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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the Ta Mahoney Company Real Animals Radio Show,
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good Morning, Tampa Bay nine three WDA and AM six,
The Tamahoney Company Real Animals Radio Show, going to be
talking fishing. Gonna be here until nine o'clock. I don't uh,
I don't need a real in depth weather conversation this morning,
but I know it's Wendy. She's Wendy. We got small
(00:43):
craft advisory.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah yeah. A week down at Little Gaspello and bug Grant,
I couldn't use my power bole. I had to go
back to a sea claw with chain. I haven't done
that in a long time, but I was. I fished
a lot of docks because of the wind. Yeah sure,
and we're fishing next to flags that were drowning out
(01:05):
the surrounding noise.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Thirteen bars can count all thirteen and.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It would clock. It was mostly northwest, but it clocked
a bunch of while down. You know, a front came
through in different stuff, but they just wouldn't let up. Yeah,
came you know, mixed tying up the boat on full
moon approaching tides, very strictly interesting. Yeah, but we we
got to it, so good.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah. Breezy most of the week looks like again, small
craft advisory through part of today at least maybe into tomorrow.
Looks like some rain today, so if you are headed
for the water, be smart. It looks like a breezy
pattern too. Breezy through most of the week.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And they said rain yesterday and it was. I saw
it was in the center of the state, but it never.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
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Mister Mahoney is out. He is in Georgia taking his
turn up there at Deer Camp doing some work or
watching people do work. Watching people do work would be
my guests. So we had an open chair, and because
it is hurricane season, we're kind of knee deep in it.
As as part of our breezy, cheesy weather from the
hurricanes that are out there in the Atlantic. I thought
(02:55):
we would reach out to belfour USA, who a lot
of you by now know one of our partners here
at the Team Mahoney Company Real Animals radio show. So
joining us in mister Mahoney's place, we're actually going to
have some in depth knowledge in Mahoney's chair today, Larry
Somerville from bellefour USA joins me. You gave me your
card and I didn't really read what is it? Larry
(03:16):
Somerville does exactly, But when I talked to Cody and
Charlie O'Connor, they just immediately said I said, Hey, I
got a chair open for some radio. You want to
come in. We can talk about you know, hurricane preparedness,
things like that kind of important stuff. And they were like,
Larry Somerville, so you were the guy. Yeah, hold on,
(03:38):
your mic is not on. I don't know why. I
don't know what's going on. We having technical difficulties. Ben
is approaching it to figure out what's going on. Yeah,
that's the one. I don't know why. It can't be corrected.
But we got to have everything backwards. It's a brand
new studio. So here we go about that. Larry.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That sounds good. Larry Somerville, thank you, Thank you appreciate it. Yeah,
thanks for being here. Yeah, I appreciate the opportunity to
come in and chat with you guys. So listen to
what people have to say.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, well, I just thought, you know, it's windy. We
have a lot of weather. Belfour has been with us
for a while bellefour USA for those of you who
don't know. And Larry can obviously talk a little bit
more about this, but as I understand it, the largest
firewater damage restoration company in the country, right maybe the world,
the world, in the world. Okay, I was going to
(04:29):
say world, and I didn't want to overdo it. I'm like,
I'll start with country and see if he corrects me.
So I mean, that's pretty that's pretty impressive. Charlie O'Connor
and I go back a long long ways, back to
my Aluminum Anderson screen days. That's how I met him.
I was doing the work for Mark of Excellence, which
Charlie started firewater damage restoration. They get bought by belfour USA.
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Charlie comes in now he kind of runs this little
Southeastern United States quadrant for belfour USA. A lot of
great people I met through the years. Cody Charlie's Sun
made it for me for many many years, a lot
of the guides, a lot of people who fished with
me over the years. No Cody remember Cody. Well, now
Cody runs a lot of the cruise and does a
(05:12):
lot of work for BEL four. So I'm super excited
to kind of have you in here. Let me and
we'll dive into some fishing. I had some great fishing
on Friday despite the weather, and Ben was down in
Boca Grand some so we got a lot of stuff
to talk about today. But as we're in hurricane season here,
I wanted to pick your brain a little bit about
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I mean, I know Florida, Floridians, it seems like we're
just kind of used to it, right, everybody. It's hurricane
seasons just part of it. It's like winter up north.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
It's yeah, it's people get complacent, actually, since it feels
like six months out of the year where we're looking
for a blob somewhere. Right this time last year, this
very day last year, we were sitting in between two hurricanes,
(06:02):
right right. Helene was September twenty sixth, and Milton was
October tenth, So we were right in the midst of
bracing for the second one, in the midst of also
one of the largest, maybe the largest evacuation order in
the history of Florida was last year when Milton came.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, the whole coast, right, I mean, they were calling
for the whole coast to kind of get crushed, right,
I mean the thing, I mean, it was a I
remember looking at it thinking, well, that's the entire coast
of the West coast of Florida's fixing to get whacked.
He or so.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So on my side of it, last year, at this time,
we were preparing to demobilize. We had just completed a
huge mobilization to get in here, to get set up
to start handling our clients when the evacuation order came along.
So we had to de mobilize. Wow, and move a
(07:02):
thousand people that we had here on the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I remember talking to Charlie and Cody and they were
in like total panic mode, rushing everybody in and then
turn around going, oh my god, here comes another one.
We've got to get everybody out. Yep.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
We sent all of our equipment, took it off the
beach areas and inland moved it to Orlando along with
a thousand people.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I have to get hotel rooms and then bring them
back and try to get them back in the hotel
rooms they were in before. It was quite a logistic nightmare.
Thankfully we haven't had that.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But right, let's not do that again. Let's not do
that again. So a little bit of your history. It
was interesting you were talking a little bit that obviously
you've been in Florida a long time, but a high
school baseball coach. Huh, A teacher in a high school
baseball coach.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I have one, Yes, I graduated from us F. I've
lived in Tampa since nineteen fifty one. Oh nice, that
makes me old.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
It went all the way through world. We like school
here and and of course went to the us F
And then I taught in the high schools here.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Which high school I.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Taught at Planned High School at Hillsboro High School?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Okay? And where did you coach baseball at Hillsborough High School? Okay?
Did you win?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We had some really good players.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, well I didn't. We go good? So you won?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah? I worked with coach Billy Reid over there, okay,
one of my favorite people of all time.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay, and we had a lot of success. That's great.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I learned a lot of baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah yeah, I think, uh, just my opinion from coaching
some aau with my daughters and you know, playing ball
my whole life. I think, in just my opinion, the
best coaches I've ever been around have been, even even
the really really great ones. Tom Jesse at University of Tampa,
the women's basketball coach there, is an extremely extremely big
(08:57):
winner over there. He's won a lot of games, and
he just a sponge though, constantly wanting to learn and
get better, you know what I mean. I've seen some
coaches that seem to know everything already and they're like
an AAU coach and like, I don't even know how
that's possible, Like how do you get to a point
where you know everything? And I think you're a great coach?
So they eat, drink and sleep it. Yeah. Yeah, they
(09:18):
want to constantly learn and evolve and get better and
that's really cool. So congratulations on that. That's great. Is
there something off the top of your head you can
think of that maybe is the one thing people should
be thinking about that they're not this time?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, you know, I always say when I speak to
groups that if you want to figure out what you
need to do to get ready, sometime in July or August,
go to your electrical panel box and shut off your power,
and about a day you'll know exactly what you're gonna need,
(09:55):
especially in July and August.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah it's really hot.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, so yeah, that's one thing. Other things is to
preposition yourself with some sort of of service to get
you back up and running. The businesses that are not
open yet, a lot of them are out there still.
