Ep. 138: Chuck Norris Reads Leopold, Please Study Our Hunting Brains, and Inside the Mind of a Predator with Neuroscientist Ivan De Araujo
The Hunting Collective
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4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Ben and Phil learn about the trials of a loyal listener, hear from good friend Chuck Norris, and read a Not So Sharp Moment from a really shitty dad. In the interview portion of the show, Ben is joined by neuroscientist Ivan De Araujo for a conversation on just how a predator's brain actually works. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hunting Collective is presented by Element. |
| 0:10.9 | Hey everybody, welcome to episode 138 I'm Ben O'Brien, I'm here with Philly Engineer |
| 0:20.8 | Phil. |
| 0:21.8 | I hated that, thank you. |
| 0:22.8 | Thanks, man. |
| 0:23.8 | I just like the yellow people to get them to make sure they're listening to the work |
| 0:26.8 | done me. |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah, if you saw the face that Phil made when I yelled into the microphone was one of |
| 0:32.1 | disgust, one of deep, deep anguish and despair. |
| 0:37.3 | Well, we got a lot of things to do today, but we have, now, I'm going to let Phil pronounce |
| 0:44.1 | Ivan's last name, but we have a wonderful neurosurgeon on the podcast today because |
| 0:50.2 | I've been thinking about since we went to Yellowstone National Park with Dr. Daniel Staler |
| 0:55.2 | some weeks ago and talked about mountain lions, wolves, predation, all the things that surround |
| 1:01.8 | those very important topics. |
| 1:04.1 | What is the mind of a predator look like? |
| 1:07.4 | What are their motivations? |
| 1:09.6 | What are their biological, like what are the things that are like biologically tend to do |
| 1:14.0 | or what are the things they're driven to do by conditioning? |
| 1:16.1 | I'm thinking a lot about that. |
| 1:18.6 | As I said, I make whip-pike asking and try to become a wildlife biologist, but until then |
| 1:23.6 | doing things like this. |
| 1:24.6 | So I looked around, I searched, I searched, I searched, I finally found a neurologist who |
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