I am an alcoholic in recovery. I mostly stay in my condo. I like to keep busy. I have a large mustache. I had a fun life. I was a reporter for a local newspaper before I retired. I report on local news. I got to report on a movie shoot with several stars. I met Tom Hanks while reporting.
I am a police officer. I spend my time duck hunting with my 2 dogs. I play video games. I usually get a couple of ducks while hunting. I was once 20 feet away from Denzel Washington and Sean Astin. I got to be an extra on a movie.
When is the next time you're planning on going hunting? I'm planning on going this weekend. The weather is beautiful and my wife has been asking me to bring home some ducks so we can cook them for dinner this week. If you're free, I'd love to have you come with me. That sounds like fun but I think I'm just going to hang out around the condo this weekend.  I need to work on a story I'm going about a local church fundraiser.  Have you ever tried hunting anything else?  A coworker of mine just did a story on bear hunting.  It sounded pretty exciting! Bear hunting sounds pretty dangerous. I don't think I'd ever be up for that. I also only hunt things that I'm planning to eat, so I would never hunt bear. I've gone deer hunting many times. I really love the taste of deer meat. I've had deer sausage before and it was really good.  I wasn't sure if you could actually eat bear or not. I've known a few people who have eaten bear before and they've all said it tastes awful. Which makes it even more difficult because killing a bear you would get so much more meat than a duck or a deer. What have you been doing to keep busy? Are you still doing any reporting? We have an alligator farm in town that I was actually writing a story on before I started the story about the church fundraiser.  Apparently the guy also does gator hunting and talks about all the different ways to prepare gator meat.  That's something I've never tried. I've had it a few times. I used to live in Florida and people especially really love it there. It kind of tastes a little like chicken. I've had gator nuggets a few times, which are deep fried and really tasty. You should ask him about letting you try some of the meat. I'm sure that would make an interesting story. I definitely want to give it a try.  I'm just curious how you hunt gator.  Do you have to be in the water to find them?  Seems really dangerous. That I'm not sure about. Most of the places I went to in Florida where gator farms. They'd have a zoo where you could see the gators, but they were also raising gators specifically for meat. I remember him saying something about needing to control the population so they would go out and hunt them.  I just couldn't imagine trying to wrestle a gator.  I don't know that it would end so well. Haha, probably not. Tell him to keep safe. Have you been reporting on any local movie shoots lately?