Latest / The MeatEater Podcast / Ep. 190: What's in Your Freezer?
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- 0:08Speaker 1: This is me eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely
- 0:13Speaker 1: bug bitten in my case underwear listening Hunt podcast, You
- 0:18Speaker 1: can't predict anything presented by on X. Hunt creators are
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- 0:29Speaker 1: where you stand with on X spencer guy wanted to know, um,
- 0:37Speaker 1: if you can get the rut rolling early by putting
- 0:40Speaker 1: out corn mixed with the viagra? UM, I would say, no,
- 0:47Speaker 1: you only it's gonna work. No. There have been a
- 0:50Speaker 1: lot of studies done on like what drives the rut?
- 0:54Speaker 1: Is it the moon? It's not the ability to get
- 0:57Speaker 1: cold weather? Is it uh? Bara MAgric pressure? Is it
- 1:01Speaker 1: hunting pressure? Things like that, And it always comes back
- 1:04Speaker 1: to the only thing that like really determines when the
- 1:07Speaker 1: rut in rut is in your area is day length?
- 1:11Speaker 1: Does uh? Does? I don't know? Does does viagra? That
- 1:15Speaker 1: doesn't serve the purpose of increasing one's desire. I'm the
- 1:20Speaker 1: youngest one in it's room, So why would you ask me?
- 1:24Speaker 1: Because I thought maybe I don't know, like you talked
- 1:26Speaker 1: to like, I don't know, but my understanding of it,
- 1:30Speaker 1: I don't know that it increases one's It's not like
- 1:32Speaker 1: an aphrodisiac. Now, if you put an afro djiac out
- 1:36Speaker 1: mixed with some corn, yeah, that would definitely work. But
- 1:40Speaker 1: all you're really doing is like you're assuming he has
- 1:43Speaker 1: a dysfunction. The bok has a dysfunction. No, yeah, assuming
- 1:48Speaker 1: that you're just assuming that if you gave him a
- 1:51Speaker 1: eight hour ereaction that all of a sudden it would
- 1:54Speaker 1: start the rut for last over eight hours. Please come
- 1:59Speaker 1: and large consult your veterana. The rut isn't really determined
- 2:05Speaker 1: anyway by a buck's willingness. It's the dough's willingness. And
- 2:09Speaker 1: so that's why you get like the secondary rut one
- 2:12Speaker 1: month after the first rut, which is usually like November ten,
- 2:17Speaker 1: for example, is kind of a baseline dight in the Midwest.
- 2:20Speaker 1: You get the secondary rut one month later because those
- 2:22Speaker 1: dos cycle back in that were not bred the first time,
- 2:25Speaker 1: or they are del fonds that didn't come in to
- 2:30Speaker 1: Estrius one month prior. When that secondary rut happens, you
- 2:34Speaker 1: get that increased bucket activity again because there are some
- 2:37Speaker 1: willing doughs in the woods. So you're saying the vagrid
- 2:40Speaker 1: word for a doll maybe a follow up question on
- 2:46Speaker 1: on you explained what triggers it very well. Length of day, yes,
- 2:51Speaker 1: but so do cloudy days make like less light come
- 2:57Speaker 1: through making a shorter short of shorter days? If you
- 3:00Speaker 1: had more cloudy days like up to November tenth when
- 3:04Speaker 1: it started earlier, maybe if there was like a volcano
- 3:07Speaker 1: that filled the end, maybe then, but otherwise no, Uh, Danielle.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Remember we talked about hush puppies for a long time. YEP.
- 3:22Speaker 1: A guy wrote in about why he thinks they're called
- 3:25Speaker 1: hush puppies and where they came from. He says there
- 3:31Speaker 1: was a relatively common food among slaves in the South,
- 3:35Speaker 1: and the name itself came from using these delicious nuggets
- 3:38Speaker 1: his words, to distract guard dogs when trying to escape,
- 3:46Speaker 1: which I like. I don't know if it's true, but
- 3:48Speaker 1: I like it. Hush puppy. I had the best hush
- 3:53Speaker 1: puppies in Tennessee. Is hush puppy? Yeah? I didn't think so.
- 3:57Speaker 1: To be totally honest with you, yeah, I'm not a
- 4:00Speaker 1: sh puppy fan. But this guy was putting green chilies
- 4:02Speaker 1: and they were very good. Yeah. But dude, you just
- 4:05Speaker 1: like any of the green chilies and I do, I do?
- 4:07Speaker 1: That's true, hatch chili. A couple quick things, uh, other
- 4:13Speaker 1: quick things. So we talked about this guy. What state
- 4:18Speaker 1: was that The guy was saying that if you, like
- 4:20Speaker 1: some hunters are expressing that you don't want to shoot
- 4:23Speaker 1: a collar deer because it might have a micro tag
- 4:26Speaker 1: in it. And if you ate the micro tag, that
- 4:30Speaker 1: the government then's gonna track you. I forget like big brother,
- 4:35Speaker 1: like big brother paranoia. Okay. A couple biologist wrote in
- 4:39Speaker 1: UM about this. Appreciate them taking their time to do that. Uh.
- 4:47Speaker 1: He was saying that, um, just bear with me, man,
- 4:55Speaker 1: how would you accidentally how big are the get small?
- 5:00Speaker 1: They could go through a grinder even and you would
- 5:02Speaker 1: still ingest it. Well, No, because the guy that wrote
- 5:04Speaker 1: in was saying that people told him, if you do
- 5:06Speaker 1: shoot a collar dear, you have to grind it all
- 5:09Speaker 1: into burger in order to destroy the chip to prevent
- 5:12Speaker 1: the government from tracking this guy. Uh goes on to
- 5:17Speaker 1: say that he had an interesting couple points about it.
- 5:20Speaker 1: He was working on a master's research project on survival
- 5:24Speaker 1: of adult gobblers and the Black Hills of South Dakote.
- 5:27Speaker 1: He'll appreciate the spencer. So adult gobblers in the Black
- 5:30Speaker 1: Hills they radio collared, not tagged, but like literally put
- 5:35Speaker 1: a collar on seventy five gobblers. Um unsurprisingly, hunting mortality
- 5:43Speaker 1: was far and away the highest source of mortality. That's
- 5:46Speaker 1: what kills him. But they also had in the Black Hills,
- 5:49Speaker 1: they had gobblers getting killed by lion, mountain lions, bobcats,
- 5:52Speaker 1: great horned owls. Um goes on to say, whenever I
- 5:57Speaker 1: couldn't locate a radio collar and it wasn't reported, he
- 6:02Speaker 1: would just go and drive around Custer and Hot Springs,
- 6:05Speaker 1: South Dakota and scan the city with the radio receiver.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Do you guys watched Have you guys watched the uh
- 6:14Speaker 1: watched or read No Country for Old Men? Yea, when
- 6:21Speaker 1: the guy just drives around trying to find the money
- 6:23Speaker 1: with a transpondering it. So this guy drives around, yeah,
- 6:26Speaker 1: trying to find the suitcase of a transpondering it. This
- 6:29Speaker 1: guy drives around like that. He twice has regained his
- 6:34Speaker 1: signal outside of hotels, outside of motels, entered the motel
- 6:39Speaker 1: with his receiver and knocked on the actual door where
- 6:43Speaker 1: the guy was in there with his rate turkey collar.
- 6:47Speaker 1: And he then asked them, do you have something that
- 6:49Speaker 1: doesn't belong to you? Wow, because I'm guessing it says
- 6:55Speaker 1: on the radio collar. If you were to find this,
- 6:58Speaker 1: please and when people did. He also one time found
- 7:02Speaker 1: one of his still out in the woods in the
- 7:04Speaker 1: back of a truck. Um. And then Carmen van Bianci
- 7:10Speaker 1: wrote in about the tags themselves, you know how much
- 7:15Speaker 1: you know how much I like Janice? If someone uh,
- 7:20Speaker 1: I like Carmen more than your honest, one of my
- 7:24Speaker 1: favorite people. If you threw uh like a grizzly bear
- 7:30Speaker 1: at Carmen, I would shove your honest in the way
- 7:32Speaker 1: of the bear. Um. What these things are called, Well,
- 7:37Speaker 1: this guy's referring to about eating the deer and still
- 7:39Speaker 1: having it in. There is a passive integrated transponder or
- 7:44Speaker 1: PIT tag. They're not really trackable. Oh, another guy was
- 7:47Speaker 1: saying just not just for funzies. I'll tell what he
- 7:51Speaker 1: said the minut Another biologist wrote in Carmen's talking about
- 7:53Speaker 1: pit tags, the government can't track you with a PIT tag. Yeah,
- 7:58Speaker 1: when you have a PIT tag in you pretty much
- 7:59Speaker 1: have to go past a reader. Two do any good
- 8:04Speaker 1: for anybody? So you can put like pitt tags and fish,
- 8:07Speaker 1: and then you put the scanners near the river and
- 8:11Speaker 1: you can scan fish coming by and tell when it
- 8:12Speaker 1: picks them up. But it has to pass by this thing.
- 8:16Speaker 1: She's even in rivers where they had a lot of
- 8:19Speaker 1: scanners because of doing studies on fish, and the scanners
- 8:23Speaker 1: are already in place. She's gone and pitt tagged beavers,
- 8:27Speaker 1: so you can track beaver movements since the scanners are
- 8:29Speaker 1: already in place. That's cool. Um goes on to also
- 8:35Speaker 1: back me up on this. She says, so basically, unless
- 8:38Speaker 1: the government has hidden pit tager eaters all around us,
- 8:41Speaker 1: if you ate a pit tag, you have to get
- 8:44Speaker 1: very close to a fish reader somewhere, probably have to
- 8:47Speaker 1: rub your stomach on it for it to pick up
- 8:49Speaker 1: the number. They would know that a pitt tag has passed,
- 8:53Speaker 1: but that's the only thing that they would know the
- 8:56Speaker 1: collars or what's actually trackable. Um, and she says, she
- 9:01Speaker 1: bags me up, and I completely agree with your reluck.
- 9:04Speaker 1: I'm quoting Karmen. I completely agree with your reluctance to
- 9:08Speaker 1: shoot an animal that has a collar on it. They're
- 9:11Speaker 1: totally tainted. This is coming from someone who places collars
- 9:15Speaker 1: on animals. They're totally tainted and less wild, and someone
- 9:21Speaker 1: else has already gotten the best of that animal. I
- 9:25Speaker 1: am even a little disappointed when I work and recapture
- 9:29Speaker 1: an animal that someone else has already tagged. It's less
- 9:32Speaker 1: exciting than catching a fresh one. Even seeing a wild
- 9:36Speaker 1: animal with a collar on it is less cool than
- 9:39Speaker 1: seeing one without. H Now, I want to know. I
- 9:45Speaker 1: want to know how, because we have some folks here
- 9:46Speaker 1: that hadn't weighed in their opinion on that. I'd like
- 9:49Speaker 1: to hear from them. Oh, do you think it'd be
- 9:51Speaker 1: cool to get a shoot a deer wearing a collar?
- 9:54Speaker 1: I had an instance where seeing deer with collars was
- 9:58Speaker 1: really really cool. I told you about that, didn't I.
- 10:01Speaker 1: I was gett my butt kicked hunting mule deer, and
- 10:04Speaker 1: I called up a biologist buddy of mine, not just
- 10:08Speaker 1: to kind of get an understanding what the heck is
- 10:10Speaker 1: going on, not be told where deer at um? And
- 10:13Speaker 1: it was just this, but this buddy mine is like, Hey, yeah,
- 10:22Speaker 1: you know of our colored deer have been on winter
- 10:27Speaker 1: range for two weeks already. Dude, you can't be getting
- 10:30Speaker 1: that kind of information, man, he said, we have. There's
- 10:33Speaker 1: only three colored deer left that haven't shown up the
- 10:38Speaker 1: very next day, end of the season, last day of
- 10:40Speaker 1: the season, there again are no dear to be found.
- 10:45Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I look over, here's this dough
- 10:48Speaker 1: with a white collar. Yeah. And then two more dough
- 10:52Speaker 1: show up with white collars. Uh. It was just like
- 10:56Speaker 1: very odd but super fun. We're talking to someone one time.
- 10:58Speaker 1: I think this is what star this whole conversation long
- 11:01Speaker 1: long ago is we were talking to a biologist up
- 11:05Speaker 1: in Fairbanks and she was saying, I have collars on
- 11:11Speaker 1: legal bowls right now that are hanging around Fairbanks. I
- 11:16Speaker 1: remember thinking it wouldn't it be nice to know how
- 11:18Speaker 1: to find those things? Yeah, we're not. Oh yeah, that
- 11:21Speaker 1: was my friend Casey. So Danielle, what do you mean
- 11:26Speaker 1: do you see an animal with a collar? Are you
- 11:28Speaker 1: gonna pass? I don't know. The only thing I've never
- 11:33Speaker 1: seen a deer or a turkey with a collar. I
- 11:36Speaker 1: just think about water found banded birds and people go
- 11:42Speaker 1: they go crazy. And got a bandoned goose and I
- 11:47Speaker 1: thought it was super cool and how we called it
- 11:51Speaker 1: in and realized it was just like a one year
- 11:54Speaker 1: old local bird and I was like, man, I would
- 11:58Speaker 1: have preferred not knowing he wasn't. Yeah. When he got
- 12:03Speaker 1: the information back, you're like, oh, this is like our
- 12:05Speaker 1: next door neighbor. Not yeah that that. We were definitely
- 12:10Speaker 1: expecting a twenty year old. This is amazing. Yeah, yeah,
- 12:15Speaker 1: our body Rannie baby. He shot one one time and
- 12:17Speaker 1: turned into He shot a bird with the ankle bracelet
- 12:20Speaker 1: and turned it. He said, have been banded about a
- 12:23Speaker 1: hundred yards on on the pit tag subject. I used
- 12:29Speaker 1: to work for a fish hatchery that primarily dealt with
- 12:32Speaker 1: endangered species like um pallid sturgeon on petal fish. I
- 12:36Speaker 1: guess petal fish aren't endangered threatened in some areas, but anyway,
- 12:39Speaker 1: we would pit tag these fish. On a petal fish,
- 12:42Speaker 1: for example, beyond the third scoot from the back and
- 12:45Speaker 1: then to read this with thet scoots one of their
- 12:48Speaker 1: bony armored plates. Yeah, if you handle these things, like
- 12:51Speaker 1: a wild surgeon will have super sharp scoots. It's like
- 12:55Speaker 1: those lines they go from their head back to their tail.
- 12:58Speaker 1: You know you were listening Cow's weekend review. He might
- 13:03Speaker 1: maybe he listened, but he doesn't have good retention anyway.
- 13:07Speaker 1: You try to retain anything when you got my two
- 13:10Speaker 1: in the house, But these pit tags can be coded.
- 13:15Speaker 1: There's like thirty five billion combinations because it's old, super
- 13:19Speaker 1: long series of letters and numbers. But to read these things,
- 13:23Speaker 1: the wand that reads them has to be like pressed
- 13:26Speaker 1: against the skin of the surgeon where that pit tag
- 13:29Speaker 1: is at. You have to be like the government to
- 13:33Speaker 1: pin you down. Like I could not walk into the
- 13:36Speaker 1: building that has these tanks with tag surgeon and just
- 13:40Speaker 1: wave it and then read a certain surgeon. You basically
- 13:43Speaker 1: have to be pressed against this pit tag reader. Wow.
- 13:48Speaker 1: So if if some if a black helicopter, if you're
- 13:50Speaker 1: hunting in Kentucky and you get a deer wearing a
- 13:53Speaker 1: radio collar and you eat that deer anyway and don't
- 13:56Speaker 1: grind it home muscle, and later a black helicopter your
- 14:00Speaker 1: lands by you and some men jump out and tackle
- 14:03Speaker 1: you and hold you down and wave that thing all
- 14:07Speaker 1: over your body. At that point you will know that
- 14:09Speaker 1: you're being tracked by the governments. And and even with
- 14:12Speaker 1: like the pit tags we use specifically, it does not
- 14:15Speaker 1: give away location. You know what's in front of you
- 14:17Speaker 1: because you're holding this wand against it. But if if
- 14:20Speaker 1: I pit tagged you Steve, and we were in the
- 14:22Speaker 1: meat eater office, I wouldn't be able to track your
- 14:25Speaker 1: location even within this building. Got it? And if you're
- 14:28Speaker 1: wearing like a helmet made out of sturgeon scoots. Another guy,
- 14:37Speaker 1: this guy is a veterinarian. He places pit tags on animals. Uh,
- 14:43Speaker 1: what's he got to say about it? There's very few
- 14:46Speaker 1: my even micro chips. Okay, so he's placed microchips, not
- 14:50Speaker 1: pitt tags. My very first point is that microchips generally
- 14:53Speaker 1: do not have GPS capabilities due to size and battery limitations.
- 14:57Speaker 1: They're only meant to store information that can be read
- 14:59Speaker 1: by a scanner. Um. They play them subcutaneously on animals. Mammals,
- 15:07Speaker 1: he puts them between the skin and the muscle. If
- 15:09Speaker 1: you're in Kentucky hunting and you get a deer and
- 15:11Speaker 1: it's got a radio collar, Um, when you stripped the hide,
- 15:17Speaker 1: that thing is gonna come off with the hide. Plus
- 15:20Speaker 1: this guy just for getting shiggles eight one, and he
- 15:25Speaker 1: thought it was fun to use the scanner to watch
- 15:28Speaker 1: it moved through his g I track and then he
- 15:32Speaker 1: shouted out in thirty six hours, what do you think
- 15:38Speaker 1: of that? I like the dedication veterinarian right from a
- 15:44Speaker 1: straight up veterinarian. Um quickly on Latvia, Janna, did you
- 15:50Speaker 1: know that a mutual friend of me and Janna so
- 15:54Speaker 1: Seek a deer hunter sending a thing that he was
- 15:56Speaker 1: having to find himself passing by the Latvian embassy in
- 16:01Speaker 1: our nation's capital, and the Lavian embassy had a sign
- 16:04Speaker 1: out um bragging up how Latvia is one of the
- 16:11Speaker 1: most introverted nations in the world. It's an odd thing
- 16:17Speaker 1: to be bragging about this day and age. Yeah, and
- 16:21Speaker 1: it was um that they let their literature speak for itself,
- 16:27Speaker 1: So I would say Yanni is an outlier as a
- 16:32Speaker 1: fairly extroverted person. Mm hmm um. It made me think
- 16:37Speaker 1: of the fact that Latvians let the literature speak for itself.
- 16:40Speaker 1: How many of you guys have seen Jin Jim Jarmus
- 16:43Speaker 1: is Dead Man? Not really got Jim jar I would
- 16:48Speaker 1: do anything to be in your shoes and have not
- 16:52Speaker 1: seen Dead Man so that I could go watch it
- 16:55Speaker 1: and have the pleasure of seeing it for the first time.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Against right, it's the greatest premise of any movie ever
- 17:01Speaker 1: made on Earth. Uh you f you're withut the poet
- 17:05Speaker 1: William Blake, Yes, okay, bear with me. Mann. There's a
- 17:10Speaker 1: real life poet named William Blake, famous poet. Now in
- 17:15Speaker 1: the movie, there's just a dude from Ohio named William Blake. Okay,
- 17:22Speaker 1: He gets a job offering out west in the undred
- 17:25Speaker 1: and travels out west and gets quickly gets in a
- 17:29Speaker 1: gunfight and get shot. Wanders off in the desert with
- 17:33Speaker 1: what looks like it should be a mortal wound, but
- 17:36Speaker 1: it doesn't kill him. He an Indian happens upon him.
