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The Hunting Collective with host Ben O'Brien covers the ideologies and philosophies of the modern hunter while touching on key ideas like conservation, our value systems and how to construct a better public image. A recurring cast of top hunting voices help drive the conversation and keep things pretty damn interesting. Part of The MeatEater Podcast Network.
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Follow along as Phil the Engineer heads out on his first turkey hunt. Connect with Ben on MeatEater and InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode, Ben and Phil recap First Lite's Trek for Turkeys and read stories of podcast listeners that have had success this spring. In the interview portion of the show, Ben is joined by BHA's Land Tawney and Rachel Schmidt to talk about the 2021 Rendezvous and why gathering to celebrate public lands means much more this year. Enjoy.Connect with Ben on MeatEater and InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week's episode, Ben and Phil are joined by First Lite's Conservation Manager Ford Van Fossan to discuss the Trek for Turkeys 2021 and how it all benefits the NWTF. In the interview portion of the show, Ben is joined by Shane Mahoney to reflect on past conversations, discuss the desire to possess animals, and get an update on the Wild Harvest Initiative. Enjoy.Connect with Ben on MeatEater and InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben and Phil check in with California chapter leader Nurry Hong to talk about what's happening in his state, including an inspiring story of a disabled hunter who's kicking ass in the field. In the interview portion of the show, Ben chats with his favorite vegan and animal rights believer Dr. Robert C. Jones about whether animal rights ideologies could actually be translated into a model for conservation. You can find Robert's work by clicking here. Enjoy. Connect with Ben on MeatEater and InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben reports back on his turkey success in Texas and his pure, unadulterated excitement for the rest of the season. The guys also cover the philosophical debate that is sit/git versus run/gun and update the progress of THC's regional chapters. In the interview portion of the show, Sam Soholt checks in with his top turkey hunting destinations and his new conservation campaign. Enjoy. Connect with Ben on MeatEater and InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Ben and Phil are joined by writer and turkey expert Tony J. Peterson to talk tactics and help Phil prepare for his first hunt. Enjoy. Connect with Ben on MeatEater and InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode, Ben and Phil break down the creation of regional chapters for THC and what it means for the future. The guys are joined by Nebraska chapter leader Luke Reeves to give everyone all the details they need to join. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Phil the Engineer is out sick, so Ben is joined by Brian Lynn of the Sportsmen's Alliance to talk about a troubling documentary about wildlife killing contests and the progress with our regional chapter work. In the interview portion of the show, Ben is joined by Cornell University's Dr. James Tantillo to discuss the ethics and morality around contests in the hunting world and how to spot a bullshitter. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben and Phil check in with the amazing progress of THC's regional chapters. In the interview portion of the show, writer and journalist Patrick Durkin details the drama around Wisconsin's recent wolf hunt and why he considers it a failure. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's show, Ben and Phil are joined by musical legend Kayla Ray to finally hear the new THC theme song. The guys also break down the death totals of large scale plant agriculture and discuss THC cult regional chapters. In the interview portion of the program, Ben chats with conservationist Paul McCarney on the nuances of animal rights, the movement's history, and more. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben and Phil answer reader emails on the Bojangles Fraud, Ben's Minnesota lookalike, and the Virginia "emergent" hunter who now has a whole lot of friends in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the interview portion of the show, Ben is joined by the founders of Hunters of Color to talk about diversity in our community on micro and macro levels. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben and Phil read listener emails, talk Valentine's Day, and go through a list of hunting bills that have proposed recently throughout the country. In the interview portion of the show, Ben welcomes SCI's Director of Government Affairs Ben Cassidy to talk about Tahr Wars, the now-defunct California bear ban, and all things trophy hunting. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's show, Ben and Phil talk about their Cameo for Turks campaign to raise money for the NWTF, examine the anti-hunter populist high ground, and talk about making big bets on the Super Bowl. Next, Janis Putelis joins the guys for another Ask the Eagle segment. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben and Phil read some listener emails, announce plans for a new theme song, and dive into bear hunting in California. Next up, Clay Newcomb joins the show to talk about the "Bear Protection Act," what it means for hunters in all states, and how to make our voices heard. