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Hey everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by first light.

I'm your host Tony Peterson, and this week's show is all about food plots, mineral licks, bait sites, and all of the ways we think we really help deer, but kind of don't.

This is the time of year when a lot of white tail hunters go pretty heavy into the land management world when it comes to food plots.

Aside from nearly ubiquitous usage of trail cameras and more recently boxplines, I don't know if there is something that has become more common. of

a usage of trail cameras and more recently box blinds, I don't know if there is something that has become more common in white-tail hunting than food plots have in the last 20 years.

Of course, there's also the mineral lick thing in bait piles or a hem supplemental feeding that goes

into the whole late spring early summer thing too. All of that stuff is on the

agenda for today but I also want to talk about why we think we need to do these things and how we probably really don't. People are weird.

weird.

If that's too vague, let me go off here for a second. There's a fellow you probably haven't heard of who died in 2007.

But before that he was known as Mansour-Manger-Majetou, or for the non-French speaking amongst us, Mr. Eat All.

I love it when a nickname gets right to the point.

And Michael Lottito, or Michel Lottito or Michelle Lottito I guess Mr eat all was a

guy who would really eat it all from the time he was a child he figured out that he could eat non-food items without any negative repercussions

Which is really something when you consider the first non-food item he ate was a broken glass that he was drinking from.

Now imagine, just for a second all you folks listening who have kids

and you find out one of them broke a glass and the way to clean it up was to eat it.

Naturally, he was examined by a few physicians over the course of his life

and they found that he had an abnormally thick lining to his stomach and intestines, which is pretty wild.

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