Ep. 078: Fishing for a Living
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
Steven Rinella talks with writer, podcaster, angler, and conservationist April Vokey, along with Matt Elliott of Benchmade Knife Company, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.
Subjects Discussed: Sparkly bass boats; killin' smallmouth; well-fed, thick, fat, football bass; dealing with fuck-wits; April's introduction to the outdoors; credibility in social media; the only purpose of dating is to suss out the craziness; creeper catwalks at Sportsman's Warehouse; marlin on the fly; flippin' lillypads with a jig and chuckin' and duckin'; 100k or a trophy?; how to get out of small talk; bowhunting is the only reality; elitism in fly fishing and bass fishin' rednecks...it's just how it's marketed; Steve can smell hunters and fisherman a mile away; professionalizing your passion; yoga pants selfies: the female path to success in the hunting industry?; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely boat bitten in my case underwear |
| 0:15.3 | chromosome |
| 0:32.5 | know |
| 0:33.4 | the |
| 0:19.3 | either a |
| 0:42.7 | I fell in love with an Australian bloke. |
| 0:45.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.9 | Now do people know what you got going on? |
| 0:48.4 | Which part of it? |
| 0:49.2 | You mean this enormous belly I'm rocking right now? |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah, that big old. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, they know. |
| 0:53.6 | They know. |
| 0:54.4 | So you got wedlocked? |
| 0:56.8 | Let's just be honest, I just ate so much Mexican food |
| 0:59.0 | before I got here. |
| 0:59.8 | It's crazy. |
| 1:00.3 | No, I got pregnant. |
| 1:01.3 | I got married and pregnant. |
| 1:04.1 | How'd all that play out? |
| 1:05.5 | Where were you when you met the Australian? |
| 1:07.2 | OK, we're going to start there. |
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