Ep. 188: Yvon Chouinard on Belonging to Nature

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Janis Putelis.

Subjects discussed: Botching people’s names; blacksmithing; fishing with a single fly forever; 18 strands of white stallion tail; Steve being good at libraries; feeling the current with your testicles; taking kids fishing on the Crow reservation; riding out an avalanche and burying a dead friend; being an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back; Yvon in jail; Jani on karma; "Fuck Mars"; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bugged bitten in my case
0:14.8	underwear list.
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0:35.1	Okay Mr. Shnard on the drive over I was asking you about how I've heard your name pronounce
0:42.2	so many ways over the years and you laid it out for me how it would have been pronounced
0:47.6	where you grew up.
0:49.2	What made you say?
0:51.7	Yeah, yeah.
0:52.7	This is an audio project.
0:54.2	Okay, my name is Ivan Schwinner.
1:00.5	Because I hear even just for normal regular American pronunciation you're Ovan, Ivan.
1:09.4	Oh yeah.
1:10.4	Yeah.
1:11.4	In fact, there's a root in the assembly called Kunjard.
1:15.2	Kunjard.
1:16.2	Kunjard.
1:17.2	That sounds like a place down in Mississippi or Louisiana.
1:23.6	And that's you?
1:24.6	Yeah, that's me.
1:26.2	So Ovan, not Ivan.
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