[00:00:02] Stephen Vantassel here. Wildlife Control consultant talking about the wildlife.  Wanted to talk a bit about wildlife training, Hey, I just came back from the National Wildlife Control Operators Association National Meeting the wildlife Expo being held in Myrtle Beach. I was there from February 4 through the 9th and wow what a what an expo it was. [00:00:28] And so let’s talk a little about training so I’m biased. [00:00:32] So case study of you out there are wondering what my biases put my cards on the table here I am a board member director of the National Wildlife Control Operators Association I’m the western director. So basically that means everything west of like Missouri of the United States is sort of my territory if you want to call it that I represent the wildlife control operators in that part of the country for our association. So the National Wildlife Control Operators Association is a trade association that’s nonprofit that advocates for the interests of wildlife control operators by providing training by advocating for proper legislation among among governors state governments and the federal government as well. And we work with the National Pest Management Association which we sort of cooperate with. They are a joint sponsor of our wildlife Expo and we are trying to raise the professionalism and publicity of the work the important work that wildlife control operators do across the country. [00:01:50] Those of you who are dealing primarily with the bugs have a little bit better than us because you guys are more regulated now you may hate regulations it may scream at the government or whatever. [00:02:04] But the reality is is that the government protects what the government regulates. And when you have regulation then at least there’s some industry standards and so you have some protection against sort of the willy nilly things that happen in the you know the people that are always racing to the bottom financially and I understand it’s not perfect and there are a lot of problems in the pest control industry as well and I and I appreciate that. But in terms of wildlife control many many parts of the country it’s basically the Wild West to sort of use an old statement there. The reality is is that there is a lot of things that are just being done poorly. And unfortunately if you go on Facebook you see a lot of sometimes shoddy workmanship and I’m not talking about things that aren’t necessarily pretty. I mean reality is the truth was I was never a great repair man and if you look at some of my work back in the day it was certainly not pretty. The difference is is that I wasn’t necessarily charging hundreds and hundreds of dollars for some the aluminum flashing I was putting up to try to close a squirrel hole. And so there’s people that are just sort of not doing the right thing in any ways the National Wildlife Control Operators Association is endeavoring to provide training opportunities and advocacy for those in the wildlife control field. And so we had a great a great convention this time. So let me talk a little bit about that convention because some of you may be interested in getting some of the training was Al I missed it. [00:03:39] I couldn’t make it. Relax there’s can be plenty of other opportunities for you. But let me kind of go over a little bit of what happened during this expo. So what the