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Ep. 510: Man, Nature, and the Universe with Werner Herzog

Ep. 510: Man, Nature, and the Universe with Werner Herzog

Time: 1:22:15
Topics discussed: Werner Herzog’s latest memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All; writing text in your native tongue; “The nets were set the night before”; mattresses stuffed with fern; when the first time you ate an egg was a feast; having no tolerance for the culture of complaint; the value of food as something to be honored; determining how you live but not telling others how to live; taking self responsibility for getting your own food; grabbing trout out of the creek with your bare hands; the people who seem miserable but are happy and dignified in Herzog’s film Happy People; how Timothy Treadwell was undoubtedly a very good outdoorsman; the Disney-ization of nature; how the story behind Grizzly Man stumbled into Werner; the need to protect the privacy of death; surviving a plane crash from 15,000 feet and then knowing how to get by in the jungle; how the birds scream in agony; loving all of your films; when you use a phone for the first time at the age of 17; the afterlife; acting in The Mandalorian and playing a character on The Simpsons; and more. 
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Episode ID: 1000640885315
GUID: 29261492-5161-4877-b3fa-b0ea016b8741
Release Date: 1/8/2024, 5:00:00 AM

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Building on the belief that a deeper understanding of the natural world enriches all of our lives, host Steven Rinella brings an in-depth and relevant look at all outdoor topics including hunting, fishing, nature, conservation, and wild foods. Filled with humor, irreverence, and things that will surprise the hell out of you, each episode welcomes a diverse group of guests who add their own expertise to the vast world of the outdoors. Part of The MeatEater Podcast Network.

Apple Podcasts: Customer Reviews

Great!

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foxyrhonda
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2024-01-04
Super great!

The good’ol days

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Dan Mark85
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2024-01-03
The best days of this podcast are over. I have been a listener since the beginning and will continue to listen to the main podcast but the trivia is a joke. It is neither funny or informative.
In my opinion the main podcast was a much better listen when it was not so structured and produced.

The Best!

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Trailrunnergal
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2024-01-02
Love this podcast! I listen every time I'm in the car, and share especially interesting podcasts with my husband and family weekly. LOVE the Will Harris/White Oak Pastures episode!
Really appreciate the unrelenting support for our Public Lands!

One of my Go To Podcasts

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awwjum
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2024-01-01
I find myself out of cell service so I cache MeatEater podcast and listen to them while out and about. I enjoy the mix of meat eater trivia and interviews.

Cal

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J136383
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2023-12-27
Love the main show but please leave Cal off of trivia. He comes across as so annoying and full of himself. Everytime he talks I cringe.

Love it

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Cghhhapper
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2023-12-24
Detailed dense discussions.

Phrase of Day

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Flying Lead
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2023-12-23
“Unvetted Yahoos”. MeatEater podcasts, always informative & entertaining.

Evan Felker interview was flat

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GregSpring
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2023-12-18
Was Steve high during that interview? I’ve listened a long time and that one was rough…didn’t know his guest, who’s pretty famous in that world, was rambling bout sex with frogs and country sayings no one had heard of…would ask Evan a question and then start talking about himself as if he was asked the question…go back and listen Steve and ask yourself, was this my best work? I was really looking forward to this interview and it just didn’t live up to the hype …

Just a great listen

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Kernal_Pan1c
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2023-12-15
Quality producing, learn new things, getting a good chuckle often. This podcast has become a staple of mine. Steve’s a great host and has done a good job with the surrounding cast of characters to make it feel like your just chilling around a camp fire shooting the breeze. Love it

“Wolves have decimated elk and deer in the panhandle of Idaho?”

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I'm A Bison Not A Buffalo
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2023-12-11
The Idaho Panhandle’s Game Management Unit remains one of the highest elk hunting success units in the state and still offers over the counter antlerless deer tags. So much for your made up wolf propaganda again. Brody and Steve need to lay down the fiction that the Foundation For Wildlife Management is vomiting up, and just stick to the biologists and their science.

Don’t listen to what other people say

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Stop being so rudeeeee
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2023-12-10
People are just jerks the show is fine Janas is not woke and the ads are fine

Entertaining and informative!

