Recounting strange calls from public from @okwildlifedept

A game warden sits at his office desk and directly addresses the camera, recounting a series of four strange and humorous phone calls his department has received. He shares anecdotes about a request for a deer crossing sign for the deer's benefit, a request to treat a wild deer for ticks, a woman trying to schedule her wedding between overlapping hunting seasons, and a report of a mythical creature eating chickens.

Creator: @okwildlifedept on Instagram

Video format

Yap

Video outline

  1. State the bizarre category
  2. Share escalating examples
  3. Deliver deadpan reactions
  4. End on the wildest example

Narrative framework

The Deadpan Dispatch

Narrative framework logic

An authority figure or expert recounts a series of increasingly absurd, funny, or unbelievable anecdotes from their profession, delivered with a straight face to create comedic contrast.

Topics: Nature & Wildlife, Public Safety, Comedy

Concepts: Rapid Fire Listicle, Storytime, Strange but True

Formats: Yap

Account types: Brand, Personal Brand

Transcript excerpt

These are some phone calls that we've received lately. A person called asking if we could put a deer crossing sign in a certain spot no that the deer would know it was safe to cross there. Another caller said that the deer in her yard had ticks rank worst we come pick up the deer and give it a tick treatment. A woman called excitedly asking about hunting season. She bad been proposed to, and he said that he would get married on the day between quail season and pheasant season. She was informed there is not a day between those seasons because they overlap. A concerned caller requested her help relocating a frog Bigfoot crypted creature that was eating their chickens. She also stated that these animals do not understand English.

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