Ep. 003

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Mission Fatima, Bolivia. After 8 days of hunting and fishing in the jungles of central Bolivia with the Tsimane people, Steven Rinella talks with Phillip Baribeau, Dan Doty, and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed include: the moral complexities of eating a monkey; the pain of getting stung by bullet ants; fishing for dorado, maturo, surubi, and sabalo; western influences on indigenous South American tribes; dugout canoes; the late Mississippi comedian and storyteller Jerry Clower; various guns and bows; 19th Century fat cats; trying to determine the meaning of inscrutable hand gestures given by indigenous hunters; how much the Tsimane love monkey meat. Mentioned links and notes: -Watch: MeatEater Crew Eats Monkey Stew -Jerry Clower reference "too much like folks" -Interview with Marco about his jaguar's story will be posted at a later date. -MeatEater airs on Sportsman Channel Thursdays at 8pm e/p -To watch episodes of MeatEater instantly, use code MEATEATERPODCAST at checkout to get $5 off any volume on meateater.vhx.tv

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bug bitten in
0:06.5	in my case underwear lists I'm wearing my swim trunks from the jungles of
0:12.3	Bolivia and we've been out in the jungle jungle for how long?
0:19.5	Oh eight days eight days nine days and we're back now stranded in a Catholic
0:26.9	mission out in the jungle because the plane couldn't fly we're a couple hundred
0:30.6	miles due north of Santa Cruz Bolivia and the flight out here you just pass
0:38.4	like a hundred miles of uninterrupted jungle yeah probably a lot of like
0:42.8	slash and burn egg so much so that the sky is you know low visibility to
0:50.1	smoke but then you eventually get out of that and just fly over jungle and you
0:54.7	land here there's no road system here there's a there's an air strip and it's
0:59.8	just a native community the tribe is called Chamane Chamane territory we've
1:07.6	been up a river with a bunch of Chamane guys hunting fish and we've been up
1:10.9	there just getting some good stuff some bass up happened to us now our back
1:15.3	you're stranded it's hot no one's wearing their clothes except the order you
1:20.0	who's got is one of his dirty viseels t-shirts of your bend like gas stations
1:25.3	and Montana or places where it sells airbrush or it'd be like a full moon it
1:31.3	like some wool's heads or like a well this is a this is a this is a winged
1:37.7	native American on top of a winged horse and it used to say I don't know the
1:43.6	horse isn't winged it's not no oh no but no it's a hot order
1:48.2	racing it's cloudy and there's a horse sort of race and an eagle with a winged
1:54.1	planes warrior this used to say Idaho I once buried accidentally buried this
1:59.3	shirt in the on a beach on Lake Ponderay and Idaho for three months I lost it
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