Hunters do cry

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Producer Felix Poon exits his comfort zone and picks up a crossbow, to find out if one weekend in the Catskills can convert him into a dedicated hunter.

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0:00.0	Is that on speaker?
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:07.0	Hey, Nate Hedgy.
0:10.0	How are you?
0:11.0	I'm good.
0:12.0	I'm in the car with Taylor he's driving.
0:13.6	Hey!
0:14.6	So a couple of months ago producer Felix Poon called me on his way to upstate New York.
0:20.6	I've been getting flashes of nervousness like over the past couple of weeks, and then a flash
0:26.6	of excitement last night.
0:29.1	Part of me wishes that we don't see any deer this weekend. I guess that man.
0:34.0	I've had that feeling before.
0:36.0	I've had that feeling.
0:37.0	Felix is 41.
0:42.0	He's never killed an animal, never shot a gun.
0:45.0	But here he was, headed up state to go on his first ever hunting trip.
0:50.0	But picking up hunting isn't like picking up jogging. It's a commitment. There's
0:56.1	gear, licenses, safety courses, and there's a culture to hunting. 97% of people who hunt in America are white.
1:05.0	That's according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
1:08.0	That can be enough for Felix or any other person of color
1:11.0	to see hunting and think,
1:13.0	eh, no thanks.
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