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Hi, Bent listeners! MeatEater and iHeartPodcasts have teamed up for a riveting new podcast called God's Country. Hosted by songwriters Dan and Reid Isbell, God's Country is a rollicking weekly podcast that sits at the intersection of country music and the great outdoors. Don't just take our word for it, though. Check out this trailer and start listening now! Show Description: “God's Country” with brothers Dan and Reid Isbell is a rollicking weekly podcast that sits at the intersection of country music and the great outdoors. Each episode explores how today's biggest and most talented country stars and songwriters pull inspiration from rugged, first-hand relationships with the natural world. Nashville songwriters by profession who spent their childhoods getting muddy in the wilds of Tennessee, Dan and Reid draw on their own passion for hunting and fishing to lead a thought-provoking and fun exploration of the fundamental role of outdoor living in country music. Listen to God's Country on the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grab some fine malt liquor and laugh along with Joe, Hayden, and the mighty Phil as the fellas bid a warm adieu to the podcast that made you feel the same kind of good as a Wendy's Baconator the morning after getting the drunkest you've been since college.    Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show we: ride our tuggies into the sunset with a final-ish episode.    Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we celebrate opening day by tying every fly in the Wal-Mart trout starter pack on at the same time, ripping a spinner that could battle a salmon shark through the bridge hole, bumping a plastic hell bug in the last resort run, and turn a drinking straw into a limit catcher.   Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we destroy the lives of old people in the name of great smallmouth fishing, purchase tying thread off a guy that likely stole it in an armed robbery, debate whether fish would rather have Uncle Ben's or Rice-A-Roni jammed in their body cavities, and tell you why you should just buy whatever fly rod you can afford.   Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we travel the globe in Jeff Bezos' version of the Tuggy sandbox, explain the importance of casting to where the fish are, arm ourselves with knowledge to ward of a plague of smallmouth bass, and cast handmade swimbaits into branches just slightly out of reach.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Trout Vest Aficionado,” we shame a young man for his lack of clinch knot skills, pat Timmy on the back for a super duper shad, discuss the graphic violence in “Old Man And The Sea,” and smash big tunas with the butterfly effect. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we channel our inner Bob Vila to make everything from college loan payments to the finest spearing decoys, better taxidermy choices to weaponized brook trout, and an ice fishing miracle certain to help you lose more fish to unnecessary tangles.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we boop the nose of a bait-stealing otter, tell you how to tie a little deer-hair cocktail umbrella that won't impress anyone, help you choose knives or chains to deal with a buddy that blew up your honey hole, and spin the perfect mouse pattern for ruining someone's wedding. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we set up our shanty in the red light district and go fishing for urban legends, discuss toxic fumes in a pop-up that aren't just the usual farts, watch a victorious angling achievement get turned into public humiliation, and cast ballots for braid or fluorocarbon for beginners.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in our beer-fueled Stupor Bowl, we: explore the twisted economics of using Converse All-Stars as flats boots, recommend the Blue Goo when all else fails, tell you everything you didn't know you wanted to know about burbot, and explain how fishing revenge might be best served via a half time commercial.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on “Lifestyles of the Sad and Fishless” we: Get airborne with Mike Iaconelli and land in the drama pool, say goodbye to the ugliest jerkbait ever made, discuss the verbal abuse-to-tip ratio on charter trips, and help you make a living worm dunking in Washington. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Failing For Dollars,” we suggest a career move that'll make you rich off other people's hardwater idiocy, pose newborn babies with long-dead trout, take a bite out of a half-cocked shark quiz, and make room in your freezer for a few spools of fluorocarbon. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in the Amity Island classifieds, we place an ad for 500 unwanted armoured catfish, sell you on stocked steelhead and make a little dough, buy horrible 90s movies on VHS and feed them to mako sharks, and have a casual encounter with our lack of US Naval history.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Frayed Family Ties,” we: teach your child how to earn an iPod with a knife and a thirst for cod blood, go float-n-fly dunking for suspended fishing licenses, make a case for a knot that apparently only dorks use, and grab a drink at a trouty bar with its own theme song. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Fishin' With Omicron Wilson,” we: take our mittens deep into Brown Town and wipe the place up, slide over a few rock bars in Mad Max's fishing sled, make it rain gizzard shad, and answer your burning question about eating delicious trophy breeders. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The week, we close out 2021 with a drunken roundtable about severed ears, vow to give the Tasmanian Devil a crack for truck trout, tell our wives we're mud shark fishing as a cover for a nudie bar crawl, and regret to inform you it's time to take that Bass Pro hat out behind the barn. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we celebrate Christmas Eve by telling you the best knock-off spinner to jam in your stocking, where to find bass that are all lips and hips, why Santa is qualified to represent the LBC, and why he's not qualified to be a successful flats fisherman.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the weigh-in stage, we give Brandon Palanuik a huge fake check just so he'll hang out with us for a little while, Carl Jocumsen talks about the art of stump grinding, we find the real Batman (but he's not big enough to keep), and raise a glass to a huge win for the Everglades.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Breaking Bad Knots,” we: take a deep dive into the dam malfunction that shook the fly world, let the air out of a client's dream trip without them knowing it, explore the sexy past of a now mundane lure, and bait you with Bubble Tape and Razzles. Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we head to Canada to learn where leeches come from, confirm that muskies are still “fun as frick” to catch even when they're too easy, find out that your mullet looks better with perch than bowfin, and get mad at sharks for ruining your rookie season in bonefishing.  