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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 327: Activists in Decoys and the Land Down Under with Lucas Cooke of Field and Game Australia

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Cal and Jordan sit down with Lucas Cooke, the CEO of Field and Game Australia. Lucas tells us more about the hunting rights fight in the Land Down Under and the kinds of crazy stunts the anti-hunting movement uses to sway public opinion. 

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0:00.0

From Thursday, November 21st to Monday, December 2nd, take advantage of Black Friday sales from First Light, FHF Gear, Phelps game calls, Dave Smith decoys, and the Meat Eaters store.

0:12.0

With discounts up to 50% off, it's a great time to stock up on some of our best-selling merino bass layers as well as all of your Western and Whitetail apparel needs.

0:23.8

Don't miss out on the biggest sale of the year.

0:27.4

And head over to firstlight.com.

0:29.8

That's F-I-R-S-T-L-I-T-E dot com.

0:33.3

Music from Meat Eater's World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana,

0:47.7

this is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan Cowell Callan.

0:52.2

Here's Cal.

0:54.1

Hey there, Cal's Here's Cal.

0:56.7

Hey, there, Cal's Week in Review listeners.

0:59.4

We have a special drop this week.

1:06.2

Getting back on some of our interviews that we told you we'd get back on because you love them.

1:09.8

And we have one that we've been working on for a really long time.

1:16.1

Lucas Cook, who is the CEO of Field and Game.

1:22.1

If you haven't heard of that, it's because they're based in Australia.

1:31.6

In a way, I heard about them through my friend Natalie Krebs who's a fantastic writer over there at was you writing for outdoor life for field and stream for that article Lucas that was an outdoor

1:37.5

life article yeah yeah so Natalie went over to Australia and she went over to Waterfowhunt.

1:46.3

Sounds super awesome.

1:48.3

But there was a devious plan afoot by Natalie to expose this really crazy to us freedom-loving Americans plot to intimidate harass hunters, law-biting hunters

2:07.3

who are just going out to enjoy hunting by activists, animal protectionists, or just folks who don't have enough to do and want to pick a fight with

2:22.0

somebody who's doing something legal. Now, before we get into that, because I'm going to ask

2:27.2

you, Lucas, to just explain your organization and your role as CEO. But I need to introduce Jordan Sillers here.

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