Ep. 236: Crawling Back from the Dead with Michael Punke

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Michael Punke and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: Expressing dissatisfaction with "The Revenant" movie; the Madison buffalo jump looking like it did 200 years ago; dressing up in an 1876 cavalry uniform; the challenge of giving someone else’s perspective; maiming corpses after the Fetterman Fight; carving an arrowhead out of Jim Bridger's shoulder; mountain man Hugh Glass and whether or not he blew himself up by touching a spark to a powder keg; watching an oxen turn into a bullion cube; history being so great that you don't need to make up stuff to tell a good story; how it’s so wrong to substitute high plains for rain forest; the George Bird Grinnell story as the birth of the American conservation movement; the ethic of self restraint; 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.
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0:29.4	Nor you stand with ONX.
0:31.4	Okay, we're joined here by Michael Punk, author of the Revenant.
0:40.4	It's bold of you to come and I'm happy that you're here because we've made such a hobby
0:45.7	out of, I have, I may say, I made such a hobby out of expressing my dissatisfaction with
0:54.6	the movie, the Revenant because of that they put it in coastal rainforest.
0:59.8	I've heard some rumors about this.
1:01.6	So, how do you never thought you'd come talk to me because you'd be like insulted and
1:05.6	hurt?
1:06.6	Well, you know what, I have pretty thick skin and I'm happy to talk about the Revenant.
1:11.4	I'll say good things about it first because there's a lot of reasons why I'm happy that
1:15.6	movie got made.
1:16.6	Oh, I can imagine.
1:17.6	But, you know, but there's, I've got my own qualms with as a historian and somebody cares
1:23.6	about history.
1:24.6	I've got my knits to pick with the Revenant.
1:28.2	But let me be close.
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