Ep. 400: Gas-Powered Conservation with Tate Morgan of Sons of Smokey
Cal of the Wild
MeatEater
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, Cal talks with Tate Morgan, founder of Sons of Smokey and the Gambler 500: a road rally, festival, and North America's largest public lands trash pick up. Cal and Tate discuss how Sons of Smokey went from launching an eight-man COVID-era road race to creating an "anti-Burning Man" trash clean up powered by a unique phone app. Today, it's a near lawless public lands trash clean up where the number one rule is "don't be a dick." Long story short, everyone needs the SOS app.
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