Ep. 667: The Prairie Preacher and a Rant By Steve

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Dwayne Estes (aka "The Prairie Preacher") of the Southeastern Grasslands Institute, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: How parts of Pennsylvania are the South; Steve's thoughts on recent executive orders, DOGE, and cuts to the Forest Service, National Park Service, and more; the double meaning of apophysis; how it wasn't all forest and the myth of the squirrel; the impact of bison on vast prairies and grasslands; lacking the natural predisposition to move easily; the great challenge of getting rid of invasive weeds; how our previous podcast episode on quail stirred feelings; the impact of habitat erosion on the bobwhite quail; "Make America Grassy Again"; donate to the Southern Grasslands Institute; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, underwearless.
0:15.5	We're going to hunt the meat-eater podcast.
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0:40.1	All right, everybody.
0:41.1	We're joined today by the Prairie Preacher.
0:43.1	He's in from Tennessee.
0:44.8	I was excited about him coming on as a guest, but I'm not anymore because he was just
0:50.5	trying to explain to me that Pennsylvania is the South.
0:55.0	I told him...
0:56.3	Parts of Pennsylvania.
0:57.5	I told him that's not true because I, because of my own maxim, if you can ice fish, it's not the South.
1:04.3	Honestly, it's a miracle he's still sitting here.
1:06.5	He tried to lay some bullshit ecological argument on me and didn't even try to tackle the ice fishing question. I'll lay a bullshit
1:12.7	sociological reason on you.
1:15.4	It's true, man.
1:16.9	Parts of southern Pennsylvania
1:18.5	are the South, man. We'll get into this
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