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Ep. 417: Snarge

Published: 2023-02-27 10:00:00
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Steve Rinella talks with Megan Denean, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics include: How you can skip telling the story to all the nurses; representative, representative; a deer struck at 30,000 feet; snarge, the remains of bird on an aircraft; critter strikes in the air and DNA tests; twig eater, he who strips of bark; putting a human skull in a crock pot; cadavers making your mouth water; when old ladies are arrested for feeding cats as lure to trap and fix them; feeling corralled by train rails; when caribou migrations disrupts an airfield; the first registered human death by musk ox; the famous Hudson strike; the weird occupation of being a professional bird-shooer; snowy owls at your local airfield; and more.

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Referenced Books

A Rising Wolf
by Hugh Monroe
Steve discusses this memoir about a man (Human Row/Hugh Monroe) who lived with the Blackfeet starting around 1810. He mentions this as a potential book for their upcoming book club, describing it as 'amateur ethnography' by someone who lived and hunted with the Blackfeet.
Referenced at 00:00:08
My Life as an Indian
by Charles Willard Schulz
Steve mentions this book alongside the Hugh Monroe memoir, describing it as another account by someone who lived with the Blackfeet 'right after' Hugh Monroe. He notes these books are collected together and provide a portrait of Blackfeet life in early contact times.
Referenced at 00:00:08
Coming into the Country
by John McPhee
Steve suggests this book as a potential selection for the book club, mentioning they could try to get author John McPhee to join them for discussion. One participant mentions they'd read that one again.
Referenced at 00:00:08