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben learns that Phil's dad is in the CIA, we welcome hate listeners, hear Phil's perspective on guns, and start working on a new theme song for THC. Next up, RECOIL's Iain Harrison joins the show to talk about the current ammo shortage, race and gun control, and more. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, Ben and Phil answer listener emails about badass new hunters, hunting problems with roommates, and anti-hunters in Australia. Next up, MeatEater's Miles Nolte joins the show to talk about cultural division in the outdoors, hate-based media, and the Taibbi Paradox. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this week's episode, we're opening the new year with a pledge to all the new hunters out there, and we're teaching Phil the NRA's gun safety rules. In the interview portion of the show, Ben checks in with his good buddy and hunting guide Armando Vendittozzi to talk about the good ol' days, the end of caribou hunting in Quebec, and a tragedy in the duck blind. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the second and final "Best of" show, Ben and Phil recap gator hunting in Louisiana, chasing rabbits in Maryland, tracking cougars in Yellowstone and more. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode, Ben and Phil take a look back at 2020, a year that sucked real hard, and find some bright spots well beyond the riots and lockdowns. Get ready to relive the dumper's redemption, Phil's first poop in the woods, Chuck Norris reading Aldo Leopold, and more! Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week's episode, Ben and Phil deliver the last Not So Sharp Moment of the year and answer a listener's questions about being pissed at hunters running deer with dogs. Clay Newcomb joins the conversation and talks about hunting's slippery slope, guarding the gate, and how to fight the anti-hunting movement. Enjoy. Connect with Ben and MeatEaterBen on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop The Hunting Collective Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Used to like this podcast, until he went off on a rant about Trump. I listen to these podcasts to get away from politics. Guess I'm done with this one.
Didn't know he voted for Biden. Not listening now.
A well thought out and spoken episode. Thank you for addressing issues that affect us all. Even though it's not all hunting it still affects the hunting community.
where is episode 147?
Want some cheese with that whine?
Psst, I know your military education kept this hush-hush but it took almost a week of nation wide riots for the Civil Rights Act to be enacted after the MLK assassination. Without burning a fucking cop shop, this would have been forgotten in a few days...just like Tamir Rice, Philando Castille, etc., etc., etc.
Incredible story
Yeahhhh...soooo Edison probably wasn't broken up because most of what he lost was probably really invented by others. Tesla actually did the work, so maybe it was a little bigger deal to him 🤷♂️
This guy was interesting to listen to. He is clearly emotionally invested in this subject and isn't willing to hear the other side, and takes any alternative to his view as an affront to him personally. Yes he's an academic, but he isn't unbiased as he claims.
Last time I checked in Alaska killing bears in den with cubs isnt even close to being legal. The only exception they make on the issue up here is when it's done under tribal rights. If your not part of that bubble it is a completely illegal. Aside from that I get that everyone has different views as they should, we are not cut from the same mold. That being said half way in this guy just wants to pick a fight because someone doesnt agree with every word he lays out there.
Normally I don't comment on podcasts like this....but I am cracking up at them all going back and forth giving hilarious descriptions of William Perry Pendley! On a serious note... pretty horrible what he is about, and trying to do to public lands.
Cripes...this frickin' episode. Anyone who sticks an animal in the guts with a crossbow @ 50 yards isn't going to be any better with a rifle @ 100. Archery killed animals shot in the same spot as a rifle will typically expire more peacefully. smh
The "hunting community" has done this to themselves by a) picking the orange dude in their primary & b) putting him in the WH. Cry all you want but no D president has done the damage to hunting & outdoor interests that R's have done in the last 40 years...but keep voting R...
Thank you for this.
I don't watch the Games of Thrones, because I read the books and the TV series is a love story.
Awesome podcast. Ben does a great job tackling some complex issues in the hunting world. And more importantly he does a great job allowing the listeners to hear hunting stories from multiple people. the podcast gives new hunters a chance to hear the true side of hunting that rarely get portrayed in most media.
i don't see the ethical issue of hunting to feed your dog. why should someone be expected to go buy manmade kibble from a store?
Wasnt Ben O'Brien behind the decision at Yeti to distance themselves from the NRA?
Larry mcmurtry wrote lonesome dove. you mentioned the musician James Mcmurtry as the author.
heard the Louisiana in his voice right off. Thought there's no way he is from the eastern shore.