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•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb , Rick Smith , Seth Morris , Janis Putelis , and Donald Trump Jr. Topics discussed: Federal blaze orange laws; blood trailing dogs as an ethical tool for recovery; all the songs written about Jani and skiing; fish rigor and how AK's Fish and Game has it dialed; Steve and Seth's new TV special, Deep Drop Boyz; how cave art puts a smile on Rick's face; the definition of a therianthrope; elk esophogi replacing radiator hoses; a hatchling in a car part crossing...
Aug 03, 2020•3 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Ramsey Russell , Hanzi Deschermeier , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: How Jani is so not a trapper that he reminds himself to check traps by writing "coon" on his hand; Frito pie with mountain lion; Corinne and strawberries; breaking down what it means to flesh something out; the A.S.S. movement , the tissue issue, and how surface shitters are like meth heads; ocellated turkey stories and how badly Steve wants to hunt one; Ramsey on a life of co...
Jul 27, 2020•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Rue Mapp and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: A solid two-syllable, navigational name; when your cowboy dad hangs pigs in your garage and you don't want kids on the school bus to see; how parades mean different things to different people; Outdoor Afro re-connecting black Americans to the outdoors ; upping your nature swagger; unpacking statistics; how black children drown at five times the rate of white children in the US; Harriet Tubman as a wilderness leader; losing ...
Jul 20, 2020•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Karl Malcolm , Mike Ruhl , Jeremy Romero , and Seth Morris . Topics discussed: Jewel and being attracted to snaggle teeth; Teen Wolf; how the Flip Flop Flesher no longer fleshes squat; White Sands Missile Range as the original introduction site of the African oryx; mildly radioactive Trinitite for sale; use of the word skookum; getting stuff your mom makes vs. getting Nike shoes, Doritos, and Michael Jackson jackets, or how Steve's parents didn't buy their kids stupid s...
Jul 13, 2020•2 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with chef Michael Hunter , Brody Henderson , Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: The omnipresence of dandelions; gas station diner to big time chef; the irony of applying preservation techniques to food and then eating that food right away; Steve overriding his own “first in, first out” freezer rule; woodcocks dropping bowels; cattails; vegans both protesting and supporting your restaurant; accidentally outing the butcher shop next door; counter-protesting ...
Jul 06, 2020•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with meat scientist Dr. Chris Calkins , Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: debunking meat myths; how stress affects the flavor of meat; myoglobin and hemoglobin; why you shouldn't cut into an animal before rigor mortis is complete; muscle is muscle; Steve's insistence on saying "red cutter," when it's actually dark cutter; the benefits of electrocuting meat; to bleed or not to bleed; muscle is 75% water; why you should keep the bones att...
Jun 29, 2020•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Jim Phillips , Corinne Schneider, Spencer Neuharth , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: never paying for an antler; Steve as an incidental shed hunter; Jim refusing to insure his horn shed; an important premonition; getting poked; guessing at the value of 16,000 antlers; a little man living in your body; zigs and zags; not counting brow tines; having a 400-ton rock collection; donating antlers for a sting operation; not getting with the program; enjoying...
Jun 22, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Adam Weatherby , Kevin Wilkerson, Luke Thorkildsen, Ryan Callaghan , Brody Henderson , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: boring stuff about beer; Elmer Fudd is now disarmed, Steve in small claims court; the Long Tong Song (credit to Andy Martin); indirectly talking to your boyfriend through a baby cat voice; Kevin regenerating his thumb; Jani bars; Rinella-Putelis 2020 and MeatEater's goal to open up more access to public land; Cal's gluteal crease; pro...
Jun 15, 2020•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Boone and Crockett Club 's Justin Spring, Kyle Lehr, and Tony Schoonen, plus Phil Taylor and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Apologies to a dude with a rotten whitefish; a child's marble in a turkey’s gizzard; Wonders of Wildlife and selling lures out of your dad's liquor store; is Steve's dad in the B&C record?; Boone and Nugent; deductions and hunter-based grievances with the B&C scoring system; how much Steve loves the word, "penalize"; bilateral symmetry a...
