Hey guys,

Craig and I have a new podcast (4 episodes and counting)out and would love to hear AR Member's thoughts on and suggestions for it.

Here's the details.

The Outdoor Writer podcast is the podcast that's all about hunting, fishing, the outdoor lifestyle, and being a writer caught in the middle of it all. Each week hosts Gayne C. Young and Col. Craig Boddington cover the latest in the outdoor lifestyle, interview the best and brightest in the industry, answer listener questions, detail their most recent adventures, and discuss the news in an intelligent and witty manner.

Host Gayne C. Young and weekly guest host Col. Craig Boddington have a combined 70 years in the field and have covered such for magazines such as Outdoor Life, Petersen's Hunting, Sports Afield, Sporting Classics, and many, many others. They have been interviewed by the New York Times, the London Daily Telegraph, FOX News, and more (see full bios below).

Gayne's and Craig's refreshing and fun take on the outdoor lifestyle is unlike anything else in the podcast industry today and will appeal to the nation's estimated 17 million hunters, those interested in adventure and travel, and those wanting to have a fun.

Host
Gayne C. Young is the best selling author of And Monkeys Threw Crap At Me: Adventures In Hunting, Fishing, And Writing, a columnist for and feature contributor to Outdoor Life and Sporting Classics magazines, and the former Editor of Online Media Editor for Dallas Safari Club. His work has appeared in magazines such as Shooting Sportsman, Petersen's Hunting, Texas Sporting Journal, Sports Afield, Gray's Sporting Journal, Under Wild Skies, Hunter's Horn, Spearfishing, and many others. His screenplay, Eaters Of Men was optioned in 2010 by the Academy Award winning production company of Kopelson Entertainment. In January 2011, Gayne C. Young became the first American outdoor writer to interview Russian Prime Minister, and former Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

Weekly Guest Host
Col. Craig Boddington is today's most respected and popular outdoor journalists. He spent the past forty years exploring our natural world as a hunter and sharing his knowledge and experiences in dozens of books and through thousands of published articles and essays. He's a decorated Marine, an award-winning author, and continues to be a leading voice for conservation and ethical hunting around the world.



The Outdoor Writer podcast can be downloaded from iTunes at
https://itunes.apple.com/us/po...podcast/id1026126732

I wonder if Boddington's voice has been heard or if he has any input on the Cecil issue?

Uh, Cecil is discussed in episodes 1-3 but, no, Craig doesn't say anything as he was in the bush when it unfolded and wasn't keep up on the story. Yes, I envy him for that

I get tired of influential people dodging issues by claiming they were "in the bush" or out of touch.

Haven't they ever heard of satellite phones?

I have no interest in your self-promotions at a time when hunting itself is threatened by no-nothings, apparently with the concurrence, or at least ignorance, of those claiming to be our spokespersons.

What have you done? Were YOU in the bush?

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Indy

Well,
In episode 2 Phill Groff and I talk about how the media and public have ruined Walter Palmer’s life without knowing if he actually did anything illegal and how Jimmy Kimmel’s crying on air about the lion did nothing for the cat or conservation and how he’s pretty much a pussy.
In episode 3 we discuss how Delta Airlines’ move to ban hunting trophies because of Cecil was pretty God damn stupid and point out the absolute ignorance of their press release.
In episode 4 we discuss how Bob Barker should be arrested for wishing out loud in public to cut off Palmer’s head, the nonsense that is the Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act, and how CNN was the only news outlet to run an article by lion expert Niki Rust who said that hunting lions is the absolute best thing for the species.
I then bitch about Kirk Douglass coming out against hunting after spending years participating in the sport.
Then I drank a beer and pondered if Indy from AR realized that by jumping on my ass about Cecil without knowing any of the facts involved (ie listening to the Podcat) that he was almost as bad as all the people that jumped on Palmer’s ass without knowing the facts.

LOL.......... refreshing.

Thanks Gayne.

