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Rushion Interviews Championship Professional Fisherman Ronnie Green, host of A Fishing Story, reveals fishing tips and tricks! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My guest today is Running Green. He's the charismatic host
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  Speaker 1: of a fishing story. Running Green is a graduate. Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Texas, I always got throughout that Texas connection.
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  Speaker 1: Is a graduate of Texas Tech University, where he ran track.
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  Speaker 1: Now I didn't run tracks, so I was just a
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  Speaker 1: guy who watched people run track. He served as I
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  Speaker 1: have to thank him for the US He's a US
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  Speaker 1: Marine Corps veteran and successful former executive in the corporate world,
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  Speaker 1: just like I used to be at IBM. So we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of We kind of got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things in common. You know, Texas, he did the
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  Speaker 1: corporate thing and all that good stuff. Now he is
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  Speaker 1: a well known fisherman, something I cannot do. He's participated
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  Speaker 1: in multiple professional fishing circuits. He's a indeed one of
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  Speaker 1: the top people in the world. Five years ago. Since
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  Speaker 1: he was five years old, he's been fishing. I remember
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  Speaker 1: I started the Little Cane Baked Bank for fishing. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I started in the business. His show has won
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  Speaker 1: over thirty two awards total, including the multiple Telly Awards
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  Speaker 1: in the Premier Honoring, the Premiers Honoring of Program an
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  Speaker 1: Excellence in Television and Video please work with money making
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  Speaker 1: conversations masterclass again. One of my dear friends is to
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  Speaker 1: running green. How are you doing, sir? Rashawn? Is an
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  Speaker 1: absolute pleasure to see you again. Man. You know I
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  Speaker 1: always people like you, all right, I always gott I'm enjoying.
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  Speaker 1: But I gotta play with the intro because you know
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  Speaker 1: you're you're you're such a unique individual with your skills. Said,
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  Speaker 1: because how many black fishermen we know, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I fished. You know there's a black people like that fishing,
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  Speaker 1: but professional black fisherman's that's a rare. Just like race
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  Speaker 1: car driving, you know, it's like golfers. You know there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of black people out there golfer When you
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  Speaker 1: turn on the TV, how many black people golfing? It's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people out there race cars. Only you
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  Speaker 1: see is Bubba Wallace. And so it becomes a very
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  Speaker 1: unique skill set because you can enjoy it. But when
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  Speaker 1: you start going to that next level, what makes you
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  Speaker 1: that unique African American talent or Black talent that's been
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  Speaker 1: able to break that sea link? Well, I think one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that is uh fishing is a universal language.
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  Speaker 1: And if you understand how to navigate the world using
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  Speaker 1: that universal language UM and understanding the needs or needs
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  Speaker 1: no matter where you go and what you do, and
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  Speaker 1: fishing is fishing. I think it helps you to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to win in this industry. And I've been
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  Speaker 1: able to do that, and I'm so fortunate and blessed
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  Speaker 1: um to be able to make a living doing it
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  Speaker 1: and making a living. And so you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: last time I interviewed was Smack dab and COVID, you know,
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  Speaker 1: came out of the George Force crisis and so the
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  Speaker 1: world was different. The world was different at that time.
