Wicked Tuna Captain David Marciano - Giving Back

Join us as we welcome the legendary captain, David Marciano from "Wicked Tuna," who shares his insights on the world of fishing and conservation. With a career spanning over four decades and a 13-season run on a top-rated reality show, David brings a wealth of knowledge and heartfelt reflections on his unexpected journey. He discusses the deep connections formed within the fishing community, the resilience needed to brave the harsh sea conditions, and the cherished memories of a shared fishing trip with our New England regional director. Through candid conversations, David emphasizes the importance of sustainable fishing practices, drawing on his lifelong experience to advocate for the preservation of our precious marine resources for future generations.

The episode also dives into the profound impacts of fishing on mental health and community well-being. We discuss the rewarding experience of bringing joy to others through fishing, exploring how simple acts can create meaningful change. David shares his excitement about Angelica Seafoods, a new initiative supporting U.S. commercial fishermen and delivering fresh seafood across the country. Our conversation extends gratitude to military members and first responders, highlighting the potential for future collaborations. This episode is not only a tribute to the fishing industry but also a testament to the power of community and dedication to conservation.

Produced by Phil Ewert Productions

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Transcript

Hometown Hero Outdoors Podcast

Speaker 1 0:00

In the land of 10,000 lakes, a remarkable movement was born. Welcome to Hometown Hero Outdoors. We are dedicated to honoring our military service members, veterans and first responders by providing them with unforgettable outdoor recreational opportunities. We believe those who have served and sacrificed so much for our country and communities deserve a chance to reclaim their spirit and find healing in the great outdoors. This is Hometown Hero Outdoors podcast.

Speaker 2 1:07

I am excited. Today we have a very special guest with, well you know, david up in New England. He's been on the podcast before. He is the regional director on the board for now. Right, david? At least I'm going to hook you in and you're going to stay here, right?

Speaker 3 1:22

Yeah, hopefully.

Speaker 2 1:23

Sounds good. And then we have a very special guest, David Marciano from Wicked Tuna. Sir, thank you for being here. I appreciate you taking time out of your day.

Speaker 4 1:32

Yep, thanks for having me. I appreciate it, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 1:35

You know, dave, I'm just going to go through your bio real quick, you know, and then I know you've got a busy day here too long. But dave marciano is one of the well-known captains from the reality tv show wicked tuna, which airs on national geographic channel. The show follows several fishermen based out of I'm gonna slaughter the name. Help me out, glouse, glouse, help me out the lobster thank you, I'm terrible g-l-o-s-t Glosta.

Speaker 2 2:03

I can't say it, I'm sorry. So they go out to the Atlantic for bluefin tuna, a prize but difficult catch due to its size, strength and competitive nature of the industry. Marciona is recognized not only for his skill and experience, but also for his straightforward, resilient personality, and then also.

Speaker 4 2:29

Dave, you are a huge advocate of conservation and looking forward for the future, with future generations, when it comes to angling out in the ocean and across country, right? So yeah, in fisheries in general, you know. I do want to say you know not only angling, I'm a commercial fisherman in the past four decades as well. You know so. I believe all fisheries have a place. You know both recreational and commercial. You know so. I believe all fisheries have a place. You know both recreational and commercial. And you know, sometimes we rub elbows out there, but you know every fishery has its place and its needs.

Speaker 2 2:54

No, it's fantastic. You know it is all about conservation. I'm not sure if you know this about me, but I'm actually a game warden here in Minnesota, so I do appreciate the conservation side of things. That's a really, I think, good thing to do and, um, you know, ensuring that our future generations have the ability to use the resources that we have the pleasure and the access to, and just making sure that it's all sustainable for everyone. So, absolutely absolutely so about your show, wicked tuna man? How many seasons has it been? 13?

Speaker 4 3:21

13 seasons. Now I don't know if you guys got the news yet, but you know we got canceled this year. So 13 seasons last year was season 13 and there will be no season 14, uh, which is unfortunate. Um, it did catch us off guard. As you know, for all 13 years we were Nat Geo's number one rated show, both international and national. So it kind of caught us off guard. But you know, then at the same point we knew this wouldn't last forever when it started, right, and personally, like I never thought it'd go more than a season or two. So you know, my thoughts are is the ride is over. But look if my 15 minutes is up, it lasted 13 years. What do I get to complain about?

