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American Bison: A New Hope

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iHeartPodcasts

Food, Arts, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Though almost driven to extinction in the 1800s, this massive bovine has made a comeback – thanks in part to the popularity of its rich meat. Anney and Lauren herd together the history and science behind American bison.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:13.4

Hello and welcome to Saver, production of IHeart Radio.

0:16.1

I'm Annie Reese.

0:16.8

And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and today we have an episode for you about the American Bison.

0:22.7

Yes.

0:24.3

Oof.

0:24.9

Was there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren?

0:28.1

Yeah, yep.

0:29.4

It has been on our list for forever.

0:32.4

I have been avoiding it for forever because it is a huge and deeply upsetting topic.

0:40.3

Yeah. But here, but why not? Why not spend a few days towards the end of this upsetting run, the upsetting end of this run.

0:48.7

The whole run was not upsetting. The whole run was delightful. Right. Yeah. You know, we had to, when we were figuring out

1:00.0

our last topics, there were some that we were like, this one really needs to be in there.

1:06.8

And this was one. Yeah. It's just really important and covers a lot of things that we've covered in various aspects on the show before, but just really distills in a number of ways, a bunch of things about American, well, in North American in general history.

1:25.3

And it's also a delicious food product that I love eating.

1:30.9

Yes. Yes. I don't think I have too much experience with it, but I know I've had a bison

1:37.4

burger. I know at least I have had a bison burger. and it was good. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

1:44.3

I've definitely had, yeah, bison burgers, a couple of bison steaks.

1:47.9

For a little while there, there was a Ted's Montana grill in Decatur Square, which is a local town center, one of many around Atlanta, which is composed of many really cool little neighborhoods.

2:01.5

And, yeah, for a minute, that was like a fancy place that my friends and I, who hung out

2:07.2

around that neighborhood, would go to be fancy.

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