The MeatEater Podcast (MeatEater)

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Clay Newcomb, Mark Kenyon, Jordan Budd, Brent Reaves, Maggie Hudlow, KC Smith, Tyler Jones, Tony Peterson, and Jordan Sillars.

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Las Vegas, NV- Steven Rinella talks with Ryan Callaghan of First Lite, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects discussed: going pantsless at the table; Chef Kaido and salting fish for sushi, morel tips and other wild foods know-how; is the sun setting on Old Bay Seasoning?; the peritoneal and thoracic cavities; sewing yourself back up; the loose math of packing enough bullets; things gettin' "western"; the upshot of cannibalism; Cabeza de Vaca and making shakes outta folks; the reasons for game huddling up in no-mans lands; the categorical imperative and the morality of hunting; high fence vs. fair chase; artisanal small batch deer drives; love handles; and more..

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Bozeman, MT- Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew, along with Chris "Ridge Pounder" Gill, Loren Moulton, Seth Morris, and Kelsey Johnson.

Subjects discussed: is it okay to use holler’ in Pennsylvania?; a new addition to things that get turks to shock gobble; upper deckers, lower deckers, and the full stadium; scouting a Quality Elk Unit; camp cookies; hiding in plain sight; running through bushes, rolling logs, beating the snot out of the woods, and Jani's other elk behavior imitations; Janis's elk calling epiphany; being a slave to one's passions; greed; and more

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Steven Rinella talks with Guy Groenewold, Randall Williams, Brent Reaves, Spencer Neuharth, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Buying all the furs off the Hudson Bay Company when it went under; watch our brand new “MeatEater Radio Live!” show on our Podcast Network YouTube channel live on Thursdays at 11am MT and listen as an audio drop here on Fridays; how Steve goes to yoga once a year with his wife; start your mornings off with the new MeatEater Crossword Puzzle; how following the simple rules of a landowner will earn you hunting permission for years to come; the link between big bucks and growing good tomatoes; the polyester threat; playing cowboy; mercury and The Mad Hatter; the number of Xs means the percent of beaver fur used; the tremendous difference in bobcat fur quality; deer tail used in hats; all about whitetail deer hides on MeatEater’s American History: The Long Hunters; the difference between wild mink and ranch mink; and more.

Outro song: "Rabbit Chase" by Spencer Roberts 

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Steven Rinella talks with Rene Cross of Cypress Cove, Janis Putelis, and Seth Morris. 

Topics discussed: Reserve your spot now with Steve, Jani, Clay, Cal and the rest crew at our very first ME Experiences offering this year--fishing in Louisiana and waterfowl hunting in Kansas; First Lite's new Walnut and Cerca color patterns are available now; enter TRCP's Spring Sweepstakes for a chance to win a turkey hunt with Steve and Janis; the sun doesn't set on Tabasco sauce; cooking wild duck for the first time; the return of the "Deep Drop Boyz" show idea with Steve and Seth; what fish makes a good poke bowl; how the biggest bluefin was caught in Cypress Cove; how sheepshead is fun to catch; power pluckers; known for crawfish; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Brad Brooks, Janis Putelis, Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Anthony Finissi, Cory Calkins, and Reva Hansen.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Mackenzie Elmquist, Cory Calkins, Garrett Long, Chilly Chleborad, and Anthony Finissi.

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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.

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Steven Rinella talks with meat scientist Dr. Chris Calkins, Rick "Nature is Metal," Spencer Neuharth, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: An alternate explication of "Arkansasing"; Steve's opinion that the 1980s is too recent a decade from which to pluck pop culture references; cleaning up in your shrimp pot; what happens, physiologically, when an animal freezes to death and can you eat it?; and what about by electrocution?; when lighting strikes cattle; how Jani narrowly escaped death from a mountain lion; potential lead poisoning from getting shot; a porcupine atop a huge pile of bones; Steve's first date with his wife at the La Brea Tar Pits in LA; when deer eat folks; can animals really do "bad" things?; the birth of Nature is Metal; a woodpecker hammering away at a baby dove; when Joe Rogan and Justin Bieber repost from Nature is Metal; something being too much vs. educational; Steve as the first person ever to have drunk kombucha; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Kimi Werner, Justin Turkowski, Ryan Callaghan, Seth Morris, and Chester Floyd.

Topics discussed: A hodgepodge of Japanese and Hawaiian fish names; poaching a wolf; a Meatcrafter knife goes for huge cash on Ebay; getting baptized in a sous vide tank; getting bit by sea turtles; the ocean louse that kills your tongue and then replaces it; social distancing from wildlife; putting food on the table by spearfishing; what does it mean to spearfish for a living?; how Kimi can hold her breath for close to five minutes; melting into the bottom; fluffing sand and hiding your eyes; three-prongs; Little Steve's "Hawaiian Sling" piercing a puffer fish; playing chicken with a shark; shaking hands with a sperm whale; nearly getting your eyeballs sucked out of your head; and more.

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Steve Rinella talks with Kevin Murphy, Guy Zuck, Seth Morris, and Chester Floyd. 

Topics include: Hot wings, six ways; unstabilized lard is superior; when you scratch your beard and come up with the answer; what a larder is; Kevin's melted ring bangle jewelry; neanderthal's euro mount collections; the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect; the "weights in fish!" Leatherman; cheating at a walleye tournament and encouraging your son to pass off counterfeit money; cremating your deceased dogs and saving a spot for yourself among them; how Steve doesn't like to re-hunt spots for small game; addressing wild cattle in the Gila Wilderness; Australia's Shooters, Fishers, and Farmers party; when you find a human deadhead; Florida country club considers relocation due to "aggressive squirrels''; how the Chinese train squirrels to detect drugs; your antipodes; testing wind direction with milkweed; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Will Harris, Janis Putelis, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Will's new book, A Bold Return To Giving a Damn; go visit and explore the White Oak Pastures farm; ask a farmer; 6th generations; Jani’s daughter’s first buck; tears of joy; when you're eager to see what's in the stomach; dry firing on everything; a write in from a surveyor and how corners aren't usually accurate; a link between smaller jaws and sleep apnea?; from calf to cooked; "supper" over "dinner"; a closed cyclical system; the dung beetle as MVP; natural chicks with large testicles; slaughtering your own herd year round; managing for the benefit of one animal may be to the detriment of another; greenwashing; peanut shells in huge compost piles; and more.

