Ep. 34: Shane Dorian
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Shane Dorian is a legend in surfing. The Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, native has been defying death for around 30 years now, riding giants walls of water all over the world.
To achieve what Dorian has over his career in surfing it takes a certain amount of determination and singular drive. It takes love and passion for what you do. Dorian has that in spades and it's inescapable when you meet the man. It just so happens that nowadays he's channeling a sizable portion of that energy into bowhunting.
"You'd think that I'm weird if you knew how much I think about bowhunting," he told me at his home in Kona.
Luckily for me, I don't think Dorian's weird at all and although I've never paddled toward a wave with him, we've hunted around the world together. Honestly, I've never met a more humble and honest hunter. It was with that in mind that I wanted to share Shane's story, perspective on life and relatively newfound devotion to archery. This podcast was the perfect way to do that. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | If you got kids like me, you know summer break is coming up. School's almost out. |
| 0:07.0 | It's time for that perennial question. How do you keep your kids occupied off the couch |
| 0:12.0 | when you're busy on long summer days? You sick of yelling at them, get out of the house and go, |
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| 1:50.0 | I'm Beto Bryan and today I am in Kona, Hawaii at the home of legendary surfer and all-around badass |
| 1:58.4 | Shane Dorian. Shane's a great friend of mine. Somebody I admire greatly for his, the way he |
| 2:03.6 | raises his kids, the way he lives his life, all the achievements he's had in his long career and |
| 2:08.4 | surfing, and the things he still does today. But one of my favorite things about the guy is that he |
| 2:13.6 | loves bow hunting. And that's really all he thinks about. It's all he thinks about. And it's the most |
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