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The History of Adventure | MeatEater Podcast Ep. 546

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Steven Rinella talks with Peter Stark, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Being an adventurer and then an adventure historian; Peter's many books; the beaver in the tile work of Astor Place; how young Washington was a screw up; how exasperated Steve gets listening to Attenborough, God bless him; dinosaurs in the snow; land back scenarios; mapping out old water ways; checking out narwhals with Inuit hunters; how far north can you go?; different ways to die; box jellies and black mambas; the lost Pacific Empire of Astor and Jefferson; young Washington; Tecumseh; and more.
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20 Comments

@MainerWandersAway 1 year ago

Rinella's impersonation of Attenburoughs vocal cadence has me laughing like a windex spray bottle

@paulwinks4714 1 year ago

Indiana river man here. My daughter and I paddled the free length of the Wabash River this summer. Most dont realize the Wabash, from the dam at Huntington to the Ohio confluence, is the longest free running river east of the Mississippi. 401 miles of paddling for those who dare.

@spencers2420 2 years ago

I could listen to this guy talk for days on end.

@wildlifewagner 2 years ago (edited)

Prehistoric planet is objectively THE best depiction of dinosaurs in modern media. They’ve portrayed them much more like actual animals instead of malicious fighting monsters. There is a lot of speculation of dinosaur behavior and physiology in the series, but all of it is based on scientific evidence borrowed from paleontology and how animals (mostly birds) act and interact in their environments in todays natural world. Pretty neat that Steve mentioned that series, I loved it! Even with Attenborough’s expelled sentences.

@johnreid1121 2 years ago

Steve is referring to Route 50 that runs from DC to Parkersburg in West Virginia. There are still surveyor’s monuments with Washington’s name hidden in those hills. I personally found several when I lived there.

@beeriswhatimake 2 years ago

That Attenborough line killed me!!😂😂

@kylepaup 2 months ago

Cool to go back and listen to old episodes I missed and have both where I grew up (Allegheny National Forest) and where I live now (MD panhandle) mentioned

@JarrydMitchell 2 years ago

Indiana rivers are definitely underated, lived in central Indy my entire life and feel like I haven't even scratched the surface

@heathy912 2 years ago

I think Mathew Power is the guy Steve asked about, he died from severe heatstroke whilst accompanying Levison Wood walking the length of the Nile.

New York University established the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award in his honour.

@serennosquadcast8297 2 years ago

The history podcasts are my favorites. Thanks fellers!

@feralvulcan7955 2 months ago

There is a little stretch of land in ohio that is the only ground you need to touch between Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico.

@BikeThrottleOfficial 2 years ago

What an engaging guest Peter Stark was! Goes into my top five episodes easily.

@jescowan26 2 years ago

aussie but a small box jellyfish got my sister, really hot water and pain killers

@DCOLE3 2 years ago

great podcast !!

@Eric-ij6my 7 months ago

“I just don’t like going anywhere where I don’t feel like I’m scouting” 😂 I have the same problem. What are we even doing here! 😆

@Motor-City_Ben-Diesel 6 months ago

Indian River Michigan is a great place.

@meat094 2 years ago (edited)

I ran into this same thing as the Catalina Island thing in the Detroit area. The local Metroparks were overrun with whitetail and wasting disease. The locals didn't want hunters in there. They think hunters are unsafe (like the Bambi movie). They decided to trap and relocate deer until the projected cost was realized. So then, the helicopter snipers were put forward as the solution, and the animal rights people went insane. Even though the meat would be used to feed underprivileged residents. When I moved 2 years later, they were still fighting. It's maddening!