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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 397: Baby Tigers, Screwworms, and Make America Beautiful Again

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal tackles the "Make America Beautiful Again" initiative, unpacks the impeding screwworm invasion, and spills the beans on the latest Tiger King star to be sentenced to federal prison.

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:30.6

Lenovo, Lenovo. From Meat Eater's World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-A.

0:53.5

Here's Cal.

0:55.9

One of the stars of the hit Netflix show, Tiger King, is about to find himself in a cage of his own.

1:03.1

Bahagavan Doc Antel was sentenced last week to one year in prison and fined $55,000 for trafficking,

1:09.8

protected baby animals and money laundering.

1:13.1

Doc Antle pled guilty in federal court to a conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act and

1:18.2

launder more than $500,000. Doc Antle was to Joe Exotic, as Saul Goodman was to Walter White

1:25.4

and Breaking Bad. I've heard about him.

1:28.4

He's an American hero.

1:30.4

He appeared in the first season of Tiger King and then started in his own season of the show the next year.

1:35.7

The show depicted Doc Antle as another rival to Joe Exotic in the small world of Big Cat Sanctuaries.

1:42.0

For a small fee of hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars,

1:45.7

he would allow visitors to a zoo, Myrtle Beach Safari, to hold and take pictures with baby animals.

1:52.0

The problem was he obtained many of these critters illegally.

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