Ep. 465: Render - Mules, Bears, and the Civil War
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Host Clay Newcomb and Render regulars Bear Newcomb, Dr. Misty Newcomb, and Josh "Landbridge" Spielmaker are joined by Michael Rosamond of Sun Spot Lights and retired Missouri game warden and Renaissance man Kyle Carrol as they continue their Civil War discussion by examining the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee.
The conversation also highlights just how recent Civil War history really is, featuring a firsthand family connection of Michael Rosamond to a woman whose mother was born into slavery.
But that's not all! Hear about Clay's runaway mules, exciting details of Bear's recent Alaskan bear hunt, and foreshadowing of Clay's upcoming book American Bear.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:04.1 | If you do off-season work, you know it beats up gear, scouting, land work, |
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| 0:49.5 | I'm My name is Clay Newcomb, and this is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render, |
| 0:55.7 | where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual bear grease podcast. |
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| 1:02.5 | I'm a cowboy boot man, and I've been wearing Tocobas for years. |
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| 1:07.1 | Good boots for good times. The world wouldn't know it, but we're starting about 50 minutes late okay and we have |
| 1:18.1 | some very distinguished guests today so i owe them my deepest apologies there's this is a |
| 1:24.0 | complicated story, Michael. |
| 1:32.2 | So our guest today, sitting in the Tukova's hot seat today, is Kyle Carroll. |
| 1:33.2 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:33.8 | From Missouri. |
| 1:34.3 | Yes. |
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