#879 - Steven Rinella

Joe Rogan (0:00)

He's about to click the button and we're waiting on him.

I hate for you to drop some awesome knowledge.

And we're live, that's it. Steven Rinella, the only hunting show ever in the history of MeatEater, or excuse me, of Netflix, of MeatEater. That's an awesome accomplishment, man. You're the first hunting show. See, I tell everybody that if you want to watch a hunting show, like people watch hunting shows and they go, oh, these shows, what the fuck are these guys doing? They're sitting around and they go, well, look at that, look at the size of this book, man. This is amazing. Your show is so different from all those other shows. It belongs on something else. It belongs on the History Channel or the Discovery Channel or something more mainstream. So I'm glad that Netflix picked it up.

Steven Rinella (0:41)

Oh, man, I'm delighted. They picked up 32 episodes.

I'm glad we got to this plug-in part right away. Right away? Yeah, because if I turn people off and they tune out, they'll remember this, man. This is great. I can just walk out the fucking door right now.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

How many episodes have you guys done, all told?

Steven Rinella (0:58)

I don't know. More than 75, way more than 75, I think.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

So they're sort of trying it out.

Steven Rinella (1:05)

I just remember one day we had a little, I remember one day us having a drink to celebrate us having wrapped number 50, and that was a long time ago. So we're way past that now.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Wow.

Steven Rinella (1:16)

That's a good question.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

It's a lot of weeks.

Steven Rinella (1:18)

Upwards of 75

Joe Rogan (1:20)

It's a lot of weeks out in the field.

Steven Rinella (1:21)

Yeah.

The 100th, yeah, we'll probably have a little party on the 100th episode. But no, it's been great, man. I mean, the Netflix thing is really just, I mean, it really exposed to a lot of people. And it was cool. Instead of starting with season one, they put up season five and six on Netflix, which is nice because it makes people real curious about the other ones.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

There's one episode that's probably one of my favorite episodes you ever did where you never shot anything. So one episode with you alone deer hunting, you started talking about your dad.

Steven Rinella (1:53)

Yeah, Arizona Cousadier, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

No music.

Steven Rinella (1:57)

Lot of ambient sound, real loud wind.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

Who makes those choices, like those editorial choices?

Steven Rinella (2:02)

That was one of our editors, kind of one of our core editors that's been doing it for a long time, a guy by the name of Guy. Yeah, he did that. And at first I was like, huh, what? Because he wanted to do one, no music, there's no VO in it. And we're pretty VO heavy sound, pretty tend to be VO.

Like I do a lot of narrating.

In fact, I was just writing some narration for the Haunt United recently. But I do a lot of narrating and then we just did one where there's no narrating. And I think a lot of times it comes down to how talkative I'm feeling in the field. And yeah, just for whatever reason, I was suffering a little bit of exhaustion or something, I don't know. And I just did a lot of rambling. And then when he started cutting it together, he just wanted to run it like that with no sound at all. We want to do one now with no music at all, no voiceover, no narration just all spoken to camera, no other people there. So everything just like not delivered as dialogue, but just like to camera addressing. We talk now about doing one that has no words in it, but it's all music.

I was looking for like excitement to register on Joe's face. And I got the opposite.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

Yeah, well, that's one of the things that I think is most ridiculous about a lot of hunting shows is how terrible the music is.

Some of the music choice is just like, what did you guys just go to fucking, what is that I program that you have on your Mac? What is that? A garage, garage band?

Steven Rinella (3:41)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:42)

Pick up some beats and just shove it in there.

Steven Rinella (3:44)

I don't know the name of the system that we use, but it's a searchable database of music, like a catalog of music.

Joe Rogan (3:52)