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So folks wanted to talk about today before we get into some other stuff about free speech
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in the sense of Elon Musk and Twitter
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apparently a bunch, you know
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Elon Musk and Twitter, I just I don’t know what else to say about this besides being somebody who’s into tech
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the apparently this whole this whole thing is just getting a little bit out of hand right now with this looks like it possibly
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Looks like he’s kind of running up short on getting the money
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A lot of people don’t realize this though, but if he does not come up with the money by a certain date
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He’s gonna have to pay Twitter like I think like a billion dollars
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For starting this deal not closing it
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a lot of people don’t a lot of people don’t know that and
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It’s kind of nuts because you know you think about it as somebody who?
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You know, he’s he wants to buy Twitter because he wants to make it like that that free speech
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thing that Trump is doing but
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You know, it’s it’s an interesting situation in the sense that like I said if you don’t
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If you if he doesn’t buy it within a certain amount of time, he can’t come up with the money
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He’s gonna and I know he’s gonna have to pay some FCC
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I think Smith I think some fines because I think so he disclosed all the deals all the the whole
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Thing with this deal publicly and you’re not supposed to actually do that when you’re in talks to buy a company like this for billions
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of dollars
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It’s all supposed to be hush-hush with the shareholders and he has not been very hush-hush about it
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He’s been very open and public about it and now he’s gonna I mean for him
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I mean a million dollar fine take a drop of the bucket when you’re the richest man in the world
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but he’s also gonna face some backlash about this because apparently Tesla’s not happy because he’s
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Leveraging his Tesla stock to be able to come up with part of the money. So I
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Think it’d be really great if he did, you know
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You know if he does get it and does open it up and does make it a more of a free speech platform
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I’m all for that
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especially with that
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You hold situation with him. I
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Do think I mean I do think he what he wants to do is definitely cool
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And I do think that it would be definitely something we need
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There’s not many
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mainstream right-wing
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Kind of things, you know parlor is part
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You know when you look at parlor or a telegram or any of those kinds of services
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There are drop in the bucket compared to something like a Facebook or a Twitter
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Even Twitter is really a drop in the bucket compared to Facebook when you look at Facebook
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I think they have so Facebook has something like two or three billion users
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While Twitter has two or three hundred million
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So really it really is just a drop in a drop
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I mean, I mean while Twitter is very prevalent and everybody uses it and it’s definitely mainstream. It is definitely a much smaller
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Market than Facebook as far as user base goes. It just it just is
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I mean, I think I think people go to Twitter to find out information
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but
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Like I said, it is it is much smaller in comparison to something like Facebook and obviously Twitter
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You know, the other thing with Twitter is to obviously got a lot of attention during the whole Trump administration
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because he used it pretty much exclusively but um
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You know Elon is running into issues. Like I said, he’s having issues coming up in the money
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He stopped fundraising. He’s having these he’s he’s had an issue coming up as much money as he needs to buy it to take it
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Private. I mean, there’s a lot of money
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And the other problem is too. I think there’s another issue and I’m not I am definitely by far not a takeover kind of guy
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I don’t know. I know a lot about business, but I’m not sure but I do know that the stock price that he promised
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Is $20 more than what the stock is now
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That’s why the boards pushing so hard to get this through because they don’t want to lose that
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And I know he’s been really working hard on trying to close. I think he was working hard to close it
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I’m wondering if he kind of just loved maybe lost interest in it or kind of realizes maybe that he can’t come up with the money
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Or I mean, you know, I don’t know but like I said, I’m curious to see what he’s gonna do
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we all know true social while it’s doing good is is nowhere near on the caliper of a Twitter or Facebook and
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you know, it’s just one of those things where
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you know, he’s gonna have to I
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Know he’s got a like a billion from this person a billion from this person. He’s gotten money from this one money from that one
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so
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He’s leveraging his Tesla stock to borrow money, but I just I just I don’t know if he and I think he’s on
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I think he definitely what he wants to do is is definitely would be great if we can have an open platform where people
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Can speak I know sometimes Twitter is like the wild wild west and people have gained the system and stuff like that, but
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I’m curious to see
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What’s gonna happen is I know a lot of times if you say stuff to flag it and then you’re kind of in like Twitter jail
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For a few days. I know that happened to a couple people on Facebook who are very
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well happen to a lot of people that are very progressive and
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You know, I I don’t think it’s right that you know
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You you say what you say and then you get flagged if that is your beliefs
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But I know there’s also this whole thing about fake news and and and you know propaganda and and all this we see
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Yeah, somebody like, you know, how Alex Jones is on, you know, it’s being sued and and for his you know
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not only for the Sandy Hook shootings, but for things he said about people and
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You know sharing fake news and this is a lot of stuff right now that you know, just it would be great to have an open
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Platform where you can speak freely and not have to worry about getting
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You know put in, you know Facebook or your you know, Twitter jail, and I think that would be a good thing for Twitter
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I do think what he wants to do
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Is a good idea
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But I do think it’s going to be he’s gonna have a heck of a time as somebody who has a background in technology and programming
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It is gonna what he’s trying to do is a great idea, but programically technology wise is he’s gonna have a really tough time
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I mean, I know if it ever if he buys it
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it’s gonna be an uphill battle because anytime you’re trying to
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do something like that and trying to
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You know make an open platform like that you have to have moderation
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Moderating is where the difficult part is because what says something’s fake what says something isn’t
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And that’s kind of the trouble that Twitter and Facebook are having a lot of people are saying they’re trying to you know
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Silence the the right the or the extreme right or whatever