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Andy VSC
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2023-12-04
I love this listen each week. When I talk my 4 hour drive to my deer stand, I like to stock up episodes and listen with my son! He loves the trivia episodes. The whole crew is great. They sound like a group of friends I’d want to hang out with! Even topics not relevant to me I find myself learning so much.

Woke-go broke

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easy on the amount of ads
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2023-12-04
Please leave Janis off the show…..he’s gone woke and it’s sickening. What a pathetic waste of an outdoorsman. (He’s probably want me to say outdoorperson)

Listen to every episode!

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Huber54
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2023-12-01
This is my favorite podcast including my kids favorite! So much good information and fun!

Not for most people

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dixie_dryfter
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2023-12-01
Best part of the show is when it ends

Need more Rinella

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TrueStory90713
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2023-11-29
Great show. The trivia pods are only worth listening to if Steve is on. I don’t even listen if he’s not on the show. Also the producer is super annoying when he chimes in. He sounds like he has a very punchable face. Other than that I have no opinion.

TV money no more

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DIY meat hunter
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2023-11-27
Sure seems like the lack of tv money the last 2 years is hitting their bottom line pretty hard considering how many more ads per break and the extra ad breaks. Love the content but maybe his brother is right

Put in the title if steve is not on

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hoboherbs77
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2023-11-22
Only way the show is enjoyable is when Steve is on.

Randall Williams

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MeaMeaOT7
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2023-11-16
Please make him permanent trivia host. My favorite trivia episode so far.

Great show please read

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Cap-Jesse
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2023-11-11
I’d love to give you 5 stars. I am a full time fishing charter captain. Fishing booker is the biggest bunch of thief's they take 20% off of the guides money and that money goes to Indonesia. Please stop running their ads. It really hurts us.

Always enjoy the show but..

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StayRad9
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2023-11-03
I understand yall have to make money… but no one is tuning in half way through a podcast. Stop repeating the same ads so many times. Beginning and end would suffice id bet, but im no professional.

Great show but…..

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tucsonsportsfan52
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2023-11-02
Nothing ruins a trivia episode like wanting listeners to go to instagram and see a picture. Being that neither I nor any of my coworkers are teenage girls we don’t have access to these images. Audio questions are fine but please stop with the image questions.

No video questions for trivia

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Sir Squidball Teasmonger III
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2023-11-01
I am sure the vast majority of your listeners do so in the car, at work, or while doing chores of some sort. Having to stop and go find the video (which is often not even posted by the time the audio version comes out) is either a huge pain or simply not doable. Also Spencer’s shameless plug of his Instagram to “help find the video” makes me just want to shut the episode off.

Great podcast but…

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WyGuy_7
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2023-10-29
It’s too good.

Excellent Show

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DubdubO1
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2023-10-23
My first ever podcast. Thanks guys doing the hard work.

Sooo many interruptions

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wvustew
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2023-10-23
Fascinating topics but the podcast is nearly unlistenable due to the constant interruptions.

Enough of the swearing

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keithgraham_8
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2023-10-21
Can we go back to the basics of normality and communicate like intelligent humans. All the swearing by some guests lowers the standards of normal brain function. You can do better.

What happened

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trailheadtotoe
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2023-10-17
I always felt a connection to Steve as we are contemporaries. Unfortunately since the changes that have occurred with the mediator it’s just not feeling the same anymore. less relatable. But, certainly entertaining.

Matt Rinella

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bowhunting1
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2023-10-16
…is the better option. Hunt Quietly!

Dave Chang episode

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MDearing
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2023-10-10
I have watched your show numerous times but I was really interested in this podcast (didn’t even know you had one) with David Chang…..you really brought out some history of his past and kept him going into his interests of fishing and restaurant work… it was so much fun, really great talk!!

Trivia

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T.Scott54
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2023-09-27
Not near as good without Steve!!

Love it

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representing the 208
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2023-09-20
Not only is this podcast educational but it’s highly entertaining at the same time. It’s my favorite listen. I have gone though every episode and it has changed my mind on things, taught me things and made me laugh a lot.