- 17:43Speaker 1: It just so happens that this Indian had been captured
- 17:47Speaker 1: at one point in time and sent to Europe where
- 17:53Speaker 1: he was taught poetry and was part of a trap.
- 17:55Speaker 1: You know, they used to like display Native Americans. They
- 17:59Speaker 1: used to take Native Mary, as Hunter said, like take
- 18:01Speaker 1: him to Europe and display them like circus displays. The
- 18:07Speaker 1: Indian played by Gary Farmer had his character when he
- 18:11Speaker 1: was young, had been kidnapped and brought back to Europe
- 18:13Speaker 1: and as part of this traveling road show he would
- 18:16Speaker 1: recite poetry, and they taught him to recite the poetry
- 18:21Speaker 1: of William Blake. He finds a man dying in the
- 18:24Speaker 1: desert who just so happens to be William Blake. But
- 18:29Speaker 1: this William Blake from Ohio has no idea about the
- 18:32Speaker 1: English poet William Blake. But the Indian is like, I
- 18:36Speaker 1: have found William Blake. Um, William Blake is dead. I
- 18:41Speaker 1: need to return him to where he's supposed to be.
- 18:46Speaker 1: He needs to go back to the spirit world because
- 18:50Speaker 1: I have now recovered out in the desert William Blake.
- 18:53Speaker 1: And the William Blake has no idea what he's talking about.
- 18:59Speaker 1: But at one point William Blake, the guy from the
- 19:02Speaker 1: Kid from Ohio shoot someone, and the Indians says, from
- 19:07Speaker 1: now on, all of your poetry will be written in blood.
- 19:12Speaker 1: And I thought of that, and I thought he's honest
- 19:15Speaker 1: as a Lavian, deep deep good ass movie man. Uh,
- 19:22Speaker 1: it's just dead Man, dead Man, dead Man, great movie.
- 19:27Speaker 1: And if you don't like watching movies because the gun
- 19:29Speaker 1: shots are too loud, all the gunshots are super quiet,
- 19:33Speaker 1: which is very funny, they'll go that's a good movie. Uh, dude,
- 19:39Speaker 1: wrote him. If you date a lot married wild PILs married.
- 19:49Speaker 1: Everybody's married cal If you date a lot, he always
- 19:54Speaker 1: takes a guy rode in. He always takes his dates fishing,
- 19:59Speaker 1: because that way they got to buy a fishing license.
- 20:01Speaker 1: And he feels like he's supporting his State phishing game
- 20:04Speaker 1: agency by making so many people buy a fishing license.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Then he says, if they don't like that date, that's
- 20:11Speaker 1: dating catch and release. Uh. I like how he's like
- 20:16Speaker 1: ensuring something good will come out of this date, whether
- 20:20Speaker 1: or not he likes the person or not. It's a
- 20:22Speaker 1: good attitude. True conservationist there exactly. Uh quick, one guy
- 20:28Speaker 1: was using you Honese's marriage advice tip. What do you
- 20:31Speaker 1: call that too? You gotta think of a name for it,
- 20:34Speaker 1: because what's not mine? I stole it from the Great
- 20:40Speaker 1: Wayne Dire? But who's that? I know who he is?
- 20:47Speaker 1: Dr Wayne Dyer? How would you describe he's a self
- 20:50Speaker 1: help person? Is he like Dr Phil? No? I don't
- 20:54Speaker 1: know about Dr Phil. Is he like Dr Oz No? No,
- 21:00Speaker 1: he's up there so he doesn't think that like trons
- 21:02Speaker 1: will secure cancer. Danielle is going to describe him for you.
- 21:07Speaker 1: He's up there with you. I don't want to say
- 21:09Speaker 1: he's new age, but or spiritual necessarily, so he's not
- 21:15Speaker 1: new age. He's not spiritual. Um, he believes in all
- 21:20Speaker 1: that stuff you hearing me's stotting off about positivity, grace.
- 21:25Speaker 1: You know you know what we're talking about. Daniel can
- 21:28Speaker 1: you explain you he's marriage saving advice. We've explained it
- 21:31Speaker 1: so many times. No, I don't. Maybe, oh this is
- 21:34Speaker 1: where if you're having like a tiff or an argument
- 21:37Speaker 1: any less. I thought that was a really good tip.
- 21:41Speaker 1: It's great tip, but it almost got this guy divorced. Oh,
- 21:47Speaker 1: someone explained the tip. I can't explain it more. He
- 21:49Speaker 1: might have deeper problem. He had a miscommunication. Okay, Well,
- 21:54Speaker 1: how it works is if you have any issue, you
- 21:56Speaker 1: just and you feel like it's kind of it's probably
- 21:59Speaker 1: you can't call it petty, but for whatever reason, you're like,
- 22:02Speaker 1: you know what, we're not going to resolve this. Let's
- 22:05Speaker 1: just throw it on the scale, and everybody throws a
- 22:08Speaker 1: number between one and tent and whoever has the highest
- 22:12Speaker 1: number guess to be the sort of winner of that discussion.
- 22:16Speaker 1: And you can know you're missing. You make the decision
- 22:19Speaker 1: and you go. You miss the whole main part of
- 22:21Speaker 1: your thing. What do you mean you forgot to mention
- 22:26Speaker 1: that you're you're throwing a number about how much it
- 22:29Speaker 1: matters to you. Yeah, you didn't say that. Sorry, Well
- 22:33Speaker 1: I was gonna follow up with that. You have to
- 22:35Speaker 1: be in the far away as that was a far
- 22:40Speaker 1: away look in your eye. Phil, you can't always throw
- 22:43Speaker 1: tens because you know it's like the boy who cried Wolf, right,
- 22:47Speaker 1: So you gotta pick and choose what's important to you. Yeah,
- 22:50Speaker 1: it's like how much it matters to you? But didn't
- 22:53Speaker 1: you also say one time that there's like it's a
- 22:55Speaker 1: fallacy to throw a low number because you don't want
- 22:58Speaker 1: the other person to be like, why don't you care
- 22:59Speaker 1: about about this? Someone else said that, Yeah, we get
- 23:03Speaker 1: a lot of reader response. Listen to response about this.
- 23:06Speaker 1: I'll take a shot at it real quick. It's a
- 23:08Speaker 1: system that Yanni came up with by which if there's
- 23:13Speaker 1: an argument, let's say your art. Let's say me and
- 23:15Speaker 1: Yan you're arguing about um uh. Danielle said she uses
- 23:21Speaker 1: this so she could just give the example. I do
- 23:23Speaker 1: have an example. I mean, I don't actually remember what
- 23:26Speaker 1: we were arguing about, though, make something up. Um okay,
- 23:34Speaker 1: Let's say let's say, Uh, let's say you're getting a
- 23:37Speaker 1: new countertop. Just say, let's say you get a new
- 23:42Speaker 1: countertop and they're gonna put in one of those things
- 23:45Speaker 1: that automatically dispenses one of those little things where you
- 23:48Speaker 1: put your dish soap in there, and it's kind of
- 23:51Speaker 1: built into the countertop. It's like a little spigot coming
- 23:53Speaker 1: out of the counter top that are always worthless from
- 23:58Speaker 1: let's just say you, oh yeah, Let's put it this way.
- 24:00Speaker 1: Let's say you're debate about whether or not you have one, okay,
- 24:04Speaker 1: and you don't want one, and your husband does uh,
- 24:10Speaker 1: and you can and you and you can't decide. Then
- 24:14Speaker 1: you wind up doing as you say this. You say
- 24:16Speaker 1: on a one to ten, how much do you really
- 24:19Speaker 1: honestly care about this subject? Right? And if you're like, um,
- 24:26Speaker 1: your husband's like, I've always dreamed of having one of these.
- 24:30Speaker 1: These are really great. I hate having the bottle of
- 24:34Speaker 1: sitting on the counter. My mom used to wash my
- 24:37Speaker 1: mouth out with palum olive, and every time I look,
- 24:40Speaker 1: I think of that, and it makes me have animosity
- 24:42Speaker 1: towards my mother, and that that reflects even into animosity
- 24:45Speaker 1: from my own children. Right. And and the wife, you
- 24:49Speaker 1: you're just like, yeah, I just think they're kind of stupid.
- 24:52Speaker 1: So you give it a one. Your husband gives it
- 24:55Speaker 1: a ten. He wins, He gets the stupid pump. This
- 25:00Speaker 1: guy proposed this to his wife and then they're having
- 25:02Speaker 1: an argument and he throws a one and she throws
- 25:05Speaker 1: a ten, and she gets super mad at him. And
- 25:08Speaker 1: then he realized that she he explained in a way
- 25:11Speaker 1: where she thought he was giving on a sliding scale
- 25:14Speaker 1: of one to ten, how much do you value our relationship? Oh? Yeah? Um?
- 25:24Speaker 1: And without even thinking, he's like one, that's rough. Uh,
- 25:32Speaker 1: that's good. Now I want to go ahead. Maybe that
- 25:39Speaker 1: was the conclusion she wanted to come to. She got
- 25:43Speaker 1: real mad at him, because then you could get your
- 25:46Speaker 1: divorce and have it be that it wasn't even your fault,
- 25:49Speaker 1: which is what I imagine a lot of people want. Yeah,
- 25:54Speaker 1: you'd be like, well, I was a truthful spouse, but
- 25:56Speaker 1: he betrayed himself and now I'm dating this new guy,
- 25:59Speaker 1: and here we're here. We are, um Spencer, can you
- 26:02Speaker 1: tell us about the Daddy long leg deal? Yes? And so.
- 26:05Speaker 1: At the Mediator dot com, we have a new series
- 26:07Speaker 1: called fact Checker where we sort of investigate the suspect
- 26:12Speaker 1: yards that we've all been raised. But some examples like
- 26:17Speaker 1: should you drink urine in a survival situation? Can you
- 26:21Speaker 1: even tell that? Uh? Should you drink your in a
- 26:25Speaker 1: survival situation? The enters now, so Barret grills. His entire
- 26:30Speaker 1: career has been for not Yeah, So it's like it's
- 26:34Speaker 1: something that's often picked up on when a news entity
- 26:39Speaker 1: writes about some survival situation. For example, the guy that
- 26:43Speaker 1: cut his own arm off in the mountaineering accident you
- 26:46Speaker 1: know was a mountaineering accident. What what was it? Canary?
- 26:51Speaker 1: Great recollection. You think that the guy that can remember
- 26:54Speaker 1: that would be able to remember what he forgot. So
- 26:58Speaker 1: so when they wrote about guys uh, you know, events
- 27:03Speaker 1: that led up to that, they talked about how he
- 27:05Speaker 1: drank his only ear end to survive. And there's other
- 27:07Speaker 1: examples where somebody was trapped in rubble after a building
- 27:13Speaker 1: collapse and they drank their own your and to survive.
- 27:15Speaker 1: So stuff like that. So it's often told, but you
- 27:18Speaker 1: shouldn't actually do it. It'll dehydrate you like saltwater. Would
- 27:24Speaker 1: you are putting these toxins back in your body that
- 27:26Speaker 1: you're body just sent away. There's a lot of reasons
- 27:30Speaker 1: why it's a bad idea, but you probably get driven
- 27:32Speaker 1: crazy by thirst and then to drink it the same
- 27:34Speaker 1: way sometimes people get driven crazy by thirst and drink saltwater. Yeah,
- 27:38Speaker 1: so if it gives you, I guess a piece of mind.
- 27:41Speaker 1: But overall it's a bad idea and it's also not
- 27:44Speaker 1: a cure all for like these uh Eastern medicine claims
- 27:48Speaker 1: that you should put on a jellyfish sting. You can
- 27:50Speaker 1: put it on a sunburn. It will get rid of warts.
- 27:54Speaker 1: It's good for your skin if you drink it. And
- 27:56Speaker 1: my buddy fell on an urchin one time we're fishing,
- 28:00Speaker 1: ah and he piste on it. All of that's wrong.
- 28:04Speaker 1: You shouldn't do it. He was married to a doctor,
- 28:10Speaker 1: I don't think. But yeah, it's never mind that sent
- 28:13Speaker 1: her to the meat eater dot com. Then, so that
- 28:15Speaker 1: that's the kind of But hold, is there anything good
- 28:19Speaker 1: that urine can be used for it? It's waste. Write
- 28:22Speaker 1: your name in the snows snow Pete on our smoldering campfire.
- 28:31Speaker 1: Hey left. I figured I was putting into good use.
- 28:36Speaker 1: So um. Another one we recently wrote about was were
- 28:41Speaker 1: whale stocked in the Great Salt Lake? Oh? Can I
- 28:44Speaker 1: can we return to the to the did someone just
- 28:48Speaker 1: mention vomiting? Or was I going to mention vomiting? Oh?
- 28:52Speaker 1: I was telling the whole office about how you vomited
- 28:55Speaker 1: so much while we were spearfishing and you had somehow
- 28:58Speaker 1: twice left that out that I'm gonna tell everybody about
- 29:01Speaker 1: it right now. I was hoping to have a no
- 29:04Speaker 1: that was different. I had a lot of problems, um,
- 29:08Speaker 1: but we never got the daddy longlegs thing't there. But
- 29:11Speaker 1: I'm segue and I'm pivoting off. I'm trying to segue off. Okay,
- 29:18Speaker 1: check this out. Spencer said, how about drinking pistols and
- 29:22Speaker 1: doing any good? Actually? And I said about how sometimes
- 29:26Speaker 1: people will become thirst crazed if they're stranded on the
- 29:30Speaker 1: ocean and they'll try to drink saltwater. So I was
- 29:34Speaker 1: gonna seguey off my own interruption to point this out
- 29:42Speaker 1: spear fishing. Um. You know, I usually was snorkels to
- 29:49Speaker 1: have the check valvenum. No, not a water man, not
- 29:56Speaker 1: that kind of water man. Okay, some stories have a
- 29:58Speaker 1: check valve inum. H is anybody familiar with these. You
- 30:01Speaker 1: go into water and there's a sliding ball is buoyant
- 30:04Speaker 1: and the ball comes up and blocks so you can
- 30:06Speaker 1: go into water and your snorkle doesn't feel or even
- 30:09Speaker 1: splashes coming over. Your snorkele won't feel full of water.
- 30:13Speaker 1: I've been using those long time now that I'm officially
- 30:18Speaker 1: dabbling in the spear fishing world. Uh, I've been told
- 30:22Speaker 1: that those are naughty because they bubble too much, and
- 30:26Speaker 1: people don't like bubbles underwater. Fish don't like bubbles. They
- 30:30Speaker 1: don't want you bubbling. And so these guys use these
- 30:33Speaker 1: uh pretty wide gauge so you can breathe through them.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Very heavily short, low profile, wide gauge snorkels that they
- 30:41Speaker 1: clipped to the back of their mass strap so that
- 30:47Speaker 1: when you go into water, you spit the snorkle out.
- 30:49Speaker 1: The snorkel is not up in your business. That doesn't
- 30:50Speaker 1: obstruct your visions, just took to the back of your head,
- 30:52Speaker 1: out of the way, and it's small profiles, there's not
- 30:54Speaker 1: a lot of drag. I'm used to a more robust
- 30:59Speaker 1: um check valved, longer side mounted snorkel, and switching to
- 31:05Speaker 1: this new snorkel system allowed me to breathe in. It
- 31:07Speaker 1: all made me drink a lot of salt water, and
- 31:10Speaker 1: at one point out in the water, I had to
- 31:14Speaker 1: full on. I twice like a two pack spread apart
- 31:18Speaker 1: um full on vomited into my own area, right, I
- 31:29Speaker 1: kind of brushed it away. I sort of splashed all
- 31:32Speaker 1: my vomit away. So you're you were on the surface
- 31:35Speaker 1: when you had this, I was you really wanna know
- 31:38Speaker 1: what was going on in the kelp forest and you
- 31:40Speaker 1: come up they freaking kelp man, and you have to
- 31:42Speaker 1: like dig your way, you have to like create a
- 31:44Speaker 1: hole to get your head up, to get a breath,
- 31:47Speaker 1: a little panicky, no, just you get up in the
- 31:50Speaker 1: in the kelp is so heavy that it would lay
- 31:53Speaker 1: the snorkel down and you you'd be up and like, oh,
- 31:56Speaker 1: I'm fine, and you take a big you'd be like
- 31:58Speaker 1: out of breath, you know whatever, and you take a
- 32:01Speaker 1: big ripper and it would the snorke will be cock
- 32:04Speaker 1: eyed whatever because the kelt so I one day I
- 32:09Speaker 1: went out and drank so much salt water that I
- 32:12Speaker 1: had to eject it all. Yeah, um, you're honestly, you
- 32:15Speaker 1: get panicky up on on the surface like it's it's
- 32:19Speaker 1: no one was panicky. Well, no, I definitely felt the
- 32:22Speaker 1: anxiety of of being around and in the kelp it
- 32:25Speaker 1: gets thick. I had a good I don't know if
- 32:27Speaker 1: they ever gave you this tip though about swimming through
- 32:29Speaker 1: it on the surface and how to use your gun
- 32:32Speaker 1: like point it put it up above your head and
- 32:34Speaker 1: it sort of splits the kelp and you can you
- 32:36Speaker 1: can move through it a little easier. I eventually developed
- 32:39Speaker 1: the system I'm pretty happy with forgetting through the kelt Know,
- 32:43Speaker 1: it can definitely feel like it's sort of a bunch
- 32:45Speaker 1: of hands and arms grabbing onto you. And you guys
- 32:49Speaker 1: were spooky. You were spitting out your snorkel before you
- 32:52Speaker 1: dive right pulling it out. Yeah. Is it so dense
- 32:56Speaker 1: that you could like lose the sense of what's up
- 32:58Speaker 1: and what's down? No, no, the girls vertically, no, but
- 33:05Speaker 1: you when you were down, you could look up and
- 33:07Speaker 1: see holes and then adjust your rise to hit little holes,
- 33:11Speaker 1: or you might have a better busting through to get
- 33:14Speaker 1: a breath. And it's always way worse at the surfaces
- 33:17Speaker 1: than it is underneath. You could travel quite freely underneath
- 33:19Speaker 1: because all the leaves are laying on the surface. It's
- 33:22Speaker 1: just the stalks are underwater, so you could kind of
- 33:24Speaker 1: sneak around and there a little bit. But then when
- 33:26Speaker 1: you wanted to come up, it was hard. And it
- 33:28Speaker 1: was caused me to drink a lot of that damn saltwater.
- 33:31Speaker 1: And this happs to me all the time. Last time
- 33:32Speaker 1: I was in Boja spear fish and I had to
- 33:34Speaker 1: climb up on the beach and bombit. My body doesn't like.
- 33:36Speaker 1: My body's anti saltwater. I was impressed though, with the
- 33:39Speaker 1: way you got back in the game, because I was
- 33:41Speaker 1: already in the boat. Steve got to the boat, told
- 33:43Speaker 1: us about vomiting and flopped into the boat literally to
- 33:48Speaker 1: the right to the floor. And people were talking to
- 33:52Speaker 1: Steve and he was not responding. He was fine, but
- 33:55Speaker 1: he's like he was not he was not in a
- 33:57Speaker 1: talkative mood, you know, which for Steve's not very often,
- 34:00Speaker 1: you know. And he's like on the ground, And about
- 34:03Speaker 1: forty five minutes later he was back in the water
- 34:06Speaker 1: charging Wow, dude, Yeah, I'm hardcoret man. Not about that.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Just going belly up for back. That's tough. Uh Dyhow
- 34:19Speaker 1: So there we are, Daniel dog daddy long legs. Yeah. So,
- 34:23Speaker 1: um oh, no whales. You're gonna tell us about whales.