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  Speaker 1: And now we fast forward to two because I you know,
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  Speaker 1: some I think this would be three different transitions. You
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  Speaker 1: had the transition before George Floyd and COVID, Then you
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  Speaker 1: had COVID and George Floyd, and then now we deal
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  Speaker 1: with post George Floyd and still in the pandemic but
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  Speaker 1: with restrictions involuntary involuntary. Can you walk us through those
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  Speaker 1: different steps of your career and where you are right now? So,
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  Speaker 1: pre George Floyd and and the crisis we had in
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  Speaker 1: our country, it was a lot going on. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a very unique industry and it's in that the
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  Speaker 1: business model is similar to NASCAR, as you see folks
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  Speaker 1: wearing a lot of patches and a lot of different
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  Speaker 1: sponsors on their on their jersey, on their peril, and
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  Speaker 1: even on their vehicle that they use, whether it's a
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  Speaker 1: boat or whether it's a NASCAR car. So it's the
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  Speaker 1: same in that sense, but it's also unique in the
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  Speaker 1: sense that you see little sprinkles of minorities like myself
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  Speaker 1: in the industry. UM So it can be seen as
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  Speaker 1: a very unique thing. But my job is to more
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  Speaker 1: so educate people on the history of fishing in America
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  Speaker 1: because fishing in America goes through the hands of slaves
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  Speaker 1: in America where we were a part of fishing, especially
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  Speaker 1: African American females. A people don't know that um as
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  Speaker 1: relates to fishing. So hence that kind of leads me
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  Speaker 1: to my next point, which leads to my great grandma,
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  Speaker 1: who is one generation removed from slavey in the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: o six. Um taught me everything I know about fishing,
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  Speaker 1: but taught me the history of it as well. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's been amazing. So then you got into the COVID
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  Speaker 1: run and what did you did? Did did COVID shut
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  Speaker 1: down the fishing turn up the fishing circuit. It actually
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  Speaker 1: didn't because here's the thing, Roshaun, no one had anything
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  Speaker 1: else to do and could not do anything else but
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  Speaker 1: go outside, and fishing was one of the things. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the fishing industry exploded. They couldn't
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  Speaker 1: keep anything on the shelves. Although everything was back ordered,
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  Speaker 1: people were fishing. More boats and engines were bought, and
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  Speaker 1: even to this day the market is oversaturated with boats
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  Speaker 1: and people still trying to get boats engines that are
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  Speaker 1: back ordered. Because the remedy or or at the time
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  Speaker 1: was just fishing. That's all we can do and be
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  Speaker 1: safe and still be COVID friendly outside because you're six
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  Speaker 1: ft apart the whole nine yards and uh, that was
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  Speaker 1: the only thing to do. So a lot of folks
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  Speaker 1: there was over a million new license issued just because
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  Speaker 1: of fishing UM and folks who have never tried it,
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  Speaker 1: they decided to give it a try. And then you've
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  Speaker 1: got a certain percentage of folks it's stuck around um
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  Speaker 1: to continue to fishing because they realized it's something that
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  Speaker 1: I missed and I should have been doing. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing about COVID. It was eliminated that we were
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  Speaker 1: all able to make from the limit of COVID. And
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  Speaker 1: what I mean by that is people were finding things
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  Speaker 1: that they thought they couldn't do. People were writing, more
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  Speaker 1: books were written, people were fishing more, people were enjoying
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  Speaker 1: things that they didn't do previously because they had to
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  Speaker 1: do it. When you're forced to do something, it's amazing
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  Speaker 1: what the human spirit can do about So gelemen, why
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  Speaker 1: do you have to have a license to fish? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good question, and my dad asked me that
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  Speaker 1: question all the time, and I have to always rectify
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  Speaker 1: that you gotta throw something back. Please, you can't do
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  Speaker 1: this to me. What the reason is is because if
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  Speaker 1: you did not allow or if you did not teach
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  Speaker 1: people how to rationalize or or have conservation with fish,
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  Speaker 1: people will take as many as they could. I have
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  Speaker 1: seen times or people have caught thirty forty fifty fish
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  Speaker 1: for what reason, and a lot of times just for
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  Speaker 1: their own ego to say, look what I called. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a picture of all the fish that I caught. But
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  Speaker 1: if you did that and multiplied it times the people
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  Speaker 1: that fish in the world, can you imagine if we
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  Speaker 1: would have any resources left. There's places in other countries
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  Speaker 1: that they don't have the same stipulations we have where
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  Speaker 1: they actually you know, take advantage to a point where
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  Speaker 1: almost extinct some species of fish. So if we don't
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  Speaker 1: do that and learn, you know, help reproduce the fish,
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  Speaker 1: then ultimately our kids kids can enjoy the thing we
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  Speaker 1: love called fishing. So basically, by getting a license, it
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  Speaker 1: allows you to fish, but fish with with some type
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  Speaker 1: of conservation in mind. You just can't just load up
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  Speaker 1: all the fish and walk out of are because because
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  Speaker 1: somebody can come by and find you if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a license or stop you from fishing if you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a license, correct, that is correct. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, that even goes further than that. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you if you have a boat and you take
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  Speaker 1: too many fish, they have the ability to take your boat,
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  Speaker 1: to take your tackle everything. That's how important it is
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  Speaker 1: for you to know what you're doing when you go
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  Speaker 1: out and fish. Even if you're fishing on the bank,
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  Speaker 1: people say, well, I'm not I'm fishing on the bank.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a license. You need a license as well,
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  Speaker 1: and senior citizens typically don't need a license, but always
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  Speaker 1: check your state. And then sometimes the adolescents maybe less
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  Speaker 1: than ten or something to that effect. But every state
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  Speaker 1: is different, so you always got to check and make sure.
