The MeatEater Podcast

Steve Rinella talks with Jack Carr, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Opinions on eavesdropping; when you're a New York Times Selling Best Author every time; go get "Only the Dead," Jack Carr's latest novel; novelizations and when a prequel sequel of a movie is a book; show business lessons; when 18,000 dairy cows die in an explosion at a Texas dairy farm; wolverine sightings in Oregon for the first time in three decades; K-leather; conservation surveys; when a flunking soap opera actor narrates your book and you have to wait ten years to re-record it yourself; going into the cave; when you legitimately consider yourself an author; waning accountability; history of war lessons; the Taliban as a guest of Afghanistan; Hemmingway's typewriter; heavy with acronyms; Chapter 10 of “MeatEater” narrated by Steve; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis  Clay Newcomb, Danielle Prewett, Jordan Budd, Tyler Jones, Mark Kenyon, Tony Peterson, and Phil Taylor.

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Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis, Clay Newcomb, Brent Reaves, Tony Peterson, Jason Phelps, Jordan Budd, and Phil Taylor.

Topics include: Phil's haircut; when the time comes for butt probes; trail cam bans and folks caught peeing; the new podcast on our network, “This Country Life with Brent Reaves"; bear meat vending machines in Japan; akern shortages; the story behind Steve's sighting of the hairy belly fanny pack; the punishment for mistaking a husky pup for a wolf; the time when Clay raised deer; the fish doorbell; beating the system; arguing over hunting mule deer vs. whitetail; dumpin' carrots as habitat improvement; Jani and Jordan’s "Gear Talk" podcast; raffle and sweepstakes law; Legoland; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brody Henderson, Rick Hutton, Ryan Callaghan, Cory Calkins, Corinne Schneider, Paul Lewis, Ian Fraizer, and Phil Taylor.

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Steve Rinella talks with Ian Frazier, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Steve Rinella talks with Ian Frazier, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Frazier's bajillion books and articles in The New Yorker; the Lakota word, ichipasisi; Steve's piece about fishing in the turbine, which led to his big break; the "weights in fish" guys plead guilty; a correction on a correction about Dale Hollow Lake; rewards for turning in bands and the million dollar phesant; a note to the hater; how many pythons are really out there; circumpolar distribution; globigerina ooze; Steelhead Joe; the Chukchi hunters; seal liver with angel hair pasta; not wanting to live near other writers; hog distribution maps overlaid with voting maps; the Bronx; the in between-ness of a place; steamboat explosions; and more.

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Steven Rinella and Luke Combs bring you a special episode of “Chetiquette” with Chester Floyd and the rest of the MeatEater crew. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Brody Henderson, Clay Newcomb, Danielle Prewett, KC Smith, Mark Kenyon, Brent Reaves, Jason Phelps, Tony Peterson, and Phil Taylor.

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Steve Rinella talks with Chris Murray, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Mark Kenyon's Working for Wildlife tour; pre-order Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars; the 62-pound beaver with a mushroomed .22 in the back of the head; an update from Home Range's Trap-a-Cat project; the first captured, collared, released wolverine in Utah; the final word on refried beans; Kansas' ban on trail cams; when you steal a gator egg, hatch it, and then raise that gator for 20 years; the definition of estivate; inspired by Steve Irwin; stinky gator stomachs; smelling underwater; temperature-based sex selection; how gators are good moms; the nest chirping noise; conservation and egg return; long life spans; how to properly capture a gator; the robust innate immune system; sensitivity to ecotoxins; gator blood; holding breath under water for seven hours; and more. 

