The MeatEater Podcast

Steven Rinella talks with Mike Matney , Rick Matney , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.  Topics discussed: duck feet earrings; something in the cosmos that's making people find buffalo skulls; "muskrat moms"; making enough money trapping as a 16-year-old to buy a brand new four-wheel drive pickup truck; the unpredictability of fur prices; Mike's no grip trap ; trapping as an excuse...

Steven Rinella talks with Jesse Griffiths , Clay Newcomb , Chris Gill , Rick Smith , and Seth Morris . Topics discussed: a requester of GPS collar data explains himself; axiographics; a trail cam enthusiast; meat sheets and meat slaps; the geographic differences of meat cookery; the boneless bear ham through a funnel mesher; what LeBron and bacon have in common; getting mauled by a variety of tick...

Steven Rinella talks with Whit Fosburgh , Clay Newcomb , Brody Henderson , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: tail strippers and Clay's squirrel tail ornaments ; tanning squirrel hides; smash burgers; crazy fossilized footprints of hunters and a one-legged person from 20,000 years ago; pondering dropping out of the block management program; mistaking movement and a person for a deer; a local pr...

Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb and Mark Kenyon . Topics discussed: Clay's sleep-to-hunt equation; Steve's distrust of men-only clubs; The One Shot Antelope Hunt catches up to reality; does Steve qualify as a ringer?; the saga of Bruno the bear; the homing instinct; loving Paul Revere, whether he road or not; requests for radio collar data; the survival of outliers; the bounty of the Back 4...

Steven Rinella talks with Cody Cannon , Chris Alexander, and Khris Poage of Whiskey Myers , and  Spencer Neuharth , Sam Lungren , and Corinne Schneider. Topics discussed: switching your name to Steve Fever; natural condoms made out of lamb casings; castration bands; unethical hunting and plowing down an elk herd; calf shelters as a moral boosting thank you to ranchers who enroll in block managemen...

Steven Rinella talks with  Ben Friedman (youngpageviews) , Spencer Neuharth , Sam Lungren , Brody Henderson , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Spencer's long day spent rescuing an owl and then getting his buck because of karma; transporting a doomed owl in a plastic tote; Steve's kids' mouse; the Federal Duck Stamp having racked up a billion dollars so far; how Darien, CT folks are upset abou...

Steven Rinella talks with Taylor Thorne , Corinne Schneider, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: hand written love letters to MeatEater; shielding Steve from rejection by the Deep Drop Community; photoperiod and how smoke affects hunting; yelling at mallards; living in a camper and traveling around the country with firearms ; Steve mixing up 3-gun and cowboy action; breaking down 3-...

Steven Rinella talks with Kurt Racicot , Rick Smith , Dirt Myth , Ridge Pounder , Chester Floyd , Seth Morris . Topics discussed: Harder than a woodpecker's lips; being dialed in on your system; a 10,000 year old footprint sandwich of early human, mammoth, and ground sloth; when a pelican starts a brush fire with a carp hanging out of its mouth; dippin' to deficate; free pouring powder and Daniel...

Steven Rinella talks with Benjamin Wallace , Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor.  Topics discussed: Ben's article and Spencer's article ; topless vs. shirtless; the world's most expensive bottle of wine ; the Fenn cache of Clovis points and the Fenn Treasure of gold and jewels; when a Playboy Bunny is gifted a mummified baby crocodile; creating a treasure hunt that leads to your...

Steven Rinella talks with Luke Combs , Reid Isbell , Dan Isbell , Luke Thorkildsen , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: being on the tour bus; the Fatvian Seagulls; organic vs. assembly line song writing; ten cents per song on one of the best selling albums of all time; on being a lunch pail song writer; where country music and the outdoors intersect; on maintaining country music street cred in...

Steven Rinella talks with Juanita Vero , Casey Snider , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Very dramatic wind; a lightning strike that festers for weeks; codifying hunting and fishing in the state constitution ; a privilege vs. a right; the national hobby of poking fun at California; all the levies at the tail end of ballots; how Steve wants to run for government office and propose a trapping b...

Steven Rinella talks with Michael Tewes , Neal Wilkins , Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: the ocelot as an animal that's unknown to most folks; how it hurts like hell to get bitten by a cat; chicken-ocelot bonding; the ocelot population in the US being less than 100 individuals; how mammalogists have more fun than ornithologists; a mad obsession with cats; reproduction and th...

