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A couple weeks ago in Caryville, Florida they had the annual Worm Fidlin Festival.

Now if you weren't there, you probably don't have any idea what worm fiddlin is.

Neither of us do. But we are curious, we love worms, and we love fiddlin, and putting them together is probably spectacular.

On the line with this now is Timothy Haynes.

He's the chairman of the festival.

So Timothy, what is worm fiddlin?

It's a method of extracting worms out of the ground. A lot of people go out and

fiddle worms for bait, you know, to go fishing with and it's quite a profitable industry. We have people that go out and just

fiddling, snoring, grunting worms, they're all the same thing. And can make around $30,000 a year.

Really?

Snow and worms.

I mean, it is quite profitable.

And so how does it, how does it work? Well you take a a seasoned piece of wood and

drive it down in the ground and then you take a either your axe head that you drove it down in the ground with and rub it across the top of it

causing a vibration.

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