We're the ones that had not positioned themselves with a
service similar to us, maybe not us but there's there
(10:21):
are several companies out there that are capable of doing that.
Get some kind of master service agreement or some kind
of contract in writing.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So you have coverage, some kind of a cover.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
The ones that didn't put on a list and they're
not open yet. Yeah, wow, interesting, that's interest a huge place.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
One thing he's trying to say is have a contract
in place. Yeah, you call them and say we need
you now, you're under contract, right and another instead of saying, hey,
can you come help us out and we'll figure out
how to pay you later? Right, man, I'm under contract,
whether it's belfour or another company, and there's more than
several by the way.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Ahead, Yeah, I see him driving.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Several to me is like three, and I'm approached by
more than three.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Be prepared. It's hurricane season. Belfour USA joins us this morning,
Larry Somerville. If you have questions thoughts on the subject,
maybe you're still going through something and maybe Larry's seen
other people that have gone through it. It might have an
answer for you. We're also talking fishing. Your questions, comments,
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if you have questions. Larry's been in the business a
long time. Belle four USA the largest firewater damage restoration
company in the world, and I thought I'd bring him
in here. It's that time of year. Mister Mahoney is
up in Georgia doing some of his deer hunting prep.
So we had an open seat and here we are.
So I was book a grand other than you get
(13:02):
blown out a little bit. You had a trip to
booth where.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
No we were on a little guest bropt, so there
was a ferry going. We had the Hideaway community there
and they have their own ferry about a forty footer.
I never asked how it was, but it's large, and
they bringing a lot of a lot of shuttle of
construction workers, lots of drywall work. Eldridge is still up
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and going with the barges bringing over a lot of sand.
A lot of reclamation has been done. We rode all
around the island. We had a golf cart nice you know,
some crushed and people probably giving up and then a
lot of them rebuilt and looking pretty good. So you know,
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still and it's it's I could just imagine how expensive
it is there. You know, watching We took the boat
back and forth. I had the boat with me, but
there were some things. Running back. The ferry was easier,
like there's a Publix up the road. It was a
mile and a quarter up the road. You just take
that and it's blowing, so you take a forty foot
ferry instead of a twenty six path winder over and
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then doc In was a trouble. So the ferry runs
on the hour, so you know, And we had our
vehicles on the other side, so it was. It was
nicely done and a lot of fish. Man in the
water was healthy, lots of bait, and I know Van
Hubbard yesterday said, you know, I don't have the red
fish like you guys have up there. I saw a
lot of redfish. These ferry boat landings on both sides,
(14:31):
on on little Gasperl Island and then on the mainland.
They're long because the water shallow, you know. So I'm
a little kid, son's up overhead and walking out on
that long dock. There was bait on both sides. There
was snook. There was a lot of redfish, and I
got tips from some locals because I mean it was
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you know, we had I wanted to see Bull Bay,
Turtle Bay, go down to Cabbage Key. I mean, I wanted.
There wasn't any of that. I ran. I ran in
the outside from Stump Pass. They were saying nine mile
an hour out of the northwest, and even our friend
Rob insistent. After lunch got back to their house, he says, hey,
it kind of kicked up out there. I was like, yeah,
my crew doesn't want to play anymore. Fortunately it was following,
(15:15):
but been a long time. I went out Stump Pass
and it kicked up to about fifteen out of the northwest.
Not dangerous, not fun, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, fifteen's doable, but.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Fifteen's doable, doable following, but getting out of the pass
and then my machine and I talked to some local
captains down there, the ferry boat captains and stuff. I mean,
because they're unlimited masters and stuff. They're not putting that
many people on a boat, and they've been doing it
a long time. There's no markers, and my machine with
the chip wouldn't tell them anything. Coming into Stump Pass,
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the markers are gone and coming in a little gas past.
Oh oh yeah, I mean I was a mile and
a half two miles out of the mouth and showing
three foot of water. You know, a lot of sand.
We had a lot of sand in these storms that
we didn't have ever before. It really moved stuff around.
So I went way out, probably almost two miles from
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the mouth to get over to the south side a
little gasparilla pass and bring that in. I knew it
was deep on that side, I didn't know what was
left on the inside. You know, just like you've been
doing for years. A lot of times, you can cut
that beech trough, but when you haven't been there in
a long time, you don't try. So I did get
some tips. And you know, and my group that I
(16:37):
had down there with me, mitching his wife, you know,
they don't have a fishing rod in the house. So
I even heard you talk yesterday about the types of
fishing you can do. People want to go fishing, but
they don't fish a lot. Sure, So I call it
sinker duncan. The shrimp was barely longer than your hook.
They were apologizing. So I got some tips. And you
(16:58):
think about ferry boats when they go in on a
shadow flat to a long dock, no docs one hundred yards,
maybe not one hundred yards, but seventy. Anyway, they have
to break going in and then they have to back out.
Got a blowhole on both sides. So they had a
tip on that. And then I had a local on
(17:19):
the island tell me about a couple other docks that
was just inside the Cape Hayes, Miserable mile.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
You know about knowing.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Mango snapper man small grouper, but mangrove, big, thick, healthy,
hungry mango snapper. And you know you're matching the hats. Yeah,
the shrimp are small, but that's that's what they're eating, trout,
mango snapper, and you know, just messing around. That's a
mean little fish, ounce for ounce and pounds. Lisa uh
(17:55):
mat It and I sat down by the live well
and all I do to hand out shrimp because you
either catch the fish or you lose the shrimp on
every cast. So it was they enjoyed it. We had
a fun. We took the ferry over hadn't been in
a long time down to central Bocagran, the old town,
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you know the shops. We bought the shops and inlet
outlet restaurants, kind of a local place there. Miller's was
closed for renovation. Drove all the way to the point.
There's still a lot of work, not not devastating, you know.
I think some of the money that's on the big
island down there was able to get help pretty quick. Sure,
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amazing on the island is still home leaning over, and
then some homes and a church that was built. We saw.
We took pictures of it in nineteen ninety one. Four
foot off the ground you walked up the steps into
the church and it didn't look damaged at all unless
they did a lot in the last year. But I
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could tell. The big thing that we'd never seen before
is the amount of sand that came in with the
second storm. That was just sand.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I would think that had been one of belfor's. I mean,
did you guys, were you guys in on that sand
removal on you know, Saint Pete Beach, Anna Maria, all
these areas that had all this sand. Oh yeah, so
you guys had to be under that whole sand and
clean the sand and.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Swimming pools full of sand all the way up to
the hand.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Route we in the In my other life, I have
to deal a lot with elevators, and my elevator consultants
told us last year ten thousand elevators. Hydraulic elevators. Traction
elevators are the ones with the cables on tall buildings.
Hydraulic are generally two to four stories. Well, the controls
(19:48):
are on the first floor and the hydraulic shafts underground.
So I mean, all these mom and pop motels up
and down the coast, their elevators got wiped out. And
there's not ten thousand elevators sitting on a shelf in
a warehouse where you just call up and go, hey,
send me one right and then they're They're expensive and
very labor intensive to replace, so people don't think about that.
(20:12):
And you know how many mom and pop hotels had
hydraulic elevators, you know, and the controls got wiped out.
So there's a there is a shortage of elevators right now.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Supply chain issues. It was you know, like fourteen sixteen
months just to get.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Parts, and we I was involved with some of your
staging bel force moving back and forth. I was really
involved with Tico staging, and you talked about moving a
thousand people. The head guy in charge of the staging
for Tiko told me he was bringing in twenty five
hundred crews now I am remiss that I never asked.
