Steven Rinella talks with JT Van Zandt , Jesse Griffiths , Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Lola and Stone Age chewing gum; how Texas is the highest of the high and lowest of the low; hunting nilgai; poop piles; how Steve shot the top of a nilgai's heart out and then saw it run off like it was carrying the mail; electro-tenderizing meat using a car battery; fish-spotting abilities; flounder gigging; appreciating silence; when dolphins join your hunt; and more. Connect with Ste...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 47 min
Steven Rinella talks with Kylee Archer, Samantha Bates, Maggie Smith , Tracy Crane , Brody Henderson , Kevin Harlander, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Brody's elk and trout-infested house is for sale; Kevin's hog-fattening business; Pfeilstorch, which is German for a stork with an arrow stuck in it; crying after butchering; bring the scope to your eye and not the other way around; Cal's bowel movements; how to be a good hunting mentor; hot tips on making jerky; and more. Connect with Stev...
Dec 30, 2019•2 hr 24 min
Steven Rinella talks with Anthony Licata , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor, Mark Kenyon , Samantha Bates, Corinne Schneider, Ben O'Brien , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Trippin' on nutmeg; cutting corn with Doug Duren ; Cal as the ultimate elf; how MeatEater's Whiskey makes the best eggnog in the world; Christmas hunting and fishing traditions; why you should buy Kenyon’s new book, "That Wild Country" ; Santa reads a hunting poem; Latvian lead throwing as a way to predict your future; and m...
Dec 23, 2019•2 hr
Steven Rinella talks with Director of Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Martha Williams , Greg Lemon, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: A fancy playdate that includes some deer stalking; different names for your fish and game agency; death to blue laws; hunting with an atlatl; regular science vs. social science; what does it mean to love a resource to death?; when science is weaponized; rainbow v. walleye; inflatable swans; will GYE grizzlies ever be delisted?; and more. Connect with Steve ...
Dec 16, 2019•2 hr 43 min
Steven Rinella talks with New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, Cody Fahrion, Rick Smith, Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: All those home runs; the value of a high ass; Steve and Jani’s disagreement over “natural”; shooting a duck on the ground and a turkey in the air; chocolate milk, squats, and yodel-sounding farts induced by chocolate milk; what it feels like to win a million dollars, meet Seinfeld, and then hunt with Steve; Pete's first buck; and more. Connect with Stev...
Dec 09, 2019•1 hr 50 min
Steven Rinella talks with Buddy Levy and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Jumping out of planes with sacks of cash; the outlaw Claude Dallas as both an asshole and a good book subject; a crash course on David Crockett ; the Labryinth of Ice ; promiscuity on the frontier; eating spuds basted in human fat; flossing out a bullet hole with a silk handkerchief; that time when Steve mistook a communal sink for a urinal; bumpkin pride; Jani eating dehydrated placenta pills; and more. Connect with Stev...
Dec 02, 2019•2 hr 20 min
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Lawrence C. Todd and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: kill sites; the meaning of an artifact; taphonomy: the study of death; possum that took up residence inside of a dead buck; big-assed tongues; Larry's "it's not my problem, I'm retired" ethos; humans as the most invasive species; catch and release archaeology; high elevation corridors ; the argument against Steve’s argument that people should leave wilderness alone; a child-like curiosity; and more. Connect with...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 53 min
Steven Rinella talks with Rick Smith , Danny Morrison, Sean Weaver, Ryan Callaghan , Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Steve's favorite thing to talk about: swiping right for love; how Danny blew off two of his toes while goose hunting; South Dakota's historic flooding and underwater highways; how fish eggs can survive in bird shit; Cal’s voyeuristic tendency to watch salamanders make love; Matt Rinella's "Trespassers Welcome" sign; shooting ducks over wasted tofu; and more. Co...
Nov 18, 2019•2 hr 10 min
Steven Rinella talks with Adam Weatherby , Landon Peterson , Stewart Peterson , Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: A shot so bad it didn’t even spook the buck; Wyoming’s Region G; magic mountains and crooked skies ; animosity toward your mentor; horses vs. mules as hunting equipment; riding horses on steep-assed cliffs; is it unsportsmanlike to shoot bedded bucks?; Janis shooting a buck in self defense; wanting to become a cowboy; adopting butt pad technology; and more. Connect ...
Nov 11, 2019•2 hr 11 min
Steven Rinella talks with Maggie Smith, Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: How willows grow toward the sound of water; Cal’s famous prehistoric bison tooth; more on Sneaky Pete the turkey ; Maggie as a brand new hunter ; R3 and R1.5; the slightly distorted reality of filming hunts ; when Steve's dad figured out his kids curse like holy hell; flying with firearms, ammo, and game meat; Steve's backcountry meal plan; the animals that get your blood pumping; and more. Connect wit...
