Ep. 430: Freezing to Death
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Bear Grease Podcast, host Clay Newcomb welcomes Rob Argue, a retired Canadian conservation office to share the harrowing events when he and his partner’s canoe capsizes in icy water in the Ontario backcountry. This life-threatening event tests his physical, mental, and emotional limits and capacity as hypothermia sets in as they put their trust in an emergency locator beacon. In this story you may even learn some life-saving tips if you find yourself in a similar situation.
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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 and be on |
| 0:39.5 | the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. If we don't get picked up by this helicopter, |
| 0:47.8 | we probably will hit the other shoreline either at or shortly after dark. And then my concern is, am I even going to be able to |
| 0:56.0 | walk around to get firewood? Are my fingers going to work for me to light that fire? |
| 1:02.1 | This is the story of a near-death experience of a game warden in northern Canada. It's kind of |
| 1:08.3 | weird to me how humans are so attracted to these near-death stories. |
| 1:12.2 | I know that I sure am. I think it's a primitive built into our DNA thing because these |
| 1:17.7 | stories are loaded with payoff. They teach us how to survive and are simply entertaining stories |
| 1:24.2 | and both of these things are connected. On this episode, you're going to learn a new way to die, which also might teach you a new way to survive. |
| 1:36.1 | Cold water is a deadly killer. |
| 1:38.4 | I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one. |
| 1:41.8 | And hey, don't forget about our new Bear Grease YouTube channel and |
| 1:45.3 | Instagram page. Bear John and I have got videos coming out every Wednesday. Thank you for the |
| 1:52.2 | support. My name is Clay Newcomb and this is the Bear Grease podcast where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search for insight in unlikely places, and where we'll tell the story of Americans who live their lives close to the land. |
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