Ep. 512: The Texas Hog Hunt, Live

Published: 2024-01-15 10:00:00

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Steven Rinella talks with Seth Morris, Ridge Pounder, Dirt Myth, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Hog hunting while podcasting; our gift chapter at the end of the episode from MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775); lots of whispering; DSD's fight-postured buck decoy; rattling in 21 bucks in three days; turn and burn; hitting 'em with that grunt; a nice muzzle break to Steve's already impaired ear; the coveted pregnant sow; hunting position strategy; the tail tucked in like a G-string; the dog that gobbled up the tarsal glands; St. Anthony, the saint of lost items; that big 'ole bull; Steve's childhood cats, Maude and Fig; the link between cat ownership and developing schizophrenia; stats on wolves killing hunting dogs; naming subdivisions after the characteristics of the land they've replaced; getting into the illegal golden and bald eagle business; Reed's Piano News original outro song for the show; and more.

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Referenced Books

Kitchen Confidential

by Anthony Bourdain

Speaker mentions 'when Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential came out, they said, a rare glimpse into kitchen culture' as an example of documentaries or books that provide rare glimpses behind the curtain of a particular world.

Referenced at 00:04:00

Little Big Man

by Thomas Berger

Speaker says 'I read a good line in Little Big Man where a guy was talking about how good someone is at tracking, and he said, when he looks at the ground, he can tell what birds flew overhead' while discussing how animals know exactly where sounds come from when hunting.

Referenced at 00:35:42

Life & Death at the Mouth of the Musselshell

by H. Duane Hampton

Speaker discusses being 'a big fan of the book Life and Death at the Mouth of the Muscleshell,' describing it as a journal of a man at the mouth of where the Muscleshell flows into the Missouri. He discusses the extensive bloodshed documented in the book, with detailed statistics of deaths (1,474 wolves, 468 antelope, 128 buffalo, 121 Indians, 34 whites, etc.) that an audience member tracked in a spreadsheet after reading it.

Referenced at 00:51:14