Ep. 209: The Deer Nut

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks to Jim Heffelfinger, Ryan Callaghan, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: an epidemic of llama losses; Grandpa Half-a-Finger and other stories of loss; does killing big bucks screw up deer genetics?; the difference between blacktail deer and whitetail deer, and where they came from; a whitetail fossil from the Pleistocene; Cowz, Cooze, and Couse; telekinetic levitation; why do deer lose their antlers?; Steve's disappointment with having less-than-average Neanderthal genes; wolf recovery and the Endangered Species Act; trophic cascades and surplus killers; jaguars in America; hunting jackrabbits; and so much more.

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0:00.0	Alright suckers, we've been talking all the time about our live tour me cal yani a lot of special guests
0:07.1	Live tour coming up everything sold out. We got two dates left. Got a lock at home April 15 and April 16 April 15
0:14.6	Mesa Art Center Mesa Arizona. So that's like your Phoenix market April 16 City National Grove, Anaheim, California
0:22.1	Again me the Latvian Eagle, O'Cal special guests me either live April 15 Mesa Art Center Mesa, Arizona April 16 City National Grove, Anaheim, California get your tickets. Let's finish this thing up
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1:11.3	I think Lister is ought to know that that Phil engineer has a
1:16.3	He's got he's not good at starting at timer.
1:18.3	He might have to go back behind the curtain. We'll have to go back into the
1:23.3	I'll come on Jim. We'll have to go back into the back into the resumes.
1:30.3	We're just talking about mountain lions and Cal some of what a mountain does when it drops down into like a penful alamas. If I was a
1:37.3	Mountain lion, I would be a llama specialist that big neck hard hard to miss you could be drunk a drunk cap drunk no matter what you're going to get it with the neck like that. That's what I would be a llama specialist mountain lion.
1:55.3	Yeah, they really like to keep their heads high. I would quickly depopulate the nation to be a llama.
2:03.3	Epidemic and epidemic of llama losses.
2:09.3	A couple things. I don't know if you guys there's a couple of news things I want to talk about before we get into it.
2:15.3	I just got to be I haven't like dug into this yet, but Disney's redoing they're doing a I don't know they're doing a live action.
2:23.3	Bambi remake.
2:25.3	I was told about this yesterday, I believe.
2:28.3	Yeah, man. A live action. So it's going to be like, you know, that's that stupid thing they do with the lions talking like people.
2:39.3	Yes, so lion king re there showed me the intro to the lion king deal and then he explained that it is they didn't varie or they didn't vary the story at all. It's the exact same story from the animated the full animated version.
2:55.3	Yeah, but it's just like actual lions being like what's up man?
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