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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 185: Tom McGuane On The Beauty of Not Knowing

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with the author Tom McGuane, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis.

Subjects discussed: What to write on your gravestone; Tom's lifelong bond with Jimmy Buffett and Jim Harrison; is Jack Nicholson kind of a prick?; living with Marlon Brando; The Missouri Breaks; shooting into coveys; the profile of a "Fudd"; the relationship between biodiversity and active ranch land; before Key West became Key West; America as a people; becoming nobody on a windy porch; and more.

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0:00.0

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0:14.8

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0:15.8

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0:20.4

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0:30.7

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0:32.2

All right Thomas McGuain are you okay talking about really old work of yours?

0:39.8

Oh sure I don't care what we talking about because when you when you look at all the things

0:45.7

you've done and written where does Rancho where does the movie Rancho Deluxe where do

0:51.8

you stack that into you know if you were going to look if you're going to

0:55.0

have a tombstone and they were going to list your accomplishments on your tombstone right

0:59.5

when I put Rancho Deluxe would Rancho Deluxe make the tombstone I've already written

1:03.4

the text for the tombstone says it's been a great life I wish I understood it.

1:10.7

Well Rancho Deluxe was a happy accident in a way I mean it's never stopped playing as

1:17.1

I'm sure you're aware but basically what happened was a producer bought 92 in the

1:24.8

shade and they couldn't get the they couldn't get the financing together in a short term

1:32.8

and they said do you have because they didn't have a script I said they said do you have

1:36.6

anything ready to go and I said yes I do I have a screenplay ready to go that wasn't

1:43.2

true I hadn't written anything and he said well I'll be I'll be back in two weeks and

1:49.3

let's see what you've got so I went into my son's bedroom he was about ten years old

1:55.6

the time in a two weeks I had written Rancho Deluxe and he had flew in from LA and I said

2:01.6

here it is he went back to my son's bedroom when he came back out he said this is great

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