Steven Rinella, The MeatEater 

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Steve is highly intelligent. A true American and an educated conservationist. His thinking is beyond most and definitely has the greatest good in the forefront. Hunter to the highest degree. Exceptional cook as well. Hope to shake his hand some day.

Steve was very gracious to you and your interview. His laughing was very much illuminating that.

Steve is a great person to represent the outdoor community.. well spoken and educated, and big balls for agreeing to sit in the scope for an hour! Watched your stuff for a decade and as an avid outdoorsman…THANK YOU STEVE!

Steve’s my favourite Hunting channel host! Watch his channel religiously. Happy Huntin.

I got 10 seconds in and was about to turn this off but decided to stay because it’s what Steven Rinella would do.

My main respect for the guy comes from his work as a journalist first and foremost. It’s all well and good people claiming status nowadays from social media, but Steve put the work in as a writer first and a TV guy second. He’s the real deal and I enjoyed your interview with him, and he continued to be an inspiration for me to keep writing.

I had a preconceived notion of how this interaction was going to play out & I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. I’m very much a fan of Steve Rinella and could (and do) listen to his podcast and books all day long, because he’s of my ilk. I don’t know who this Josh guy is and I don’t think he has as deep of a grasp on the natural order of things that Steve does, or maybe that’s my preconceived notion interfering, because he held Steve to task on a few things and raised a few great questions as well. I really enjoyed this conversation!!

Boy Steve sure was gracious to allow you to interview him. Steve is amazing and did a wonderful job.

This was great!! Familiar with Steve, but not with this particular podcast! Definitely will add it to my growing list of things to listen to. Keep it up Josh!!

This was an exceptionally good conversation on a subject that very often devolves into defensiveness, ridicule, and speaking past one another. I respect both guys tremendously; Steve who I admire and listen to weekly (I am a hunter myself) and Josh, who I used to listen to as host of Point of Inquiry, way back. Bother are thoughtful and articulate about their positions, and despite their depth and complexity, they manage to maintain a good sense of humor about it all. It's a shame then that the entire conversation rather danced around the heart of the topic. That is, are animals conscious and sentient, what does that mean, and what are its moral implications for eating meat? For my part I'll say that as hunters we spend a lot of time observing animals, like A LOT. And the game species I pursue, it's unavoidably apparent to me that they do not have aspirations or meaningful higher thought. In the presence of danger, a doe will abandon her fawn to save herself. Predator species will cannibalize themselves with no regard whatsoever to the morality of the behavior, and certainly without appeal to any religious notions. Turkeys and other birds don't even know what the hell they're doing one minute to the next, let alone have any clue about tomorrow. The highest order of thought I have observed is simply the will to survive and avoid danger. They certainly feel pain, and in that regard I do feel a moral responsibility to kill efficiently and promptly, but that is not in and of itself a reason to not hunt an animal for responsible consumption. We evolved to eat meat (if not evolved *because* we do) and I don't see a reason to reject that. But hey, that's just my present thought. Lovely chat there, gents!

Very interesting I’ve watched Steve when he first came to tv and enjoyed him I think for me it was the combination of hunting fishing cooking and conservation keep it up Steve we enjoy you gosh I’d love to be able to spend a day with you at our family camp in pa

Excellent podcast. I was engaged for the entirety.

Interesting interview , from someone who has hunted since I could walk and in my later years now still hunting to feed my family and friends , was nice to see an object view and some understanding of our world, have followed Steve and meateater for a while now down to earth guy just living life in the real world as it is meant to be, sadly most people are far removed from that these days

Why is Steve giving a 1 hour interview crude Aussie with 7,000 subscribers. Steve is a saint

Goodness gracious I love Steve. He’s a master at communicating an esoteric or even spiritual concept in a way that even the most reductionist atheist would get. With class 👌

❤great podcast ! Thanks mr.rinnella ,chef and apocalypse now❤.🎉 our buddy....

"I like hunting *and* fishing." And if l can't do those then l l'm still gonna forage mushrooms. Oh man, l so agree.

Great conversation.

So funny! The first thing i grab and eat is what i was calling ( and i had no other reference to call it) was the " butt nubbin" 😆 the parsans nose! It's still the best part that i grab first all the time. Great interview. Love Steven Rinella. The best man/ person to put out in front and really give everyone the perspective of all the hunters and harvesters.

15:33 *"Sounds like it's butthole. Are you talking about butthole? I'm familiar with buttholes."* You're my favorite, Josh.

I remember the squab at the Castle, in Billings.

Steve is very good at articulating himself to get the point across without making himself sound bad from a vegan channel

I thought the interview was really good and Josh pressed Steve for viewpoints of his that I'd been curious about for a long time.

On his remarks on Joe Rogan, the guy is genuinely curious. If you ever actually watch his conversations with really intellectual people, he is always just curious and is among the best conversationalist I've seen. Of course if watch episodes where his guest are crack pots (and there are a lot) Joe just tend to match their energy to an extent and that is even more proof why he is such a success at podcasting. Of course with those people the conversation often allows for airing out crazy ideas. And it is your problem if you are stupid enough to believe what sounds and are stupid ideas.

Parson's nose ...my mom called it ..."the part that went over the fence last"

Life is simple. We make it complicated. Without death there would be no life. We are all food for something.

To all critics of the host: i think it's great from steve to face some difficult questions and discuss basic life philosophy questions. Much more insight and food for thought than a lot of 'yay steve' 'great story steve' 'tell us about the bear story steve'. Also i think he does it to draw more people into hunting appreciation.

