Episode 98: Dan Lahren - "Dangerous Dan"

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Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Dan Lahren was born in the great western town of Livingston, Montana in 1955. When he was in 7th grade the local fishing icon, Dan Bailey, gave him a fly rod which cemented his life long love affair with fishing and the local waters around the Yellowstone river. Between the ages of 3 and 10 his family traveled often and he found himself in eleven different schools. At the age of 12, he was living alone in the Murray hotel, downtown Livingston. His parent’s marriage had crashed. The railroad which passed through town was a major station connecting the midwest to the west coast. Naturally there was discord between the railroad kids and the locals, and fighting became common. Dan grew up hard and fast. He spent his early adult life chasing many occupations in the north west, but Livingston was in his DNA and he returned to his roots in 1981. He refined a life of fishing and hunting, cooking became an art form and he gravitated to many well know writers and actors who also found a life in the valley. Among others he eventually became great friends with Jim Harrison and Anthony Bourdain. Their passing hurt deeply, but Dan's stories of them fills him with joy. Lahren is a wealth of knowledge, has a great sense of humor, and has earned a voice to be listened to.

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0:08.0	Mallard Field Marshes, Duck Camp is there to make you feel comfortable and enhance the quality of your time and the elements.
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0:19.0	but they support many of the organizations near and dear, fighting for a resource in the natural world.
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0:52.3	check them out to elevate all of your meals to the next level.
0:56.0	Dan Laren is the epitome of a Renaissance man. He hunts, fishes, cooks better than most chefs, and was a brother to many of the great authors that gravitated to Livingston, Montana in the early 70s.
1:17.0	Many of those authors were the same vibrant characters that put TARPin fishing on the map with the production of the film TARPen in 1974.
1:27.0	Livingston became their second home and where Dan Laren was born in 1955. Dan also became friendly with many people from the film
1:36.2	industry and one of his closest friends was Anthony Bourdain. On today's
1:41.3	podcast we learn about the wonderful life of Dangerous Dan.
1:47.0	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke everything we broke lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds
1:57.3	We broke marriages we broke the whole thing
2:02.4	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and
2:06.1	whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's when the pot. I knocked another arrow and
2:10.8	he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
2:13.7	So I double-lunged him both ways.
2:16.5	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
2:19.8	I got him on. All right now, I'm going to teach him a lot so.
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