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

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Steven Rinella talks with Mike Kunz, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics include: When we called Mike Kunz the "Forest Gump of Archaeology"; the emperor of the north and the king of the west; dustpans of mosquitos; foxes running out of a gray whale carcass; the Alaska pipeline project; igneous intrusions; when you find Paleoindian projectile points in Alaska; the poor odds that you were the first person to find a thing that someone else dropped; how the Mesa site was discovered; the property of conchoidal fracture; direct tattoo evidence and direwolves; how everyone knew how to make projectile points; polar bears and climate change; the arctic small tool tradition; two iron pendants, two copper rings, and three blue glass beads; Occam's razor; going with the evidence you have; The Mesa Site: Paleoindians above the Arctic Circle; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brody Henderson, Janis Putelis, Hayden Sammak, Dan Chumbler, Tressa Croaker, Carl Young, and Phil Taylor.

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Steve Rinella talks  with Trae Crowder, Janis Putelis, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Chattanooga Charlie on "Veronica Mars"; wearing a MAGA hat so that no one talks to you; a conservative barista; pre-order Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars today; having a rude awakening to the fact that boneless wings aren't wings; South Carolina's coyote harvest incentive program; let's raise some money to Save Teddy's Church in D.C.; in defense of golf courses; cleaning MOOP at Burning Man; growing up in OshKosh B'gosh; the southern accent; the world record smallmouth bass; when your dad owns a video store; starting on the redneck comedy schtick; where fancy people and trashy people intersect; The Liberal Redneck's commentary; how right wingers need to figure out how to do funny comedy; Trae's new comedy special on Amazon; why Southerners are just born good story tellers; the longest goodbyes; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brody Henderson, Hayden Sammak, Randall Williams, Sam James, Dan Chumbler, Chester Floyd, and Phil Taylor

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Steve Rinella talks with Richard Martinez, Janis Putelis, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, and Garret Smith. 

Topics include: The original Live, Laugh, Love sign; Florida's for fighting; three P's and a W; moving some Texas super cougars to Florida; Chester opening for Trampled By Turtles and how you need him to open for you to get a sold out show; deer nuts and a note; spearing in Wisconsin; more human deadheads; the 3,500 year old brown bear; how the news covers turkeys; copulating the air behind the head; Florida's giant turkey poaching bust; hunting osceola turkeys; Jani becoming a Grand Slam holder and Steve becoming a two-time Super Slam holder; trimming your beard down; what a hammock is; rolling your foot; masturbating turkeys; all the divisiveness; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Chest Floyd, Christine Sawicki, Cory Calkins, Hayden Sammak, and Phil Taylor.

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Steve Rinella talks with Rebecca Watters, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: The Oedipus complex; sexy critters; Steve getting serious about climate change because of poison ivy; the special tiki bar in Nashville; the Phelps Harrison Owl Hooter; how claims of private property value diminution are irrelevant when it comes to whether corner crossing is legal or not; a real breakdown of the refried bean dilemma; the bigger the better, when it comes to scorpions; The Founder Effect; how snow leopards are attracted to Chanel No. 5 and Obsession by Calvin Klein; being fluent in Mongolia; the bioclimatic envelope of the wolverine; seeing a wolverine in the wild; shirtless Putin with an Amur tiger; deriving special energy from wolves; the very long trip of M56; long-term parental care; International Wolverine Day as a better reason to celebrate February 14th; digitigrade vs. plantigrade; eating marmot; how to donate to wolverine research and get in touch with Rebecca if you spot a wolverine; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Carl Young, Tressa Croaker, Rick Hutton, Cory Calkins, Hayden Sammak, and Phil Taylor.

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

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

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

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Steve Rinella talks with Megan Denean, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: How you can skip telling the story to all the nurses; representative, representative; a deer struck at 30,000 feet; snarge, the remains of bird on an aircraft; critter strikes in the air and DNA tests; twig eater, he who strips of bark; putting a human skull in a crock pot; cadavers making your mouth water; when old ladies are arrested for feeding cats as lure to trap and fix them; feeling corralled by train rails; when caribou migrations disrupts an airfield; the first registered human death by musk ox; the famous Hudson strike; the weird occupation of being a professional bird-shooer; snowy owls at your local airfield; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Danielle Prewett, K.C. Smith, Tyler Jones, Jordan Sillars, Hunter Spencer, Randall Williams, and Phil Taylor.

