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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 235: Sex, Guns, and Bluegrass with Dave Simonett

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles, Ryan Callaghan, Maggie Smith, Sam Lungren, Phil Taylor, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: An elderly woman’s plea to American men: carry heavy shit and buy a tool kit; hound dog training with live vs. dead raccoons; Dave's first fly fishing experience with the MeatEater crew; Steve is forced to reckon with a stand-up paddleboard; the proper way to grill trout in a campground; Dave’s adult onset pheasant hunting; unleashing the word “poverty”; does bluegrass have too many notes?; art and creation as something not to be defined and categorized; needing nature to write music and songs growing out of the dirt; the intersection between the music world and the hunting world; Steve's ladder rule on trapping, hunting, and fishing; Dave doing his online gun safety course in the green room; imposing your will on your garden; 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-less meat and pun.

0:15.8

Let me feed her podcast.

0:17.6

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.

0:29.4

Nor are you stand with ONX.

0:31.4

Okay, we're joined today by Dave Simanette.

0:39.6

You prefer Simanette.

0:40.6

I prefer Simanette, yeah.

0:42.6

Who among many other things, you have your own solo stuff.

0:47.1

Then you have your kind of solo stuff called Dead Man Winter.

0:51.1

And then you have your not nearly as solo stuff under trampled by turtles.

0:55.5

Yeah, that's about something's it up.

0:56.9

Really?

0:57.9

Yeah.

0:58.9

You were going to sum it up.

0:59.9

How do you like to sit there talking to someone and they're like, what do you do?

1:02.8

Yeah, I mean, I guess I would just say that I'm a songwriter and then I have those different

1:07.7

vehicles for doing it.

1:10.0

But trampled by turtles is my main gig.

1:12.4

That's what I spend most of my time with.

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