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Steven Rinella | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #610

Today's guest is a renowned outdoorsman.
He's a hunter. He's a survivalist.
He has his own show, Meat Eater, on Netflix, as well as his podcast.
I had a great time learning about some of the beautiful and brutal aspects of
our world.
Today's guest is Mr. Steve Ranella.
Oh, you're having a little, huh?
You having a little bit of that?
I'm familiar with that product.
Oh, hell yeah, brother.
We just gave something to an Amish kid the other day.
Never had it, huh?
Did he like it?
What, Celsius?
I mean, when you gave it to him, did he dig it?
I mean, he definitely couldn't bend his arms for a couple minutes.
It hit him hard.
Because of why?
I mean, brother.
Just unfamiliar.
I think, yeah, something like something, you know, you put that brain petrol
that is Celsius into a damn Amish, you know?
He might want to plug in something in.
I mean, he might.
I thought he's going to get down.
He's going to put his finger in that.
He wants to find out what it's all about.
He's going to put his finger in that socket, man.
Yeah, I thought he did.
I thought he's going to get court-martialed right there or something.
I don't know what was going to happen.
What was the circumstances that you were hanging out with the Amish guy?
We finally got a hold of one.
You were seeking some woodwork?
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
Yeah, we finally got a hold of one.
We've been trying to not capture an Amish or whatever.
I don't know what the terminology is.
But we've been trying to wrangle one, I guess.
Because you can't get a hold of them.
You know, you can put messages out there.
You can do message in a bottle or shit.
They don't reply to a lot of that.
And so, finally, we had a guy who was on Rum Springer.
Yep.
He was on their kind of like spring break for the Amish.
And he came to a comedy show.
There he is right there.
While on Rum Springer.
He looks young from Rum Springer.
He's young.
He got out there and he brought me this hat, too.
And he came.
Great, great kid, though.
We learned so much about it.
But he'd never seen so many things.
It was unbelievable.
But he'd never had a hit of Celsius when we got it in him.
So, we'll see.
Now he's got his Rum Springer documented.
Oh, yeah.
But it might make it difficult for him to integrate back in.
Oh, I'm sure, dude.
Yeah.
Because people, well, maybe his community won't know.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's a good point.
It'd be a good honesty test.
If they know, you'll know they violated.
How did they know?
Yeah.
It's a good point, actually.
So, we're helping out.
Yeah, but it was just interesting to get to talk to somebody who'd lived like a,
you
know, just a total different life than the average American, probably.
Are you making a show right now or are we pre-making the show?
Oh, this can be the show.
Yeah, I mean, we can start into it.
Sorry.
Oh, no, I don't care.
And so, that's one type of person who kind of has their own, like, way of
living.
Yep.
And you're another type of person who has had a unique life and has, like.
Good, good, good transition.
Was it?
Yeah.
Oh, damn.
I thought it was going to be.
I think, I don't know what's going to happen.
But, no.
You have a show on Netflix called Meat Eater.
Mm-hmm.
And you guys are in your, you guys are.
We made a lot.
We've been, we've been, we've got, I got a 13th season of the show coming out.
We've made many, many, many episodes over the years.
Yeah.
And they, they appear in a lot of different places.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
We've seen some of them on YouTube.
I've gotten to enjoy some of them.
So, thank you so much, man.
It's definitely exciting to watch.
It's really beautifully shot, too, you guys' show.
You went turkey hunting with Mike Waddell, I heard.
Oh, yeah, I did.
Yeah, I went down there.
And it was fun, but it's like, I don't know.
Some of the tur, it's like, they just seem like an unwell bird.
What do you mean?
Turkeys.
Unwell in what way?
They just don't seem like they're, like a top, like, I don't want to say like
they,
on it, like, I don't want to say uneducated.
They just seem like they, like they got picked last for gym, kind of.
Dude, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
About a turkey?
Yeah.
If you look at a turkey, it just seemed like they, like.
They can't do, they just are.
Yeah, they just, I don't know.
They weren't doing a lot.
Dude, it's a big-ass bird.
His head changes colors from red to white to blue.
He tastes good.
Yeah, he's basically the Toby Keith of jerky.
He fucking walk around the woods making insane noises.
Yeah.
But, I mean, like, it's an omnivore.
It can eat all kinds of, it can eat all kinds of stuff.
Okay.
Well, now you're selling me on it.
Yeah.
Waddell didn't tell me.
Waddell didn't tell me all that.
Name a better bird.
It's like, you could be, oh, a bald eagle.
He eats a bunch of rotten fish from the side.
Like, a turkey, that's America's bird, dude.
Are you familiar with a gentleman named Ben Franklin?
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you know that Franklin didn't like the bald eagle
as a national bird?
Because it was a scavenger?
And he threw out, it's debated how honest to you,
it's debated if he was trying to be a smartass or not.
Ben Franklin said, America ought to go with the wild turkey
because at least it's a vain bird.
What does vain bird mean?
It's beautiful.
He puffs his feather, the male puffs his feathers all out.
Yeah.
He's got a snood.
He's got like a, imagine like a pecker on your,
laid across your face.
Okay.
That changes all the time.
It gets erect.
Wait.
It goes limp.
Turkey has that?
Yeah, dude.
It's like, to just, to like come in and like start disparaging a turkey
right off the top of the bat.
You don't know me.
I'm just, okay.
I'm just saying.
It's like very, it's like, it's disrespectful.
That is a, that is a, that is the best,
that's the best bird in our, in our country.
Okay.
Well, look, I didn't, no one's ever, first of all,
lobbied for this animal in front of me.
