats are becoming more aggressive for reasons you might not expect. Bill Swan, rat specialist and co owner of NYC Pest Control in Brooklyn, told Spectrum News ny one that the problem is a lack of trash. You're removing people who are slobs, and that is reducing their food menu, so to speak. Swan said, and so they're being forced out of their domain to get food. Enter alias Shoel and his dogs sun Drop. The pair are part of a small group that you might call rat hunters. There's no tags for rats, and they're definitely not being eaten, but there is plenty of opportunities to kill rats. Shool and Sundrop have been recently hitting up neighborhoods with high rat populations like Bedford, stoy Vessent and Bushwick. You know, right into Ascal at the meteor dot com and tell me how to pronounce that one anyway. Sun Drop in those neighborhoods can sometimes kill up to twenty rats in four hours. Shul describes the hunt like whack a mole. He chases the rats out of their hiding spots and sun Drop grabs them. Schul has been posting his rat grip and grinds to Facebook and getting mostly positive responses, leading to many requests from locals for the hobby hunter to come kill rats in their neighborhoods or even train their dogs. It's unlikely this makes a dent in the population, after all. Estimates have New York City's rat population at about two million, which seems pretty darn low to me. For now, the COVID nineteen lockdown aided rap problem will keep some rodents working overtime to find food as the garbage supplied dwindles and some restaurants remain closed or just partially open. Experts say that this might ultimately lead to a rat turf war if a specific colony were to get so hungry that they would consider invading other colonies spaces. That's right, it might just be a rat battle. Regardless, School and sun Drop are on call and willing to help. But the amateur rat hunter has another idea of how to up his game and stop the spread of rats. Ferrets. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and forced a ban on ferrets in prohibiting New York City residents from owning them as domestic pets, due in part to a fear of rabies. While current Mayor Build A. Blasio pushed to repeal the band in two thousand fourteen, it was rebuked by city health officials, and the band stands today. I get a chuckle thinking about school running around the city with a pack of well trained ferrets. But it doesn't seem like we'll see that anytime soon. The silver lining of this rat situation and what seems like, you know, maybe a turning a blind eye at best sort of level of acceptance is if you are an inner city dweller and you want to see how a hunting dog works, you may be able to team up and watch this happen without having to travel. You know, it's kind of bringing the out of doors to you. That's all I've got for you this week. Thanks for listening and has always let me know what I'm getting right, what I'm getting wrong, and most importantly, what's happening in your neck of the woods. By writing in to a s k C. A. L Let's asked cal at the Meat Eater dot com. Thanks again, I'll talk to you next week.

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