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All right, buddy, here we go.

We are back talking wolves.

I feel like we should have like a wolf sounder.

Owl sound.

Kick this one off.

Just some sound effects in the background, nice mood setter.

Yeah, exactly.

You know, it's funny.

I'm thinking back about this episode, it is, it's, it might very well be the most listened to episode of Birdshot Podcast ever, which is kind of like, I'm kind of like, I get, I know why, but it's like, really? Like the wolf one, that's a, you know, but I think it, it probably got shared way more than than any of my other episodes. And I kind of knew that. And the reason I say that is even the title, like I had a wolf encounter with my bird dog. I remember going back around in my mind like, it's like kind of clickbaity. It's about as clickbady of a title as I've ever done for the bird chat podcast, which I don't think I really do. But there's something to be said about getting someone's attention in the in the feed of everything else. So got listened to i will say that and uh here we

are a year later kind of reviving it in in some ways yeah man it was kind of funny last year

me and you were talking offline and you were talking about doing uh the the wolf encounter story

podcast and i'm like well it's funny I just reached out to you know

a local biologist up there to talk about wolves because to your point you know it's

seems like everybody that comes into the space at one point or another especially when they

first start out the wolves are a concern like I mean I remember when I remember when I first got in, I used to look at that

interactive map that Wisconsin has talking about the wolf interaction and and sidings. I used to

check that constantly before going out. And so it was definitely a worry in my brain. And now fast forward,

it's like, obviously I still have the respect for the wolves, and, you know,

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