Three, two. Boom, we're live. How are you, sir? I'm very good, Joe. It's good to meet you, man.

Great to meet you and thank you very much for doing this. I've learned more about coyotes

over the last couple of months reading your book and listening to your podcast with my good friend Steve

Ronello which was amazing. Whoa crazy animal that is.

You know, I have coyotes all around my neighborhood and it became a very,

very close to me when I saw one of my chickens get captured by a coyote and I watched him hop the fence with a chicken in his mouth like

God damn these motherfuckers and And just all around us.

Especially, I live in a fairly rural area around here,

about 40 minutes outside of LA,

so the nights are quiet and you hear them screaming in the night and I didn't know much about

them until I started reading your book man yeah they're an amazing animal I mean I think there's

not really another mammal aside from us that has a biography like these animals do and

that's kind of one of the reasons I got fascinated with them.

They were doing the same thing around me when I was a kid growing up in Louisiana.

I mean and that's sort of the beginning of my getting captivated by these little small wolves because they were suddenly showing up in the bayous and swamps of Louisiana when I was 12, 13, 14 years old.

And as far as I knew, this was an animal that was supposed to be in the

deserts of the West and so that seemed to be something that you know

commanded one's attention that this critter is is appearing in places where

you would never expect it and now of course everybody in the country is dealing

with them.

That is so fascinating that in our lifetime they have spread from the American

Southwest to every single state and literally every single city in the country.

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