Ep. 840: Polar Bear Jail and an Olympic Cheesemonger | MeatEater Radio Live!
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Hosts Spencer Neuharth, Randall Williams, and Seth Morris interview Sgt. Ian Van Nest about life as a conservation officer in the "Polar Bear Capital of the World," key into some listener Hot Tips, revisit 2018's The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter in the MeatEater Movie Club, and chat with cheesemonger Emilia D'Albero about taking home a different kind of Olympic gold medal.
Watch the live stream on the MeatEater Podcast Network YouTube channel.
Subscribe to The MeatEater Podcast Network
MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps. |
| 0:10.3 | 12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout |
| 0:15.0 | 2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love. |
| 0:20.1 | The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. |
| 0:23.4 | If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. |
| 0:28.2 | My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. |
| 0:36.5 | Check it out now on Meat Eater's YouTube channel |
| 0:38.9 | and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. |
| 0:47.0 | Smell us now, lady. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia. |
| 0:50.8 | The Meat Eater podcast. |
| 1:09.9 | Thank you. Meat Eater Trivia. Meat Eater podcast. Welcome to Meadeter Radio live. It's 11 a.m. Mountain Time. That's also 11 a.m. for our friends in Poplar, Montana on Thursday, February 26th. And we're live from Me Deeder H.Q. in Bozeman. I'm your host, Spencer, joined today by Randall and Seth, as well as the Poplar Middle School from Fort Peck Reservation in Northeast Montana. |
| 1:30.6 | They are here to see how a media company works. |
| 1:34.5 | You can see them live on our YouTube channel right now. |
| 1:38.2 | You guys are really nervous, right? |
| 1:40.0 | You guys should wave to our viewers. |
| 1:41.4 | No. |
| 1:41.8 | Okay. |
| 1:42.2 | Say hi. |
| 1:43.2 | We told them they couldn't cuss live on air, so they got all their cussing out right before we went live. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from MeatEater, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of MeatEater and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.