Speaker 2 4:13

no, that's a good ride, that's a really good ride you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 4:17

so and it's and it's only unfortunate because of the fans. Of course, I would have liked to have done more. After all, it is an economic opportunity for me. I got a paycheck out of the deal, so you know I'm going to miss that, but you know, again, I'm thankful for the opportunities we did have.

Speaker 2 4:37

No, kidding, I mean, I remember watching the show from the beginning, you know so when David told me that he knew someone that was going to connect you guys. That was a pretty exciting deal. And, david, I know you're in the new england area, new hampshire, and you made a connection with uh, jake. Right, correct, yeah, and then jake is one of the cameramen that helps with wicked tuna. And how did, how did that all go down, david?

Speaker 3 5:03

I actually don't even remember somehow I stumbled across the message from him. We started communicating years ago to line up a trip and took a couple of years due to weather and everything else, and we were finally able to line up a trip this past summer to be able to get out there with Dave's two boats and Bob Cook's boat and had a great time. The weather was not the most ideal pretty rough, um, a lot of people were doing a little over the side of the boat chumming for us. Um, all in all, you know I, you know I thought it was a great trip calling the dinosaurs.

Speaker 2 5:35

Hey, we've all been there, right? Some more than others probably yep no, that's fantastic. I remember last year due to I think there were some conditions that happened too, where, uh, some of the fishing was stopped due to the warmer water temperatures and you guys had to end your season early uh, for us well yeah I mean it, it, we.

Speaker 4 6:01

We never really ended the season early because of water temperatures, but you know, the fishery does change and we operate on a strict quota. Though what's lost in the show, right, is we have an overall quota amount of fish that we can catch for the year, right, for the calendar year. Now that gets broken up into three subquotas, right, and so often the show is filmed during one of these periods when the fishery is open. You know, for like the first and we usually bang it out the first subquota, which is the largest chunk of quota. It's quota that it's allocated for June, july and August, right, and it's the largest chunk of the quota of the season. But that doesn't mean it'll open, be open all three of those months.

Speaker 4 7:06

If we catch, once we get the quota for that sub-period, we're done. So we could catch, and it's happened in the past by early July we catch all the quota for that first sub-period. And again, sometimes they'll come back and film in September when it reopens for another one-month sub-period. And again you saw how boring that was to me when you explained September when it reopens for another one month sub period. And again you saw how boring that was to me. You explained that you know, so we're not going to explain that in TV time.

Speaker 4 7:33

Right, we're not going to, we're just going to go. Okay, this is the period of time we have to fish.

Speaker 4 7:42

So what you might be referring, you know again, might've been lost in translation as we went from one sub period to another sub period during filming, if that makes sense it does that's why it's hard to explain the way we manage our tuna fishery and that's why we didn't talk about it on tv, because it's not the most interesting part no, it makes sense've got to keep the people attentive to what's going on in the show. Right, but we do all that. Behind all that, it's all tied into our sustainability. That's good. That's how we manage our fishery.

Speaker 2 8:16

And how you got 13 seasons out of it.

Speaker 4 8:18

Exactly Right, and I'll give credit where it's due. I mean, it was the production company. Look, I'm just doing my job, I'm just going to work, and you know they're the ones who film us, they look over our shoulder and they're the ones though that, through all the years, for all the boats, you know, they called out those moments that actually made good TV. You know what I mean, because I'm not a TV person, I'm not an actor, I'm not an entertainer, but after, you know, they sit on the boats and they watch us and they carve those moments out, which is very little of all the overall footage they have of any given boat and it's, you know, moments in time that kind of made it fun and made it good TV Right it's a lot going on behind the scenes.

Speaker 4 9:10

Yeah.

Speaker 2 9:12

You know I, I did a documentary with officer Eric Mattson here and just, and that was only a film crew of you know Eric, two cameramen at the most and then myself and one editor, and I mean minimal resources, you know, and with Nat Geo obviously a lot more.

Speaker 1 9:29

Right.

Speaker 2 9:29

So and I I saw how much work it was just to do ours. I can't imagine what it would be Right To make 13 seasons worth, that's pretty extensive.