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with these platforms and the problem is it’s a lot of times, you know, the algorithm and the
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Just the way things are have to be done programically and all that kind of stuff. It’s very
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it’s complicated and it’s
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in other times you have people that are that are like you may have somebody who
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actually like a person that needs to intervene and take a look and it’s it’s a tough thing because you know,
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these things are very
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it’s not as easy as just you know, let everything go because you can’t let everything go because
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If you ever seen the spam or the garbage that comes through these kind of services
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They have to regulate to a certain degree
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But the problem is is it can go too far and it’s a very tough thing to regulate a social media platform
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I know it doesn’t sound like it from looking from the outside looking in but
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It is because you have the algorithm that does the first part of it
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you have the algorithm that flags and then sometimes actual people have to go through these things and
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And look at them and then that and then of course that leaves it now in the eye of the beholder the person that’s reading
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it so it’s
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It is much more complicated believe it or not. Then what you know, it’s a leaf to say just leave everything go
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It can get like the wild wild west especially with the the spam and the garbage and the other thing they have to watch out for
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Scams a lot of people will on an open platform like that. They’ll try to scam the people
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into
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You know into these virus scams or into these these these cryptocurrency scams or or trying to you know
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So you you do have to regulate to a certain degree
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for security and safety of your users
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But then you also to have to you know watch which it is it is it I’m not gonna lie somebody who who has worked
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In a technology industry. It’s a very tough situation
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Email it’s a prime example is how many times do you email get hit with spam gets stuck in the spam form? It’s not spam
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Because programically you can only
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You know do so much where then it gets flagged
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So I think I do think if anybody could do it
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It would be Elon because I think he has the resources
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And all that kind of stuff to put the right people in place to try to figure this out
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And like I said for secure you can’t be totally open because you do have to you know
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Worry about the safety and security of your users
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But how do you be open without?
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Regulating the speech it it is a tough it is something light is it?
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If you don’t understand technology or you’ve never worked in behind the scenes of programming
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You know, it’s a it can be a very difficult thing to to really to figure out and I and for his sake I hope
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I hope he gets it. I know, you know the true social network still having a lot of trouble
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That was actually built on what they call Mastodon, which is an existing platform
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which was really designed not for what they’re doing it with and
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You know, I know they had struck a little bit of a little bit of an issue with
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With true social so I hope they hope they do figure it out and I hope he I hope they
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You know, it does, you know, either did you just figure out whether the financing cuz I think that’s what the holdup is
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He’s saying there’s a lot of bots on Twitter, which there are he’s saying there’s not a lot of real accounts
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and and I really do believe that especially after and I know a lot of people join Twitter because
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President Trump was on there and I know a lot of people left
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So I know that what he’s probably looking at and this has been in the the news the other day was that he wants to see
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How many active accounts are there and how many versus how many accounts are bots versus how many accounts are dormant versus I mean
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You know, he is I do understand that because you know, they’re saying they have 350, you know
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Million people and I bet that number has gone down to be honest with you
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I know a lot of people have you know left the platform
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You know since the you know since since the whole situation with
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You know Trump getting kicked off. So I would imagine numbers has probably gone down but
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You know for him as somebody who’s gonna purchase it
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He needs to know what he’s mind and what he’s actually getting and if the price is too high
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He’s gonna you know, they’re gonna have to make an adjustment
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if the you know, you know that that figure he he is putting out there is based on
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You know so many people
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They’re having so many accounts so we don’t wait they can see what I don’t think it’s gonna materialize Twitter’s always been up for sale
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They’ve been trying to get somebody to buy that for a long time believe it or not
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There was talks of somebody buying it a bunch of years ago didn’t pan out. There was talks of
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There’s been so many talks about people buying it over the years
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That just couldn’t come up with all the money and that’s the same situation
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They’re in right now where you know person wants to buy it
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but they can’t come up with all the money if he can’t come up with the money who can but
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Well, like I said there’s been talks for the Twitter’s always been up for sale Twitter’s never actually
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That’s a business that really hasn’t made any money to be honest with you
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I mean think of how gigantic Twitter is and and they just they’re calm. They’re not like Facebook. They really have never made
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Really any money
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They’re always you know, they had a day to layoffs a couple years ago
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because of just situations with you know finances
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they’ve had a scale back projects because they ran out of financing they’ve had to
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Take on some investors to keep going
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The company’s been breaking, you know under Jack Dorsey started breaking even and I was doing okay
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but it it’s just one of those kinds of things man where it’s just it’s tough business to buy because never
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It’s I see the value in the product and I see the value in the service
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But it’s very hard to see value when you’re not making money as far especially when it’s investment
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So we’ll have to see what happens with that. I was actually talked years ago about the government buying it
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This is going back maybe ten years ago. The government was gonna buy it and was going to
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You’re gonna use it to get communication out
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So that there’s been there’s been so many thoughts of Microsoft was gonna buy it. They looked into it. They said not to
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then they bought LinkedIn but
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There was talks for a long time that another company was gonna Google was possibly buy it because Google has so many
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failures in the social media platform area
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It’s it’s just one of those kinds of things where it’s a company that nobody everybody likes it
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But nobody wants it doesn’t make any money and that is a tough business. So
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We’ll have to remain to be seen
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What happens there?
