Joe Pickett
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Oct 5, 2026
LamarPANELIST
And another one that follows along with that is by C.J.
LamarPANELIST
Box, and it's called J- it's Joe Pickett.
LamarPANELIST
The Joe Pickett series.
LamarPANELIST
He's a game warden.
LamarPANELIST
And when I first heard this, I thought, "Well, that's ridiculous." Oh, no, no, no, no.
speaker_2HOST
His decency and his humor deflate the grandeur of the rancher's myth.
speaker_3HOST
You see a very similar dynamic, but with even less authority, in CJ Box's novels featuring Joe Pickett, starting with Open Season.
speaker_3HOST
Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming, and I love this detail.
speaker_3HOST
He lives in a state-issued house that still smells like the failure of the guy who had the job before him.
speaker_2HOST
Game wardens occupy a fascinating space in the Western hierarchy because as the analysis of Open Season points out, an endangered species case is almost never actually about the animals.
speaker_3HOST
Right.
speaker_3HOST
Can you explain the mechanism of how that works? Because if Joe Pickett finds an endangered species on someone's property, why does the whole town suddenly want to kill him?
speaker_2HOST
Because the presence of an endangered species triggers federal environmental protections, which immediately dictates how the land can be used.
Jake NicholsHOST
And it's the interesting nature of falconers.
Jake NicholsHOST
If you read C.J. Bach's Joe Pickett series, you know that Pickett's best friend, Nate Romanowski, is a falconer.
Jake NicholsHOST
And in it, we learn so much about falconry, including the relationship between human and bird, which is...
Jake NicholsHOST
Interesting.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
You kind of follow it.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
And I'm a big fan of Joe Pickett.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
You guys know the Joe Pickett novels? Actually, it takes place in Wyoming.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
It's so cool.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
I love that.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
And there's like 30 books.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
Every year, there's a new book.
Mark MaggioriGUEST
So I'm always waiting for the new Joe Pickett.
Tony FaminoHOST
He's written his book series that's popular.
Tony FaminoHOST
It's called the Joe Pickett Books.
Tony FaminoHOST
And Joe Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming.
Tony FaminoHOST
And a lot of the books talk about hunting and fishing and all of that.
Tony FaminoHOST
And it's not necessarily his books.