4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this episode of The Bear Grease Podcast, host Clay Newcomb is joined by Oklahoma man Johnny Johnston as he shares the honest, transparent, and nitty-gritty details of his life story and his relationship to wildlife law, but more importantly about the transformation that he underwent that brought him out of this dark time in his life.
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0:46.3 | What you're about to hear is an episode of the Bear Greece podcast called Confessions |
0:52.0 | of a Former Outlaw. |
0:57.5 | I'm including it here on the Meat Eater podcast feed for a couple different reasons. Reason number one is because it is so damn good and interesting |
1:04.5 | and also because the man you're going to be hearing from is like no one else on this planet. |
1:14.0 | The second reason I'm including it here is because this episode was given Clay a lot of consternation. It was giving him fits. He was scared |
1:22.2 | to doing this show. He was scared to doing the show because he was afraid of people thinking that he was glorifying a poacher or an outlaw when in fact you're going to hear a story about redemption. |
1:36.7 | And two, Clay was nervous about putting a spotlight on this individual you're going to be hearing from. |
1:44.0 | He sent me the episode. |
1:46.0 | I listened to it. |
1:47.1 | And I told him, man, there is no way you can can this episode. |
1:52.4 | Dude, you have to run with this show. |
1:55.7 | And I believed in it so much. |
1:57.8 | I wanted them to put it right here so that as many people as possible could hear it. |
2:02.9 | So check it out. If you like what you're hearing, make sure to subscribe to the Bear |
2:07.6 | Grease podcast feed and enjoy. |
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