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But I will say they’re all alternatives out there for those guys that want to
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Obviously you have Telegram
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There’s rocket chat. There’s parler
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There is whatsapp groups. There’s a lot of different things you can do
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If you don’t want to be on any, you know Facebook or Twitter, there are other options. There’s me we there’s a lot of different ones
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but
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The big ones obviously it’s tough
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It’s tough when you want to get communication out because you want to be even though you know
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If you’re on the fringe like that on those, you know, telegram and things like that are so much smaller
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Than Twitter or even you know, or way tinier than Twitter and way tinier than
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Obviously fate, you know Facebook. So
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That’s you know that that’s a you know, if you’re gonna be on that, you know, it’s gonna be hard to communication
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That’s why I think you know, he wants to do this. So it’s it’s a mainstream
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Platform that that’s open. So but I said there are other options out there. So
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If you have any questions, like I said hit me up on Twitter or Facebook and I can talk to you about it
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Like I said folks so some of the things I do want to help with is I do want to talk about besides just the news
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Which obviously there was some news now they’re saying that we’re sending some of our strategic
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Oil reserves over to help China out, which I don’t understand why we’d be doing that
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Especially if China’s good buddies with Russia Russia give him all the oil he needs. I don’t understand why we have to give it to him
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I know, you know, the president currently has a good relationship with China, but
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You know Russia can give new oil they’ve got enough of it right now and they’re cutting everybody off
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So they’ve got probably have a surplus of it
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But so some things I want to talk about you folks
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Like I said other things I do want to speak of as far as survival goes
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Up in Pennsylvania. Do you have to take a course?
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In trapping if you want to trap now, I have not taken the the well
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I have taken the trapping course which is foothold traps
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But apparently if you want to use cable traps, there’s a different certification you have to take so I took that class
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During the week, I believe what day was that Center for July took the class. They have one
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It’s a six hour class you have to take and it talks all about
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Cable trapping and stuff like that and the reason why I’m bringing that up is I
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Had talked to a couple people who had messaged me from listen to the show last week about
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cable trapping and about using snares and
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I will I do want to say one thing you have to be very careful a snare and a cable trap are two different things
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I learned that why I always knew that but I learned that
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the other day in the the cape the the course that I took and one of the things you have to be very careful about is
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Especially in PA you can only use a snare
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in
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Water you cannot use it on dry land. So it’s very very important
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I just wanted to point that out a snare is is not like a regular cable trap a
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Snare actually does grab the animal and kill it where a cable trap grabs them and restrains them
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And you cannot use a snare on dry land. It must be used in water only
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For safety purposes. So the other thing is too with the cable trap
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If a large animal like a dog or a deer or a bear get trapped in it, they can break out of it and break away
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from it
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Now those traps do capture and do hold the animal there
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But it is the locking mechanism is designed that if there’s a certain amount of pressure from a certain type of animal
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It’ll break it free
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Smaller animals it’ll relaxes and kill them, but it will hold them there
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but that’s so there is a difference by the way between snares and cable trapping and also to
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You have to look at you have to make sure you look in your state because certain states
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Do allow snaring and certain states do not I know like I said you can only use snares in water
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Some states do allow snaring on dry land, but you have to know your laws and your states
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Contact your local Game Commission. Obviously if you’re if you don’t know and you’re trying to figure it out
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But so very importantly is it the cable the cable traps and the foothold traps are
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You have to look too because there’s only a certain season for the cable traps and it’s only a certain season for the footholds traps
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Traps, so you have to look at that too. I did not know that either
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I did I thought foothold traps you can use any time of the year, but you can’t there’s a certain season for that
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There’s a certain season with the cable traps
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The cable traps are mostly a winter thing because the foothold traps don’t really work too long the big, you know, the big snow
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but
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There is a season for that as well
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So and like I said in the state of PA you actually have to be certified in trend in
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In truth, well you you have to get trapped in class, but then if you want to use the cables you have to be certified
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For that so I did take the certification for the cable trap recently just the other day. So
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And like I said the cable traps you can you have to by the way
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You have to watch too because I didn’t know this. So if you order cable traps online
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Not all cable traps
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Can be used in each state
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There is an approved
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Lock that must be used in certain states in Pennsylvania, I know this because I just did the class but
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Certain locks cannot be used in your state
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So you have to if you’re really thinking about doing any of this cable trapping or snaring?