I’m done with meat eater

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panjockey
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2023-09-13
Podcast isn’t what it used to be , the same with the show , trivia use to be good until cal and Brody just want to argue over Spencer ….. starting to think Matt rinella was right the whole time ! Bear grease is great tho

Keep the outro

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moneyless beggar
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2023-08-23
For starters I love the podcast, the content and the the people involved. I also come to love the terrible outro music, now it’s something I look forward to hearing!!

two thoughts

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jenisonwild
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2023-08-20
1.) the podcast title of the “sensation” with the marlin shoulda been “the ol’ boys and the sea”
2.) can you stop the trivia on this podcast time line thing? like let it be elsewhere. it’s not good. or at least it’s for a diff niche part of the market. Same with this country life. feels like false advertising when i get a notification

Amazing pod cast

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justin@bfwhandemade
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2023-08-14
I was listening to your current episode and you said your punt gun is about done. I just watched Kentucky ballistics on YouTube he just finished one and shot some crazy things with it. Would love to see you guys collaborate.

Podcast

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adnfr
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2023-08-11
I love it 😻 it’s so much fun to listen to !!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good but sometimes rambling

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Erik_Horton81
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2023-07-31
I like listeneing to this show but they definitley ramble sometimes.

More than just hunting!

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Xenojake
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2023-07-29
This podcast is more than just hunting! I mean there is hunting talk, but historical, geological, current events, conservation, and all kinds of stuff. If you love the outdoors, this is a podcast for you!

Worst episode yet

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Idaho Forester
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2023-07-26
The latest episode was awful. For crying out loud, get the technology and how you’re going to interact with it figured out BEFORE you record. Too many people in the room, no planning for how the discussion will flow, Steve blathering on, etc. I’ll unsubscribe and check back in a few months.

check out this new bill to stop hunting in ma

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Gary Bateman 24
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2023-07-17
House docket 4420 they want a gun free zone making hunting illegal in ma big news we need to stop this he Commonwealth of Massachusetts
_________________
PRESENTED BY:
Michael S. Day
_________________
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: An Act modernizing firearm laws.
NAME:
Michael S. Day
_______________
PETITION OF: DISTRICT/ADDRESS:

Love the podcast but that outro song….

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Boobiesforlife69
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2023-07-14
It’s God awful. Sounds like a dying cow getting rung thru a meat grinder; especially when it comes on at full blast for some reason (that’s not due to my volume). Seems like there used to be way more discussions with researchers and others working towards conservation, now it’s kinda fanboy for country musicians and their own products. Would love to see more about fishing. Been lacking a bit since the end Bent. Also, This Country Life? Horrible, god awful.

GOAT

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CCM43
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2023-07-08
Best pod always learning something new

please get rid of

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Fritz Feulner
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2023-07-05
that horrible singing at the end

Pirate ship

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scootertrash1$!
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2023-07-03
The ship your talkin about was called the erka a Spanish ship hunted by the pirates from nausa the series was called Black Sales

Always great

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Yoyomama99
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2023-07-01
Such a great listen. Real people that just seem to love what they do and America.

Best podcast ever #femalefan

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rmaixkepaxjnz
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2023-06-29
I just love everything about this podcast, the guests and the hosts are all great, it’s insightful, HILARIOUS, educational, moving, just plain great.

Great podcast

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ssummers2013
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2023-06-28
Love what you guys(and girls) do, love the podcast! I’ve listened to nearly every episode and the fish shack ones are always my favorite. I just listen to episode 452 (part of it, I had to turn it off) and it is definitely the worst one. Not really sure why it was produced and aired. But it’s Steve’s show, keep doing what y’all do.

Best podcast there is

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Lungbuster1121
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2023-06-28
My favorite podcast . Makes my Mondays at work a little easier!

Best Podcast

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Coldfish84
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2023-06-26
Steve, Janis, Ryan, and the team at MeatEater deliver! Educational, thought provoking, and often times hilarious - this show really helps me forget a long and grueling commute.
Looking forward to the trivia board game!