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  Speaker 1: I tend to believe to keep a lifetime license, so
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  Speaker 1: I never have to worry about it unless I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to another state. Because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: the worst feeling in the world that you'll never forget
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  Speaker 1: is to have an officer come and you take your
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  Speaker 1: court or sometimes even take all your equipment, which that
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  Speaker 1: stuff can be expensive, or you can take you to jack.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 1: Master Class with Rushan McDonald. I'm speaking to Ronnie Green.
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  Speaker 1: He is the chrismatic host of A Fishing Story with
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  Speaker 1: Ronnie Green as show us one of the thirty two
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  Speaker 1: Awards and as as well as a very elite uh
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  Speaker 1: Telly Awards for the quality of the show. The creativity
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  Speaker 1: is to show the programs of the show and when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're an African American and you venture out
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  Speaker 1: into the world. I work for IBM, so I know
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  Speaker 1: that was a world where you know, you look around,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a world that's populated with it not an
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  Speaker 1: African American, like any corporate job is, but you can
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  Speaker 1: be treated different. People can feel that you're unique, that
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  Speaker 1: you are able to be imployed in that particular fashion.
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  Speaker 1: What is this, what's going? When did you finally get
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  Speaker 1: comfortable out there running being a very unique member of
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  Speaker 1: a very white group. I would say probably when I
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  Speaker 1: was bass fishing. So you have different styles of fishing.
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  Speaker 1: There's saltwater fishing, which is out in the ocean, and
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  Speaker 1: then there's freshwater fishing, which is bass fishing. And bass
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  Speaker 1: fishing is a very unique skill set because if you're
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  Speaker 1: bass fishing, most of the time you're fishing with artificial baits.
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  Speaker 1: And why is that important? Because if you have an
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  Speaker 1: artificial bait versus a live bait, fish prefer the filet
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  Speaker 1: min young versus the imitation. So it takes a very
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  Speaker 1: unique skilled fisherman to imitate a live bait to force
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  Speaker 1: a bass to eat. Some of that in bass fishing
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  Speaker 1: rules the industry. So I felt like, if I can
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  Speaker 1: actually be successful in what rules the industry, bass fishing
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  Speaker 1: by fishing bass tournaments, then I think, uh, it con
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  Speaker 1: turned into something big, not knowing that it would. So
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  Speaker 1: how that happened was because of I spent more time
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  Speaker 1: fishing after I lost my mother. Surprisingly, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: never expected it, and ultimately it was the same. It's
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  Speaker 1: like the COVID situation. You were forced in a position
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  Speaker 1: where you had to figure out how to get therapy.
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  Speaker 1: My therapy at the time fishing every single day after
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  Speaker 1: losing my mother was fishing. I had time to think,
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  Speaker 1: had time to reflect, had time to grieve, had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time because I was out there by myself fishing.
