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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 277: Driving Squirrels With the Hmong

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Ya Yang, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.


Topics discussed: pin bones and bet losing; is that a morel or a beehive?; Americans wanting Australia to ban their kangaroo hunting; wolves, hunters, and deer-vehicle collisions; eagles wiping out lambs; America's new New Gorge National Park; a "massive" fish poaching operation in Michigan; who are the Hmong?; hunting for sustenance; cooking up homemade ammo; recognizing your fellow Hmong in public, and what to do when that happens; a history lesson on Hmong involvement in the Vietnam war and the CIA's covert action; displaced indigenous peoples; losing your siblings and crossing the Mekong; getting guns from the CIA; a pot of stew and why Ya can't eat heart; stereotypes about Hmong hunters; reacclimating to hunting in the US; contributing to the gun and ammo shortage; the turkey hunting itch; what can change in a year; Steve's strategy to get kids managing recoil; 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

with the meat eater podcast. You can't predict anything presented by first light go farther stay longer

0:30.5

okay we're joined today by YAH yang yeah yes sir love that name man thank you the kids goof on

0:38.8

your name a lot when you were a kid yeah yang yeah a little bit a little bit I just tell him it's

0:43.2

it's pretty minisoten so you know I got my joke is that when you know when we came to the country

0:50.8

through the immigration they couldn't pronounce my name my name and mung is actually

0:56.1

ja so they couldn't pronounce it so whoever was there was just like all right let's just this is

1:03.9

do yeah YAH and be done with it huh that's that's well at least that's my story I don't know

1:09.6

that's true or not but I'm not I'm not striving for equivalency here but I'll point out that there

1:15.0

was a in my family name did I talk about this recently there was a split and how they spelled it

1:20.4

the a and I yeah the a and the number of ends and everything and I I have a article where I think

1:27.5

I'll tell about this where my dad's uncle hit a cop hit a cop car he was Italian and did the

1:36.2

I and in little Italy like in Southside Chicago the Italian and Irish guys didn't like each other my

1:42.4

dad said you simply could not go to the Irish neighborhood they'd kill you his uncle hits a

1:48.1

Irish cop named Philip Tumi who's off duty Tumi goes home and gets a gun and comes back and kills my

1:55.9

dad's uncle I still have the newspaper clipping um and and my dad would show me the article his

2:01.5

point being how the Rinella's spelled their so the Rinella's who are family members in the

2:06.7

articles have different spelled names but he's like but it's same they're like brothers you know

2:12.3

I mean it's funny um so Ja yes you said perfectly there yeah but when you but you don't do that

2:20.7

does your fam what is your dad call you or mom or dad my my my family caused me Ja I see yeah

2:26.3

but you just make it easy and everybody else yeah yes yes here I do that it's like Janice and

2:30.7

yeah yeah yeah yeah um Corinne of course Phil's got haircut scheduled night that's right his um

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