Gear: Chapter 5
Articles of Interest
Avery Trufelman
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
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A pattern for blending in. And for standing out.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you think it was going to be easy? |
| 0:02.0 | Did you think you were going to waddle your way through it? |
| 0:05.0 | Prepare yourself now for chapter... |
| 0:09.0 | Fight! |
| 0:11.0 | Okay, ready? |
| 0:13.0 | Pull. |
| 0:14.0 | That was my first time ever shooting a gun. |
| 0:21.7 | This was my second. |
| 0:24.4 | You're just rushing now. |
| 0:27.6 | That's Fisher Neal. |
| 0:29.0 | He's a hunter and a hunting coach, a hunter named Fisher. |
| 0:33.3 | Oh, you were really close that one. |
| 0:35.1 | Fisher's being so patient with me. |
| 0:38.1 | We were on public lands in New Jersey where you can shoot turkey, or in our case, shoot |
| 0:43.7 | Clay Pucks, or in my case, Miss Clay Pucks. |
| 0:47.1 | I was so bad at shooting. |
| 0:49.1 | Do you want to go to them? |
| 0:50.3 | You don't want to keep trying? |
| 0:51.7 | I don't know. |
| 0:53.1 | That's my friend Rebecca. |
| 0:54.3 | She actually is a hunter, even though she lives in New York City where it's very hard to go hunting. She was here brushing up on her skills with Fisher. This is her hunting lesson. I had just come to tag along with my microphone, and then I got roped into this lesson. You guys are talking weapons. I'm like, let's talk about clothes. We'll get there. I really wanted to ask Fisher and Rebecca about camouflage. |
| 1:14.0 | I imagined it was an important part of hunting. It's what I associate most with gun culture, right? Hunters wear camo. Wait, so can I ask you about camouflage? Not yet. Okay, okay, okay. Not yet. I assumed camo would be fundamental. I thought it would be the first thing we talked about. I kept putting my gun down and whining about it. When can I ask you about chemo blush? After we're done shooting. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Take one more. One more. Hold. Hey! Hey! Hey! We just had to tell you it was the last one. |
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