Steven Rinella talks with Jason Phelps , Dirk Dirham , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Chester The Investor makes a solid plan on a walleye boat; how skepticism is the chastity of the intellect; reconsidering the use of a sous vide wand to warm up your bathtub; Steve's FOMO were he to die while other humans got to keep living; Texas' record low temperatures wiping out piles of exotic big game; yet another nipple ripping tale; taxidermying an ...
Mar 01, 2021•2 hr 6 min
Steven Rinella talks with Nels Johnson , Ryan Callaghan , Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider , and Phil Taylor . Topics discussed: How the name Phil means lover of horses; the crossbow arms race and slippery slopes; a war against lucky people and children; The MeatEater Podcast saves yet another life ; outing your grandpa for unsportsman-like conduct; when bad people mess with good beaver trappers; a solar and wind footprint the size of Texas; acid rain of days past; what does "clean coal" act...
Feb 22, 2021•2 hr 1 min
Steven Rinella talks with Doug Duren , Spencer Neuharth , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Picking on Chester's donut purchases; Sonja's coyote pecker bone earrings; was Elvis's colon really full of cheeseburgers?; when you're an early 1800s botanist who gets held up by the New Madrid Earthquake and your assistant steals your samples, then publishes your information; duck hunters murdered on Reelfoot Lake ; how Spencer sends boxes of rocks to Do...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 39 min
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. John Koprowski , Spencer Neuharth , Clay Newcomb , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Having a Phd in all things squirrels; what a squirrel has for a penis; when squirrel semen hardens into a waxy plug to prevent other squirrels from breeding; 45 male squirrels chase a single female for six hours; what the hell is a drey?; settling the score on testicle biting; how color phasing works; hitting the ground from 70 feet and shaking off the daze; freakish ways to die...
Feb 08, 2021•2 hr 11 min
Steven Rinella talks with Rick Hutton , Rick Smith , Dirt Myth , Loren Moulton , and Seth Morris . Topics discussed: Steve's fake teeth woes; Dirt's incredibly dirty hat; when Steve's brother ate a lightbulb; the ban on Sunday Hunting; how Seth and Rick had to identify 50 trees just by looking at little twigs; Rick's dad as the first American to get a deep brain stimulator implanted through his left shoulder so he could still shoot a gun right handed; huntin' the strippins; Steve's parents' hone...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 41 min
Steven Rinella talks with Brandon Butler , Matt Desrosiers , Chase Millemann , Duke Wasteney , Seth Morris , Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: When an arsonist is caught on trail cam; Steve trying to take credit for Luke Comb's "Better Together" ; creating a big foot hunting season; the "build not bought" movement; catching whoever poached a nanny mountain goat with a crossbow; when neighbors suspect you're BBQ-ing a neighborhood dog; makeshift-grills; Cal's sister birthing ...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Steven Rinella talks with Brandon Butler , Jim Heffelfinger , Brody Henderson , Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Steve's fourth quarantine and how his kids turned against their mother; when a poacher burns you down; how to support our buddy Brandon ; Mingus the dog's first mountain lion and Jani's deep-felt pride; can Mingus excel as a coon hound?; when your scrotum retains its natural abilities to retract and firm up, and implications for horsemanship; caught on camera: a ...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb , Seth Morris , Chester Floyd, and Spencer Neuharth . Topics discussed: the time when Steve put a hit on a beaver; wolves and their magical ability to sniff out CWD-positive deer; why Doug feels you're missing the point; would you feed CWD-positive deer meat to your dog?; having mega colon and then dying from constipation; the handbook of mummy studies; how Seth survived a weasel attack; fear of too much renewable energy infrastructure and the failure to re...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 40 min
Steven Rinella talks with Mike Matney , Rick Matney , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. Topics discussed: duck feet earrings; something in the cosmos that's making people find buffalo skulls; "muskrat moms"; making enough money trapping as a 16-year-old to buy a brand new four-wheel drive pickup truck; the unpredictability of fur prices; Mike's no grip trap ; trapping as an excuse to run around in the woods; ‘skrats off minty toothpaste; why are trappers always tasked with explai...
Jan 04, 2021•2 hr 1 min
Steven Rinella talks with Jesse Griffiths , Clay Newcomb , Chris Gill , Rick Smith , and Seth Morris . Topics discussed: a requester of GPS collar data explains himself; axiographics; a trail cam enthusiast; meat sheets and meat slaps; the geographic differences of meat cookery; the boneless bear ham through a funnel mesher; what LeBron and bacon have in common; getting mauled by a variety of tick species; Seth's setup of the hog hunt story; the sound a javelina's lips make while eating turkey s...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 34 min
Steven Rinella talks with Whit Fosburgh , Clay Newcomb , Brody Henderson , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: tail strippers and Clay's squirrel tail ornaments ; tanning squirrel hides; smash burgers; crazy fossilized footprints of hunters and a one-legged person from 20,000 years ago; pondering dropping out of the block management program; mistaking movement and a person for a deer; a local priest suffering hunter harassment; intentionally popping mountain bike tires by stringing a wire; out...
