Ep. 807: Dew Claws, Buck Nuts, and Christmas Trees | MeatEater Radio Live!
The MeatEater Podcast
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4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Hosts Spencer Neuharth, Ryan Callaghan, and Cory Calkins interview Matt Ross of the National Deer Association about what dew claws tell us about deer, throw a Hot Tip Off, play a round of Meat Poll, chat Christmas trees with Cornell University's Trent Preszler, and take a look at some regrettable tattoos.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:46.5 | Welcome to Meat-Eater Trivia. |
| 0:49.2 | Meat-eater podcast. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. podcast. Welcome to me, Deter Radio Live at 11 a.m. Mountain Time. That's 9 a.m. |
| 1:15.7 | For our friends in North Pole, Alaska on Thursday, December 18. |
| 1:18.3 | And we're live from Me Deeter H.Q. in Bozeman. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm your host, Spencer, joined today by Corey and Cal. |
| 1:26.6 | On today's show, we'll interview dear biologist Matt Ross about identifying buck tracks. Then we have a hot tip off about European mounts, followed by a game of meat pole, |
| 1:31.7 | where we'll find out how much Corey and Cal know about their fellow outdoorsmen. |
| 1:35.6 | After that, we'll talk to Trent Pressler about the history of Christmas trees. |
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