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Steven Rinella

Steven Rinella
Steven Rinella is the host of the Netflix Original series MeatEater and The MeatEater Podcast. He's also the author of six books dealing with wildlife, hunting, fishing and wild game cooking, including the bestselling MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook: Recipes and Techniques for Every Hunter and Angler.

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Ep. 243: Boggeying in the Brushworld
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 the minimum birth rate to maintain a population...

Ep. 242: Steep Dark Timber
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; python oil; a perfect compliment...

Ep. 241: A Half Life of Never
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; how everything is keyed in to the salmon lifecycle...

Ep. 240: Good Myths Die Hard
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 peroxide hot tips; how single side clip binos...

Ep. 238: The Star of the Redneck Riviera
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 Boat, Season 2: Dos Boat; how Steve learned a lot...

Ep. 237: A Face No Longer Attached
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 outdoor places on earth...

Ep. 236: Crawling Back from the Dead with Michael Punke
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 Glass and whether or not he blew...

Ep. 235: Sex, Guns, and Bluegrass with Dave Simonett
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 paddleboard; the proper way to grill trout in a campground...

Ep. 234: Deep Drop Boyz
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’s fishing abilities; how the production of...

Ep. 233: Tom Brokaw: From South Dakota to the World
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 collection; the OG...