Nov 04, 2019•2 hr 11 min
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Alan Lazzara , Ryan Callaghan , Brody Henderson , and the spirit of Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: On missing Jani; the piranha of the north; the cadaver bone in Steve's mouth; is it really ok to use super glue to patch yourself up?; treestand falls and opening your scro on a hook; living to hunt another day; how to apply tourniquets ; chainsaw injuries; outdoor medical kits; how to save your friends from dumb hunting accidents; and more. Connect with Steve and...
Oct 28, 2019•2 hr 12 min
Steven Rinella talks with epidemiologist Timonthy Sly , Sam Lungren , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The meaning of the word "epidemiology"; tularemia and rabbits; ashing deer meat; on being trichinosis positive; cannibalism; what’s up with eating raw freshwater fish?; beaver fever; ribbony tape in your feces; putting money in your mouth; having a third ex-wife; the alimentary canal; just asking to be eaten; sucking discs; the various -osis things that can happen to you; and more. Connect...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr 44 min
Steven Rinella talks with Spencer Neuharth , Danielle Prewett , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Starting the rut by mixing corn and Viagra; fact checking the poisonous status of daddy long legs; what, exactly, is flavor?; appreciating the natural; paper towel budgets; how to properly brown ground meat ; theories on fat content; Ol’ Cal’s throat roast; the rules for applying salt; death bed wild game cooking advice; and more. Order MeatEater's Straight Bourbo...
Oct 14, 2019•2 hr 20 min
Steven Rinella talks with Danny Schmidt , Chris Gill , Rorke Denver , Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: More on the pros and cons of flip flops; getting your heel peeled off by an alligator’s back; Steve's annoyance with people being annoyed over people doing stupid things in a park; the immense hunting pressure in southern Colorado; strapping stuff to the outside of your truck; CO’s last grizzly; thru-hikers; elk feeds; the non-binary nature of hunting; and more. Connect wit...
Oct 07, 2019•2 hr 8 min
Steven Rinella talks with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Botching people’s names; blacksmithing; fishing with a single fly forever; 18 strands of white stallion tail; Steve being good at libraries; feeling the current with your testicles; taking kids fishing on the Crow reservation; riding out an avalanche and burying a dead friend; being an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back; Yvon in jail; Jani on karma; "Fuck Mars"; and more. C...
Sep 30, 2019•1 hr 56 min
Steven Rinella talks with Anthony Licata , Doug Duren , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: drinking curdled mother's milk from a calf's stomach; bluegills on dip; Steve's sebaceous cyst as fish bait; the Fort Keogh gate situation; clearing the air with Doug over CWD; Cal's bugles; crunch-pfff; what happens when an elk falls off a cliff; Matt “MacGyver” Rinella kills a bull with the button from his pants; hunting with a marching band; “it’s legal!”; and more. En...
Sep 23, 2019•1 hr 53 min
Steven Rinella talks with Greg Fonts , Alex Reynaud , George Scheidt , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: How to free dive and read a reef; hole hunting; nibbling for curiosity; how to corner a ling cod; where grizzlies end and great white sharks begin; spearfishing as a way to find out everything that’s wrong with your body; vomiting coffee through your snorkel; the barely existing membrane separating Steve's brain and body; what exactly does “ground and pound” mean?; and more. Connect wit...
Sep 16, 2019•1 hr 45 min
Steven Rinella talks with the author Tom McGuane , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: What to write on your gravestone; Tom's lifelong bond with Jimmy Buffett and Jim Harrison; is Jack Nicholson kind of a prick?; living with Marlon Brando; The Missouri Breaks; shooting into coveys; the profile of a "Fudd"; the relationship between biodiversity and active ranch land; before Key West became Key West; America as a people; becoming nobody on a windy porch; and more. Connect w...
Sep 09, 2019•1 hr 46 min
Steven Rinella talks with Matt Ross , Ryan Furrer , Hank Forester , Mark Kenyon , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: having kids by accident; Mark Kenyon’s “That Wild Country”; slunger and slow-walker as new synonyms for mondo; where quality deer management ends and trophy deer management begins; busting deer myths; Field to Fork ; when teeth start floating; and more. Plus, stay tuned for Steve’s special feature on the joint onX and TRCP report about state landlocked public lands . Connect ...
Sep 02, 2019•3 hr 29 min
Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb , Kevin Harlander , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: double-battered buttermilk squirrel; shit on a shingle; fell, or the skin under the skin; Kevin raising Steve's hog; MeatEater and First Lite as kissing cousins; anteater boots; say no to flip flops; when a boy horse and a girl donkey do it; doggin' on traditional bows; the time when Clay's arrow touched a bear's nose; what is meant by "fair chase"; Oklahoma bear oil; and more. Connect with Steve a...
