Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations Podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better

deer hunting, and now your host, Tony Peterson.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations Podcast, which is brought to you

by First Light.

Today's episode is all about those pesky little words always and never, and how they are,

or at least can be a deer hunter's biggest enemy.

I'm a firm believer that one of the things that holds us back as a species and as individuals

is that we cling too tightly to what we believe.

It's easier than being wrong, of course, but it's also easier than having to think through

issues and explore ideas.

We love short cuts, and our history is one that is tightly interwoven with intellectual

short cuts that promise to do the thinking for us.

That might seem crazy, but wasn't all that long ago that we thought stupid stuff like

piles of straw produce baby mice, and then if we sailed far enough into the ocean, we just

fall right off the edge of the earth.

Wired hunters have many, many outdated or just not, I guess, black and white ideas that

hurt us too.

In this episode, I'm going to talk about a lot of them.

If you listen to this podcast enough, you know that I love space.

I just think it's pretty amazing what we're learning and really amazing what we could learn.

Humans, as long as we have been humans, have been star gaisers.

It really wasn't until probably about the 1950s when there was a TV in every living room

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