Subscribed yesterday, and started listening to Episode 1. Enjoying it so far.

I like it, good luck, Gayne.

Thanks guys. I promise both Craig and I and all the rest involved are getting better. Episode 4 is far better than 1 & 2.
Probably because I started drinking during the recording of those episodes!

Good for you Gayne and thank you
And piss on Craig's detractors
He is a great guy and he has all the regular problems in life like rest of us
But he is one of top voices for us hunters and we need more guys like him

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Originally posted by Indy:
I get tired of influential people dodging issues by claiming they were "in the bush" or out of touch.

Haven't they ever heard of satellite phones?

Do you really expect anyone to use their Sat phone to keep-up on this B.S.?

I am sure the "I was on vacation in a far away place" excuse would have worked for the CEO of Blue Bell when the listeria outbreak hit, or the CEO of Toyota when the accelerator issue hit the media, or the CEO of Firestone when the thread separation problem materialized, or the CEO of BP when the Deepwater blow out occurred . . . .

Part of dealing with the problem is being honest with ourselves on how the problem came to be and how the problem was handled, not making excuses or trying to rationalize the poor response.

I guess I would ask the question, "How many of you go on a long hunt and never talk to loved ones?"

Since the invention of the sat phone, I never have. I remember hearing about the aftermath of Katrina while on a hunt in Kigosi.

Be honest. Those in the field in all likelihood knew this was going but of course I don't know. I know I would have known.

From a production standpoint: kill the reverb.

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Originally posted by MJines:
I am sure the "I was on vacation in a far away place" excuse would have worked for the CEO of Blue Bell when the listeria outbreak hit, or the CEO of Toyota when the accelerator issue hit the media, or the CEO of Firestone when the thread separation problem materialized, or the CEO of BP when the Deepwater blow out occurred . . . .

Part of dealing with the problem is being honest with ourselves on how the problem came to be and how the problem was handled, not making excuses or trying to rationalize the poor response.

Good Lord, Mike. This whole mess is about a dead lion. How in the hell can you compare a single dead lion to incidents that sickened hundreds of people, or allegedly have cost many people their lives, or caused untold billions of dollars worth of damage to our Gulf coast and fisheries? This is about one dead lion and the ass whipping all of us who love to hunt have been taking once it hit the news media. Bitching about whether one person knew about this or not is absolutely insane...do you honestly think one person, even if he responded from Tanzania or Zimbabwe or Cameroon, could stem the flow of anti hunting drivel coming from almost every news outlet in the world?
I think we all know the answer to that one.

Karl, I actually agree with you. Whether Ben Carter was here or not would not have made one iota of a difference, zip, nada. The die was cast long before the Cecil incident broke that this was going to be a melt down. The antis were ready and we were not. That said, a number of folks have offered up the excuse that Ben was out of the country, unavailable for the first five days, had to get home, etc. That is a rather lame excuse and the point of mentioning those other incidents is that any communications strategy that is dependent on one person to execute the strategy is a poorly conceived strategy.

Thanks, Mike. The antis were ready and we were not, 100% correct. We are working on being ready for the next onslaught, I'm sure one is coming our way and we want to be ready...or at least better prepared.

There were many attacks on hunters leading up to this that went unanswered.There was little done preventative by the hunting orgs.

Maybe we should have trained people to constantly go on social media and give our views.

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Originally posted by AnotherAZWriter:
I guess I would ask the question, "How many of you go on a long hunt and never talk to loved ones?"

Since the invention of the sat phone, I never have. I remember hearing about the aftermath of Katrina while on a hunt in Kigosi.

Be honest. Those in the field in all likelihood knew this was going but of course I

don't know. I know I would have known.

Warzone yes, I talk to loved ones when I can get the INMARSAT to work. Hunting, no I don't do that. I am there for one reason, and it is to get away.

same here. i go on safari to get away, not to stay in touch. in 14 safaris over the last 17 years, i have never called home, never checked on the stock market, and could care less what is happening half a world away. it's called a vacation, for God's sake!!