Outro music: “Selling The Farm” by Houston, Texas group Polecat Rodeo. Music by Mark Meent, lyrics by Dan Fields, arrangement by Mark Meents and Blake Abbott.

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Minneapolis, MN- Steven Rinella talks with the outdoor writer Patrick Durkin, along with First Lite's Ryan Callaghan, Mark Boardman of Vortex Optics, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: Recycled car batteries out the end of your barrels; the hidden value of bearded hens; putting things into perspective; chronic wasting disease, tularemia, and other food safety concerns; freezing freshwater fish; the legal and ethical conundrums of bartering fish and game; should a single-species hunter be taken seriously?; evaluating people by what they name their kids; putting your kids into an arena of consequence; becoming the face of hunting; sage wisdom from Charlie Pride and Ol' Cal; and more.

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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 own guns?; how Taylor used to race 4-wheelers and qualified for the Junior Olympics in kick boxing; all about the sass; regulations for traveling with firearms; when the closest state trooper won't show up until tomorrow; the pink Sig mosquito; running with guns; Steve loving generalizations; the big money in sporting clays; the lack of women in 3-gun; the ole' tunnel vision; bittersweet Dairy Queen as punishment; taking a Dremel to your firearm; and more. 

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Steven Rinella talks with David Wise, Paul Schommer, Janis Putelis, Samantha Bates, Chester Floyd, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Back from the Olympics; "Outdoor Kids in an Inside World" is here to preorder; strategizing biathlon; how Steve is pro-skiing for all humans on the planet, except for his family; hunting while skiing; your chance to bid on Auction House of Oddities items until April 25th; the word for fossilized poop is ‘coprolite’; shitting out a rattlesnake fang; bobbing and weaving; the most groundbreaking photo of a fox squirrel eating a shad in a tree; how Steve will never traffic in memes; a non-apology to the falconer community; the "S&M hood" that falcons wear; the history of skis; biathlon as the most watched winter sport in Europe; precision vs. accuracy; how professional curlers probably have day jobs; too much socializing in the Olympic village; balancing your passions; the shit ton of attention you get during an Olympic year; when you do your best work wearing a helmet and goggles; how Steve's daughter loves Jani's cooking way better than her own dad's cooking; flipping and spinning; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steve Rinella, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Mackenzie Elmquist, and Max Barta.

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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" actually mean?; the problem of runaway climate change; mining the sun and siting the wind; the sad irony of having a dozen stainless steel thermoses in your cupboard; Cal as uniquely conscientious about waste and reuse; how much land The Nature Conservancy has transferred that you've probably hunted and fished on; car companies pledging to go all electric and the trade in value of Cal's Tundra by the time they do; one farmer's marginal is another farmer's best place; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Andrew Zimmern, Kevin Gillespie, Ryan Callaghan, Sean Weaver, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Andrew's new show, "Wild Game Kitchen"; all the bizzare foods and a kid's book; an early love of WWF and Mean Jean; Duck Lore, Season 2 is out!; Typha, FirstLite's new waterfowl line is finally here; casting stripes; ninja throwin' stars; how looking at pictures captured by the James Webb Space Telescope ruins your day; mountain lion deniers and mountain lion truthers; the first case of homosexual necrophilia in mallards; Kevin dispelling brining myths and explaining the difference between brines and marinades from a scientific perspective; Martha Stewart's thin chopsticks and how she blazes with Snoop Dog; foraging for rosehips and crabbing in Long Island, NY; a free and loose 60s housewife; skipping meals; Andrew's experiences living with protected tribes; staking 5-step snakes on the crucifixion bush; literally chasing kudu; the "I'm not here" mode and the Makushi code of silence; trying to be useful; the lessons nature teaches you about yourself; judging Iron Chef; and more. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Jon Edwards of Schnees, along with Ryan Callaghan, Ben O'Brien, and Janis Putelis. 

Subjects Discussed: Steve and Cal’s wild meat shop; waterfowl gizzard pickling and the art of making confit from Canada geese; pro-foie gras people and the Anti-Funnel Fois Gras Society; Jon’s in over his waders; Cal’s pastrami recipe; the angel, the devil, and virtue signaling; hunt purity; more on Bigfoot people; the toughest animals to spot; super poachers; Hollywood's depiction of rural folks; synergy, show business, and muzzle control; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Bussin' With The Boys hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, Ryan Callaghan, Max Barta, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Bussin’ With The Boys podcast hosts, Taylor and Will, go duck huntin’; getting moved into the classic rock category; intro-ing our outro; elk bugles in metal music; opening presents; Clovis tipped hunting spears; mast year impacts on deer harvest; why you should get acquainted with your state anti-hunter harassment laws; the new MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook is now available for pre-order; when you get knocked out and come to all emotional; Will and Taylor’s love story; bad roommates; when the turkey gobble sounds like, “pow!”; how being a pro athlete translates well into being a good hunter; serious workin’ man Steve; the one day you leave your pocket knife in the hotel room; leveling up; the incredible number of hours Cal has put into Snort; point with your eyes, not your hands; who you wanna spend time with in a duck blind; bringing the locker room to life; the bus that doesn’t move; speaking of pubes; and more.

Outro music by Jesse Collins of Montana.

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Steven Rinella talks with Lee Burton, Steve Fulton, Warren Bluntzer, Ryan Callaghan, Clay Newcomb, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: The Sahara in Texas at the Bamberger Ranch; rewilding; the time when Steve cuddled a scimitar calf; protective mommas; bison from the Bronx; how you use the horns; the high fecundity of scimitar horned oryx; artificial insemination of cheetahs; fake wooly mammoths; when the natural range of a species is in a failed state; less hump, more rump; the market for scimitar horned oryx supporting the conservation and perpetuation of the species; individual animal experiences vs. population level experiences; the lug nut litmus test; the goal of establishing stable heards back in the Sahara; when does Texas become Africa?; animal diseases; liability; dinosaur footprints and fossils; and more.

