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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 812: The Best Grub in Texas

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with chef Jesse Griffiths, Janis Putelis, Clay Newcomb, Brent Reaves, and Randall Williams.

Topics discussed: How everything is from around here; buying truck loads of ingredients in season; eating while podcasting; nilgai and hog hunting and field processing; and more. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

When hunts get longer and colder, second-rate gear is not an option.

0:08.2

You need waiters that show up when conditions turn against you.

0:11.7

First Lights forge waiters are built for the toughest days,

0:15.8

flooded timber, icy cat tails, and bitter mornings.

0:19.1

Designed to perform season after season was zero quit, built for reliability when everything

0:25.0

else is working against you.

0:26.7

If your old waiters just gave out or you've been waiting to make the switch, now is the

0:31.7

time.

0:32.5

Forge waiters are in stock and ready to ship at firstlight.com.

0:36.8

That's f-I-R-S-T-L-I-T-E dot com.

0:40.9

Welcome, everybody, to the third and final flop from the Meat Eater Live Christmas tour.

0:45.3

Today finds us in Austin, Texas at the esteemed restaurant DiDi-Di-Wa,

0:50.7

owned and operated by Jesse Griffiths, who I argued not only is America's greatest chef.

0:57.2

I mean, maybe, I don't know.

0:58.5

That's a big claim.

0:59.6

He is definitely America's greatest wild game cook and chef.

1:03.7

And we're in his restaurant.

1:04.7

What I used to like about this restaurant.

1:07.0

What I used to like about it.

1:09.4

I need you to know, last night's people came to me, and they were from somewhere far away,

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