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  Speaker 1: I lived on the lake at the time every single day,
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  Speaker 1: ten twelve hours, sometimes not eating, just drinking a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fluids, thinking about fishing. And ultimately, because of the
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  Speaker 1: at it turned into a skill set that actually took
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  Speaker 1: a quantum leap and start winning tournaments, not knowing that
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  Speaker 1: the grieving process was helping me become more proficient at
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  Speaker 1: as a professional fisherman. And I started getting sponsors because
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  Speaker 1: I was winning, and then I started to believe that
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  Speaker 1: I can really do this. And then I start traveling
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  Speaker 1: around the country fishing these big tournaments with some of
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  Speaker 1: the best in the entire world. And when you can
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  Speaker 1: actually win and get a check doing that, and then
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  Speaker 1: folks sponsors noticed you, you feel like maybe I can
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  Speaker 1: do this, and ultimately it turned into something else. The
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  Speaker 1: TV side came about because of the nature in which
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  Speaker 1: that I communicated on stage in a charismatic manner. I
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  Speaker 1: would actually leave a little inspirational an adult. And then also, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just give someone suthing positive to to talk about when
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  Speaker 1: most people would get on the stage and to talk
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  Speaker 1: about all their sponsors and everybody wants something positive they
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  Speaker 1: can hang onto and possibly marinate on later on. And
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  Speaker 1: ultimately I did. And then a producer came up to
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  Speaker 1: me and said, I think you can make a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: TV host and the rest of history. Wow, now you
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  Speaker 1: have like I go back as a kid. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was on the cane with the little cork putting
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  Speaker 1: out there, you know, the little Mark Twain moment. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, just watching a little bass. I
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  Speaker 1: think I was purchased what I was really catching all
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  Speaker 1: the time. So let's let's go. Let's go through this
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  Speaker 1: little education process. Because you said bash is the popular
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  Speaker 1: popular circuit tournament. They have small wall bash and large mouthpaths.
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  Speaker 1: I've called both. Then I've called catfish, which is you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have gloves with them bad boys, because they will
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  Speaker 1: cut you. They will cut you now. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have the perch, and you have trout. I've caught all
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  Speaker 1: these things, so let's let's go. What I call the
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  Speaker 1: fish that that that that scares me and that I
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  Speaker 1: have been cut grabbing this fish incorrectly is the catfish.
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  Speaker 1: What makes the catfish such an interesting is a delicacy
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  Speaker 1: on plates and restaurants, specially in the South. What makes
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  Speaker 1: you such an interesting and how you go about catching
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  Speaker 1: a catfish? You gotta understand a catfish a very slimy fish.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see scales, So scales is one thing, and
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  Speaker 1: it's also in a sense of scavenger, so it will
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  Speaker 1: eat any and everything on the bottom of the lake.
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  Speaker 1: So it also has on each side, as if I
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  Speaker 1: was a catfish coming out of each side by its
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  Speaker 1: uh gills, bones that has a little anecdota poison. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have one coming out the back. So when
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  Speaker 1: you grab it, most of the time, if this is
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  Speaker 1: a catfish, you want to grab it from the front
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  Speaker 1: underneath those storms. And then you never grab it from
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  Speaker 1: the back because the back is where that other thorn
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  Speaker 1: is and you hold onto a pretty tight there's a
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  Speaker 1: bone there as well. If you hold on pretty tight,
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  Speaker 1: it won't slip, because that's the other thing you usually
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  Speaker 1: when it slips, it will fall, It hits a toe
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  Speaker 1: and you'll never forget it, but it will life. You
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  Speaker 1: never do it again. And I've been there, my great grandmother,
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  Speaker 1: my dad, Boy, what you do at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, there was some tough lessons learned, but you'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget it, because that was our staple of fish
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  Speaker 1: growing up, catfish my great grandmother, my dad Friday nights
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  Speaker 1: a church, but we eat so much caffish. I found
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  Speaker 1: out his caveng and like I said, that was my did.
