Ep. 129: Elmer Fudd Loses His Gun, Charles Rodney on Segregation, and Mat Best and Omar "Crispy" Avila on Gun Culture and Avoiding the Victim Narrative
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, Ben and Phil answer a few listener emails about Elmer Fudd losing this gun, Ben's thoughts on politics, and a certain flower that doubles as toilet paper in a pinch. Charles "The Rabbit Man" Rodney also joins the show for a very special conversation about living through segregation followed by an interview with Purple Heart recipient Omar "Crispy" Avila, and former Army Ranger and co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company, Mat Best. The guys talk about whether you should read social media comments, avoiding the victim narrative, and the best facets of gun culture. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to episode 129 of the hunting collective I'm |
| 0:19.0 | Ben O'Brien I'm joined by Phil the engineer Phil then how's it going buddy |
| 0:23.4 | it's going all right well I'm excited today today's a good podcast we've got |
| 0:28.0 | some of my favorite people on some of the most inspiring people that I know on |
| 0:32.2 | yeah we are very well Phil and I are very well aware of the unrest going on in |
| 0:36.1 | the world and we'll hope to address some of those things today but one of the |
| 0:39.6 | big updates we got to give is Phil and I are allowed to be in the same room once |
| 0:43.4 | again yes I think I don't think they want us to be in the same room yeah but we |
| 0:49.5 | we Phil had to fight we didn't give them a choice Phil had to fight to get in the |
| 0:54.7 | same room that's how much he missed me yeah something like that yeah I'm back in |
| 0:59.4 | the office pretty much full time and but Phil is being kept away that's that's |
| 1:03.5 | true we'll have to talk to HR about that but I fully support you coming back to |
| 1:07.2 | work buddy oh thank you are you like most people in our company I think most |
| 1:10.7 | companies and most people have kids the age of our kids really want to come back |
| 1:16.0 | to work really your value in that office time yeah feeling that they're Phil man |
| 1:21.3 | like a month ago I just noticed my my patients meter it's it's been dropping |
| 1:26.5 | yeah and I had to take a step back and like am I a bad person am I a bad father |
| 1:30.2 | no no you're not now maybe like I will have to bring in mango to see but I I feel |
| 1:37.6 | I feel like that's only natural it's only natural feel guilty about those |
| 1:40.7 | feelings as well so it's just everybody's going through them especially those |
| 1:44.2 | that have been home with their kids and are not used to that but we're we're |
| 1:48.6 | back in the studio we'll do better than last week I felt like we're just a |
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