How to Hear the Minnesota Wilderness in a Guitar Chord, With Trampled By Turtles’ Dave Simonett

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Minnesota is not always top of mind when it comes to outdoor adventure, but it should be. Just ask lifelong “Land of 10,000 Lakes” local Dave Simonett, lead singer of Trampled By Turtles. Dave grew up in Mankato and spent his youth exploring its rolling woods. And when he formed Trampled in Duluth in 2003, something surprising happened. His love of fishing, hiking, skiing, and hunting combined with his musical influences to create a songwriting career based on a deep connection to the outdoors. And today, when Dave isn’t headlining hootenannys like The Outside Festival, he works diligently to protect beloved Minnesotan locales, like the Boundary Waters. Turns out, Minnesota’s woods and water are as integral to Dave’s life and music as a guitar pick.

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0:00.0	This is the outside podcast with Paddyo.
0:11.8	If you have a story that hovers in and around Duluth to not have trampled in that story.
0:18.0	We would be personally offended by that actually.
0:20.3	Yeah, totally.
0:21.3	That's like not mentioning hot dish if you're talking about Minnesota.
0:25.4	Do you guys feel like that?
0:26.5	Do you feel like trampled is as ubiquitous as like a juicy lucy or a tater tot hot dish with Minnesota now?
0:33.6	I will say in my day to day life, no.
0:36.6	I don't think that, but people do say things like
0:39.3	that to me sometimes. And I don't listen to our band. So for me, like, I've lived here almost
0:44.7	my whole life and it's not part of my soundtrack at all. You know, like how professional
0:48.4	athletes will watch game film? You won't like, you know what? I need to go revisit that album
0:53.1	from 2003.
0:54.8	I have no interest in improving at all.
1:02.4	In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestrel was hunting in the Alps with his dog when he noticed something peculiar.
1:11.8	Burrs.
1:12.5	They were everywhere.
1:14.0	Stuck to his jacket, pants, hat, his pup was riddled with them.
1:18.6	So he did the obvious.
1:21.1	De Mestrel picked the burrs off his clothes and pooch examined them under a microscope
1:26.2	where he discovered their stickiness was due to teeny hooks and loops, which then inspired a question,
1:34.0	hmm, can I possibly recreate this? And that question dominated the next decade of Demestrel's life as he burrowed his creativity and intellect into every conceivable combination of natural and
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