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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. 232: How You Get to be a Big ‘Ol Bear, Plus an Interview with Don Trump Jr.
Steven Rinella talks with Clay Newcomb, Rick Smith, Seth Morris, Janis Putelis, and Donald Trump Jr.
Topics discussed: Federal blaze orange laws; blood trailing dogs as an ethical tool for recovery; all the songs written about Jani and skiing; fish rigor and how AK’s Fish and Game has it dialed; Steve and Seth’s new TV special, Deep Drop Boyz; how cave art puts a smile on Rick’s face; the definition of a therianthrope; elk...

Ep. 231: The Pied Piper of Duck Hunters
Steven Rinella talks with Ramsey Russell, Hanzi Deschermeier, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis.
Topics discussed: How Jani is so not a trapper that he reminds himself to check traps by writing “coon” on his hand; Frito pie with mountain lion; Corinne and strawberries; breaking down what it means to flesh something out; the A.S.S. movement, the tissue issue, and how surface shitters are like meth heads; ocellated turkey stories and...

Ep. 230: A Difficult Conversation
Steven Rinella talks with Rue Mapp and Janis Putelis.
Topics discussed: A solid two-syllable, navigational name; when your cowboy dad hangs pigs in your garage and you don’t want kids on the school bus to see; how parades mean different things to different people; Outdoor Afro re-connecting black Americans to the outdoors; upping your nature swagger; unpacking statistics; how black children drown at five times the rate of white children in...

Ep. 229: The Atomic Oryx
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 Nike shoes, Doritos, and Michael Jackson jackets, or how...

Ep. 228: Venison is the New Kale
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 and supporting your restaurant; accidentally outing...

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Ask MeatEater: What Conservation Organizations Do You Recommend?
You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers (and if we don’t, we’ll make them up). Every day fellow MeatEaters send us more than 100 emails and direct messages. There’s a lot of excellent questions, and we have to think real hard or get real creative to answer them. So, we decided to publish a series dedicated to our favorite FAQs. This is Ask MeatEater.
There are many ways to become an effective conservationist. A great way to start is...

Ep. 227: Red Cutter
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 electrocuting meat; to...

Ep. 226: The Life and Times of the Antler Man
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-ton rock collection; donating antlers for a sting...

Ep. 225: An Expensive Episode
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; Rinella-Putelis 2020 and MeatEater’s goal  to open up...

Ep. 224: Size Matters
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 grievances with the B&C scoring...