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Maverick County, Texas. Steven Rinella continues his discussion with ranch manager, wildlife biologist and hog trapper Ben Binnion, along with Chris Gill and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: perception of pigs on a scale from Satan to margaritas; Sus scrofa and the Eurasian wild boar; hog fecundity; whitetail deer breeding vs. pig breeding; what "hogzilla" is and ain't; hog bait recipes; selling wild pigs to slaughter facilities; charging for pig hunts; whether helicopter pig hunts are for sport or control; several bullshit aspects of pig hunting; the best pigs to eat; and how to get hog hunting permissions.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Hilary Byrne, Alyssa Smith, Collin Fopma, and Phil Taylor.

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Subjects discussed: Brigadier (or poseur) generals; mutilating the 7th Cavalry with knives and sewing awls; how Miles City got its name; race-ready huntin' llamas; moose pellet incense; packing large loads of wild meat; Jani-Aspen; being married; mountain goats falling over cliffs and getting frozen up in trees; cartin' llamas; llama vans; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Evan Felker, Janis Putelis, Hunter Spencer, Randall Williams, Maggie Hudlow, Max Barta, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Knowing how to conduct a vault toilet rescue from having listened to The MeatEater Podcast, Ep. 377: The Great Outhouse Rescue; Phil kissing; the dead-alive fish dish; ménage-à-frog; pig leases in timber country; First Lite’s new Stormy Kromer cap; how Evan’s dad is a fanatical hunter; cowboy-ing; Johnny Horton playing Jimmy Driftwood; how Cal thinks that “The Bird Hunters” song is the best hunting song ever written; an anapodoton; bean sayings from our audience; quitting drinking; NA beer; going to rehab and rewiring your entire being; trustworthiness and how no one would actually show up to ice fish at 7am the next morning; watching the lake give birth; writing prompts; buy Turnpike’s new album, “A Cat in the Rain,” and go see them in concert; a live performance of “The Bird Hunters”; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Alyssa Smith, Austin (Chilly) Chleborad, Maggie Smith, Logan Dove, Christine Sawicki, and Chester Floyd.

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Steven Rinella talks with Krysten Schuler, a wildlife disease ecologist at Cornell University’s Wildlife Health Lab. 

Topics discussed: Watch our behind-the-scenes footage from Cornell’s necropsy lab; the fungus that affects salamanders; deer ticks carrying blood that contains prions; why things die; mange; brain worm; the infection cycle of when worm larvae in deer poop is eaten by a snail, which then gets eaten by a moose; insect contamination on raw produce; liver flukes, or parasites that look like the sidecar of a liver; "found dead"; winter tick; lead in birds and incinerating fisher liver to test lead levels; making CWD smash burgers for your friends who say they don’t care about CWD; hemorrhagic diseases and floating in ponds; the time when Steve defended his family from a “rabid” squirrel; the rabid beaver that bit five people; nasal bots; and more. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Matt James of Colossal Biosciences, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan,  Brody Henderson, and Randall Williams. 

Topics discussed: Explaining de-extinction; bringing back the woolly mammoth, dodo bird, and Tasmanian tiger; bringing back Mingus, or Mingus 2.0; watch our Bull Boat race video between Steve and Cal; gene editing with CRISPR; how do you manage habitat for an animal that hasn’t been around for 400 years?; nature-based solutions for restoring ecosystems; developing technologies to create artificial wombs; eradication; and more. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Dan Gates, Connor Smith, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, and Phil Taylor. 

Topics discussed: When you’re ruined for elk hunting at the age of 16; Conner getting the 39th biggest bull elk ever in Montana; the trials and tribulations of Mingus the hound; when you further up the upper limit of what you’ll spend on your dog at the vet; a citizen initiative to ban certain kinds of hunting in Colorado and why you need to pay attention to this if you care about hunting, period; activating ballot initiatives vs. entrusting state game biologists to determine how to best handle wildlife; fallacies and lies; naming bucks because you want to get them; hug a hunter; “Save the Hunt” and DONATE HERE; calling all outdoor recreationists; and more. 

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La Crosse, WI- Steven Rinella talks with Doug Duren, the writer Pat Durkin, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects Discussed: catching muskies and male pattern baldness; hunters as UFO researchers; legalizing deer and hog baiting; Steve's dying wish; Jim Jarmusch's masterpiece, Dead Man; hunter harassment and blue laws; fall turkey harvest; new thinking about coyote population dynamics; the business of death; the tax on stupidity; and more. You can now listen to ad-free episodes of the MeatEater Podcast on Stitcher Premium. Your subscription allows you to stream and download ad-free episodes and gets you early access to new releases of the MeatEater Podcast.

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Steven Rinella talks with his big brother Matt Rinella, along with Matt Drost, Ron Boehme, Mark Kenyon, and Janis Putelis.

Subjects Discussed: Latvian hellos; beach access and the end of summer; deer season in review; elite deer hunters; summing up Michigan in a single word; Uncle Ted and Uncle Bobby; drinking frozen Boone’s Farm; detaining beavers and other shenanigans; are crossbows ruining hunting?; emotional support dogs; things from childhood that sound way worse now; scoring trophy deer; triggering the rut; seeing through the bullshit; if humans rutted like deer; being reincarnated as an animal; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Reva Hansen, Maggie Smith, and Seth Morris.

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Hosts Spencer Neuharth, Janis Putelis, and Brody Henderson talk with Stephanie Raymond of Orca Network about the state of the Southern Resident pods, fish for a minute with Dan Johnson of Trout Unlimited, recount their top 3 biggest fish caught, and cast a magnet into the middle of NYC with James Kane of Let's Get Magnetic.

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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.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steve Rinella, Megan Denean, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Maggie Hudlow, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

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Steve Rinella talks with Zeb Hogan, Tommy Eidson aka The Blue Collar Scholar, Keith Anspatch, and Dom Cooper. 

