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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 270: Nature is Metal is Metal

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with meat scientist Dr. Chris Calkins, Rick "Nature is Metal," Spencer Neuharth, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis.


Topics discussed: An alternate explication of "Arkansasing"; Steve's opinion that the 1980s is too recent a decade from which to pluck pop culture references; cleaning up in your shrimp pot; what happens, physiologically, when an animal freezes to death and can you eat it?; and what about by electrocution?; when lighting strikes cattle; how Jani narrowly escaped death from a mountain lion; potential lead poisoning from getting shot; a porcupine atop a huge pile of bones; Steve's first date with his wife at the La Brea Tar Pits in LA; when deer eat folks; can animals really do "bad" things?; the birth of Nature is Metal; a woodpecker hammering away at a baby dove; when Joe Rogan and Justin Bieber repost from Nature is Metal; something being too much vs. educational; Steve as the first person ever to have drunk kombucha; and more.



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0:00.0

This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely boat bitten in my case underwear

0:15.3

you can't predict anything presented by first light go farther stay longer

0:32.8

how quick do you think you can do your Arkansas on update quick I think Arkansas update

0:39.1

set up why why is not like why we talked in the past about the term Arkansas something

0:46.1

you know it means different things different people it means pop it up and shoot and

0:49.1

duck off the water that's right or you can Arkansas grounds shooting a fesson out of

0:53.3

the ditch shooting a dove off a power line did we mention when we know now that is not

0:57.8

Arkansas it's not you can't Arkansas dove off a power line why not just be shooting

1:04.1

a dove off a power line Arkansas is shooting it on the ground yeah well I let's get

1:08.6

it like if you shot a turkey out of a tree God forbid you wouldn't be saying you Arkansas

1:13.3

the turkey really I I I I was on the ground you don't Arkansas I know but that's what I'm

1:19.1

saying you're like are you saying means that you're sort of taking this like an advantage

1:24.7

over your query no no no go ahead that's all I have to say my understanding is my

1:31.2

own man told me that in Arkansas they are like a boat and Arkansas boat something you'd pull

1:38.0

up on ducks and have all these 10 gauge shotguns lined out and you their their one at water level

1:46.3

one slightly higher one slightly higher as he explained to me the Arkansas boat pulls

1:50.6

up on a raft of ducks boom bottom they start to take off boom the next gun to start to take

1:56.5

off boom the next volley's a little higher and rigged boat rigged guns on boats and that's

2:01.1

my that's what he told me and that name though I thought you had said was inspired by like

2:06.5

the warship I can definitely never said that oh a warship yeah they were the USS Arkansas

2:16.5

that's right no I was pulling stupid I was pulling for your explanation to be correct

2:25.0

Steve when when you brought that up I'm like okay that's that's like a cute explanation

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