An Unofficial 'The MeatEater Podcast' Reading List

Ep. 403: Rattling Bucks with Joe Rogan

January 09, 2023

Description

Steve Rinella talks with Joe Rogan, Jesse Griffiths, and Corinne Schneider. Topics include: The pink pig; Corinne's first wild hog; rattling in a crazy number of whitetail; how basically no one...
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Books Referenced

The Tenth Legion

Author: Tom Kelly

Context:

Steve discusses this book about turkeys and turkey hunting behavior, specifically mentioning how the author observed that a Tom wouldn't respond to calling even from real hens, illustrating that sometimes animals simply aren't interested rather than being spooked.

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

Author: S. C. Gwynne

Context:

Joe mentions he read this book and told Steve about it, describing it as part of a series of books about Native Americans that Steve recommended to him. The discussion occurs in the context of learning about the hard lives of Native Americans.

Son of the Morning Star

Author: Evan S. Connell

Context:

Steve recommended this book to Joe after Joe read Empire of the Summer Moon. Joe describes it as 'so heavy' and discusses how these books about Native Americans illustrate the difficult, hard scrabble life they faced.

Black Elk Speaks

Author: John Gneisenau Neihardt

Context:

Joe mentions this as 'another great one' in a list of books about Native Americans that help illustrate the hardships and horrors those people faced and how different life was not that long ago.

Journal of a Trapper

Author: Osborne Russell

Context:

Steve references this historical journal when discussing what it was like to live off the land historically, noting that 'a lot of times there was a lot to eat and a lot of times ain't shitty' - referring to the feast or famine nature of historical hunting and gathering.

Land of Feast and Famine

Author: Helge Ingstad

Context:

Steve mentions this book about living off the land in Canada, using it to illustrate the point that 'sometimes you can't there's so much you can't even process at all in a lot of times screwed' - the unpredictable nature of subsistence living.