Hunting Warhead is coming back, but first: Real talk on high-risk reporting

Hunting Warhead

CBC

True Crime

4.9 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

They say you should never meet your heroes. Daemon Fairless disagrees. First, he has an update on the return of Hunting Warhead. But then he takes us behind-the-scenes on another project he’s been working on as a story editor: The Outlaw Ocean. This is a frank, illuminating discussion with Ian Urbina, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who quit his New York Times job to do some of the hardest, most difficult and often dangerous reporting in the world. He’s since become the de facto beat reporter for the world’s oceans — and his investigations reveal the shocking prevalence of forced labour, mind-boggling overfishing, and the hard truth is that it’s all connected to the cheap seafood we love. If you have the stomach for the kind of viscerally tough reporting we do on Hunting Warhead, we know you’ll appreciate The Outlaw Ocean — another show that sheds light on the darkest corners of the world, and goes where others won’t. Find and follow The Outlaw Ocean (S2) here: https://link.mgln.ai/oo-hw

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0:00.0	I am Gavin Crawford, the host of Because News, Canada's funniest news quiz.
0:03.7	Every week, we make jokes out of the headlines with help from a panel of brilliant comedians like Alice Moran.
0:09.1	Hi there, I'm a sweet little Alberta dirtbag with very gentle takes.
0:12.6	They call me light, sweet, and crude.
0:14.6	Half your job is making jokes, but the other half is scoring points.
0:18.0	What subjects do you net the most points in? Sports, but also space, because I went
0:22.7	to space camp so much as a kid, not to brag.
0:25.0	That's the exact amount of knowledge you need
0:26.5	for this show. Stay vaguely informed
0:28.6	while in good company. With me.
0:30.9	Listen to Because News, available wherever you get
0:32.6	your podcasts.
0:35.1	This is a CBC
0:36.6	podcast.
0:38.9	Hey, it's Damon.
0:40.8	I want to thank everyone who's listened to Hunting Warhead over the years.
0:44.6	You're still lighting up this feed years after we first dropped back in 2019.
0:50.2	And honestly, it kind of blows my mind that this pre-pandemic podcast about such a tough topic
0:56.0	is still on so many people's radars.
0:58.0	People are still posting about it on Reddit.
1:01.0	So I wanted you to be the first to know that Hunting Warhead is coming back.
1:06.0	A new season is coming. I'm the host, and it'll be out sometime early next year.
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