Ep. 21: Pat Spinosa - Highlighting Rural America
In Pursuit
MeatEater
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Join Rich Froning and Pat Spinosa on this episode of In Pursuit, as they sit down to talk rural America, agriculture, and the “Like a Farmer” brand Pat built with NFL QB Josh Allen. They cover the pillars behind the movement—outdoors, sports, food, and country music—plus why the next generation is crucial for keeping farming strong in a changing world.
The conversation also digs into rancher-athlete culture, direct-to-consumer meat, processing realities, conservation, and a few fun detours—duck hunting stories and the never-ending chicken debate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Dude, so like a farmer, we've been doing it, Josh Allen, the Bill's quarterback, |
| 0:08.7 | and I started Like a Farmer podcast probably two years ago. |
| 0:11.8 | We had no idea what we were going to do, but we knew we wanted to highlight kind of rural America. |
| 0:17.2 | And we had a select few pillars under this umbrella that we really wanted to focus on. |
| 0:22.3 | You know, outdoors, and that's anything outdoors. |
| 0:24.2 | You don't get it. |
| 0:24.7 | I mean, just getting outdoors, whether it's hunting, fishing, farming. |
| 0:28.9 | Sports was a big thing. |
| 0:30.1 | I think we probably narrowed down sports that we've wanted to highlight a little more, |
| 0:36.5 | whether that's NASCAR, whether that's college football. You know, kind of those rural America. Southern, southern issues. Food. I mean, this is the biggest thing right now, not only where your food comes from, but who's growing your food. And then country music. I mean, dude, this is the number one genre streamed over the last two or three years and everybody's getting into it. |
| 0:54.3 | So Josh and I were like, look, if we can focus on those four pillars and do it the right way |
| 0:59.1 | and be authentic about it, then we feel like we have something. |
| 1:02.9 | So yeah, that's what we've been doing last two. |
| 1:08.6 | Out here, the stakes are real. |
| 1:11.6 | Effective preparation starts with fitness, but it requires so much more. |
| 1:16.6 | This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience, and skills needed to be ready when it matters the most. |
| 1:23.6 | Join me, Rich Broning, as we apply the decades of wisdom I have gained through training and competition to hunting in the backcountry. |
| 1:32.3 | This is In Pursuit. |
| 1:35.3 | Brought to you by Mountain Ops. |
| 1:39.4 | In collaboration with Mayhem Hunt. |
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