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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 819: $0 Tax Stamps and Mr. Bear Grease Himself | MeatEater Radio Live!

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Randall Williams, Seth Morris, and Cory Calkins interview Silencer Central's Brandon Maddox about all things suppressors and changes to the Tax Stamp in 2026, throw a Hot Tip Off, catch up with MeatEater's own Clay Newcomb, and help control the pet population in another round of MeatEater Price is Right.

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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. Welcome to Media Radio Live.

0:33.6

It's 11 a.m. Mountain time.

0:35.1

That's 9 a.m. for our friends in Pruto Bay, Alaska, where Seth Morris tells me it's negative 40 degrees.

0:41.7

Today is Thursday, January 8th, 2026. And we're live from Meteor HQ and Bozeman. I'm your host, Randall Williams, joined today by my two friends and colleagues, Corey Culkins and Seth Morris.

0:56.8

On today's show, we'll interview Brandon Maddox from Silence or Central about some big news in the

1:02.3

world of suppressor ownership. We've got a sizzling hot tip off for you. We're going to catch up

1:07.6

with Mr. Clay Newcomb, who recently got himself a big old buck, and we're going to play a thrilling round of the Price is Right. But. Exciting. Before we get into that, Seth, Corey, it's great to be here with you both at a brand new year. Exciting things ahead of us. How have you been? Oh, well, happy new year. Yeah, happy new year. Been great. Any fun adventures from the high quarry? I know you're, you're on the mend. It's true. Yeah. Boy, the last time I was on the show, I had a big old black eye. Yeah, you look good. Thank you. Yeah, you're good. You look a lot better. You look fully healed. I I well a couple brain cells might still be in the woods some of the injuries are invisible

1:45.7

and for everlasting fully healed. I, I, well, a couple brain cells might still be in the wood. Some of the injuries

1:45.0

are invisible. Yeah. And for everlasting. No, feeling a lot better though. Thank you very much for

1:50.6

asking. Oh, that's good. Seth, you have any fun holiday break adventures? Yeah, um, did some

1:56.0

haunting. Hmm. The, uh, the nice little extension on the, the deer season here in some units in Montana capitalized on that.

2:04.1

Yeah, we've got a, uh, we've got an extended season in some areas around the general vicinity of Bozeman because of an EHD outbreak.

2:12.3

Yep. Um, you and the misses took advantage. Yes, we killed some doughs for the freezer and then, uh, did some ice fishing, which is tough to do in Montana right now.

2:22.2

Oh yeah.

2:22.5

You gotta go up to elevation to find some good ice.

2:26.0

And you were telling me earlier that people shouldn't look for their ice reports on Facebook.

2:31.5

Well, you can, but people are just kind of mean. They are. The ice fishermen are in bad moods right now. Yeah. Yeah, I'm in those same groups and the Montana ice report. Yeah. People are just, just, just, just, just, you know, nice guys going on there asking to see if there's any ice anywhere and people just light them up. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Go find out for yourself. Yeah. We shall be in the same boat here. Yeah, we're all friends, guys. Yeah. Some folks don't want to drive five hours to have to just turn around because it's not safe. Yeah, exactly. Because someone lied to them on Facebook. Right. Corey, did you get outside at all or were you mostly, uh, you know, I was kind of holed up for half of our break. And then the second half, I didn't get out a whole lot, honestly, gained 15 pounds.

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