Ep. 423: Render - Villines Logging
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Bear Grease podcast, host Clay Newcomb along with Bear Newcomb and Josh “Landbridge” Spielmaker are joined by Bear Grease featured cousins Caylon and Cody Villines, as well as Waylon Villines. The Villines family has been logging Newton County, Arkansas, for generations, and they’ve got the stories to prove it. Join us as we talk about Ozark heritage, the transition from old-school timbering to the modern era, and the grit it takes to remain a woodsman in the 21st century.
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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. |
| 0:47.3 | This is a great debate what to do right now. Do we stay in the heated conversation? Very interesting conversation we were having, but we would have to inform the listeners what we're talking to. Or do we just start off and tell who's here? Hard to say. |
| 1:06.6 | It's a roll of the dice. I'm going to start off. We're going to go in the middle. So I've got to my right, |
| 1:13.1 | and I'm going to introduce him first, then I'll introduce the others. This is weird going this direction. |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah, it is. But in the Toccova's hot seat is my friend, Kaylon's Bland's. You guys just entered into, |
| 1:23.8 | like, right in the middle of our conversation of when like when was it October the third? |
| 1:30.5 | Probably. |
| 1:31.2 | I think I think Kayla and I were bear hunting on October the third and he killed a really nice bear. |
| 1:37.6 | I mean, I was. |
| 1:39.4 | I'd say 350. |
| 1:41.1 | What did you think? |
| 1:42.3 | What did we think? |
| 1:43.2 | I can't really remember what we settled on. |
| 1:45.2 | I think you said for sure 325, so. Okay. A big old boar, killed in National Forest. |
| 1:52.5 | Just, we just went hunting for a day and a half. And so we skin this bear in the woods |
| 2:01.0 | quartered it up |
| 2:02.6 | basically left |
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