Ep. 641: 15 Years of Living Off the Land in Alaska

Published: 2024-12-23 10:00:00

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Steven Rinella talks with Randy Brown, Ryan Callaghan, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: When polite texts are potentially hunter harassment; eating deer meat shot with lead; when John McPhee offers you the river water you've been drinking for years; when you're sorta in "Coming Back To The Country"; a different Mike Potts; rendering moose fat; state vs. federal ownership lines for Alaska; when Smeagol takes all of your stuff; always looking at tracks; skin on bone and starved out; making a concerted effort to find a win over a woman; being born and raised by wolves in the Alaska wilderness; and more.

Outro song "See You Next Season" by Brandon Gardner

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Referenced Books

The Big Sky

by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Randy Brown mentions reading this book and others by A.B. Guthrie as inspiration for wanting to live in the woods in Alaska. He says 'I'd read some of these uh, you know books like The Big Sky and some other baby gothries and uh and I always felt like I was born about one hundred years too late.'

Referenced at 00:16:49

Coming into the Country

by John McPhee

Randy describes an encounter with author John McPhee while he was researching/writing this book about Alaska. The discussion centers around Randy meeting McPhee on the Tatonic River when McPhee was with Dick Cook, and Randy mentions being 'sort of in coming into the country.'

Referenced at 00:22:32

My Life with the Eskimo

by Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Steve asks 'Have you read Stephenson's My Life with the Eskimo?' and they discuss content from the book about Eskimo dietary habits, particularly their aversion to salted meat and how explorers would salt their food to protect it from being eaten. The discussion includes details about salt tolerance and dietary adaptation.

Referenced at 01:10:03