- 34:27Speaker 1: I was just giving you some examples of the kind
- 34:29Speaker 1: of um yarns that we look at, or long held assumptions.
- 34:33Speaker 1: Can I tell you I never heard that there were
- 34:35Speaker 1: whales in Great Salt Lake. I hadn't either, but I
- 34:38Speaker 1: was in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago, and
- 34:40Speaker 1: the uber driver just telling me that actually put a
- 34:45Speaker 1: lot of good info off And then I google this
- 34:48Speaker 1: and this has been off repeated on forums and blogs. Specifically,
- 34:52Speaker 1: even the University of Utah Biology department has like a
- 34:56Speaker 1: short blog section talking about when this happened, that these
- 34:58Speaker 1: whales were stuck there, But it never did happen. Why
- 35:02Speaker 1: does the university say it did as a joke. No,
- 35:05Speaker 1: they're just misinformed on the university, the misinformity of Utah
- 35:10Speaker 1: misinformed about a whale introduction. On their biology department website.
- 35:16Speaker 1: They have a short thing talking about when this happened
- 35:19Speaker 1: back in the eight hundreds. Yes, I'll pull it up. Ah. Well,
- 35:25Speaker 1: the you, the actual university is wrong about whether or
- 35:29Speaker 1: not whales were I think it is something that's just
- 35:34Speaker 1: been overlooked, Like whoever is auditing what goes up on
- 35:39Speaker 1: these websites happened to miss that, you know, within the
- 35:42Speaker 1: biology department. There's this quick blog post that who knows,
- 35:46Speaker 1: some grad student probably contributed talking about when this happened.
- 35:50Speaker 1: Man if I was gonna send my kid to that school,
- 35:54Speaker 1: And then I was thumbing through the website and encountered
- 35:57Speaker 1: a thing that they had let wales loose Great Salt Lake,
- 36:00Speaker 1: and then I learned that that wasn't true. I would
- 36:03Speaker 1: withdraw my child's application. Dude, I gotta tell you, Uh,
- 36:07Speaker 1: doing a lot of research on biology based topics. This
- 36:11Speaker 1: is not limited to the University of Utah. You come
- 36:14Speaker 1: across some grad papers that you're like, ah, that that's
- 36:22Speaker 1: just not right, Like there's they're not all jams out there.
- 36:26Speaker 1: This is on utah dot d use website and it
- 36:31Speaker 1: is under the Rose Lab Department of Biology from the
- 36:35Speaker 1: University Utah, and it tells the whole story about how
- 36:38Speaker 1: the Great Salt Lake, which is seventy five miles long
- 36:40Speaker 1: thirty five miles wide, covers more than million acres. And
- 36:43Speaker 1: then he goes on to tell you the story of
- 36:44Speaker 1: how this eccentric biologist back in the stocked these whales
- 36:49Speaker 1: there we're kind of whales. So to run this like
- 36:56Speaker 1: down to figure out what the origin of this was
- 36:59Speaker 1: it actus, we went back to an article in a
- 37:03Speaker 1: now defunct newspaper in Utah that used like some very
- 37:09Speaker 1: heavy handed hints that they were writing something that was
- 37:14Speaker 1: sarcasm and not to be believed. But the story goes
- 37:19Speaker 1: that back in this eccentric biologists had a theory that
- 37:24Speaker 1: in the Great Salt Lake whales could survive, and so
- 37:26Speaker 1: he went on a two year mission south of Australia
- 37:30Speaker 1: to hunt and catch whales to then bring there. And
- 37:33Speaker 1: they decided to do that because they weren't able to
- 37:36Speaker 1: acquire any whale legs. So there's an example of where
- 37:40Speaker 1: this article like an onion article, yes, but it was
- 37:43Speaker 1: from a newspaper like you see, there's an old timey
- 37:47Speaker 1: newspaper clipping talking about this UM. I forget what your
- 37:51Speaker 1: original question was, what kind of whales it? There's no
- 37:56Speaker 1: details given besides that these two whales were caught off
- 37:58Speaker 1: the southern coast of Australa. They were then taken to
- 38:02Speaker 1: to San Francisco. There's no details on how they got
- 38:04Speaker 1: them there. Uh. And then from San Francisco they jumped
- 38:07Speaker 1: on a rail line for these specially designed um Trader
- 38:11Speaker 1: trains shipped to Salt Lake City and then carried a
- 38:14Speaker 1: half mile from the tracks to the to the lake
- 38:17Speaker 1: and placed in there. And they had these holding pens
- 38:20Speaker 1: set up with like long mesh nets so that the
- 38:23Speaker 1: whales could stay near the mouth of the bear river
- 38:26Speaker 1: and be observed. But within minutes of these things being released,
- 38:29Speaker 1: they busted out of the mesh. And after that they
- 38:33Speaker 1: were spotted a few times over the next couple of years.
- 38:35Speaker 1: But then whalers came in like five years after they
- 38:39Speaker 1: were released, another like heavy handed thing talking about why
- 38:42Speaker 1: this isn't true, and they killed off the two whales there.
- 38:45Speaker 1: But to this day there are still reports of whale
- 38:49Speaker 1: sidings in the Great Solid Yes, you know there's when
- 38:53Speaker 1: I was researching my oh you want to see a
- 38:55Speaker 1: seg we're not we don't even approached what we're supposed
- 38:58Speaker 1: to talk about. And we haven't got into the daddy
- 39:02Speaker 1: long legs yet. But um, when I was researching in
- 39:04Speaker 1: my Buffalo book and watched I got an announcement to
- 39:07Speaker 1: make about that. When I was researching my Buffalo book,
- 39:09Speaker 1: all these you know a decade ago. Um, everyone knows
- 39:15Speaker 1: the story that like that like sharing, Like there's a
- 39:16Speaker 1: general like Sheridan in the in the sort of the
- 39:20Speaker 1: lore of of of of Buffalo. Okay, there's this thing
- 39:25Speaker 1: that that, uh, the the U. S. Military had this
- 39:28Speaker 1: stated goal, this stated thing that let's get rid of
- 39:33Speaker 1: the planes tribes. The key to getting rid of the
- 39:37Speaker 1: planes tribes just to kill all the buffalo then they'll
- 39:40Speaker 1: have nothing to eat. And people thought that there's this
- 39:43Speaker 1: myth that that was like the stated that that was
- 39:45Speaker 1: a stated goal and not a just a very real consequence.
- 39:51Speaker 1: It wasn't very real consequence, but it was like the
- 39:54Speaker 1: U S policy was to do this, and it came
- 39:56Speaker 1: from the fact that uh General Sheridan I believe it was,
- 40:00Speaker 1: had supposedly said this in front of the Texas State
- 40:05Speaker 1: Assembly and it's in every history, every old history book
- 40:08Speaker 1: likes to mention this thing. Well, um, a student of
- 40:11Speaker 1: Dan Floors, who we've had on the podcast one time,
- 40:14Speaker 1: went to like right about this and in his research
- 40:18Speaker 1: found out that not only is there really no evidence
- 40:22Speaker 1: of him saying this, he never spoke to the Texas
- 40:25Speaker 1: State Assembly, but there it is. It just is the
- 40:30Speaker 1: thing that gets perpetuated and perpetuated and perpetuated. And then
- 40:33Speaker 1: he looked as like it's just someone screwed up or whatever,
- 40:39Speaker 1: the segue being. When you um a little bit about
- 40:42Speaker 1: book business, when you sell a book to a publisher
- 40:45Speaker 1: like my my book American Buffalo in Search of a
- 40:47Speaker 1: lass Icon was published by Random House in Random House
- 40:52Speaker 1: owns everything about They owned the world rights to the book,
- 40:54Speaker 1: and they can sell audio rights, so they sold the
- 40:58Speaker 1: audio rights to another audio book company when it came out,
- 41:04Speaker 1: and this audio book company hired. I don't want to
- 41:07Speaker 1: disparage the guy. I'm sure he you know, hopefully loves
- 41:09Speaker 1: his country and loves his family, but just did a
- 41:11Speaker 1: horrible job, the worst job you could possibly imagine reading
- 41:15Speaker 1: my book. When I got the audio version of my
- 41:18Speaker 1: book and I turned it on, I couldn't. He didn't
- 41:21Speaker 1: get a sentence out of his mouth. And I was
- 41:23Speaker 1: across the room turning it off. It's that bad. It's
- 41:28Speaker 1: not how it sounds. He doesn't get it. It's not
- 41:31Speaker 1: how it sounds. It's like I would rather have had
- 41:35Speaker 1: Alvin and the Chipmunks read this book. Like this man
- 41:41Speaker 1: was so detached from the actual material that he wasn't capable. Yeah,
- 41:46Speaker 1: he's a soap opera actor and like you could tell
- 41:50Speaker 1: that he wouldn't be able to even imagine a world
- 41:55Speaker 1: in which he could imagine what's in my head? Mm hmm. Anyhow,
- 42:00Speaker 1: they had the rights for ten years. I did. I
- 42:01Speaker 1: thought they had the rights in perpetuity. They had the
- 42:03Speaker 1: rights for ten years. Random Houses got the audio rights back,
- 42:07Speaker 1: and I just spent three days in a studio and
- 42:11Speaker 1: I read the whole damn book from start to end,
- 42:13Speaker 1: and it's now, it's already available. It seem going audible.
- 42:17Speaker 1: You can going on your bookstore like the iTunes I whatever,
- 42:21Speaker 1: what the hell is it called, Like the iTunes bookstore
- 42:24Speaker 1: on your app on your phone, and it's me reading
- 42:27Speaker 1: my damn book American Buffalo and searchable lost Icon read
- 42:31Speaker 1: by me now and not some hoser. Yeah, Daddy long Legs,
- 42:38Speaker 1: Daddy long Legs. So a lot of people have heard
- 42:43Speaker 1: this claim that Daddy long Legs or one of the
- 42:46Speaker 1: most venomous fighters in the world. But they lack the
- 42:49Speaker 1: things big enough to like puncture human skin like they
- 42:54Speaker 1: are like and if a bird eats him, it dies. Yeah,
- 43:00Speaker 1: they're loaded. They're a loaded gun without a trigger. I'm
- 43:05Speaker 1: very aware of this. I was over the weekend. It's
- 43:10Speaker 1: a death sentence for every bird that we need to
- 43:12Speaker 1: read our website. Morianni. He did. He just can't retain
- 43:15Speaker 1: it right. So when we started looking into this claim,
- 43:20Speaker 1: attempting to track on the origin, it was impossible. Could
- 43:23Speaker 1: not figure out where this came from. But within our
- 43:25Speaker 1: editorial team, we have people from Hawaii to Washington to Kansas,
- 43:29Speaker 1: UM to Maryland, and every one of those people had
- 43:32Speaker 1: heard this claim as a kid. So I it's say nationwide,
- 43:35Speaker 1: maybe worldwide Kansas Morgan Mason, Oh yeah, I heard that
- 43:41Speaker 1: growing up Texas. There we go, the whole country, probably
- 43:44Speaker 1: a lot of the world has heard this claim. Um,
- 43:47Speaker 1: But almost all of it is inaccurate. So for one,
- 43:51Speaker 1: daddy long legs, they're not spiders. They are harvestmen, which
- 43:55Speaker 1: is also a type of a rack nied. So right
- 43:58Speaker 1: after bat this claim is they also do not have
- 44:01Speaker 1: any venom in them. Um. But what they do have,
- 44:06Speaker 1: and what maybe started like this theory or this rumor,
- 44:11Speaker 1: is no venom at all, or no venom that can
- 44:13Speaker 1: hurtanom at all. If something attacks a daddy long legs,
- 44:18Speaker 1: their first line of defense are those long, brittle legs
- 44:21Speaker 1: that could break off, and then they got seven more
- 44:24Speaker 1: legs that can screw you away with And those legs
- 44:26Speaker 1: will actually continue to twitch after something grabs them. So
- 44:29Speaker 1: it's like it fools the predator, whatever it is, a
- 44:32Speaker 1: bigger spider or some kind of bird or whatever grabs
- 44:35Speaker 1: all these things. That's the first line defense. Second line
- 44:38Speaker 1: of defense is something actually like gets them in their mouth.
- 44:41Speaker 1: They secrete this like foul smelling, foul tasting, foul looking
- 44:47Speaker 1: substance that basically makes whatever is eating them, if it
- 44:50Speaker 1: has like a sense of taste, release them. Okay, So
- 44:54Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's maybe what started this, is that somebody
- 44:57Speaker 1: observed that some sort of amphib in eating one of
- 45:01Speaker 1: these things and then spitting it out because of that
- 45:03Speaker 1: foul tasting substance. But they have no venom um. And
- 45:09Speaker 1: the other part of the this, you know, is that
- 45:12Speaker 1: they favorite part they lack the big fangs, which they
- 45:16Speaker 1: actually have. Their fangs are similar to a brown recluse
- 45:20Speaker 1: in size the way brown brown recluse can penetrate skin
- 45:24Speaker 1: no problem. They actually tested this on an episode of MythBusters.
- 45:27Speaker 1: They got one of these things to bite somebody in
- 45:30Speaker 1: a penetrated skin. But they lack like the aggressive attitude
- 45:34Speaker 1: to bite anybody. And the primary use for those fangs
- 45:38Speaker 1: is to pick stuff up and hold it while it
- 45:41Speaker 1: eats it. So they have the fangs, they're not spiders,
- 45:44Speaker 1: and they don't have any venom Basically, well, they're harvest men.
- 45:50Speaker 1: That's like, I don't know, you know, it doesn't have
- 45:56Speaker 1: the body type to fall into the spider category, right, Uh,
- 46:02Speaker 1: so they are a member of the iractant class like
- 46:05Speaker 1: spiders scorpions, they're not lumped in with spiders. Yep. So
- 46:11Speaker 1: basically the whole thing is wrong. But I cannot track
- 46:14Speaker 1: down where they started or why. But my theory would
- 46:18Speaker 1: be that somebody observed them eating something spinning it back out,
- 46:23Speaker 1: and that's how it came to be. Yeah, that's good.
- 46:28Speaker 1: And somebody wrote in after they read that and said
- 46:31Speaker 1: that they were relieved to here. This is great because
- 46:36Speaker 1: they hunted an area, a swampy area that seems to
- 46:39Speaker 1: have a lot of these things. And there was one
- 46:41Speaker 1: instance where this guy was boat hunting and he shot
- 46:44Speaker 1: a buck that ran off, and he gave it a
- 46:47Speaker 1: few hours, and he went and started tracking it and
- 46:50Speaker 1: after a few hundred yards he lost blood. He was
- 46:53Speaker 1: down to just like pin sized bits of blood that
- 46:56Speaker 1: he couldn't see in the dark, and he thought that
- 46:59Speaker 1: this buck was lost. He wasn't gonna be able to
- 47:01Speaker 1: find it. The blood trail was gone. At that point.
- 47:05Speaker 1: He noticed like as he was kind of going down
- 47:07Speaker 1: this trail on his hands and knees that a bunch
- 47:10Speaker 1: of daddy long legs were congregating in certain areas every
- 47:14Speaker 1: few feet, and those daddy long legs once he kind
- 47:17Speaker 1: of shoot him away and noticed that they were on
- 47:18Speaker 1: these pin sized bits of blood. Yeah, and so he
- 47:22Speaker 1: actually used that for a long time to track this
- 47:25Speaker 1: deer by watching where these daddy long legs were congregating,
- 47:29Speaker 1: and was able to find that buck about five yards away.
- 47:32Speaker 1: Don't you feel as a writer that if you're gonna
- 47:37Speaker 1: take what you heard about daddy long legs being venomous
- 47:43Speaker 1: and go out and find the truth of it, right
- 47:48Speaker 1: and and do all that, don't you find that that
- 47:50Speaker 1: contradicts a little bit? You then taking what this gentleman
- 47:55Speaker 1: said and putting it out there as though we're sure
- 47:58Speaker 1: that this is what happened. Yes, that's a good point.
- 48:01Speaker 1: Something something that you might go to a daddy long
- 48:05Speaker 1: leg um and caught your finger and put drop of
- 48:10Speaker 1: blood and see if he in fact is interested in it. Um.
- 48:14Speaker 1: I think that'd be a cool test. Something that I
- 48:17Speaker 1: learned while writing this is that you can't listen to anybody,
- 48:22Speaker 1: but you should. You should actually embrace like seeing daddy
- 48:25Speaker 1: long legs around because their nature's little vacuums. These things
- 48:30Speaker 1: will eat dead bugs, a fids, flies, fungus, moss, bird droppings, worms, snails.
- 48:38Speaker 1: It's not if there was this matted down area in
- 48:43Speaker 1: a swamp and blood was fallen there and there was
- 48:45Speaker 1: a bunch of daddy long legs. I could see this happening,
- 48:49Speaker 1: that they were picking up on where this blood was
- 48:52Speaker 1: at and like congregating to that area. Have we talked before?
- 48:57Speaker 1: I believe we have. I'm sure I don't you. Have
- 49:00Speaker 1: we talked before about the fooled by randomness? Yes? Yeah, yeah,
- 49:08Speaker 1: fooled by coincidence. Yeah, I'm aware this is very anecdotal,
- 49:13Speaker 1: but we need to dig into it. But we don't.
- 49:17Speaker 1: Have had to quite revise the Big Game Hunting Butchering
- 49:25Speaker 1: Cooking guide Book to include that into the blood trailing section.
- 49:28Speaker 1: Not quite yet, but maybe someday, because I think we
- 49:32Speaker 1: should sell box day long legs and when you lose
- 49:37Speaker 1: a trail, you scatter them around, giving him an pick
- 49:42Speaker 1: trail back up again. Box of ten thousand day long
- 49:46Speaker 1: like no venom, and they're numbered one through ten. Yeah,
- 49:52Speaker 1: no venom. Uh, it's about it for precursory stuff. Oh,
- 49:57Speaker 1: Danielle is gonna talk about Oh, no, one more quick thing.
- 50:00Speaker 1: So cal's here, Spencer, you've been hearing from already, Danielle Pruett,
- 50:05Speaker 1: it's here, Yanni, and then uh, there's a weird thing
- 50:10Speaker 1: where there's a guy named Phil here who's always here,
- 50:14Speaker 1: but he used to always be behind um a yellow
- 50:20Speaker 1: curtain sometimes here, sometimes President engineering behind the curtain. But
- 50:25Speaker 1: Phil now has got himself a new station, no Mike,
- 50:29Speaker 1: but he's got a new station and he's present. So
- 50:32Speaker 1: if you can feel the aura of of someone, you're
- 50:37Speaker 1: feeling Phil, I'm gonna take a little video and we'll
- 50:42Speaker 1: post it so people can see Phil behind an Okay, Spencer,
- 50:47Speaker 1: would you might slide in your mic or to fill
- 50:48Speaker 1: from it? I wasn't sure if I had permission to speak,
- 50:51Speaker 1: But all right, how's it going, phil Um? Of the
- 50:55Speaker 1: things we've talked about so far, do you have anything
- 50:58Speaker 1: that you What has been your general impression the show
- 51:02Speaker 1: so far? I learned something new every single time I
- 51:05Speaker 1: sat in here. Has anyone said anything yet? And you're like,
- 51:09Speaker 1: this person is so stupid. There's no way that's true.
- 51:12Speaker 1: I wish they weren't here. No, not at all. No,
- 51:16Speaker 1: this is it's good programming. If anyone's heard the Hunting Collective.
