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Bear Grease

Ep. 425: American Loggers - Part 2: Teddy Villines

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.97.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Bear Grease Podcast, host Clay Newcomb sits down with Teddy Villines, father to Cody Villines and uncle to Caylon Villines featured in the last episode.  He is a lifelong Ozark logger shaped by generations of hard work, handshake deals, and respect for the land. Teddy shares stories from a life spent in the woods, including close calls, brutal injuries, and a terrifying runaway log-truck wreck that forced him to confront who is truly in control.

More than a logging story, this episode is about character, faith, and legacy. What it means to provide for your family, keep your word, and face life’s dangers with humility.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps.

0:10.3

12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout

0:15.0

2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love.

0:20.1

The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba.

0:23.4

If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode.

0:28.2

My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree.

0:36.5

Check it out now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel

0:38.9

and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months.

0:45.4

And I said, Lord, save me.

0:48.3

That's all I had time to do.

0:51.0

And I hit timber.

0:53.1

I hit it as like bombs went off.

0:56.2

In part one of American loggers, we met the cousins, Cody, and Kalin Villains,

1:01.8

who are multi-generational loggers from the Ozarks.

1:05.3

We heard about both of their fathers, Teddy and Eddie Villains,

1:08.6

and how they've lived off the land, logging, hide hunting coons,

1:12.9

digging ginseng, raising cattle selling firewood, even using horses and mules to skid logs until

1:19.5

the 1990s. This episode is about Teddy Velines, Cody's father, a humble, lifelong logger, and a legend in his own right. And once again,

1:31.8

this whole interview will be leading us to a single story of danger in an existential moment

1:38.3

of clarity. I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one. And hey, please check out the new

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