Ep. 286: Alaska's Shack of Love

Steve Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb, Dirk Durham, Jason Phelps, KC Smith, Tyler Jones, Chester Floyd, and Phil Taylor. Topics include: Clay’s appetizer; sleeping in a convenience store parking lot; seeing the buck from the truck; when trucks and boats going aerodynamic; Chester’s Grandpa Czekalski; the blurred line between tighty whities and skin; bear scratches down your brand new truck; the universal animal stop call; getting the chance to throw one on the back of the pickup; floating on the snow surface; how those cursed wrestling shoes and a truck fire make a great love story; Old Grey driving nine miles in reverse; hauling mules all over the country in that truck; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4 Aug 20231h 15min

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Hilary Byrne, Alyssa Smith, Collin Fopma, and Phil Taylor. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2 Aug 202343min

Steve Rinella talks with Katie Finch and their son, “Jimbabwe,” Andy “Pooter” Radziallowski, Kelsey Morris, and Seth Morris. Topics include: Tickles, touches, and takes; the owners of the rotten A-frame; Kelsey’s Studio Gallery in Three Folks, MT; the Leviathan and different interpretations; Act 54 passed in Maui, allowing nonprofits to donate wild game meat to “under-resourced” communities; full freegan vegans; all the people getting bitten by sharks this year; a correction on sublimation, the process of ice turning to gas; the Streisand Effect; tapping bullheads; cats for cash programs; how an octopus makes its way into a shrimp pot; “get me the gaff!”; harvesting arms; inverting the mantle; the tale of two octopuses; meals from the cove; cutting scallop coins; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

31 Jul 20231h 34min

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Sam James, Cory Calkins, Austin “Chilly” Chleborad, Randall Williams, Maddy Lehman, Mackenzie Elmquist, and Phil Taylor. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 Jul 202347min

Steve Rinella talks with Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Chester Floyd, Max Barta, Austin “Chilly” Chleborad, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. Topics include: Why we need a crafty mirror expert; how Chester budgets for jigging wraps in the family expenses; wielding the priest, aka Brody’s little beating stick; rearing Atlantic Salmon in little fish raceways; a hot tip on fulfilling your college credits; when Steve got a bad grade in woodshop class; The Wildlife Society as a great and free resource for wildlife research and news; the irony of folks not actually wanting wild pigs to disappear; a grammatical correction and explanation of past participles from our very own Dr. of English, Jordan Sillars; what exactly happens during a shallow water blackout; the story behind a very old pistol with a weird trigger; our upcoming Campfire Stories #3 about the shit you found; the extinct sea creature that’s a buffalo calling stone; testicles the size of a cashew; an antler velvet-lined bra for the wife; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 Jul 20231h 37min

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Tony Peterson, Mark Kenyon, Ryan Callaghan, Ford Van Fossan, Logan Williamson, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, and Cory Calkins. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

19 Jul 202344min

Steve Rinella talks with Zeb Hogan, Tommy Eidson aka The Blue Collar Scholar, Keith Anspatch, and Dom Cooper.  Topics include: What you'll see when you walk into the First Lite flagship store in Hailey, ID; an insane mullet; MeatEater sponsoring Tommy's Wild Cow Milking team; one good squirt; how handling baby animals doesn’t make their mothers abandon them; very long acronyms for United Nations agencies; the one thousand species of fish in the Mekong River; what’s the biggest freshwater fish?; North America’s largest minnow; the ginormous 661-pound freshwater stingray; how eating giant catfish tastes like regular catfish; how overfishing very rarely causes extinction; reverse colonialism; how a human probably won’t catch the biggest; get Zeb’s new book, Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish; and more.  Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

17 Jul 20231h 37min

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steve Rinella, Derek Wolfe, Bill Vanderheyden, Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, Ryan Callaghan, and Hayden Sammak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 Jul 202348min