Ep. 025

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Episode 025: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis and Ron Leighton, a Vietnam veteran and former commercial fisherman. Subjects discussed: Janis' first Sitka blacktail buck; muskegs; deep-water shrimp trappin'; why Steve doesn't catch a fraction of the shrimps that Ron does; why do so many men cook nowadays, and what happened to women?; smoking, canning, and jarring octopus and halibut; commercial halibut fishing; saltwater as a cure for seasickness; identifying found art; Latvian power rings; shooting critters in the head vs. in the lungs; deer calls; and the one thing good about getting old.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.2	All right.
0:04.2	This is the Me Eater podcast where recording Prince
0:08.6	O'Hale's Island.
0:09.4	I'm here with one of my favorite people on the planet.
0:13.4	Mr. Ron Layton.
0:14.6	What's your middle name, Rob?
0:15.9	No middle name.
0:16.9	No middle name whatsoever.
0:18.0	Just Ron Layton.
0:19.1	And also, Janus, the Latvian lover, Poutellus,
0:23.3	who just got himself his first
0:28.8	sick of black tail, bought purely recreational hunt,
0:32.3	not like a thing.
0:34.2	I want it being the hero, but tell me your hunt story, Janus.
0:38.4	You know, I was retelling my hunt story about an hour ago
0:40.8	over here and I found out that I killed Jones Buck.
0:43.6	No, you did.
0:44.7	Yeah, he did.
0:46.5	I just told you I like to hunt down here in the lower musk eggs.
0:54.5	We were in lower musk eggs.
0:55.9	No musk eggs.
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