The Outside Interview: Steven Rinella Wants Hunters and Hikers to Hold Hands

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As the host and creator of the MeatEater podcast and Netflix series of the same name, Steven Rinella spends a lot of time talking about hunting, fishing, and cooking. He is a proud voice in what’s often called the hook-and-bullet crowd. But he’s also a staunch conservationist, a longtime contributing editor of Outside magazine, and the author of American Buffalo, a book that explores the important role of the buffalo hunt throughout North American history. This makes him uniquely qualified to bridge the divide between hunters and outdoor recreationists. In a recent column for the magazine, Rinella argued that it’s never been more important for these two groups to forge a political alliance. Outside editor Christopher Keyes chased him down to talk about the need to find common ground in order to protect our most cherished public lands.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Visit Arizona, home of
0:05.3	Catherine Bertine and the Homestretch Foundation. A house in Tucson where female
0:10.0	professional athletes struggling with the gender pay gap can live and train for free.
0:15.0	Most of the women in the sport of pro cycling, even at the most elite highest level, they have to work multiple jobs. So're basically doing twice the workload as the men.
0:27.0	On the men cycling tour, professionals receive a base salary that's basically a living wage.
0:32.0	Women don't.
0:34.0	Catherine raced competitively for five years.
0:37.0	Only one of those five years was I paid above the poverty line.
0:41.0	So after retirement, she raised some money, bought a house, and gave
0:44.9	athletes a place to live rent free so that they could focus on training and making a leap to the
0:49.6	pros. And she put it in Tucson because it's a great place to ride a bike.
0:54.0	It's really the best cycling place.
0:58.0	First of all in Arizona, but I'll also go ahead and say, you know, I think it's the best in the Southwest if not the country.
1:04.0	Once Homestretch got up and running Catherine turned to addressing the problem at its
1:07.3	core advocating for equal pay for women in cycling and it worked.
1:12.0	It was a mess.
1:13.3	But the good news is that finally, a base salary will come into effect for women starting in
1:20.0	2020.
1:21.0	It's not a silver bullet, but it's a start. And the Home Stretch Foundation will keep
1:25.2	housing athletes from all over the world. And the amount of athletes that apply to come back is a really
1:31.5	telling element to the fact that Tucson is an amazing place to train
1:36.0	and this house is the right place, the right location.
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