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Bent

Bent

MeatEater

88 episodesEN-US

Show overview

Bent has been publishing since 2020, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 88 episodes. That works out to roughly 100 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 4th season.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 2m and 1h 12m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Sports show.

The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 4.1 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2021, with 53 episodes published. Published by MeatEater.

Episodes
88
Running
2020–2022 · 2y
Median length
1h 8m
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Fishing can be slow. Podcasts about fishing shouldn’t be. That’s why we created Bent, the unapologetic fishing podcast that moves faster than a tournament bass boat but doesn’t take itself near as seriously. Host Joe Cermele welcomes anglers of all backgrounds and interests, from hardcore crappie jiggers to dry-fly purists to offshore tuna addicts. Even if you’re just mildly fish curious, this podcast has something for you: regional fishing reports, tackle tips, trash talk, etymology, weekly news, trivia, even suggestions on how to piss off your fishing guide. Come for the soggy cooler sandwiches; stay for the raccoon-eyes tan lines. Part of The MeatEater Podcast Network.

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Ep. 88: Tight Lines, Degenerate Anglers

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 MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 15, 20221h 32m

Ep. 87: Grande Cheese Curd Nymphs

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 MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 8, 20221h 34m

Ep. 86: Spanish Mackerel Pellet Heads

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 MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 1, 20221h 9m

Ep. 85: Pump Action Raccoon Streamers

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 MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 25, 20221h 2m

Ep. 84: Bucktailing With My Carp Dealer

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 18, 20221h 5m

Ep. 83: Hickory-Smoked Parachute Pants

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 11, 20221h 1m

Ep. 82: Ed’s Skin Mount Transporter

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 4, 20221h 31m

Ep. 81: Tequila Spot Burn Cream

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 25, 20221h 12m

Ep. 80: Tip-Up, Mr. Mayor

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 18, 20221h 11m

Ep. 79: Chuck Sucks At Steelhead Fishing

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 11, 20221h 29m

Ep. 78: The First Mate Of Irish Spring

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 4, 20221h 12m

Ep. 77: Burt Reynolds On Ice

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 28, 20221h 9m

Ep. 76: Piano Wire and Power Bait

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 21, 202254 min

Ep. 75: My Crappie Swing Has Mad FG-Force

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 14, 20221h 6m

Ep. 74: Gloves Off, Jet Boat Cowboy

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 7, 20221h 6m

Ep. 73: Ball Drops and Salmon Alibis

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 31, 202159 min

Ep. 72: Crashing Santa’s Slay-fest

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 24, 202148 min

Ep. 71: Pro Tips For Lizard Lickers

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 17, 20211h 0m

Ep. 70: Pop Go the Spoon Censors

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 10, 20211h 1m

Ep. 69: Nice Carp-skie There, Bud

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 MeatEaterJoe and Hayden on InstagramMeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YoutubeShop Bent Merch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 3, 20211h 1m
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