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You’re really gonna have to really do the reading and check because some of these
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particular things are
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You have to know the specifics of it I didn’t know I thought you could just order cable traps online
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But you can’t because they have the locking mechanism must be approved by your state
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so
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and also to
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cable trapping in you have to watch because you can get a fine if the if the animal is
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Entangled and strangled. I know you’re thinking well, you’re yeah, I know you’re what you’re thinking the same thing
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I thought well from trapping I’m gonna want but you
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Entangle it you have to have a best effort not to allow entanglement which is how they consider killing is when you’re entangling them
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So there’s you have to really make sure you you watch and know you’re what you’re doing
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Because like I said not everything
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With these cable traps and the way you trap and all that is created
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Equal and the foothold traps you have to watch too because only certain foothold traps are allowed to be used
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In certain states Pennsylvania, we’re pretty loose with that stuff. But you’d look is your state might be different
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This a lot of this stuff is state by state. So
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You have to look now in certain states. I know you can use snares on dry land
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We don’t allow that in Pennsylvania, but there are some states that allow it
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Also – you have to know
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When in your state if you’re gonna be doing a hintertrapping you have to know
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What your checkpoints are in the sense of in Pennsylvania, you must check your traps every 36 hours
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And they do check just so you know that they do check
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So you have to check your traps every 36 hours
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Okay
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best time is always to check your traps always in the morning because you don’t really want the animal sitting down the Sun all day because
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If it died, you know, I could use it
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Meat but yet to be careful because in PA you have to check your traps over 36 hours and the game people do check that
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Stuff on the state land. So you have to make sure you check your traps every 36 hours in Pennsylvania
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Some states are 48 hours. Some states are maybe less. I don’t know
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But I do know that specifically but I do know especially on the cable traps. You have to use
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Only a certain kind of lock and if it’s the wrong kind of lock you can get a fine
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So you’re gonna have to know your state you’re gonna have to know some states. You don’t need a license for cabling some you do
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Some states you can make the cable traps right out of stuff. You buy at the hardware store
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Some states you can’t
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Some of them have to have stops on them some of them, you know, some of them have to have
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The hole the loophole depending on what you’re capturing has to be a certain size
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If you’re carrying Fox or coyote or anything like that, the hole has to be a certain size
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Where if you’re capturing something else you have to use a smaller loop. The loop has to be so high off the ground
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There’s actually quite a bit to know with the cold cable trapping thing
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If you are interested in cable trapping, I seriously recommend
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reaching out to your local
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state
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State Game Commission only because they’ll be able to kind of tell you
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You know what you need
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to do and they’ll be able to give you a book with information to make sure you’re following all the right laws because the last
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Thing you want to do is get a fine for something stupid like not having a hole big enough
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You’re not being high enough off the ground also to the keg in the cable restraint holds the animal
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So in some situations the cable also has to be anchored to the ground and that’s something that a lot of people don’t know
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The cable has to if they if the if the anchor has to be in the ground and that’s being so far too
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And state commit game commissioners will actually come in like shake them and move them around
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also to
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your
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Your well, they have equipment we have in Pennsylvania what they call equipment ID
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In some states of trapper ID or hunting ID, it depends on your state again
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but I know in Pennsylvania you must have your equipment ID on the
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Equipment on your traps and if you don’t have it, they might actually even take it down
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So very important there to make sure that you you have all your equipment tagged with all your information
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Especially around a state land because I know they specifically check that
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You do it in general, but especially on a state land you’re gonna have to also to if you’re if you what I find
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Is the best places to go trapping is?
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On farmland because farmers usually don’t there, you know, I’ve gone up to farmers and said hey
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I want to do trap. I wanted to trap on your again. I just took the cable course
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I always did foothold trapping but
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The cable trapping is something new that I’m getting into so I just take it to class
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But I’ve actually gonna play I’ve had farmers that say to me I said hey, you know want to travel
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Oh, we got tons of you know rabbits or things like that that are that are destroying my crops
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I love if you trapped on my land. So
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If you are looking to do any kind of foothold trapping or cable trapping, I seriously recommend know your laws, but also to
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I’d recommend talking to the local farmers if you have any air because a lot of those guys
