Ep. 37: Tyler Jones - Life Lessons From the Woods
In Pursuit
MeatEater
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Rich sits down with Tyler Jones to talk whitetail hunting, training through injuries, raising resilient kids, and how adversity often shapes us more than success ever could. They get into the value of fitness for hunters, lessons learned through sport and fatherhood, and why preparation is about a lot more than punching tags.
It’s a conversation about faith, grit, and the long road of becoming who you’re meant to be.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Listen up, Mother Scratchers. |
| 0:05.6 | If you listen to this show, you know how I feel about public land. |
| 0:08.9 | Well, right now, there are 4,000 acres along the Tucker Town Reservoir in North Carolina. |
| 0:15.7 | That could either go to developers or they could become public game lands forever. |
| 0:22.1 | We've teamed up with our friends at OnX to make sure it's the latter. |
| 0:26.5 | We want them going public. |
| 0:27.6 | Here's the deal. |
| 0:28.7 | Meat Eater and OnX have each put up $100,000 to match your donations. |
| 0:34.1 | That's $200,000 in matching funds on the table. But this only runs from April 14th to May 14th. |
| 0:40.9 | When the money's gone, it's gone. Go to savetuckertown.org. We're raising money to help keep it |
| 0:49.3 | public. We talk to a lot of people across the country and we get get asked a lot, like, what is it like hunting there? |
| 0:54.3 | Or, you know, people will take, they'll take videos that have historically been on, like, |
| 1:00.0 | outdoor channel or whatever where dudes are rattling in the brush country. |
| 1:03.4 | And I'm like, I can, I can hunt in Illinois and drive there faster than I can drive to that part of the state. |
| 1:10.7 | So, like, I mean, it's not, it's not the same as where I live, you know. |
| 1:15.0 | When I hunt out my back door, it's not anything like that, you know. |
| 1:18.2 | It's crazy. |
| 1:19.0 | So, like, or ecologically diverse, you know. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.5 | Oh, yeah. |
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