Ep. 523: Render - The Rut, the Arctic, and Reading the Persimmon Seeds

Josh "Landbridge" Spielmaker and Bear Newcomb welcome Kyle Plunkett and Kyle Veit, hosts of the Ozark Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about recent deer hunts, including public-land bucks, rattling and grunting during the rut, saddle hunting, and the challenges of getting a deer out of the b…

Ep. 520: People of the High Arctic - Resolute Bay (Part 1)

500 miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, one of the northernmost inhabited villages in the world. In this introductory episode of our new High Arctic Series, host Clay Newcomb talks with Inuit hunter Devon Manik on location 40 miles out on the sea ice of Arctic Bay o…

Ep. 518: Render - Blue Ticks, Instinctive Shooting, and Who Gets Dibs

Host Clay Newcomb is joined by Render crew members Bear Newcomb, Josh "Landbridge" Spielmaker as well as Moe Shepherd, and Ron Poole to talk about the latest Deer Stories episodes and share some tales of their own. Bear introduces Cricket, his new blue tick coonhound pup, sparking a conversation ab…

Ep. 515: Deer Stories - Falling from a Tree and 200-Inch Buck

For our second Deer Stories episode for 2026, host Clay Newcomb opens with a glimpse into the foundations of American deer hunting, recounting an 1837 account of German traveler Friedrich Gerstäcker hunting deer with Choctaw hunters in the Arkansas wilderness. From there to Kansas, Iowa, Mississipp…

Ep. 513: Render - Gunfighters and Southern Outdoorsmen

Host Clay Newcomb welcomes author and host of MeatEater’s Gunfighters podcast, Bryan Burrough, alongside Jacob Meyers and Andrew Maxwell of The Southern Outdoorsman Podcast. Bryan talks about some of the history behind the legends of the American frontier and explore how much of what we think we kn…

Ep. 510: Deer Stories - Buck Attack and The House Fires that Forged a Legend

It’s fall, and that means it’s time for Deer Stories. This year’s collection has it all: giant bucks, exploding pork and beans, yellowjackets, close calls, and a deer-hunting accident that nearly cost a man his life. We hear from hunters across Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, including…

Ep. 508: Render - Whitetails, Woodsmen, and The Way We Used to Hunt

It's Whitetail Week at MeatEater! Host Clay Newcomb is joined by hunting icon of his youth, Aaron Stanphill. They talk about growing up hunting whitetails in Arkansas before trail cameras, feeders, and the technology that has transformed deer hunting. Aaron and Clay reminisce about learning to read…

Ep. 505: Asa Carter - The Education of Little Tree (Part 2, Revisited)

In part two of the revisit of our Conman series on the double life of Asa Forrest Carter, Clay Newcomb dives into the gritty details of the violence, hate, and conspiracy philosophies of the first 45 years of his life and how, in the last decade of his life, he transformed into an unrecognizable, “…

Ep. 503: Render - Bears All Around

With Clay and Bear away, Josh "Landbridge" Spielmaker leads the discussion with a room full of bear hunters. He is joined by River Newcomb, Matt Gagnon of Time Honored Media, and Joe Liles, retired US Forest Service law enforcement officer and his wife Crystal. Josh, River, and Joe recall the stori…

Ep. 500: Conman - The Education of Little Tree (Part 1, Revisited)

Some stories are just too good to only hear once, so we are going back to listen again to Clay Newcomb as he ask talks with New York Times best selling author Steve Rinella and Dr. Dan T. Carter, professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina about black-listed book “The Education of Little…