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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 301: RFK's NYC Boo Boo, Don't Post Famous Wolves, and Guerilla Conservation Tactics

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week Cal talks about RFK's bear trouble, implications of MPA expansion in California, famous wolves make bad business, and so much more.

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0:00.0

Are you looking for some great listening material for car rides this summer?

0:04.1

We've got you covered. Meat Eater's campfire stories is back with its third installment,

0:10.1

discoveries, revelations, and near misses.

0:13.2

There are stories here about gunshot wounds, wild archaeological discoveries,

0:18.1

getting lost for days hunting turkeys in a tornado,

0:21.2

and getting an accurate premonition about a 24 point buck in a dream.

0:26.0

Pre-order it now. It's available wherever audio books are sold and while you're

0:30.5

waiting for it to release you can bone up on the last two

0:34.0

editions of meat eaters campfire stories my own family never tires of listening to

0:39.7

these adventures give them a try and as always you can write into campfire stories at the meat eater.com

0:46.4

if you'd like to share one of your own stories. It's meat eaters campfire stories,

0:51.9

discoveries, revelations, and near misses narrated by me Stephen Ronella. From Meat Eater's World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowl's Week in Review with Ryan Cow, Callan. Here's Cal.

1:17.0

Presidential Hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted last week that he picked up a roadkill black bear cub, brought it to Central Park in New York City, and made it look like it had been killed by someone on a bicycle.

1:30.0

Who says politics are boring? Kennedy made the strange may a culpa in a video

1:34.8

posted to his social media accounts. He's trying to get out in front of a New Yorker

1:39.2

article that will break the story and he hopes he can control the narrative before it spins out of

1:43.8

control.

1:44.8

Woman in a van in front of me hit a bear and killed it, a young bear.

1:50.9

So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear and it was very good condition and I was going to go in and put the meat, be my refrigerated and you can do that in the

2:05.3

York State you can get a bear tag for a road kill bear. If you haven't seen this he's

2:11.2

literally talking to Roseanne Barr amongst other people and, you know,

2:17.0

Roseanne. That's enough said. Anyway, Kennedy explains that he had some functions to attend in New York City, but he didn't want to leave the bear in his car, so he landed on a brilliant idea.

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