Ep. 448: Render - The Mena Connection
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
As host Clay Newcomb rolls in from the Turkey woods with a fresh gobbler kill, special guests and Mena, Arkansas residents Gary and Judy “Juju” Newcomb join with Dr. Misty Newcomb, Bear Newcomb, and Josh “Landbridge” Spielmaker to discuss the Mena circus disaster of 1951 as well as the tragic story of the vigilante murder of Peter Berryman events detailed in the last episode of The Bear Grease Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
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| 0:28.9 | Light's new fieldwear gear at firstlight.com. My name is Clay Newcomb, and this is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render, |
| 0:54.6 | where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual Bear Grease podcast. |
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| 1:03.6 | I'm a cowboy boot man, and I've been wearing Tocobas for years. |
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| 1:23.2 | What you doing? |
| 1:24.4 | Welcome to the Bear Grease render. |
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| 1:30.8 | We've got some very special guests today. |
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