Ep. 218: The World's Best Small Game Hunter Conquers Mongolia

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Kevin Murphy, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: The wild swings of rabbit populations; a hunting station wagon brought back from the dead; a dog named Wings&Things; wanderlust; an epic hunting trip to Mongolia; how your shit needs to be in shape to hunt snowshoe hares; the last remaining eagle hunters in the world; an owl, three golden eagles, two ravens, five Mongolians, and two Americans on horseback trying to catch a critter; how harness boots aren't worth a damn for climbing around; if you want to stack up a lot of game animals, you don't want to be a falconer; the crack of the ass cushioning the rest of it; abusing one’s scrotum; all for a chunk of tungsten; from city junk bond seller to swamp rabbit hunter; recruiting newbies; 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.
0:15.8	You can't predict anything.
0:20.4	Presented by ONX Hunt creators of the most comprehensive digital mapping system for
0:25.1	hunters download the hunt app from the iTunes or Google Play store nor you stand with
0:30.7	ONX.
0:32.0	Alright ladies, gentlemen, Kevin Murphy.
0:37.5	My favorite guy in the world, one of them.
0:41.0	Definitely better, Niani because two reasons.
0:44.8	I just genuinely like him and two, he makes my job easy.
0:49.4	I don't need to drag out.
0:50.7	I don't need to like wrestle out thoughts out of him.
0:55.9	He just got thoughts.
0:58.2	So here he is, Kevin Murphy.
1:00.8	So glad to see you like kind of because we got I got to look at you through a computer
1:05.1	man, which is not my preferred way of doing this.
1:08.1	You know, I'm the same way and good seeing you guys and you know, it's kind of strange
1:15.2	just like a week before you call me up and said, hey, you want to do a remote podcast.
1:20.1	I had told myself I had had some bad experiences over the telephone interviews and doing some
1:24.8	things that I would never do.
1:26.5	I remote podcasts over the telephone.
1:28.9	I had told myself, but I am eating the words now because you guys are just like family
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