Topics include: What you'll see when you walk into the First Lite flagship store in Hailey, ID; an insane mullet; MeatEater sponsoring Tommy's Wild Cow Milking team; one good squirt; how handling baby animals doesn’t make their mothers abandon them; very long acronyms for United Nations agencies; the one thousand species of fish in the Mekong River; what’s the biggest freshwater fish?; North America’s largest minnow; the ginormous 661-pound freshwater stingray; how eating giant catfish tastes like regular catfish; how overfishing very rarely causes extinction; reverse colonialism; how a human probably won’t catch the biggest; get Zeb’s new book, Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish; and more. 

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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 onto the bike path; what’s it like to get dosed by ketamine?; the distance from the stimuli and the distance from the flight; a lion so close you had to pull your pistol; training big cats to avoid humans by blaring Ep. 197 of The MeatEater Podcast at them; how mountain lions hate it when you touch them; when a guy in Canada legally shoots your collared cat, then mails you back the collar; and more.

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Welcome to our brand new podcast, MeatEater Kids! It's a fun, educational, and engaging podcast for all of you outdoor kids. Learn about science and history from Steve's "Why It's the Way It Is" segment and impress your friends with your newfound knowledge, develop your ear for animal vocalizations with our "Guess that Critter" segment brought to you by Katie Rinella, and play along during "Kids Trivia" with host Spencer Neuharth.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Cory Calkins, Hayden Sammak, Seth Morris, Janis Putelis, Garrett Long, Alyssa Smith and Carl Hansen. 

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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.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts another round of MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella and crew. 

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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.

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Subjects discussed: Bear DNA; bear denning behaviors; why Steve thinks the naming of 'The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem' was a mistake; Sloth bears; Andean bears; Panda bears; tricks for uncovering a journalist's biases; closing garbage dumps to save grizzly bears; super cougars; bear population size estimating methods, including Chao 2 and mark-resight; bear populations in Europe; Kate Kendall's research on grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem; getting hosed by bear spray; genetic connectivity; bucket biologists; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Rick Smith, Garret Smith, Chris Gill, Loren Moulton, Danny Bolton, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and  Phil Taylor.

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Steven Rinella talks with Miles Nolte, Brody Henderson, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: The things that won the war; melting your wedding band into your finger; chap ass and irritated sphincters; getting a tater on your thing; Dumpster Diver Cal; manipulating a briefcase full of pike decoys; a golf ball with an eyelet through it; thrusting spears into fish; hot tips for making fish cakes; the myth that old folks know what’s up; is it bad when you positively generalize about people?; finding worm beds to find fish; a quarter sturgeon per acre; whitefish caviar on Cool Ranch Doritos; sturgeon schnitzel; a paddlefish living inside a wet sleeping bag; Steve sings "Ch-ch-changes"; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Buddy Levy, Brody Henderson, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: Buddy’s latest, “The Empire of Ice and Stone,”; calling people how they'd like to be called; how an arrow nock exits out of your nostril; capitalizing and "the truth about"; trying to find uncontacted people to hang out with; headlines of blonde eskimos; becoming a Canadian; getting separated big time; the importance of a rounded hull; eating polar bears raw; Chopin's funeral march; stalking a bear that turned out to be a ground squirrel; just how deceptive the arctic can be; saving your dogs from a polar bear; no human presence; swollen hands; the race against time; jigging for cod with a sewing needle; just how deceptive the arctic can be; saving your dogs from a polar bear; no human presence; swollen hands; the race against time; Stefansson's book, "The Friendly Arctic"; Ada Blackjack; a future book about the blimp that’s never been seen since; and more. 

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In this exclusive interview, Steven Rinella talks with otter mauling victims, Jennifer Royce, Stephanie Johnson, and Leila Pavolich. Janis Putelis and Spencer Neuharth join.

Topics discussed: FTO and missing half your ear; the frequency of otter attacks over time; donate to the Bob Patten Endowment for the Kent State University Experimental Archaeology Laboratory so you can see more bison butchery experiments with Clovis points; the bison skull with a bullet hole at the MeatEater flagship store in Bozeman, MT;  Jani’s "Unga Bunga Test"; our interview with the American hunters facing potential prison time in Turks and Caicos; different views on Governor tags; finding a husband for Stephanie; floating on inner tubes down the Jefferson River; when otters were your favorite animal; doing a body roll; the importance of dry bags; just how thankful you are when SOS works on your phone; the landowner and the trooper to the rescue; hundreds of stitches; lingering emotional trauma; having a sense of humor about it as a way to help heal; strapping on the dive knife for next time; and more. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Bill Vanderheyden, Brandon Palaniuk, Janis Putelis, Chester Floyd, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Who stole the office fish?; graduating first in your engineering class out of 1,232 students; Brandon Palaniuk wins angler of the year; get tickets to see Chester open for Trampled By Turtles on Dec. 1 in Atlanta; when hunter safety advises that you keep your harvest covered so as not to offend non-hunters; chisel heads; the formulas that go into shooting your bow; mass vs. speed; the draw force curve; Newton’s Law; busting through bone; breaking down 3:1; blood trails; Bill’s Iron Will Outfitters broadheads; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Sam Lungren, Morgan Mason, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: the bird as a "Michigan hello"; quick thought on Secretary Zinke’s departure; Jani’s heart health; throwing lead at Jani’s solstice party; making your own lures and catching big fish; what happens when you snag a seagull; taking drugs to fight buck fever; the hard knock life of blue-collar deer and the immunity of white-collar deer; disinfected deer; is tender food a fad?; the big seasonal differences in taste of black bear meat; glass or boots?; why are some squirrels tougher than others?; how much wild game does it take to feed your family?; what is road hunting and is it bad?; muskies are back in fashion; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Adam Pankratz, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: When the Tough Book laptop shatters the porcelain urinal; when you’re an outfitter and a game warden moves in across the street; get your protein and your vaccine at the same time; Chester the Midwester is performing at The MeatEater Live Tour; where’s Colorado getting its wolves for relocation; the attempt to ban mountain lion and bobcat hunting in Colorado; when your dad’s a vegetarian trapper in Alaska; the snowmobile that said “law enforcement” on it; herbicide; how, “I didn’t know I needed a license,” doesn’t cut it; how Adam doesn’t want to be your referee; getting charged by critters; investigating animal conflicts; when the feds want the state to have management authority; planning hunts to avoid bear areas; otter attacks; humans displacing wildlife; how you shouldn’t fight animals without legs; commercial harvest; the illegal “private menu” that might feature bear paw soup; unknowingly committing a crime while talking to a game warden and then getting ticketed; teaching vs. ticketing; entrapment and not trying to make people into poachers; creating good interactions between the public and game wardens; when you see something, say something; 1-800-TIPMONT; turning in poachers for cash or limited draw tags; listener Peter Block's "Fish and Game" outdo song; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Adam and Brenda Weatherby, Ryan Callaghan, Spencer Neuharth, and Janis Putelis.

