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Ep. 025

Published: 2015-12-23 23:15:00
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Episode 025: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Steven Rinella talks with Janis Putelis and Ron Leighton, a Vietnam veteran and former commercial fisherman. Subjects discussed: Janis' first Sitka blacktail buck; muskegs; deep-water shrimp trappin'; why Steve doesn't catch a fraction of the shrimps that Ron does; why do so many men cook nowadays, and what happened to women?; smoking, canning, and jarring octopus and halibut; commercial halibut fishing; saltwater as a cure for seasickness; identifying found art; Latvian power rings; shooting critters in the head vs. in the lungs; deer calls; and the one thing good about getting old.

 

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Referenced Books

Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee
Referenced during a discussion about geology and the Earth's age. The speaker describes it as 'a great trilogy written by [John McPhee] about geology' and quotes a memorable line from it about Mount Everest containing marine limestone at its peak. The author's name appears to be transcribed as 'geomic Fee' but this is clearly referring to John McPhee's famous geological work.
Referenced at Unknown (late in transcript)