Ep. 413: Render - Boots, Bucks, and Willard the Mule
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Bear Grease Render, host Clay Newcomb—alongside Bear Newcomb, Dr. Misty Newcomb, and Josh “Landbridge” Spielmaker—is joined by Clay’s squirrel-hunting “sensei,” Michael Lanier. The crew covers a wide range of topics, from Clay’s trophy deer “Jimminy Christmas” and his relationship with his Tecovas boots to the pressing question of whether he needs a haircut. The conversation eventually goes full mule when Michael brings his trusty mule, Willard, into the studio, sparking a deeper discussion about the recent Bear Grease Podcast episode on Ty Evans.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:18.6 | My name is Clay Newcomb, |
| 0:20.4 | and this is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render, |
| 0:25.4 | where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual Bear Grease podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Presented by FHF Gear, American-made, purpose-built, hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore. |
| 0:50.8 | Well, today is a, we've got a lot of ground to cover. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm very excited about all the things we're going to talk about. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm mainly excited about having Misty Newcomb back on the podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | No doubt. |
| 1:01.3 | After a long time being gone. |
| 1:03.0 | I thought she got fired in a while. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah, there's a lot of rumors that go around that people get fired from the render. |
| 1:10.2 | Only like four people have ever been fired from the render. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm just kidding. |
| 1:14.7 | That was a joke. |
| 1:15.6 | No one laughed. |
| 1:16.5 | No one's ever been fired from the render. |
| 1:18.6 | I was curious enough, I was one of them, but I just didn't know yet. |
| 1:21.2 | No one's ever been fired for the render. |
| 1:23.2 | Just people come in and out of availability. |
| 1:27.2 | People, things happen, and they just, I mean, like Malachi Nichols. |
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