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Steve Rinella talks with  K.C. Smith, Tyler Jones, Jordan Sillars, Hunter Spencer, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Jordan's caliber battles; the leaked letter asking Biden to ban beaver trapping; milk from heaven vs. cow's milk; kids eating deer and duck turds; the Bozeman Hat Association; leapfrogging tree stands; when your book cover is banned on the internet; the Tofu Crafter; how KC got hung up on an audad's horn; almost being a football star, then almost being a rock star; making wise life decisions; Tyler and the Tribe's music; flying next to Robert Duvall; baby Frankincense; Bass and Breakfast; counter-cultural fly fishing; "Redfish Guy"; packing lead pellets in your lip; America's last three non-swearers; look out for K.C. and Tyler's "Buck Truck" series on MeatEater; listen to The Element Podcast on the MeatEater network; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Carmen Vanbianchi, Chris Carlson, Ken Carlson, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

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Steve Rinella talks with Chris Carlson, Ken Carlson, Carmen Vanbianchi, Janis Putelis, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Pre-eminent Youtubers and snowmobiles; how "pre" might be an unnecessary prefix; Operation Big Coon; following lynx tracks; how to donate to Carmen's "Trap a Cat" project; little explosions and collar spacers that release collars; why elm wood is satan wood; all the different grades of veneer; reading the wood and always cutting the wet, not the dry, stuff; ricks and cords; complicated role playing; comparing prices; 4th generation trapping; catching nightcrawlers at night; skinning muskrats in seconds; the world's greatest snowmobile hat; how Beyonce and the "Yellowstone" TV series made beaver hats cool again; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Hayden Sammak, Chester Floyd, Cory Calkins, Hanzi Deschermeier, and Phil Taylor. 

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Steve Rinella talks with Jason Bergsman, Matt Cook, Bridget Noonan, Jason Phelps, and Clay Newcomb. 

Topics include: What chaps Steve's ass; Alaska's traditional use practices; donuts and black bears; purposefully putting an icky slant on things; how you should never fall in love with a ground nesting bird; controlling efficacy; more on turkey season in Michigan; "Texotics" and gynecologist hunters; when a shooting leads first responders to a Bengal tiger cub;  when you learn valuable life lessons at the border crossing with Mexico; the true meaning of refried beans; when folks are useless on the first day; the saga of Phelps' buck; Clay's energy jitters; when the non typical beam gets shot off; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Dr. Jonathan Reisman, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

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Steve Rinella talks with Dr. Jonathan Reisman, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics include: Discussing déja poo; the defining of flatus; preserving, rather than killing, bacteria; gathering ginkgo biloba nuts from trees in NYC; eating wild game and keeping kosher; holy blood; meeting your cadaver; how badly Steve wants to go on NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross; eating everything but bones and teeth; eating embryonic eggs; getting curdled mother's milk from the calf; Jonathan’s quest to overturn the why it's currently illegal to commercially sell and eat lung in the United States; bullshit food beliefs; Jonathan's petition to the USDA; the non-pasteurized milk craze; how eating cholesterol doesn't raise your cholesterol; overdosing on fat soluble vitamins; the hormones you can and can't eat; teaming up with the haggis folks in the UK; the Anatomy Eats dinner series; Jonathan's book, "The Unseen Body"; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Hayden Sammak, Seth Morris, Chest Floyd, Maggie Smith, and Max Barta.

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Steven Rinella talks with Mercer Lawing, Janis Putelis, Seth Morris, and Phil Taylor.