(20:52):
So is a crew a certain amount of people, like
an offensive line is a certain number of people? I was,
But he brought in twenty five hundred crews. They came
from Canada. We had them from Mississippi. They had to
bring in fuel trucks from Houston, both diesel and gas,
and the people in the neighborhood and Drew Park were
coming over there with gas cans and stuff trying to
(21:13):
get fuel. We had armed guards. You don't even think
about it. And a lot of the trucks that came
from far away, once they got into the South, there
was no gas stations open, right, and so they drove
there on empty, you know. And then like you were
talking about, they don't drive their trucks their boom well.
First off too, even in the area where there was staging,
we had to spend thirty thousand dollars triming trees. And
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you just don't think about that stuff until it happens,
because boom trucks don't fit well under oak trees. But
then they don't take their trucks back and forth to
the motels. So now you need drivers, you know, you
need lyft and taxis, and they already shuttle buses.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You're already having a problem with fuel.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, and then you got to put them someplace that
has power. It's just a mess, logistics, that mess.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's what's what belfour USA does. And again, if you
have questions, Larry Somerville belfour USA in studio, sitting in
for Mike Mahoney. We're talking a little fishing. Just got
caught up on Ben's trip down to Boca grand a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Brand's very healthy.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
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If you've got questions about preparedness for what could be
upcoming here we are in the middle of hurricane season,
bring them right here again one eighty eight, five, four, six,
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six twenty. Let's go to the phones here, let's check
in with a good friend, Alan in Saint Pete. Alan,
how are you.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Good morning, mind, good morning doing real well. Had an
opportunity this week to fill my gator tags. So that
was the that was interesting, Yeah, to say the least. Yeah, yeah,
I've went out with the go ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I've done it before and uh, I don't know. Interesting
the whole gater things interesting to say it is.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
The whole process is a it's definitely a process. And
uh and then there's you know, once you yeah, you
kill a big one, it's like what now? Yeah, so
the whole But unfortunately I had some great tutelage, the
great Bill George. Uh took me under his wing and
(24:55):
we killed an eight foot four in the morning, took
that to the processor, got some meat, and then I
went back out in the afternoon and killed at ten
to seven. So wow, and we turned that one into cash.
So it's a win. Wind, got cater meat, got some cat.
Had the experience there you go, and uh yeah, yeah
(25:18):
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Have you been able to fish it all in this wind?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
It's been tough.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I have.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Uh yeah, I've not been able to. You know, getting
bait gets a little difficult when it gets choppy like that,
So I've been a trouble locating bait and uh yeah,
just fun and uh, fun in someplace to get in
and uh by the upper base is still a mess,
and uh it's dirty monkey looking. Yeah. Uh heard the
(25:43):
other day though that they are there's a they're going
to do an expansion project on the Courtney Campbell and
there's a lot of people lobbying for putting some more
of those you know, smaller bridge type things where it
opens up the title flow and hopefully that'll happen so
we can get some ass back and get some cleaner water.
(26:04):
I noticed you did an episode on fishing out of
Safety Harbor the other day, but you did actually fish
in Safety Harbor.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh, we didn't go. We didn't go. We didn't go far.
We weren't far from there.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
That'll weed islands. That's a hall and there's all kinds
of places to catch fish in Safety Harbor. Mike's being
stinty with its spots, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, actually Mike was just trying to catch fish, but
Mike was trying to do here's going where the bike was.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
It has become a grind. I've noticed, like in the
last three used to be you'd you know, the summertime,
you get those huge schools of big eight eight pound
jacks would come in there and just rip up bait
and boy, that's fun. And I haven't seen him in
a couple of years. And you know, you'd always you know,
fishing for red fish, you'd get to by catch a flounder.
Haven't caught a flounder and so long, I can't even remember.
(26:50):
So yeah, it's definitely has changed. You got to grind
a little bit, but they're still there. But I would
love to see some really clean water up there. I've
been fishing out of Seminole and going up into the
Ankloid area and it's just such a different world when
you get up there above Honeymoon out on the water
is just so much prettier, And it's hard to fish
that dirty water when you can go to the clean
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Stutchess as easy.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, And I think you hit the nail right on
the head when you talk about flow. You know, that's
that's really probably the big issue up on that end
of the bay, especially when they're doing all the work
they've done on the Howard Franklin all that.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I talked to Mike about that too, and I mean,
you just can't drive hundreds of piles right like that,
and now removing the old bridge and not have a
silt issue. And you can't put silt in nets Tidle Bay,
so there's silt.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
I've been fishing the Howard Franklin right where they've been
doing the construction and now they're doing the disassembly. When
they were driving those piles, I got this kind of
like almost like a concrete on my motor and my
skeed and my and it took an effort to clean
it off with a pressure washer, you know. So I
can imagine that's silting up pretty good.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
And you got the water treatment plant right there at
the end of the bay side where all those people
put in the jet ski. That just cracks me up
when it looks like you're just jet.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Ski serves them right, that scars. Yeah. I don't know, Bro,
I think I like I said, you know, we've talked
a lot in the last couple of weeks about habitat.
You know, I just I don't I see even when
I'm up there on that end of the bay, there's
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just seems to be a really large loss of habitat.
Dylan and I talked about it yesterday. We were talking
about this on a show, and then the great Frank
Sergeant who listens to a lot of these shows still
send us Dylan and I both an email. And there's
been like a eighty percent increase since nineteen eighty five,
there's been an eighty percent increase in the amount of
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boat registrations on Tampa Bay. That's Penance County, in Hillsboro County.
That's a lot of boats. Now, that doesn't mean all
those people are fishing, but it's a lot of boats.
It's a lot of boats addition to the water. And
you know, it's just all that construction. I mean, I
just there's so many areas down around Fort Tossota where
I spend you know, eighty percent of my time guiding,
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and it's there's large areas that used to be very
grassy that are no longer grass absolutely, and that's got
that's got good waterflowe think about it.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
I've only been here for I've only been in the
area for eleven years now, but I've seen that I've
seen the decline in the last five years has been remarkable.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, it's really it's really mind blowing.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Well, we've talked about it before. In my lifetime, many
of those places came back. I agree, Yeah, Sandy Flat,
some of that stuff they came back. They yes, they
they went away. I stopped fishing and I go back
and I go, hey, it's coming.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Back, right.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I agree, that's the problem. And then again with the
silt and you're seeing cloudy water. I'm not of biologists,
don't pretend to be. But if the sunlight doesn't get through,
the grass is going to grow, right for sure?
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Exactly exactly with you. Yeah, well yeah, you just like
I said, you get up there north of Anklote and
you see that grass and it's like, oh, this is
how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, they have great They do have great water flow
up there. There's no doubt about that. That helps for sure.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
They don't have density living on Barrier Islands up there either.
I mean, there's nobody living on Antiloide Island or True
three Rooker and all that. You don't have that offshore density.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Yeah. Well, just the successor of the scalloping up there
in the last couple of years. Just speaking of which
I brought you some mic for and you weren't there,
Oh real fishing my old home, my old stopping ground
of Jacksonville. Mean milliona Island and around there. So but
I got you. Next month, man, the boy.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
We're going to be there. You know what's cool about
next month? Yeah, we have Dave Palmer lo Ws going
to join us here. Actually it's this month, Tuesday, October
twenty eighth, seven to nine pm. We're going to be
at oc Roadhouse and the mad Snook is going to
join us, and Dave'll be a good one. Dave's gonna
give away a four hour fishing trip with him. So
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imagine that. That's pretty that's pretty cool stuff. So October
twenty eighth, make sure that'll probably be a very full house,
so make sure you get there early to get a
good seat.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
So, yeah, I'll be a good one. We're looking forward
to it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeaes sir, good to hear your voice as always, my friend.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Yes, sure you have a great one.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
All rights, some tucking good people right and the color
Let's go to the Florida Keys and check in with
Big Pine Key Captain Michael Perry, Michael, how are.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
You, brother mor and Mike one in Ben and to
your guests, let me tell you something about the resiliency
of the hurricane warn people down here in the Florida Key.