- 51:19Speaker 1: I've been on a couple of times, and people who
- 51:21Speaker 1: listen to that know that this is not my world
- 51:24Speaker 1: at all. I ask, Yeah, I was hired because I
- 51:27Speaker 1: know how to twiddle knobs and and click buttons on
- 51:29Speaker 1: a computer and make this show sound good. Uh, but
- 51:32Speaker 1: you haven't heard anything so far that you thought was
- 51:34Speaker 1: just like like just like you like these people are horrible? No,
- 51:37Speaker 1: absolutely not. Yeah, like being a front and center or
- 51:43Speaker 1: do you like kind of having your own little office
- 51:45Speaker 1: back there? Well, so, I mean Steve kind of brought
- 51:49Speaker 1: this up earlier when he saw me. My mind wandered
- 51:52Speaker 1: and I was staring into the far the far distance.
- 51:55Speaker 1: What were you thinking about their bill? I was honestly
- 51:57Speaker 1: thinking about a way to set these these boom arms
- 51:59Speaker 1: up to ak you happy you're doing work. I was
- 52:01Speaker 1: doing work, I thought, I called you not doing work. No,
- 52:05Speaker 1: I was drifting off. I was trying to picture, like
- 52:07Speaker 1: how how I could make this better. So I just
- 52:09Speaker 1: wanted you to know you were still at work. I'm
- 52:11Speaker 1: on the clock because I had I had actually already
- 52:16Speaker 1: emailed to have your paid docked by thirty seconds. But okay,
- 52:21Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah, so that's why I, at
- 52:26Speaker 1: least behind my curtain, I was safe from you catching
- 52:28Speaker 1: me thinking about with my eyes kind of partially crossed. Yeah,
- 52:34Speaker 1: but yeah, no, I'm I'm happy to be here doing
- 52:36Speaker 1: good so far. Yeah, thank you. Um Danielle, can you
- 52:41Speaker 1: tell everyone about the proper way to about the property
- 52:44Speaker 1: to ground brown ground meat? Yeah, So I started filming
- 52:51Speaker 1: that because many many times when I first started cooking,
- 52:57Speaker 1: I you know, you read arrest being you're like brown
- 53:00Speaker 1: the meat and then step to you do whatever you're
- 53:03Speaker 1: doing after, and it's just like this overlooked process. And
- 53:08Speaker 1: I started to realize that browning to meat actually means
- 53:12Speaker 1: that it should be brown. And and if you think
- 53:15Speaker 1: about any other recipe, say you're about to brace something,
- 53:20Speaker 1: why do we sear the meat before we stick it
- 53:22Speaker 1: inside of a brazen liquid. It's to sear it, you're
- 53:27Speaker 1: creating the mired reaction amino acids. They start caramelizing when
- 53:34Speaker 1: it's the chemical chemical reaction between amino acids and protein
- 53:39Speaker 1: when introduced to heat. They that's what's going on, and
- 53:41Speaker 1: something gets crispy. Yeah, when you see hear something and
- 53:45Speaker 1: you get that brown exterior, that golden crust. That is
- 53:49Speaker 1: the reaction that's happening, and that is what flavor is.
- 53:52Speaker 1: And I read something really interesting about that. Many years ago,
- 53:58Speaker 1: from an evolutionary endpoint, humans began to learn what was
- 54:03Speaker 1: safe to eat based on that reaction. So when you
- 54:08Speaker 1: when you see it, when you have that reaction happening,
- 54:11Speaker 1: it's the smell of roasted meats, toasted bread, coffee, all
- 54:17Speaker 1: of those like roasty, nutty flavors that are happening. You know,
- 54:21Speaker 1: you start to salivate when you smell barbecue or something
- 54:25Speaker 1: being cooked. Um, And so I thought that was kind
- 54:27Speaker 1: of an interesting, interesting thing, like why do you start salivating.
- 54:31Speaker 1: It's you're telling your brain that this is good to eat.
- 54:34Speaker 1: I can it's safe. So anyway, so you have these
- 54:37Speaker 1: reactions happening in the pan, and that built a lot
- 54:40Speaker 1: of flavor for what it. Whatever it is you're cooking
- 54:44Speaker 1: and browning meat is really the same principle. So instead
- 54:49Speaker 1: of just browning meat, just to cook meat through, because
- 54:53Speaker 1: you're usually gonna add other things to it, like if
- 54:55Speaker 1: you're gonna make a taco or like a pasta, like
- 54:59Speaker 1: a bowl, these type of thing, you're still going to
- 55:02Speaker 1: cook it and add other things to it, so it's
- 55:04Speaker 1: not about really cooking the meat, it's about developing more
- 55:08Speaker 1: flavor into the overall dish. I'm not trying to teach
- 55:15Speaker 1: people this is how you cook meat through I mean,
- 55:18Speaker 1: I mean, this is how you make something better. Is
- 55:22Speaker 1: what I wanted to show because I think it's just
- 55:26Speaker 1: very overlooked. And so I did that little video, which
- 55:30Speaker 1: is just one way of browning meat in the way
- 55:34Speaker 1: that I I did that was based off the fact
- 55:39Speaker 1: that the meat was freshly ground. So like, that's another
- 55:44Speaker 1: thing you should pay attention to. I personally like to
- 55:48Speaker 1: grind meat and cook it instantly instead of I used
- 55:53Speaker 1: to grind everything all at once when I was processing
- 55:55Speaker 1: the deer, package it all up and then freeze it.
- 55:58Speaker 1: And then I hated that mushy texture. Oh yeah, but
- 56:02Speaker 1: I mean, but that's just like that's like but you
- 56:04Speaker 1: can't but that's a convenience thing. Yeah, I know. I
- 56:08Speaker 1: got two ways. So the way that I showed on
- 56:11Speaker 1: the video was because it was freshly ground, you get
- 56:15Speaker 1: all these like separated strands from like being extruded in
- 56:20Speaker 1: the grinder, and you can separate it in the pan
- 56:23Speaker 1: and you get all these nice little crispy bits. Now,
- 56:27Speaker 1: if you have a package of ground meat defrosted and
- 56:31Speaker 1: you notice that it's just sort of in a in
- 56:32Speaker 1: a in a patty form, well you should definitely pat
- 56:40Speaker 1: it really dry first with paper towels. I always do that,
- 56:44Speaker 1: in fact, if it's really really bloody. Um, Like if
- 56:48Speaker 1: you know, if you're grinding meat and like you're washing
- 56:51Speaker 1: meat and you're grinding and like everything is just there's
- 56:53Speaker 1: like a lot of water, and then you freeze it
- 56:56Speaker 1: like that, and then you package it up and there's
- 56:57Speaker 1: just tons of juices. I don't even set inside of
- 57:00Speaker 1: a strainer, sat inside of another bowl and leave it
- 57:03Speaker 1: in the refrigerator for several to Yeah, I get all
- 57:07Speaker 1: that juice out. I used that nice Lexan thing that
- 57:11Speaker 1: you guys started using up at the fish Shack, those
- 57:14Speaker 1: like lex and containers that have the like the like
- 57:17Speaker 1: the that's a good ass container, man. But you know
- 57:21Speaker 1: what my the and we used to get those an
- 57:24Speaker 1: anchorage and that that that that the places sold in
- 57:27Speaker 1: the restaurant and supply a places sold that line picked
- 57:30Speaker 1: up another line which isn't as good strainer. You can
- 57:33Speaker 1: buy them just right down here at J and V
- 57:35Speaker 1: on mend hole. Well they got him in town with
- 57:38Speaker 1: the strainers. Yeah, they got the lids. Yeah, I always
- 57:40Speaker 1: get him out of Maybe my brother get him forward.
- 57:42Speaker 1: You you know ce to clean your rice. No, you
- 57:45Speaker 1: know service containers. You know what alex san is lexan container.
- 57:49Speaker 1: It's a material. It's just a hard plastic that they
- 57:52Speaker 1: use in restaurants that like you can have hotel pans,
- 57:56Speaker 1: half pans, all the different sized pans made out of
- 57:59Speaker 1: if you don't want but you put hot it, you
- 58:01Speaker 1: put hot water, and you put hot liquids in it.
- 58:02Speaker 1: You got away from the cool. Yeah, like any of
- 58:05Speaker 1: those plastics that you see in the in a restaurant kitchen.
- 58:08Speaker 1: But these are like commercial food service containers that are
- 58:11Speaker 1: like the most anyone that hunts and fishes should have
- 58:13Speaker 1: these things. I don't care what the hell brand you buy.
- 58:16Speaker 1: This is a hot tip right here. Let's yeah. And
- 58:19Speaker 1: the lid, like you want to talk about lid? You
- 58:22Speaker 1: got lids? I don't. I don't even know what kind
- 58:25Speaker 1: I have. But the strainer, but the bottom it's basically
- 58:30Speaker 1: a plate that sits maybe an inch off the bottom
- 58:34Speaker 1: on little half inch okay, half an inch on like
- 58:38Speaker 1: little plastic legs and it's just perforated. So whatever you
- 58:41Speaker 1: put in there when you're throwing it out, it just
- 58:43Speaker 1: naturally has a place to go. Yeah. Man, you put
- 58:45Speaker 1: like your fish there, you put your fish filets in there,
- 58:48Speaker 1: and put it in your fridge. They're not basing in
- 58:51Speaker 1: their own works, just like your strainer and bowl is
- 58:55Speaker 1: just like another thing to have in your kitchen, but
- 58:57Speaker 1: a better thing. I just got, you know, the like
- 59:00Speaker 1: the old like they look like flower pedals that come
- 59:05Speaker 1: out a little steamer bass. I just got one of
- 59:09Speaker 1: those for free. It's probably thirty years old. But that
- 59:11Speaker 1: thing's great for putting in a variety of containers for
- 59:16Speaker 1: just this exact thing because it'll you know, forms to
- 59:19Speaker 1: a bowl, but also you can just like lay it
- 59:21Speaker 1: out there on a plate. Let's stuff dry out. Uh.
- 59:25Speaker 1: I want to get back to this though, because home
- 59:28Speaker 1: and now, why is it important to have dry meat? Well?
- 59:31Speaker 1: I want to comment on this because I know it.
- 59:34Speaker 1: Sometimes will be in a restaurant that like prides themselves
- 59:36Speaker 1: on their hamburgers and they like to point out never
- 59:40Speaker 1: been frozen. And I always felt like they were taking
- 59:43Speaker 1: a hit at me because I always grind up my
- 59:45Speaker 1: meat and freeze it, man, you get some watery asked
- 59:48Speaker 1: burger from freezing. Yeah, when you like freeze burger and
- 59:54Speaker 1: thought out, a lot of water gets released from that.
- 59:57Speaker 1: And it's funny you mentioned like that you're sometimes grind
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: in it up and it's not dry. Yeah. Um, while
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: whenever you're freezing, those liquids expand puncture the meat, and
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: so you do lose more juices. So that's why when
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: before you freeze it, you're like, yeah, there's just a
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: little bit of juices in there, no big deal. And
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: then you defrost it and you're like, where did this
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: come from? Looks like somebody you know anyway, So yeah, draining,
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: straining it out, patting it really dry and then if
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: it'd already sort of in a mound like question, Okay,
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: how if you take a paper towel and go to
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: pet ground meat doesn't just stick to the paper towel, No,
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: huh made a little bit and you can just dry
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: it off. Are you padding like the brick of meat
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: or you like spreading the actually put it out on
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: a big I use sheet trace for like all prep work. Um,
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: either big sheet tray, spread it out in a thin
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: layer and I'll take several pieces of paper towels, set
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: it on top until it all blots as dry as
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: I can, or as much as I have the patience.
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: What's your paper towel budget? I go through like one
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: pack of paper towel a year. Really, Oh my god,
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: because he because he gets sucked in much for drying meat.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: I was at a dude towel, but I don't use
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: it for anything else, like if I spill something, or like,
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: you know, like kitchen cleaning. I don't ya. I was
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: at a guy's house recently and he I don't know,
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: but I assume he has an anti paper towel agenda.
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: So he's using kitchen towels and we're cleaning fish and
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: everything's getting like kitchen toweled. And then I looked at
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: the pile of stuff that needs to be washed. It's
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: gotta smell so bad. Well, I'm just like wandering. Like
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: when you factor in the wall, like, I don't know.
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: I don't know about industrial processes, when you factor in
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: like a bunch of andre and the soaps and water usage,
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: I don't really know. Like I don't know what goes
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: into making parent, you know, I think that one load
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: of towels is less energy or environment. However, you when
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: you put is, I would think sowels' I'd be curious
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: to not because I remember thinking like, oh, that's a
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: cool idea. He doesn't use paper towels. But then after
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: while I'm like, but he damn sure he uses his
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: laundry machine. Oh yeah, yeah. I was camping with my
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: mom my stepdad, and my stepdad was telling me how
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: my mother has reduced him to a two paper towel
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: two squares of paper towel per day a lot, because
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: she felt that his paper towel use was just way
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: over the top. So my mothers paper towels so much
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: that when she set something on the table, she likes
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: to set it she likes to put a paper towel down,
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: like let's say, but for anything. So let's say she
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: has remembered that she needs to take like a medical
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: like a pill, like like like she has to take
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: an ibuprofen. Later after she eats, she will I don't know, watch,
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but uh, she'll lay
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: down a paper towel and then put the pill on it.
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: And then what is the life of the paper towel
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: after that it's done. My great grandmother used to babysit
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: us a lot, and you know she was she went
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: through the depression, and I remember, I remember she would
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: she would take those paper towels, wash them, airm dry amount.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: I mean she would use a piece of paper towel
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: until like it was just nothing but just disintegrated. That's interesting.
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it about my my great aunts
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: did that too, Dan Bagan's wife our fish shackle dry
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: them out, depending what's going on. Yeah, where nothing dries,
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: I'll propose in the Ronella household, I think we have
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: a healthy relationship with paper towels. Uh, we have them
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: and now and then we use a couple. That's it. Okay,
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: we have a healthy relationship with them. I'm doing a
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: better job with plastics in the kitchen. I switched out
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: to all the reusable ziplock bag stuff. Re expensive. They're expensive,
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: so you like really yeah, because when you wash them,
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: I just flip them inside out, scrub them and then
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: they kind of prop up to air dry inside out.
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: That's what I was worried about, was like getting dirty
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: and the like crevices what do they call. Once I
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: bought were stashers. Yeah, it looks like a zip Maybe
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: mine were very heavy due retails more instead of like
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: like through a dishwasher. Can you see what's in it? Yeah,
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: you can get clear or colored. Dude, How might I
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: have to get a couple of I probably bought six
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: or eight of them, various sizes from like you know,
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: small little snack pack too. I think the biggest one
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: I got was a gallon and I think I spent
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: a hundred bucks with shipping. How many do you wind
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: up with? Six or eight? Well, they're good for what
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: they're used for. You know, we're not going to travel
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: to Alaska and then put a bunch of caribou meat
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: in them and instead of using zip blocks and fly
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: back with them. You know, that's not what they're for.
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: But for like instead of using zip blocks around the house.
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: They're great. Let me do this environ Let me do
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: an environmental test on you. I turned you onto uh
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: if I say so myself. Pretty nice chantral mushroom spot
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: over the weekend. Yes, thank you very much. You went
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: out there and did pretty well for yourself. Right, I
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: feel like you told me that you had two plastic
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: bags full of mushrooms that's right. It what kind grocery plastic? Yeah,
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: re using them. That's a good point. You're recycled. Do
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: you want to get back to ground meat? I mean
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: vax steal bags. No. I thought you said you were
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: gonna start doing that. Oh what am I saying? No? No,
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: no, no no no? Oh man, you want to hear a
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: story about that? I did. I just washed one, drive
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: it and put it back up. Awesome. I've done one sample.
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: But check this out. Last night, I'm putting some stuff
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: away in my garage. The other day, we went over
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: to Um to the Roscoe family for dinner. Kurt's been
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: on the show before Stone Gracier backpacks. Uh, Kurt Roscoe,
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: founder and designer. He's been on the podcast. Uh. And
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: maybe we had some guy wrote in about how he's
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: harder than a woodpecker's lips. Anybody's went to the Roscoe
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: family for dinner and I brought over as a you
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: know when you go to someone's house, you bring him
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: a little gift. I brought over a um a bunch
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: of fish, haliban whatnot. And I brought it over one
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: of those hoppers, a yetie hopper, and I was like,
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: hate it as a bunch of fish in their go
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: ahead and put in your freezer, and then I bring
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: my thing home. Well when they don't know this yet,
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: but when they were emptying the bag out, they failed
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: to grab This is a couple of weeks ago, failed
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: to grab out a pack of halib it. Last night,
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: I'm in my garage and I'm like, what in the
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: world is that? It's a smell that I I've smelled
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: some smells in my day, like I have smelled h
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: I would ventures to have smelled more smells than of Americans. Um.
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: And this smell was hard to place, and it was
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: hard to track down, and because like you know, you
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: don't think to look in certain places. And I eventually
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: realized that they had left a pack of halib it
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: and it was in a wet, some backseal bag. The
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: bag hadn't failed, but it had puffed up like it
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: was gonna explode with a hunk of green halibit inside
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: of it. You ever see a link cod that has
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: that phenomena? Were day they have blue flesh that it's
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: a name for it. Green Lane got it too. This
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: had turned like an iridescent green inside that bag bag.
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: And I handled very delicately because they had blown up
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: like a balloon but hadn't ruptured. No liquid, but you
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: could smell it. The smell smell it, and it was
- 1:08:41Speaker 1: smelly in the bag. I bleached out the hopperd it's fine.
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: No liquid had come out, but somehow it had. It
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: had gotten so putrid that had put off like a
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: putrid effort. The liquids couldn't, but the gas just stinch
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: of this rotten flesh. So this was the first bag
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: that he rinsed down and decided to try to reuse.
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: You know what I did do, though, is I went
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: and put it in my I was afraid because I
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: wasn't gonna put in my garbage because there's a few
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: days coming and bears will get into it. Why not
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: you didn't hang it up on the on the kid's
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: piece of wood that they throw a star hanging on
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: the throwing star target. I put it into my freezer
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: and then I made it look unappealing and just make
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: sure no one thought, I wrapped it up with some
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: other ship and put in my freezer and then I'm
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: gonna throw it in the garbage. But my guy, was
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: that bad smell. But one time, uh, when I was
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: living my brother daniel Alaska. We brought home some halibit
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: and we had put him in a dry bag and
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: then put the dry bag in the cooler. I don't
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: know why, and someone had forgot to pack a halib
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: and there, and we took his gear room apart three
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: times trying to find out what smelled, and no one
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: ever thought to look inside of folded up, rolled up
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: dry bag until the third time. We took everything apart
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: and eventually found that rotten, say, act of fish. You
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: should have had a box of Yanni's patented non venomous
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: Daddy long legs, turn them loose with with pits on them,
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: pit tags on them, and track them to the rock
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: to the stink. We covered everything else. We're back to uh,
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: back to me, Yeah, we're good. On side notes. The
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: thing that Danielle is going to answer my question now
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: about is it important to have dry meat when you
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: when you go to brown itt. Uh. Well, very good question.
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: And this supplies across the board for searing things that moisture.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: When it hits the pan, it's steaming the meat. It's
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: not going to create a crust. So this means if
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: you pull it right out of the fridge and immediately
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: hit the pan. What happens, It steams because it's really
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: cold hitting high heat. The same thing happens if you're
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: gonna grill a fish whole skin on. If you put
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: it on the grill while it's still cold, it's going
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: to start steaming. And then that skin doesn't get crispy,
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: he's gonna stick to the stick to the grill grates. Um.
