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Vortex Nation Podcast

Ep. 166 | Rapid Fire Q&A with the Janis Putelis of MeatEater

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Mark get the distinct privilege of having Janis Putelis from MeatEater in the office and take the opportunity to “dive into the mind of a Janis”. We cover blacktail hunting together with Steve on POW, freediving for Sea cucumbers, his hunting origin story (he has two), going from ski instructor to elk guide, behind the scenes MeatEater stuff and more. Habitual handkerchief use, a shared love of the wild turkey, getting surprised by ducks, Janis’s Latvian roots and more - this was a super fun and inciteful conversation with an old friend. Pull up a chair or put your car in drive and join us for the ride. As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation™ podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. All right, what is up everybody?

0:17.0

Got Jim to my right as per usual.

0:21.0

And I'm just going to jump right in. We have Janus

0:24.2

Patellus from the mediator crew in studio a real life human being gym in the

0:29.8

studio with us. Yeah. It's fantastic it feels good.

0:32.1

3D full on person. Walking, talking, this is going to be fantastic.

0:37.8

Now... Well I got a question. Is that, that's not the norm I'm getting the feeling.

0:42.0

Oh, we just had, you know, I mean lately there's been a lot of

0:44.3

virtual stuff you know so you got somebody on a computer screen across the table now for

0:48.0

doing internal ones and we have real people yeah you know like Ryan Nuckinher

0:51.9

joins us or Eric or whoever but yeah like an outside

0:55.8

guest they'll be in person that's great and we have been doing more just remote

1:00.3

ones just because proximity right sometimes you want to talk to

1:03.4

somebody and they don't yeah they don't live but it does it just feels good man

1:06.7

no it's good to see you no it's nice to be you know human to human contact you know

1:11.2

especially these days for sure so I'm just coming off a

1:15.1

blacktail hunt in western Washington welcome back where I spent five days

1:20.7

hunting deer saw probably 40-ish doze, and zero bucks, Jim.

1:29.0

Okay.

1:30.0

And the reason why I bring this up is because it's reminiscent of the last time that Janus and

1:34.7

I probably hung out which was a few years ago where we're hunting Sidka Blacktails

1:38.8

Sika Blacktail deer on Prince Wales Island where we had another tough hunt.

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