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Lumber Slingers

Chelsea Zuccato & Natalie Heacock

Lumber Slingers is the podcast for everyone in the wood products world, from the trading floor to the mill floor. We bring the industry intel you usually only get behind closed doors, and we make it a good time.

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157 episodes

  1. 158. Bots and Boards: Keep the Human Human 41:56
  2. 157. Newswire Update: Gaston Still Can’t Find Belle, But He Found the News 23:08
  3. 156. Bots and Boards: The AIs Are Coming 34:03
  4. 155. Two Pods, One Booth: The Lumber Word Crashes Lumber Slingers 25:35
  5. 154. Bark to Basics: Valon Kone on Why Debarking Matters 30:36
  6. 153. Newswire Update: Puppy Yoga, Flying Cars, and Duties on the Wire 24:04
  7. 152. Fight Fire with Forestry: Rick Sohn on Fixing the Federal Forest 37:10
  8. 151. Newswire Update: The Great Loop Mill Closures, Menards Not That One, and Gas Pump Pain 22:14
  9. 150. Newswire Update: The Kids Are Not Alright About Trees 19:40
  10. 149. Newswire Update: Guess Who's Back, Back Again 26:30
  11. 148. Newswire Update: Flat Lumber, Fat Gas Bill, Send Help 23:14
  12. 147. Newswire Update: Holding Pattern 24:53
  13. 146. Newswire Update: Nothing Burger? The Market's Holding Steady 23:21
  14. 145. Newswire Update: Billions, Brows, and Brad Jacobs Takes a Nice Sunday 22:42
  15. 144. 55 Traders, One Sweater Vest, and a Donut Eating Champion 36:40
  16. 143. Newswire Update: It's Giving Standard Friday in Lumber 20:27
  17. 142. Newswire Update: AR7 Drops, Bed Bath & Beyond Buys Everything, and Trent has a TomTom 14:10
  18. 141. She Built a Tiny Home at 16. We Can Barely Pack a Suitcase. 20:09
  19. 140. Newswire Update: Claude Phased Trent Out (and Other Good Friday News) 17:34
  20. 139. Newswire Update: Natalie's On Mute, But the Market Isn't 22:43
  21. 138. Newswire Update: T-100, Donna Whitaker Makes History, Lumber Prices Going Up 20:20
  22. 137. Newswire Update: Don't Let Freight Rates Blow You Away! 19:43
  23. 136. Mass Timber's Biggest Year Yet — And We've Got the Inside Scoop 35:10
  24. 135. Newswire Update: Trent's Back, Rates are Down, and the Midwest is Popping 22:43
  25. 134. Tribal Wisdom Meets the Lumber Industry | Steve Rigdon 45:52
  26. 133. BREAKING: Supreme Court Just Struck Down Trump's Tariffs - Here's What It Actually Means for Lumber 21:52
  27. 132. Newswire Update: Why We're Done Being Cautious 30:04
  28. 131. Newswire Update: An Opalite Market, and Super Bowl Predictions 21:49
  29. 130. Newswire Update: Hawkish, Bearish or Bullish 18:18
  30. 129. Newswire Update: Time to Buy, Baby! 26:17
  31. 128. Newswire Update: From Holiday Whiplash to Market Moves in 2026 21:39
  32. 127. Newswire Update: Gobble Gobble… Ho Ho Ho… Acquisition Season 17:14
  33. 126. Getting Real with Rick Dancer: The Truth About Timber & Lumber Slingers 48:11
  34. 125. Newswire Update: Travel Anxiety, Lumber Reality 21:33
  35. 124. Traders Market LIVE! 27:54
  36. 123. Newswire Update: Trick-or-Treat - Mortgages Rise From the Grave 25:35
  37. 122. Newswire Update: Twinsies, Traders Market, and that Commercial! 28:31
  38. 121. Newswire Update From Taylor to Tariffs - What’s Moving Wood This Week 25:40
  39. 120. Newswire Update: "Are we Livestreaming?" and Other Lumber News 22:35
  40. 119. Newswire Update: Big M&A Hits the West Coast 24:33
  41. 118. Newswire Update: From Back-to-School Chaos to Lumber Market Moves 24:35
  42. 117. Newswire Update: Softwood Disputes, Mergers & Price Trends 23:19
  43. 116. Newswire Update: Legends Lumber & Losing our Childhood Heroes 21:45
  44. 115. Newswire Update: Summer Leadership Shakeups, Lumber Prices & a Coldplay Scandal 23:21
  45. 114. Joanna Foat, LumberJills: Britain's Forgotten Army 37:53
  46. 113. Newswire Update: Lumber Deals and Leadership Shifts 23:29
  47. 112. Newswire Update: Timber Boom & Plywood Smackdown 26:39
  48. 111. Newswire Update: Mill Deals & AI Thrills 18:13
  49. 110. Newswire Update: Parenting in May Is a Dumpster Fire, but Lumber Women Are Thriving 21:43
  50. 109. Newswire Update! 5-9-25; Mortgages, Mill Closures, and the Boston Accent! 26:28