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: So yeah, so drying it out, doing the best you
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: can to prevent excess moisture will give you the best
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: chance for getting a crust. I feel that of the
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: ground meat I've browned in my life, and I've browned
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: a fair bit of it. I feel like that I've
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: boiled most of it because we you know, like if
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: you're lazy, you don't thought out well even I'll even
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: take like the frozen wat of it and put some
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: oil in the botta of the pan and just speed
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: thought in the pan. And so you know what I mean,
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: It is not browned. It's like you're basically you should say,
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: like I'm gonna boil up a bag of ground meat.
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: That's what you're basically doing is like steaming. Yeah, you
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: can put your broccoli right on top of the time. Yeah,
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: you've never done that, You've never gotten like that lazy. No,
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: I've I've been done a lot of lazy things. Um,
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: I've gotten to the you know, I've gotten to the
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: point where I This is a famous line my father
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: in lie father in law told me a long time ago,
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: and I'm stealing it. Be careful what you introduce your
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: taste buds do, because why don't you start doing things
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: the right way? You just can't go backwards, you know,
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: like once it's hard, like when I know it's something
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: is supposed to taste, like taking a bag of half
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: frozen meat and it's like, I'm just gonna throw it in.
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: It's not that I wouldn't do it that way, it's
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: just I would I wouldn't say I'm going to go
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: brown the meat. I would just say, why don't we
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: just slow cook this with a bunch of liquids because
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: it's already got a ton of liquids in there, so
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: just skip the browning step. Are there any exceptions to it?
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: Like or do you do this when you're doing chilia?
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: You know, it's not that you have to do it
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: that way, it's just think of it as a better
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: way to introduce more flavor, a deeper, richer flavor of
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: more meatiness to what you're eating as opposed to Yeah,
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: I think about you know, there's some if you're going
- 1:13:21Speaker 1: to cook an onion, there's a difference between sweating an onion,
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: and there's a difference between caramelizing an onion. So that
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: reaction when those sugars and the proteins mixed, they caramelize,
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: that's the crust that's happening. That's that flavor. If you
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: are sweating, steaming, introducing heat. You know, think about onions
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: that are just constantly mixed and they taste so much
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: more mild and flavor. They're not as sugary. You don't.
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: You don't have the same. So it's not necessarily that
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: I'm gonna say one way is right or wrong. I'm
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: just saying there's there's ways to make it better. You
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: can have rich, full, meaty flavor or boiled meat exactly.
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: So what's the next step in the process. You've petted it, dry,
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: heat your pan ripping hot. Yeah, I'm back and forth
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: on how hot to do things. Once the pan's hot,
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: then I add oil and you know, when the pan's
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: hot and oil is hot. What's your royalties days your
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: avocado oil? Grape high heat? That Costco avocado oil is
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: hard to be Is that really? Like? I like, I
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: use Gee a lot. So that's another thing. I just
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: got a Costco membership and I feel like I'm just
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: like on full blown path to being a yuppie. I
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: have never shopped at Costco buying. And what was your
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: old What was your father in law talking about careful,
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: what you introduce your taste? What was he referring to?
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: I know, like that that really resonated with me eating Okay,
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: he said that to me when I was when when
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: I was still dating my husband now husband, he took
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: us out to eat as nice steakhouse. I'd never had
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: full gral before before, and it was a nice bottle
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: of wine. And before we ate it, he's like, be
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: careful what you introduced your taste? Butts to you and
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'm officially ruined um anyway, But I
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: just like saying that. No, it's good because you know,
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: I had never had a lot of exposure to cultured,
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: moneyed people until I moved to Montana, and I didn't
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: know about good coffee. I didn't know about high end coffee.
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: We just drank coffe from the gas states, totally happy
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: with it. I never thought there was any problem. Yeah,
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: then I found out about fancy coffee. It's hard to go.
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: Then I recognized that the gas station coffee, but but
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: I never realized the problem with it. And then the
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: hot dogs on the rollers and gas stations. Never had
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: any problem with those hot dogs. Yeah, then you found
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: out them. Yeah, I mean there are like but you
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: know there's a different are Yeah, there are all their
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: hot dogs out there in the world. Right. I think
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: it's it's it's a really it's a really great it's
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: a good observation that your old man had or your dad,
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: your husband's all man. Yeah, I think it's just something
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: that the more I cook, the more that I just
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: enjoy relishing the way things are supposed to taste, and
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: they want to make it the best every time. And
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: sure there's plenty of times where I'm really lazy, But
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: if I'm going to do something the lazy way and
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: then I'm just not going to cook that wricipe, I'm
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: just gonna cook something simpler. Can you tell something to
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: your father in law when you see him next is
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: he still alive? Tell him when he says that next day,
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: not necessarily, and then tell him that I've actually kind
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: of like over time I used to be. I got
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: for a while really interested and really like complicated good food.
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: Then I got kind of sick of it. Yeah now
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: I'm like, now I got sick of it. Now. I
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: just like things that look like I just now. I
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: like food that looks like a guru out of the
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: ground or just got chopped out of an animal. That's
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: like my normal. That's like how I like it to look.
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: I like to look like it looked like it was
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: alive a minute ago. And I gotten away from stuff
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: that's hard to make. I think that's true for anybody
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: the more that you cook. When I started cooking, I
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: wanted Demi place on every time I ate a steak,
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: and it was just everything got so rich and so heavy.
- 1:17:10Speaker 1: And then I kind of scaled back to just eating
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: food the way they're meant to be in and I
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: could pure form and we appreciate the natural nous in.
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: And when you start eating that way, everything becomes more
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: bolder flavors without the need of like salt. I'm really
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: sensitive to salt. Now I don't. I don't like to
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: have really salty foods um, But no, I get what
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: you're saying is like kind of scaling down to the
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: basic natural. Yeah, Like if you could went to my
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: house at dinner time, any jack as could come in
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: and look at the table and be like and he
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: would tell you everything that was on the table, like
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: everything that was in everything. Just be well, it's like
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: some lettuce, you know, that's like this, that's like that.
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: It's no, there's nothing, just stuff that came out of
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: the dirt. Man. I'd be like, where's the demo class? No,
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Man Like, But for a
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: while I was into really making stuff that was complicated
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: because I just thought it was fun to make it,
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: it was fun to eat. It's really good, but it
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: has got burned out, so tell him. Tell them like
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: up to a point. But then people get old and
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: they go the other direction, and then there's like the
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: category of nostalgia meals too. You know, it's like we
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: didn't the bulk of what we ate as far as
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: like day to day growing up as a kid was
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: not anywhere near super thought out or gore mat you know,
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: like the whole genre of casse roles helped by Campbell's Yeah,
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: like back when I don't know, I imagine people still
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: do it. But um, like, were there as certain meals
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: your mom would make and they were almost patterned, Like
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: your mom made like eight things, and they were they
- 1:18:57Speaker 1: sort of repeated, Yeah, would you like this, Like there's
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: like meat like that you make, there's like, you know,
- 1:19:04Speaker 1: like there's meat loaf, and then they make a sheet
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: pizza and they make this and then like the next Tuesday,
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: it just kind of starts over. Next Tuesday, it's going
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: to be a casserole. So my kids claim that there's
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: a little bit of that going on in my house now. Again,
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: but back to your father in law's advice, I don't
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: think that necessarily means fancy over prepared food because in
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: the case of FLI gra like that's usually served very
- 1:19:34Speaker 1: very simply seared, salt and pepper, maybe may or may
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: not have a little sauce on it. Um, and so
- 1:19:42Speaker 1: it could be something like for me, I never really
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: had good seafood until I was well into my twenties,
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: and when I first started eating and I was like,
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: holy shit, this is I need more of this. Yeah,
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: that's a great point, necessarily as a gourmet perspective as
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: it is, as it is earning to appreciate things. Um
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: like what I'm saying. Brown, properly browned meat adds so
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: much flavor, And once you start doing it that way,
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: I appreciate it so much that I can't not brown
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: it if I'm cooking ground meat like that. Again, careful
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: what you're what you're introducing yourself to you because now
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: every time you go to cook, you're gonna have a
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: level of expectation. Yeah, I think I was guilty of
- 1:20:29Speaker 1: trying to jam in an unrelated point, not still, I
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: mean it's still applicable because if you went and uh,
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: properly browned some ground and venison and then did the
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: old like boil, the accidental boil, and then there's put
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: a little salt on each and had a fork full
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: of each the brown with like the nice crisp and
- 1:20:53Speaker 1: everything is a whole other world. Yeah, not even the
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: same thing, definitely. But have you got so particular that
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: you don't like to just freeze up a hundred pounds
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: of grind like you're pulling the damn grinder out. I
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: don't expect anybody to. Okay, So it's different because now
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: this is my job and so I get to be
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: at home and I get to do this. And I
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: think if anybody wanted to go this route, I would
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: just say, make make time on a Sunday or whatever
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: day you have off and grind three pounds four pounds
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: of meat and just eat it throughout the week instead
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: of like every night, I gotta get the grinder out,
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: If that makes any sense. I mean it makes a
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: difference to me, and I like doing it that way,
- 1:21:44Speaker 1: but it's it's just not really practical, it's not, but
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: it does make a difference. I read that somewhere to
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: once and try to do it. I think for something
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: like if you're like really going to serve some burgers
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: to guests, it might be worth it, right, But if
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: you're doing tacos and chili for the kids, like, yeah,
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: something like chili that's already going to be braised in
- 1:22:04Speaker 1: a lot of liquids, I don't think it matters that much.
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: So this kid brings me to my second way of browning.
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: So like the first way, well don't if we finished
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: this one, Yeah, it's we haven't finished it. Version of
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: this show, Phil take note. Maybe we make an edited
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: version where all the dumb ships cut out. It's just
- 1:22:27Speaker 1: like the actual stuff that matters. A five minute version
- 1:22:31Speaker 1: of the podcast, which is like what matters, and then
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: you get your nine minute version with all the stupid
- 1:22:35Speaker 1: shit in it. Yeah. Million, So far you've got the
- 1:22:41Speaker 1: meat that's padded dry, a pan that is piping hot
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: with boil, and then yeah, so I was just saying, like,
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: if it's a fresh grind, you can actually separate like
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: each each meat strand that's extrude. You can separate and
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: you get lots of teeny tying crispy bits. But when
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: you defrost it from the freezer, it's all sign it
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: sort of mashed together. So I put it in the
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: pan in one flat layer, smashed together. Let a whole
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: brown as if you're browning a giant patty, and then
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: take a spatch and flip the whole thing over. Definitely
- 1:23:14Speaker 1: off on, we'll trap the steam you want to release
- 1:23:18Speaker 1: the liquids anyway. That's I'm done with the browning of
- 1:23:24Speaker 1: the meat. Just satisfied with that. Yeah, But that that's
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: part that's like the one way to do it. That's
- 1:23:31Speaker 1: a second way I mean it's some individual. I'm just saying,
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: if you can separate it out, if it's like fresh grind.
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: If it's not a fresh grind, then you can form
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: a flat patty to cover the whole pan. But you
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: gotta leave it alone, let a nice crisp develop and
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: then flip the whole thing and brown it all on
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: the break. That like a giant thin giant. Yeah. Yeah,
- 1:23:58Speaker 1: I would like to say it with my catchum kitchen.
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: I had for a show to kitchen all sorts of content,
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: but I had a hand grinder that was there all
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: the time, just lived on the counter and it I mean,
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: it takes less than ten minutes to grind burgers for
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: six people, as long as the meats pretty you know,
- 1:24:27Speaker 1: in a in a good place to grind. It was
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: it a grinder or a paster grinder? It was a
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: grinder ground. What's a past like doesn't work? That's yeah, yeah,
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: puts out like it puts out like a Bologny paste. Yeah,
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: likewa whatever, everything like we have growing up, we had
- 1:24:48Speaker 1: like what we called like the grinder. It was a
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: hand grinder. In hindsight, it was like it was like
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: if you'd like put all your meat between a couple
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: of steel plates and then draw car a handful of
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: times and then like put that in a bag and
- 1:25:03Speaker 1: frols it. That was our ground. No, no, but yeah,
- 1:25:08Speaker 1: hand grinder it. And you know the beauty of the
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: hand grinder is that it is very simple to clean too.
- 1:25:16Speaker 1: And I think they're small enough to where mentally you're
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: not thinking that you're taking on some big endeavor. Dude,
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: Am I to start keeping a hand grinder? It's great.
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: Put your hands in there and no grind your hands
- 1:25:28Speaker 1: off makes a serious, serious difference. I think fresh burger,
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: what fat content are you guys going? Oh, yeah, that's
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: a good question for you, Daniel. Yeah, you know, I
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: think if you're going to make a sausage you definitely
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: need fat. Is that all you do? I if I
- 1:25:48Speaker 1: had to pick one for the rest of my life,
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: I would do fifteen for burger and I do heavier
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: twenty for sausage. You do more than twenty for sausage. Yeah,
- 1:25:59Speaker 1: Like we've done the wild game, We've done getting fat,
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: getting fancy wild game flavored meat. Yes, I'm glad you're
- 1:26:08Speaker 1: bringing this up. I was going to a chef Buddy
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: Mileag just in town a couple of weekends ago, and
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: I was lamenting to him how the first time I
- 1:26:16Speaker 1: made Steve ken Drots fennel sauce address be it's not his,
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: but he shared it with us. I call it his
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: same way I call the marriage thing yours. It's pork fat,
- 1:26:25Speaker 1: and this is actly it's like pork pork fat, dude,
- 1:26:30Speaker 1: this is a This is some good pork fat venison.
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: And the recipe actually calls for venison. It's not beef
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: or or whatever veal um, yeah, which is still beef,
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: but it's and it's wonderful sausage. But when you cook it,
- 1:26:51Speaker 1: no matter how slow and carefully you do it, because
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: the slower, lower temperature you do you shouldn't shouldn't lose
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: as much fat, you still end up with, like I mean,
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: a solid if you're cooking six links in a pan,
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: there's a solid inch of fat when you take them
- 1:27:05Speaker 1: out right. So I'm like, dude, this sucks, like I'm
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: losing something, but the sausage is still so good. Like
- 1:27:11Speaker 1: I didn't want to change anything, and like he was here,
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: like poaching the meat. In fact, that'd be called frying.
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: But you do it inside too, And if you do
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: that low enough tamp you really don't fry. But that's
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: a but he was saying the quality and the time, Yeah,
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: but it was a funny, appreciate it. But he was saying,
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: the type of fat from where on the pig and
- 1:27:39Speaker 1: the quality of it will have a lot to do
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: with that. Yeah. But this dude, Yann he's talking about
- 1:27:44Speaker 1: cut I quick. This dude Yanni's talking about is so
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: next level that he Okay, if he's making coffee he
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: takes a filter and runs hot water through it for
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: to get out the flavor of the paper factory, like
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: a regular old brown paper filter or a white one.
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: He gives it like a Yeah, he was not careful
- 1:28:12Speaker 1: about his taste buds. He did not father in law.
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: He has not met your father in law. No, he's
- 1:28:20Speaker 1: been eating truffles and all that stuff. But I'm saying
- 1:28:23Speaker 1: it's legit. But I'm saying this is next level. This
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: is next level food prep that goes beyond the aspirations
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: of this show. But it's valuable to know anyways. Yeah,
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: but I'll I'll dose zero fat additional fat in my burger.
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: It's just like whatever that turns out to be. And
- 1:28:42Speaker 1: I've I've had incredible luck and served that to lots
- 1:28:46Speaker 1: and lots of folks that eat nothing but beef burger
- 1:28:50Speaker 1: with a lot of fat. Um. But when you're making
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: your different sausages, and you know, obviously like the world's
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: your oyster as far as like what want to put
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: into a tube? Um, But yeah, I think some like
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: doing a like course ground linked Italian sausage with a
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: bunch of fat in there, and with the going into
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: it with like the way I'm going to prepare these
- 1:29:15Speaker 1: is very slow, uh, lower heat, and you get that
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: meat to like poaching that fat. It's very very good.
- 1:29:24Speaker 1: And then but and you're also the end result isn't
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: a greasy sausage either, because that that fat is getting
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: away from from the meat. I'm sure it's not not
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: for all things all the time, just like most of
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: stuff we talked about. But I don't go, oh god,
- 1:29:43Speaker 1: I'm wasting this wild game. Yeah no, I know, man,
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: it's like it's a little bit of a sthetic. We've
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: talked about it all well. You and I got pretty
- 1:29:50Speaker 1: heated when on our Idaho trip um when we were
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: cutting up your buck, because I was like, hey, this
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: this meet is really good this at a whole mule
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: deer is gonna be really tasty. And you're like, listen,
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: I need to make sausage. So I'm going to grind
- 1:30:06Speaker 1: this deer and basically every chunk of meat that had
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: come up with. I'd be like, yeah, but don't you
- 1:30:11Speaker 1: want this? And You're like, no, I need to make sausage. Um,
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: you guts familiar with the cut that that we named
- 1:30:20Speaker 1: after Callahan called the Callahan throat roast, I am, I
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: didn't know that. Actually you knew that. I called it
- 1:30:31Speaker 1: throat loins like a tenderloin on the track? Who can?
- 1:30:37Speaker 1: Who can take a stab at explaining what a throat
- 1:30:39Speaker 1: roast is? You had to. You had to break it
- 1:30:42Speaker 1: down in the written word. So I haven't done it yet.
- 1:30:46Speaker 1: I'm going to on either side of the trachea. Yeah,
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: Like if you were to extend your chin up to
- 1:30:53Speaker 1: the ceiling right now and then put your two index
- 1:30:58Speaker 1: fingers on either side out of your atom's apple, that
- 1:31:02Speaker 1: big chunk of meat that should be on that in
- 1:31:07Speaker 1: going to the outside. You're doing a great job of
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: your neck. Those are your throat rolls or throat tenderlins.
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: We're coming up a moose and and someone got to
- 1:31:20Speaker 1: digging around and arrow when we're coming it up and
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: found those big on a moose er sizeable. Yes, And
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: I remember Cal was like just thaying like he thought
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: he discovered a previously undiscovered roast and you're supposed to
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: report back to us. Yeah, it tasted like moose. I
- 1:31:37Speaker 1: don't think there is any major discoveries there. What did
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: you find, Daniel? I haven't messed with the yet. I
- 1:31:43Speaker 1: have some ideas, but I don't want to disclose them yet. Okay, yeah,
- 1:31:47Speaker 1: but you're gonna do something special to throat rolls. Yeah,
- 1:31:49Speaker 1: I've got them separated. So I've got a trial that
- 1:31:51Speaker 1: act and then fix the error and then do it again.
- 1:31:57Speaker 1: Second back unique grain. You know, it's a very cross
- 1:32:03Speaker 1: wise and look at it from the side. There's it's
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: like it's like a tube inside of a tube. But
- 1:32:09Speaker 1: there's a sheath of silver skin in a circle. That
- 1:32:13Speaker 1: makes sense. It almost reminds you of like a like
- 1:32:15Speaker 1: a shank, except there's no bone. Does it make sense? Uh? Daniel?
- 1:32:23Speaker 1: Imagine that you're, um, you're dying, okay, trying to think
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: of what's killing You're dying of congenital heart failure no
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: very common in the UK. There's name something a bite
- 1:32:42Speaker 1: from a daddy long leg, okay, manage you got bit
- 1:32:44Speaker 1: by daylong. And it turns out that you read Spencer's thing.
