Steven Rinella talks with Papa Janis, Nephi Cole , Dave Willms , Phil Taylor , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Papa Janis praises Jani for being a good dad; lobbyists; explaining the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the National Wildlife Federation ; the death of Otto Schneeloch's parents and the life of his triangular shaped bullet idea; who's got Steve's old Winchester Model 94?; shooting sports injuries on par with that of billiards; the number one rule of safe gun handling; how ...
Dec 13, 2021•3 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Brandon Palaniuk , Carl Jocumsen , Hayden Sammak , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: the first Aussie to grace the podcast studio and the first Aussy to ever make it to the top 100 bass anglers in the world in America ; Chester's family's Old Fashioned kit ; three Janises out of ten Latvians; the cancellation of Spring Bear season in WA and just how outrageous it is; native bull trout vs. invasive lake trout; when coll...
Dec 06, 2021•3 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Jack Horner , Ryan Callaghan , Spencer Neuharth , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: Is Jack Horner sick of hearing about Jurassic Park?; subscribe to MeatEater's Youtube channel and watch all of our video content, like Sourced , B-Side of Fishing , and One Week in November ; Steve one-upping Spencer with his own fabulous rock story; Gordon Lightfoot's muse; the Squirrel Doc's signed book, dinner at Kevin Gillespie's Gunshow restaurant...
Nov 29, 2021•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Jordan Budd, Clay Newcomb, Dirt Myth, and Chester Floyd. Topics discussed: Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill; "it should have been me," the hot new joint from Clay Newcomb; Dirt Myth's myth about WD 40; The MeatEater Store on Black Friday; All-Set-Chet; a rumble in Vermont over houndsman using dogs to pursue bears; getting lambasted for knocking on doors and issuing apologies; catching a cod with a gold nugget in it; why don't folks eat squirrel balls?; the silly hysteria over...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Evan Hafer , Dirt Myth , Seth Morris , Chester Floyd , and Samantha Bates. Topics discussed: Steve and Seth doing a bed-in; eating tranquilized bear meat vs. being tranq-ed yourself; skunk tail lift regulating skunk spray dispersion; the novelty trade driving skunk pelt prices; a hot tip on containing funky critter essence odors; the amazing scientific finding that California condors can procreate through parthenogenesis, when an egg develops into an embryo without fert...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Hampton Sides , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: Where Captain Cook died in Hawaii; blaming everyone and taking statues down in the future; the beauty of youth deer season; bullpen vs. arm bar; hermaphroditic parrot fish making our beaches by pooping out sand; Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos; when a gray wolf takes a 1,000 mile walk from Oregon to Southern California; the greatest American survival story of all time that no one kn...
Nov 08, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Sean Weaver, Dylan Graves, Max Barta, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: "Steve, Cal, and Rorke Denver walk into a tiki bar...;" guiding in Kansas; eating Bugles with Cheez Whiz and olives; the inseparable duo of Sean and Max; shooting Sean's upcoming waterfowl show, Duck Lore; even more oddities to be auctioned off; old-timey names; eating a deer with that deer's own teeth; throwing your kids into the deep-end of the internet; cremating a racoon; a collared deer mount;...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Pat Durkin , Tracy Crane, Clay Newcomb , Seth Morris , Chester Floyd , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Being close to death; app-controlled hearing aids; Pat's tattoos; the story behind the Blair Witch snowman in Episode 4 of Season 10 ; the correlation between being tox pos and getting into car accidents; Steve testing a small core of his own meat for our internal trichinosis longitudinal study; more talk of Chester the Divestor'...
Oct 25, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks to Sam Lawry , Paul Lewis , Ray Lockard, Brody Henderson , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: F'd Old Deer Stands is back in stock ; Chester the Divester's Book of Outdoor Etiquette, aka Chetiquette; Auction House of Oddities continues with original gnome art, Brody's black bear baculum, and a chance to win a seat at the MeatEater Podcast Trivia table; MeatEater women hunting specklebelly geese ; Yellowstone's wolves or Montana's wolves?;...
Oct 18, 2021•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb , Seth Morris , Chester Floyd , Spencer Neuharth , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: The French Getup; MeatEater's Season 10 t-shirt and "Fox in a Box" t-shirt ; Buckman Juice and a Dirt Squirt slurry for the MeatEater Auction House of Oddities ; Steve setting the high school principal straight about a gun in his truck; spitting chew in the seats of your school bus; Corinne's first antelope hunt story ; an unidentifiable broadhead lodg...
