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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 033

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Seattle, Washington: Steven Rinella and Janis Putelis talk with environmental historians Dan Flores and Randall Williams. Subjects discussed: what's up with Flores' two upcoming books, American Serengeti and Coyote America; biodiversity during the pleistocene; the Blitzkrieg Hypothesis; George Wolforth's 1884 view of the Llano Estacado; historic elk distribution; how the grey wolf changed the coyote; fission-fusion societies; the nightly vocal census of the coyote; New York City's coyote bar scene; why coyotes kill pets; Flores' influential take on bison population decline; and the myth of General Sheridan and the post-Civil War buffalo slaughter.

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0:00.0

This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten in my case underwear

0:15.3

ouse Gesundheits

0:40.8

Yeah, this is yeah, it's highest we've ever been looking out on Puget sound and I'm here with

0:46.3

Cuttle folks, but the most important one right now is

0:50.6

Are you just gonna go buy professor? No, you can't be a professor anymore. I'm not a professor anymore now. So what do you know?

0:58.3

Just a citizen writer I guess oh

1:01.1

Yeah, I can say that we're here with the writer

1:04.1

Dan now we had this debate earlier because I had always thought I'd always like Flores. That's correct

1:09.9

Okay, so I thought this guy your former student doesn't know that

1:16.1

What were you trying to tell me it was I've always heard Flores

1:19.4

Yeah within it Flores. Yeah Flores. Yeah, it's it's because it's pronounced

1:26.7

With a Louisiana French accent like it's flore

1:31.1

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, so writer and citizen Dan Flores who I met when he was professor Dan Flores years ago

1:39.4

I was in graduate school and I had to I think it was part of the requirement that you take a seminar something

1:45.2

Outside of your discipline. Yeah, I was a writer a writing student and I took a class

1:52.5

I took

1:54.0

Your clap. What's it that class called? Do you remember the one I was in?

1:57.2

It was it was an environmental writing seminar I think is what you took. Yeah, and I was just humiliated in it

2:05.9

Way out of my league all these guys and you all about writing about things that they were sure happened

2:11.9

Instead of things you thought might have happened

2:14.8

Which is part of the being a historian. I think that they try to train you and that I recall you made an A in that class

2:20.2

So yeah, but I was like I was out gone. There were some good students in there, man

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