Ep. 816: New Year's Resolutions, Mutant Turkeys, and Goodbye (Sort Of) Cal | MeatEater Radio Live!
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4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Hosts Brody Henderson, Ryan Callaghan, and Cory Calkins go deep with Dr. Phil Lavretsky about turkey mutations and his latest citizen science project, throwback to their favorite hunts of 2025, make some New Year's resolutions, and answer listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | Smell us now, lady. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to Meat-eater trivia. |
| 0:12.9 | Meat-eater podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah. Happy New Year's, everyone, and welcome to Radio Live. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm your host, Brody Henderson, and I'm joined by Corey Calkins, and Ryan Callahan. Today we're not actually live. I'm your host, Brody Henderson, and I'm joined by Corey Culkins and Ryan Callahan. |
| 0:39.5 | Today we're not actually live. We're actually pre-recording before Meat Eater HQ shuts down for the |
| 0:46.7 | holidays. But we still got a great New Year's Day show for you guys, even the poor suckers |
| 0:51.5 | who stayed up late last night and they're nursing a hangover. Hopefully you're not one of those people, but I imagine there's a few of you out there. Is that going to be one of you, Kyle, Corey? Not with kids anymore. Nope, I'm going to bed at 8 p.m. There you go. There you go. Avoid amateur night. That's right. Yeah, I get all my fun in early. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | And it seems to really wrap up within like a beer and a half anyway. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.3 | That's smart. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.9 | That's smart. |
| 1:21.2 | Today we're going to talk to our friend Jake Lorettsky about all those. |
| 1:26.0 | Levretzky. |
| 1:26.8 | Phil. |
| 1:27.4 | Phil. |
| 1:27.8 | Jake. |
| 1:28.7 | Why don't I'm Jake's our producer who's right next to Phil in the window. Jesus. Pete. I'm just reading. That's the problem with just reading a script. Sorry, Phil. Um, Dr. Phil. Phil. Damn it. Phil Lovreski. We're going to talk to that Phil guy, not our Phil. about all those funny looking color-faced turkeys getting shot out there these days. |
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