The speaker recounts a day spent smoking cigarettes and catching fish with a stick and hook with a recovering addict who also talked about feeling the claws of Satan in his chest as they went out looking for birds at night with a truck and rifles.
The professionals were called to catch porcupines that were terrorizing the area. They discovered two primary defense strategies - speed and quills - and used ketamine to subdue the target.
This podcast episode discusses the process of habituation in nature filmmaking where filmmakers spend hours with animals to gain their trust before filming them.