Subjects discussed: hot marriage advice from Weatherby; love stories and reasons not to die; adventures that give you sweaty palms; when steel shot pellets meet MRI machines; Spencer Neuharth scores the antlers from Bambi’s dad; high ballistic bullets; are short mags out of fashion?; fire forming, wildcatting and the confusing world of naming cartridges; California's vineyard bucks; a family legacy; length of pull and bouts of global transient amnesia; life is too short to shoot cheap guns; and more.

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Hosts Steve Rinella, Brody Henderson, and Seth Morris celebrate Steve's birthday, talk fur and leather with Heather Douville, throwback to memories with Steve, and chat about bringing grayling back to Michigan with Randy Claramunt.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with the kids of MeatEater: Jimmy Taco, Rosemary Slim, Matty Meatball, Teddy, Aina, Mabel, Con Man, and Gobbler Fever. 

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Subjects discussed: the untouchedness of certain animals; hunting hats, radical lefty hats, and hats that say hello before you do; making smoked bear hams; the fishy taste of coastal bears; beaver tasting notes; Chris Gil's grey rabbit meat; Chupik eskimo and seal oil; the mountain man era; what would happen at the mountain man rendezvous; company trappers vs. free trappers; today's equivalent of a mountain man; why Janis is done promoting squirrel hunting; beaver tail belt buckles and eel skin wallets; the richest man in America; Daniel Boone, Jim Bridger, Laramie, Jed Smith, John Colter, Hugh Glass, Jed Smith, and more badasses.

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Subjects discussed: varied state rules on keeping roadkill; Janis's Colorado mule deer hunt; mythic timberbucks and doe condos; euthanizing deer; killing elk with a .45 ACP; bogus hunting tips; yoga, crossfit, and hunting-based physical fitness; being off-the-grid on Election Day; Japanese cowboys; and female listeners of the MeatEater Podcast. 

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Hosts Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, and Seth Morris call recently let-go BLM worker Ryan Schroeder, chat with David Willms about the state of the land-grab, learn some hot tips from listeners, and face the realities of methane beneath the ice with Bruce Kania of Floating Island International. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Angela Perri, Brent Reaves, Ronny Boehme, Janis Putelis, Spencer Neuharth, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Brass knuckle daggers and TSA confiscating stuff; who had the very first pet dog?; how Steve thinks The North Wall in “Games of Thrones” is in Alaska; a very special bobcat burial; Steve’s 12 signs of astrology; hunting the wooly rhino; when wolves turn into dogs; from hunting to scavenging in a few generations; being the first human to ever run into a critter; culled and “kinlin”; how the tar pits are still taking victims; hunting boars with dogs in Japan; breeding wolves with dogs and getting the DNA all muddled up; how most folks don’t know that dire wolves were real; body farms and clipping cadaver fingernails; when your dog hunts behind you; how Brent spoils his hound in a temperature controlled dog house; watch Ronny’s new training dog series; dogs stars; and more. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Jay Scott, Jason Phelps, Paul Lewis, Garrett Long, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: Colburn and Scott Outfitters; FHF's cool new rifle sling coming soon!; divorcing your wife because she sends your kids skiing instead of ice fishing for 9 Saturdays in a row; Jani’s big bobcat and Steve’s tiny bobcat; go watch MeatEater's Season 10, Part 2 on Netflix; why Cal looks like a turtle without a shell when he’s wearing a wetsuit; Phil's full head of hair vs. everyone else’s early baldness; skinny-shamed; static breath hold and Kimi Werner's masterful deep diving abilities; ibex darting off from the Florida Mountains; more on thermal night vision and game recovery; a Lyme vaccine; blaming bad vision for shooting a guy while hunting critters; Robert Abernethy, the treasure; glassing and missing in Mexico; border crossing dos and don’ts; and more.

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Welcome to our brand new MeatEater Radio Live! podcast. Join Steve Rinella and the rest of the crew as they go LIVE from MeatEater HQ every Thursday at 11am MT! They’ll have segments, call-in guests, and real-time interaction with the audience. You can watch the stream on the MeatEater Podcast Network YouTube channel, or catch the audio version of the show on Fridays.

Today's episode is hosted by Spencer Neuharth, Janis Putelis, and Randall Williams.

Guests: Seth Walk of Hauling' Ass Backcountry and Alaska grizzly attack survivor Tyler Johnson 

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Steven Rinella talks with Ryan Callaghan, Ben O'Brien, and Janis Putelis at The MeatEater Podcast LIVE from Sacramento.

Subjects discussed: poaching a great white shark with a .22; the peculiarities of California; trading “smokies” for taxidermy, selling walleye fillets, and other details of an Ohio's wild game racketeering case; Lazarus species; step ladder diplomacy and fishing for monsters; naming one's rifle; shooting turkeys off the roost; the morality of stealing from a bird; kids are a pain!; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, Hayden Sammak, Mike Kunz, and Phil Taylor

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Seattle, WA- Steven Rinella talks with Eduardo Garcia, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. 

Subjects Discussed: the pumpkin thief; electrified bear hides; cooking on yachts; getting back to a western way of life; Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story; the La Brea Tarpits, sabertooth cats, and dire wolves; what recovery looks like; huntin' with a hook; and more. You can watch Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story on iTunes and Amazon.

