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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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n this episode of Bear Grease, part two of our Conman series on the double life of Asa Forrest Carter, Clay Newcomb dives into the gritty details of the violence, hate, and conspiracy philosophies of the first 45 years of his life and how, in the last decade of his life, he transformed into an unrecognizable, “Cherokee Indian” author who wanted to be America’s next Hemmingway – and almost did it. Once again, author of Unmasking the Klansman, Dr. Dan T Carter and Steve Rinella of MeatEater lead the way as his guests. Brace yourself because this winding trail will be treacherous as they talk about the beating of jazz singer Nat King Cole, read from the Unabomber’s Manifesto, and begin to understand how Asa Carter did what he did. We’re going neck deep into the mind of a Conman. We really doubt you’re gonna wanna miss this one…
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0:00.0 | I started going door to door trying to find out something about the most famous writer |
0:09.4 | of this area, man named Acer Carter, who rolled onto the pin name of Forest Carter. |
0:15.6 | She said, get out of here and don't come back. |
0:19.8 | This is part two of our conman series on the double life of Acer Forest Carter. |
0:25.4 | We're diving into the gritty details of the violence, hate, and conspiracy philosophies |
0:31.4 | that theme the first 45 years of his life and how in the last decade of his life, he transformed |
0:37.9 | into an unrecognizable Cherokee Indian author who wanted to be America's next himmingway. |
0:44.3 | And he almost did it. Once again, author of unmasking the clansmen, Dr. Dan T. Carter, |
0:51.3 | and Steve Runella of Mediter, lead the way as my guests. |
0:56.1 | Brace yourself because our windy trail will be treacherous as we'll talk about the beating of |
1:01.8 | jazz singer, Nat King Cole, read from the Unibombers Manifesto, and we'll begin to understand |
1:08.7 | how Acer Carter did what he did. We're going neck deep into the mind of a conman. |
1:15.4 | For real, I don't think you're going to want to miss this one. |
1:18.5 | If you were shooting for race to instill racial hatred, he missed the mark. |
1:23.6 | If you're shooting to make you love your grandparents? Yeah. |
1:35.0 | My name is Clay Nukum and this is the Bear Grease Podcast where we'll explore things |
1:40.6 | forgotten but relevant, search for inside and unlikely places and where we'll tell the story |
1:47.2 | of Americans who live their lives close to the land, presented by F. H. F. Geer, American made, |
1:55.6 | purpose-built hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore. |
2:08.9 | While I was in the middle of doing my research on the Wallace Geobiography, George Wallace, I watched |
2:15.5 | the educational little tree climb from being a university press book with 5,000, |
2:20.6 | printing of 5,000 books. Suddenly it was 100,000, 200,000 and it was on the New York Times bestseller list. |
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