- 1:32:49Speaker 1: You're like, oh, it doesn't matter you Uh, you started
- 1:32:52Speaker 1: being careless around them. You're out blood trailing a buck
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: and they're all over the blood as as they're wanting
- 1:32:58Speaker 1: to do. And you lay down to take a nap
- 1:33:00Speaker 1: and um and one gets you and you're dying. And
- 1:33:05Speaker 1: as you expire, someone asked you, like, what's your last
- 1:33:13Speaker 1: wild game tip? What would you say? You could pass
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: along one wild game tip salt your meat in advance,
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: so you'd be like, um, how far can you do it?
- 1:33:27Speaker 1: As you die? For me? Like SALTI SALTI salt. You
- 1:33:34Speaker 1: come to me, child, I'm leaving this world just for me.
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: Do it not too much? Just a little? Do you
- 1:33:50Speaker 1: do you rub it in? Do you sprinkle on top
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: and call it good? Or you get your hands in there?
- 1:33:57Speaker 1: Watch for that daddy? Do this? You gotta do it all.
- 1:34:07Speaker 1: Almost brought myself to tears imagining myself dying so clearly
- 1:34:11Speaker 1: come to me, all right, I don't know ahead of
- 1:34:15Speaker 1: talk about that ahead of time as a a that's
- 1:34:17Speaker 1: a broad notion what ahead of time is, because it
- 1:34:21Speaker 1: could be seconds before you cook it. It could be.
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: That's a good point, because I am back and forth
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: on the debate on how far in advanced I've gotten
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: to the point either either I do it like thirty
- 1:34:37Speaker 1: minutes an hour in advance at minimum, or a wait
- 1:34:41Speaker 1: to do it after that? Would rather do it? Um
- 1:34:47Speaker 1: like a very pain imagine a very painful death where
- 1:34:52Speaker 1: you're otherwise screaming in agony. Can you do that version
- 1:34:56Speaker 1: for me? No? Go on? Um. So, salt is probably
- 1:35:13Speaker 1: the most important thing in your pantry and your best
- 1:35:17Speaker 1: friend when it comes to wild game cooking, because like
- 1:35:21Speaker 1: the way you would brine a turkey before Thanksgiving, it's
- 1:35:26Speaker 1: d natures the protein strands, so the actual structure. You've
- 1:35:30Speaker 1: got these long fibers that are sorted intertwined together. It
- 1:35:35Speaker 1: can actually unravel and untwist them, and it has sort
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: of an osmosis effect. The longer it's sitting in salt
- 1:35:42Speaker 1: or a brine, the more the meat is able to
- 1:35:45Speaker 1: sort of reabsorb those juices, so that when you go
- 1:35:48Speaker 1: to cook, less juice is lost through the cooking process.
- 1:35:52Speaker 1: So your meat is juicier. But it's talking about strands
- 1:35:55Speaker 1: of protein. You're talking about like on a microscopic level.
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: This is something you can say, well, I mean if
- 1:36:00Speaker 1: you were to look at a brisket or you know,
- 1:36:04Speaker 1: you can see like how there's long fibers. But I
- 1:36:06Speaker 1: am talking about exactly. Um, but microscopically, yes, protein strands.
- 1:36:14Speaker 1: You're not seeing that happening. No, you don't know. You
- 1:36:17Speaker 1: don't see it happen. But if you do it right before,
- 1:36:20Speaker 1: it kind of releases a lot of liquid. So that's
- 1:36:22Speaker 1: where I'm on the fence of I don't want to
- 1:36:24Speaker 1: salt right before I cook because I want a really
- 1:36:26Speaker 1: nice seer. So it's like i'd rather just I was
- 1:36:30Speaker 1: going to bring that up like I sealed it, like
- 1:36:33Speaker 1: I'm about to see like the way I would season
- 1:36:35Speaker 1: to meet. It's a it's a healthy sprinkle, and I
- 1:36:39Speaker 1: salt and pepper, and I would do that the morning
- 1:36:42Speaker 1: I planned to cook some before I cook. Um just really,
- 1:36:49Speaker 1: I mean the longer the better. I mean I haven't
- 1:36:52Speaker 1: really explored extremely long times doing it other than I
- 1:36:56Speaker 1: think two days for jack rabbit, I've done that, but um, yeah,
- 1:37:02Speaker 1: doing salting it in advance just so much for helping
- 1:37:09Speaker 1: wild game retaining juice and one of the reasons why
- 1:37:12Speaker 1: we lose so much juice when we cook. Obviously the
- 1:37:17Speaker 1: heat you lose juice, but wild game is so lean.
- 1:37:21Speaker 1: So if you're thinking about like a domestic animal, not
- 1:37:25Speaker 1: only are they having fat on the outside of a muscle,
- 1:37:29Speaker 1: but inside there's little pockets of fat embedded in between
- 1:37:32Speaker 1: those fibers of muscle. And so whenever you're cooking, fat
- 1:37:37Speaker 1: acts as a as a barrier to heat transfer. So
- 1:37:41Speaker 1: it's slower to cook. Wild game cooks a lot faster,
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: you lose more juice and you don't have that mouth
- 1:37:47Speaker 1: feel of fat juices when you're binding into a meat
- 1:37:50Speaker 1: of a wild game. So I think adding salt beforehand
- 1:37:55Speaker 1: makes a huge, huge difference. That is my dying wish
- 1:38:00Speaker 1: to give dying piece of advice. Yeah, dying advice. Uh.
- 1:38:04Speaker 1: We talked about this, and I think people have will
- 1:38:07Speaker 1: have already heard this because we'll have already released it,
- 1:38:11Speaker 1: but yeah, they will have. We talked about with Jesse
- 1:38:15Speaker 1: Griffith's the Texas chef from your state there, and we're
- 1:38:19Speaker 1: but not on this subject. We're just talking about why
- 1:38:22Speaker 1: do people when you're frying fish, why do they season
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: the breading rather than just seasoning the fish, Like, get
- 1:38:35Speaker 1: the piece of fish exactly how you want it seasoned,
- 1:38:38Speaker 1: and then put your cor meal on it, rather than
- 1:38:40Speaker 1: trying to like figure out how the hell much seasoning
- 1:38:44Speaker 1: to put into the corn meal and how much is
- 1:38:46Speaker 1: the fish gonna pick up at the actual season. Just
- 1:38:49Speaker 1: season the fish, yeah, then put cormeal on, and then
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: you have the perfectly piece of season fish with cormeal
- 1:38:55Speaker 1: for the crispiness. That's a good point. I think that
- 1:39:02Speaker 1: season the porn Mill, I did a double double still
- 1:39:05Speaker 1: season and stuff. But now I'll put it now it's
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: like I did double batter, so you get like lots
- 1:39:09Speaker 1: of extra crunchy and you can put cay in it,
- 1:39:13Speaker 1: so it's like I taste that cayenne on the breading.
- 1:39:16Speaker 1: I'll tell you why I would put. I put paprik
- 1:39:18Speaker 1: in there now, and it's got like the color, Yeah,
- 1:39:20Speaker 1: it's a nice color. But I like that. And I
- 1:39:23Speaker 1: also like that when I do pre salt meat like
- 1:39:25Speaker 1: you're talking about it does uh moisture comes out of it.
- 1:39:29Speaker 1: I never thought to do it and then let that
- 1:39:31Speaker 1: some bit dry back out again. It's not that it's
- 1:39:33Speaker 1: going to really dry back out. It's it can reabsorb juices.
- 1:39:39Speaker 1: But I mean it does pull moisture out. So there's
- 1:39:44Speaker 1: if you're adding a ton of salt, then that's that's
- 1:39:47Speaker 1: a little different. I'm not I'm not talking about adding
- 1:39:50Speaker 1: a whole layer of salt. If you're going to add
- 1:39:52Speaker 1: a bunch of salt, then that's that's a different effect.
- 1:39:56Speaker 1: That is curing and that is drying out um, drying
- 1:40:01Speaker 1: out meat. So that's a little bit different. Um. Which
- 1:40:06Speaker 1: is something I do days in advance for birds. If
- 1:40:10Speaker 1: I want crispy skin, I'll put salt on it a
- 1:40:13Speaker 1: few days in advance and set it out on the
- 1:40:19Speaker 1: on like what do you call it, Like a wired
- 1:40:22Speaker 1: cooling rack. There's air breathing, and let it sit in
- 1:40:25Speaker 1: the open for a couple of days. It gets a
- 1:40:28Speaker 1: lot crispier that way. My brother Danny, he likes to
- 1:40:31Speaker 1: just take big chunks of moose meat or whatever and
- 1:40:34Speaker 1: just sets them out a cooling rack and his fridge.
- 1:40:36Speaker 1: He leave in there for a week. Yeah, just letting
- 1:40:39Speaker 1: me get a crusted on them. Yeah. I used to
- 1:40:42Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff that I had too many kids,
- 1:40:44Speaker 1: and I was just like, everything's kidding. You don't have
- 1:40:46Speaker 1: control over your fridge. It's just just just boiled me. Okay,
- 1:40:53Speaker 1: how how would you like to die? Oh? My last final? Yeah,
- 1:41:00Speaker 1: it's help for me to know. Calls how I'm gonna die.
- 1:41:03Speaker 1: People moving a piano above you, but you wouldn't have
- 1:41:08Speaker 1: he sees it coming, sees I'm watching it come and
- 1:41:11Speaker 1: you have to spout out one last wild Game too.
- 1:41:14Speaker 1: It's the end. Mm hmm. I can come back to you.
- 1:41:23Speaker 1: Oh man, the pianos coming loose. I hope nobody's underneath us.
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: There's Johnnie. What's he saying? It's something about wild Games
- 1:41:33Speaker 1: music on the piano plays. Uh, this is heavy duty.
- 1:41:40Speaker 1: I can we can catch by, I can come back
- 1:41:42Speaker 1: to me. I can't give you just any old tip. Phil,
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: you probably have one. No, you asked me if I've
- 1:41:52Speaker 1: heard anything stupid on the show. Yeah, asking me about
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: Wild Game. That was the first stupid thing anybody said. Spencer,
- 1:42:00Speaker 1: you want to go, I can go. If you're not
- 1:42:01Speaker 1: ready yet, I can go. Okay, So there you are.
- 1:42:04Speaker 1: What's caused death probably congenitive failure of recent events earthquakes,
- 1:42:10Speaker 1: so a lot of them going on here. If you
- 1:42:12Speaker 1: don't die from an earthquake, you die from situations surrounding
- 1:42:15Speaker 1: an earthquake. Right. Well, we're like a few days past
- 1:42:17Speaker 1: the sixtieth anniversary of Hegen light quake. Okay, so you're
- 1:42:22Speaker 1: camping in a large mountain, camping down at Hegen Lake.
- 1:42:25Speaker 1: It fell on you and you're under hundreds of feet
- 1:42:29Speaker 1: of rocks and you know that there's no survival, but
- 1:42:32Speaker 1: you probably have a long time. Okay, you're in your
- 1:42:35Speaker 1: you're you're in your you're grounding something not in your car.
- 1:42:38Speaker 1: The cars protected you. Um, you have no way of moving,
- 1:42:41Speaker 1: there's nothing to eat, but there you are. But somebody's
- 1:42:43Speaker 1: fished tube down to you that you can talk into
- 1:42:47Speaker 1: the rescuer. Um, I would say. And I used to
- 1:42:51Speaker 1: be like pretty stubborn about this is using a meat
- 1:42:54Speaker 1: thermometer when I wasn't like super competent with my wild
- 1:43:00Speaker 1: game cooking. I thought it was like admitting defeat. Almost
- 1:43:05Speaker 1: if you use a meat thermometer, you're like showing your
- 1:43:09Speaker 1: ignorance for I don't know how to get this to
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: medium rare. And like, once I started doing that, it
- 1:43:15Speaker 1: made me a way better cook, like for that specific
- 1:43:18Speaker 1: piece of meat and then future pieces of meat that
- 1:43:21Speaker 1: it was cookie as well when they didn't have to
- 1:43:23Speaker 1: use that meat ther mometer. So I would say, like,
- 1:43:26Speaker 1: that would be my diag wish. If you're not confident,
- 1:43:28Speaker 1: if you, uh, I feel like you're constantly overcooking or
- 1:43:31Speaker 1: pulling something out that's underdone, just use me meat the monter.
- 1:43:35Speaker 1: It's so easy and it makes like a big difference
- 1:43:38Speaker 1: in the long run. Let's say I was passed out
- 1:43:40Speaker 1: in the back seat of that car that got crushed
- 1:43:43Speaker 1: under the earthquake rubble. I would wake up and I
- 1:43:47Speaker 1: would say, um, you'd say your thing, and then I
- 1:43:50Speaker 1: would say, but only if it's a halfway decent meat thermometer,
- 1:43:55Speaker 1: because I've had a lot of meat the moters over
- 1:43:56Speaker 1: the years. Dude, you pull it out of the counter,
- 1:43:58Speaker 1: you pulled it out of the or, and it's like, oh,
- 1:44:02Speaker 1: that's weird. My house is a hundred ten degrees. It's like,
- 1:44:04Speaker 1: there are a lot of meats alter that are useless. Yes,
- 1:44:08Speaker 1: you have to check it. There's like all kinds of
- 1:44:10Speaker 1: ways to calibrate them. Yeah. I was gonna say, don't
- 1:44:12Speaker 1: you could just calibrate it. I never did you that.
- 1:44:15Speaker 1: I now have what I call a Steve ken drot,
- 1:44:17Speaker 1: which just as just as I'd like to credit him
- 1:44:19Speaker 1: with the sauceage recipe, I credit him with basically manufacturing
- 1:44:22Speaker 1: the meat thermometer that he told me to purchase. What
- 1:44:25Speaker 1: is that thing? I didn't buy one, and I think
- 1:44:29Speaker 1: it's slick as ship man. You're not talking thermopan, right, Yeah,
- 1:44:32Speaker 1: that is it? Red with a poker. The poker like
- 1:44:36Speaker 1: turns on that little LCD screen every time. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:44:39Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about. I've taken I've I've done
- 1:44:44Speaker 1: my well, my kids didn't feel well. I made him
- 1:44:45Speaker 1: suck on that thing. See they had a hot fever.
- 1:44:48Speaker 1: I haven't had to calibrate that, trust you. Yeah, but yeah,
- 1:44:51Speaker 1: but it's a trust eat once you get dialed and
- 1:44:54Speaker 1: you know, that's what I would say from the back seat. Yeah,
- 1:44:56Speaker 1: but overusing them, it's a good one. Like I'm my
- 1:45:00Speaker 1: phase on my steaks, on my burgers. It just made
- 1:45:02Speaker 1: a big difference in the long run of like making
- 1:45:05Speaker 1: me more competent cook. Yeah, because why have it be
- 1:45:11Speaker 1: that you don't know if you overdid it until you
- 1:45:13Speaker 1: go to the table and cut into it. But I
- 1:45:15Speaker 1: think there's a lot of people left. I think to
- 1:45:17Speaker 1: like my family specifically, I've never seen them use and
- 1:45:19Speaker 1: meet thermometer, and I think there's a lot of people
- 1:45:22Speaker 1: like that that just I don't know, don't realize how
- 1:45:27Speaker 1: great of a tool it is. Well, if you look
- 1:45:29Speaker 1: at like my body, uh, Pooter Andrew chef Rad Jilowski,
- 1:45:35Speaker 1: he walks around the meat thermometer stuck in his pocket.
- 1:45:37Speaker 1: He's a professional chef, So if he's willing to admit
- 1:45:43Speaker 1: his yeah, you know the other thing that pro stress
- 1:45:46Speaker 1: usually walk around with it in their pocket. Come on,
- 1:45:49Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a guess at it. Anybody phone tongs, Well,
- 1:45:54Speaker 1: that would be that would be used in the cooking application,
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: in the kitchen application, but as sharpie because they're always
- 1:46:02Speaker 1: freaking marking ship what it is and putting a date on. Yeah,
- 1:46:06Speaker 1: and that's like, that's not gonna be my my last
- 1:46:10Speaker 1: dying advice, but that's a that's a pro moves do that.
- 1:46:15Speaker 1: I hate looking leftovers and be like was that last
- 1:46:19Speaker 1: before that we had the taco meat cal you want
- 1:46:24Speaker 1: to go? I'm ready, I'm ready to go. Oh. I
- 1:46:27Speaker 1: think my dying advice on wild game cooking is just
- 1:46:31Speaker 1: cause of death. Real quick plane going down. Okay, so
- 1:46:36Speaker 1: it's you survived the initial impact or you're spiraling to
- 1:46:39Speaker 1: the surf to the earth. Well that one making I
- 1:46:43Speaker 1: must have survived the initial impact. But you know now
- 1:46:46Speaker 1: that this is not gonna happen for you. Yeah, that
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: makes more sounds like your legs, your back. Yeah, nobody
- 1:46:53Speaker 1: nobody dies easy in my family. Everybody lingers on. So
- 1:46:58Speaker 1: probably just for this reason. So it's just your like,
- 1:47:01Speaker 1: it's just your head, like your torus souls elsewhere and
- 1:47:04Speaker 1: your heads like make sure to yeah, make sure whatever
- 1:47:10Speaker 1: you do to just keep trying, keep cooking. That's what
- 1:47:15Speaker 1: I would say. That's if you can produce food that
- 1:47:20Speaker 1: somebody in your family or circle will not eat, then
- 1:47:25Speaker 1: you don't need to hang out with those people. It's
- 1:47:28Speaker 1: a good litmus test either way. So it's a two
- 1:47:31Speaker 1: piece of advice. It is going to eat for a
- 1:47:34Speaker 1: little bit, just just so. One, you're only gonna expand
- 1:47:38Speaker 1: your repertoire if you just keep trying things. Don't get
- 1:47:42Speaker 1: stuck in or rut doing the same old things, but
- 1:47:44Speaker 1: like try something new. Uh. And if you're nervous about
- 1:47:51Speaker 1: producing something that could potentially like somehow ruin a relationship,
- 1:47:57Speaker 1: that's a good thing as well, because if it actually
- 1:48:00Speaker 1: does ruin the relationship, those people aren't worth hanging out with.
- 1:48:05Speaker 1: Get him out of get him out of your circle. Yeah,
- 1:48:07Speaker 1: I saw some reason this saying that their wife doesn't
- 1:48:09Speaker 1: like wild Game. I'm like to get a new wife.
- 1:48:11Speaker 1: And I'm like a pro marriage dude. Right, Yes, I'm
- 1:48:14Speaker 1: like a spokesman for being married. You are a spokesman
- 1:48:16Speaker 1: for being married. I can't be around uh, certainly can't
- 1:48:19Speaker 1: be around your wife without hearing about marriage, that's for sure,
- 1:48:22Speaker 1: like her thinking you ought to be marriage. Yes, I'm
- 1:48:29Speaker 1: gonna go pro grill tip. Just got into a fight
- 1:48:34Speaker 1: with the grizzly bear. I did rip his jaws apart,
- 1:48:39Speaker 1: so he's dying as well. He's with you. He's gonna
- 1:48:41Speaker 1: give a wild game tip. He's gonna be like I
- 1:48:43Speaker 1: love uncle berries. Yeah, when they're right after the first frost,
- 1:48:49Speaker 1: when there's sugar spikes, that's the best. But one of
- 1:48:52Speaker 1: the swivees, one of the swis really eat a lot
- 1:48:55Speaker 1: of honey. Contrary to popular opinion, one of the swives
- 1:49:01Speaker 1: took me, got me across my abdomen and my guts
- 1:49:04Speaker 1: are hanging out a lot of blood. So we're beyond
- 1:49:07Speaker 1: the piano. Oh yeah, that wasn't that exciting the piano?
