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The MeatEater Podcast
Building on the belief that a deeper understanding of the natural world enriches all of our lives, host Steven Rinella brings an in-depth and relevant look at all outdoor topics including hunting, fishing, nature, conservation, and wild foods. Filled with humor, irreverence, and things that will surprise the hell out of you, each episode welcomes a diverse group of guests who add their own expertise to the vast world of the outdoors. Part of The MeatEater Podcast Network.
Episodes
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Ep. 237: A Face No Longer Attached
Steven Rinella talks with Ben O'Brien, Spencer Neuharth, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: how Cal's got turned down for a Victoria Secret's…
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Ep. 236: Crawling Back from the Dead with Michael Punke
Steven Rinella talks with Michael Punke and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Expressing dissatisfaction with "The Revenant" movie; the Madison buffalo jump…
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Ep. 235: Sex, Guns, and Bluegrass with Dave Simonett
Steven Rinella talks with Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles, Ryan Callaghan, Maggie Smith, Sam Lungren, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: An…
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Ep. 234: Deep Drop Boyz
Steven Rinella talks with Miles Nolte, Joe Cermele, Rick Smith, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Jani's school report on Hobo the linx…
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Ep. 233: Tom Brokaw: From South Dakota to the World
Steven Rinella talks with Tom Brokaw, Spencer Neuharth, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topic discussed; Always looking over the horizon; growing up in…
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Ep. 232: How You Get to be a Big 'Ol Bear, Plus an Interview with Don Trump Jr.
Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb, Rick Smith, Seth Morris, Janis Putelis, and Donald Trump Jr. Topics discussed: Federal blaze orange laws; blood…
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Ep. 231: The Pied Piper of Duck Hunters
Steven Rinella talks with Ramsey Russell, Hanzi Deschermeier, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: How Jani is so not a trapper that he…
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Ep. 230: A Difficult Conversation
Steven Rinella talks with Rue Mapp and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: A solid two-syllable, navigational name; when your cowboy dad hangs pigs in your garage…
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Ep. 229: The Atomic Oryx
Steven Rinella talks with Karl Malcolm, Mike Ruhl, Jeremy Romero, and Seth Morris. Topics discussed: Jewel and being attracted to snaggle teeth; Teen Wolf; how…
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Ep. 228: Venison is the New Kale
Steven Rinella talks with chef Michael Hunter, Brody Henderson, Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: The omnipresence of dandelions; gas…
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Ep. 227: Red Cutter
Steven Rinella talks with meat scientist Dr. Chris Calkins, Spencer Neuharth, Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: debunking meat myths; how…
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Ep. 226: The Life and Times of the Antler Man
Steven Rinella talks with Jim Phillips, Corinne Schneider, Spencer Neuharth, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: never paying for an antler…
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Ep. 225: An Expensive Episode
Steven Rinella talks with Adam Weatherby, Kevin Wilkerson, Luke Thorkildsen, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed…
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Ep. 224: Size Matters
Steven Rinella talks with Boone and Crockett Club's Justin Spring, Kyle Lehr, and Tony Schoonen, plus Phil Taylor and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed…
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Ep. 223: Shooting Trees to Death
Steven Rinella talks with Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Regs; Covid-19 and drinking…
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Ep. 222: Morels in the Time of Covid
Steven Rinella talks with Spencer Neuharth, Ryan Callaghan, Joe Ferronato, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: Too many Twin Lakes; practicing civil…
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Ep. 221: The Perfect Rock
Steven Rinella talks with Ryan Callaghan, Seth Morris, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: how all of the stuff you add to…
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Ep. 220: An Elk-Hunting Nudist Checks the Breeze
Steven Rinella talks with Bart George, Phil Taylor, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Starting life and ending life in PJs; how the…
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Ep. 219: Snake Oil
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Robert Reed and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: an entire peer reviewed publication from a single Burmese python poop; three…
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Ep. 218: The World's Best Small Game Hunter Conquers Mongolia
Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Murphy, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: The wild swings of rabbit populations; a hunting station wagon…
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Ep. 217: Mark Kurlansky on Saving Salmon
Steven Rinella talks with Mark Kurlansky, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Mark being a lifelong fisherman; fisheries and over fishing as only…
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Ep. 216: Roasting Coffee In The CIA
Steven Rinella talks with Evan Hafer, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: ice fishing is not a crime; exactly how big is a big blood…
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Ep. 215: I Miss My Friends
Steven Rinella talks with Phil Taylor, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Steve's violated sense of artistic sensibility; Cal gets robbed by…
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Ep. 214: Gobbling Your Ass Off
Steven Rinella talks with Michael Chamberlain, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Just how much is a unit of blood?; packin'…
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Ep. 213: The Return of the Latvian Eagle
Steven Rinella talks with Miles Nolte, Brody Henderson, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: The things that won the war; melting…
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Ep. 212: Chad Mendes on the Fight, the Hunt, and the Food
Steven Rinella talks with Chad Mendes, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: the Total Putelis-Total Rinella Dinner; eating Jani’s baby moose; a…
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Ep. 211: Hunting with Your Enemy
Steven Rinella talks with Dan Ahdoot, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Steve and Janis as the J-Lo and…
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Ep. 210: Josh Carney on the Presence of a Feather
Steven Rinella talks with Josh Carney, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: How Josh is mean to Steve about his turkey calling; putting a rasp on…
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Ep. 209: The Deer Nut
Steven Rinella talks to Jim Heffelfinger, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: an epidemic of llama losses; Grandpa Half-a-Finger and other…
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Ep. 208: Dr. Justin Schmidt on Why It Hurts So Bad
Steven Rinella talks to Dr. Justin Schmidt, Li Schmidt, Corinne Schneider, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: A quick Chinese love song…
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Ep. 207: Bullfighting a Griz
Steven Rinella talks with Alex Messenger, Corinne Schneider, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: The 29th day; even more titillation; walleyes as…
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Ep. 206: Hey, Icehole!