We we definitely go through it anytime one's approaching. You
can tell when it is because the whole the Key
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from Key Largo to Key West, we go into survival mode.
So I wanted to I will actually before I give
a quick fishing report, I want to ask him, is
the business that you do? Are you mostly commercial or
do you do private homes and stuff like that?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
We do both?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Okay, well, we do both.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Hospitals and schools are at the top of our list
because those need to be open.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Of course, absolutely all right, but we.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Do residential as well. It's actually the back moment of
our business.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Well hospital hospitals. I know because I'm a nurse as
well as a fisherman. So yeah, hospitals have to be
up and running. And I've done the evacuation thing a
couple of times.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
You guys go through it down there. You guys are
very resilient. I call it that culture down there. I
call it washing where you guys.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
You guys, I have a home. I have a home
in Pasco County as well, so I'm we got and
definitely we have come hurricane season. There's a savings fund
that has our homeowner deductible put away just in case.
And Hurricane Irma was the one that really did a
number on me because we had tree on our house
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in Pascoe County and we had a lot of ground
level damage around our properties in Big Pine Key six
feet six seven feet of water, I'm ten feet off
the ground. And it was so powerful that it lifted
both five hundred gallon gas tanks at the marina, lifted
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them off and floated them around our community. They and
it both ended up about a mile away from a
mile away from the marina, and there's actually a sign
next to they left one of them. They cleaned it out,
left one of them as a landmark to show just
how powerful it was. And they weren't empty when they
were floating around. They still had plenty of fuel in them.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
So amazing water, no doubt, Yes, very very much.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
But the fishing's been good when we can get out.
Still still not good enough to get out there today,
and i'd be i'd actually run the risk of being sick.
And some of these some of these waves with the
wind and and then the rain, you know where dodgs
and rain drops. But uh, you know, they'll always be
a better day. That's why I tell people that have
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a B and C day. But the fishing has been good.
If you want to catch snapper, that's definitely on any
of the from the small pat tries all the way
out to the big refline, there's plenty of snapper to
be taught, mangroves, mutton, yellow tail, and uh as far
as the pelagics, we're seeing wahoo, black fin, tuna, kobeia,
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we're starting to see a little bit of kingfish. So
it's all all here and the Keys just a matter
of getting out between these storms.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Love it. Everybody how they can get a hold of
you and book trip Michael Sure.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
It's eight one to three four three four zero eight
six Captain Mike, Captain Michael forty seven gmail dot com.
Or simply just give Mike Anderson a call and say, hey,
we want to go fish with that crazy, wacky Mike
Perry down the Florida Keys and they'll give you my number.
And uh, that's about it from the Keys. We're just
hoping the rest of this hurricane season goes the way
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it's been going and we we all as Flurridians, deserve
a year off, at least one year.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
I'd like to see about two or three.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Amen. Amen, brother, all right, brother, I appreciate Michael. Good call.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Than great day, y'all see you.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Buddy, good stuff right there, the beautiful Florida Keys. Let's
check in real quick. Crystal River. A good friend, William Keane, Willie,
how are you, buddy.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Hey, Catherain. I just wanted to mention that I've been
in the States of Thank you fifty one. That's when
I was born. Bents quite a few hurricanes. Hurricane Donald
went over buying me and I went over to their house.
We stuck our head out during the eye, and I
mean they put her head back in Then't be careful
about because the storm would be pretty tough. My inside
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is a couple of tips on evacuating. Don't wait too
long to evacuate when it's too late to be just stuck.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
On the road.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
I have friends in Tallahassee that I the family I
stay with when I evacuate from the Tampa or Crystal
River area. If you go nineteen ninety eight, be prepared
whenever you come to a town, so many people are
blocking the roads trying to get gas. The towns are
getting smarter. They're routing the people that eat gas through
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the city to an alt entrance way to the gas station,
so they keep a clean lane open. It's pretty important.
Another thing is when they opened up the passing lane
on the left side the last time, you're better off
one seventy five I ten that go on the nineteen
ninety eight route because you don't have that people trying
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to get gas blocking the highways. The other issue opening
the passing lane on the left was very smart. People
that really wanted to. Paul Boogie was able to pass
on the left and go faster than people in the
fast lane. He just kept the traffic moving better.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Just be more.
Speaker 9 (37:21):
Prepared and don't wait too long to evacuate when you're.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Told to evacuating, good call, get out early, no doubt.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
That's basically my tips these small towns between nineteen ninety eight.
They need a structure the lanes for getting gas out
of the lane, and the major theoughfare to keep the
lanes open. Thie lines and next time we need these words,
hope you're saying them. Fish on. Thanks wanted to give
that insight.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Good job. Thanks, it was always good, Wally, always good.
Appreciate your good stuff. Guess who was on the phone.
Our long lost friend. Haven't heard his voice in months.
He's back cruising the world. The Great Mike Measure of
Tampa Bay Sporting Class. Michael, how are you hey? Good morning.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I have definitely missed.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
You guys, been forever man.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Every time I get up there, I asked the ladies,
what where's he at? Well, Uh, he was in Maine
and now he's somewhere off the coast of Connecticut in
New Zealand.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
You know, you guys, you guys may not see me again.
Speaker 10 (38:26):
I love the boat life, so I'm going to tell
you he did. Uh well, I did miss you guys.
I just want to say, and uh, we we had
an epic trip. It was ninety days straight on the
boat and uh every night on the boat, and uh,
it was just it was epic. Yeah, it's we're not done,
(38:49):
but we're you know, three summer deal we're going to do.
You know, we did all the East Coast and spend
a month in Maine, and then the next year we're
going to do go back up and do all the
Great Lakes and then I'll leave the boat somewhere in
Chicago and then do the Mississippi Run. The last year
so we're we're excited about it. It's good to be back.
Good to be back to the club. Everybody, my girls
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there and the staff did an incredible job. I'm sure
Ben you saw it. Places looks amazing. It in fifteen
years hadn't looked this great. So anyway, we've made a
bunch of changes. So when people come out to the club,
you'll see them. We've got lots of events lined up
for this for the fall and just I'm just excited
to get going and to see you guys at some point.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah. Man, for sure, we'll be there, buddy, you.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Know that we were there, we have we've there.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Yeah, I was waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah, well we're not done with you. Yeah, we're gonna
get to you. It's been months. We've got built up. Yeah,
we got.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Season where you can't wait to get out there. It
starts cool off.
Speaker 10 (39:52):
Yeah, we got to I can already. I can already
see the change the weather. It's been a lot better.
Uh even since I, you know, been back about a
week and it's been uh it's been really nice. But
I but I didn't miss you guys, and I look
forward to catching up with y'all and and giving everybody
updates on what we've got going at the club, and
we've got a lot of events coming up. So uh anyway,
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it's it's it was. It was great. I look forward
to seeing you guys and telling you more about it
in person. And I'm glad Ben poked me last night
on an email. So uh so that worked. That worked out.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Perfect, good stuff, my friend. All right, buddy, well we
will I look for it.
Speaker 10 (40:28):
I'm gonna try to make the Matt Snooker deal. You know,
I fished with Dave years ago, five years ago, and
I had a ball. Oh my gosh'll think about it.
I mean, it's heart staying up all night, it is.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
It is. That's he's trying to get us to film
the show together, and I keep thinking, I don't know
why I got to find a four day window because
I got a film with him at night, and I'm
gonna take me a couple of days to recover.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
It kicked my rear for like two days. You're right,
it was great, but.
Speaker 9 (40:55):
We caught more fish.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I knew it to do it.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Let the guys keep up the good work.
