Ep. 644: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXLV

Steven Rinella talks with Jay Scott, Jason Phelps, Paul Lewis, Garrett Long, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor.Topics discussed: Colburn and Scott Outfitters; FHF's cool new rifle sling coming soon!; divorcing your wife because she sends your kids skiing instead of ice fishing for 9 Saturdays in a row; Jani’s big bobcat and Steve’s tiny bobcat; go watch MeatEater's Season 10, Part 2 on Netflix; why Cal looks like a turtle without a shell when he’s wearing a wetsuit; Phil's full head of hair vs. everyone else’s early baldness; skinny-shamed; static breath hold and Kimi Werner's masterful deep diving abilities; ibex darting off from the Florida Mountains; more on thermal night vision and game recovery; a Lyme vaccine; blaming bad vision for shooting a guy while hunting critters; Robert Abernethy, the treasure; glassing and missing in Mexico; border crossing dos and don’ts; and more.Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 Feb 20222h 14min

Steven Rinella talks with Metin Eren, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Chester Floyd, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.Topics discussed: The meaning of the name, Metin; putting the "spear" back into "experimental"; how Clovis points aren't the bazooka we want them to be; knocking out channel flakes; Hayden's burbot liver smoked trout pate; how Seth and Chester are getting closer to securing a walleye boat and sponsor; Steve's irritation with folks standing on escalators; the "wear it dry program" and child raising; Brody's tagged cow elk and Cal's tagged perch; frozen poop knives and how shit don't cut it; Spencer's article debunking the myth of the poop chisel; being heartbroken over how Clovis points likely didn't slay mammoths all that handily; hucking atlatls; only one Clovis burial site; the crazy ass giant ground sloth; the 1.5 million year old Acheulean Handaxe; the conchoidal fracture; sharp to the molecule; knap ins; the Folsom point bolo tie; a Solutrean Laurel Leaf; mistakes can make valuable flakes; Primal Points; and more.Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

31 Jan 20223h 1min

Steven Rinella talks with John Miller, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Chester Floyd, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.Topics discussed: Steve becoming a minister; someone else standing for you at your own wedding; Season 10, Part 2 of MeatEater on Netflix coming at ya!; a call to submit your pictures to our F'ed Up Old Taxidermy calendar project; easily offended golden retriever owners; an angry letter about the European model vs. the North American model; when a badger discovers ancient Roåman treasure; the struggle over hunter’s orange in Colorado; Brody's wolf report: Yellowstone wolves or Montana wolves?; a new lottery elk hunt in Virginia; fence chains and public airspace; when you dump your CWD positive deer carcasses on the public land adjacent to your deer farm; the many John Millers; when a griz starts on your buddy; five shots to neutral; when Game and Fish arrive for an investigation; analyzing bullet wounds; a handgun vs. a rifle; a best possible outcome certificate; how everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the face; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 Jan 20222h 5min

Steven Rinella talks with Jay Siemens, Mandy Uhrich, Seth Morris, and Chester Floyd.Topics discussed: Steve not being about batter; where Seth's side hustle ends and his little side hustle begins; how the boys need a walleye tournament boat; a correction on the use of tampons to treat gunshot wounds; the real fear of pooping one's own pants; memorials to extinct birds; Utah nixes trail cams and thermal night vision optics; putting the kibosh on drone use for hunting purposes; North Dakota underwater; how spearing is true fishing; drilling the biggest ever ice hole; hooks vs. no hooks on decoys; live scoping, dark housing, and where you can and can't spear; Seth's purity vs. the hot prickly feeling of jealousy; what happens to the psychology of an angler when technology is involved?; The Canadian Angle on MeatEater's Youtube Channel; and more.Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

17 Jan 20222h 5min

Steven Rinella talks with Ronnie Collins, Jean Paul Bourgeois, Bud Guidry, Seth Morris, and Chester Floyd.Topics discussed: A hand-built bayou cruise ship; when your first job was boiling crawfish and shrimp; Bud's personal crawfish pond; when you're the Frog Champion of the World; a roadkill-eating vegan; acknowledging probable cause vs. being chap-assed and anti-game warden in Pennsylvania; more on what's Chethical; harassment of hound hunters, hounds hurting humans, and domestic dogs hurting hounds; 26 inch bullfrogs; spillway crawfish as the real damn deal; boudin as Steve's favorite thing right now and his truck-mounted hot sauce invention; the soak, the purge, and the sucking of head fat; the duck cleaning technique; routeed; the third joint; the poudoux palooza; and more.Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10 Jan 20222h 3min

Steven Rinella talks with Doug Duren, Jim Heffelfinger, Richie Baker, Ross Copperman, Sean Weaver, Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.Topics discussed: The Doug Duren Fact-Checking Alert App; Jim's sticker and the correct pronunciation of "coues"; Steve as a punt gun enthusiast; "rice breast" ducks; how Steve, Jani, and Corinne share the world's greatest doctor; very late duck migrations in 2021; canada geese benefitting from urbanization; how Cal was born with his mustache; FirstLite's new waterfowl line coming at you in 2022; "Typha"; the Shakespearean drama of Washington State's Fish and Game Commission; undermining the theory that rattlesnakes don't rattle anymore because people killed off all the ones that rattle; animals with Covid; when a Funeral Director's assistant writes in with hot tips on how to butcher a deer in the field to avoid disease; PFAS and EHD in deer; Jim's testicle stories; it's not a dog eat dog world; when Doug wrote a mean email to Steve; the CWD creep; mandatory testing?; a really nice buck...that's a doe; piebald deer and deer with fangs; a round of Trivia to bring in 2022!; and more. Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3 Jan 20222h 40min

Steven Rinella talks with Pamela Groves, Daniel Mann, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.Topics discussed: running rivers full of bones in the name of science; Mike Kunz, the Forest Gump of Archaeology; the Mesa Site; when you find a 50,000+ year old polar bear skull just sitting on the beach; the hybridization of brown and polar bears; horses as the most numerous large animal during the Ice Age; how you can't just collect paleontological artifacts from Federal Land to create your own collection; the conical ice cream cone growth of mammoth tusks; Bison Bob; interred in sediment; the most exciting find: a hand sticking out of the ground; environmental DNA; the megafaunal extinction event when 70% of large mammals went extinct globally; loess; throwing out the overkill hypothesis; genetic engineering, re-wilding and pet mammoths; Steve's future retirement pursuit of becoming a large pumpkin enthusiast; the last big flock of passenger pigeons killed near where Steve grew up; trying to cultivate that purple alder; how to donate to Pam and Dan's research at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (donors should note "other" as designation and enter Daniel H Mann and dhmann@alaska.edu in the comments section); and more.Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

27 Des 20211h 58min

As The MeatEater Podcast's holiday gift to you, Steven Rinella hosts Trivia Showman Spencer Neuharth, Brody Henderson, Sean Weaver, Hunter Spencer, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis in a merry game of holiday trivia! Gather ‘round and join us for some festive play! Connect with Steve and MeatEaterSteve on Instagram and TwitterMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

21 Des 20211h 4min