Ep. 279: Controlled Rot with Brad Leone
The MeatEater Podcast
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4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Summary
Steven Rinella talks with Brad Leone, Senator Martin Heinrich, Ryan Callaghan, Spencer Neuharth, Chester Floyd, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.
Topics discussed: Vinny's bluefin; using the word "untoward'; Brad's show, "It's Alive!"; fermentation and umami; challenging the FDA; the abundance of deer in New Jersey; fish tails vs. fish bodies; pedicles and peduncles; more on Spencer's rockhounding hobby, loving agates, and a petrified tree chimney; Chester the Investor becomes Chester the Tester thanks to the Classic Sweet; Steve's invented fight moves that would injure your teeth and balls; when you need to switch over to catch and keep; river access endangered in New Mexico and defining what navigable means; mean ass Mrs. Angelo's prohibited fishing dock; yay or nay for the baby name Hunter Fischer?; circumcision; Brad's tattoo origin story and ancient turkey bone tattoo kits; how it all started by dropping kombucha on the floor; the global chicken wing shortage; feedlots and the industrialized food system; the value of dumpster diving; 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 | and the meat eater podcast. He can't predict anything presented by first light go farther stay longer |
| 0:30.9 | All right everybody join today Bradley Ones here explain what's in front of you Brad |
| 0:35.3 | Yeah so brought a little blue fintuna from back east the buddy of mine Vinny bought he he caught it |
| 0:41.2 | out in the canyon his name was Vinny his name is Vinny yeah Vinny Deletta good guy good fish |
| 0:45.6 | and buddy of mine and just really dialed in on the salt water and I told him I was coming out here |
| 0:51.7 | and you know he is a little walking and stuff that he had one of these bluefin hanging in there |
| 0:56.3 | small and one you know like 70 pounds or something but at times that's the most expensive fish in the |
| 1:00.6 | world oh yeah yeah so he they also catch some pretty big ones you know some some giant one six |
| 1:05.3 | 700 pounders that you know going he's got a commercial license and they'll head out I'm pretty sure |
| 1:10.5 | they just go to Japan don't they go like you can catch a bluefin you don't really know when he |
| 1:15.4 | catch it if you got gold or not oh you take a little they don't they take like a little core sample |
| 1:21.5 | yeah yeah out of the fish we've seen it on the on the show right wasn't them wicked wicked wicked |
| 1:26.4 | wicked tuna right they bring it to the dock and they have it's almost like yeah it's almost like |
| 1:30.8 | what you'd see like like an old Italian guy like taking a core of Parmesan cheese with like just |
| 1:35.8 | like this little cylinder hollowed I'm sure it has a name it's probably from the cheese world |
| 1:41.4 | but they would go in there and they would take a a core sample like you would have of the earth |
| 1:47.1 | and see the quality of the meat the the marvelization of the fat and |
| 1:50.8 | and then they declare it like this fish is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars |
| 1:54.1 | yeah yeah this fish is worth 200 bucks I think it's just by pound so it's like either it's like |
| 1:57.7 | this is a ten dollar or a fifty sixteen dollar fish or whatever it per pound and you know and |
| 2:02.9 | is that good stuff laid out in front of you don't you know yeah I mean I'm not I'm not Mr. |
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