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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Bear Grease has been a surprising and rewarding journey of almost three years. Today we’re going back to the beginning with Episode 1: The Myth of the Southern Mountain Lion, with a peek into the genesis of Bear Grease.
There are two types of people in the South—those who’ve seen mountain lions and those who haven’t. Supposedly extirpated from the South, the native lion species has lived on through backwoods lore and many believe they’ve never left. But have they? Clay Newcomb explores the touchy topic, interviewing biologists, investigating two eye-witness sightings, and talking with a psychologist about how people can see things that aren’t real. This is a lesson in biology and human nature and a great story revealing the truth about South mountain lions.
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0:00.0 | Get ready for the best thing ever done on the blood-soaked story of the white-tailed deer skin trade of the 1700s. |
0:08.0 | It's meat-eaters American history, The Longhunters, 1761 to 1775. |
0:14.5 | Narrated by me, Clay Newcombe, and my good friend Stephen Ronella, |
0:19.0 | this audio book is the first installment in Meat Eater's American History series. |
0:24.4 | This is big. |
0:25.6 | It's a wild tale about a fascinating group of Back Woodsman |
0:29.4 | and a forgotten trade in the deer skins of North America's favorite big game animal. |
0:34.8 | Featuring the story of Daniel Boone, the long hunters, and the Native Americans that were |
0:40.4 | involved in the deer skin trade. |
0:43.0 | This era is what became the foundation of American deer hunting |
0:47.5 | and we have compiled a never before compiled amount of data. |
0:54.4 | And we've researched stuff that's never been researched before. |
0:57.5 | I'm serious, this is groundbreaking stuff, |
1:00.4 | and I'm thrilled to be a part of it. It's out on January 9th, but you can pre-order it now wherever |
1:06.4 | audio books are sold. That's Meateaters American History, The Longhunters, 1761 to 1775, available the Long hunters, Hunts, |
1:13.0 | 1775, available for pre-order now. |
1:16.0 | It seems like just yesterday, but on April the 7th, 2021, |
1:21.0 | almost three years ago, we released the first episode of the Bear |
1:25.7 | Greece podcast titled The Myth of the Southern Mountain Lion. You may remember it. |
1:31.6 | Today we're going to go back to that inaugural episode to celebrate, analyze, and if you've got a minute, |
1:40.1 | I'd like to give you some backstory on the Beargries podcast. |
1:43.4 | It's been a surprising journey for me. |
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