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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 115: The Judas Hog

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

The Ozarks, MO- Steven Rinella talks with wildlife biologist Parker Hall, Brandon Butler, Steve Jones, and Janis Putelis from the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: the Judas animal trapping method; saving sea turtles by shooting predators; ways of hunting and trapping feral swine; Hogzilla and other bullshit; swine as disease vectors; the thing about brucellosis; the upshot of banning hog hunting; Parker earns his lifetime membership to the Rocky Mountain Squirrel Foundation; ways of cooking up squirrel; squirrel dogs; and more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:14.8

underwear list.

0:15.8

We can't predict anything.

0:21.3

Okay, we're going to be diving way deep into wild pigs.

0:29.8

And we get tons of questions about wild pigs.

0:33.4

And I'm going to give like sort of the ends of the, you know, I'm going to give two

0:37.6

ends in the middle on sort of the sorts of questions we get about wild pigs.

0:43.0

A question about wild pigs might be where someone would write in and send a link to an article

0:48.6

and it would be how some, some where wild pigs have turned up and they are causing their

0:55.1

wreaking ecological havoc and what does one make of that?

0:59.6

Maybe like a type of thing people always wind up about wild pigs.

1:03.0

A lot of people might be like, Hey, what's up?

1:04.4

A wild pig's good to eat.

1:05.4

Can you get sick from them or what?

1:07.2

That's the middle part that people want to hear about wild pigs.

1:10.4

And another common question we get about wild pigs would be if wild pigs are so bad

1:16.1

in their everywhere and they're going to kill everyone and destroy the whole universe

1:20.1

and everyone's overrun with wild pigs.

1:22.6

How come no one will let me go hunt wild pigs on their property?

1:26.1

Like wouldn't you think that if pigs are that bad, it wouldn't be so bad to have a stranger

1:33.2

on your land hunting, but it seems that they're not quite that bad.

1:37.1

So that's another question.

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