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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 419: Why Discomfort (and Hunting) Makes Us Healthier and Happier, with Michael Easter

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m joined by Michael Easter to discuss his fascinating new book, The Comfort Crisis, and his surprising case for getting uncomfortable and, not coincidentally, how perfectly hunting fits into this suggested way of living.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast.

0:05.9

You're home for dear hunting news stories and strategies.

0:09.9

And now your host, Mark Kenyon.

0:13.4

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast.

0:16.1

I'm your host, Mark Kenyon, and this is episode number 419.

0:19.9

And today, I'm joined by Michael Easter to discuss his fascinating new book, The Comfort

0:25.7

Crisis, and his surprising case for getting uncomfortable and not coincidentally how perfectly

0:32.1

hunting fits into this way of living.

0:38.5

Alright, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast brought to you by First Light.

0:43.0

Today, we've got a really interesting show and a little bit different than our usual

0:47.8

ones.

0:48.8

We're not specifically talking about White Tailed Deer or Dear Hunting, but we're

0:54.1

talking about a book that I recently read that, in the whole time I read it, I just kept

0:59.6

thinking myself, this is why I hunt.

1:02.7

This is why I hunt so much of what's covering this book is like a master class or I don't

1:09.6

know, a thesis on why folks should pick up hunting.

1:14.2

Now this book is called The Comfort Crisis Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild Happy

1:21.1

Healthy Self.

1:23.1

And Michael Easter, the author of that book and the guy who we're going to be talking to

1:26.2

on the show, went in and just took a fascinating journey across the world examining how we

1:33.8

as modern Americans and people across the globe have gotten kind of soft.

1:39.0

We've gotten too comfortable and it's taken us away from those core things that made

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