The MeatEater Podcast

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 the Flip Flop Flesher no longer fleshes squat; White Sands Missile Range as the original introduction site of the African oryx; mildly radioactive Trinitite for sale; use of the word skookum; getting stuff your mom makes vs. getting Nik...

Steven Rinella talks with chef Michael Hunter , Brody Henderson , Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: The omnipresence of dandelions; gas station diner to big time chef; the irony of applying preservation techniques to food and then eating that food right away; Steve overriding his own “first in, first out” freezer rule; woodcocks dropping bowels; cattails; vegans both protesting...

Steven Rinella talks with meat scientist Dr. Chris Calkins , Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: debunking meat myths; how stress affects the flavor of meat; myoglobin and hemoglobin; why you shouldn't cut into an animal before rigor mortis is complete; muscle is muscle; Steve's insistence on saying "red cutter," when it's actually dark cutter; the benefits of...

Steven Rinella talks with Jim Phillips , Corinne Schneider, Spencer Neuharth , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: never paying for an antler; Steve as an incidental shed hunter; Jim refusing to insure his horn shed; an important premonition; getting poked; guessing at the value of 16,000 antlers; a little man living in your body; zigs and zags; not counting brow tines; having a 400...

Steven Rinella talks with Adam Weatherby , Kevin Wilkerson, Luke Thorkildsen, Ryan Callaghan , Brody Henderson , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: boring stuff about beer; Elmer Fudd is now disarmed, Steve in small claims court; the Long Tong Song (credit to Andy Martin); indirectly talking to your boyfriend through a baby cat voice; Kevin regenerating his thumb; Jani bars; Rinell...

Steven Rinella talks with Boone and Crockett Club 's Justin Spring, Kyle Lehr, and Tony Schoonen, plus Phil Taylor and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Apologies to a dude with a rotten whitefish; a child's marble in a turkey’s gizzard; Wonders of Wildlife and selling lures out of your dad's liquor store; is Steve's dad in the B&C record?; Boone and Nugent; deductions and hunter-based grievan...

Steven Rinella talks with Brody Henderson , Spencer Neuharth ,  Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Regs; Covid-19 and drinking Tommy’s spit; how the new shooting-trees-over trend is an ugly thing; the mortal danger of growing a morel mushroom ; Steve's fantastic analogy for mycelium, and his general strengths in that area; MeatEater's upcoming long ass book about w...

Steven Rinella talks with Spencer Neuharth ,  Ryan Callaghan , Joe Ferronato , and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: Too many Twin Lakes; practicing civil disobedience in order to get married; a strong prejudice against yoga studios; the obvious upsides of an open bar; the mystique of morels; cracking the code on lab grown mushrooms; how Cal found a morel in a gravel patch by a manhole cover in downt...

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 braising liquid matters; Steve draws a MT mountain goat tag; explaining point creep; spike antlers; hot tips for hunting pressurized land; the bird that nightmares are made of; strutting and gobbling as an ok way to spend a day; Pleistocene r...

Steven Rinella talks with Bart George , Phil Taylor, Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Starting life and ending life in PJs; how the lower-48’s caribou vanished; a deceased oscillated turkey; the last ever flip flop story; Jani being a chit-chatter with his seat mates on airplanes; cows not condos; kangaroo meat being favorite; your dead dog tied to a tree; when a 3-year-old l...

Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Robert Reed  and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: an entire peer reviewed publication from a single Burmese python poop; three dead deer inside a snake; death by hair; the Florida Everglades; being a sophomore at UC Berkeley and buying a snake to get girls to your dorm room; where the hell did they all come from?; low detection rates are a bitch; squirrels as biologi...

Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Murphy , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The wild swings of rabbit populations; a hunting station wagon brought back from the dead; a dog named Wings&Things; wanderlust; an epic hunting trip to Mongolia; how your shit needs to be in shape to hunt snowshoe hares; the last remaining eagle hunters in the world; an owl, three golden eagles, two ra...

Steven Rinella talks with Mark Kurlansky , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Mark being a lifelong fisherman; fisheries and over fishing as only minor problems by comparison; how salmon get hit by everything we do wrong; the 11-foot-high jump of the salmon; Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain and dedicated fly fisherman; the Atlantic Ocean's decreasing carrying capacity; why catch...

