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.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson.

And today I'm going to talk about why deer hunting is always worth it.

Are any of you fine listeners out there going a little kuku for koku puffs right now?

I know I am.

This winter started early and it has been a real bummer for months now.

And we are only like halfway through it, which is pretty depressing.

I don't know about you, but I can only organize my hunting gear and tie up some swimming jigs for some spring bass and clean the shotguns and stare it on X for so long before I try to kill the boredom other ways.

And one of those ways recently sparked an idea about why we hunt and what we actually think about hunting.

And that's what this episode is all about.

If you go to Netflix and you have search around looking for something to kill some time, you might see a docu series called Human Playground.

It's one that I recently started watching.

The first episode is all about pain. Well, actually a lot of the episodes seem to be about pain and how we as a species seek it out in unusual ways to show that we can handle it and that we deserve the bliss of not being in pain afterwards.

Does that make any sense? Probably not.

Anyway, there are arcs to the first episode that involve a woman running a marathon in the desert, which if it doesn't sound too terrible means it's probably been since grade school since you laced up some running shoes.

There's, I don't know, like bullfighting in the first episode.

There's a bike race on super slippery cobblestones that results in a very high number of broken ribs for a bike race.

And then there's a woman and I recommend everyone watch her segment because it is wild. This woman uses a chainsaw to cut a hole in the ice of some lake and I think Finland.

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