Speaker 4 9:38

Oh, yeah, yeah, and that was all. You know. Pilgrim Studios out in LA is the production company, so they would do all the, you know, they would be there, camera on the boat and we'd have one guy on each boat, you know. And then they had a team would take over when we would come in with a fish, you know, the shore crews would take over, and that was much more personnel, because that's where they wanted to get all the different angles, you know, with the different cameras. Uh, cause, let's face it, you know, everything we shot on the boat was all about the offload, that the big moment, right, so it was important to capture that, you know. And then that would all went out to la on every trip we get in, you know, immediately that got downloaded and went out to la where it began the scrubbing process, where they, you know, actually began to start to make that tv show we knew as Wicked Tuna.

Speaker 2 10:33

Wow, that's incredible. Yeah, it's a lot of work. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit more about David and about your upbringing, like how did you get into fishing in this career path?

Speaker 4 10:43

All right, you know my father sold insurance, right. He didn't know how to even put a worm on a hook. He never really took me fishing, right. Yeah, I did have one uncle though, his my father's youngest brother, my uncle joseph. He was the one uncle that took me fishing a couple times when I was a kid. Now, unfortunately he passed away from leukemia when he was 27 and you know I was eight. But he was that one uncle who took me fishing to do that stuff.

Sustainable Fishing Practices and Conservation

Speaker 4 11:15

I really loved, right, and as a kid I'll never forget. You know that was my first experience, you know, with death as a child. Plus, it was that favorite uncle, if you will right. So that's why when my son, joseph, was born, I named him Joseph, david, kind of after that uncle, because, again, my father never understood my passion for fishing. He never knew where I got it from. You know, in Gloucester especially, there's a lot of fishermen. You know their fathers were fishermen and their fathers before them, you know, and it's a multi-generational thing and you know I was just the outlier or one of these other guys like me, but I just had a passion for fishing and, you know, ran down that road with all that passion that I had and again, that all ties into the conservation thing. I want to be sure for those other guys who are like me, those young kids with just a dream to go fishing, you know, they should have the same opportunities that I had no, it's fantastic and something you got on the big ocean.

Speaker 2 12:22

Do you remember catching your first bluefin?

Speaker 4 12:25

I do, I do. I was probably. I think I was 19 to 20 old. I had already been fishing for a long time. I had my first job in a boat when I was 11. You know, just taking on local tour boats and charter boats. And you know I worked in that industry pretty much through high school and then after high school I graduated, more, you know, towards the commercial end of fishing.

Speaker 4 12:51

So the commercial fishing industry gill netting, long lining, dragging all that type of stuff, all the traditional commercial fisheries, and in that time was the first time we went tuna fishing and we did it, although we used hand lines to catch our first few fish because they were cheap and we were commercial fishermen. A rod and reel was quite expensive but those fish were worth money. So you know commercial fishermen would do it. You know we didn't need to buy a rod and reel. We figured out how to do it with a hand line and you would sell the fish and you'd make the money. And that was the simple premise of what we do. And you know today that tuna fishery, you know again, is an outlier but it's all tied into our sustainable fisheries. You know, even though it's a commercial fishery, the only way to persecute that fishery is with a hand line, a rod and reel or a hand-thrown harpoon right.

Speaker 4 13:52

You can't use nets or long lines, and that's what makes it a sustainable fisheries. And in that sense, I really think that bluefin tuna fishery we highlight is, you know, really should be considered an artisanal fishery. You know we're very selective. We catch these fish one at a time, all by hand. You know it's not factory trawlers and that's been, you know, one of the key things, the takeaways, I think, for the audience. People have gotten to see that commercial fisheries oftentimes in this country are given a bit of a black eye and we're labeled as commercial fishermen, like we're some sort of Vikings out there. You know, just, you know pillaging with no concern for the future. And when it comes to commercial fisheries, nothing could be further from the truth. You know commercial fisheries in this country, just like the tuna fishery, are persecuted with a future in mind and you know I'm very proud to be a part of that.

Speaker 2 15:04

No point of working yourself out of work.

Speaker 4 15:06

Exactly. You know, even if it was as basic as we're labeled as a bunch of greedy fishermen, you fishermen, where's all the profits tomorrow if I catch all the fish today? Even I'm smart enough to know that Of course we want sustainability.