Great interview!

Steve just had a way with words, like no one else I know of (especially in the wildlife space). One of my favorite episodes of his show is the black bear hunt remembering his dad. The hunt was absolutely a dud, very slow hunt without any “luck” at all. And yet he was able to reflect and take in the moment with such charisma that that episode struck a major chord with me. The father and son traditions, memories, lessons, ext. just powerful shit from my point of view anyways. If you think of yourself as an outdoorsman in any way, there’s no better role model these days (excluding your own father or direct irl influence) than Steve Rinella.

Josh This podcast you got going isn’t very good, have you thought about doing anything else?

On his remarks on Joe Rogan, the guy is genuinely curious. If you ever actually watch his conversations with really intellectual people, he is always just curious and is among the best conversationalist I've seen. Of course if watch episodes where his guest are crack pots (and there are a lot) Joe just tend to match their energy to an extent and that is even more proof why he is such a success at podcasting. Of course with those people the conversation often allows for airing out crazy ideas. And it is your problem if you are stupid enough to believe what sounds and are stupid ideas.

love a podcast host who talks over his guest... Sigh

Josh and Steve are in completely different leagues. It's impossible for the best of Steve to come out with such a very low bar being set by this Josh character.

every thing we eat is a living thing at one point so no matter what we eat something has to die even if it's not capable of screaming and running away it still has a strong desire to live and is just as worthy of life even if it's a carrot ...life is not fair !

What a lot of people in the "Green Movement" who are against hunting do not realize is just how a lot of modern hunting works. Many of us hunters own a small farms or woodlands that is left wild, or has limited AG use now. It's left for wildlife and recreation, to include hunting. My state has programs so that I pay very little tax on my family land and its designated as protected for Forrest and Wildlife. I take a few game animals from that land each year while it supports many more, along with many non game species. It's upsetting to have people in urban areas look at hunters as destroyers of an ecosystem, when in reality I am protecting a chunk of natural land, encouraged by my State Department of Natural Resources (Fish and Game). If it were not for my hunting and fishing on my land, I can tell you it would be sold, and the timber would be cut down and sold, then cleared for more flat farm fields devoid of wildlife. The state gets to list land in the program as protected from development and left for wildlife. I follow the rules they set out, and manage the land with the help of a state biologist. In that agreement I have to let the land be wild, and only manage for control of invasive plants, or for benefit of wild animal habitat, under direction and visitation of the State biologist. Yet people living in a large city feel somehow they are the true environmentalists due to the bumper stickers they put on their car? East of the Mississippi in the US the vast majority of land that is left for wildlife is not State or Federal land, it's private land. I have an old hardwoods that has a lot of Great Grey Owls, that nest on my land. The Biologist was shocked at the numbers on my place when I had my first visit from them. So one of the things they want me insure is that the owls are not bothered, and I keep a schedule of mowing an old field, to keep the natural pray for the owls available to them. And my family uses that land to harvest some Deer (less than 1% to 5%) of the population, to provide us with meat. So we get a food source that's clean from any added chemicals or has been injected with antibiotics.

I have struggled to listen to this, Steve Rinella is a legend and Meateater is awesome but Josh who????

I love his two quotes , if you don't like meat there is something definitely wrong with you, and , If I have to give up hunting I'll pick up some useless sport like golf LMAO , as long as I can walk I'll hunt , then ill just crawl from then on lol

They hold the bell with one paw to stop it jangling, and hunt with the other paw, successfully. They also hang themselves on the bell, don't ever tie things around their necks.

Go Steve!

sounds from the TV show From Scratch ripped you off

Plants have feeling too thats, scientifically proven they know when your about to cut them. How are vegans going to deal with that dilemma 🤔

What did he bleep at 1:01:54? Lol

I dont even know why steve loses time this

This debate could’ve been simplified to utilitarianism vs inherent value.

First 13 minutes sucks... not sure I'll make it much further. Host keeps trying to be funny and he's not.

I was amazed at the beginning that Josh knew so little about food and classic chefs. Made me think he was not very smart, then spent the whole interview trying to put Steve in a awkward position and to denigrate his avocation for the out-of-doors.

This conversation is in desperate need of Christian theology. To use the tree analogy, the Arborist of the human tree is God, which is why humans are different, and why there is a moral law that is higher than the whims of humans. It’s wrong to eat people because the moral law (says so. Because we are on the tree together the lives are of equal value, and because the Arborist is greater than we are, the rules are different for us than they are for the trees we were given to steward. Steve is closest to correct. We are called to steward over the tree, and we have rational minds, souls, and a moral law that makes us capable of stewardship. Stewardship sometimes calls for harvesting, and with the nutrient value of the animals, the steward has skin in the game of caring for the tree. Humans and animals are not equal, which affords us both the authority to harvest our resources and the responsibility to do it morally.

Steve I’ll watch anything you do buddy and I have for years, but I gotta say your host was a bit of a prick and made this really hard to make it through lol

Wow this was boring. I really love Steve rinella but this host man.

God .

Rinella has lost one man card drinking that "La Croix" La crap....Just saying...

I would have liked to hear more about steves perspective on human population control & how that pertains to conservation. He uses conservation as justification for the hunting of animals. The morality of cannibalism was interesting… he said according to his philosophy humans get a “pass”. Do humans also get a “pass” when it comes to the conservation of planet earth and all the species living on it?

Too many F-bombs used unnecessarily...jmo