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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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This week, Cal talks about what happens when you drop your phone in a creek, the crime desk, listener voice-mail, and a bear attack turns fatal.
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| 1:08.5 | Georgia Game Wardens, patrolling a creek in Wilkes County, noticed something last month you don't see every day in the woods, a man holding an old-style crank telephone. |
| 1:17.7 | For you younger listeners, these phones were made from a wooden box about the size of a milk jug. |
| 1:22.5 | They had a speaker you held to your ear, a microphone to talk into, and a crank handle on one side. When you wanted to |
| 1:29.4 | make a call, you'd rotate that crank, which would generate a current that would signal the switchboard |
| 1:34.8 | officer, and a woman named Dorothy or Ethel or Mavis would connect your call. In this case, this |
| 1:41.6 | fellow wasn't standing in the creek trying to get in touch with Ethel. |
| 1:45.4 | He was using that alternating current to electroshock fish. |
| 1:49.3 | When the wardens approached him, he tried to walk away and then chucked the telephone in the creek. |
| 1:53.4 | Wardens were able to recover the unorthodox fishing implement and cited him with shocking fish illegally. |
| 1:59.9 | Believe it or not, this was a pretty common fishing technique in the South in the 40s and 50s. |
| 2:04.6 | It was even used by professionals. |
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