Game Wardens and Grizzlies with Author CJ Box | The MeatEater Podcast

Steven Rinella talks with author CJ Box, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.
Topics discussed: Cool stage names; Three Inch Teeth. the 24th Joe Pickett game warden novel out now; when a CJ Box book mentions Steve and MeatEater; novels with an honest portrayal or time and place; how CJ’s wife was called to be on the jury for the Wyoming corner crossing case; get our limited edition “Fresh Set of Eyes…” t-shirt at the MeatEater store now; Clay Newcomb’s high school drawing of a future man with a sci-fi gun pointed at a wild hog; how the next Joe Pickett novel should center around a great vault toilet rescue; audience variations on Steve’s beans saying; NSFW (not safe for work) bird names; how the groundhog can’t tell the weather; hardwired to be a writer; and more.
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[@robertmiller8529]

looking forward to hearing how Joe Pickett destroys his next state agency pickup 😂. CJ Box is my favorite author.

[@ashleysawtelle8015]

I lived in a small town in Wyoming for over a decade... I was driving through said town and noticed a WGFD pickup parked at the local mechanic's shop. The first thought to cross my mind, literally, was, "What the heck did Joe do now?" That that was my first thought at seeing the truck, to me, is evidence of a very talented and persuasive writer!

[@Wtz-jx3wh]

Poor Mingus, I hope he gets better

[@andrewlyford1]

Mingus is cals dog

[@Wtz-jx3wh]

@@andrewlyford1 Mingus is the dog he got from the pound he’s been training, Cals bird dog is snorticus

[@ddougprice]

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[@scottvessey]

BAHAHAHA WE LOVED THE SONG AT THE END!

[@edwardmedvec5176]

yea, they should definatly close the show with that song more offten. I'm going try to use that saying in more conversations.

[@mikeyantis8067]

Lived in Wyoming 50 years ago in a small town named Clearmont. Was a sheep herder one summer for local rancher in the Bighorn mts. Love your books. The stories bring back memories of locations traveled when I was much younger. Please keep up writing stories about the intermountain west.

[@ashleysawtelle8015]

What was it like being a sheepherder?! I've always wanted to do that for a summer!

[@mikeyantis8067]

Was a great experience. Got fresh food delivered every 2 weeks. Slept in a sheep wagon. Crystal clear night skies. Road horse each day with sheep dog. Fed predator controller would stop by every few weeks because I was one of few sheep herder who spoke English. Could pick up radio station at night from Denver who played mystery theaters. Simpler times, fantastic experience. Could make a good story.

[@ashleysawtelle8015]

@@mikeyantis8067 Thanks for your awesome reply! If you wrote the book, I'd DEFINITELY read it! I bought the running gear for an old-fashioned sheep wagon and brought the old wooden wheels to a wheelwright in South Dakota to have the metal tires and hubs tightened. I plan to build the sheep wagon using that running gear and those wheels one day. Sounds like an amazing adventure! Thanks again for sharing!

[@WevertonNeno-cs4bv]

I'm from Brazil, I really like watching your hunting adventures

[@jacobcampbell1548]

Dr. Randall's deadpan stare into the camera while Steve explains his bean saying for the 20th podcast in a row since he invented it

[@tj-kv6vr]

i have found that happens often.

[@kennywolfjr.6413]

I am beyond excited for this. I have read every Joe Pickett novel, some of them twice.

[@Eric-dr5bj]

Which would you recommend as a starting point?

[@kennywolfjr.6413]

@@Eric-dr5bj just start in order, Open season. They're all good, but if you jump around some surprises will be ruined

[@AGuyAnd2BirdDogs]

