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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide

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Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light,

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Speaker 1: creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind.

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Speaker 1: First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson.

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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

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Speaker 2: which is brought to you by First Light. I'm your

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Speaker 2: houset Tony Peterson, and today's episode is about how to

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Speaker 2: be happy and well, I guess just kind of not

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Speaker 2: sad when it comes to deer hunting. Man, We're in

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Speaker 2: a weird time right now. It seems like everyone is

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Speaker 2: on edge and everyone's depressed and stressed though, and then

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Speaker 2: happiness is like just merely a concept we came up with,

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Speaker 2: but it's not something we can actually achieve. I have

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Speaker 2: some theories on this, and while I don't have the

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Speaker 2: answers to all the world's problems, I do think if

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Speaker 2: you're a hunter, you at least have some options for

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Speaker 2: how to be a little happier and learn to just

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Speaker 2: let some shit go and live your life. That's what

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Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about right now. The phrase touch

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Speaker 2: grass is an insult that you can lob at someone

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Speaker 2: for spending too much time online. It implies that too

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Speaker 2: much doom scrolling and random hours spent looking at tiktoks

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Speaker 2: is bad for us, and that if you do that

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Speaker 2: too much, you're missing out on the real world. It's

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Speaker 2: hard to argue with that. Honestly, I feel that more

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Speaker 2: and more every day, and I feel like all of

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Speaker 2: us pretty much need to touch a little more grass.

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Speaker 2: These days. People are edgy and in some ways, you

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Speaker 2: know rightfully so the world just feel like a powder

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Speaker 2: keg right now. There are some serious wars going on

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Speaker 2: in case you haven't been paying attention, and global tensions

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Speaker 2: feel like they are real high. It's not a totally

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Speaker 2: irrational thought to believe that Russia's invasion of Ukraine could

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Speaker 2: be viewed way in the future as the event that

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Speaker 2: started World War Three. If that seems a little nuts,

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Speaker 2: do a little research on how the Second Great War

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Speaker 2: came to be and the events that led up to it.

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Speaker 2: This stuff doesn't happen overnight. Generally, it's a slow boil

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Speaker 2: and then suddenly it's not. I sure, hope I'm way wrong,

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Speaker 2: But to definitively say that's not a potential route we

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Speaker 2: as a species are headed down would probably be a mistake.

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Speaker 2: We are four years out from the start of the pandemic, too,

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Speaker 2: and it sure seems like that changed us in a

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Speaker 2: lot of ways. There are probably a lot of reasons

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Speaker 2: at least partially because for a lot of us, that

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Speaker 2: was the event that showed us we aren't as free

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Speaker 2: as we thought. The idea that the government could shut

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Speaker 2: down your business or take away your job had never

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Speaker 2: occurred to a lot of us, Or that our kids

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Speaker 2: would suddenly not be able to get on a school

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Speaker 2: bus and go away for eight hours to fill their

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Speaker 2: brains with reading and writing and arithmetic, but instead would

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Speaker 2: have to stare at screens all day to get some

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Speaker 2: level of their education. Hell, until about twenty twenty, I

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Speaker 2: think it's safe to say that a lot of us

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Speaker 2: always thought we'd have enough charman to wipe our butts with,

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Speaker 2: and we found out that some people really value that,

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Speaker 2: and we're willing to buy up copious amounts of toilet

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Speaker 2: paper on the off chance that supply chains got so

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Speaker 2: don't know, dish towels or something. I think we thought

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Speaker 2: we're facing that reality. You know, it changed, and it

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Speaker 2: didn't make us any happier. We've always known, you know,

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Speaker 2: It just didn't feel all that real. It's just something

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Speaker 2: quite what we thought. Those feelings only get worse with

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Speaker 2: the widespread phone addictions that pretty much all of us have.

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Speaker 2: We're just feeding ourselves rage inducing nonsense because we can't

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Speaker 2: what happened in a park maybe three miles from our house.

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Speaker 2: said that all knowledge is power, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Knowing the bad news of eight billion people seems to

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Speaker 2: you and I probably don't really need a reminder. We

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Speaker 2: don't need an insult to get us outside and to

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Speaker 2: get older, I'm starting to realize how important productivity and

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty far from a mental health specialists, although I

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Speaker 2: have spent some serious time and money with people who are.

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Speaker 2: The thing you often find if you go see one

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Speaker 2: own problems, if that makes sense. And you know what's

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Speaker 2: for boosting our mood and making ourselves feel better. It's

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Speaker 2: in the Turkey woods, and it's waiting out there in

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Speaker 2: take a slightly weird turn. As someone tasked with coming

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Speaker 2: the cattails, or why your trail camera strategy is hurting you.

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Speaker 2: That kind of stuff. Those are linear pieces of content

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Speaker 2: We like shortcuts to our own thinking. This is why

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Speaker 2: we like religion and auto investing and the idea that

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Speaker 2: Andy may can say the right words and suddenly your

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Speaker 2: tags will damn near fill themselves. But there's another way

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Speaker 2: good for you to meet a challenge head on and

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Speaker 2: when you go mobile for a night in a question

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Speaker 2: that they like being in nature, and they facilitate that

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Speaker 2: desire as much as possible. Sure, on paper, the idea

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Speaker 2: we play on ourselves. It's like when I bank a

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Speaker 2: extend far beyond us increasing our chances to kill a

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Speaker 2: an antidote to that sympathetic nervous system stimulation is you

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Speaker 2: I don't know, full happy Gilmore and break clubs over

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Speaker 2: They're nearly instant and nearly all positive. Think about that

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Speaker 2: this literally lowers your risk of having a major chest

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Speaker 2: grabber or developing certain chronic diseases. In this case, that

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Speaker 2: environment deer live in is actually medicine for us. Let

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Speaker 2: me frame this up another way. Do you know why

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Speaker 2: it's more expensive to book a hotel room with a

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Speaker 2: money because we are genetically drawn to nature. This is

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Speaker 2: Studies have shown that nature is beneficial to our eyesight

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Speaker 2: as well. People who spend more time in nature can

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Speaker 2: literally see better on average than people who spend more

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Speaker 2: good for depression, and that one I believe with all

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Speaker 2: this week. I'm Tony Peterson. This has been the Wired

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