Speaker 2 15:23

Also, too, you look at the bluefin and how you guys do catch them like you're talking about. It's not an easy task, even when you do do hook in, and how much time it does take to get a fish into the boat. And then, even if you get it to the boat, don't you have like a size limitation too, where you might not even be able to keep it?

Speaker 4 15:40

oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we, you know again, all our fisheries have size limits. It's pretty much. You know. These days, in fisheries management, it's standard operating procedure you, you know size limits are based on.

Speaker 4 15:55

The concept is, and it goes with any fish, with any fishery, with any size limit, you know, the idea is that you're allowing the fish to spawn two or three times before you harvest it and that way, in theory, even though you know each fish may have hundreds of thousands of eggs, they say, you know, maybe only one of those will make it to be a reproducing adult. So if you allow a fish to spawn two or three times before you harvest it, in theory you're leaving two or three for the one you're taking, thereby creating a sustainable fisheries taking, thereby creating a sustainable fisheries. And that's how we manage many of our fisheries in this country. And I think, you know, us commercial fisheries are leaders in the world when it comes to successful fisheries management. You know, I think we've done a really good job at running that balance between what's best for the fishermen and, of course, what's best for the resource, the fish.

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Speaker 2 19:11

No, no, I I agree, you know, and we do have commercial fishing here in minnesota a more tribal side of things, but I see how close they do regulate some of that too, and so I can. I can kind of relate not the same body of water, not the same type of fish, but I can see that too. But no, that sustainability is massive. Again, like earlier. Why work yourself out of work? Right, right, right and the amount of time and the equipment that's invested. I mean the hard merchandise, I mean.

Speaker 4 19:38

I mean I can't imagine just what the maintenance is on a type of a boat oh yeah, and look, and I run one of the most uh efficient boats on the show, right, that boat? You know you could buy for what? Like bob cork's new boat there or dot com you could buy five or six in a high merchandise. You know that's an old boat, it was a fixer-upper, it's uh, she was built in 1984, right so that's an old boat, damn near 40 years old, or is 40 years old, right so?

Speaker 4 20:12

yeah he's had a lot of facelifts over the years, um, and a lot of rebuilds. You know, because that's what a guy like me does I'm I'm good with my hands, I can manage that. You know what I mean. And for me it's not about comfort, for me it's about efficiency, because you know, the more efficiently I can run the boat, the more efficient, the more I can bring home in a paycheck to the family and ultimately, that's what it's all about that's great, oh and then.

Speaker 2 20:42

So gotta give a big shout out to jake aiken again, and oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah and he is the cameraman, cameraman that has been with you. I don't know how long has he been filming the show for with you.

Speaker 4 20:55

Well, jake wasn't really filming the show. He filmed, you know, doing a bunch of other things, and it all started. He was one of the original guys I met after season one aired, working, I think. We started working with the Wounded Warrior Project, right, so, another organization, and so I think you know again now I don't understand the politics of everything, so I just wanted to help guys out, take a vision, and you know so I started working with Jake on many other projects. You know, after we met, though, and that initial type of trips doing the same thing, just taking guys and gals fishing, because, after all, that's all I could offer.

Speaker 4 21:47

You know again, and in my life, what it's meant is, you know, in the past, you know, before the show, sometimes, even if I wanted to help people, I couldn't because financially I just wasn't in a position to do anything. Right, I was too busy just trying to help myself, and, you know, take care of, you know, a family of five, right? So when things got better with the show, I felt it was, you know, a great opportunity. You know it was a great opportunity for me, so why wouldn't I want to find ways to give back, right? I'm a big believer in karma. So when I got the opportunity again, it was early on, uh, working with it, with the wounded warrior, you know, to take guys out fishing. That's how all of this started, and I've since, you know, worked with so many other groups like yourself.

Speaker 2 22:41

That's awesome and David, you organized the whole trip with David and the other boat captain and I'm pretty sure you had people throwing elbows to go on the trip yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 22:55

Uh, it was quite the organization, um, trying to get everyone, because people don't, I think, understand where glosta is and where you know logistics, and trying to get people out there and everything else and then you got the connection with jake and then you know we tried.

Speaker 2 23:12

I think you tried this last, not this past year, but in 2023 and then 2024. You're successful.

