Steven Rinella
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Let's talk for a minute about the record stuff.
And I think a fun way of introducing how the records work and what the rules are, because you guys have rules that, how would you express the rule?
You have fishing rules that tournaments will abide by, right?
So the, the story that I've read about and written about and we've talked about is, is this, this guy, Frank Mundus.
Mundus, people will recognize they, listeners might not recognize Frank Mundus, but they'll recognize a character inspired by Frank Mundus, which is this, that Quint from Jaws is in some way.
It was Benchley, right?
Peter Benchley.
In some way, he modeled his shark hunter off this dude who was named Frank Mundus.
And Frank Mundus was a fisherman who fished out of Montauk, Long Island, so in New York State.
And he was around in an era when you were starting to see declines in some of the traditional fish that people went after off Long Island.
So we talked about bluefin declines.
Swordfish declines, other things were in decline and Mundus was kind of an opportunist and he built this business where he called himself monster man.
He had necklaces full of shark teeth.
He would drag home these giant sharks, big tigers, big Makos, whatever he'd get his hands on.
He'd hang them up on the dock, you know, by a chain from a hoist.
Tourists would see these big fish and he would sell trips to go for sharks.
And he built this whole persona around the big shark hunter.
Right.