Hey, this is Outside In. I'm Nate Hedgy. I want to make an argument for a new emblem for the United States.

The bald eagle just isn't cutting it. It's too cool, too perfect. Everybody loves an eagle.

For these divisive times, we need an animal that is badass, sure, but also polarizing, destructive. This is why I humbly

nominate the wild Horse. Horses are symbols of freedom, strength, and the American West.

There are rock songs about them.

Wild, wild horses. them. rip down a desert highway at 120 miles an hour? You do it in a Ford Mustang.

When you see a man with horses, a mustangs what he picks. But Outwhere Wild Horses But out where wild horses actually roam, you'll hear a very different story.

Some folks in the West, especially ranchers, say that horses are pests,

an invasive species whose population is way out of control.

There have even been stories in the news of people taking the issue

into their own hands.

Advocates now say that they have found more horses shot to death in Northern Arizona.

Horses, all babies, one of them dead, two in very bad shape.

A lion county man is accused of shooting and killing a wild horse with a crossbow.

These are extreme cases, but as a reporter with more than a decade of experience, I can tell you

that wild horses are by far the most controversial issue that I have ever covered.

I mean, what's more American than that. Again, this is outside in. I'm new hedgy, and today on the show, what happens when a

symbol of the American spirit is allowed to run wild? Stay tuned. You like hot sauce? Yeah, a few weeks ago I met Craig Iron Pipe on his cattle ranch on the Blackfeet

Reservation in Montana. He was cooking up some ramen noodles. My cousin, she makes this hot sauce.

Yeah.

I can't eat these noodles without it, man.

But I wasn't there for lunch.

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