Speaker 3 23:17

So just walk us through, like what that looked like, and then talk about the trip a bit so first off, I was just trying to, um, you know you're obviously working around, you know the captain's um schedules and stuff like that because, again know, when they're donating a trip to us you know it's money out of their pocket that they're not bringing home. So, arranging a schedule and trying to find out, obviously the season that we can be out in. And then you know, the biggest thing of everything and you know, is trying to find hopefully it's a good weather to get, to get out there. These captains are used to being out there in the worst of storms. But you got to realize some of the people going on the boat, especially if you're not near the coastline at all, have never been out on big water before. And then logistically it was just picking everyone and getting everyone there.

Speaker 3 24:02

Um, it's, it can be a ways out there. You know gloucester is out there on the coast and there isn't, I mean, small little fishing village compared to other places. And, um, it was just, it was, it was a nice coordinating everyone to get everyone out there. Um, chris erma was able to make it out and enjoy the trip and it even if people didn't catch a lot of fish because the seas, everyone that went out there and I still hear it to this day had an amazing time being on the three boats that were out there um, in, you know getting, you know coming home and having fresh haddock. And some people went a little crazy when they got back to the shoreline of the local the fish markets getting other seafood and stuff you had to back in why wouldn't you I mean, I mean I would.

Speaker 2 24:49

I don't get fresh seafood where I'm at. I would too.

Speaker 3 24:54

No fresh lobster out in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 24:55

No, no, we get crayfish, but freshwater crayfish in the middle of nowhere and they're not that good. They don't fill you up very much.

Speaker 5 25:04

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Speaker 2 25:19

trust, but verify I remember you telling me, just recently too, like how much your guys's lobster is going for, as well as man. What are the Scallops? Scallops, thank you.

Speaker 4 25:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 25:35

Are the prices pretty?

Speaker 3 25:36

low. When you're out here on the coastline and Dave can testify to this I don't buy lobster when they're like $11, $12 a pound. They'll dip down in the summertime down as low as $6, $7, sometimes as low as $5.99 a pound, scald down sometime, you know, low 20s and stuff like that. But that's our backyard. So, right, right, we don't. We don't go as crazy for it, as you know someone who doesn't get it as much.

Speaker 2 26:04

Oh man I can eat it.

Speaker 3 26:07

you go to any of our stores and stuff like that all of our fish is fresh. It's none of this previously frozen stuff. You can go right down to the docks, whether it's on the seacoast, maine, mass, new Hampshire, and buy it right off the boat. You can't get any fresher than that $5.99 for a pound of lobsters.

Speaker 2 26:27

I mean, that's beef here.

Speaker 4 26:29

Right right.

Speaker 2 26:31

That's pretty amazing, but yeah, no, it sounds like it was an absolutely great time. I hear people talk about it all the time and, David, I appreciate you doing that for them and everything that's happening. And the big part of this is all about mental health and the things that help our members. People have served. What does it do for you mentally? Our members, people have served. You know what does it do for you mentally? Not only does it lift you up being out in the outdoors and experiencing catching those big fish, and what does it do to you or help you with with helping the others mentally?

Speaker 4 27:03

Oh to me, yeah, oh, look, no, again, going back to the very first trips I did after that first season, right, again going back to the very first trips I did after that first season, right, you know, again, all I did was take people fishing. That's what I do. So it was like, oh, I can do that, you know. They said, oh, you know, somebody had an idea and I was like, oh, no, I can take guys fishing, guys and gals fishing, and the appreciation right out of the get-go rightgo from those first trips I did, those people left me with the feeling you would have thought I gave some of those folks a bag of gold, right, just by their reaction to me taking them fishing and then watching them interact with each other.

Speaker 4 27:50

Taking them fishing and then watching them interact with each other, you know, without knowing exactly what they were talking about, you knew it was important to them, right, so to kind of be like part of that. But seeing them, you know, enjoy that and seeing it seemed to be very beneficial to them, right, like. So, when it was all over and the smoke settled and we did the trips and we took those people fishing, like right here, it made me feel good about myself, all right. So maybe you could say I did it for selfish reasons, and why I wanted to do so much more of it? Because, again, right here, I felt good. Good about me, I felt good about Dave, like, okay, I'm doing the right thing with the opportunity that was given to me no, that's fair, that's good.

Speaker 2 28:46

I mean it fills your cup, you know right right, you know what I mean it.

