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🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 91 minutes
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As Father’s Day approaches, I open the show this week with some reflections on hunting with my dad and what it’s meant to me over the years. I’m also joined by writer Eddie Nickens to talk about raising kids in the outdoors, ethics in hunting and the East versus West dynamic in our community. Enjoy.
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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, |
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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 |
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1:33.5 | It's for kids eight and up. Catch a crayfish count the stars. Raise some serious outdoor kids with |
1:40.2 | some serious know how get the book now. No, hey, everybody. Ben O'Brien here episode 65 of the |
1:48.2 | hunting collective coming at you. It's going to include a message from me about Father's Day. |
1:53.3 | And then an interview with the great and powerful Edward T. Nickins, the writer extraordinaire. |
2:01.2 | But before we get to all that, we're going to talk about the Yeti Go box. Now the Yeti Go box is bad ass. |
2:08.2 | It's airtight watertight. It's an awesome box to keep whatever is important to you. And I just |
2:14.5 | got back from the bare woods and we were camping out my dad and I and public lands running around. |
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