Connect with Joe, Hayden, and MeatEater Joe and Hayden on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we're passing the savings on to you by: missing two salmon for the price of one Razor Scooter, slashing stockers on “Fourth of July” colored PowerBait, donating scrap lead to the inshore reefs, and jacking party boat prices so the captains can meet government demands. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Skin & Fish Ink,” we get the word “believe” tattooed over the muskie we'll probably never catch, pick the perfect shade of nail polish for a controversial mouthpiece, cover a dancing bear with a rising brown, and reserve our entire lower back for an homage to Kathy Ireland. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's value menu, get: six silica bead packets with the purchase of any muskie fly, two rods for the price of one when you try dead-lifting a carp, a brand new co-host when you watch one terrible Shia LeBouf movie, and piles of happy kids smelling diesel fumes and offshore glory. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week at the roadside shrimp stand, we've got mako steaks so big they'll kill the guy in the Members Only jacket, fresh walleye infused with the essence of the Pennsylvania Breeze, chivos with a side of duck blind brie cheese, and a castnet we'd trade for basketball cards. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we: crank up the horror by asking what's in the box from the reaper of rainbow souls, getting dangerously close to a neck-snapping fluke, taunting Big Lou with our superior salmon skills, and feeding chips and salsa to a monster catfish. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With one out and runners on first and third, we: try to distract the batter with a fishing shirt made out of wallpaper from a brothel, and prop spinning full throttle very close to The Situation's legs, a plate full scaled and fried vengeance, and a bareback man looking for a good deal on flesh eating beetles. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of “It Happened In Florida”, we: find out that K-Swiss sneakers won't stop stingray barbs, if you ever paid to have a mahi mounted you're a tourist, the jailbreak slam will be the next big thing on TikTok, and being a dry fly snob dates back over 10,000 years. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “The Joy Of Painting Jigheads,” we: use broad strokes to count the anal rays of a blurry record fish, dab a little nicotine on our flies and fluke rigs, outline all the reasons you shouldn't sit down while fishing, and visit a bar where the drinks taste like turpentine. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Wicked Tuna FOMO,” we drizzle monkey pee on our dad's favorite green pumpkin lizard, feed a state-record bonita to something cooler than a state-record bonita, give credit to the Brits for that one good striper lure they invented, and in “otter” news, find out Springsteen loves party boat porgy fishing. Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “Locked Up Abroad While Fishing," we: channel our inner Lefty Kreh to prove we're not drug smugglers, tell you how much drag pressure you need to reel in a pipe bomb, ask you to help Phil Taylor I.D. the only fish he's ever caught, and partake in a shady Mexican spinnerbait deal.  Connect with Joe and MeatEater Joe on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we bid a warm passive-aggressive goodbye to our beloved co-host Miles Nolte. Brad Leone caters the farewell party with gas station fugu and spicy crab tots, plus, we sell you on flies made of duct tape and go on a quest for elusive “brown snakeheads” (which is not a euphemism for turds).   Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of "Fishing Cabin Confessions," we: remind you to smash the barb on your heel before sticking your foot in your mouth, explain why religious figures turn into sailors when they step onto fishing boats, hallucinate baby tarpon in the rocky mountains, and appreciate the finer points of a fly named after a misdemeanor. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's box of stale Lucky Charms, we dig up the issues I have with my father dooming most fishing trips, send in a proof of purchase for some souvenir water, stretch the crumbs to get one more bowl full of walleye, and put the hex on the miserable human that robs children of hatchery mutants. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The week on “E.R. For Eel Trappers,” we: stitch up a swimmer that yelled “shark” in Detroit, tell you how buying oranges is the same as going to medical school, threaten to draw blood over insane streams laws in Utah, and pass out at the site of Miles Nolte's uncle. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, campers, join us for a battery-powered scavenger hunt in blue ribbon trout water, put the Gameboy down long enough to catch a record Chinook, take a course on shooting fish photos that won't make you look like a psychopath, and remember to knock on the outhouse door before entering.  Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in the Bent Protection Program: Frank Crescitelli explains why he can never show his face in Manhattan, a listener tells you which bar to hide out in Upstate when things get tense, Joe Demalderis gives you the only three knots you need to survive life underground, and Cermele defends his love of the East Coast . . . again. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the Bent first birthday fishing extravaganza, we: peek behind the curtain on Bob the Garbageman's intimate home life, learn how the cheapskates won big at this year's industry fishing trade show, get creepy on a secluded Massachusetts island while striper fishing, and finally reveal the dietary guilty pleasure that Miles and Joe share with their favorite gamefish. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

This week in “Boat Shopper For Broke People,” we: jump on the Night Hawk with Brad Leone to fill burlap sacks with bluefish, appease the 5,000 fans making sure we know sand boxes will float, get our septums pierced with a worm blower, and search for a long lost hippy.  Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

This week, we: dig through our ancient first aid kit to find a Band Aid and a raise for an underpaid shark jumper, use good judgement to stop a walleye angler from hemorrhaging over a pike, remove foreign objects from the brain of Tom Rosenbauer, and give a dirty river a clean bill of sturgeon health. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

This week on "Intervention For Crank Addicts," we: put nail polish on our smallie candies before popping them, try to figure out what an internet angling celebrity's been smoking, suffer through the trauma of docking and dining, and discover that Tylenol isn't getting anyone tweaked on fish news. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

This week on "Bad News Bass," we: tell you where to find the last living fish in the U.S., take a venomous catfish spine to the naughty bits, suffer the bite of a fake European fish on the other naughty bits, and hate ourselves for not paying more attention at night school. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

At this week's cookout we: chew the bluefish fat with Brad Leone, boost our nitrates to life-threatening levels to catch more channel cats, bob for largemouths in red gravy, and roast up some mystery tuna. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com