Topics include: How Theater Phil brought the roof down; the genetic mutation that creates a cinnamon black bear; how a poop snow cone would actually preserve microbes; the Blue Collar Scholar's poop bucket design; when you make a pair of earrings out of your foot bone spurs; hocking up a nock through your concha; a 33-year-old banded sandhill crane; how bobcat trapping was completely banned in California; the cage trap days; how California has just banned the sale of fur in the state; receiving death threats; the Johnny Stewart cassette tape; the war in Ukraine affecting fur prices today; knowing a good cat when you see one; a sable coat with bobcat trim as the fashion of Russian oligarchs; how the show, "Yellowstone" is driving the beaver market; designing camtrip cages; how to get the cat in the trap; skunk paste; quickly taking over the former territory of a dead bobcat; all the glands; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Savannah Ashour, Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, Cory Calkins, Hayden Sammak, Seth Morris, Maggie Smith, and Sam James.

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Steve Rinella talks with Jesse Griffiths and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics include: "Almost everything is from around here"; Jesse driving 17 pounds of lemon from South Texas to Dai Due in Austin; burning money; ricks and cords as measurements of wood; when a guy in dreads shows up and wants to show you something in his car; pronouncing coyote; more Chettiquette questions; Steve opposing Michigan's unlimited take of turkeys in the fall; wrongly maligned critters; cooking in fat; how "dry brine" is oxymoronic; Chinese meat washing; the long window of doneness in slow cooking; rendered fat prices; achieving tenderness; the overabundance of BBQ sauce in the Rinella household; the merits of eating boiled meat; mostarda; how "The Hog Book" won a James Beard Award; you're either cooking it too long, or you're not cooking it long enough; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brody Henderson, Hayden Sammak, Cory Calkins, Alyssa Smith, Seth Morris, Logan Dove, and Corinne Schneider.

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Steve Rinella talks with Joe Rogan, Jesse Griffiths, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics include: The pink pig; Corinne's first wild hog; rattling in a crazy number of whitetail; how basically no one hunts nilgai with a bow, but Joe; the nilgai bark; a bow hunt fraught with peril; Steve’s take on how flies conceive of time; discussing draw weight and Joe's 90-pound bow; a more athletic giraffe; tracking and gridding; no blood; Joe’s take on how hunting with a rifle is the most ethical method; how critter injury and running affects the taste of their flesh; listening to squealing hogs; why can we go buy wild hog and nilgai?; cooking over real wood; the door you open up in your brain; Joe loving elk bone marrow; that time when Steve sent his kid to school with a muskox sandwich; how chewing tough meat helps your jaw; jawzercise and ball gags; black going out of sight; when unknowledgeable voters interfere with science-based wildlife management practices; how Steve thinks he can cook tongue better than Jesse can; and more. 

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Rick Hutton, Cory Calkins, Maggie Smith, Max Barta, and Hanzi Deschermeier.

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

Topics include: When silk killed the beaver hat; Steve's Hot Tip to parents: watch "Adventure Time" with your kids; should you shoot and tag a wounded animal?; when Steve practiced civil disobedience and picked up roadkill; names for genitalia; wacked, crunched, and aced; does a farm-raised duck count to your limit?; to pee, or not to pee in a treestand; Brody guiding his wife on her first big game hunt; Hunter's first pronghorn; sometimes you just gotta enjoy the experience; Chester’s debut gig; disagreements about paternity leave; Jani’s ‘glass half full’ mindset; when Jani brought his daughter to Latvian deer camp; Steve’s dissatisfaction with catching critters on accident; don’t take credit for what you didn’t do; be appreciative; and more lessons for 2023.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Hayden Sammak, Hunter Spencer, Garrett Long, and Randall Williams. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Tony Schaufler, Jamie Schaufler, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: Steve's Instagram picture of a shipping container full of antlers; PA antler restrictions; did mountain men bait?; expropriation of land and being a good neighbor; the potential medicinal value of consuming paper thin antler slices; making a living picking antlers; the dog chew market; fake antler chandeliers; a Texan named Mike; profit margins; "trophy" sheds; antler poaching sting ops; how to reach Tony; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia and a special holiday round of Family Feud with Steven Rinella, Dan Chumbler, Janis Putelis, Hayden Sammak, Maggie Smith, Hunter Spencer, and Corinne Schneider. 

