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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 233: Tom Brokaw: From South Dakota to the World

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Tom Brokaw, Spencer Neuharth, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis.

Topic discussed; Always looking over the horizon; growing up in "Igloo," South Dakota; Steve's hot tip for armageddon preppers: don't set up next to other armageddon preppers; the virtues of being a jack of all trades and having a can-do mentality; when home is a hotel for Red Brokaw; young Tom's rock collection; the OG paddlefish; being done with guns; pheasant hunting as a religion in South Dakota; how fishing near Saddam's palace will get you blasted; chislic, tiger meat, and kuchen; the journalist's job, Main Street, and what it feels like to cover the world's biggest stories; turning down the offer to be Nixon's press secretary; the competitive relationship between Tom, Dan Rather, and Peter Jennings; not letting public adulation grow toxic; how Tom doesn't like to call himself a writer; the need to talk about what needs to be corrected; how beards have taken over America; 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 ONX.

0:32.1

We're going to start out with an announcement about DOS boat like the actual boat DOS boat.

0:41.2

V1 you could call it.

0:43.0

And I don't mean the show DOS boat main the physical vessel the boat.

0:50.1

We are auctioning off DOS boat and other cool items in order to close the final gap for

0:57.1

our land access initiative project which Cal not explain.

1:02.3

Land access initiative right so we took all the profits from Rinella Poutellus campaign

1:07.8

merchandise that everybody bought thank you.

1:11.6

And now we're taking your hard earned money and our harder money.

1:16.4

We're giving it to the high peaks alliance outside of Kingsfield main for a property that

1:26.6

will provide more hunting and fishing for America.

1:29.3

It's an access project.

1:31.3

Like you named the thing.

1:32.3

Yeah, it's called Shiloh pond.

1:34.6

And Shiloh pond is you know around here we'd call it a lake.

1:40.6

And it's there's an old logging road that you walk down for about five minutes to get

1:46.0

the lakes.

1:47.0

So right now it's put access only.

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