- 1:49:14Speaker 1: But no, I got this tip because I saw on
- 1:49:18Speaker 1: your Instagram. I forget what kind of meat you had
- 1:49:21Speaker 1: on the grill, but somebody or a couple of people
- 1:49:25Speaker 1: remarked how you had your grill grades in upside down. Yeah,
- 1:49:28Speaker 1: and they were right, they were right. Well I noticed that,
- 1:49:32Speaker 1: and then like a week or two later, I think
- 1:49:34Speaker 1: that most people in America's check this out. We buy
- 1:49:38Speaker 1: my brother in law buys a brand new we Ever
- 1:49:41Speaker 1: from Ace Hardware, and listen, I love Ace. I'm not
- 1:49:43Speaker 1: bashing Ace. It's like ACE is the place I believe it.
- 1:49:46Speaker 1: I get such feels like, yeah, I walk in there
- 1:49:50Speaker 1: with a freaking random bolt or lightbulb or whatever, and
- 1:49:54Speaker 1: I just like hold it in the air and somebody
- 1:49:56Speaker 1: walks up to me and goes follow me, like every
- 1:49:59Speaker 1: single time. It's not like going into a home depot
- 1:50:01Speaker 1: or oh my god, no nothing. If I can get
- 1:50:04Speaker 1: it to Ace, I'm going to Ace. Anyways, we he
- 1:50:07Speaker 1: bought a brand new Webber grill and that day you
- 1:50:10Speaker 1: could get assembled and delivered, shows up and next day
- 1:50:14Speaker 1: I'm out there flipping burgers, and I'm like, god freaking
- 1:50:17Speaker 1: burgers are just like sticking, and like my burgers are
- 1:50:20Speaker 1: like in the grates, Like, what in the hell is
- 1:50:22Speaker 1: going on here? I looked down, like son of a bitch,
- 1:50:25Speaker 1: those grills are upside down. It's an epidemic, man, because
- 1:50:30Speaker 1: when you look at it, it looks you think for
- 1:50:32Speaker 1: some reason, your mind so like one this uh grill
- 1:50:37Speaker 1: happened to have two grades and uh stay sit side
- 1:50:41Speaker 1: by side, and when you pick one up and look
- 1:50:43Speaker 1: at it, one side sort of has like a triangular
- 1:50:46Speaker 1: shape to the grill bar. I'm gonna call it right,
- 1:50:51Speaker 1: and it sort of comes to a point almost the
- 1:50:53Speaker 1: other side. If you flip it open, the bottom of
- 1:50:56Speaker 1: that triangle is like the bottom of the triangle is
- 1:50:59Speaker 1: fly right. For some reason, everybody's brain thinks that the
- 1:51:03Speaker 1: pointy burn lines into it. Yeah, exactly, that's exactly what
- 1:51:08Speaker 1: it is. Where in fact, when you do that, like
- 1:51:11Speaker 1: in case with these burgers, the burgers sink in between
- 1:51:15Speaker 1: those holes and those pointy I just pushed too much,
- 1:51:19Speaker 1: and you and then when you run your spatula underneath
- 1:51:21Speaker 1: that burger, you're not gonna get underneath that burger really,
- 1:51:24Speaker 1: And then you need to take the corner of your
- 1:51:25Speaker 1: spatulate and scrape it along there to get that stuff out. Yes,
- 1:51:30Speaker 1: or in my case, what I did is I transferred
- 1:51:32Speaker 1: all the burgers over the one side and just flip
- 1:51:34Speaker 1: those grates and let that stuff burn off. And uh yeah,
- 1:51:38Speaker 1: so when your grates are flat, you can run a
- 1:51:41Speaker 1: spatula and stuff soon and you don't have to, um
- 1:51:45Speaker 1: be scraping all that stuff off all the time. I'm
- 1:51:47Speaker 1: glad I saw that. I'm glad I did that post
- 1:51:49Speaker 1: on Instagram. And normally when like there's there's people who
- 1:51:53Speaker 1: like you on Instagram, you want to share something that
- 1:51:56Speaker 1: that you like or that you feel whatever likes something
- 1:51:59Speaker 1: like it'll be of interest us two people. H it'll
- 1:52:02Speaker 1: be you know, provide entertainment people. And no matter what
- 1:52:05Speaker 1: you do, there's always the like critic. Yes, they'll zoom
- 1:52:10Speaker 1: in to find things in the background to say negative
- 1:52:13Speaker 1: thing if it's if it's like, if it's not readily
- 1:52:15Speaker 1: apparent what they could say negative, they will like zoom
- 1:52:20Speaker 1: the image until they can find something that they can
- 1:52:23Speaker 1: say negative about what's in the background. Um, they'll they'll
- 1:52:27Speaker 1: find some negative thing about it. It'll be like, yeah,
- 1:52:30Speaker 1: great job on those burgers. They look perfect, But I
- 1:52:33Speaker 1: see you're wearing flip flops and that's not very SI.
- 1:52:35Speaker 1: Or I see a plastic water bow in the background. Um.
- 1:52:39Speaker 1: You know, you say you like conservation, but obviously your
- 1:52:43Speaker 1: whole life's a lie because I zoomed and someone had left.
- 1:52:45Speaker 1: You know, there's like that guy. Normally, the noise that
- 1:52:49Speaker 1: those people make in my mind is it makes this
- 1:52:51Speaker 1: noise when I'm reading their comments. It sounds like this, right,
- 1:52:57Speaker 1: It's like that noise. But the do would notice the
- 1:53:00Speaker 1: grill was like, hey man, you know in a super
- 1:53:05Speaker 1: cool way. It was like, you know, your grills are
- 1:53:08Speaker 1: upside down, And I was like, I initially wanted to
- 1:53:12Speaker 1: be like, don't you tell me how to set my
- 1:53:14Speaker 1: grill up? I looked like, God, him, he's right, He's right.
- 1:53:18Speaker 1: I have two cents on this, but I don't think
- 1:53:20Speaker 1: it really applies in your situation. Because of the way
- 1:53:23Speaker 1: that the greats are pointed at one end, sometimes they're
- 1:53:27Speaker 1: made to be flipped both ways because some ways are
- 1:53:32Speaker 1: you complexiflying complexifying right now, Sometimes you can get higher
- 1:53:37Speaker 1: over the coals, and if you flip it around, you
- 1:53:39Speaker 1: get low on the coals. For hotter heat. So sometimes
- 1:53:43Speaker 1: they're meant to be flipped. Mh. But but then but
- 1:53:49Speaker 1: the great would be the same way. It doesn't change
- 1:53:51Speaker 1: on mine. Yeah, the great would be still be the same, right,
- 1:53:54Speaker 1: it would just adjust the height, like the shape of
- 1:53:57Speaker 1: the surface would still remain the same if it was
- 1:54:00Speaker 1: if you had a flipper style, yeah, you would have
- 1:54:03Speaker 1: would notice that one side would be just barely on
- 1:54:07Speaker 1: top of the coals versus another side would be raised
- 1:54:09Speaker 1: up higher. I like good throwing the cast iron on
- 1:54:13Speaker 1: the grill to like with you know, the tragger where
- 1:54:16Speaker 1: you got a lot of smoke going around, so you
- 1:54:19Speaker 1: get indirect heat, but so you get like the pancake
- 1:54:24Speaker 1: griddle flat top cooking, but you get some smoke in
- 1:54:28Speaker 1: there too. I like that a lot. Yeah, the other
- 1:54:34Speaker 1: grill surface for it. In recent years, like those pink
- 1:54:38Speaker 1: Himalayan salt blocks, seems like it becomes real sexy to
- 1:54:41Speaker 1: cook on and stuff. Oh yeah, you ever used one?
- 1:54:44Speaker 1: Or do you have any thoughts on a long time ago?
- 1:54:47Speaker 1: And every time I see when I say I need
- 1:54:50Speaker 1: to buy that, and then I'd look at my car
- 1:54:53Speaker 1: and say, oh, I have the handheld car. I don't
- 1:54:55Speaker 1: feel like carrying it you want you mean like people
- 1:54:58Speaker 1: cooking on salt blocks. Yes, like like the size of
- 1:55:02Speaker 1: your laptop and like that thick. Yeah, body mine just
- 1:55:08Speaker 1: mentioned cooking some stuff. I'm one of those. I have one,
- 1:55:10Speaker 1: and I've done like white meat and fish on it
- 1:55:13Speaker 1: and stuff. But I don't know that it's like that
- 1:55:15Speaker 1: much better. I don't know that I would is kind
- 1:55:18Speaker 1: of fun though, Yes, it looks it looks cool. Yeah,
- 1:55:22Speaker 1: for sure, it looks pretty. Don't don't over salt your
- 1:55:24Speaker 1: meat before you put it on there, like the block
- 1:55:28Speaker 1: like sweats kind of with the meat you're cooking and salted,
- 1:55:31Speaker 1: so that's neat. But I don't know that it's like
- 1:55:33Speaker 1: an advantage. So if you had, if you were down
- 1:55:37Speaker 1: onto that, if you're down onto that rubble and you're
- 1:55:40Speaker 1: like and ps that meaning to try, I says, what
- 1:55:47Speaker 1: do you guys think about him and salt Box. I
- 1:55:49Speaker 1: don't think I buy the hype, That's what I would say.
- 1:55:52Speaker 1: I feel like, but what about salt box, Yeah, i'd
- 1:55:57Speaker 1: say I don't. I don't buy the hype quite yet.
- 1:55:59Speaker 1: But maybe there's the right piece of meat or right
- 1:56:02Speaker 1: recipe that it's like this improves the end product. It's
- 1:56:07Speaker 1: been a really long time since I've done it. Um,
- 1:56:11Speaker 1: we did some flat rock hot rock cooking. Oh yeah, yeah,
- 1:56:17Speaker 1: remember that, Joannie? No did you want in New Zealand
- 1:56:21Speaker 1: with us? Now? It's hards hard for me to picture
- 1:56:25Speaker 1: not being with you, honest. I just assume that everything
- 1:56:28Speaker 1: that happened to be honest was there. I watched a
- 1:56:30Speaker 1: buddy mine I was guiding with forget he forgot a firepan, right,
- 1:56:36Speaker 1: which firepan is an apparatus that works real good as
- 1:56:39Speaker 1: a grill for like wild and Scenic river designations. You
- 1:56:43Speaker 1: can't just to have a fire wherever you want to
- 1:56:45Speaker 1: have a fire, so you have to have firepan. While
- 1:56:47Speaker 1: he forgot the firepan, and then I will just sat
- 1:56:51Speaker 1: back and quite honestly did not utter a word as
- 1:56:55Speaker 1: I watched him explain this very intricate story to this
- 1:57:00Speaker 1: family of five on why he was going to grill
- 1:57:03Speaker 1: their steaks on top of our river rocks. Uh, the
- 1:57:08Speaker 1: reality is he just forgot the firepan. But he's like, yes,
- 1:57:15Speaker 1: it was great, it was really great. We one time
- 1:57:18Speaker 1: where um hunting mountain goats in Alaska and you couldn't
- 1:57:25Speaker 1: for a couple of days, you couldn't hunt at all.
- 1:57:26Speaker 1: It's just too foggy. You can't see anything. And we
- 1:57:29Speaker 1: stumbled into abandoned plaster mine um that had been abandoned
- 1:57:34Speaker 1: long ago, and they were doing like suction dredge mining
- 1:57:36Speaker 1: for gold and they left wet suits. They left. It
- 1:57:39Speaker 1: was like they walked away from the place. So their
- 1:57:42Speaker 1: wet suits had been torn apart by bears, like bears
- 1:57:44Speaker 1: like neoprene for some reason. And the wet suits are
- 1:57:47Speaker 1: just everywhere and little pieces, and we're kind of digging
- 1:57:51Speaker 1: through all the debris and rubble. They probably brought it in,
- 1:57:53Speaker 1: I don't know, and snow machines or something. The winter
- 1:57:55Speaker 1: flew it in and then left it land. And uh.
- 1:57:58Speaker 1: We found a twenty pound propane tank with a weed
- 1:58:04Speaker 1: burning torch head, and we lugged that back to our camp.
- 1:58:11Speaker 1: And we were staying in a little a teepy tent
- 1:58:14Speaker 1: that didn't have a floor in it, and we would
- 1:58:17Speaker 1: just set that propane tank up aiming at rocks. So
- 1:58:22Speaker 1: we just turned it on full blast because just sitting
- 1:58:24Speaker 1: out no one can get out of the mountains anyways.
- 1:58:25Speaker 1: We just turned on full blasts and set a rock
- 1:58:27Speaker 1: in front of it until that rock got hot as
- 1:58:30Speaker 1: ship and then carry the rock and set it in
- 1:58:33Speaker 1: the middle of the tent and to keep it like
- 1:58:37Speaker 1: radiate some nice heat for a while. And then by meanwhile,
- 1:58:39Speaker 1: we have another one out there getting ready, yeah, getting ready,
- 1:58:43Speaker 1: and just having like rock eaters, and I haven't had
- 1:58:45Speaker 1: my leather chopper mitten so I could carry the rocks
- 1:58:48Speaker 1: back and forth apri pool very little. My wife saved
- 1:58:54Speaker 1: my tomatoes by doing the hot rock trick this year. No, yes,
- 1:58:58Speaker 1: because I planted tomatoes like mid June, thinking, by golly,
- 1:59:01Speaker 1: that's plenty late enough. And then like five days later
- 1:59:04Speaker 1: we had like four or five inches at the house
- 1:59:06Speaker 1: and she yeah, and she just took like we had
- 1:59:10Speaker 1: some leftover vice queen from the remodel, so she covered
- 1:59:13Speaker 1: the you know, already had the cages up, so she
- 1:59:16Speaker 1: just laid that over the cages and then just through
- 1:59:18Speaker 1: the oven on like four through a couple of giant
- 1:59:20Speaker 1: rocks in there. Then ran the rocks down to the tomatoes,
- 1:59:24Speaker 1: stuck them in there, and it made a little greenhouse
- 1:59:26Speaker 1: and no good tomatoes made it out fine. I don't
- 1:59:31Speaker 1: have any red ones yet, man, but dude, I do
- 1:59:34Speaker 1: not have a read tomato. It's killing me because they're
- 1:59:37Speaker 1: coming in when I'm not going to be here. Okay,
- 1:59:39Speaker 1: here's my dying thing. Um I forgot, I had to.
- 1:59:45Speaker 1: It was a slow It was a slow death. One
- 1:59:48Speaker 1: of them was, um, one of my dying ones. Oh
- 1:59:51Speaker 1: I remember the two? Could I give it to? One is?
- 1:59:58Speaker 1: If you cut dear stay aakes, just take a break
- 2:00:01Speaker 1: for a while. I'm not saying they're bad, but just
- 2:00:03Speaker 1: don't cut deer steaks for a while. Cook hole muscle chunks.
- 2:00:07Speaker 1: Cook one two pound chunks of meat that you that
- 2:00:11Speaker 1: you see, hear all surfaces, and then finish it in
- 2:00:17Speaker 1: your oven, or that you just put in your grill.
- 2:00:21Speaker 1: Give it a good sear, turn the grill down, close
- 2:00:24Speaker 1: the lid, and cook it till it's you know, one
- 2:00:28Speaker 1: thirty with your meat thermometer, and then cut it. Take
- 2:00:31Speaker 1: a break from deer steaks. You that you honest? I
- 2:00:35Speaker 1: like it. As a youngster, we always cut all of
- 2:00:38Speaker 1: our large muscles into steaks. We frols it like that.
- 2:00:44Speaker 1: Everything You never throws a block of like a block
- 2:00:47Speaker 1: of meat. You know, if you freeze the block of meat,
- 2:00:50Speaker 1: when you thaw it out, you can choose to cut
- 2:00:52Speaker 1: its then for a long time instead of writing deer
- 2:00:56Speaker 1: steaks on the packagees me. My brother started writing venison
- 2:01:00Speaker 1: s slash R. People would think it was my initials,
- 2:01:03Speaker 1: but it was steak roast meaning chef's choice, stop cutting
- 2:01:10Speaker 1: steaks and cook some home muscle meat. Then if I
- 2:01:12Speaker 1: still had a little that it was like it was
- 2:01:15Speaker 1: like one of those things where doctors are like, oh,
- 2:01:16Speaker 1: we're losing them. But then like like I came back
- 2:01:20Speaker 1: right and and and then then I flatline again. I'm
- 2:01:24Speaker 1: still kind of hanging in there. Then that would go, uh,
- 2:01:27Speaker 1: never cook a separate meal for your children. Mm hmm.
- 2:01:33Speaker 1: Then I would die. Yeah, that goes beyond wild game,
- 2:01:38Speaker 1: that's just life. If they said, yeah, they're like, okay,
- 2:01:42Speaker 1: but what about any last just general life advice, and
- 2:01:46Speaker 1: I'd say unredated the wild game, and they're like, yeah,
- 2:01:51Speaker 1: just whatever, anything helpful for the universe. I was a
- 2:01:54Speaker 1: don't cook separate meals for your children. Stop stop doing that.
- 2:02:01Speaker 1: Stop making them like noodles. That goes right into just
- 2:02:06Speaker 1: making life easy for your kids. Yeah, stop doing that.
- 2:02:12Speaker 1: Make it easy because there you're exposing them to variety,
- 2:02:17Speaker 1: sure whatever, making them meat, what you're eating, taking them
- 2:02:20Speaker 1: out into a rainstorm, setting up a tent in the rain.
- 2:02:23Speaker 1: Let them be cold a little bit. I might make
- 2:02:25Speaker 1: those guys stop even to having access to the children's
- 2:02:28Speaker 1: menu and restaurants, but that leads to food waste. Oh yeah,
- 2:02:31Speaker 1: because the smaller portions are helpful. I don't think you
- 2:02:34Speaker 1: told us what was killing you? Congenitive heart failure. Yeah,
- 2:02:40Speaker 1: it's flat line D nineteen. It could be coincidence that
- 2:02:47Speaker 1: it's uh after lunch, but I think feel like this
- 2:02:50Speaker 1: podcast has made me hungry. Oh yeah, hell yeah? Uh?
- 2:02:55Speaker 1: And you concluders Daniel, Wild Game, what'sn't your freezer? What
- 2:02:59Speaker 1: do you got going on? I have? I have some
- 2:03:03Speaker 1: good stuff in there. I have some stuff saved for
- 2:03:06Speaker 1: special occasions, and I have some stuff, um that are
- 2:03:09Speaker 1: just a little weird that I have ideas on, like
- 2:03:13Speaker 1: a snake. Do you have snake? I have a couple
- 2:03:18Speaker 1: of snakes. Um. You know when we did the when
- 2:03:22Speaker 1: I was at Rendezvous, I got to be a wild
- 2:03:24Speaker 1: Game judge content the contest they did, you find it
- 2:03:28Speaker 1: was hard to do. It was difficult because everybody wants
- 2:03:32Speaker 1: to serve you like five different things, and I just
- 2:03:36Speaker 1: want to judge you on one thing because I can't
- 2:03:39Speaker 1: remember twenty people cooking five different things. It's like, I
- 2:03:43Speaker 1: like two out of your five and the other three
- 2:03:46Speaker 1: were just average. So now you're just below average. Had
- 2:03:49Speaker 1: you just focused on that one good thing. Let's write
- 2:03:52Speaker 1: a co co email to whoever runs that, because I've
- 2:03:56Speaker 1: been saying it for years since Steve and I did it,
- 2:03:59Speaker 1: that they need to tie eating up the rules a
- 2:04:01Speaker 1: little bit because they're they're the playing fields just rough
- 2:04:05Speaker 1: and rumbling in there, and people are getting screwed out
- 2:04:08Speaker 1: of that deal. We're talking about Bad Country Hunter. When
- 2:04:10Speaker 1: you go to the Bad Country Hunters and Anglers Manual Rendezvous,
- 2:04:14Speaker 1: they have a wild game contest for different people from
- 2:04:16Speaker 1: different state chapters team up a cook wild game dishes,
- 2:04:19Speaker 1: and they bring in a bunch of judges, handful of judges,
- 2:04:23Speaker 1: the pick judges who would have like the right to
- 2:04:25Speaker 1: have an opinion. Yeah, I'd like to think I have
- 2:04:29Speaker 1: the right now you do. But it's hard. It's hard.