Speaker 10 (40:58):
I know you're up against the the clock and I'll
see all all soon.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Okay, thank you, nobody better. Michael, appreciate you, buddy, tamp
Bay Sporting Clay. It's great partner here of the Real
Animals radio show for sure. Good to have him back on.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, he's got like eight courses out there now. It's
just awesome, it doesn't you know. I used to pretty
much always my little group that shoots, and you guys
are little hunting buddies and everything. I always checked for events.
I don't really mess with it now, you know, I'll
stop it off, say what's closed, what's open? Because there's
eight courses. He never has events that cover up eight
(41:32):
courses of it that I that I've seen. So there's
always something going on out there.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
It's nice. Yeah, we got the Children's Home shoot coming
up here in February, always a great thing. I think
it's February, maybe early March, that'll be a good one.
So there's a lot of great events aim for educations
coming up. And I've already got some some texts, some
guys that want to shoot with you. Be a Ringer team.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, everybody fights over ed Wels just got ed, so
now you got fifty.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
He doesn't call me. I don't get a phone call
to shoot with Ben. If we're going fishing, Ben'll call me.
He's like, hey, what are you doing? You want to
you want to fish this tournament together. But if it's shooting,
Ben's like, uh yeah, no, he wants a ringer team,
so I'm not qualified. It's all good. I still love you, Benny.
It's all good.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
It's fun. That says. It's actually a relief of when
I miss one and then I go, Okay, it's not
gonna be a perfect day, so let's let's just have fun.
Speaker 10 (42:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
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Let's get our bush Light Peppin distributing safe voting tip
of the weekend here. Let's check in with Captain Jim Fogel. Jimmy,
how are you, buddy?
Speaker 6 (44:26):
I am great, I'm great. You guys are something good
as usual?
Speaker 2 (44:29):
We're trying, buddy.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Yeah, and welcome there, mister Larry, Hey, thank you? Yeah?
Did that bring you something to eat?
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Offered me something here? But I I think so ja he.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Didn't trust us.
Speaker 6 (44:46):
Oh, I can't believe that. Hey, guys, this morning, I
want to talk about VHF marine radios. I've heard me
talk about this before, but I can't stress it hard enough.
All voters should have a VHF marine radio on board
and monitor channel sixteen. Channel sixteen is monitored twenty four
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hours a day, seven days a week, directly by the
coast Guard. You don't have to go through two or
three operators or explain who you want to talk to.
If you get in trouble and need help, they are
right there. This morning, I googled VHF Hanhills and I
found some for sixty nine dollars and others for seventy
(45:30):
three and seventy nine and on up they and several
of these, if not all of them, float, so you
can't go wrong with having a handheld in there, especially
if you're just going in short you're staying in shore.
But remember when my buddy and I sunk out in
the bay several years ago, neither one of our cell
(45:51):
phones would make contact with anybody, and that was before
we were in the water. Yeah, well we're still up
top there. They were not working, So if we didn't
have a marine radio, we'd have been probably been in trouble.
All offshore guys and gals should have a console mounted
(46:12):
VHF radio which has a wattage of twenty five watts,
and the handhelds mostly are three watts. You can't go
wrong with a console mount of radio, and they have
a built in Nowadays, all these VHF radios have a
built in emergency button on them that will send out
(46:35):
a digital signal to a satellite back down to the coastguard,
which will give them your exact laplaun So you can't
go wrong, and you can save a whole lot of
time and effort to get in trouble. You know, we've
all talked about taking the search out of search and rescue.
If you need rescuing, you know it'll save you a
(46:57):
lot of heartache and save your body in your mind
if they get there right away instead of having to
search for you for six or eight hours.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
No doubt. E's a tool. You got to have.
Speaker 6 (47:07):
One, absolutely, and you can still monitor if you've got
one of your buddies out there and he's looking for
a good place, or you'll want to call each other.
You can get on channel sixty eight or sixty nine,
but you can scan channel sixteen, the Coastguard channel at
the same time, also Weather channel. You can scan the
Weather channel. Put these things into your phone, into your
(47:32):
radio on scan and you can scan back and forth.
And you know, you don't have to have them turned
up to where it drives you nuts, but you know,
just have it there if you need it and want
it and all that. Also, if you've already got these
radios on your boat, which I hope you do, police
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perform a radio check before you leave the doc. It
doesn't do you any good to be able to listen
to everybody. If you can't transmit, no doubt, so check
that thing out.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Good stuff, Jimmy, really good.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
Thank you guys, appreciate the time with the Coast Guard,
Obserli and Saint Pete Jim Fogel. Be safe out.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
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on the water. Let's go back to the phones here
real quick, check in with Donald and ludes. Donald, how
are you this morning?
Speaker 5 (48:27):
I'm great, got back from the keys last night. He's
about seven o'clock ish and uh man, what a blast.
But Captain fogl was talking about radio, So me and
Brian have radios, but mine is a five watts radio.
We just got the buttons to the Coast Guard and
all that good stuff. And you know constantly, you know,
with all those little islands and everything. You know, so
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you're out there fishing with a buddy. Everybody should have
a VHF because you never know, anything could happen out there, so.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
No doubt about it, no doubt. See safety equipment in general. Man,
you really should be you know, cover yourself the water,
the waterways, are just crazy places.
Speaker 8 (49:08):
Man.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
You just don't know what you're going to see out there,
what you're going to run into. You know, it's better
to be better to be prepared and be out there
for a long day. Unprepared, you won't forget it for
a while, So, no.
Speaker 5 (49:19):
Doubt, absolutely so. Today is the day that the pole
Port thing for the Domestic Violence reach Out speak Out.
Purple Passion donating donated fishing rod, reel, offshore stuff, tackle box,
Dylan donated a fishing trip. There's so much sports stuff signed,
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football's you know, Mike uh Vassilevski signed a jersey. This's
hockey sticks, lightning stuff, buck stuff, all sorts of great stuff.
It's Can I give out the address?
Speaker 2 (49:52):
It's yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (49:54):
It's a one five, three zero seven Amberley Drive and
tamp It's New Tampa or for Bruce By Downs. It's
at the New Identity's Hair Studio and they're there. They
have it every year there and starts today at two
o'clock to three point thirty.
Speaker 6 (50:13):
Is.
Speaker 5 (50:14):
It's a silent auction and there's so much incredible things
and it all goes to a great cause. So good
anybody out there, We want some good sports stuff. You know,
it's not just you know, I've got fishing stuff in there,
and a lot of stuff gift baskets. You know, there's
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah, got good stuff.
Speaker 5 (50:34):
I love doing.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah. Anytime get together for a better better cause, that's
a that's a great day. Man. Giving back to the
world is a beautiful things. So good stuff there.
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Yes, absolutely, I appreciate you guys. Hey, Captain Ben Marshall
is great few to be seen.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yes, it is. Thank you, good call Donald. We appreciate
your brother.
Speaker 5 (50:57):
All right, I appreciate you guys. You guys take care,
stay safe and tight lines and go catch them up.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
This week we're gonna try. We'll see what that wind
will give us a break. Man. That win's been been brutal.
Still calling for pretty windy week here, so we'll see
what happens. Although I was trying to put my foot
down last week and tell my boys for Friday, I'm like,
this is a bad plan. We shouldn't do this. And
then I don't know, fifteen red fish in They were
looking at me like I was a little silly. You
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didn't want to do this, huh, bad day to go fishing?
Like yeah, well I didn't realize we were going to
come up on one hundred red fish here willing to chew,
but we sure did so you just never know out
there again. Phone lines are open here, questions, comments, fish reports,
bring them right here. Larry Somerville Belfo USA in studio
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Speaker 2 (52:52):
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eight eight five four six four six twenty light these
phone lines up. Let's talk a little fishing. Not a
big fisherman, huh, Larry used to be Yeah, yeah, where'd
you do? Freshwater? Salt water?
