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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 172: Wrath of the Birders

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Pat Durkin, Spencer Neuharth, and Janis Putelis.

Subjects discussed: Steve's death at the mic; why, exactly, do deer lose their antlers; buying ice fishing bait at 2AM; Rick "Radio" Krueger; finding dead people with sonar and psychics; Isle Royale’s inbred wolves; how hunters remember the deceased; Pat's love of a good obituary; wrathful birders; Gordon Lightfoot, live; and more.

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0:00.0

This is the Meen Eater Podcast coming at you shirtless severely boat bitten in my case underwear

0:15.3

with a Meen Eater Podcast. You can't predict anything.

0:31.3

Okay, Janice, I want to do a war game exercise. War game. Yeah, we're like, we act like I die.

0:38.8

I'm dead and you got to carry on the show. All right, but my dying words are, um, I know that Spencer wanted to mention something and add a lot of things to talk about.

0:50.8

That's my dying words. Okay, and then also you jump in and start out and you jump in here you are. You now have to start the show.

0:59.8

Just start the show. Let me see. I just want to see what what happens. So, all right. I'm dead.

1:06.8

Damn, guys, you believe that he seemed a pretty healthy fella. See, but that you're going to start the show by small talking.

1:14.8

You're not going to come in like small talking. You just died. I can't just pass that by. Okay, don't you think? Yeah.

1:23.8

But you haven't brought, you haven't brought listeners up to speed. If I killed over, what you mentioned it?

1:31.8

Not if it would interfere with the flow. I think they'd be it. I think they'd be interested. What do you think killed Steve?

1:39.8

At his age, probably her attack.

1:43.8

Come on. That's not going to be what it is. Well, I guess it is the number one killer now. Guys in the 40s dropped dead sometimes of her attacks.

1:51.8

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Saw that yesterday traumatized my kids.

1:56.8

Yeah, I'm sidewalk just got run an errands. Go to the hardware store. All these ambulances. Some dude laying off in the grass along sidewalk.

2:06.8

Look dead and dead.

2:08.8

Pat, maybe you'll since you're a writer, maybe you'll write his obituary for us. That's a good pivot.

2:16.8

Wait, hold on. I'm not done. You're hosting. Okay. But before you get to thinking about that.

2:21.8

And since you're here because you had a whole bunch of stuff to talk about, we also have with a Spencer Newhart who had one in type topic in particular that he wanted to bring up.

2:31.8

What was that? It is a call back to the wolf episode you guys did a few weeks ago, where it was kind of brought up and passing but discussing why dear.

2:42.8

Shed their antlers like we know it's photo period testosterone, but the bigger reason has to like why evolutionary they did that.

2:51.8

Okay. So why evolutionary for evolutionary reasons do dear loser antlers?

2:58.8

Can I point out here that we can't know? Yes. I was going to bring that up. Oh good. Go ahead. So there's like three.

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