And welcome to another episode of the Speak the Language podcast. I have to tell you, Mr. Terry, I've done a lot of podcast episodes at this point and I've done them in some very different settings.

I've done them, you know, sometimes we do it on site when we're ill-contained or when we're all about traveling, a lot of times we do it with the opposite premos.

I've never done one in a setting quite like we're in right now.

Well, most people probably haven't. We're in my snake laboratory in Heinz County and we're surrounded by all different kinds of snakes, mostly native to Mississippi.

What would you say? Probably, I think maybe about a hundred different individual snakes surrounding us right now.

Yeah, yeah. So we're going to go straight at this. What led to me, you know, trying to get you on the phone and getting you on this podcast.

So last week, this was last week, beginning of last week, myself, Jordan Blissett and Brad Fareshar work with. We were out and about.

Oh, we're looking at some property for next fall that we're potentially going to hunt and we came upon a to me, you know, to me would appear to be a very large rattle snake.

So we stopped our Polaris buggy. We hopped out, got our phone out. We videoed him for a little while and then in the video, you know, a pan back to Brad.

Brad talks about, you know, that's a big rattle snake. It's cool. And then he talks about how he he doesn't kill him. You know, he's that's that snake. He's right there.

Brad says now he will tell you Brad says I don't particularly like snakes, but I'm not going to go out of my way to kill him. He's going to go his way. I'm going to go mine.

And so we posted that video of us deciding to do that with the with the snake and we started an unintentional firestorm and realized this was a very, very hot topic, a very opinionated topic.

So I'm going to ask you, this is probably a very easy question for you. Did we make in your opinion, did we make the right decision by not killing that snake?

Oh, absolutely. 100%. There's there's not a single reason in the world to kill that snake. You will never see that snake again.

Snakes aren't aggressive. They don't hate people. They're not looking to bite you. And it's it's a matter of why are you out there in the first place? You're out there because you enjoy nature. Right.

I don't care if it's a consumptive sport where you're hunting and fishing, you know, or if you're just canoeing or hiking, it does make a difference. These things aren't out there waiting for you. Right.

And, you know, I sometimes get kind of hard on, I don't know if I should say hard, but I, but I often tell groups of hunters and fishermen, I say, you promote yourself as conservationists.

And that's a big word. But conservationists and true sportsmen don't walk through the woods, you know, slaughtering wildlife willy nilly.

You're out there to shoot a deer or to catch a bass. You're not out there to shoot snakes. Yeah.

And these snakes don't bother anybody unless you bother them. And so we'll talk more about that as we go along. But yes, you did the right thing. You did what a thinking person does.

So we actually did. I'm going to pull this up so I can look at it. Like I was so taken aback by how, how big of a reaction we got from this.

And so what I did is I ended up putting a poll up on my Instagram as far as, you know, I put up one of the pictures of the snake.

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