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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 024

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Llano Estacado, Texas. Steven Rinella talks with guests Ronny Boehme, Mike Panasci, Ed Arnett, and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: how to one-up someone's scat story; the Natal Habitat Bias Dispersal Hypothesis; the draw of Sandhill Crane hunting; getting hunting permissions on private land; the danger of overthinking a waterfowl hunt; how not to lose downed birds; reporting banded birds; life expectancies of game animals; the inherent pain in the ass of filming hunts; Mike Panasci's nasty homemade crane decoys; lead animals and their influence on the group; and eating Sandhill Cranes, a.k.a. ribeye of the sky.

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to the meat your podcast. This is the second installment or episode we're

0:07.6

doing from the Texas Panhandle. We're on the Yano Esticato or Staked Plains. And we're

0:16.8

actually just playing some rants in Canyon. Now these staked planes are weird things. It's

0:20.6

just dead ass flat chunk of land that comprises like the western half of the Texas Panhandle.

0:28.7

Now I was reading it earlier. I'm so curious about this place because it's just flat. I want

0:32.2

to read what real quick. When Coronado, you know, the conquisador, when Coronado came through

0:39.5

here and wrote about this, he was the first European, first white guy to pass through. He says,

0:47.3

I reached some planes so vast that I did not find their limit anywhere I went, although

0:52.0

I traveled over them for more than 300 leagues with no more landmarks that we had been swallowed

0:57.9

up by the sea. There was not a stone nor bit of rising ground nor a tree nor a shrub.

1:04.4

There anything to go by. That's like this place is flat. This makes my first white

1:09.8

flak chesty. Yeah. That was a good one. This place is flat. But I earlier I was reading

1:15.0

it. I don't know if you guys might know this. It's pitched across this whole plane. It gains

1:21.4

about 2000 feet of elevation, 10 feet per mile. It's pitched. The southwest, no, the northwest

1:28.6

corner is higher than the southeast corner. I didn't know that. This whole plateau got

1:35.9

cocked on its side a little bit. So the whole time you think it's everything's flat. You're

1:41.1

on a cock eye angle. You're on like something that Ronnie Bain built. Speaking of which,

1:45.7

hi, we're joined. Speedworks joined by Ron Bain. Very long term friend of mine. Well,

1:59.4

well, sorry about that. We're trying to, we're getting close out of the holiday season.

2:05.4

We're trying to make a rum and egg not going to bunch of crane meat, a bunch of crane meat

2:09.3

just fell out of the freezer also by Janis Puthelis who works on the meat eater TV show crew.

2:19.2

And Mike. Pennasey. Pennasey. There you go. 100% Italian. Born, raised and made. He's

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