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

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

MeatEater's Fancy Pants Cocktail recipe by Kevin Gillespie:

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

.75 oz Sercial Madeira

.75 oz fresh lemon juice

.75 oz Hibiscus Syrup

3 dashes Orange bitters 

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

Hibiscus Syrup

1 cup sugar 

3/4 Cup water

1 Cup hibiscus flowers

1 cinnamon stick, broken in half

1 whole star anise pod

3 whole cloves

Peel of one lemon 

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

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

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

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

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, Cory Calkins, Maggie Hudlow, and Corinne Schneider. 

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Steven Rinella talks to Janis Putelis, Garret Long, Cory Calkins, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Phil the Engineer, aka Phil the Song and Dance Man, performs in “A Christmas Carol”; Steve’s lesson the United State’s bifurcated legislature; Sen. Martin Heinrich explains Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA); the coveted elk buffer zone tag; how it became legal to cross national parks with a firearm; interpreting “impossible or otherwise impractical”; crossing the river; Steve Rinelli; years of accumulated preference points and Steve’s good draws; going back to the day before; when the effort to size ratio doesn’t mean anything; when the biggest bull you see is the first bull you see; being able to repeat the experience; discovering mange; being a little sad after the fact; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Chester Floyd, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, Maggie Smith, Cory Calkins, Maggie Hudlow, and Corinne Schneider. 

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Steven Rinella talks to Richard Fortunato, Charles Trost II, James Searl, Janis Putelis, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Pistol packing bagpipe players; the U.S. Border Patrol's role in public land and critter management; Jani's daughter's incredible turkey gobbling skills; the time when Steve and Jani got pulled over by Border Patrol; wild horses; establishing base truth; darting eyes and deception; templing; HR concerns; speaking Yiddish on The MeatEater Podcast; picking up your poop with your bare hands under threat; the Makushi story about the disappearance and reappearance of the white-lipped peccary population; why pronghorns and dogs smell like Fritos; operating between ports of entry; what you can't bring back from Canada; when do you know that you've crossed the border?; making a meaningful entry; the Tick Riders; big ass blimps; monitoring critters with Border Patrol surveillance cameras; skilled at tracking; carrying diamonds across the Boundary Waters; wildlife smuggling; the pronghorn roundup; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater's Trivia tournament with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Alyssa Smith, Rick Hutton, Max Barta, and Phil Taylor. 

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Steve Rinella talks with Koe Wetzel, Dre Rocha, John Park, Kylee Archer, Max Barta, Chester Floyd, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Steve's face on a box of waterfowl ammo; Koe's advice to Chester: stop playing music; Dre's hoodie and the mystery of Tupac; the MeatEater Trivia t-shirt is finally here!; when your dog eats your rib; second degree baiting and ethics; robo deer; growing up in the chicken capital of the world; skinny Texas ducks; Waldorf and Ambrosia salads; living on a bus; when your manager is the life of the party; internships in construction; crying in Spanish and moving to Austin; variations of “Juke Box Hero”; is Lou Wetzel related to Koe?: melody first and notes on the phone; why it's "Hell Paso"; Koe performs "YellaBush Road" in The MeatEater Podcast studio; and more.

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Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Chester Floyd, Cory Calkins, Maggie Hudlow, Sam James, Tressa Croaker, Christine Sawicki, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

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Steven Rinella talks with Jason Fischer, Brody Henderson, Chester Floyd, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Putting metal balls in fish; how Jason didn't believe Steve was Steve; the crazy audacity; Jason as a Gandhi-like figure; how we've lost 1.3 million acres of sagebrush habitat per year for the past 20 years; Chester's son and Chester's thumb; the Lake Erie fishery; how you get to be a tournament director; walleye tournament winnings; the best five; passing polygraph tests; when you're fooled and your gut just sinks; cheating people out of money; debunking the leatherman internet story; fish fillets and 12 oz weights; and more.

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