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In last week's episode, Brittany Longoria and I talked about her infamous photo featuring a leopard she killed in Namibia in 2018.
A single Facebook post generated 200 heated comments.
As a result, I did an AMA video live-stream for my patrons.
Only my patrons can playback the video, but I'm releasing the audio here.
Last week's podcast opened a can of worms and left many unanswered questions. I didn't address all of the issues, but, in these 40 minutes, Rejoice and I hit some of them.
Lastly, don't worry, this won't become the WanderHunt podcast. I'll be shelving the hunting topic for at least a year. I'll focus on more important matters: hunting tourists!
In 2018, Brittany Hosmer Longoria was swept up in a social media firestorm with these trending hashtags:
What had she done to induce such a vicious reaction?
Christopher Comer has a Ph.D. and is the Director of Conservation in Safari Club International, which is primarily a pro-hunting organization.
If you found this podcast interesting and thought-provoking, you'll want to listen to my interview with the most controversial hunter of 2018.
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This show was sponsored by Health Access Sumbawa. In 2014, Jack Kennedy founded this nonprofit that is helping bring malaria control and healthcare to remote, impoverished communities. It started on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Visit their website to learn more and to donate: https://healthaccesssumbawa.org
Do you miss your voice assistant when you travel? Do you find yourself in a hotel room and saying, "OK Google, set my alarm for 6 a.m." Or "Alexa, what's the weather forecast?" Or "Siri, tell housekeeping to come here."
Soon, you won't miss your voice assistant anymore, at least, if Volara has its way.
Volara CEO David Berger shares his vision for context-driven, identity-optional, voice-first experiences across the travel journey.
Dave answers questions, such as:
Volara is the only hotel-focused solution to achieve the Alexa for Business Solution Service Delivery Designation and be named a launch partner for Alexa for Hospitality.
Glen Van Peski is a civil engineer who used his skills to engineer the lightest backpacking gear in the Solar System. Glen is the founder of Gossamer Gear.
In 2024, he released Take Less, Do More: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker.
In this interview series, Glen shares snippets of his book. The final episode is a flashback episode of Glen and Francis recording themselves chatting while hiking up San Francisco's historic Sweeney Ridge.
We introduce Glen using two filters: the negative story vs. the positive story.
Using different lenses, we can radically transform how we view macro- and micro-moments throughout our lives.
Glen Van Peski reveals one of his favorite annual backpacking trips, how to stop a snorer, and lessons about generosity.
00:00 Arizona's Buckskin Gulch
03:33 How to stop someone snoring
4:30 Lessons from a disabled son
6:45 Chopsticks as tent stakes - Chopstakes
9:30 Accepting generosity
14:30 Subtract Toward Happiness
16:40 The Generous Debit Card
In this episode, Glen Van Peski shares the story of an American worker who visited India to see where his outsourced job went. The lesson was surprising.
Do you think you're not in the top 1%? Think again.
In the first 10 seconds of this episode, you'll hear Glen Van Peski's top five tips on lightening your backpacking load. He shares several other brilliant tips on improving your backpacking skills and gear in less than five minutes.
Glen Van Peski sat in the co-pilot seat of a tiny plane that crashed, killing the pilot next to him. What happened? How did Glen and all the other passengers survive with minor or moderate injuries?
We talk a lot about death in this episode, including how Glen's mom and son died.
We end on a positive note.
In the 31st WanderLearn episode, Glen and I chat while hiking to Sweeney Ridge in the San Francisco Bay Area's Peninsula. On the ridge, there's a National Historic Landmark commemorating the historic Gaspar de Portola Expedition. The Spanish Portola was the first European to see the Bay Area in 1769.
I interviewed Fred Wehrey for this podcast and for my review of his book, Burning Shores, which I wrote on Forbes. I've copied the article below for those who are too lazy to go to Forbes.
Barack Obama called Libya a “shit show” and that it was the “worst mistake” of his presidency.
This tidbit is just one of the many facts you'll read about in The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya, which hit the shores of bookstores last year.
One of the few Americans who has an excellent grasp of this headache-producing country is Frederic Wehrey. He's a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focused on the Middle East and North Africa. He's testified before the Senate regarding Libya, he speaks Arabic and he's visited the troubled nation many times in the past few years. His book is solidly objective and nonpartisan.
Wehrey writes that the book “tries to find the turning points and missteps that caused the splintering of Libya—which I believe was not preordained after the death of its dictator. Ultimately, I want to understand what it was that caused revolutionaries . . . to turn against one another.”
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