@@Eric-dr5bj Here’s the list in chronological order 1 Open Season (2001) 2 Savage Run (2002) 3 Winterkill (2003) 4 Trophy Hunt (2004) 4.5 Dull Knife (2005) 5 Out of Range (2005) 6 In Plain Sight (2006) 6.5 The Master Falconer (2006) 7 Free Fire (2007) 8 Blood Trail (2008) 9 Below Zero (2009) 10 Nowhere to Run (2010) 11 Cold Wind (2011) 12 Force of Nature (2012) 13 Breaking Point (2013) 14 Stone Cold (2014) 14.5 Shots Fired (2014) 15 Endangered (2015) 16 Off the Grid (2016) 17 Vicious Circle (2017) 18 The Disappeared (2018) 19 Wolf Pack (2019) 20 Long Range (2020) 21 Dark Sky (2021) 22 Shadows Reel (2022) 23 Storm Watch (2023) 24 Three-Inch Teeth (2024 Dull Knife and Shots Fired, the master falconer are short stories in the book Shots Fired, you don’t really need them since they aren’t brought up in the other main book timeframe Past force of nature, the series tends to get more outlandish since Nate gets more reading time in every book after that

[@cragginshred]

Most of the way through the book and it's typical CJ story telling. The narrator David Chandler brings it to life as always!

[@flatsquatch]

The claw on the alien in Clay's picture is spot on! Y'all need to look into The Abduction of ELK HUNTER CARL HIGDON ! in the 70s! So interesting!😮

[@patricklovato3935]

Steve you’re a bad ass hunter and I admire you! I wish you had more hunting videos. I have watched all of them at least 3 times.

[@alexanderdenney3895]

It would be a real cool 20 minute video if they were to swing a camera around that room and just do a little recap on all of the knick knacks on the walls. The very set camera angles do a great job of capturing the people, but I've been staring at the front of the Super Cub behind Steve for the past 50 episodes.

[@user-mq1sl6dx5z]

My two favorite authors on one stage this was great

[@twrecks9119]

It would be awesome to see a collaboration with Pickett teaming up with Longmire.

[@antlerking69]

Absolutely awesome show folks...

[@user-hu1xg8dl4z]

Thank you wonderful 😊

[@shanewells9067]

Great job ❤

[@Will-ge7ri]

Did we just get a “my buddy and my husband” reference

[@ChasinStuds]

Love me some Joe Pickett and John Tavner great choice of lead actor.

[@justinmadair]

I hope he's going to be on trivia. I have a feeling he'd give them a run for their money.

[@boydyates9454]

The joke about stacking boxes while being asked about a homicide is from John Mulaney. He's describing every Law and Order episode.

[@PBurk78]

i read all the picket books, its one of 6 series i cant miss a book of

[@jbred6049]

I'm diggin' the pump action sawed off AK.

[@fishduckdog]

Mow Beans 🫘!

[@chrisgriffith6503]

What first lite shirt is Steve wearing?

[@IncredibleHulk11235]

It's called an anapodoton.

[@scottvessey]

MOOOOOOOOOORE BEEEEEEEANS . POOOLE BEEEEANS. FRESH SET OF EYES. MORE BEANS. POLE BEANS.

[@JeremyReger]

29:12 MY GOD I LOVE CAL!!!! lol 🤜🤛

[@douglasodom4992]

Forst for the trees, man-forest for the trees.....or Apples and trees, apples and trees. 2 sayings special educators use-every. single. day. in regards to childrens behaviors and later meeting the parents.

[@jessetrudel6483]

Nice, i used to hunt gophers with my bow, and cut the tails off to tally them up

[@sparkywatts3072]

Mr. Box Knows. People are more willing to talk to you if you feign ignorance about their particular field of interest. Feigning ignorance is easier if you don't know anything about the subject matter. I'm a proud member of P.E.D.A. (people who eat delicious animals)

[@ethanray4064]

I've always loved CJ Box books. But boy I wouldn't want to live in Saddlestring. Too much riff raff in that town!

[@janmorse6948]

Steve, that west Michigan columnist wasn't Dave Ritchy was it?

[@dougwalton4831]

Love ya Steve but opossums do not hang by their tail they use it to keep from falling off of Limbs and possums are very awesome because they eat ticks I've got several that I feed in my backyard

[@jaredknapp8886]

North America's only native marsupial.

[@nathantavaglione5782]

I thought Clay's drawing was AI-generated because of the random and crazy scene it displayed.

[@WrechP]

I feel like the art for the shirt was heavily inspired by the Predator movies.

