Hey everyone, welcome back to Tooth and Claw.

On today's episode, West shares the horrifying account

of a black bear attack that happened in Alaska

back in the late 1970s.

He was prompted by his friend, mentor,

and fellow bear expert Tom Smith

to share this story after West asked him,

which attack stuck out in his mind

as being particularly terrifying.

So yeah, prepare yourselves for that.

Besides Tom, the information that West goes over in this episode

comes directly from a book authored by Larry Conneud,

titled Alaska Bear Tales.

So there's a small plug for that book

if anyone's interested in some more bear reading material.

And one last bit of housekeeping

before getting to the rest of the show,

thank you so much for being patient with us

as we dealt with all kinds of technical difficulties.

We really have been trying our best

to make sure we're still getting all of our episodes out on time.

And we think we resolved the major kinks and issues,

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