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Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast on this special 1,000th episode of the show. I'm joined by Randy Newberg to discuss the future of hunting, wildlife and wild places, and how all of this might impact our way of life in the months and years to come.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast and this very special episode brought to you by First Light.

This is our 1,000th episode, which is a pretty wild

thing to say. And today we've got a, I think, a particularly appropriate topic and guest

for this conversation. And I do have an announcement that I want to share with you as well about

my future.

So first, a brief introduction to today's episode and the main point of this conversation.

That guest is Randy Newberg.

I think most of you know who he is, but he is the host of Fresh Tracks, the YouTube show, the television show, as well as the

Hunt Talk Radio podcast, the Hunt Talk Forum.

And more largely, he's just simply one of our nation's greatest advocates and voices

in support of public lands and wildlife and hunting and fishing.

And he's someone that over the last decade or more has really been someone for me that I've leaned on.

I've met up with him for many a coffee or a phone call to discuss what's happening with public lands or conservation and really helping me understand how to look at these things,

how to do something about it, how to interpret all that's happening. He's really been a great

mentor for me. So today in this moment of reflection, as we look forward and as I look back on

1,000 episodes of this podcast, and then where this is going and where hunting and fishing

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