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 transfusion?; let’s sort out addiction issues later; ass goblins; Bergmann's rule and Allen's rule; negligent discharges; pissing out your car door and into your ice hole; Black Rifle Coffee Company ; growing up outdoors; why it’s called MeatEater; ha...

Steven Rinella talks with Phil Taylor, Ryan Callaghan , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Steve's violated sense of artistic sensibility; Cal gets robbed by meth heads; is it okay to kill someone for stealing your shit?; how everyone knows the sound of their own truck; stick 'em up!; Steve’s elaborate vengeance fantasies; making the perfect batch of turkey stock; prepping vs. supporting your c...

Steven Rinella talks with Michael Chamberlain , Brody Henderson , Seth Morris , and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: Just how much is a unit of blood?; packin' tourniquets; how Jani's wife won't give Steve weasel trapping permission; etymology; hunting turkeys with dogs; the kee-kee run; how many critters kill and eat turkeys?; the wild turkey Bermuda Triangle; more things that make a turkey gobb...

Steven Rinella talks with Miles Nolte , Brody Henderson , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The things that won the war; melting your wedding band into your finger; chap ass and irritated sphincters; getting a tater on your thing; Dumpster Diver Cal; manipulating a briefcase full of pike decoys; a golf ball with an eyelet through it; thrusting spears into fish; ho...

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 whiffle ball bat for a leg; getting paid a couple thousand for a couple minutes’ work; Chad getting picked on in high school and then beating the guy’s ass; getting disciplined through hunting; lost in the woods; redlining your body mult...

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 Shakira of the hunting world; merfolk and mermaid’s purses; Janis pushing past his limits on the dance floor; using a baby's umbilical cord as fishing bait; a tarantula rehabilitation program; how to make wild game kosher; an Iranian Jew and...

Steven Rinella talks with Josh Carney , Ryan Callaghan , and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: How Josh is mean to Steve about his turkey calling; putting a rasp on it; living in town with 15 hunting dogs; skinning raccoons; a small game family; how turkey hunting is like dating at a bar; a 2 at 10 and a 10 at 2; not being tuned into hunting and fishing laws; what it feels like to be hit by buckshot;...

Steven Rinella talks to Jim Heffelfinger , Ryan Callaghan , and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: an epidemic of llama losses; Grandpa Half-a-Finger and other stories of loss; does killing big bucks screw up deer genetics?; the difference between blacktail deer and whitetail deer, and where they came from; a whitetail fossil from the Pleistocene; Cowz, Cooze, and Couse; telekinetic levitation; why do...

Steven Rinella talks to Dr. Justin Schmidt , Li Schmidt, Corinne Schneider, Ryan Callaghan , and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: A quick Chinese love song; developing the Schmidt Pain Index ; lying down on an ant hill; camouflage in the animal world; what Steve thought when he got stung by a bullet ant; poisonous defense systems; hitching a ride on a mosquito; how science progresses one coffin at a...

Steven Rinella talks with Alex Messenger , Corinne Schneider, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: The 29th day ; even more titillation; walleyes as an easy-to-clean fish; thinking in fathoms and rods; a 600 mile canoe trip; breaking down canoe strokes; bear poppers and spray; group dynamics in the wilderness; an exponential sense of peace; being scared of musk ox; everyone's got a p...

Steven Rinella talks with Spencer Neuharth , Corinne Schneider, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: fact checking; does hunting half-tame pen-raised critters count as hunting?; oviparous vs. viviparous; do you really lose all that body heat through your head? ; measuring turkeys as trophies; getting rich selling taxidermy to big-assed box stores ; does gutting an animal really make...

Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Sloan, Anthony Licata , Seth Morris , Ryan Callaghan , Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis . Topics discussed: A Viking funeral for a severed finger; pressure washing bear meat out of your sinuses; Anthony's cartel run-in; Steve's almost negligent shittiness at speaking Spanish; where persistence meets movement; Kevin seeing the shine off a deer’s nose; the half-wild dog...