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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 437: Stats, Snort Report, and Crime

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Sports, Education, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Cal covers some fascinating new stats from Florida's bear hunt, an update on Snorticus, and the Wyoming Wombat Woman.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.9

This season on Blood Trails, each story begins with a hunter stepping into the wild, but not all of them come back.

0:13.4

I'm Jordan Sillers, a journalist with over a decade of experience investigating stories about hunting, fishing, guns, and crime.

0:20.6

Join me as we track the truth through tangled cover and cold case files,

0:24.2

where every trail tells a story, and every story leaves its own trail of blood.

0:30.1

Blood trails. Listen now on Spotify.

0:32.4

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

0:52.9

Here's Cal.

0:55.3

Last week down in Clearwater, Florida, four anglers set out for a day trip in a 25-foot

1:00.8

catamaran as part of a birthday celebration, only to capsize 26 miles offshore and then cling

1:07.5

to the hole of the upside down boat overnight.

1:16.5

On board was 90-year-old Clarence Woods and his son's Dennis, who was turning 70,

1:21.6

along with family members Chris Harding Sr. 42, Chris Harding Jr., 18.

1:25.3

The group didn't have any communications equipment on the boat.

1:32.2

No VHF, no satellite transmitter, just cell phones that did not perform after they hit the salt water.

1:37.9

Once the boat began to take on water, it flipped almost immediately. Woods later told reporters, I didn't have time to contact the Coast Guard, we were more concerned about getting a life jacket on the 90-year-old and the 18-year-old.

1:46.0

The one I was going to wear got hung up and I just had to leave it.

1:50.2

According to authorities, the boats' flare gun and strobe light were also lost immediately,

1:55.2

and I'm going to guess the group's fishing tackle has not been seen either.

1:59.6

A helicopter search that evening had no success, and over the long night,

2:03.0

the four mariners struggled to stay afloat and keep up morale. Woods is a pastor and said that the group

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