Steven Rinella talks with Spencer Neuharth, Corinne Schneider, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: fact checking; does hunting half-tame…
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Ep. 205: The Cazador and the Coues
Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Sloan, Anthony Licata, Seth Morris, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: A Viking funeral for a…
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Ep. 204: It Should Be Difficult to Get Lost Forever
Steven Rinella talks with Roman Dial, Anthony Licata, and Ryan Callaghan. Topics discussed: the death of a son; dip-netting salmon; quitting climbing for…
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Ep. 203: Thumbs Up or Down on 2019
Steven Rinella talks with Whit Fosburgh, Phil Taylor, and Ryan Callaghan. Topics discussed: Steve's perspective on why Jani isn't a true outdoorsman…
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Ep. 202: From the Two Kingdoms of Nature
Steven Rinella talks with JT Van Zandt, Jesse Griffiths, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Lola and Stone Age chewing gum; how Texas is the…
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Ep. 201: What Exactly Is the Problem?
Steven Rinella talks with Kylee Archer, Samantha Bates, Maggie Smith, Tracy Crane, Brody Henderson, Kevin Harlander, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed…
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Ep. 200: ‘Faced on ‘Nog: The Holiday Special
Steven Rinella talks with Anthony Licata, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, Mark Kenyon, Samantha Bates, Corinne Schneider, Ben O'Brien, and Janis Putelis. Topics…
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Ep. 199: Big Pieces of the Brain Pie
Steven Rinella talks with Director of Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Martha Williams, Greg Lemon, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: A fancy playdate…
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Ep. 198: Hunting with the Home Run King
Steven Rinella talks with New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, Cody Fahrion, Rick Smith, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: All those home…
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Ep. 197: Eating Folks in the Arctic
Steven Rinella talks with Buddy Levy and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Jumping out of planes with sacks of cash; the outlaw Claude Dallas as both an asshole…
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Ep. 196: A Sea of Bones
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Lawrence C. Todd and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: kill sites; the meaning of an artifact; taphonomy: the study of death…
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Ep. 195: Hunting the Anthropocene
Steven Rinella talks with Rick Smith, Danny Morrison, Sean Weaver, Ryan Callaghan, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Steve's favorite thing to…
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Ep. 194: Summon the Squall
Steven Rinella talks with Adam Weatherby, Landon Peterson, Stewart Peterson, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: A shot so bad it didn’t even…
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Ep. 193: Too Much Naughty
Steven Rinella talks with Maggie Smith, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: How willows grow toward the sound of water; Cal’s famous…
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Ep. 192: Bleeding Out
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Alan Lazzara, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, and the spirit of Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: On missing Jani; the piranha…
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Ep. 191: Sicker Than Hell
Steven Rinella talks with epidemiologist Timonthy Sly, Sam Lungren, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: The meaning of the word "epidemiology"; tularemia and…
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Ep. 190: What's in Your Freezer?
Steven Rinella talks with Spencer Neuharth, Danielle Prewett, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: Starting the rut by mixing…
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Ep. 189: Boxing With the Last Grizzly
Steven Rinella talks with Danny Schmidt, Chris Gill, Rorke Denver, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: More on the pros and cons of flip flops…
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Ep. 188: Yvon Chouinard on Belonging to Nature
Steven Rinella talks with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: Botching people’s names; blacksmithing; fishing with a single…
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Ep. 187: Tripping on Bear Skulls
Steven Rinella talks with Anthony Licata, Doug Duren, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: drinking curdled mother's milk from a…
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Ep. 186: A High Level of "Grrrrrrr"
Steven Rinella talks with Greg Fonts, Alex Reynaud, George Scheidt, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: How to free dive and read a reef; hole hunting…
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Ep. 185: Tom McGuane On The Beauty of Not Knowing
Steven Rinella talks with the author Tom McGuane, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: What to write on your gravestone; Tom's lifelong…
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Ep. 184: Managing Bambi
Steven Rinella talks with Matt Ross, Ryan Furrer, Hank Forester, Mark Kenyon, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: having kids by accident; Mark Kenyon’s…
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Ep. 183: All For a Flashy Mule
Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb, Kevin Harlander, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: double-battered buttermilk squirrel; shit on a shingle; fell…
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Ep. 182: You Wanna Talk About Killing Hogs?
Steven Rinella talks to Jesse Griffiths, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: tons of audience death stories; flounder gigging in Texas…
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Ep. 181: Bibles and Bulls
Steven Rinella talks with Jason Phelps, Dirk Durham, Ryan Callaghan, Seth Morris, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: Purple Nurple; swimming with a fairly…
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Ep. 180: Teeth, Horns, and Claws
Steven Rinella talks with Doug Emlen, Sam Lungren, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: Character above all else; good shit for a tombstone; fighting WW4…
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Ep. 179: The Weed Warden
Steven Rinella talks with John Nores and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: Cartels growing pot on public land; wildlife poisoning by weed growers; Vietnam…
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Ep. 178: Hunting Mammoths
Steven Rinella talks with David J. Meltzer and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: Understanding radio carbon dates; crossing the Bering Land Bridge; who were…