Ep. 463: This Country Life - Allis Chalmers and the Callapalooza
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Summer is just heating up and Brent's talking about duck hunting. Actually he attended an event in the Rice and Duck Capitol of the World in Stuttgart, Arkansas. He's gonna share how that event, "The Callapalooza", was started and detail his involvement. He's also sharing a listener story about an old tractor that'll warm your heart. All that and more on this week's "This Country Life" podcast.
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| 0:29.5 | Welcome to this country life. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm your host, Brent Reeves. |
| 0:33.8 | From Coon Hutton to Trotlining and just general country living, |
| 0:37.3 | I want you to stay a while as i share |
| 0:39.0 | my experiences and life lessons this country life is presented by case knives from the store |
| 0:46.2 | more studio on meat eaters podcast network bringing you the best outdoor podcast that airways have to |
| 0:53.2 | offer all right friends grab a chair or drop that tailgate. |
| 0:57.9 | I've got some stories to share. |
| 1:02.6 | Alice Chalmers and the Calla Pallusa. |
| 1:07.1 | One of the first installments of this weekly endeavor had a story in it about a tractor. |
| 1:13.7 | And this one is no different. |
| 1:15.4 | But instead of happening in South Arkansas, this isn't is way up yonder in New York. |
| 1:20.5 | Now, once we navigate that nostalgic tale that I know you're going to enjoy, I'm going to |
| 1:24.6 | catch you up on a recent event of the place that I attended just this last |
| 1:30.2 | weekend. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm going to tell you all about it. |
| 1:33.5 | So join me at the fire. |
| 1:35.3 | Let's get started. |
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