- 2:04:32Speaker 1: I find it, like I feel that like I would
- 2:04:34Speaker 1: I would like to tweak out their system for him. Yeah,
- 2:04:37Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to, but I was just happy
- 2:04:41Speaker 1: to be there, so no complaining. Do you you read
- 2:04:45Speaker 1: one of the judges too? Remember the snake. Was that Arizona?
- 2:04:49Speaker 1: I think that was Arizona. Yeah, I thought they served
- 2:04:52Speaker 1: a snake and I thought it was very good they did.
- 2:04:55Speaker 1: It was like a good job texture of a shrimp.
- 2:04:58Speaker 1: It was succulent, but it was like chicken ea flavor.
- 2:05:02Speaker 1: So it gave me a lot of ways to spin
- 2:05:04Speaker 1: off cooking with snake. Were you've been getting the snakes?
- 2:05:10Speaker 1: They had jack rabble rattle snake have Alina and they
- 2:05:15Speaker 1: freed the choia buds to right. They won the last
- 2:05:18Speaker 1: year that I was and they've won this year too.
- 2:05:20Speaker 1: They crushed it. They did. There was the same crew,
- 2:05:24Speaker 1: the two women. It was spearheaded about two women. I
- 2:05:29Speaker 1: think you're thinking Nevada because they did the big horn
- 2:05:33Speaker 1: sheep testicles. Well that was Nevada. I think you might
- 2:05:35Speaker 1: be right. I forgot it was a long time ago. Anyway,
- 2:05:40Speaker 1: that's a that's anti hunting organization. Did you know that?
- 2:05:43Speaker 1: What b h A man? Green decoys? Bro? Are you
- 2:05:48Speaker 1: green decoys up there? Anyway? So, yeah, I've got some
- 2:05:52Speaker 1: snake to mess with, and um, I've got some balls
- 2:05:57Speaker 1: of bore bore balls. Bore balls? Is that what you're
- 2:06:01Speaker 1: saving for the special occasion? That's a special occasion. That's
- 2:06:04Speaker 1: a big ball. So I've got a game show that
- 2:06:08Speaker 1: I'm like, oh shoot, I almost just gave away something
- 2:06:12Speaker 1: I can't tell you. You got people you watch a
- 2:06:15Speaker 1: game show with, and you're gonna sneak them balls. I
- 2:06:19Speaker 1: can figure that out that fast, is correct? Am I wrong?
- 2:06:22Speaker 1: It's caught? Yeah, but dang it, I missed that one. Up,
- 2:06:26Speaker 1: I can't. I won't serve I won't serve balls. So
- 2:06:28Speaker 1: heads up, if you're invited order Danielle's house to watch
- 2:06:30Speaker 1: some kind of game show whatever, you're eating his balls.
- 2:06:33Speaker 1: So before one you, guys, I was gonna do a
- 2:06:38Speaker 1: game show called Name that Game where I serve a
- 2:06:43Speaker 1: series of small plants and you have to figure out
- 2:06:46Speaker 1: what animal it is? Not what animals? Well, I think
- 2:06:50Speaker 1: there's some that's going to be a little clear to
- 2:06:52Speaker 1: know what animal, and it would be harder to distinguish
- 2:06:55Speaker 1: the cut in there. It's just vice versa. I think
- 2:06:59Speaker 1: you just get his points where one knowing you get
- 2:07:02Speaker 1: points for knowing the animal and extra for knowing the cut.
- 2:07:06Speaker 1: Yeahs at two points. Well, I'm not going to do
- 2:07:10Speaker 1: that one now because I just gave it away. That's
- 2:07:13Speaker 1: a big ball. Off some pig. I've seen some doozies. Yeah,
- 2:07:19Speaker 1: how big like golf ball, baseball? You know what I'm
- 2:07:24Speaker 1: gonna talk about that time we castrated that boar. Have
- 2:07:27Speaker 1: you ever had a colotche in Texas? Yeah, that's big,
- 2:07:30Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, like the round Ones's not the hot
- 2:07:35Speaker 1: dog ones. Yeah, it's like the weird rolls that are everywhere.
- 2:07:39Speaker 1: Like a very German thing too. Yeah. On the woods,
- 2:07:42Speaker 1: they're like breakfast. They're like pastries. Maybe I have They're
- 2:07:48Speaker 1: really good. I might eat one without catching what the
- 2:07:51Speaker 1: name of it was, but it doesn't. You have somebody
- 2:07:53Speaker 1: handed you like a breakfast sandwich at some point, kind
- 2:07:57Speaker 1: of an odd breakfast, like a ground all dough and
- 2:08:02Speaker 1: in the middle there's some sort of meat cheese Michigan.
- 2:08:08Speaker 1: They call him, you don't know, not purogis pete Doggins,
- 2:08:11Speaker 1: that's how you say it. Lavian. I have a a
- 2:08:17Speaker 1: substantial amount of carp filets, bone less Asian carp filets,
- 2:08:24Speaker 1: and uh in my vaccine them. Yeah, did you pick
- 2:08:30Speaker 1: the bones? Yeah? There there are no bones in this stuff.
- 2:08:34Speaker 1: Um heads predominantly silversum. Good for you. The my experience
- 2:08:43Speaker 1: with this stuff, though, is it is as flavorless. It
- 2:08:46Speaker 1: is beautiful fish, but it's as flavorless as you can
- 2:08:49Speaker 1: possibly get. Um. So I'm thinking about like doing some
- 2:08:54Speaker 1: like miso stuff or making some buns or you know,
- 2:08:57Speaker 1: marinating it and soy sauce and stuff like that. Up
- 2:09:00Speaker 1: it needs. I didn't realize carp was so bland. Well,
- 2:09:05Speaker 1: common carp is not common carp is like common carp different. Yeah,
- 2:09:10Speaker 1: has a loud common carp wear is a loud hat.
- 2:09:15Speaker 1: But a common carp is also an invertebrate eater um
- 2:09:21Speaker 1: and it isn't as specialized as like the silver carp
- 2:09:25Speaker 1: in the big head carp which are filter feeders. They
- 2:09:27Speaker 1: eat zo plank them from the day they can eat
- 2:09:30Speaker 1: to their last day, which turns out can be like
- 2:09:34Speaker 1: a hundred and seventeen years down the road. So I
- 2:09:36Speaker 1: don't think you properly emphasize that, like how difficult to
- 2:09:39Speaker 1: clean they are a northern pike for example. A lot
- 2:09:41Speaker 1: of people avoid like filet because they have the set
- 2:09:44Speaker 1: of y bones Asian card like big head and silvers
- 2:09:48Speaker 1: have three sets of wire bones. Yes, like you have
- 2:09:52Speaker 1: to be surgical, would you cut strips around all the
- 2:09:55Speaker 1: y bones so the way? Yeah, I mean that's really
- 2:09:59Speaker 1: what what they're doing. One um, the interesting thing and
- 2:10:02Speaker 1: interesting technique is the direction that the bones run. They
- 2:10:06Speaker 1: actually run, they kind of slightly angle from the tail
- 2:10:09Speaker 1: towards the head, and so when you you can do
- 2:10:15Speaker 1: a top filet is what they were calling it, which
- 2:10:18Speaker 1: is basically fileting the meat off the tops of the
- 2:10:21Speaker 1: y bones, which would be like your dead center along
- 2:10:25Speaker 1: the backbone, kind of traditional filet cut. But what they're
- 2:10:28Speaker 1: doing is they go from the tail towards the head
- 2:10:32Speaker 1: and they're not, you know, getting a lot of depth.
- 2:10:35Speaker 1: It's maybe a quarter inch max on like a big
- 2:10:37Speaker 1: carp um. But by going from the tail to the head,
- 2:10:42Speaker 1: your knife is actually pushing the bones down the direction
- 2:10:46Speaker 1: they want to go, and you get a deeper filet
- 2:10:51Speaker 1: and no bones. But if you were to try to
- 2:10:53Speaker 1: go from the head to the tail, then you're you're
- 2:10:56Speaker 1: hitting bones the whole way and you're basically just getting
- 2:10:58Speaker 1: like meat putty off of them. Yeah. Yeah, So you
- 2:11:02Speaker 1: got like your backbone pieces like your loin strips, and
- 2:11:06Speaker 1: they're like carp strip and then you have a center
- 2:11:08Speaker 1: file at which that one I just talked about coming
- 2:11:11Speaker 1: off the tips of the bones, and then there's a
- 2:11:13Speaker 1: belly meat piece that's totally boneless. Um. And then some
- 2:11:18Speaker 1: of these guys I was talking to, like they don't
- 2:11:22Speaker 1: care about the bones at all, and they're just chopping
- 2:11:25Speaker 1: up that whole file at throwing the whole thing in
- 2:11:26Speaker 1: the fryer, and you're like eating around the bones head
- 2:11:30Speaker 1: like that. Yeah. Man, I went to a place where
- 2:11:34Speaker 1: they were trying to use and to make This guy
- 2:11:35Speaker 1: was trying to start out this place and make fish
- 2:11:37Speaker 1: oil out of them and drank some of that oil
- 2:11:40Speaker 1: out of them. He was trying to like incinerate them,
- 2:11:43Speaker 1: you know, and then you get like an oil from
- 2:11:46Speaker 1: the wild. He was trying to find a way that
- 2:11:49Speaker 1: they could sort of get some economic some byproducts off
- 2:11:54Speaker 1: of them, you know, in order to encourage harvest. Yeah,
- 2:11:57Speaker 1: well that's what the status Tennessee Uh, Tennessee Wildlife Resource
- 2:12:02Speaker 1: Agency is actually putting a ten cent per pound um,
- 2:12:07Speaker 1: not a bounty, but basically like a state incentive, which
- 2:12:11Speaker 1: brings the market price of Asian carp up to uh,
- 2:12:16Speaker 1: you know, right in the ballpark of catfish catfish. Yeah,
- 2:12:21Speaker 1: so they're subsidizing the subsidizing the commercial harvest. Yeah, they're
- 2:12:25Speaker 1: even supplying nets two folks that want to get into
- 2:12:29Speaker 1: the catfish gild netting game. The carpet gild netting yep,
- 2:12:33Speaker 1: ver sorry, carte gild netting. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty wild.
- 2:12:37Speaker 1: But the way it was explained to me when I
- 2:12:39Speaker 1: was looking into this about that netting is when they
- 2:12:42Speaker 1: first came in there, they would have like nine inch
- 2:12:43Speaker 1: square gill net in order to let all the game
- 2:12:46Speaker 1: fish through, and you can pretty quickly eliminate like certain
- 2:12:50Speaker 1: size classes of fish out of waters. But as that
- 2:12:54Speaker 1: with them being filter feeders, that the idea that they
- 2:12:57Speaker 1: put forth to me, what we're talking about, like these
- 2:12:59Speaker 1: these invade of carp species in the Mississippi Ohio rivers.
- 2:13:04Speaker 1: What they're saying is that you could eliminate size classes
- 2:13:08Speaker 1: and be pretty strategic or pretty surgical with your mesh
- 2:13:11Speaker 1: size what size carp you're catching. But even if you
- 2:13:14Speaker 1: removed all of the large fish, so let's say even
- 2:13:18Speaker 1: dropped down to a four inch mesh, right, you'll remove
- 2:13:22Speaker 1: all of the carp that are of a certain size,
- 2:13:25Speaker 1: but the river will still support X pounds of carp.
- 2:13:30Speaker 1: It's just achieving its poundages through different sized fish. So
- 2:13:36Speaker 1: by removing all this higher age class size class fish,
- 2:13:41Speaker 1: You're still gonna have the same number of pounds of
- 2:13:43Speaker 1: filter feeding carp. You're just not gonna have any big ones.
- 2:13:46Speaker 1: You just got shiploads of small ones and they're eating
- 2:13:48Speaker 1: the same amount of food. Yeah, does that explained? Because
- 2:13:51Speaker 1: this is an old idea. I don't know if it's
- 2:13:53Speaker 1: still current. I think it is still current. But you know,
- 2:13:56Speaker 1: the way you measure any sort of life in a
- 2:13:59Speaker 1: river is just biomass. And so so if you're a
- 2:14:02Speaker 1: big trout person, you could go to a river that's
- 2:14:05Speaker 1: got six eighty pound trout. Let's say, right, it never happened,
- 2:14:10Speaker 1: But unless you're talking taman or something, anyway, you could
- 2:14:14Speaker 1: have like six eighty pound trout, or you could have
- 2:14:19Speaker 1: you know, eight hundred six pound trout. Being that that's
- 2:14:23Speaker 1: what that's what they're saying. The problem with with gil
- 2:14:26Speaker 1: netting carp is, Yeah, you're not going to reduce the
- 2:14:30Speaker 1: poundage of carp that are in the river eating plankton.
- 2:14:33Speaker 1: You're just gonna change the size structure. And what they
- 2:14:36Speaker 1: need is like other fish in that game's fish category
- 2:14:42Speaker 1: to have like booming population years that could outbalance that
- 2:14:49Speaker 1: biomass equation, which is pretty much isn't gonna happen because
- 2:14:53Speaker 1: the carp is so good at reproducing and you know,
- 2:14:56Speaker 1: a huge carp is going to create a hell of
- 2:14:59Speaker 1: a lot more eggs then a tiny Maybe over the
- 2:15:02Speaker 1: long term you can wind of driving down the biomass.
- 2:15:05Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And you know the issue with specifically these
- 2:15:09Speaker 1: filter feeding carp is they eat the same thing as
- 2:15:14Speaker 1: they do when they're ninety as they do when they're
- 2:15:18Speaker 1: juvenile fish um, which is zoo plankton and your game
- 2:15:23Speaker 1: fish species. When they're a juvenile fish, that's what they
- 2:15:27Speaker 1: start out eating is zoo plankton. Then they move on too,
- 2:15:32Speaker 1: you know, other foods. But the issue is right, you
- 2:15:37Speaker 1: could have tens of thousands of ninety pound filter feeders
- 2:15:45Speaker 1: that are eating the same thing as you know, you're
- 2:15:48Speaker 1: one inch finger laying bass or pike or whatever, walleye
- 2:15:53Speaker 1: croppy um. So they're going to outcompete those tiny, tiny fish.
- 2:15:58Speaker 1: That's the fear up, well, not even fear. I think
- 2:16:01Speaker 1: it's demonstrated. Now you see a decrease in game fish
- 2:16:04Speaker 1: and sent those areas. Isn't that true? Um? Is that
- 2:16:08Speaker 1: not true yet? Man? According to the data, it's not
- 2:16:11Speaker 1: true yet. UM, like not seeing the repercussions in the
- 2:16:14Speaker 1: game fish. But what they're seeing is that they're seeing
- 2:16:16Speaker 1: a reduction in game fish that anglers are bringing m UM,
- 2:16:21Speaker 1: and a lot of it is just trying to figure
- 2:16:23Speaker 1: out how to fish around the carp. So, like one
- 2:16:25Speaker 1: of the guys that we went out with, he's a
- 2:16:27Speaker 1: big time croppy guy. He was very frustrated with the fishery. Um,
- 2:16:31Speaker 1: there's carp everywhere, um, and you're you know, traditional ways
- 2:16:35Speaker 1: of fishing for the croppie would be to get like
- 2:16:38Speaker 1: right on top of structure and fish down to it.
- 2:16:43Speaker 1: But what he found out that you were doing, because
- 2:16:46Speaker 1: this guy was really into the side scam so in
- 2:16:48Speaker 1: are I could really see what was happening. Is he'd
- 2:16:51Speaker 1: go over the top of structure, there'd be a bunch
- 2:16:54Speaker 1: of carp above the structure, the carpet freak out and
- 2:16:57Speaker 1: bail and then he'd get like maybe a croppy off
- 2:17:01Speaker 1: of the structure. But if you sat thirty yards back
- 2:17:07Speaker 1: and cast to the structure, making longer cast for croppy guy, um,
- 2:17:12Speaker 1: the carp would remain there on top of the structure.
- 2:17:16Speaker 1: His little tiny crop he baited fall through the carp
- 2:17:19Speaker 1: and he'd be able to pick off. You know, half
- 2:17:21Speaker 1: a dozen croppy off of that chunk of structure because
- 2:17:25Speaker 1: they weren't blown out when the cart blew out. Yeah,
- 2:17:30Speaker 1: or feeling the disturbance in the force if you will, Yeah,
- 2:17:33Speaker 1: I'm with you. Interesting suppose you've got any concluders, just
- 2:17:39Speaker 1: like peg bag. Enough of what Danielle and and Cal said,
- 2:17:41Speaker 1: it is just like try stuff for yourself. I can't
- 2:17:44Speaker 1: tell you how many times I was a kid that
- 2:17:46Speaker 1: I had in my head because someone said it that
- 2:17:48Speaker 1: like a running buck tastes bad, or antelope is gross. Um,
- 2:17:53Speaker 1: just stuff like that, and you need to just try
- 2:17:57Speaker 1: it for yourself. Like Danielle cooked a turkey sponge, right,
- 2:18:00Speaker 1: that's really strange, but it was good. I hadn't heard
- 2:18:03Speaker 1: of anybody cooking it before, but knowing what it was
- 2:18:06Speaker 1: made me wonder why do we throw it away? And
- 2:18:08Speaker 1: I I'm willing to eat something that could be horribly,
- 2:18:12Speaker 1: horribly terrible just to know for myself that it's bad
- 2:18:16Speaker 1: instead of just hearsay of it. There's a sponge away,
- 2:18:19Speaker 1: it's worthless. And recently the obvious we we've cooked things
- 2:18:23Speaker 1: as extreme as like crow and badger and it tasted
- 2:18:26Speaker 1: like red meat or tasted like dark meat from a
- 2:18:30Speaker 1: game bird. So you just don't like let those misconceptions
- 2:18:34Speaker 1: kind of muddy your view of a different wild game. Yeah.
- 2:18:37Speaker 1: I mean my whole lot of people are like, oh,
- 2:18:39Speaker 1: you know, panda bear burger isn't great. You know, it
- 2:18:43Speaker 1: really slowed you down, and you like get that in
- 2:18:45Speaker 1: your head. Then later you realize I should have been
- 2:18:48Speaker 1: hunting these things my whole life. You realize you could
- 2:18:51Speaker 1: have got a really pretty jacket and a great burger. Uh,
- 2:18:56Speaker 1: A lot of what we call over here. You can
- 2:18:58Speaker 1: go find out about the meat eat dot com. Tons
- 2:19:02Speaker 1: of information there, food stuff, Danielle's writing, Spencer's writing, all
- 2:19:06Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. We'll touch on greater detail there. Um
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- 2:19:29Speaker 1: feed again. All right, thank you