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Ep. 188: Yvon Chouinard on Belonging to Nature

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The Ultimate Atomic Bomb for Gophers

"I was drafted in the army in 1962 and I put down my occupation as blacksmiths so they sent me the Nike Guided Missile School can you imagine what am I supposed to do hand force the missiles you got," he says. "They couldn't resist juicy fruit and to come but somehow gum them all up and then it'd be gone well the ultimate atomic bomb for gophersyou take your acetylene torch and fill the hole up with acetylene gas and then torch it that's next level next level uhWhat so if you want to do that like you never made it you never became a fur trapper but what was the first line of work? What did you wind up into

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