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Want you to trap on their property because they don’t want
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They never they don’t want rabbits. They don’t want that kind of stuff. It’s gonna destroy their
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The other crops their land because rabbits coyotes
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foxes
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stuff also if you can trap
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Definitely can cause damage on a farm
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So a lot of those guys have found the best places to go or for is to talk to farmers because they a lot of times
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Will say yeah sure go ahead because they don’t want those especially if it’s a chicken farmer
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I guarantee you he’s gonna want you to capture foxes because foxes are like the biggest predator on a chicken farm
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So I can guarantee you he’s gonna want you to go ahead and trap that so
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like I said
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Make sure like I said, I would say definitely talk to the the farmer and see if he’s okay with it
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Also – if you’re if you’re gonna be trapping you have to talk to him about where he wants the traps is very important
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If they’re free if they’re if they’re chickens that are kind of in a coop
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he might let you trap around the you know, the outside of the coops – you know, but you have to watch because
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Certain states you cannot trap within X amount of feet of livestock because of
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rules and stuff like that so you have to watch but if you are gonna capture foxes and
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You’re on a chicken farm
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Probably the best place gonna be around the coop somewhere or around behind the bushes behind the coops or places like that
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You’ll know when you scout for you know, what you’re looking for
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You’ll see the skeet you’ll see all that kind of stuff and you’ll know the foxes are there
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You definitely know you can tell a foxhole a mile away. So you’ll see the foxhole. You’ll see the
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You know all that kind of stuff
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Surprisingly enough one of the places they said in the I when I took the cables
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certification the other day one of the places they said the best place to hang a cable trap believe it or not is right by
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Those storm drains that go underneath
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Storm drains that go on, you know, like I said underneath
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You know underneath the grounds of it
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There’s a lot of animals hide out in there and they actually recommend that you try to trap there because a lot of those animals
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Can actually get hurt or killed when it rains
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So they actually really actually recommend if you are going to do some trapping
00:26:05.540 –> 00:26:10.580
To possibly if you’re allowed to in your state to trap right there or if it’s a good spot to trap right there
00:26:10.580 –> 00:26:14.660
So that’s something I didn’t know either that that’s a good spot
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I know animals hung out in there, but I know you could trap there
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Also to one of the big things that you have to be careful of too, by the way is if you capture
00:26:22.380 –> 00:26:25.320
Something that’s not supposed to be captured. You gotta make sure you let it go
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You know things like that
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Like I said, there’s a lot that goes into it if you are looking into cable trapping which is gonna be my new thing this year
00:26:34.100 –> 00:26:39.120
You know, you’re gonna have to take your test and make sure you uh, you know
00:26:39.120 –> 00:26:42.000
Make sure you know your loss the snare thing is very important
00:26:42.000 –> 00:26:47.100
Because cable trapping and snaring are not the same thing very very important the cable trap
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Like I said does capture the animal alive the snare does not
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In PA you can only use snare traps in water and it’s only for beaver and river water. That’s it
00:26:59.860 –> 00:27:04.540
So very very important to know that especially if you’re gonna be doing any kind of trapping
00:27:04.540 –> 00:27:07.120
You have to know your state you have to know your laws
00:27:07.120 –> 00:27:12.540
You have to know what you can and can capture know your seasons and you have to know how to set the traps up
00:27:12.540 –> 00:27:19.100
Ladies that you can’t and by the way, you can capture an animal with a snare alive, but it’s very rare
00:27:19.100 –> 00:27:24.720
especially if you you know, especially something like a beef I mean you can but it’s it can be very
00:27:24.720 –> 00:27:28.880
difficult to capture a lot animal alive in a snare and
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Generally, the reason why they’re allowed to do underwater is because you’re gonna want
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You want it?
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I mean unfortunately capturing it
00:27:35.340 –> 00:27:39.380
It capturing using a snare and water you want entanglement because you want the animal to get killed
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So they mean and most of the time if you capture them underwater, they’re gonna want to come up for water
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So but that’s another thing too, by the way, if you are gonna use a snare in water
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You have to make sure that the trap is a certain amount submerged
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I know it seems like a nuts thing that what you talk about in PA
00:27:58.400 –> 00:28:01.280
You have if you’re going to use a snare cable trap
00:28:01.280 –> 00:28:06.760
You must make sure that you can that the loop is so much in the water
00:28:06.760 –> 00:28:09.040
I think has to be a third or two-thirds in the water
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I think you could actually completely submerge it if you want I have to check the book on that
00:28:13.560 –> 00:28:20.480
But I believe you have to a certain percentage of it must be in the water because if not, it’s considered a dry land trap
00:28:20.480 –> 00:28:24.360
So there’s a lot that goes into this this cable trapping
00:28:24.360 –> 00:28:28.700
like I said, if you if you don’t if you don’t want to know more about
00:28:28.700 –> 00:28:34.760
Snaring and cable trapping like I said talk to your local Game Commission YouTube has tons of stuff on it
00:28:34.760 –> 00:28:37.080
But I’m going to guess if you’re gonna want to use a snare
00:28:37.080 –> 00:28:39.900
most states are gonna require you to take a
00:28:39.900 –> 00:28:43.100
trapping course or a cable certification course
00:28:43.100 –> 00:28:46.480
I like I said, I just took the Pennsylvania one this week
00:28:46.480 –> 00:28:51.340
The course it was on Tuesday. I took it off from work to do it to do it and
00:28:51.340 –> 00:28:55.560
It actually is pretty it actually was pretty easy
00:28:55.560 –> 00:29:01.100
You know, I mean it’s made for kids 11 and older so I mean if you’re an adult
00:29:01.100 –> 00:29:03.100
I mean a lot of it’s mostly just common sense
00:29:03.100 –> 00:29:05.820
But like I said go through it
00:29:05.820 –> 00:29:08.800
And it wasn’t that difficult. Is this stuff you need to know?