Steven Rinella talks with Taylor McCall , Brody Henderson , Seth Morris , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The time when Chester the Molester got credit for writing a Tyler Childers' song; catch-and-release for stocker trout; Steve dropping Bible knowledge about the how the Bible condemns people who shit out in the woods without burying it; chewin' Grizz and spittin' in cups; pyt...

Steven Rinella talks with Tim Bristol , Miles Nolte , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed:  The skinny on Pebble Mine ; size, type, and location; dead snow geese in a toxic hole; Butte’s Berkeley Pit; ten billion tons of waste; cyanide leech mining; the Richter scale and how Richter was a nudist; milk, bourbon, and other causes of mass fish die offs; the incredible value of sockeye salmon to life...

Steven Rinella talks with Seth Morris , Spencer Neuharth , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: MeatEater Season 9 ; bears for Trump; finally, Spencer's squirrel nuts article ; Steve creating his own myths; how Seth should approach mentoring Steve on how to flesh beavers; catch and keep ethics; JT Van Zandt knowing where all the little spots are; taking down a nilgai; Jani's journals; hydrogen pe...

Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Paul Saladino , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: getting buzzed on liver ; Jani's wife's placenta made into pills; the unique nutrients in animals not found in plants; strolling around graveyards; why we were told red meat and animal fat were bad for us; tallow and lard; spurious correlations; how creatine makes vegans and vegetarians smarter;...

Steven Rinella talks with Oliver Ngy , Miles Nolte , Joe Cermele , Kevin Harlander , Corinne Schneider, and Ryan Callaghan . Topics discussed: engineering ideas for glass bottom drift boats; hitting a hornet's nest with a fish and then getting attacked by that hornet; night panther popsicles; how Cal protects sausage from his hand hairs with latex gloves; Jon Gary and the star Starcraft of Das Boa...

Steven Rinella talks with Ben O'Brien , Spencer Neuharth , Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: how Cal's got turned down for a Victoria Secret's pink credit card; Steve's very special method of making sucker cakes out of the fish that his kid keeps bringing home; Spencer's Bar Room Banter series and the Zone of Death ; the remotest place in the lower-48 ; the most Instagrammed o...

Steven Rinella talks with Michael Punke and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Expressing dissatisfaction with "The Revenant" movie; the Madison buffalo jump looking like it did 200 years ago; dressing up in an 1876 cavalry uniform; the challenge of giving someone else’s perspective; maiming corpses after the Fetterman Fight; carving an arrowhead out of Jim Bridger's shoulder; mountain man Hugh Gla...

Steven Rinella talks with Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles , Ryan Callaghan , Maggie Smith, Sam Lungren , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: An elderly woman’s plea to American men: carry heavy shit and buy a tool kit; hound dog training with live vs. dead raccoons; Dave's first fly fishing experience with the MeatEater crew; Steve is forced to reckon with a stand-up paddleboar...

Steven Rinella talks with Miles Nolte , Joe Cermele , Rick Smith , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Jani's school report on Hobo the linx; how Joe moved across the river for the tax break; the name origin of MeatEater’s new fishing podcast, Bent;  Covid hair like Kenny Loggins; the Ghostbusters theme song sound effects; how the super zoom fluke lure has vastly improved Jani...

Steven Rinella talks with Tom Brokaw , Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider, and  Janis Putelis. Topic discussed; Always looking over the horizon; growing up in "Igloo," South Dakota; Steve's hot tip for armageddon preppers: don't set up next to other armageddon preppers; the virtues of being a jack of all trades and having a can-do mentality; when home is a hotel for Red Brokaw; young Tom's rock...

Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb , Rick Smith , Seth Morris , Janis Putelis , and Donald Trump Jr. Topics discussed: Federal blaze orange laws; blood trailing dogs as an ethical tool for recovery; all the songs written about Jani and skiing; fish rigor and how AK's Fish and Game has it dialed; Steve and Seth's new TV special, Deep Drop Boyz; how cave art puts a smile on Rick's face; the defi...

Steven Rinella talks with Ramsey Russell , Hanzi Deschermeier , Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: How Jani is so not a trapper that he reminds himself to check traps by writing "coon" on his hand; Frito pie with mountain lion; Corinne and strawberries; breaking down what it means to flesh something out; the A.S.S. movement , the tissue issue, and how surface shitters are lik...

Steven Rinella talks with Rue Mapp and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: A solid two-syllable, navigational name; when your cowboy dad hangs pigs in your garage and you don't want kids on the school bus to see; how parades mean different things to different people; Outdoor Afro re-connecting black Americans to the outdoors ; upping your nature swagger; unpacking statistics; how black children drow...