Ep. 060: Guyana. Steven Rinella talks with Makushi guide and fisherman Rovin Alvin, along with Garret Smith, Rick Smith, Korey Kaczmarek, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Subjects discussed: bear spray used in all the wrong ways; This Hole Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us-the next great American fishing novel; Guyana and Amerindians; big ass yams; casiri, paracari, local drink, farine; capibara, maccaw, toucan, and harpy; how to hunt an arapaima; the Latvian Eagle's mystery fish, a.k.a. the flower-eating-rainstorm piranha; handlining; Relaxation Culture; hammock sleeping; getting cursed by a jealous shaman; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the Meet Meater Podcast coming at you shirtless severely boat bitten in my case
0:14.9	underwear list.
0:15.9	We can't predict anything.
0:19.7	Okay, the first order business that we have is nothing to do with what we're doing
0:28.9	in underwear we are, but I do.
0:31.2	We were talking about whether people actually spray themselves with pepper spray one day
0:37.5	and because there's this rumor you always hear about a Japanese woman who went to Yellowstone
0:43.8	National Park and doused her kids down with bear spray as like a repellent like you
0:49.6	would with insect repellent.
0:52.0	And I'll send it off that's true.
0:53.0	And this dude wrote in and he used to the sky right then he used to fly 207s in you know
0:59.3	Sesson 207s in Southeast Alaska.
1:01.6	Oh, as we talked about this we got to talk about RUARC.
1:05.2	RUARC.
1:06.2	And a correction, another correction.
1:11.9	So this guy used to fly 207s in Southeast Alaska.
1:15.0	This didn't happen to him, but it happened at the place he worked where a guy a tourist
1:21.2	wanted to get dropped off at a place near Haynes, Alaska.
1:26.1	And he wanted to bring along his bear spray with him and they had it in a and he put it
1:30.2	they would fly with bear spray so long as they could put inside a PVC tube and then lock
1:37.2	it in a 50 cal ammo can and then stash it in the nose compartment of the plan.
1:42.2	The pilot brings this guy into an airstrip for a little hike about drops due to off.
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