Oct 11, 2021•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Jordan Budd , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: A squirrel poaching story from Missour i ; Clay Newcomb's method of dunking and skinning squirrels ; Jani's big sheep hunt; is it a dick move to shoot a collared animal?; MeatEater's Auction House of Oddities is stacked: A Bucky Bowl, Jani's first pheasant tail, Luke Combs' signed guitar, and many other way cool originals; an ancient projectile point found inside a Mis...
Oct 04, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Jared Outlaw , Taylor McCall , Drew Loschke , Dirt Myth , Chester Floyd , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: The upper decker; the portable mud jug spittoon ; how to listen to Taylor McCall’s new album, “Black, Powder, Soul” ; Dirt Myth getting famous because of Brad Leone’s Bon Appetit video ; the trifecta and insane amounts of tobacco use; taking a sip of a dip spit cocktail; snail mail; Go Fish! Rough Fish Edition; Steve’s dad’s identification of most bird spe...
Sep 27, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Jason Phelps , Samantha Bates, Dirt Myth , Seth Morris , and Chester Floyd . Steve and Jason harvesting black walnut tree that will spawn the Line One turkey call; how this podcast made a baby; Steve recalls The Juice’s ride in the white Bronco; the need for a MeatEater book on fishing etiquette; palpating cloacas and sexing beavers on the daily; $5,000 for Chester to come to your door and sing the "hoo yip, hoo yip!" song; Steve's suspicion about the connection between...
Sep 20, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Fred Gould , Chester Floyd , Phil Taylor , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Jani rehabbing a target; the vegetarian GMO expert who used to live in a hippie van; bison garum and koji mold; MeatEater Campfire Stories and old dads giving life; asking for your ball joint back after a hip replacement surgery; the link between The Tox and entrepreneurship; strontium and a woolly mammoth that loved to walk; learning from spider mites; bitter cucumber peels due to Cucurbit...
Sep 13, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Paul Hessburg , Rick Hutton , Brody Henderson , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: How Jani doesn't like growling bear rugs; the coyote on the couch; second degree kindred; FHF's upcoming gear launches ; Brody's three and a half legged bear; Jani drawing his first bighorn tag; all the math required to pack well; redemption: the FUODS calendar sold out in 24 hours ; Season 10 of MeatEater on Netflix dropping on September 29th ; Ep. 258: "Th...
Sep 06, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Ted Franklin Belue , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Jani's trouble with pant zippers; majoring in Boone and minoring in Kenton; dropping out of school to play the banjo; Ted being an extra in Last of the Mohicans; fashion forward longhunters; Boone's "tick licker"; the difference between a long rifle and a musket; making your own powder with your urine; the importance of basic diplomacy and not reveling in war; the first long hun...
Aug 30, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb , Spencer Neuharth , Chester Floyd , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Our new series, Pardon My Plate ; Spencer's bumper pool ta ble; watch How to Clean a Sea Cucumber with Steve; echinoderms; what Steve found beachcombing after Japan's tsunami, including his USS Jimmy Carter submarine hat; fucosylated glycosaminoglycan; a sea cucumber sting op; BBQ fetus tasting notes; human foot meat and huevos rancher-toes; hyenas s...
Aug 23, 2021•2 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Andrew Radzialowski , Ryan Callaghan , Seth Morris , Kelsey Johnson , Chester Floyd , and Danielle Lopez . Topics discussed: The proper way to propose to your mate; the wolves of the Alexander Archipelago; Recovering America's Wildlife Act; Missouri's wildlife program as the envy of the nation; how conservation bills make folks in government feel good; Ryan "Ol Cal" Cal-iente Callaghan; citizen science and state-sponsored trail cams in Wisconsin; being force fed salmon ...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Tucker Carlson , Ryan Callaghan , Brody Henderson , Spencer Neuharth , Seth Morris , Garrett Long , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: MeatEater's audiobook out ranking about Matthew McConaughey's audiobook; no more bear hunting in New Jersey; solvent traps and drilling your own holes; Grumpy Middle Aged Me n; the color of spider blood and the deepest lake in America; 47,000 ticks on one moose; tarpon fishing being based on luck; why you might want ...
Aug 09, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Ed Ashby , Garrett Schlief , Todd Smith , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: a doctorate in eyeballs; how young bull rhinos will not breed as long as old bulls are holding territory; hunting and eating anything that moved in East Texas; shooting apples off someone's head with a bow and arrow; buying into the compound bow wave; a grain is 1/7,000th of a pound; the cryptocurrency called Bear Grease, trading in eeles; resistance quadruples as spe...
