Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• When it comes to writing, the sum is greater than the parts:
  • “None of the instruments mean anything in absence of the orchestra” – Steven Rinella
    • Writing beautiful prose is great, but if the sentences don’t flow well and tell an amazing story, the writing isn’t worth much 
•  As a hunter, Steve has had a lot of encounters with death:
  • “I think that I’m hyperaware of death and how it comes” – Steven Rinella
    • “I have very close proximity to it…I think that a lot of people don’t haven’t had that but if they did, they would view everything in their life differently” 
      • When you observe the process of life to death, you start to look at the world differently
        • “I have a hyper-realistic sense of what it means to be alive, like what goes into life”
• Since COVID hit, many people moved out of big cities into less populated areas like Montana
  • This also means more game licenses are going to be sold. Wisconsin sold 40% more fishing licenses this Spring than a year ago. 
    • Since people can’t travel out of the country and most events and festivals have been canceled, more people are going camping, hiking, and spending time outdoors.

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Steve Rinella (@SteveRinella) is the host of the Netflix Original series MeatEater and The MeatEater Podcast. He's also the author of six books dealing with wildlife, hunting, fishing and wild game cooking, including the bestselling MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook: Recipes and Techniques for Every Hunter and Angler.

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