00:29:09.500 –> 00:29:14.920
Some of the stuff, you know, if you’re if you’re already a woodsman or an outdoorsman they go something they go over
00:29:14.920 –> 00:29:17.000
It’s like, you know, this is what a coyote looks like
00:29:17.000 –> 00:29:21.760
This is what a fox looks like a stuff like that, which is a little bit insulting to your intelligence
00:29:21.760 –> 00:29:23.760
but they do have to go over it and
00:29:23.760 –> 00:29:28.720
But some of the stuff you’re gonna want to make sure you have your syllabus with you if it’s your first time doing it or
00:29:28.720 –> 00:29:33.840
At least take notes down on some of the stuff after because there is stuff when you do go out
00:29:33.840 –> 00:29:35.840
You’re gonna have to know like how big the hole has to be
00:29:35.840 –> 00:29:39.180
How that and you’re gonna want to bring a tape measure with you gonna want to know how high it has to be
00:29:39.320 –> 00:29:45.100
There’s a lot that goes into the cable trapping and you do have to have your certification to do it. So in Pennsylvania
00:29:45.100 –> 00:29:47.820
Foothole traps not as complicated
00:29:47.820 –> 00:29:49.880
They still the same regulations
00:29:49.880 –> 00:29:53.180
We have to give to check on within like within like 36 hours and stuff for that
00:29:53.180 –> 00:29:55.760
It used to be 48 and PA they dropped it to 36
00:29:55.760 –> 00:29:58.740
Those kind of things are all gonna be the same
00:29:58.740 –> 00:30:03.760
Yeah, you’re obviously all your treatment your fiddle traps have to be marked with your information on them no matter where they are
00:30:03.760 –> 00:30:08.700
You know all that kind of stuff that stuff’s pretty standard but the stuff with the cable trapping
00:30:08.960 –> 00:30:12.400
The height from the ground decides to loop all that kind of stuff
00:30:12.400 –> 00:30:16.700
You’re gonna want to know they do have a cheat sheet that you can print out online and laminate and keep with you in, Pennsylvania
00:30:16.700 –> 00:30:20.740
If you if you want to do that, I would recommend it. I probably will
00:30:20.740 –> 00:30:24.360
Also – one of the things I did realize and I didn’t know this is
00:30:24.360 –> 00:30:27.360
Since the cable trapping is separate from your hunting license
00:30:27.360 –> 00:30:32.560
You have to have the cable trap certification card with you with your hunting license
00:30:32.560 –> 00:30:36.800
Just in case you get stopped you have to have that or otherwise you can get a fine for that
00:30:36.800 –> 00:30:40.960
so I didn’t know that either but apparently you have to have that along with your
00:30:40.960 –> 00:30:47.620
Hunting license also – one of the things they do talk about with a cable trapping obviously is
00:30:47.620 –> 00:30:50.620
Brought is the way at the net
00:30:50.620 –> 00:30:57.680
I guess if in in Pennsylvania you have to make sure that you give a best effort not to strangle an animal
00:30:57.680 –> 00:31:01.840
Especially on dry land because what they’re worried about especially on dry land
00:31:01.840 –> 00:31:03.480
Is that you’re gonna capture them?
00:31:03.480 –> 00:31:08.740
You’re not supposed to catch a dog a pet something like that cat whatever or something
00:31:08.740 –> 00:31:12.680
You’re not supposed to catch in general just not season. They want you to be able to release it and
00:31:12.680 –> 00:31:16.360
You I mean you have to give a best case ever. I mean I can’t imagine
00:31:16.360 –> 00:31:19.160
I’d hate to come home to a home come home, but
00:31:19.160 –> 00:31:24.240
Little a trap that has somebody’s pet in it boy. That would be a rough conversation to have with the pet owner
00:31:24.240 –> 00:31:29.600
But so you do want to be careful where you set your traps up
00:31:30.160 –> 00:31:35.460
Definitely somebody I’ve done foothold traps for one of the past and knock on wood. I’m not gonna my desk which is wood here
00:31:35.460 –> 00:31:40.960
I’ve never caught somebody’s pet yet. I’m gonna knock on wood again. Hopefully I don’t do that this season
00:31:40.960 –> 00:31:46.120
But the foot hole traps though aren’t won’t kill. I mean you can’t you can’t I mean I
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Mean, I guess you could have somebody they caught couldn’t they get tangled only but I’ve never seen any I’ve never had a situation where animal gets
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Gets killed from a hole trap
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Those of you that are wondering what that noise was that was my opie the Wonder Dog knocking over something on the on the desk
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Hey, yes, that was opie the Wonder Dog. My bird dog sometimes gets a little overzealous and
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When he sees me and things like that can happen, but like I said the like I said, you have to be really really careful
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About what you’re trapping
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And like I said making sure you don’t catch somebody’s pet that’s you know, the cable trapping is a lot more dangerous
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I’m not gonna lie because that is the situation where you can get something around the neck now
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If your cable traps are set right and you use the right kind of lock
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Even if you get something around the neck, you’re not gonna kill it
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Okay, so that’s kind of important
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But the foot hole traps I’ve never seen that I you can I will say this though in the cable trap grabs them
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Depending on the photo trap you’re using you can you know break a leg or something like that if you’re not careful
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But or call some, you know bleeding or cutting or whatever like that, but you know, but it’s not I don’t think it’s gonna kill them
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But again very very important
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like I said to take your traps very often and any of the any of the especially if you’re gonna be cables wrapping and I mean
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football trapping too, but
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Don’t I’ve seen people that set these things up on like public trails and it’s like the middle of oct it’s kind of like season
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But it’s not it’s like okay guys. It’s September. Why do you have a foothold trap on?
