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Bear Grease

Ep. 414: This Country Life - Cold Hunter, Hot Gumbo

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.97.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week Brent's trying his hand at competition gumbo cooking. He and his friends from the Cache Bayou Hound and Mallard Club have entered a gumbo cooking contest. If it was a gumbo eating contest they'd win easily but it's not. Do they have the right stuff to come out on top, you'll have to listen and find out for yourself. He's also sharing a listener story about the perils of extreme cold weather duck hunting that could've ended tragically and almost did.  

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0:00.0

Welcome to this country life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves, from Coon Hunting to Trotlining and just general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences and life lessons.

0:17.2

This country life is presented by Case Knives from the Storemore Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcasts that Airways have to offer.

0:29.3

All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

0:33.2

I've got some stories to share.

0:38.6

Cold Hunter Hot hot gumbo.

0:42.5

I've been doing all manner of things here lately, except killing ducks of any significant

0:48.1

number.

0:49.5

That's okay.

0:50.4

I've been busy just the same and lending my talents as limited as they are to competition cooking.

0:57.0

That's right.

0:57.8

I'm a professional chef.

0:59.9

That's a lie.

1:01.7

Probably not the last one you'll hear today.

1:03.6

Just kidding.

1:04.8

Maybe.

1:05.7

I'm going to tell you what I mean in a minute, but first, I'm going to tell you a story.

1:10.3

I'm going to tell you a story.

1:22.5

Today's story is an important one for all of us to pay close attention to. It's as timely of a message as I've ever put out. It's a lesson on dealing with the cold at a time when just about everyone around the country

1:31.1

is fixing to be dealing with or is dealing with some record setting cold, and I mean right now.

1:39.1

It's from Greg Brown, who's living large and making tracks with his eight-year-old son,

1:47.2

Ty, up around Chelsea, Oklahoma.

1:54.6

Now, this story is from a time many moons ago, long before Ty was even a glimmer in Greg's eye.

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