Ep. 849: Fur Bans, Gonad Jerky, and Connor “Bass Head” Hellebuyck
The MeatEater Podcast
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4.9 • 37.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Steven Rinella and the MeatEater crew discuss: Mark Kenyon’s upcoming new podcast; Kimi Werner’s cookbook: Kimi's Kitchen; clarifying what a porterhouse cut is; an interview with Olympic Gold Medal-winning ice hockey goalie, Connor "Bass Head" Hellebuyck; how you can’t hunt turkeys close to church in Mississippi; gonad jerky; the multiple uses of Cornell University's e-Bird; beavers as fish; getting arrested for breaking a wooly mammoth tusk; Colorado's fur ban; South Atlantic states to manage red snapper; frog and toad surveys; getting "seal finger" from a grizzly bear; watch "Steve and Seth Get Rich on Bobcats"; the financial implications of the recreational economy; Save Tuckertown!; and more.
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| 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 Eaters YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 |
| 0:41.5 | in the coming months. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome to the news show, Mother Lickers. |
| 0:47.2 | Today we're covering Colorado's dumb fur sale ban. |
| 0:50.9 | Iowa, this is a different subject. |
| 0:53.3 | Subject one, Colorado's dumb fur sale ban. |
| 0:56.2 | Two, Iowa is hunting for volunteers who can tell one frog call from another. |
| 1:02.9 | Three, while Yanni himself hasn't caught a disease called Seal Finger, he's going to tell us about it. |
| 1:10.8 | Four, the Red Snapper Wars |
| 1:13.0 | continue in the American South East. |
| 1:15.6 | Five, Bodkat prices. Bobcat prices |
| 1:18.5 | go through the roof. Like, way through |
| 1:20.6 | the roof. Six, Mark Kenyon has some stuff he'd like to get off |
| 1:24.6 | his chest. Seven, we're |
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