Dec 21, 2020•2 hr
Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb and Mark Kenyon . Topics discussed: Clay's sleep-to-hunt equation; Steve's distrust of men-only clubs; The One Shot Antelope Hunt catches up to reality; does Steve qualify as a ringer?; the saga of Bruno the bear; the homing instinct; loving Paul Revere, whether he road or not; requests for radio collar data; the survival of outliers; the bounty of the Back 40 plus 24 bonus acres; all the things you do to renew life on the land; turning sameness into a bunc...
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 47 min
Steven Rinella talks with Cody Cannon , Chris Alexander, and Khris Poage of Whiskey Myers , and Spencer Neuharth , Sam Lungren , and Corinne Schneider. Topics discussed: switching your name to Steve Fever; natural condoms made out of lamb casings; castration bands; unethical hunting and plowing down an elk herd; calf shelters as a moral boosting thank you to ranchers who enroll in block management; to wolf reintroduce or to not wolf reintroduce?; when the best stuff about America is written by a...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 56 min
Steven Rinella talks with Ben Friedman (youngpageviews) , Spencer Neuharth , Sam Lungren , Brody Henderson , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Spencer's long day spent rescuing an owl and then getting his buck because of karma; transporting a doomed owl in a plastic tote; Steve's kids' mouse; the Federal Duck Stamp having racked up a billion dollars so far; how Darien, CT folks are upset about the new Federal Duck Stamp incorporating an image of hunting; Janice’s box of airfreighted shrimp t...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 48 min
Steven Rinella talks with Taylor Thorne , Corinne Schneider, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: hand written love letters to MeatEater; shielding Steve from rejection by the Deep Drop Community; photoperiod and how smoke affects hunting; yelling at mallards; living in a camper and traveling around the country with firearms ; Steve mixing up 3-gun and cowboy action; breaking down 3-gun; heavy metal; Teacup Jani and Facebox Steve; mag-fed shotguns; do more folks own guns than not o...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 54 min
Steven Rinella talks with Kurt Racicot , Rick Smith , Dirt Myth , Ridge Pounder , Chester Floyd , Seth Morris . Topics discussed: Harder than a woodpecker's lips; being dialed in on your system; a 10,000 year old footprint sandwich of early human, mammoth, and ground sloth; when a pelican starts a brush fire with a carp hanging out of its mouth; dippin' to deficate; free pouring powder and Daniel Boone’s ballistics; bed ticking and muzzleloader families; making your own bird shot by melting lead...
Nov 16, 2020•2 hr 12 min
Steven Rinella talks with Benjamin Wallace , Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: Ben's article and Spencer's article ; topless vs. shirtless; the world's most expensive bottle of wine ; the Fenn cache of Clovis points and the Fenn Treasure of gold and jewels; when a Playboy Bunny is gifted a mummified baby crocodile; creating a treasure hunt that leads to your dead body; what is 10” x 10” and weighs 42lbs?; when the FBI gets involved; the searchers, the super...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Steven Rinella talks with Luke Combs , Reid Isbell , Dan Isbell , Luke Thorkildsen , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: being on the tour bus; the Fatvian Seagulls; organic vs. assembly line song writing; ten cents per song on one of the best selling albums of all time; on being a lunch pail song writer; where country music and the outdoors intersect; on maintaining country music street cred in the outdoors; dudes that are actually like the dudes in country songs; letting the chickens out in ...