Speaker 4 (53:58):
Both?
Speaker 2 (53:58):
A little both? Okay? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
We used to kind of go out of Homeport Marina.
Is that is that a place?
Speaker 2 (54:06):
I don't know? Does that sound familiar, Benny? Yeah, it
doesn't sound familiar, doesn't.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
It started with an h and it was down around
to your Verde Okay, I'm by the Skyway bridge there.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
There's a bunch down there, so it could be.
Speaker 4 (54:17):
But we used to go offshore. Okay, off shore a lot.
But I grew up in loots a lot of bass fishing.
Yeah yeah, yeah, a fishing pole in my car.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
That's where Benny is.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Yeah, where the coyotes are, Yeah, circling the house.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
I imagine, imagine for for coaches. And again, I'm still
I love it. I'm just a sports fan and I love.
My dream is to coach high school basketball someday, but
it doesn't pay very well, so I've had to have
a job instead of just coaching high school basketball, which
I'd love to do. When when you said you were
a high school baseball coach, that takes a lot of time,
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you know, to really do it right and be really
involved in your program is not easy. Takes a lot
of time and effort. So that cuts into a lot
of the fishing time.
Speaker 4 (55:03):
Oh yeah, but there comes a point in a person's life,
a guy's life, where hey, am I going to fish
or am or am I going to be a coach
and play golf?
Speaker 2 (55:13):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (55:14):
You know you can't do all that.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
No, you just shouldn't play golf anyway, fisher coach.
Speaker 4 (55:19):
Yeah, yeah, you know that high school experience I had,
it was only a small part. I actually was involved
in used coaching baseball for over twenty years, so nice cool. Yeah,
I spent a lot of time I was getting my
mail at the ball park.
Speaker 2 (55:38):
I don't think there's I've had a few moments, and
I've only coached for a few years, just when my
daughters were aau ing it, and there's a few moments
where you're at a gas station and you're pumping gas,
not really paying attention, and out of the you know,
you're just off in the distance. You hear coach and
(55:58):
then you get this runs up and gives you a
hug and says hello and asks how you're doing. And
it's one of the kids you coach. Yeah, you see
a big smile on their face and they're happy to
see you, and they were halfway across the parking lot
when they spotted you. It's pretty cool stuff when you're
affecting young people's lives. I don't think a lot of
the coaches get enough credit, you know, for for helping,
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you know, shape our youth. Yeah important.
Speaker 4 (56:24):
Probably thousands of kids that I was involved coaching with
and I see them all the time. But now, you know, Mike,
they're retired.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
Well there's that. Yeah, there's that part of it.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
You gotta be careful when you get old enough. Though,
there's a fine line between hugging those young girls between
creepy and not.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
Once you coach them, man, it's a different deal. When
you coach them, they become like your own kids. I
think it's just it's a different deal. I look at
those I mean, they're all still friends with my daughter,
you know. I mean there's like a family, your family
of children. You know, I run into the parents in places.
We've got one of the girls that Georgia played with
her her mom and dad train at the same gym
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as we do, so and she's still playing a little
college basketball. So you get all these updates. It's always
good to see that, you know, see the kids you
worked with and see them grow up. So good for you.
That's super cool stuff, super cool stuff. Fishing should be
good here. I know it's windy, but if you're out
or headed out here the next couple of days, we
got that full moon. We're on the full moon, still
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on the front side. Those tides were bigger than I
thought they were going to be. We had more water
came in than I thought we were going to get
with that east northeast wind we had on Friday.
Speaker 3 (57:36):
So well, plus it's our favorite time. It's transition, yes,
for sure, cooling off and yeah we'll get a little frisky.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
Before I had, I had, I had seventy nine degree water.
I mean that's it's early October. That's pretty cool for
this time of year already, So you know, maybe that'll
be a blessing for the hurricane season and you know,
help us out there. But uh, the fish were they
were frisky. Boy, we were in some oversized red fish
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and they had some energy. They were you know, even
the customers were fighting them all the way to the boat,
and then even trying to get them wrestled at the
boat was tough because they are energetic when that water
time's cool.
Speaker 3 (58:14):
Well, got to keep mahoney away from Gasprillo Marina. I saw.
I was at Stump Pass and Gasprilllo Marina. But Stump
Pass they've kind of got you. They've got their pets protected,
but Gasbrilla does not. Oh yeah, And so my crew
I kept saying, can you all see it's amazing too
that that people just don't know you're not wearing polarized glasses. Uh,
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we're buying shrimp. I'm up against the fuel dock and
I'm going, guys, check that out. There's several horses right here,
and they're like, what what I can't see?
Speaker 2 (58:47):
Say?
Speaker 3 (58:48):
Somebody hand them polarized classes. Yeah, so then a little
bit shrimp. I go watch this because this is what
they're waiting for. And you just throw one in there,
and they came up there. I mean, you know, a
snook thirty something inches long comp gulp up a shrimp
that's barely three inches long. But they're fed all day.
I mean everybody that comes up there that knows they're there,
and below them is fifty catfish. Yeah yeah, but the
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snook are like, stay down.
Speaker 2 (59:12):
Yeah, exactly, stay out of our way. You can have them.
Speaker 3 (59:14):
But they were beautiful. I saw, I saw a lot
of snook in the grass, three or four three or
four is he's at a time the the you know,
shorter males or Mike just says whatever, the sandwich size.
He believes they're unisex or whatever. He doesn't believe the
whole male female thing. But shorts, but a lot of them.
You know, it was really great to see mangrove snapper
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on every dock. That's just a blast man. I'm a big, thick, healthy,
you know, over eleven inch twelve inch fish. Nice, they're mean.
That's one of the meanest fish that swims.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
I think that's you know, the good the good thing.
Even even with a wind like this, you know small
craft advisory winds pushing twenty five here and there, you
can still get I mean I told my guys for
Friday when I was like, listen, it's probably a bad
plan because it's gonna blow, but we can do it safely.
I mean the inner coastal areas down around Fort de Soto,
you know, down in Sarasota areas where you can fish
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a lot of docks, you can stay protected, you can
stay safe.
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Barrier islands help you. I mean, unless it's unless it's
due north or due south, right, there's gonna be somewhere
you can go to get out of the wind.
Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Yeah, you know, for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
And even even the wind is not a problem if
you can get anchored good because most of us like
to fish down wind anyway. Nobody wants to cast a
three inch shrimp into the wind because it's going to
go behind you anyway. But yeah, it was nice. A
lot of water. You know, the tide fluctuates, so really tricky,
really tricky tying up the boat when you've got full
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moon tides.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
You know, you got to pay attention to what them
tides you're going to do in the middle of the
night while you're sleeping.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Yeah, so your boat doesn't end up under the dock
and then the tide comes up. That's a big deal
down there, but we did. We were able to see
the Mullet Tree, which was Roosters family's house partners with
another captain, Rooster Curry, and we helped build it and
it looks great. They were doing some landscaping. I sent
them a picture and it was like, we never had grass,
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Well they got grass now. So it's phenomenal too that
salt water covers the island like that, and most plants
don't like a whole lot of salt water, you know.
And all this flooding stuff. I was thinking about on
the way over, some of the experience I've had with
belfhor and stuff and floods. You know, the first thing
you do when you're well, you know, it's what I
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saw there, drywall stacked everywhere. You're talking about supply chains
like drywall, well roofs, shingles and drywall, two of those
things you really need. After these big storms down there
on the island, there's drywall stacked everywhere. They had to
bring in. They all got to bring it over by boat,
you know. And then you think about, well, so we'll
go with the pink drywall or the water resistant of
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the green board and this stuff. The problem is one,
once that water gets in there, it's still on. If
it's wood, they're on the two by fours. You don't
know about the mold behind there. If you have bad installation,
well bad for you, because that's wet now and saturated.
