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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 866: The Boundary Waters Tragedy, Oklahoma CWD, and Mutilated Paddlefish

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella and the MeatEater crew discuss: A toxic sulfide mine just outside the Boundary Waters Wilderness gets a thumbs up from Senate Republicans; Oklahoma lets loose its pet deer into the wild; how paddlefish anglers in Missouri are mutilating then releasing fish; a meteor shower; and more. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Listen up, Mother Scratchers.

0:05.6

If you listen to this show, you know how I feel about public land.

0:08.9

Well, right now, there are 4,000 acres along the Tucker Town Reservoir in North Carolina.

0:15.7

That could either go to developers or they could become public game lands forever.

0:22.1

We've teamed up with our friends at OnX to make sure it's the latter.

0:26.5

We want them going public.

0:27.6

Here's the deal.

0:28.7

Meat Eater and OnX have each put up $100,000 to match your donations.

0:34.1

That's $200,000 in matching funds on the table. but this only runs from April 14th to May 14th.

0:40.9

When the money's gone, it's gone. Go to savetuckertown.org. We're raising money to help keep it public.

0:51.5

Hit it, Phil. Boom.

0:54.4

This week on the news show, we're talking about Senate Republicans giving a big old thumbs up to a toxic copper sulfide mine, just outside of the Boundary Waters Wilderness on the Superior National Forest.

1:05.5

Oklahoma starts letting deer breeders cut their pet deer loose in the wild thinking it'll somehow help genetics,

1:12.5

despite any reason to think so.

1:15.1

Paddlefish anglers in Missouri are practicing catch, mutilate, and release fishing.

1:21.4

I just made that up.

1:23.0

Spencer's interested in a meteor shower, which is cool.

1:26.5

Yeah.

1:27.0

And Steve bitches even more about Colorado's asinine animal rights movement. Plus a lot more joined today by Dr. Randall Williams. Jordan Sillers is here from Blood Trails podcast and many other things. Dr. Jordan Sillers. Sorry, Dr. Jordan. That's fine. I'm on the wrong side of the table. It's fine. No, it's fine. I'm a big credentialist, you know. Dr. Jordan Sillars. Sorry, Dr. Jordan. That's fine. I'm on the wrong side of the table.

1:44.8

It's fine.

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