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Ep. 512: The Texas Hog Hunt, Live

January 15, 2024

Description

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...
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Books Referenced

Kitchen Confidential

Author: Anthony Bourdain

Context:

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.

Little Big Man

Author: Thomas Berger

Context:

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.

Life & Death at the Mouth of the Musselshell

Author: H. Duane Hampton

Context:

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.