Ep. 522: Hammering Hogs with Cam Hanes
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Steven Rinella talks with Cam Hanes, Max Barta, Seth Morris, and Corinne Schneider.
Topics discussed: Getting bested by an armadillo; calling in a pissed off javelina; soft, malleable mettle; how Seth’s antler rattling sequence on the podcast possibly called in a deer; RIP “Floppy”; how you really need professional help to neuter a cat; would you want 43,000 monkeys living next door?; stuff gets out in Texas; is Bigfoot a vector for trichinosis?; getting your ammo thrown in the trash vs. getting arrested; being mostly good at many things or being great at one thing; maintaining awareness of all the arguments against wild pigs, while sticking with your treatment of them as a game animal; how having blood on your hands doesn’t mean you don’t care; the theory that we’re governed by a fear of death; no baby named “Steve”; old folks are mentally tougher than young folks; Cam on ultra marathons and how our bodies are incredible; how the weekly mileage you put in helps you run a single race of that length; being 100% focused on getting that elk; running a marathon per day; how elk are very susceptible to stalking; always looking at the numbers; how hunting teaches that an optimistic mindset is almost better than anything else; lights out; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready for the best thing ever done on the blood-soaked story of the white-tailed deer skin trade of the 1700s. |
| 0:07.0 | It's called Meat Eater's American History, The Longhunters, 1761 to 1775 told by me Stephen Ronella and my good friend |
| 0:16.8 | clay nucum from the Bear Greece podcast this audio book is the first installment |
| 0:22.0 | in meat eat's American History series. |
| 0:25.0 | It's a bizarre tale about a fascinating group of Back Woodsman |
| 0:29.0 | and the forgotten trade in the skins of North America's favorite big game animal, the white-tailed deer, |
| 0:35.0 | featuring the exploits of Daniel Boone and a host of other long hunters |
| 0:39.0 | as they forced their way through one of the most violent, inspiring, and bad-ass periods of American history. |
| 0:46.7 | It's out now and available wherever audio books are sold. |
| 0:50.2 | That's Meat Eater's American History, the Longhunters. |
| 0:53.0 | 1761 to 1775, available for download now. This is the Meat Eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severelybitten and in my case underwearless. |
| 1:14.4 | We can't predict anything. |
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| 1:38.9 | Hey everybody here's a quick camo news flash |
| 1:41.8 | which Phil's just gonna jam into the episode. Camo is Flash, which Phil's just going to jam into the episode. |
| 1:44.0 | Camo is Phil's favorite subject. |
| 1:46.0 | People don't realize that. |
| 1:47.0 | So he's probably going to want to jam this in right up top. |
| 1:49.0 | On social media, you might have been seeing lately that me and some of the other guys that |
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