[@Chertoff88]

It's spelled schenectady but pronounced skaanectaadee. I was born there

[@WevertonNeno-cs4bv]

l'm duying to see yuor new hunts on Netflix,l'm yuor fan🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@dcollay17]

I see a diverse media company talking with the author of an excellent series that had a fun TV show which was cancelled. Also complaining about all the inaccuracies in the depictions of hunting, wildlife, etc in hollywood... get after it!

[@tj-kv6vr]

do some research, the Author pulled the plug on the show. But your right not discussing that was bad

[@AGuyAnd2BirdDogs]

@@tj-kv6vr Do some research, the author pulling the plug is called ‘canceling the show’ You didn’t really contradict anything he said It doesn’t matter if the network pulled the plug, or the author The show was still cancelled

[@dannyparker288]

You and your damn bean saying! You're trying to hard Steve! Lol!

[@JustinReed-lv1gc]

Is Steve going to make new seasons or did he stop and is just doing podcasts let me know because I just got Covid and I’m mad bored…

[@chrisd2424]

Anapodoton is “…” Ellipsis ends in an anapodoton, says my English lit masters degree wife.

[@NICKMITCH24V]

Punxsutawney Phil identifies as a meteorologist…… 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Eric-dr5bj]

He is just going off the Groundhog Almanac

[@jamesgranderson2890]

🤣😎😂

[@AGuyAnd2BirdDogs]

The Joe Pickett Series is good, but it really dropped off around Force Of Nature/ Endangered Just seems like a completely different writer when you compare the books from the beginning to now

[@woodsmn8047]

Game wardens never cease to do things that piss me off ...like one parking his pickup on roadside and coming down to streamside to check licenses and instead of me he goes to the place where my wife was squatting to take a pee in the bushes and then staying there to argue with us about that she didn't have a license because she didn't fish before finally coming to me where I was fishing ...he couldn't have the decency to give her a moment to finish before questioning her and that really pissed me off

[@tj-kv6vr]

so YOU say

[@woodsmn8047]

yes ..I do

[@tompeacock6674]

Live 1hour from Punxsutawney, Phil is the best taken care of ground hog in world he lives like a king

[@tompeacock6674]

One Phil since 1886, 39% accurate

[@gokickrocks]

keep hamburgering

[@timothyknutsen5212]

Why would you hunt a cougar with only one dog? Not a good idea unless you want to feed the cat.

[@wyattwilson4196]

Adam eakle wish ksl ourdoors

[@Alex-qf8xp]

the word is Anapodoton

[@hutehund9519]

Love the podcast, but, “fresh set of eyes...” is terrible. Enough already!

[@mikeschwarz453]

Steve interrupting is getting so old. I'm done for awhile... Peace

[@traviscarrolloutdoors9580]

Bye, thanks for letting us know

[@jasonclarke104]

It’s called having a conversation

[@JeremyReger]

I hope someone at @meateater is actually looking at the numbers... Ever since it went off the rails with the political and corporate nonsense the averages for the podcast are less than half as before.. it all started when Steven was in support of Trump and the classified docs... We're losing our audience and the voice because of it.. and Cal and Janis are the only ones who seem to be fighting for it..

[@flux_core_fx]

It goes to show, you can support whoever you want. As long as it's a Dem

[@JeremyReger]

@@flux_core_fx yeah that’s not it at all.. all these years Steven has been apolitical and has reached for both sides and has been very successful at it.. look at the numbers.. he’s losing an audience because of it.. we had 95% support.. now we might have 80-85%.. and we the outdoorsman are only 5%.. and the anti is 15%.. we are way outnumbered and unless we chose to correct ourselves all of this could be over fast.. just look at how many ballot box biology has come up in the last 5-6 years.. those are test cases and here we are.. its not about republican or democrat.. the Republican Party doesn’t exist anymore.. look at all those who’ve fled because of this nonsense.. and NOW is the time to start getting political?? The only president to ever get indicted, and on more charges than all the mob bosses combined.. the only president who’s been a r@pist.. it’s wild to me