Episode Transcript: #1105 - Michael Hunter
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4, 3, 2, 1. Hello Michael. Welcome. Thanks man. Thanks for doing this. Thanks for coming in.
100% man. People don't know the story. We'll give them the brief synopsis. I found out about your story online because there was this viral thing that was going on about a chef who was getting protested by a bunch of animal rights activists and vegans who decided to camp out in front of your business and try to, the restaurant called Antler in Toronto.
I don't know what the fuck they were trying to do, but you decided to butcher a leg of deer in front of them and it became this horrific thing like how could you do that in a place that serves meat, how could you prepare the meat right in front of them?
How did this all get started? How did it become such a crazy viral story and why were they mad at you when there's a million other restaurants around you?
Alright, so it started in about December. About?
Clue number one. Possibly Canadian. The crazy Canadian. Besides being nice.
That's why it went viral because I wasn't being nice. I wasn't the stereotypical Canadian.
Well, you weren't even being mean. You were just doing your job in front of them.
Doing my thing. So they started in December and they really...
Trying to keep this right in front of your face.
They really got pissed off with our, we have a little chalkboard sign out front.
I'll give you the con, we have a 45 seat restaurant. So we're a small, have one business partner who's my best friend and family friend.
And we had a little chalkboard sign out front that said, Venison is the new kale.
And we get cute with our sign. We tease other restaurants around us. We have fun with the sign.
And it's fun. And the cyclist vegan rode by and took huge offense to our sign.
And all of a sudden one day these protestors just showed up.
So originally I was just kind of frustrated because they're totally misguided because we take a lot of pride in where our food comes from.
We have vegan and vegetarian dishes on the menu. And I really respect that type of diet.
So we were just totally floored with why this was happening.
And so this started to go on, they'd started to come every week.