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  Speaker 1: We go out there and I cut my hand up
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  Speaker 1: a many of the day trying to trying to crown though,
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  Speaker 1: because as a kid, you don't really know and you
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  Speaker 1: don't remember the lesson learned previously, and you get cut
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  Speaker 1: up enough by that cat for you either gonna fear
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  Speaker 1: it or you're gonna learn how to pick it up now.
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  Speaker 1: And then that then perch, because I was always on
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  Speaker 1: the bank fishing with my little cork perch, explained to
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  Speaker 1: people what the Zacklys perch so purchase related to the bass,
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  Speaker 1: and we call them bluegill. They're also called sheryl crackers.
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  Speaker 1: So there's bluegills and they're shell crackers, and some of
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  Speaker 1: them call them ready or there's so many different nicknames
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  Speaker 1: for fish there. The official name is a bluegill, and
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  Speaker 1: they call them perch as well. And they are also
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  Speaker 1: a good fish for bass to eat. So they're about
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  Speaker 1: a pan size and the pan fish is usually the
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  Speaker 1: size of your line. O, there's so good. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: scale him off. Now, you gotta scale him off. Now
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get that knife and knock all those scales off. Now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I use you for you know, professor, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little black. They don't believe in scaling everything. Look absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I'm talking to Rodney gray one about good
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  Speaker 1: dear friends and the business that it is unique because
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  Speaker 1: it's a rarity to a talented African American fisherman. He
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  Speaker 1: has a popular show called a Fishing Story with Running
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  Speaker 1: Green that airs him. All the rokud, the dish, the
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  Speaker 1: direct TV, all the all the show networks that you
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  Speaker 1: can stream on is available to get his show. And
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: it's before I want I want to let everybody know
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  Speaker 1: tell us exactly what a fishing Story is and then
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  Speaker 1: i'n get back to talking about the small am off
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  Speaker 1: bash law, about bath and the trout. So Efficiing Story
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  Speaker 1: is a show that walks people through a personal life
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  Speaker 1: of a person through the portal of efficient so the
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  Speaker 1: highs and lows of life, and we've all had it,
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  Speaker 1: and at the end of the day we see the
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  Speaker 1: highs and lows and see how people have persevered, because
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  Speaker 1: it's always a very unique thing to see someone that
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  Speaker 1: have gone through the same thing you've gone through and
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  Speaker 1: ultimately have come out on top. And we we highlight
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  Speaker 1: people that have gone through tremendous life experiences on the
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  Speaker 1: Fihing Story. And it's really important that people understand the
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  Speaker 1: motivation behind relaxing relaxing. You know, we we we live
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  Speaker 1: such a stressed life. And I you know you've been
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  Speaker 1: by my house. I have a little pond if I
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  Speaker 1: aco behind my property and that relaxes me, Ronnie. And
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  Speaker 1: when I don't care high intensity is out there, I
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  Speaker 1: get there and I just see that water, just the rippling.
