This is an I-Heart podcast.

This season on Blood Trails, each story begins with a hunter stepping into the wild, but not all of them come back.

I'm Jordan Sillers, a journalist with over a decade of experience investigating stories about hunting, fishing, guns, and crime.

Join me as we track the truth through tangled cover and cold case files,

where every trail tells a story, and every story leaves its own trail of blood.

Blood trails. Listen now on Spotify. This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, underwearless.

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I got

two competing ways I want to start

the show. One, I just have to admit that I'm so excited

I already wet my pants.

There's one. Like, this is, this is

the one of the most exciting, um, conversations for me. Because this is something that I, like, I'll just come out and say it. We're here to talk about the, the, the, the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is like weird. Like, I was one year old, but, uh, when it happened, but it's sort of, I don't know, man, has haunted and inspired

my whole life, being from that neck of the woods.

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