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And one of the questions on their questionnaire for it was, "Could you find this easily at the grocery store?" And so that was, um, uh, every single ingredient in the cookbook had to be available at a Walmart in North Dakota, where I live.

And if you couldn't find it at a Walmart in North Dakota, whether it was Fargo or Bismarck or Minot or Devils Lake or Grand Forks, then it didn't go...

Then I had to change it.

And so that was a, i- so an easily accessible ingredients, um, something that a parent, a busy parent or a single person can just whip up on a weeknight, um, or put in the, you know, put in the Crockpot.

Like you said, my name is Brian Prince.

I'm the District One Wildlife Resource Management supervisor, uh, based out of Devils Lake, North Dakota, responsible for, uh, 11 counties in northeast, northeast North Dakota.

I'm, uh, responsible for land management primarily, but we have other duties like, uh, surveys and depredation, uh, uh, when that arises in the wintertime, and just the, the plethora of other things that pop up in a district, um, landowner calls, sportsman calls, um, you know, where do I... where should I hunt ducks? Where should I-

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All right, Tim, we were in two very different places.

Ironically, Sin City and Devil's Lake, but they couldn't be further apart as far as culture goes, probably just a week ago or two weeks ago.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, a couple Fridays ago, I was in Devil's Lake, Richard Ang, who used to be a contributor with Freethinking Ministries and is still a wonderful friend and colleague.

I would call him a colleague.

And I actually, I would say that when it comes to senior pastors who are also equipped to do good apologetics, there's only a maybe a handful in the country that I could recommend.

There's others I know that I'm missing, but there's not very many of them.

And so Richard Ang is doing a fantastic job.

Yep, totally.

And think about how many people go to North Dakota, even around Devils Lake.

They go waterfall hunting.

Yep.

Amazing.

Um, the farmers, uh, in our good part of the world, uh, back a couple of days ago were going, "No!" A semi with anhydrous ammonia rolls over on Highway 2 and 20 near Devils Lake, and I mean, that stuff's worth gold now to farmers, as y- as you know.

Thankfully, no reported leak, but it could've been bad.

It could've been bad.

It happened right in the, in the central part of Devils Lake, right at that intersection in town there on Highway, uh, uh, 2 and tw- uh, 20 there.

And, uh, you know, any time you talk about a HAZMAT load spilling-

Mm

We had a game, it was sophomore year.

We had a game at Devils Lake, and it was probably in the teens.

The wind chill factor was down around zero, and we're playing the first half of the game.

And then you always look forward to halftime because you can go in the locker room and warm up.

At Devils Lake we didn't get to go in the locker room, so the options were we all huddle in the end zone or we get on the team bus, which were basically just school buses.

These weren't the Greyhounds, the nice buses that everybody rides now.

We were on these like yellow buses, and we would go sit on the bus at halftime [laughs] freezing our ass off.

And when somebody hits you, just like you see on TV in the cold weather, when somebody drills you and it's zero degrees out or the wind chill factor is zero, it's like a rock.

This is Laura Dierdorf with the Becker's Healthcare Podcast.

I'm thrilled today to be joined by Tanner White, Chief Executive Officer at Altru Devils Lake.

Tanner, it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast today.

Good morning, Laura.

Yeah.

I was born and raised in the great state of North Dakota.

I spent some time as I've evolved in my career down in South Dakota, but recently moved back up to the north side, and, uh, live in Altru Devils Lake.

I've been here for about fifteen months.

[laughs] Oh, wait a minute.

David says, uh, "Watching people jig rig the rocks blind on Devils Lake was wild." Okay.

So he said this earlier right here, and you probably didn't see it while you were talking.

He's been watching all the old episodes of you on Devils Lake in prep for the Masters Walleye Circuit Championship-

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... which I've been watching, too.

That stuff's fun.

I love, I love doing that.