Our boy done good . . .

Well, I call him our boy, but it occurs to me that while Vicar has time to chat and schmooze with Neal Conan (right), he's generally way too busy for us peons who gave him his start in hunting ethics around the kitchen table at Old Tamarack. harumph.

But actually, Rich did a nice job. I thought the "ethicist" they brought in from Stevens Point was a bit anemic, and I could have recommended someone far more qualified for the job, had they only asked. :-) Christine Thomas, the Dean of the Natural Resources College at Stevens Point, also did a nice job; while the former Director of Wisconsin DNR gave fairly long winded politician responses to questions about 8 year old kids hunting and about deer management.

That's my review and I'm sticking to it. The worst part of the entire thing was having to wait until 3:00 to hear the Vicar address the nation. For a while there I thought they were going to have him talk about Hmong immigrants in Wausau.

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Let you in on a little secret: in the middle of the broadcast, Rich's mind started to wander a bit--right about when the animal rights wacko called in on behalf of "innocent wildlife." Here is what was going through Rich's mind at that point . . . a beautiful white, pokey dotted pointing sissy showing the way to a beautiful grey phase Bonasa in the bushes around Old T :

Rich's NPR Daydream (ca. 1998)

Honest. That was what Vicar was thinking about when he wasn't talking. And, who could blame him?