Ep. 455: The Wager with David Grann
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Steve Rinella talks with David Grann, Janis Putelis, and Corinne Schneider.
Topics include: All of David Grann's best selling books; when your books get turned into films; the nautical terms we use in daily life; how history shapes us but we're oblivious about it; infighting at the Audubon society over a name change; a great idea for a new book; the last stitch; the prize of all the oceans; building a ship out of 4,000 oak trees; inspecting fingernails for tar; the natural particles of land; scurvy, the great killer of seamen; why you should bring limes to sea; human bodies acting as concave sails; visiting Wager Island; stranded with nothing but wild celery; the Minnesota Starvation Experiment; forced to proceed to extremities; when the manuscript is so old you have to rest it on a pillow; interpretive vs. fact based; 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. |
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| 0:35.4 | Good Lord David Grand is here. |
| 0:38.4 | Staff writer at New York magazine number one New York Times best selling author of |
| 0:44.6 | among other books. |
| 0:47.9 | The book I'm probably most jealous of because it was one of those books you just see so much |
| 0:52.0 | you get sick of seeing it the lost city of Z. |
| 0:56.3 | I mean how like what a huge success. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah it was it was a big success. |
| 1:02.4 | You would have done much better on your journey to the Amazon and I get out of being in |
| 1:05.7 | that way. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah it would have been a totally different book if you don't have to study you. |
| 1:10.1 | The lost city is the killers of the flower moon the O Sage murders and the birth of the |
| 1:15.0 | FBI. |
| 1:16.0 | Another like just huge book. |
| 1:19.8 | Lost city's he became a movie so some people are priced at and they're being like is that |
| 1:22.9 | a movie? |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah it was a movie. |
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