Nov 02, 2020•2 hr 6 min
Steven Rinella talks with Juanita Vero , Casey Snider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Very dramatic wind; a lightning strike that festers for weeks; codifying hunting and fishing in the state constitution ; a privilege vs. a right; the national hobby of poking fun at California; all the levies at the tail end of ballots; how Steve wants to run for government office and propose a trapping bill; campaigning for your opponent; truly trying to understand someone with whom you disagree; neutr...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Steven Rinella talks with Michael Tewes , Neal Wilkins , Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: the ocelot as an animal that's unknown to most folks; how it hurts like hell to get bitten by a cat; chicken-ocelot bonding; the ocelot population in the US being less than 100 individuals; how mammalogists have more fun than ornithologists; a mad obsession with cats; reproduction and the minimum birth rate to maintain a population; the effect of declines in genetic variation; all the ...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Steven Rinella talks with Taylor McCall , Brody Henderson , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The time when Chester the Molester got credit for writing a Tyler Childers' song; catch-and-release for stocker trout; Steve dropping Bible knowledge about the how the Bible condemns people who shit out in the woods without burying it; chewin' Grizz and spittin' in cups; python oil; a perfect compliment sandwich; getting suspended from school because you have a BB gun in y...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 40 min
Steven Rinella talks with Tim Bristol , Miles Nolte , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The skinny on Pebble Mine ; size, type, and location; dead snow geese in a toxic hole; Butte’s Berkeley Pit; ten billion tons of waste; cyanide leech mining; the Richter scale and how Richter was a nudist; milk, bourbon, and other causes of mass fish die offs; the incredible value of sockeye salmon to life; how everything is keyed in to the salmon lifecycle; the Pebble Beach golf course; when the state pa...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Steven Rinella talks with Seth Morris , Spencer Neuharth , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: MeatEater Season 9 ; bears for Trump; finally, Spencer's squirrel nuts article ; Steve creating his own myths; how Seth should approach mentoring Steve on how to flesh beavers; catch and keep ethics; JT Van Zandt knowing where all the little spots are; taking down a nilgai; Jani's journals; hydrogen peroxide hot tips; how single side clip binos reign supreme; Jani's special Michigan hat with ear flap...
Sep 28, 2020•2 hr 1 min
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Paul Saladino , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: getting buzzed on liver ; Jani's wife's placenta made into pills; the unique nutrients in animals not found in plants; strolling around graveyards; why we were told red meat and animal fat were bad for us; tallow and lard; spurious correlations; how creatine makes vegans and vegetarians smarter; self-care is not selfish; pooping every day; plant toxicity as part of a plant's strategy to not get...
Sep 21, 2020•2 hr 8 min
Steven Rinella talks with Oliver Ngy , Miles Nolte , Joe Cermele , Kevin Harlander , Corinne Schneider, and Ryan Callaghan . Topics discussed: engineering ideas for glass bottom drift boats; hitting a hornet's nest with a fish and then getting attacked by that hornet; night panther popsicles; how Cal protects sausage from his hand hairs with latex gloves; Jon Gary and the star Starcraft of Das Boat, Season 2: Dos Boat ; how Steve learned a lot about surf casting from Joe Cermele's book ; explain...
Sep 14, 2020•2 hr 20 min
Steven Rinella talks with Ben O'Brien , Spencer Neuharth , Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: how Cal's got turned down for a Victoria Secret's pink credit card; Steve's very special method of making sucker cakes out of the fish that his kid keeps bringing home; Spencer's Bar Room Banter series and the Zone of Death ; the remotest place in the lower-48 ; the most Instagrammed outdoor places on earth ; Ben's coverage of an insane bear attack story and a face no longer attached...
Sep 07, 2020•2 hr 4 min
Steven Rinella talks with Michael Punke and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Expressing dissatisfaction with "The Revenant" movie; the Madison buffalo jump looking like it did 200 years ago; dressing up in an 1876 cavalry uniform; the challenge of giving someone else’s perspective; maiming corpses after the Fetterman Fight; carving an arrowhead out of Jim Bridger's shoulder; mountain man Hugh Glass and whether or not he blew himself up by touching a spark to a powder keg; watching an oxen turn ...
Aug 31, 2020•2 hr 6 min
Steven Rinella talks with Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles , Ryan Callaghan , Maggie Smith, Sam Lungren , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: An elderly woman’s plea to American men: carry heavy shit and buy a tool kit; hound dog training with live vs. dead raccoons; Dave's first fly fishing experience with the MeatEater crew; Steve is forced to reckon with a stand-up paddleboard; the proper way to grill trout in a campground; Dave’s adult onset pheasant hunting ; unleashing t...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Steven Rinella talks with Miles Nolte , Joe Cermele , Rick Smith , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Jani's school report on Hobo the linx; how Joe moved across the river for the tax break; the name origin of MeatEater’s new fishing podcast, Bent; Covid hair like Kenny Loggins; the Ghostbusters theme song sound effects; how the super zoom fluke lure has vastly improved Jani's fishing abilities; how the production of strawberries inspire deep passions; a perfect degree of l...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Steven Rinella talks with Tom Brokaw , Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topic discussed; Always looking over the horizon; growing up in "Igloo," South Dakota; Steve's hot tip for armageddon preppers: don't set up next to other armageddon preppers; the virtues of being a jack of all trades and having a can-do mentality; when home is a hotel for Red Brokaw; young Tom's rock collection; the OG paddlefish; being done with guns; pheasant hunting as a religion in South Dakota; ...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 49 min