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Welcome to MeatEater Radio Live! Join Steve Rinella and the rest of the crew as they go LIVE from MeatEater HQ every Thursday at 11am MT! They’ll have segments, call-in guests, and real-time interaction with the audience. You can watch the stream on the MeatEater Podcast Network YouTube channel, or catch the audio version of the show on Fridays.

Today's episode is hosted by Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, and Phil Taylor. 

Guests: Our very own Clay Newcomb and Chloe Mikles of Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University.

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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 to the skull; saving your dad with a pistol; when you kill a charging grizzly; choking on your own flesh but remaining very with it; loving the gore of plastic surgery; that time when Steve's brother talked to a guy in the woods who got mauled by a grizzly later that day; the jaw-spread eye-zap trick; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Mark Kenyon, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Jani and Cal's perfectly average results in Sig Sauer’s shooting competition; how Jani shot a target a mile away; subscribe to our new MeatEater Podcast Network Youtube Channel; a steelhead burned onto a tie dyed hoody; our gnome shirts are back in stock and where was the mermaid hooked?; another call for your outro music submissions; the noises Dirt makes while eating; how Steve’s the OG freeze dried expert and his face is on the new collar Peak Refuel freeze dried American buffalo meal pack; no to captive cervids, yes to bison ranchers; how many notches in Steve’s spoon?; join Mark Kenyon’s Working for Wildlife Tour in August; calling Doug Duren for acorn advice; saving horses by hunting ground squirrels; sharing vasectomy stories; “Steve reads books so you ain’t got to”; eating rats; and more.

Outro song “Open Country” by Dirt Myth and Andrew Smith

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Steven Rinella talks with Paul Neess, Jason Phelps, Matt Cook, Janis Putelis, and Seth Morris.

Topics discussed: The “whitetail industrial complex" and Jani cutting down trees to create a little wildlife nest; Dirt’s grandfather’s chapstick of choice: his very own earwax; Bible verses that reference hunting and trapping; playing it safe with God and the Old Testament; the correlation between reported Bigfoot sightings and bear populations; BLM land opened up to solar energy development; Steve’s plan to use imminent domain to seize urban areas and sports stadiums for solar development instead of on undeveloped landscapes; controversy around how the king salmon of the Gulf of Alaska are headed for an ESA listing; how orcas pull on America’s heart strings; upset around listing sturgeon; the “buck a day” mantra in Sonora, Mexico; DIY steps for how to make a turkey foot giving the middle finger; and more. 

Outro song: "Flash in the Pan" by Lane Farrar 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts another round of MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Clay Newcomb, Ryan Callaghan, Seth Morris, Rick Hutton, Gabi Wilson, Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor.

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Steven Rinella talks to Jim Heffelfinger, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: an epidemic of llama losses; Grandpa Half-a-Finger and other stories of loss; does killing big bucks screw up deer genetics?; the difference between blacktail deer and whitetail deer, and where they came from; a whitetail fossil from the Pleistocene; Cowz, Cooze, and Couse; telekinetic levitation; why do deer lose their antlers?; Steve's disappointment with having less-than-average Neanderthal genes; wolf recovery and the Endangered Species Act; trophic cascades and surplus killers; jaguars in America; hunting jackrabbits; and so much more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Seth Morris, Ridge Pounder, Dirt Myth, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Hog hunting while podcasting; our gift chapter at the end of the episode from MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775); lots of whispering; DSD's fight-postured buck decoy; rattling in 21 bucks in three days; turn and burn; hitting 'em with that grunt; a nice muzzle break to Steve's already impaired ear; the coveted pregnant sow; hunting position strategy; the tail tucked in like a G-string; the dog that gobbled up the tarsal glands; St. Anthony, the saint of lost items; that big 'ole bull; Steve's childhood cats, Maude and Fig; the link between cat ownership and developing schizophrenia; stats on wolves killing hunting dogs; naming subdivisions after the characteristics of the land they've replaced; getting into the illegal golden and bald eagle business; Reed's Piano News original outro song for the show; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brad Floeter, Clair Overby, Mary Gibson, Cody Dinsmoor, Michael Rietveld, Logan Williamson, and Keith Anspach.

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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.

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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's sebateous cyst, and trucker butt; camping out at highway medians; Sam's delicious aged deer ham; a lobster fight and the UN; exercising treaty rights and how the Sinixt of Canada are not extinct; developments with the Herrera case; locking you out of 60 million acres of public land; how the U.S. recreation economy is bigger than the automotive and pharmaceutical industries; undermining the false notion of "non-consumptive" use of the land; how Steve dogs on people who have camper trailers, but now has a camper trailer of his own; why water recreationists should kiss anglers' asses; the backpack tax; going from being a person in the outdoors to being a parent in the outdoors; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Randall Williams, Maggie Hudlow, Chester Floyd, Mackenzie Elmquist, and Hanzi Deschermeier.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Corinne Schneider, Hanzi Deschermeier, Alyssa Smith, and Nate Mason.

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Steven Rinella talks with author CJ Box, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Cool stage names; Three Inch Teeth, the 24th Joe Pickett game warden novel out now; when a CJ Box book mentions Steve and MeatEater; novels with an honest portrayal or time and place; how CJ’s wife was called to be on the jury for the Wyoming corner crossing case; get our limited edition “Fresh Set of Eyes…” t-shirt at the MeatEater store now; Clay Newcomb’s high school drawing of a future man with a sci-fi gun pointed at a wild hog; how the next Joe Pickett novel should center around a great vault toilet rescue; audience variations on Steve’s beans saying; NSFW (not safe for work) bird names; how the groundhog can’t tell the weather; hardwired to be a writer; and more. 

Outro song: "Mo' Beans" by Raynor Johnson

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Mark Kenyon, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Chester Floyd, Seth Morris, and Corinne Schneider.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Maddy Lehman, Mackenzie Elmquist, and Hunter Spencer.