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  Speaker 1: I just see some minnots out there and it's to
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  Speaker 1: the water swirl you the fishing Salt Me frog in
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  Speaker 1: Salt Me. They went the other direction that see these
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  Speaker 1: geese landing and it's just really relaxing. That is such
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  Speaker 1: a great, uh therapeutic moment out there for you. It's
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  Speaker 1: something you would recommend the people to experience on a
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  Speaker 1: regular basis. Absolutely, Rachean. I think it's it's something about
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  Speaker 1: we have a kinder shift to water, and nobody can
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  Speaker 1: fully understand it and explain it. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, when we are around water and we
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  Speaker 1: go on vacation, even if just looking at water as
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  Speaker 1: something about it, because if you think about it, not
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  Speaker 1: to get too deep, but our body is made up
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  Speaker 1: of majority of water. So it's a kindred ship because
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  Speaker 1: you're relating to something that is you're developed by your
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  Speaker 1: body is made up of. So I don't understand it totally,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, it has a
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  Speaker 1: therapeutic value that you can never put a price on. Yes,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a fishing store hosted by Running Green is. You can
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  Speaker 1: catch it on the Outdoor Channel, World Fishing Network, NBC
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Sports Bay Area, and the Armed Forces Networkers where all
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: it's a very popular show. They really takes you back.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said when I say came came pro fishing
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  Speaker 1: with the court mark Twain and you know exactly where
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  Speaker 1: I was at right there. You know, that's a classic moment.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's go to which I consider the one of
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  Speaker 1: the prettiest fish is trout trout fishing, and then explain
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  Speaker 1: how you get that, and then we're gonna go to
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  Speaker 1: large mall bass and the small mall bass. Yes, sir, so,
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  Speaker 1: trout is that's another very unique, beautiful species. There is
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  Speaker 1: a saltwater trout what we call the ocean trout, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: then you have the freshwater trout found and typically streams,
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  Speaker 1: so the beautiful streams where you see real shallow clear
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: water and most of the time the best way to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: catch a trout of that magnitude is through fly fishing.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: So that's another very unique skill set of fishing because
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you're using a mainline and you see the guys just
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: whipping it and forth, and that is so relaxing because
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you're around a lot of mountains. Typically you're around a
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: lot of We were just in uh Missouri bass Frow
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Shops um doing a show with Johnny Morris, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the things we did was fly fishing, and it
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  Speaker 1: is so amazing to catch a fish on such a
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  Speaker 1: small little fly that they can see hit the water
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  Speaker 1: with all this moving water and as soon as it
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  Speaker 1: comes by them, they hit it. It's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's. That's that's so just constantly just feed it,
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  Speaker 1: just constantly, just feed it into a certain area. That's that's.
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• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to the small moth bass, which I've caught a large
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: mouth bass. What is the difference between the two and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: what makes them such a great a popular circuit fish.
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  Speaker 1: They're both bass um in the bass family. But to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: think about a small mouth bass, it lives in northern
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: cooler climates anywhere from northern Alabama on up north. And
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: that is probably poundful pound the toughest fish in freshwater. Uh.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: You can see they have a larger tail than what
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a large mouth basses. And then they have a smaller mouth,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: much smaller mouth, but big girthy body. So they have
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of stealth um and lots of power. And
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: you will know when you have one on the flight
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of your life. Man. That is something else, and of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: course everybody's favorite, the large mouth bass. You know I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: love them plus, yes, sir, And the reason is that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: is the most I guess opportunists type predator. In fresh water.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: You can have little baby ducks and I have seen
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  Speaker 1: it in action. Unfortunately, going along with their mother. All
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, one of those just disappear because the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: basket will hit him on top and take them under.
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  Speaker 1: Their mouth is so large. Anything they think they can
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: get their mouth around, they will take it down. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: have seen them take baby rabbits that have fallen in
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the water. I have seen vast take anything that they
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: think their mouth. Frogs are a favorite of them, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of course bayfish so and that's what's so intriguing about
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: us chasing that green fish, because you can trick them
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: on top with a top water babe up and hit
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: it and it's a beautiful explosion. It's amazing fight. Or
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you can catch them on a crank bay. You can
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: catch some all sorts of ways. But whatever it is,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you can trigger those latter lines on the side of
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: his body, her body, and I'll tell you what that thing,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: when it feels the vibration, it will turn on it
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and before you know it, it will be on on
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: your line. And the thing is fast. People don't realize
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: why is this person really so fast across top They
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: can go twelve miles an hour. That's a fast fish.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: So and that's probably why we chase that green monster.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And it's like a thirteen billion dollar industry just chasing
