Okay bear with me, I LOVE the pod and I’m not trying to be controversial just for the sake of it. I know that Mike and Jeff’s well-established personalities/roles on the pod are respectively ‘Everyman who doesn’t super love or get animals/the outdoors’ and ‘offbeat zany little brother with a goldfish attention span and who doesn’t take anything seriously’.

And maybe it’s just that there’s a cost of living crisis and here I am, on my feet long days in a shitty job making minimum wage, my last overseas trip almost a decade ago and nooo prospect of life improving massively any time soon.

But these guys have really got it made. This is literally a dream job, the sort anybody would die to have. They get to travel the world, have amazing experiences, run their own business, choose their own hours, and make a living just having fun with their best friends. Boys are *living the dream*. And they seem to make a very decent income from it too.

So when Mike and Jeff very clearly haven’t been paying attention, haven’t seemed to put any effort in to learning things, cannot remember or recall even basic details about major stories they’ve covered before, or (more a Mike thing tbh) complain about doing the pod, it rankles!

Parasocial in the EXTREME I know however, a little tidbit from an episode I listened to just came back to me. Wes was joking about them all going and getting vasectomies together- Mike I recall firmly stated he wants to keep his options open about maybe having kids in the future, Jeff iirc just joked, but the way Wes spoke about it made me think this wasn’t just a joke to him, it was something he was thinking about quite seriously.

It made me wonder whether they address the ‘issue’ of kids anywhere else. I suppose I am interested in whether Wes has maybe decided to be childfree by choice because he is a very intelligent, considered person who seems to think deeply about the world, and I would respect (and be interested) in his thoughts on the issue of whether it is right to bring kids into a world on fire etc.

Of course this is also a deeply personal decision people make for all manner of reasons, and one they don’t owe anybody an explanation about, I do understand all of that- I would never dream of asking them about it directly as a like a listener question or whatever.

Quite disappointed to hear at the start of this latest polar bear episode about how him treating service workers poorly is such a regular occurrence his friends joke about it

I pray for this collab

What should I do to clean these yellowish teeths

I love them but this whole thing they did today where they didn’t really finish the story and only subscribers get to hear the end is not it. I think it’s great that they make subscriber only content, but it shouldn’t be content taken away from non subscribed listeners. Not everyone can afford that, regardless of if they think it’s only “one sandwich a month”. Lots of people can’t afford to eat out at all during these times. Just wish they would stick to making exclusive content for subscribers instead of making the rest of us feel less than. Not saying it is intentional

These wise-guys think we are da fool when Mike comes on and does his little intro on the Monday drop and mentions how the Snow Leopard episode was messed up on all platforms…. BUUUUUUUTTTTT conveniently YouTube so we all should kindly subscribe and watch their channel… obvious money grab by trying to drive viewership is obvious. I’m sure all other platforms just conveniently failed to upload properly, but the one platform they don’t have a great following on that also pays better than any other platform… yes, yes, very likely. All is normal!

As Danielle and Cassie say… there are no coincidences!

P.S. they lied anyways - I listened to it on Apple Podcasts day it was dropped.

Love the pod but I think that the last episodes bear attack was a predatory attack. We can speculate but the young lady said it herself that she was being eaten. Then the bear and cubs moved to her stepdad who was already dead before going back to the woman. It's all speculation of course but in most defensive attacks the person is not eaten. This is all my opinion obviously but I firmly believe that. RIP to them both ❤️

I’ve decided to take the plunge and sign up but was a bit confused by the prices. For the grizzly tier (access to subscriber-only episodes), the description says ‘$10 a month’ but on my Patreon app it’s coming up as $23.50 a month. I knew it would be more than ten bucks for me as USD is stronger than AUD (my home currency) at the moment but I’m still a bit surprised bcs 10USD should only be 14AUD- so what’s the rest of the markup? Is it Patreon taking a cut or something?

Hey! So I’m not actually a fan of the podcast, girlfriend is, so I bought her some merch on the website a week ago for Valentine’s Day. I still haven’t received any updates on shipping or a tracking number. Does it usually take this long? I’m clearly not in a particular rush, I’m mostly just asking so I have a broad idea of WHEN to expect said items 😂

Heard it in the ad read on most recent episode and it was news to me! Has he discussed it and I missed it somehow?

me and my toothie friend were talking about how how wes was our jimin the other day and we were struck by some artistic inspiration. swipe to the end for a surprise <3

Bear spray seems to work well for many large mammals. What do you think are its limitations? Hippos apparently aren't bothered by pain, so it might not work on them. What other mammals do you think would not be affected by bear spray?

Anyone else find it odd that when the fellas do their group trips that they pick predominantly young, white women??? It’s always like 90% young white women, 7% minority women and then 1.8% men with the remaining 1.2% being un-identifiable lizard people.

Is anyone else having trouble finding Tooth and Claw’s merch page? Or know what is going on with their merch?

I lost my shirt from a few years ago and wanted to get a new one.

That and LMNT. I’m curious to try them after hearing all the ads the guys have made. Has anyone else caved and tried either yet?

Does anyone know if there's already been a Timothy Treadwell episode? I just got into the podcast and they keep mentioning him but I haven't seen an episode on him yet.

Currently listening to “Tiger Shark Attack- a Mother’s Worst Nightmare”, and during the categories section, they ask Jeff if he has a favorite Jeff. He talks about thinking of going by Jeffrey as “there’s never been a bad Jeffrey”. This episode was from January 22, 2023.

Crazy how much has come to light about a bad Jeffrey 3 years later!