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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 albino porcupine and getting a $70,000 offer for it; how The MeatEater Podcast solves tombstone mysteries; when turkeys are bad turkey callers; how turkey testosterone levels change daily, like Steve's; the reason God made naps; the incredible way turkeys hear and how they're basically GPS devices; how you get Jason Phelp's personal phone when you call Phelps' Game Calls customer service number; breaking down turkey calls; the otherwordly odor of a turkey buzzard; tuning game calls; MeateaterXPhelps calls: the Jake Brake, the Latvian Eagle, and the Easy Clucker; Dirk, the saxophone player; a single production of a black walnut tree; pink vs. red; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts another round of MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Cameron Hanes, and crew. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Robert Abernethy, Rick Smith, Chris Gill, Seth Morris, and Chester Floyd.

Topics discussed: How you need to watch Joe Cermele's B-Side Fishing; caught on trail cam: tractor driver hangs out of tractor to defecate; Steve's tooth improvement and a mountain goat hunting dentist; the impulse to make everything a competition; how Robert Abernethy has been shot twice; incident vs. accident; Chester's daily Bitcoin Liquid Index report; MeatEater's House of Oddities Auction; Metamucil, a regular buck; when you accidentally hit a rabbit while lawn mowing, then inhale the tularemia bacteria and get sick; "Seth" by MISS; a beautiful ending to a story in the Sierra Madres; the rewilding of the Savannah River nuclear site; two tiny fawns sitting in a fish bowl; longleaf pine and turpentine camps; making a place for quail; and more.

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Steve Rinella talks with Kimi Werner, Cameron Kirkconnell, Errol “T” Thurston, Dirt Myth, and Justin Turkowski.

Topics include: Debating what makes a good freeze dried meal; T's fear of snakes; pre-order our latest book, "Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars"; a scientific paper on the high rate of flit knapping injuries; how Florida may Constitutionalize the right to hunt and fish; how soap can make humans more attractive to mosquitos; how burning coals inside an old, dry coconut is the best skeeter repellent; when Kimi rejected a job offer to be a mermaid; a Moulin Rouge outfit in Paris and claiming that snakes can't swim, when they can; corrections on the fastest wind speeds; ciguatera, the toxin found in large reef fish that makes you sick; when Kimi called Seth a liar; country fried turtle steak; is conch harvesting unsustainable in the Bahamas?; mushy meat; bonefish being too much work; flashlights in the hole; the elusive cubera; and more. 

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Welcome to MeatEater Radio Live! Join Steve Rinella and the rest of the crew as they go LIVE from MeatEater HQ every Thursday at 11am MT! They’ll have segments, call-in guests, and real-time interaction with the audience. You can watch the stream on the MeatEater Podcast Network YouTube channel, or catch the audio version of the show on Fridays.

Today's episode is hosted by Randall Williams, Cory Calkins, Seth Morris, and Phil Taylor. 

Guests: Brogan the Turkey with Connor Smith; CEO of Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, Steve Kline; and Brady Bush of the University of Michigan Fishing Team.

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Steven Rinella talks with Ryan Callaghan, Pete Muennich, Ben O'Brien, and Janis Putelis. 

Subjects discussed: what’s up with eating songbirds? a big waidmannsheil to you!; Amish prejudice; gun safety; powercuts, edge habitat, and crawling deer; the mysterious mathematical formula behind Ohio's poaching fines; can you make hog jerky without getting trichnosis?; Pete's Lil baby Roadrash and other stories of folks saving critters; button buck antlers and over-developed pedicles; the best shooting rests in the field; the difference between party applications and party hunting; and more.

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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.

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Steven Rinella talks with David J. Meltzer, Ryan Callaghan, Spencer Neuharth, Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: Making sure that your local humane society is not The Humane Society of the United States; Jim H. encouraging hunters to be true to the message of conservation and favor wolf recovery even if it costs them a few extra elk tags; Covid vaccines for mink and great apes; Spencer saves bird lives; spotting an arrowhead by the side of the road as a bus driver holding the door open for a kid; delving deeper into the Folsom Site; a beautiful theory killed by a horrible fact; what to make of 34,000 bone scraps smaller than the size of your fingernail; how it’d be cool if you bought a book that came with an attached Folsom point; tribal vs. human and culture vs. genetics; the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; ancient peoples being successful at moving far distances; dogs as the first animal that humans ever domesticated; how there's dog DNA in wolves but no wolf DNA in dogs; anthropology classes as a resume builder; where you can find all of David's fascinating books; and more.

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Welcome to MeatEater Radio Live! Join Steve Rinella and the rest of the crew as they go LIVE from MeatEater HQ every Thursday at 11am MT! They’ll have segments, call-in guests, and real-time interaction with the audience. You can watch the stream on the MeatEater Podcast Network YouTube channel, or catch the audio version of the show on Fridays.

Today's episode is hosted by Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and Phil Taylor. 

Guests: Curt Scheewe of British Columbia, Canada, Mark Kenyon, Jason Phelps, and Smallmouth Bass record holder Dante Piraino. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Brad Brooks, Dave Willms, Brooklynn Stevens, Ryan Callaghan, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: The Sicilian coming out of Steve; the Mayor of Flavortown; Brooklynn’s overstuffed garage of skulls; a correction on “over and out”; using waterpiks on nasal cavities; the sage brush rebellion; the state of Utah suing the Federal Government; being a measured guy; acquiring and holding public land; and more.  

Outro song "Country Symphony" by Pick & Howl

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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.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Ben Dettamanti, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

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Steven Rinella talks with Josh Carney, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: How Josh is mean to Steve about his turkey calling; putting a rasp on it; living in town with 15 hunting dogs; skinning raccoons; a small game family; how turkey hunting is like dating at a bar; a 2 at 10 and a 10 at 2; not being tuned into hunting and fishing laws; what it feels like to be hit by buckshot; how it can all be taken away in a moment; dying on the operating table, twice; how you don't know who you are until you're absolutely alone; battling with God; getting so nervous you goose honk at Jim Shockey; the "Son of the South" and a crisis of identities; is the hunting industry sexualized?; and so much more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Chester Floyd, Hanzi Deschermeier, Chilly Chleborad, Mackenzie Elmquist, Christine Sawicki, Alyssa Smith, Cory Calkins, and Logan Dove.

