Subjects discussed: The status of Wisconsin's wildlife in the 1940's and early 50's; the Packers; That "damned cowboy" becoming president; TR and Gifford Pinchot thumbing their noses at congress and then hitting the road to save us all; Germany, Kyrgyzstan, and Iraq as examples of what we might have become; the beautiful story of the passage of the Pittman Robertson Act; and what we risk by not knowing what those who came before us sacrificed so that we could continue to enjoy this way of life