Well, Franklin, well, not in front of you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
I didn't know him personally.
Yeah.
And you don't know how old I am.
Maybe I was there, but no, Waddell did not.
Waddell was just like, we're killing these MFers.
And he used some slurs.
I'll say that straight up.
He used a couple of slurs and I was like,
I don't think those are for birds or animalia even.
But he was like, I think I, I think I just had a unique angle into it.
Tell me more about that nose wiener that they got or that nose.
It's called a snood.
Okay.
Bring it up.
They got, see, you get into Turkey anatomy, man.
They got a lot going on for them.
They got a snood.
There's not many birds that have like basically a,
so they have a cloaca.
Like birds have a cloaca, like called like a uni hole.
All their actions, defecating, taking a leak.
Well, when they defecate and take a leak,
it's kind of a single deal.
Okay.
I'll do that.
They have sex through the uni hole.
When they shit, you can tell a male from a female
by the shape of its shit.
Wow.
A male throws a J shake hooked shit.
Mm-hmm.
So there's not many birds.
You can sex his shit.
Yeah.
He's got a snood.
They got spurs.
Sometimes an inch and a quarter long for fighting.
Oh, yeah.
You ever been to a cock fight?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
They got spurs.
Look at that.
Some of those spurs are so big,
you can hang the turkey by the spur on a branch.
That's called a limb hanger.
That means he's huge.
Mm-hmm.
Some got a, they got like, pull up the beard.
Pull up the beard.
Pull up the beard.
They got a beard, which is actually a feather.
Look at that.
Hold on.
Let me see it.
When he's big, when that, when that gets so big
that it drags on the ground, you know what you call them?
Rope dragger.
Oh, yeah.
So you got limb hangers, rope draggers.
Yeah.
Like, it's just, you kind of.
Okay.
I could, you know, I could walk out of this room right now.
Okay.
And it'd be like, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
But I'm not going to do that.
Well, first of all.
Yeah, because you talk bad about the America's Bird.
I appreciate that.
And look, I'm glad that I know.
I'm not going to get up and storm out, dude.
You might.
Yeah.
But look, you won't storm out without teaching me something.
I'll say that.
And I didn't know any of that.
Turkeys are great.
Yeah.
Their head changes from red, white to blue.
It's kind of like they knew that they were going to be America's Bird.
Oh, yeah.
They're the fucking Trace Adkins of birds.
When they get real excited.
Like, when you see, when he's coming in and his head gets that whitish color to
it,
he is fired up.
Okay.
So what does that mean when their head changes to different colors?
You want blue.
Look at this guy.
Blue and white, like blue and white.
He's torn between some feelings.
Yeah.
Blue and white.
He's he's in.
He's like blue and white.
He's coming in.
You hunt him in the spring during the breeding season.
Okay.
Blue and white.
He's coming in and he's he's.
He's thinking he's thinking about ass.
Okay, so he's looking for sex, but Waddell had us.
We were in the off.
See, they were in the locker room and we went to chase him.
They were not even on the field.
They were fucking back there, you know, getting physical there.
I mean, we were in some.
I was like, should we even?
Yeah.
Some of them had their towels around their necks.
They were sitting there texting their wives.
Like there was the off season.
If he's coming in, like he's coming in, you see a blue head.
Okay.
And then all of a sudden, you know, he's coming in.
He's all puffed out and they did another thing.
So I know I'm sorry.
Well, they got so they got the big you heard the big gobble.
Yes.
All right.
If you're if you're telling a turkey hunting story and you get to the part of
the story where like picture you're telling a story that has a gun in it.
Okay.
And we get to the part of the story where the gun goes off.
You go like, and I heard bang, right?
It's not what it sounds like.
Right.
But you go back and then.
Yeah.
A friend of mine is Latvian.
And when they hear when they get to a part of a story where the gun goes off,
they say blouch.
Okay.
So if you're telling a turkey story and he gobbles, it's hard to make the gobble
noise.
So in a story, you'd go.
Yeah, but it's like.
But if you when he's coming in, like if he's coming in and he thinks he's
coming into a hen,
you're making a hen noise.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the noise that the man that that like Michael Waddell was making and he
makes that noise really well.
Oh, yeah.
He's he's the best of the best.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, he was calling a couple of fucking.
But I mean, even some busty chicks from the gas station.
He was like he was competitive.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he's making a hen noise.
And what's what's.
Oh, dude, people were dudes were coming out of the closet when he was doing it.
I mean, he'll fucking he'll call.
He'll he'll get you.
He'll get people go.
Oh, he's very good.
And what what like what would happen and what would happen in the natural
setting there is the gobbler is just cruising.
Okay.
And the gobbler is that big male turkey.
He's a big male turkey.
He's cruising.
And chicks are supposed to hear him.
And like he doesn't he's kind of got his little route and they're supposed to
kind of come into him.
So he's on the highway going down the highway and they're kind of coming on the
ramps.
Okay.
The on ramps to catch him.
Oh, it's kind of what you're trying to do is you're trying to get him to be
like, well, I'm going to go over there and have a seat like that's not normally
what I would do.
Right.
But what is going on over there?
I need to go out of my way now to go have a seat what's happening if when he's
coming, you see like a blue head and he's coming and he's going like this.
You can't hear it.
Like if you hear it, he's in range.
He's going.
Here's what it sounds like.
He's okay.
He's doing two things.
He's spitting.
Okay.
He's making a noise.
We always goof on it and go like, but it's like he's making a noise with his
mouth.
Okay.
And he's taking his wings and on the ground.
Okay.
And that is the, that is like extremely exciting