Ep. 120: World Record Elk

Cutting The Distance

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

So you may have heard about the potential world record elk that recently was killed in Washington? It was everywhere on social media!!! You may have also saw others try to discredit the accomplishment. Jason and Dirk sit down to discuss the topic through their point of view. They discuss the legality, circumstances, finances required as well as public perception and give their opinion on what may have eased the negative attention the hunter received.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of cutting the distance.
0:13.9	Today I'm joined by my good buddy and co-host, Dirk Durham.
0:17.1	Oh, hey there.
0:18.1	How are you doing?
0:19.6	So I think it was just, we just turned into 2025 and it didn't
0:23.4	take very long for the El Cunning world to be kind of shook up by a, by a post from our good buddy,
0:28.6	Beau, um, Bo Brooks. Um, and I consider him a good friend. You know, he used to build him
0:32.7	turkey calls back in the day and worked with him. When we talk with them, we're cordial with him. But I do, with the direction we're going, I do want to make, he does, you know, run a call
0:42.2	company or help work for a call company.
0:44.7	So I just want to put it all out there.
0:46.4	I want this just be a normal conversation with all the facts laid out there.
0:49.8	But he made a post, I believe it was on February 2nd.
0:53.4	I woke up and I couldn't turn on.
0:56.4	I shouldn't.
0:56.8	People are going to judge me, but I flipped to Facebook.
0:59.8	There's a post about a big giant bull.
1:02.1	I flip over to Instagram just because I'm, look, you know, oh, there's another bull.
1:06.3	Flip the TikTok.
1:07.2	Somehow it's there.
1:08.3	You know, you couldn't go anywhere on February 2nd without seeing
1:11.0	January 2nd.
1:13.8	Yeah, excuse me, January 2nd.
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