The water gets above eighteen inches, it's into the wires
because floor receptacles or eighteen inches off the finished floor.
(01:02:19):
So now you've got that in the ConA salt water
and a cond it even if you don't have wood construction.
What I've had to deal with commercial. The first thing
they do on the first floor when you're building interior
is they shoot in the track which holds water. Which
holds water. It's like a tunnel. So once you get
some small amount of water, all the metal studs go
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into a track that's on the floor and that forms
a river. It's the hardest thing in the world to
deal with that. You guys deal with all. Now you
get water. If the water's not over an inch deep.
Talking about roof leaks or penetration for rain, the water
just runs in that track to the first break in
the track and then it shows up on the floor.
You oh, here's where the leak is no, the leak
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is thirty feet that way.
Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
Yeah, that's what you need. Infrared cameras.
Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
You can let you guys use them a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Yes, you can pick up on the trail of water
that way. But another the thing that I might want
to mention is as far as if you're in an
area that is prone to flood storm surge wise, these dams,
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these flood dams, some of the trade names are like
Tiger Dam. Tiger that's one of them. Yeah, so if
you go to Google and just google flood dams, Tiger Dam,
it'll show you all of them. Those things are awesome.
They can prevent a lot of damage and they go
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up five feet seven feet as.
Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
High as they're not expensive, but you have to look
at what your tecting. But I tell you last year
Tampa General became famous on TV with their dams, which
they they built a hospital that's five feet above sea levels.
Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
So yeah, I'm not a great idea.
Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
But yeah, the Tiger dams there, they had them all
the way around. And the bad thing about Tampa General is,
you know, you get a cat three comes up the bay,
you can't get in and you can't get out. Not
a Tampa general, not on the Davis Island bridges, so
they've got to have be very self sufficient. We were
talking about earlier. They have some of the largest convolts
I've ever seen for their diesel generators. And what people
(01:04:37):
don't understand, it's a double wall concrete tank. It takes
massive cranes to move these things. They have to strap
them down because they float Yep.
Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Yeah, we put up some of those tiger dam type
flood barriers at hospital down in South Saint Pete Charlie
and co. It saved them a lot of money and
a lot of downtime just by putting those things up.
Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
And they're all kinds of you've got to predict it
and get it in there early while you guys have
the staff to do it too.
Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
Yeah, at least put them up around your electrical panels
or those rooms where all your your electrical connections are
to keep water out of there.
Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Makes sense, makes sense. Larry Somerville, belfo USA is our guest.
We're talking fishing here. Phone lines, we're open, got about
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Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
So I got a little story about mister Hubbard, Dylan
Hubbard d hubs Yeah, you guys are yesterday about affordable
roofee and I've been in construction a long time, very
impressed with him, and Dylan had to make the comment, well, yeah,
he's like one hundred years old. Well, Dylan, while we
were down on Little Gasper, little Island, I was talking
to the lady captain of our our ferry boat there
(01:07:57):
and she found OUs from Tampa based. Because is this
guy I watch on TV. I just love to hear
his fishing reports. See and he says his thing. It's like,
it's you're too busy to go fishing. You should take
a kid somewhere, or go golfing, or just stay home.
That day, I go, that is that guy? She goes,
he's a really big guy. And Mitch and I poured
it on. I was like, he's barely five foot tall.
Syl Vester Stallone's taller than he is when you see
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him on TV. He noticed they never show his head
and his feet in the same shot. They got him
standing on milk crates. You know, whenever he rides with us,
we have to bring a car seat. He's a little
pitty guy. It's it's it's all show. It's all flim flam.
So but you know, I think Mahoney likes carrying around
in a backpack.
Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
So did you hear you did? Were you privy to
the Richard on the South Shore call when he nicknamed
Dylan Hubbard sugar Bear.
Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
Sugar Bear, No, I didn't hear.
Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
She's in cahoot. You know he's in cahoots a big sugar.
He wants to protect the black bear. Now he's upset
that black bear season is open. So Captain Dylan's new
name is sugar Bear.
Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
And heard that.
Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
I think it should be a T shirt. I really
do a picture of Dylan Hubbard and sugar Bear name
on it. I think it's flawless. Actually, yeah, Richard on
the south Shore of this home run for sugar.
Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
That is sugar Bear. Well, I remember that. Does Mahoney
know that?
Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Oh, Mahoney's been all over you kidding me, sugar of course,
sugar Bear. Larry Somerville again, belfour USA in studio. If
you've got questions, We've got this segment to get him
in here one eight eight eight, five four six four
six twenty. Let's go to the phones. Let's get a report,
another report from down in Inglewood. Let's check in with Gary. Gary,
how are you.
Speaker 6 (01:09:36):
Man?
Speaker 11 (01:09:36):
I am doing really well. What a great week it
was last week with that little cool air coming down
first thing in the morning.
Speaker 9 (01:09:43):
Yes, sir, it's you know, it's nice.
Speaker 11 (01:09:46):
It's sitting in the boat huddering out to get out
where you got to go with that nice hot cup
of coffee. You're not already sweating, oh god, just perfect, perfect,
you know, before it gets cold where you're like bundled up,
you know. But uh, hey, eight last week I asked
you about the red fish. And you know, I had
a hard time finding any big schools of mullet down there.
Speaker 12 (01:10:07):
I just they're not like it was. I don't know
ever since that big red tide we had years ago
and then the storms. It's but I didn't have any
good luck finding any big schools.
Speaker 11 (01:10:18):
But I did find, you know, some smaller schools.
Speaker 12 (01:10:20):
And I did throw out some bait.
Speaker 11 (01:10:22):
I didn't slay the redfish, but I did catch a couple.
Speaker 9 (01:10:27):
So thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Good, Well, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
Good.
Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Yeah, the red our red fish here. The redfish here
have been very, very mullet sensitive for me. If you
find big mullet working a shoreline somewhere, and if you
luck out and find a pile of them somewhere, they're
close by. There's been redfish just about every time for
the last two months.
Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
And I saw schools of mullet, and they were beefcakes.
I mean they like smoke and put them on a
smoke or a mullet. Big school. I don't even know
what that is anymore. But this was thirty you know,
thirty fish was pretty nice school. But I mean we
used to get them where you could walk on.
Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Yeah. I like the shoreline if I can find it.
I like the shoreline covered. We don't see that like Gary,
like you just said, like we used to. But you know,
if I'm if I'm pulling in on a spot and
I'm seeing some big mullet working, I'm going to fish
that spot just a little bit longer because somewhere in
there there's probably some red fish running with them. So
it's a great key indicator right now.
Speaker 11 (01:11:28):
Well, it was about the most beautiful fishing time I've
had since the summer. So it was just wonderful being
out and uh, you know it's I love being retired, man.
I used to get up early every morning we're working.
Now it's just got just crack up the boat and go.
Speaker 9 (01:11:43):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
I live long enough to joy.
Speaker 11 (01:11:46):
Yeah, man, I hear you, all right, guys, much want
to get a little port on a red fish. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
We love it you too, But good luck, good stuff
right there, for sure. Yeah, man, that's the deal. It's
almost it's that time of year now. Water tumps are
starting to come down, artificial fishings really, uh really ramps
up a little bit, you know, throwing paddle tails and
jerk baits in the grass, all that stuff, working those shorelines.
Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
And now you're gonna start getting fronts. I mean, the
fronts will start coming through from the northwest. So yeah,
it's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Yeah, it's that time of year. I love this time
of the year, transition. We even have some reports yesterday
just a couple, not a lot, but a kingfish here
and a kingfish there, not a bunch of them, but
a little, so you know, kingfish seasons approaching. We got macro,
we got wet.
Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
And then Dylan picking on Dylan today, he didn't know
what skippy. He's been in a big boat too long.
He didn't know what's skipping pomp. Yeah, crazy and uh
you were talking about well, yeah, somebody else spots them.
Where I've spotted him is mostly in very shallow water.
I'm up in the tower and I'm running I would
always turn around to see if I'm blowing mud right,
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to make sure we do. I need to bring the
jackplate up whatever I don't. I've always been conscious we
all are about tearing up the grass beds and this,
that and the other. If I'm not. But if I
don't see mud, I'm not hurting anything. So I constantly
turn around. And in the mouth of the Alipi is
where I've seen the most doing that, And they skip
and skip and you turn around. You gotta have the
doc's jig. You don't have to work it that hard.
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Like Dylan was worried about the grass. But you just
keep it above the grass. If you've got some shrimp,
whether it's frozen or fresh, can tip it with shrimp.
It doesn't hurt at all with them. A little bit
of stinky stinky on there.
Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
So golden nuggets, he wouldn't sure what golden nuggets were.
Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Golden nuggets, golden nuggets. That's so great to hear from Van.
I remember way back Van was president of the Florida
Goude's Association, very involved with Van Hubbard's. He's had the
chum and man Hayden oil around a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
He's end. He's been doing it a long time. I
remember years ago obviously long time now, but first getting
down and cutting my teeth in the Book of Grand
Area and running into Van Hubbard and somebody being like,
that's Van Hubbard. Man, he's the guy. You know. It's
like seeing Scott Moore.
Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
It's crazy well or botany, Yeah, yeah, for sure. I
mean guys slipping around down the are.
Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Yeah, but everybody knows, you know, everybody knows that they're
on fish somewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
I got the new Tide magazine came in the mail
from c c A and Marr Lewers come out with more.
Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
But I saw some of that chameleons. Yeah, committee, I
was like.
Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Really, yeah, it's hard enough now. I just really because
they all they all work, yeah, I mean certainly matching
the hatch and trying to get the right color of
the right place, this that and the other. But they
all catch fish. It's just crazy. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
I mean, what a company. Unbelievable. I don't think they
(01:14:48):
don't make anything that doesn't catch fish. No, they've been
doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
First, well, can you imagine imagine that you can build
abate which is in its own unique way, just an
incredible opportunity, great gift. You build a bait and then
you can pick up the phone and call Frank Bochnik
and tell him you're gonna send him some and let
let me know work. Seriously, I mean, what kind of
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bonus is that you're? Hey, bro, artificial guy too.
Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
With Rick Gross and them, I can't think of his
name right now. Ray Ray Ray's got every artificial not
just from mirror.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
And he's very good at throwing him too.
Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
He expect fishing with Rick Gross has said he just
had Yeah, hey, you want to try one of these,
and they send me these, and they send me these,
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Yeah, for sure, for sure. Jeff Page another guy down
there Sarasota Way, you know, really good at throwing the artificials.
So it's uh, it's that time of year. It's a
beautiful time you here to throw them. I mean, one
of my favorite things to do is but that water
timp's got to be down a little. When the water
timp's high and the fish aren't wanting to chase baits
and burn too much energy.
Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
Well just the opposit too and it gets too cold,
then right now it's perfect. You can get them to
hit up a reaction by it's real fast, that kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
So I've been finding in my travels that more and
more of the places, even some of the places that
we used to uh that we used to tour a
lot when we were on the Red Fish Tournament trail.
A lot of those places. When I fish with the guides,
they're they're pretty dialed in. I get excited to go
there and throw artificials, and then if it's a little
too cold or a little too warm, they end up
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switching pretty quick to live bait or some kind of
cut bait, just to make things easier. And I think
just the pressure in the whole state, the amount of
fishing that's going on the whole state of Florida just
has changed that up a little bit, you know, since
we were chasing fish around the state with a whole
lot less people's so.
Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Well, we talked, you know, talked about it was an
easier time. You know, the flats, the Tarpnkey Jackass, col
and caff that that whole triangle there was just loaded
with fish.
Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Yeah, just all yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
And I was earlier we had the call from somebody
that said Upper Bay School and Jacks listen to school
and jacks. I haven't seen them like they used to be.
Occasionally they'll come up the Hillsboro River, but that was
a It wasn't every other day thing that you would
see those jacks, you know, in the six pound rains
just hitting. They're going to hit anything you throw at them.
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And I can't tell you how many times I everybody
would throw out on my boat and I go, Okay,
who wants it the most? Because we can only chase
one of them. They're all going in different directions. I'm
want have to break two of them off. So it's
a commercial thing they did. They came out and started
letting them commercially, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
So commercial season atomous put up real damper on seeing
those big schools.
Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
Now, I'm not attacking them. They're people making a living, this,
that and the other. But it did. It opened up
a different market.
Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
It's part of it. It's not the recreational angler eating them, no,
So you know, I mean, that's what's definitely curbed that
you don't see as much of it as you used
to do. So, but it is what it is. Fishing
still awesome. Like I said, we had a great day
on Friday, just just absolutely wrecked them. Caught a couple
of snook and the flounder.
Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
And something about the wind too. As long as you're
safe and in shallow water, you can you can back
way off from an area you want to fish, you know.
And I was teaching my group. I just put on
a I'm throwing three inch long shrimp, barely three inch
long shrimp. Well, you put a float on it, and
you've got a fifteen not win behind you. You just
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throw straight up, long way. It'll go a long ways
from the boat. So and the other thing is is
the heat. You're not going to fifteen on our wind.
If you can get in a safe place it's not hot.
Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
That is the one nice thing about a breeze. Boy,
you can really uh and and fishing through you know,
late July August here in Tampa. You tend to appreciate
a late breeze because there's many a day you.
Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Don't well you take folks back in the back country
and melt them. Yeah, that's sometimes with these high tides,
as you know, everything's back in the trees. I was
reading an article on the Tide magazine about a guy
that's thirty years now down in Chuck Oluski. I was
surprised to hear this, but I'm always trying to learn
something that occasionally uses fiddler crabs for snook. And he
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said there's certain times a year high water, which we've
always talked about, that he'll catch a snook and belly
is full of fiddler crabs. And that's what we always
talked about, is that those really high tides when you
guys over the past few years, everybody's fish in the trees.
There's candy in the tree. Sure, they're just easing up
there and just slurping up candy in the trees, and
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they're protected. There's no there's no predators after them. The
shade birds can't get to them.
Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
The shade.
Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
There's a lot of reasons for those fish to go
up in the trees and eat that candy.
Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
So that's a big difference, makes a big difference. Larry
Somerville when he last thoughts on something he'd like to
share with the listeners on stuff they think need to
be thinking about as we rule through another troubling hurricane season.
Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
Yes, and this has to do with after the storm.
Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Okay, go quick, you got about thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
Hey, people, please learn how to handle a roundabout and
a four way stop.
Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
Please.
Speaker 3 (01:20:16):
You know that's a very big point because I traveled
all over the state when we had three hurricanes hit
twenty years ago. At the same time, I tell people,
you know, there's you had to watch out an intersections
because there's no traffic lights. They're like, oh, no power,
they weren't working. I said, you're not listening. There were
no traffic lights. They're very light and they're blown away. Yeah,
And and there's there's not enough cops to be at
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every intersection, so after a storm, it's crazy at intersections.
Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
It's more dangerous than the storm.
Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Thank you for joining us. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:20:46):
I enjoined it.
Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Hey, thanks con Coach Somerville. Yeah, I appreciate you. Belfo
USA great partner here of the real animals. I hope,
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