Speaker 4 28:49

Just I think, as individuals, you know, in our lives we all look for those things you know, along with why are we here and what are we doing, and our own family lives and all that. It's like, you know, we all want a purpose and again it made me feel like I was doing the right thing with my life and and, and you know, in that, in that act of helping others, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 29:13

Absolutely. I mean you have a talent and you have the ability and the assets to help in a way that is well known to you Kind of like. For me, it's networks. Being in the professions I have been, my network is huge and being able to ask people to help or give back in different ways I'm not necessarily going to be like, hey, you got to donate everything, but at the same time, just being able to connect people is significant and and you and yours is fishing and the assets you have available and your network as well.

Speaker 4 29:44

Really, right, right. And you know, again it just I, I guess I didn't realize, I didn't realize I had something to give. Again they made me feel good about what I was doing. Again I didn't think it was much, but again you could tell by the reaction and by the response that to them it seemed like to be a lot.

Speaker 2 30:14

Sometimes a little bit goes a long ways, especially when you don't know you need it right. All of a sudden you're like man, that's, that's exactly what I needed, and we see that in a lot of our surveys we do after our trips happen. Uh, you know, we do ask about how was your mental health before, how was it after? You know, and, and there's improvement every time. It's. It's pretty amazing. So I appreciate everything you do and I know you're a busy man and you got things to get back to. But you know I I know that the season is now done for season 13 for wicked tuna and you have recently opened up your own store. Do you want to talk about that a bit?

Speaker 4 30:45

oh, yeah, yeah, no, that's one of the things. Yep, this year we opened up, uh, angelicaafoods, which, by the way, too, you know, if you look angelicaseafoodscom, we ship seafood anywhere in the continental US. So if you want that fresh, local Gloucester seafood, we can ship it to you overnight. Now, that being said, it's expensive to do that and we're talking air freight when you've got to get the seafood out there.

Speaker 2 31:13

Right.

Speaker 4 31:13

You know. So it's not cheap, it's not inexpensive seafood. But it's fresh but it's all US wild harvest. That's my stick. I'm here in it to support US commercial fishermen. So all the fish we do sell is US wild harvest, primarily from Gloucester, and we can't ship it to you anywhere in the country. Or if you ever get out here to Gloucester, you can come on down and visit our store.

Speaker 2 31:40

Gloucester. I said it.

Speaker 4 31:42

There you go.

Speaker 2 31:43

I did it before the podcast was over Gloucester, so, Chris you just got to remember anything that ends with an R drop the r, and I can't just say the r, just add a, you'll be fine.

Speaker 2 31:59

Hey, I mean, I got the minnesota accent too, so I'm sure you're picking up on it as well. So well, david, I really do appreciate you coming on the show. Thank you for giving back to our our military service members and first responders. It's uh been a treat, and I know that we hear a lot of good feedback on that trip and it gets talked to about, and I do hope that we can do something more together in the future, and I think we're going to have some other boat captains come on at some point. But I appreciate David Gray getting the connection out there and being able to communicate everything here, but I just want to say thank you one more time.

Speaker 4 32:28

All right and thank you for all you guys do it. Thank you for your service.

Speaker 2 32:31

Absolutely. Does anyone else have any last closing comments?

Speaker 3 32:33

David Great Just thank you, Dave, for everything you did and hopefully we look forward to some future stuff with you. And again, thank you for being there and supporting the military and supporting hometown hair outdoors.

Speaker 4 32:44

I'm happy I'm able to. David, we'll make it happen again.

Speaker 2 32:49

Love it, love it. So, listeners, I just want to tell you thank you for tuning in. You know, and one of the things that we're trying to do this year is also make sure that everyone is fully aware that they have options out there for their mental health. You know you're not alone. There's plenty of individuals here that are here to help. We have David Marciano, who is here and has brought people out to help and to reach out. If you're in need, we have our assist training, which is the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training which many of our volunteers have. If you're in a time of crisis, we'll help get you off that ledge and we'll be there for you. It'll help you find additional help. Otherwise, 988 is the crisis line. If you're in a crisis, you can always do 988, which you can text and or call, and we're here for you and we're here for you. People want you to be here tomorrow. So thank you for your service, thank you for your time and thanks for tuning in to the Hometown Hero Outdoors Podcast.

Speaker 4 33:35

We'll see you next time. Thanks, guys.

Speaker 1 33:37

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