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: that green fish. So I I gotta ask you, though,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: what people I want to be like Mr Rodney Green?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: How does one get into this business? It is not
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: an overnight process, but how does one start? It's a
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: very tricky thing and so there is no guarantees. You
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: have to be very careful. I would always say that
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: make sure you have your education before you do anything,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: so you have a fallback plan. Um. But the way
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it typically works is to fish tournaments, local tournaments. There
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: used to be salt water tournaments, but they only have
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: those larger massive tournaments like Selfish and that's teams that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: have been together for many years. But on the bath side,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you can fish your local, local tournaments and what is
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: called the weekend series A V, A, BFL or even
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the bass Master, which is what I still continue to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: fish and keep my skills up. So there are several
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: ways to join it, and and then you move up
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in the ranks based on how you finish, and you
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: keep fishing, and some people move up and they don't
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: want to leave. They just do it consistently. It's a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: tough road. You're on the road a lot. If you
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: have a family, you're not gonna see them a lot.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: It's similar to a military style of lifestyle. So there's
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a lot you must give up and you must be
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: committed because there's gonna be some days you literally don't
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: catch fish. That's the nature fishing, and that's why we
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: love it because at the end of the day you
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: might get punched down and you know, knocked out by
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the bass. And you come back the next day and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: U t ko that fish. You know before you knew it,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you know the first cast, and that's why we love it. Well,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: if you've had some of my friends on the show, Okay,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I remember if I left this show, because I'm telling
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: everybody you know running, I got brill You don't win
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: now this brother, why now I've been by my house
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: fixed and breakfast. He caught fish in my backyard. Then
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Laville Crawford, he'd been on the show nephew, Timmy. He's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: been on the show. All these people been on the shows,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: every Sean McDonald. But I will not be a good
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: host to talk about the experience that they had on
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: your show. Lavere Crawford, we know it is a in
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the comedy terms, is a food, Nephew, Tommy, is a food.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Talk about the experience of fishing with these two gentlemen.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: They're very gifted in their craft. Now you got them
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: in your craft. Yes, it's amazing because they are very
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: good fishermen as well. Velle Crafford loves his bass fishing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know if people look at his social media,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: but if you ever peek at his Instagram, there's gonna
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: be a bass showing up somewhere. He's gonna be in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: a city. He'll find a little pond and have a
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: little rod, and he will find a pond and catch
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: him some fish. Hold it up like, Hey, I'm in Ohio.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I'm over here at this club and I'm actually catching
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: fish around the corner. Is a person that loves and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: has a passion to fish. You didn't even know that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I did not know that. Yes, and then, uh, Nephew Tommy,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you know I'm still waiting to pranking one day on fishing.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Like matter. Friend will be fishing together probably pretty quick.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We talked yesterday and uh, he's amazing fisherman. He loves inshore.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: We did an offshore shoot and I'll tell you what
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he We had it cooked on the spot and it
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: was amazing. So we had a chef on the boat
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and it was incredible. And of course one of my
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: closest friends is aren't s J. That is a fool
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and a half about that J. That's way too much
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: energy to be on the boats, way too much energy.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: So he has and there was a little anecdote there,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: there's a little trivia. He has actually helped me and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: home my offshore saltwater fish skills. So you're always learning
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: something new and fishing and you'll never master the fishing
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: game totally because there's so many different ways to catch fish.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: But he actually taught me a lot about all shore fishing.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'll be with him Monday
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: with full four team gentlemen, a bunch of bucks brothers
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: get together man and we do this annual trip, this
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: fishing fund and fellowship on a hundred thirty five ft y'all,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and we have a chef and uh all we do
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: is fish and of course we're gonna clamb Absolutely, that's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the m O. And he's a good athlete too and
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: as well as as a farmer track star as well. So, sir,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: so you had a lot of kinship out there with
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: these gentlemen. But again, a fishing story with Rodney Green
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Runnie is always like a reminisce I hope when I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: interview man, it's like I just it's just a natural
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: storytelling conversation. We have it on my show because you
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: are motivating. You are special, because you're you're you're an
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: effective talent, uh well known talent or star in an
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: area that not many people though our color, our stars.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So that makes you unique and special. Don't never forget
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: that and keep understanding that when you come on my show,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: you're just a powerful motivational tool that I use to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: encourage others to say you can do that too. Thank
• 27:16
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• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, ra Sean. I appreciate it so much. I
• 27:22
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