Ep. 873: Clovis First, Saving The Great Lakes, and the World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Steven Rinella, Brian Lynn of the Sportsmen’s Alliance, and the MeatEater crew discuss: Washington’s crooked Game Commission; Idaho hunting tech bans; the biggest and most hated wildlife crossing in the world; a plan to save Great Lakes whitefish; Clovis first; and more.

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0:29.6	fieldwear gear at firstlight.com. Welcome to the news show, everybody. This week we've got news from Washington's Crooked Game Commission.
0:40.5	Did a Secret Service canine handler get caught with his pants down?
0:45.3	Hanoi Randall reports on Idaho hunting tech bands, which I'm generally sympathetic to.
0:51.2	The most hated wildlife crossing in the world, which is is in California a plan to save Great Lakes whitefish and Clovis first is back baby
1:01.5	plus more Clovis what Clovis first it's a theory on the peopling of the
1:09.8	Americans Clovis first Clovis first. It's a theory on the peopling of the Americas. Clovis first. Clovis first was there. Then they killed it. And it's risen from the dead. I love it. Those people can't make up their minds, man. It's like the celiacanth. That fell flat. Yeah. No, I got it. That's good. That was a good joke it's like a lazarus species yonnie's back
1:31.4	for fishing in key west what's going on yonis it's funny the like the second or third night after
1:37.2	fishing i was on face time with my gal and uh she's like how are you not burned up i'm like man
1:43.8	i've just learned after 47 years.
1:45.9	You put a bunch of SPF 50 on and you can just stay not red.
1:51.6	Randall and Max are a little bit chariore.
1:55.0	I put on SPF 100 on Sunday.
1:58.0	I thought it would balance out.
1:59.5	I feel like at a point it tapers off, doesn't it? Isn't that like a, there's like a sunscreen scandal that maybe I'm not aware of? I'm not quite sure the science behind it all, but I, retroactively applying strong sunscreen after not having sunscreen doesn't actually, in fact, like you're like, I got burnt bad. I'm going to put it on.
2:19.3	You need to invest in a 10 gallon hat, man.
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