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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Luke McFadden is a 27-year-old, first-generation waterman on the Chesapeake Bay. In this episode of the Bear Grease Podcast, Clay Newcomb invites Luke to tell his story of how determination combined with a love for the outdoors, fishing, and the water, propelled him down a one-way path to becoming a crabber. His experience shows how he embraced challenges, and with thinking outside the box, created a whole new way to engage with customers and create a social media empire.
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0:00.0 | If you would find that we have just installed our brand spiggy new sweet giant gun safe from American security. |
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1:00.0 | This This is it. There is zero plan B. There's no safety net. There is nothing. In this episode, I'd like to introduce you to a waterman from the Northeast United States. |
1:18.0 | He's a native of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. |
1:21.0 | His name is Luke McFadden, and he's a first-generation crabber. Through heck, high |
1:26.2 | water boat fires and pure grit and wit, he's built a direct-to-consumer crabbing business that's changing the industry and impacting |
1:34.6 | his community. |
1:35.6 | And through the process, he's built a social media empire. |
1:40.7 | You're going to be entertained and inspired when we hear Luke's life story. |
1:46.0 | I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one. |
1:49.0 | You are a crabber and you will be a crabber if you die broke or if you die rich if you die out |
1:56.7 | there trying to be a crabber. My name is Clay Newcombe and this is the Bear Grease Podcast where we'll explore things |
2:12.4 | forgotten but relevant |
2:14.4 | search for insight and unlikely places and where we'll tell the story of Americans |
2:20.2 | who live their lives close to the land. |
2:23.0 | Presented by FHF Gear, |
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