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like
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The freaking main like trail going to town like I mean I get it
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There’s no law says you can’t
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but
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It’s kind of stupid. I mean
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People’s dogs people. I mean, I mean you’ve got about pets imagine somebody puts their foot in a football chapter
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It won’t hurt it may hurt but they may not gonna kill them
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But yeah, that’s definitely gonna be a an uncomfortable conversation. They call the game Commission given your number that’s on the
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the
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On the device and says hey, I caught this caught on my foot because somebody left this sitting out
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You know on a public trail in the middle of the you know, so
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You know
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It’s it’s more of a think, you know a trap responsibly trap safely
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trap intelligently, I guess I would say
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I’ve never had that happen. But I have had people that have
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Caught people’s pets in their traps. I’ve never done it knock on wood. I’m gonna knock on wood again here
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But I have heard of it happening. So you just got to be smart. Be careful be safe and
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Don’t do something stupid
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One of the things that is very important though when you are trapping though using the foothold traps is if you are going to have
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Them what I like to do personally and because the animals aren’t really they’re not gonna notice it
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But what I usually do is I put the foot hole trap there and then I put one of those
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Orange is very thin orange markers and I’ll tap it down in there
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Just so I know where the trap is and just to alert other hunters that there’s a trap or trappers
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That that’s there. You don’t have to do that. That’s something that I do
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Just to keep people aware. So the one they don’t set the trap off and two so they don’t get caught in it
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It doesn’t like I said, it doesn’t happen. I’ve never I do that. You don’t have to do that
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They’re like couple dollars you get them at the hardware store
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I get a couple of them and I put them out with the trap just so I once oh I know where the trap is
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I mean, I know where they are, but just so it gives me out
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This is a little bit easier to find them and then to this way people that are in the woods
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especially on the state land don’t set them off on me or
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You know
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Know that it’s there
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That’s something I do. You don’t have to do that. That’s something I do
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And it doesn’t disturb me and the animals don’t really care that much about it
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One thing I will say though is if is if you are gonna be doing cable traps
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one of the things I strongly recommend is is boiling the trap and then trying to make and then they either roughing it up or
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Making it look like
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It’s where it’s supposed to be because if you get a bright silver shiny trap
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Animals are not like fish. It’s not really attracted to that stuff and they may not go through it
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I had a friend of mine who was very very
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Into this kind of stuff and he always told me that too
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You got to make sure you boil the trap or spray the trap or do something
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So the trap doesn’t like blends in with the area now
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I know you’re gonna say well that make it easier for people to meet me hard people see it and but but
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If you want to capture something that’s the way to do it and and you know, that’s that’s why I always
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You know and also too very very important wear rubber boots and rubber gloves because if you wear rubber boots and you wear rubber gloves
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You’re not as likely to leave scent
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If you’re just gonna give regular with your hands set up a trap, they’re gonna smell that scent
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So just make sure you use rubber gloves and always wear rubber boots when you’re trapping so you don’t leave any scent behind
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I mean, yes, you’re gonna kick up scent but with rubber boots, it keeps it down to a minimum
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always and also to
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What I what I like to do is what I usually do I’ll clean the traps boil the traps spraying with deodorizer
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They sell it at all the stores and then I’ll leave them sitting outside for a day or two
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So they kind of get that
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You know the the nature smell on before you put them out. I like to do that
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A lot of people I know do that as well. They say it’s a really good way to
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Really make the trap so it’s you know more like me
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Remember you want you the best kind of trap is when they don’t know is there so
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You know you want to make these things so they’re
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You know as much what you know, you know, it’s one of those things you just want to make sure the animal doesn’t know
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It’s there
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So that’s what I usually do
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like I said
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if you like I said that the main thing is to make sure I always
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If you don’t ever get a trap from like a store field stream and then you just put it right out there
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No, it’s got to be clean. It’s got to be sprayed down. It’s gonna be all that stuff
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Also to folks I want to point out too and I did not know this
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There is actually and I knew this but I didn’t know there was a lot there is um in Pennsylvania
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There is I mean, I I mean I think I knew you had to do it
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But I didn’t know that it was like on the books now
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They tell you what kind of caliper you have to have weapon you have to use with the animal
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And I did not know you can use air or gas powered
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Rifles to count to to kill a trapped animal like so a BB gun or something like that
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but I will say this if you’re going to 22 caliber is
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Probably your smallest caliber if you don’t want to remember you’re not you know
00:38:14.960 –> 00:38:20.820
Some of these animals pretty small so you’re not gonna bring like a 45 with you, but they actually say 22 caliber or air rifle
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I actually think the air rifle would do a lot less damage and a lot less noise and all that
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So I think that’s definitely the way to go now you can do whatever you want
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But 22 I think they say 22 or air rifle is preferred
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I mean you can use the 22 caliber, but
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You know, you could use the air rifle – it depends on the animal you’re trying to get
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If you know foxes coyote, I’d probably bring the piper your 22 caliber with you
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But if you’re just doing squirrels or stuff like that
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Or any kind of small game like that
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You probably just bring here rifle with you and one shot in the head
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Also to make sure you have a capture pole with you
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I saw a lot of people on that that just go out and they don’t have captureable if you’re capturing raccoons and some of that
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You’re gonna want to capture pole capture pole goes around the animals next you can hold it down
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The other reason why I had some people say why don’t you capture pole?
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I’m gonna kill it anyway, right?
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But if you capture an animal that you’re not supposed to capture you cannot kill it
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So you’re going to need a capture pole to hold the animal while you release it
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Okay, very very important. A lot of people don’t think about that
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I’ve actually seen a couple people make some mistakes. They’re out in the woods like that. They’re like, I’m like, where’s your capture?
