Ep. 35: Morgan Mason
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a long road for Morgan Mason to get to where he is today. It’s a story not unlike many veterans who have struggled to find their way after coming home from deployments overseas.
Morgan is from a farm near a small town in rural Kansas, and he had a pretty normal upbringing, spending a ton of his time hunting and fishing with his dad and brother. But a deployment to Iraq in 2003, at just 20 years old, changed his world.
Morgan spent his time post-war conflicted and searching for answers. The search led him to backcountry adventures in Colorado paddling whitewater or snowboarding the mountains and multiple season-long surfing and spearfishing missions in Baja. It was a time of experiential outdoor therapy that would help Morgan to rediscover hunting with an invigorating clarity.
Eventually, Morgan’s road led him to MeatEater, Inc., where we hired him as an associate editor just about a month ago. We’re happy as hell to have him. Enjoy this conversation with the newest member of our crew, because you’ll be seeing a lot from him on our platform very soon.
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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, |
| 0:18.6 | oh, sorry! Well, how do you do that? Look no further. We've got a book that will provide the answer |
| 0:25.1 | to that very question and it'll provide you a lot more. My new title, Catch a crayfish count the stars. |
| 0:32.4 | Chock full of fun activities and adventures that will help build serious outdoor kids. We're talking |
| 0:38.7 | knowledgeable, tough, competent kids with a little bit of a raw edge to them. You want to build up a good |
| 0:47.3 | hunting buddy, a good fishing buddy out of your kid? Well, start him young by teaching them how to |
| 0:53.0 | build a wildlife viewing blind. How to gig a bullfrog. How to navigate through the wilderness using |
| 0:58.9 | a variety of orientating skills. They'll also learn how to climb trees, build emergency shelters, |
| 1:04.6 | hunt for fossils, gut fish, track critters, and much more. It's me, Eater's first book for kids. |
| 1:11.6 | And one, I've been wanting to write my whole career. I was just waiting until I had kids long |
| 1:15.3 | enough to give me some expertise on the subject. And now that my oldest is 13, I've been at this |
| 1:20.8 | a long time. We've got projects and activities for the whole family to do together. And for kids to |
| 1:26.6 | try out on their own, go to the meateater.com to pre-order your copy of the book today. It's for kids |
| 1:34.4 | eight and up. Catch a crayfish count the stars. Raise some serious outdoor kids with some serious |
| 1:40.8 | know-how. Get the book now. Hey everybody, welcome to episode number 35 of the Hunting Collective. |
| 1:51.4 | And of course, I'm Ben O'Brien. And this week we are in Bozeman, Montana on a Saturday |
| 1:58.5 | afternoon in the meateater offices, the lovely brand new meateater offices full of plastic tables |
| 2:05.6 | and no office furniture. And I'm hanging out with our new associate editor Morgan Mason. |
| 2:12.2 | And Morgan came to this company from Gear Junkie and moreover from Wakefield Kansas as a small town, |
| 2:21.1 | farm kid who's got a pretty bad ass story to tell us about. Joining the army headed to Iraq, |
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