Ep. 077: African Hunting
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2017
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Steven Rinella talks with author Thomas McIntyre, along with Michelle Jorgensen and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.
Subjects Discussed: Writing for television; Tom McIntyre, Hemingway, and the nuns; stepping on a butterfly while hunting dinosaurs; the nuances between outdoor writers and writer writers; the changing parameters of African hunting; Cecil the lion; great writers and suicide; African wilderness-how much is there?; old school vs new school African hunting; Colonialism in Africa; keeping the mzungu (or crazy white guy) alive; how to identify age on a large critter; Tanzania as a purer hunting location; shooting a hippo?; the Selous wilderness hunting grounds; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten and in my case underwearless |
| 0:15.5 | the meat eater podcast you can't predict anything |
| 0:44.7 | man tire sorry i've been looking at your name i've been looking at your name |
| 0:49.9 | in magazines don't don't tell me how long well my entire life i've been looking at your name |
| 0:55.1 | in magazines you you were very pretty the coach just how like how many how many how |
| 1:01.5 | it feels like my entire life how many how many magazine articles have you written thousands |
| 1:06.4 | now now thousands now hundreds maybe you know i've written um in the last few years i've |
| 1:15.4 | probably written more television shows i i'm not a very fast writer i'm a half fast writer |
| 1:21.9 | you've heard that quote from i think it was rw apple had that quote that i can write faster than |
| 1:28.0 | anyone who can write better than me and i can write better than anyone who can write fast |
| 1:32.3 | yeah yeah i i don't know i mean i probably am good for 20 articles a year feature articles a year |
| 1:43.8 | what do you mean right and television shows i write i write for write for trev gaudi for |
| 1:51.5 | saskwatch mountain man and his monster fish show right what i write this like enter animal |
| 2:00.0 | enter no it's like it's like and now as the deer comes towards jim oh you write the narration |
| 2:07.1 | yeah the voiceover so you're coming in after the cut spent put together yeah and i have one of those |
| 2:12.2 | charming little golden mice in my house too what's that mean the golden moose oh like an award |
| 2:19.8 | yeah it's like you got on your shelf over here yeah it for what for narration for writing for his |
| 2:25.8 | fish and show they they decide that they so they'll make they'll make the show and then they'll |
| 2:31.6 | send it to you and you'll be like and there'll be some scratch video and you're going and redo |
| 2:35.7 | you're right like what's gonna be the actual narration do you do the read on it no no no they've |
| 2:41.8 | got they've got they have a professional talent for that now i get a well scratch video yeah well |
| 2:47.9 | no not necessarily scratch video now it could be like right here and it's it you know yeah it's um um |
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