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00:00:04 Speaker 1: Smell us now, lady, Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia mea podcast. Welcome to Meet Eater Radio Live. It’s one thirty pm Mountain time. That’s two thirty for our friends in Santa Claus, Indiana, on Wednesday, December seventeenth, and we’re live from Meet Eater HQ and Bozeman. We are currently at home with friends and family because it is Christmas Day. I’m your host, Spencer, joined today by Corey and Max. On today’s show, we’ll interview David Fabian about having his elk skull stolen by a rancher while hunting public land in Wyoming. Then we’ll have some top…

(Continued from Part 2.) TRAVEL LIGHT The more belongings you have, the less the chances are that you’ll catch a ride in a timely manner. A single backpack will be more appealing than a bunch of gear. One important thing to keep in mind when you get picked up is to never put your gear in the trunk of a car, if at all possible. The chance of anyone driving off with your gear is minimal but as with all things, probabilities have to be weighed against consequences. Bugging out after losing all your gear would be a huge challenge,…

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On December 26th, 1776, after crossing the Delaware River, Washington led his men against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured, with negligible losses to the Americans, significantly boosting their flagging morale. — December 26, 2004: The Indian Ocean region Tsunami took more than 250,000 lives. — And on December 26, 1848, the first gold seekers arrived in Panama en route to San Francisco. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A…

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. announced the return of an iconic American over/under shotguns with the Ruger Red Label III, renewing Ruger’s commitment to being a full-line manufacturer of firearms. The original Ruger Red Label was launched in 1977, and quickly earned a reputation for rugged reliability, classic looks and American-made quality. Ruger maintains that legacy with the Red Label III, while upgrading it with premium materials and world-class fit and finish. Built by highly skilled craftsmen at one of the world’s premier makers of fine firearms, Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company (CSMC), the Red Label III marks a new era…

Hodgdon Powder Company has released the 2026 Hodgdon Annual Manual. It features data for Hodgdon, Accurate Powder, IMR, Ramshot and Winchester Smokeless Propellants. In total, more than 12,000 loads are represented, with updates for more than 116 rifle and pistol cartridges and more than 1,000 shotshell loads. “This year’s Annual Manual reflects our continued commitment to both new and experienced reloaders,” said Aaron Oelger, vice president of marketing at Hodgdon. “For 2026, we expanded our educational focus with a series of Reloading 101 articles for beginners and advanced Reloading 301 features for seasoned handloaders. This edition also includes a memorial honoring…

There were approximately 8 million combat deaths in World War I. After artillery, machine guns were the second leading cause of combat casualties. Some estimates put the total number of deaths related to machine gun fire in World War I at more than 2 million. Most folks remember the rapid-fire, death-dealing British Vickers, German MG08, French Hotchkiss, Russian Maxim and American Browning guns. Often forgotten among the fraternity of Great War “grim reapers” is the Austrian Schwarzlose. German-born Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose was a bit latecomer to the early machine gun design community. But what he lacks in notoriety, his design…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the third and final flop from the Meat Eater Live Christmas Tour. Today finds us in Austin, Texas, at the esteemed restaurant Die do Way, owned and operated by Jesse Griffiths, who I argue, not only is America’s greatest chef. I mean, maybe I don’t know that’s a big claim. He is definitely America’s greatest wild game cook and chef. And we’re in his restaurant. What I used to like about this restaurant. 00:00:26 Speaker 2: But I used to like about it, I. 00:00:28 Speaker 1: Need you know. Last night some people…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: That’s kind of the beauty the program. 00:00:01 Speaker 2: Though, if you’re doing the program, you’re gonna the residual effect of following one of these tracks will be to lose some weight. And the idea that hey, if I get stronger put on a little bit more muscle, that it will burn up more fat and you will have the strength. There’s you know, I think obviously we can get into the weeds and super like analytical on what we’re trying to do with like get you strong. 00:00:25 Speaker 1: But for most of these…