Ep. 882: Cyanide Bombs, New CWD Research, and F%ck Data Centers
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Welcome to the news show, Mother Lickers. This week we've got some research about CWD that I really need to hear about. The debate about bear spray versus pistols, as bear defense rages on, are the cyanide bombs you've been hearing all about actually bombs? Wolves in the greater Yellowstone area are getting whittled away in numbers by hunters? No. Trappers? No. But don't worry, we'll tell you what it is later on in the show. The Alaskan Arctic might be getting itself a data center, which I generally kind of hate the idea of generally. And Spencer, never one for a controversial subject, has another softball yet uplifting story about fishing records.
Mm-hmm.
But first... That's good. I'm not looking around for that. I'm just saying, like, but first. You're waiting for someone to jump in. But first, our news. Yeah. Well, no, I'm up. My daughter got her first black bear. Nice. She's a very competitive hunter. Is not interested in any kind of duck hunting. Nothing. It's got to be a turkey or bigger. It's got to be where you set your mind on getting a thing. There's got to be a question of whether you'll get it. Like, going duck hunting, be like, man, there's going to be a lot of ducks. Doesn't care. Doesn't care. She's into the... She's into the, like, can it be done? Kind of hunting. And you have to be cruising all around. She's not going to sit somewhere. Doesn't want to sit nowhere.
It lends itself well to, you know, she won't sit in glass during youth. Oh no. Like that. Yeah. But she's, if you said, Hey, we're going to go sit in a tree stand for a long time.
What recent research on CWD should we know about?
That's not what she wants to do.
Gotcha. She likes to be mobile. She likes to be looking around on the ground for rocks and whatnot. Um, but got, so we had four, we had kind of like four full days to hunt bears. And then we had a day that we could kind of hunt a little bit if need be. And by the end of the third day, she was getting real antsy. Because you weren't seeing bears or you weren't seeing nice bears? Well, I mean, she's not listening. She don't listen to the show. A little slower to the trigger. Yeah, that happens.
See, that's a hard thing to get over when you're a parent, man.
Yeah, a little slower to the trigger. Because you can't get mad at them. Bless her heart. You can just yell, shoot, shoot. I'll get mad at my boys and I'll get mad at my daughter.
Shoot.
I might get mad at her now and then, but I'm like way nicer to her than anybody else. Shoot him now. Yeah. Like I would be, my boys, I'd be smacking him inside of the head, back of my hand. Shoot, shoot. But no, her, I'm like. It's okay, sweetie.
How might data centers impact the Alaskan Arctic?
When you're ready. When you're ready, sweetie. So like one time we went after a bear and it's just sitting there playing his day, you know, and it's facing toward us and, you know,
You had gotten out of, like, you were in the process of trying to kill it. You were out of the boat.
We got out of the boat, way, a few hundred yards downwind, worked up. I'm like, once we get to that, there's sort of a tree laying there. Like, once we get to that tree, we get to the tree, I get her set up on the tripod. It's just sitting there. Meanwhile, I would have put a box of shells into it. But it's like, but you know what I mean? It's just different. And then I talked all about, like, she likes to run through all weeks leading up to going hunting. She likes to run through all things that would go bad.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–0:13
2
What are the implications of bear cub distress calls in hunting?
0:13–2:40
3
What recent research on CWD should we know about?
2:40–3:39
4
How might data centers impact the Alaskan Arctic?
3:39–52:59
5
What is the significance of CWD research in understanding deer populations?
52:59–55:41
6
How do genetic factors influence CWD resistance in deer?
55:41–57:08
7
What are the implications of data centers on environmental resources?
57:08–59:45
8
How do cyanide bombs function and what are the controversies surrounding them?
59:45–1:57:20
Speakers
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