Hey folks, Randy Newberg here from Beautiful Bozeman Montana on this wonderful summer day.

I want to thank you for tuning in, but today we have an absolute pleasure, a guest that I could have

never dreamed we would be so fortunate to have on our podcast. If you are as big of a fan of the

history of conservation, the history of hunting in North America, how hunters have a role in society?

If you're as big a fan of that as I am, you know who Shane Mahoney is. In fact, you probably,

if you're like me, consume anything that is written with Shane's name on it.

So with that, we are very fortunate. Shane is here with me in Bozeman. He was here on other projects and

I almost, I don't know if I beg, but I certainly asked as polite as possible if Shane would join me

in this Randy Newberg Unfiltered podcast. So Shane, thanks so much. I can't thank you enough

for being here. Well, it's a great pleasure to be here and I'm delighted to do it. So great.

Looking forward to our discussions. Yeah. And you and I have been to, well Monday night, we're at

the same thing. I got to sit down and listen to you give your presentation. Again, I've heard many

of your presentations and I'm just going to say this to the audience. If you've not heard Shane

talk, you're going to, some people have a TV face and a radio voice. You definitely have the

voice, Shane, that when you are giving your presentation, your delivery has everybody sitting there

like on the edge of their sheet, like, oh, what's the next word? And I don't know if that's practice

there. If that's just natural or, certainly not practice. I never ever had any training of any kind

in this. A lot of people ask me about that and it's hard for one to judge oneself, but I think

if there's any explanation for it, assuming it's true, which it may or may not be. But if there is

any explanation, I think it was growing up in a very rural society where storytelling, music,

recitation, these were all very fundamental things to our culture in Newfoundland.

My mother was Irish and so she brought all of that influence to bear, of course. And as people say

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