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Well, I don’t need a capital because whatever I’m gonna kill it. Yep. No, you’re not
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If you’re if you’re out there capturing raccoons and you get a bobcat and it’s on its eats and you’re not gonna be killing it
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so you have to have a way to
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Hold the animal down while you release it for your safety and for the animal safety as well
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so very very important with that always make sure you bring your capture pole with you because
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You know, it can be a really really serious thing if you have an animal and and you can’t hold it down
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While you’re trying to release it
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Goth and also – I mean got the bed, you know, I mean you don’t I mean obviously, you know
00:40:07.380 –> 00:40:08.800
You know the rabies the animal has rabies
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But I mean you sometimes you don’t know and you don’t want to get bit or cut or anything like that
00:40:12.680 –> 00:40:17.320
So it’s it’s much safer always bring your capture pole with you if you’re going to be going out in the woods
00:40:17.320 –> 00:40:19.680
Very very important. I
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Everybody I always bring a capture pole because you never know what’s gonna be on that trap and
00:40:24.360 –> 00:40:27.460
The worst thing you want to do is not have it and have to leave the animal there
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And then now you’ve been now it looks like you haven’t checked your traps in 36 hours
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So it’s it’s very, you know
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It’s really really important to make sure you have all your ducks in a row and that capture pole is definitely a big part of it
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They’re not expensive
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So you do you put it around the animals neck then you go ahead and you pull the rope
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Just tighten up so you can hold it hold it down with your foot and then you can release the animal safely and then you release
00:40:48.900 –> 00:40:52.780
The animal obviously out of the capture pole. So very very important
00:40:52.780 –> 00:40:57.500
Always have a capture pole because a lot of people don’t and then they’re in a really bad situation
00:40:57.500 –> 00:41:02.980
When it’s time to release which you don’t what you do not want to have in drus me
00:41:02.980 –> 00:41:06.020
Like and then also to the other thing like I said
00:41:06.020 –> 00:41:14.360
Knowing your seasons and I’ve brought support but knowing your seasons knowing what you can’t what traps you can and cannot use
00:41:14.360 –> 00:41:18.200
All that stuff very very very important. So
00:41:18.900 –> 00:41:21.220
You know, just just know what you’re doing
00:41:21.220 –> 00:41:26.460
There’s tons of you if you if you if you take the hunter safety core the hunter safety course or the trapping course
00:41:26.460 –> 00:41:28.640
Whatever is required in your state and you’re still don’t know
00:41:28.640 –> 00:41:31.820
Go on YouTube watch YouTube videos
00:41:31.820 –> 00:41:36.920
Make sure you know what you’re doing because the last thing you want to do is make a mistake kill an animal
00:41:36.920 –> 00:41:40.260
That you’re not supposed to kill or worse. There’s worse gonna fine
00:41:40.260 –> 00:41:43.860
Any of that stuff so make sure
00:41:44.580 –> 00:41:47.980
Like I said know what you’re doing digested YouTube is your good friend
00:41:47.980 –> 00:41:54.780
All that kind of stuff very important. Like I said the game Commission if you have any questions go to the game Commission
00:41:54.780 –> 00:41:57.540
They are your friends. They want you to hunt they want you to hunt safely
00:41:57.540 –> 00:42:02.300
They want you to hunt the right way. So they would be I always recommend going to the going to the Commission
00:42:02.300 –> 00:42:07.880
You know if you if you have any questions have your syllabus have the right licenses
00:42:07.880 –> 00:42:14.000
You know, we all love the outdoors, but we all have to love it the same way we have to hunt respectively
00:42:14.360 –> 00:42:19.660
And safely so very very important. I know I went on a lot about trapping today folks
00:42:19.660 –> 00:42:24.840
But it’s something that I really guess I’m really getting into this season something. I really enjoy it. I’m really enjoying doing and
00:42:24.840 –> 00:42:30.440
Something I’m hoping to talk more about especially when the season comes up, but I did take the course this week
00:42:30.440 –> 00:42:32.280
So I wanted to go over all that
00:42:32.280 –> 00:42:37.780
But like I said folks trapping is going to be a big thing if you’re out, especially if you’re in a survival situation folks
00:42:37.780 –> 00:42:40.200
You cannot always rely on hunting
00:42:40.200 –> 00:42:43.320
Sometimes you’re going to have to rely on trapping as well
00:42:43.640 –> 00:42:48.520
Or sometimes you set your traps out and then go hunting so you in case you need anything hunting you have something when you come
00:42:48.520 –> 00:42:52.480
Back when you’re out in the woods, you have to use everything available
00:42:52.480 –> 00:42:55.520
You may be sitting a net up if you’re in a survival situation
00:42:55.520 –> 00:42:58.840
You may have a net out in the water to catch fish. You may have snare traps set up
00:42:58.840 –> 00:43:04.200
Around and you might be walking around with a bow. I mean because they’ll it’s a lot it’s a lot to do
00:43:04.200 –> 00:43:07.440
Yes, but if you need food, this was in the wild
00:43:07.440 –> 00:43:13.080
You can’t have too many options. So like I said folks very very important
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Like I said, I want to thank everybody for listening today, and I will see you on the next podcast. Thank you much
00:43:20.900 –> 00:43:25.900
your message.