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Steven Rinella talks with Whit Fosburgh, Phil Taylor, and Ryan Callaghan.

Topics discussed: Steve's perspective on why Jani isn't a true outdoorsman; Euro-mounting your amputated arm; why is a doornail dead?; New Mexico's stream access laws; S. 47; haggling over the Farm Bill; what CRP fields are; pollinators; testifying before Congress; Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson; migration corridors; fisheries; Steve's kids attending seminars; ethanol as bad for your boat motor; and more.

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Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, Hunter Spencer, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Drinking with your parents when you're underage; which states drink the most?; MeatEater's Fancy Pants Christmas Cocktail, featuring Desert Door sotol; reinterpreting, "Baby It's Cold Outside"; Song and Dance Phil performs "It's The Most Wonderful Time to Kill Deer"; Phil and Hayden's duet; how not to be a surface shitter when the ground is frozen; how to deal with popping while ice fishing; the final authority; a Hot Tip on no TP: psyllium fiber; Jani practicing his Latvian; Diana, Goddess of the Hunt; pursing the raccoon dog; how everyone's using thermal vision in Latvia; don't shoot the shovel; when Jani nočakarēt-ed big time; beware the through wind; super broth measured in units of love; and more. 

MeatEater's Fancy Pants Cocktail recipe by Kevin Gillespie:

2oz Sotol Blanco (get your Desert Door sotol here)

.75 oz Sercial Madeira

.75 oz fresh lemon juice

.75 oz Hibiscus Syrup

3 dashes Orange bitters 

Shake all ingredients together with ice, strain and serve up (martini style) garnished with an orange peel and a sprig of rosemary. 

Hibiscus Syrup

1 cup sugar 

3/4 Cup water

1 Cup hibiscus flowers

1 cinnamon stick, broken in half

1 whole star anise pod

3 whole cloves

Peel of one lemon 

Bring all to a boil and then allow to steep hot for 30 mins before straining and cooling.

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Steven Rinella talks with Doug Duren, Jim Heffelfinger, Richie Baker, Ross Copperman, Sean Weaver, Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: The Doug Duren Fact-Checking Alert App; Jim's sticker and the correct pronunciation of "coues"; Steve as a punt gun enthusiast; "rice breast" ducks; how Steve, Jani, and Corinne share the world's greatest doctor; very late duck migrations in 2021; canada geese benefitting from urbanization; how Cal was born with his mustache; FirstLite's new waterfowl line coming at you in 2022; "Typha"; the Shakespearean drama of Washington State's Fish and Game Commission; undermining the theory that rattlesnakes don't rattle anymore because people killed off all the ones that rattle; animals with Covid; when a Funeral Director's assistant writes in with hot tips on how to butcher a deer in the field to avoid disease; PFAS and EHD in deer; Jim's testicle stories; it's not a dog eat dog world; when Doug wrote a mean email to Steve; the CWD creep; mandatory testing?; a really nice buck...that's a doe; piebald deer and deer with fangs; a round of Trivia to bring in 2022!; and more.

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Bozeman, MT: Steven Rinella talks with adaptive hunter and angler Chris Clasby; along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects Discussed: adaptive hunting and fishing; finding the limits of language; the delusion of reprieve; Occurrence at Owl Creek; facing challenges as an exercise of identity; adaptive technologies; calculating risk; catching trout by sucking and puffing; an obligation to advocate; and more.

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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 college kids win $1 million in a fishing tournament; insane entry fees; when 2nd place is so far from 1st; Brandon's DQ, $1k per foot, and owning your own mistake even though the rule is questionable; Fantasy Fishing; under the camera's eye; polygraphs for fishing stories; Steve getting Brandon and Carl to fish his mom's lake; the litigation-worthy bucket thing; Rinella Sr. supposedly pulling a 5 pound largemouth out of the lake where Steve was born; Angler of the Year; the A to Z of the tournament process; physically and mentally not being able to live without it; pursuing what makes you happy; Steve's dream to be a professional trapper; clinch or improved clinch?; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Corinne Schneider, Sam Bates, Garrett Long, and special guest, Rich Froning.

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Steven Rinella talks with Larry Ramsell, Ryan Callaghan, Chester Floyd, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Books by the reel musky expert; the man at the end of the line; if we didn’t have catch and release for muskies, we’d have fried them all; all muskies all the time; two different species?; the best way to handle a musky; the world record wars; contextualizing and challenging the "musky manifesto"; photometry; how live sonar can educate; standing against spearing and catching through the ice; tiger muskies; and more. 

Outro song "Fishing Lures" by Peter Block.

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Steven Rinella talks with Jesse Griffiths, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: Jesse Griffith’s brand new cookbook, The Turkey Book, is out so order it now on the MeatEater website; look out for our auction house of oddities for this DU sword; how Jeff Foxworthy trained himself to drink black coffee; listen to Luke Combs on our God’s Country podcast; the MeatEater 2024 Live Tour and Skootin’ Newton who used to live at The Wilma in Missoula, MT; when Steve’s “fresh set of eyes” saying was used by an attorney who was trying to sniff out hunters among the jury; get our limited edition “Fresh Set of Eyes” t-shirt at the MeatEater store now; how black phase squirrels are the offspring of gray and fox squirrels interbreeding; the Scythians who made quivers from human hide; explaining elk herds and the concept of depredation funds; 400 pages on how to cook a turkey; how to fry wild turkey; celery seeds as the secret special ingredient; breasts and lobes; the debate over cooking turkeys whole; the time when Jesse cooked dinner for Jacques Pépin; Gaston in the lap; harvesting an old banded turkey; getting shot at while turkey hunting; and more. 

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Eagle, CO: Steven Rinella talks with game warden Bill Andree, along with Brody Henderson and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects Discussed: a man of the law; doing a little detective work; corner hopping and other hypotheticals; the difference between a live mountain lion in your house and live bear; big-time Colorado bear guys; bulls and swingsets; tasing moose for their own good; and more.

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