Ep. 007

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Madison, Wisconsin. Steven Rinella talks with Remi Warren, Doug Duren, and Janis Putelis. Subjects discussed: big game hunting in New Zealand; getting poison oak on your pecker; whether or not there's a difference between poison oak and poison ivy; the redneck capitol of Wisconsin; acclimatization committees and impacts on New Zealand's wildlife; Steve's reluctance to eat human beings; extirpation of 500-pound birds by Polynesian cultures; Janis's need to save money for kiddy bicycles; weasels, ferrets, mongooses, and rats; Remi's first shotgun; the hardest animal to hunt; the qualities of Himalayan tahr meat; hunting Canada geese with a rifle; apex predators; how a blue heron's life is tougher than you'd think; the novelist Tom Robbins; and Remi Warren's latest TV project. Guests: Remi Warren Host of Apex Predator Doug Duren Janis Putelis Misc. Links: The 4-part New Zealand episodes of MeatEater featuring Remi Warren Janis' Hunttoeat.com site Download episodes of Remi Warren's new show Apex Predator

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is the meat eater podcast for recording in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:05.2	I'm here with
0:08.2	Doug Durn from Madison.
0:10.7	Yes, Casano. Are you from Madison or Casanovia?
0:13.4	I'm from Casanovia, but I live in Madison.
0:15.7	Yeah, Doug's from Casanovia, which is like the redneck stepchild of Madison, right?
0:21.5	That's pretty accurate.
0:22.5	The script you grow up.
0:23.6	Did you grow up hating people from Madison because you were from Casanovia?
0:26.4	No, I spent a lot of time here. I used to come down here when I was in high school and stuff.
0:29.9	Yeah, Doug's from a farm family and egg family. His dad, I've haunted on Doug's a handful of times.
0:36.2	And I spent more time in Wisconsin than I do in my home state now.
0:39.3	And Doug's dad was a rural male carrier, right?
0:42.0	That's right.
0:43.3	Funny story about Doug's dad.
0:46.3	He, one time someone made up some calls trying to accuse Doug's dad of being a communist
0:51.6	because he had delivered some magazines called Red Book.
0:55.5	For example, a Red Book magazine, yeah.
0:59.3	Which one of those do you know?
1:00.7	They thought he was spread communist propaganda.
1:04.0	Well, that and some other things that had gone on, you know, politically in the area.
1:07.6	But yeah, and if you don't know, Red Book Magazine is a woman's magazine.
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