Aug 02, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Gillespie , Danielle Prewett , Spencer Neuharth , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: a walnut expert in Walnut, Kansas; more on "macrofrutation" and macro fructification; when an Italian count dies from eating a fly agaric and sets off an amateur mycology boom; Steve's Grand Theft Cattle idea; trout on meth; killer wolves in the Middle East and global numbers on wolf-human attacks; tasting notes of dirt; eating 50,000 year old ...
Jul 26, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Cathy Raven , Carmen Vanbianchi , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: MeatEater's Campfire Stories and a sociopathic elk poacher; when you're a scientist hitchhiking to the grocery store and you have a run in with a total creepster; what the hell are mesocarnivores; collecting data points from kill sites; how you catch and collar coyotes; why skunks stink; Carmen's new non-profi t, Homera nge; eagles and sexual dimorphism; monogamy and h...
Jul 19, 2021•3 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Taylor Keen , Clay Newcomb , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Denisovan DNA and scooped teeth; Clay on The Joe Rogan Experienc e; Montana Farm and Ranch Hunter Access Appreciation Sweepst akes; the effect of drought and heat on wildlife in the west; a 2nd Amendment tax in San Jose; the death of Bruno the Bear; how Steve slept in a cave in WY that was slept in by a crazy cowboy who ate people; Clovis Hunters; when smallpox wipes out...
Jul 12, 2021•3 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Alan Lazzara , Danny Bolton, Brody Henderson , Spencer Neuharth , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider , Topics discussed: Spencer the Cat Lady; F'd Up Old Deer Stands fine art coffee table book as a calendar; AZ's new trail cam ban; the story of York encapsulating the evil of slavery; how Steve isn't into getting a Lewis and Clark expert on the podcast; finding morels in interesting places; "macrofructation," a word made up by Steve; how to pack out a ...
Jul 05, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Brad Leone , Senator Martin Heinrich , Ryan Callaghan , Spencer Neuharth , Chester Floyd , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: Vinny's bluefin; using the word "untoward'; Brad's show, "It's Alive!" ; fermentation and umami; challenging the FDA; the abundance of deer in New Jersey; fish tails vs. fish bodies; pedicles and peduncles; more on Spencer's rockhounding hobby, loving agates, and a petrified tree chimney; Chester the Investor becomes Chester ...
Jun 28, 2021•3 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks Scott Giltner , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Jani's first marathon, kind of; skullets and Phil's Flock of Seagulls hairdo; corrections!; alpine parrots pecking at your kidney fat; what it means for a wildlife species to be naturally uncommon; one last good cyst story; buying Alaska and the myth of "Seward's Folly"; Steve's forthcoming anti-Shakespeare book; "Hunting and Fishing in the New South" ; the antebellum and post-Emancipatio...
Jun 21, 2021•2 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Ya Yang, Brody Henderson , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: pin bones and bet losing; is that a morel or a beehive?; Americans wanting Australia to ban their kangaroo hunting; wolves, hunters, and deer-vehicle collisions; eagles wiping out lambs; America's new New Gorge National Park ; a "massive" fish poaching operation in Michigan; who are the Hmong?; hunting for sustenance; cooking up homemade ammo; recognizing your fellow Hmong i...
Jun 14, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Rachel Schmidt , Sam Lungren , Brody Henderson , Spencer Neuharth , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider . Topics discussed: testing our interest meter; engorged cloacas and Steve's son interrupting turtle sex; Spencer's first tattoo of South Dakota's state tree; Rachel's collection of fly tattoos; gumbo areas and the Bermuda Triangle of turkey spots; Steve's tip to celebrities: you'll get the right attention if you talk about eating squirrels; the Tower of Power, Steve'...
Jun 07, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Michael Punke , Spencer Neuharth , Phil Taylor , and Corinne Schneider , Topics discussed: Go get Michael Punke's new book, "Ridgeline" ; a gun that ain't a firearm; when brain matter splatters; how Michael and Steve were both going to write a book about the Nez Perce War; cicadas are a turkey hunter's best friend; free hunting and fishing licences for getting vaccinated; how mountain lions have an unlikely predator; happy endings to raptor rescues; critter vs. human fa...
May 31, 2021•2 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Rinella talks with Jacob Broussard , Mike Chamberlain , Brody Henderson , Phil Taylor , Corinne Schneider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: How The Wild Turkey Doc is also a Wolf Doc; the attempted recovery of the red wolf and why there are only 10 left in the wild; in the absence of wolves, coyotes; red hot radio collar action; ravens destroying young livestock and deer; when you pop open a prosecco bottle and a turkey gobbles back; dying from yellow perch; a reminder about the Wis...
May 24, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
