Ep. 141: The End of Living Off the Land in Louisiana, the Market for Alligators, and Catching Dinosaurs with Swamp People's Troy and Jacob Landry

The Hunting Collective

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Sports, Wilderness

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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On this week's episode, Ben heads to Pierre Part, La., to chase alligators with the Landry family of History Channel's Swamp People fame. They hit the bayou to hang bait before heading out with three generations of gator hunters to fill tags to be sold to buyers and distributors. They eat a true cajun meal and sit down to talk about being on cable TV for 12 years, the end of "living off land" in Louisiana, and why people from around the world are drawn to their corner of the bayou. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	The Hunting Collective is presented by Element.
0:10.9	Hey everybody, welcome to episode 141 of the Hunting Collective.
0:19.4	I'm Ben O'Brien, as always, and today I'm in swamp.
0:23.9	Jacobo and what?
0:24.9	Lake Verrat, we said.
0:27.4	We're inside a pier apart Louisiana with the swamp people themselves.
0:32.6	Jacob Ridge, Moose, Lindsay, Troy Landry, and we're after gators.
0:39.1	I don't have much say other than it's exciting, so you're going to have to stay tuned.
0:41.8	But Jacob, you're what?
0:43.8	12 season of the history channels, swamp people?
0:46.4	12, that's got to be the longest running show on that channel, or maybe any cable channel.
0:52.9	Millions of people watching you guys on Gators for over a decade, so we're going to talk
0:56.0	about that.
0:57.0	We're going to try to get some gators in the boat, everything, and then some here in a
1:01.4	bio.
1:02.4	We're not going to try, are we going to?
1:04.6	No trying.
1:05.6	We're going to get a wet ass.
1:08.5	All right Jacob, tell us where we are right now.
1:13.6	Right now we're fishing on Lake Verrat, it's a close star hometown.
1:16.9	It's a pretty big lake, a lot of big alligators.
1:20.4	And you can't actually about a scenery, it is.
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