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The Shawn Ryan Show

#237 Steven Rinella - Founder of MeatEater

18 Sep 2025

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5.414 - 21.624 Steven Rinella

Steve Rinella, welcome to the show, man. Thank you. It's a privilege. Come on. I always watch your... I consume tons of the shorts you pull from your episodes. Oh, thank you. I like them, yeah. Thank you. I like all the warriors, man.

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21.664 - 40.694 Shawn Ryan

Hearing them tell stories is a kick, yeah. Man, it's an honor to do it. I just think it's really important to document the last war. I mean, I was in part of both of them. So I think it's just important to document that stuff, actually, how it happened, instead of listening to some fucking news head on the media tell us about what happened who had never been there.

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40.814 - 66.083 Shawn Ryan

Or maybe they did a photo shoot there at some point in time. But yeah, I've been tracking you for... Quite a while. So it's pretty surreal to have you sitting in here. Thank you for coming. Appreciate it. But, um, all right, everybody starts off with an introduction. So here we go. Steve Vernella, an American outdoorsman, writer and TV host known for ethical hunting,

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66.434 - 90.213 Shawn Ryan

wildlife conservation, and field-to-table cooking. Founder of MeatEater Inc., producing top-tier content on hunting, fishing, and outdoor lifestyles across TV, podcasts, and digital media. Host of the MeatEater TV series on Netflix, You run The Meat Eater Podcast, America's number one outdoors podcast and a top 10 sports podcast.

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90.954 - 107.899 Shawn Ryan

Author of 10 books plus three audio books on hunting, survival, and nature, including hits like The American Buffalo, In Search of a Lost Icon, and The Meat Eater Fish and Game Cookbook. And you're a husband and a father. Mm-hmm.

109.482 - 121.246 Shawn Ryan

Being out there a little bit, talking to your team, we were asking for funny stories, and they had mentioned something about a hunt, I believe it was in South America, for monkeys.

121.647 - 121.947 Steven Rinella

Yeah.

122.128 - 123.631 Shawn Ryan

What is that? I've got to hear this.

123.911 - 153.358 Steven Rinella

Yeah, I had a number of real life-changing experiences hunting down in South America with indigenous South Americans. Um, you know, some, some people use the term Amer Indians. Uh, I spent time with, um, some guys that are from the Makushi tribe, um, or Makushi and Wapashon tribes in, in Bolivia. And then the Chimane, um, sorry, Makushi and Wapashon and Guyana and the Chimane in Bolivia.

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