Aug 26, 2019•2 hr 28 min
Steven Rinella talks to Jesse Griffiths , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: tons of audience death stories; flounder gigging in Texas; the human egret; more about Long Tong Jani; frying fish with a passion; Steve's strong dislike of batter; the smallmouth bass’ trashy cousin, the largemouth bass; titillation; trapping feral hogs; the garlic-tipped fork; custom ordered feral cow sausage; Jesse's first book and his upcoming book on cooking feral hogs; and more. Connect wit...
Aug 19, 2019•2 hr 6 min
Steven Rinella talks with Jason Phelps , Dirk Durham, Ryan Callaghan , Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Purple Nurple; swimming with a fairly attractive aunt; more on hunting from the Bible; Steve and Seth’s Southwest Montana nuisance beaver removal; Jason Phelps and American elbow grease; how to call in non-stop big giant bulls; plenty of latex; Dirk Durham, six-time world champion elk caller; glunking; lost calves; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instag...
Aug 12, 2019•2 hr 31 min
Steven Rinella talks with Doug Emlen , Sam Lungren , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Character above all else; good shit for a tombstone; fighting WW4 with sticks and stones; saber tooth cats and supination; a simple definition of evolution; a third generation biologist; GMO mosquitos; do does really go for big antlers?; animal arms races; Janis’ love for a good shirker; a fish that starts as a female and switches to a male; beetle battles ; and Doug’s Animal Weapons . Connect with Steve...
Aug 05, 2019•2 hr 5 min
Steven Rinella talks with John Nores and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Cartels growing pot on public land; wildlife poisoning by weed growers; Vietnam War-style punji pits in Shasta National Forest; special ops game wardens; pink death; concealing man tracks with fake cow prints and carpet slippers; Phoebe, the one-in-a-million K9 lifesaver and her 900+ arrests; secret attack commands; 445 miles of poly pipe; DIY dams; Silicon Valley science camp; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEater...
Jul 29, 2019•1 hr 44 min
Steven Rinella talks with David J. Meltzer and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Understanding radio carbon dates; crossing the Bering Land Bridge; who were the first Americans? ; the early human aversion to incest; ecotones, or where a bunch of good shit comes together; glyptodons and 3-ton ground sloths; a big extinction on one fine Tuesday; Rambo; the tidy appeal of the blitzkreig hypothesis; Clovis points; cross examining conventionalisms; snacking on bison tongue; and more. Connect with S...
Jul 22, 2019•1 hr 49 min
Steven Rinella talks with Carter Smith and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: College epiphanies; a wrong turn at Waco; social ecologist Steve Kellert and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson; private land in Texas; what happens when critters cross international borders; Aldo Leopold; thriving in order; Texas’ massive population growth; everybody's deer; capture related myopathy; hitting hogs with cars; CWD and local economies; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter Mea...
Jul 15, 2019•1 hr 47 min
Steven Rinella talks with Travis Swartz , Miles Nolte , Sam Lungren , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Steve’s field trip to the graveyard and the fishy circumstances surrounding the death of John Bozeman; Reel Recovery ; where Travis ends and Hank Patterson begins; fishing etiquette infractions; aural deception and ham juice; fair trade flies; offing the head; keeping fishing holes secret; getting arrested; effete anglers; why fly fishing is so parody-able; and more. Connect with Steve a...
Jul 08, 2019•2 hr 9 min
Steven Rinella talks with Doug Duren , Randall Williams , Matt Rinella, and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Nip ripping stories; the essays of historian Elliott West; a dead man’s brother packs him in brandy; shooting out the windows; Steve’s interview with R. Kelly; Matt’s three favorite foods; Randall's missing pituitary gland; the hunting sadness; 1SHOTJJ; Doug’s morel village; monster trucking chicken wings as a matrimonial bonding experience; hunters according to Looney Tunes and the an...
Jul 01, 2019•1 hr 58 min
Steven Rinella talks with Bo Jackson , Matt Cook, Guy Zuck, and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: The gar pike exists and Steve is way wrong; Bo Jackson’s lessons for parents and married people; hunting chickens on Saturday; Tarzan as inspiration; speed like a spooked deer; Bo’s beloved momma; George, the hunting mentor; a visit to the hog barn; the protective brain cushion of a woodpecker; Bo Knows loyalty; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter MeatEater on...
Jun 24, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Steven Rinella talks with Becky Humphries , Spencer Neuharth , Ryan Callaghan , Joe Ferronato , and Janis Putelis . Subjects discussed: Joe Ferronato as Vanna White; 8-inch beards; nail files; the Lacey Act; swapping turkeys for zebras; West Nile, bird flu and the pox; over-the-counter tags vs. tag draws; Steve’s genius idea for the NWTF ; a pretty aggressive female name; anti-shaming; how to be a good hunting mentor; the crawfish and snake diet; the beauty of saying "I don't know"; thighs and d...
Jun 17, 2019•1 hr 56 min