Jun 07, 2020•2 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Brody Henderson , Spencer Neuharth , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Regs; Covid-19 and drinking Tommy’s spit; how the new shooting-trees-over trend is an ugly thing; the mortal danger of growing a morel mushroom ; Steve's fantastic analogy for mycelium, and his general strengths in that area; MeatEater's upcoming long ass book about wilderness skills; a lack of humility on the part of Brody and Steve; .410 expressed as a “gauge”; the...
Jun 01, 2020•2 hr 59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Spencer Neuharth , Ryan Callaghan , Joe Ferronato , and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: Too many Twin Lakes; practicing civil disobedience in order to get married; a strong prejudice against yoga studios; the obvious upsides of an open bar; the mystique of morels; cracking the code on lab grown mushrooms; how Cal found a morel in a gravel patch by a manhole cover in downtown Boise; the disgruntled hunter; a nasty rabbit disease hits American shores; Spencer as a newly fo...
May 25, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Ryan Callaghan , Seth Morris , Brody Henderson , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: how all of the stuff you add to braising liquid matters; Steve draws a MT mountain goat tag; explaining point creep; spike antlers; hot tips for hunting pressurized land; the bird that nightmares are made of; strutting and gobbling as an ok way to spend a day; Pleistocene re-wilding as a complete waste of time but a fun distraction; becoming a cattle apologist with old ag...
May 18, 2020•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Bart George , Phil Taylor, Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Starting life and ending life in PJs; how the lower-48’s caribou vanished; a deceased oscillated turkey; the last ever flip flop story; Jani being a chit-chatter with his seat mates on airplanes; cows not condos; kangaroo meat being favorite; your dead dog tied to a tree; when a 3-year-old lion kills 14 alpacas in a single night, is that surplus slaughter?; a bear rolls down a hill and ont...
May 11, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Robert Reed and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: an entire peer reviewed publication from a single Burmese python poop; three dead deer inside a snake; death by hair; the Florida Everglades; being a sophomore at UC Berkeley and buying a snake to get girls to your dorm room; where the hell did they all come from?; low detection rates are a bitch; squirrels as biological exhibitionists; how Steve has a really bad endotherm bias; bio accumulation of mercury; python hu...
May 04, 2020•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Murphy , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The wild swings of rabbit populations; a hunting station wagon brought back from the dead; a dog named Wings&Things; wanderlust; an epic hunting trip to Mongolia; how your shit needs to be in shape to hunt snowshoe hares; the last remaining eagle hunters in the world; an owl, three golden eagles, two ravens, five Mongolians, and two Americans on horseback trying to catch a critter; how harness boots a...
Apr 27, 2020•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Mark Kurlansky , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Mark being a lifelong fisherman; fisheries and over fishing as only minor problems by comparison; how salmon get hit by everything we do wrong; the 11-foot-high jump of the salmon; Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain and dedicated fly fisherman; the Atlantic Ocean's decreasing carrying capacity; why catch it if you're going to release it?; calibrating the success of salmon stock recovery to population n...
Apr 20, 2020•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Evan Hafer , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: ice fishing is not a crime; exactly how big is a big blood transfusion?; let’s sort out addiction issues later; ass goblins; Bergmann's rule and Allen's rule; negligent discharges; pissing out your car door and into your ice hole; Black Rifle Coffee Company ; growing up outdoors; why it’s called MeatEater; having more degrees than intelligence; back-slapping, pleated-Dockers-wearing, back-nine D-bags; accli...
Apr 13, 2020•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Phil Taylor, Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Steve's violated sense of artistic sensibility; Cal gets robbed by meth heads; is it okay to kill someone for stealing your shit?; how everyone knows the sound of their own truck; stick 'em up!; Steve’s elaborate vengeance fantasies; making the perfect batch of turkey stock; prepping vs. supporting your community; how Cal borrowed Steve's dehydrator and will not return it during this time of need; hunti...
Apr 06, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Michael Chamberlain , Brody Henderson , Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Just how much is a unit of blood?; packin' tourniquets; how Jani's wife won't give Steve weasel trapping permission; etymology; hunting turkeys with dogs; the kee-kee run; how many critters kill and eat turkeys?; the wild turkey Bermuda Triangle; more things that make a turkey gobble; mesomammals; lies your daddy told you about wildlife; song meters and gobbling data; some big tu...
Mar 30, 2020•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