Some could care less about hunting-there is nothing new here.

Not sure how we went from "I have a podcast" to Blue Bell, but oh well.

Two things.

The Podcast came about because there is almost no hunter presence in the podcast medium. Yes, there are a few but they are far and few between, not popular, almost as embarrassing as some of the TV shows out there, and not put out with any regularity. The podcast market is HUGE (Adam Carolla reaches almost a million people a day on his) and yet hunters lack a voice there. Craig and I are trying to change that.
As for hunt organizations being on social media and being proactive instead of reactive way after the fact....well, none are very interested in that. And it's a real shame. Look at how most major companies, organizations, and gov agencies have taken to social media with a personal voice: the FBI comments on the TV show Parks and Recreation, the Arizona Dept of Transportation jokes that they caught a Bigfoot on a highway camera, companies like Dos Equis and Progressive Insurance have their "Character Spokespersons" commenting on the media. Hunt organizations? Most - the big, the small, and the in between - are going the other way.

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Originally posted by boarkiller:
Good for you Gayne and thank you
And piss on Craig's detractors
He is a great guy and he has all the regular problems in life like rest of us
But he is one of top voices for us hunters and we need more guys like him

Gayne,

I listened to the first one last night. It was fine, I think it will get better as they go along.

A video pod cast would kick more ass.

I promise that they do get better. We're about to load Episode 5. I'll let y'all know when it's up!

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Originally posted by K Evans:
Thanks, Mike. The antis were ready and we were not, 100% correct. We are working on being ready for the next onslaught, I'm sure one is coming our way and we want to be ready...or at least better prepared.

That's very nice, Karl, but what are you doing to walk the walk?

Has DAC sought to meet with the airlines, starting with Delta?

Has DSC worked out a method to get trophies back to the USA absent any success with the airlines?

Yes

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Originally posted by jdollar:
same here. i go on safari to get away, not to stay in touch. in 14 safaris over the last 17 years, i have never called home, never checked on the stock market, and could care less what is happening half a world away. it's called a vacation, for God's sake!!

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Originally posted by Indy:

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Originally posted by K Evans:
Thanks, Mike. The antis were ready and we were not, 100% correct. We are working on being ready for the next onslaught, I'm sure one is coming our way and we want to be ready...or at least better prepared.

That's very nice, Karl, but what are you doing to walk the walk?

Has DAC sought to meet with the airlines, starting with Delta?

Has DSC worked out a method to get trophies back to the USA absent any success with the airlines?

Indy:
Not sure who DAC is, but DSC is working with the airline industry thru their trade organization trying to resolve the shipping problems. Can't say a lot of progress has been made, but we are trying. This problem has also been brought to the attention of several elected representatives who are "friendly" to hunters are interested in the outcome of the talks.

As for working out ways for ways to have trophies shipped to the USA...no, that is not part of the DSC mission and I really can't understand why you would think we should do such a thing.
I personally prefer to have my trophies shipped via Delta because I clear my own trophies and Delta's warehouse is by far the easiest for me to visit, but I will pick them up wherever they arrive.

Karl:

Thank you for your reply. BTW: "DAC" was a typo. I meant to type DSC.

I am pleased that DSC is trying to turn around the airlines. But while how to get trophies back here is not part of your charter, perhaps it should be. All African hunting is being threatened.

I wonder what SCI is doing. While I may feel that DSC was a "day late and a dollar short," at least you seem to be trying now. I hear nothing about SCI. Perhaps some AR member could enlighten me.

Indy:

I don't pretend to be "influential" but your comment about sat phones struck a chord. My firm's manager has tried to get me to carry one of the firm sat phones when I go hunting for years and I have refused. The reason I go hunting to a far corner of the world is to get away from the rest of the world and the office. I suspect others feel the same way.