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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 407: California's War on Woodsmen

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Mercer Lawing, Janis Putelis, Seth Morris, and Phil Taylor.

Topics include: How Theater Phil brought the roof down; the genetic mutation that creates a cinnamon black bear; how a poop snow cone would actually preserve microbes; the Blue Collar Scholar's poop bucket design; when you make a pair of earrings out of your foot bone spurs; hocking up a nock through your concha; a 33-year-old banded sandhill crane; how bobcat trapping was completely banned in California; the cage trap days; how California has just banned the sale of fur in the state; receiving death threats; the Johnny Stewart cassette tape; the war in Ukraine affecting fur prices today; knowing a good cat when you see one; a sable coat with bobcat trim as the fashion of Russian oligarchs; how the show, "Yellowstone" is driving the beaver market; designing camtrip cages; how to get the cat in the trap; skunk paste; quickly taking over the former territory of a dead bobcat; all the glands; 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

0:14.8

underwear.

0:15.8

You can't predict anything.

0:20.4

Presented by first light creating proven versatile hunting apparel from marino base layers

0:26.5

to technical outerwear for every hunt.

0:29.5

This light go farther stay longer.

0:35.9

Listen up this is Janus Patelis from meat eater and I need your help.

0:40.3

I'm going to be at the National Wild Turkey Federation's annual convention in Nashville

0:44.4

Tennessee this year and I'm looking for the best turkey storytellers alive.

0:49.8

Now I know we all have a good turkey story to tell but I want you to think about who

0:55.2

you know that tells an absolutely riveting turkey tale.

0:59.6

A person that draws everyone in the room to their story.

1:03.7

Bring them to me.

1:05.2

I'm going to be at Ryman Studios in the same building as a convention set up with recording

1:10.8

equipment and building engineers going to be there to make sure it sounds great.

1:15.7

I have a goal of creating a national archive of hunter's stories and my first stop is the

1:20.6

southeast because I know you all down there can spend a good story.

1:26.0

This is our oral history.

1:27.8

I believe there is immense historical value to these stories and they should be preserved

1:31.7

for future generations.

1:33.6

Don't let your grandpa's stories die with him.

1:36.6

Bring him to the convention and have him spend a yarn for me.

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