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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 447: Safari Lovebirds, Crossbows, and Bad Bills

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show, Cal covers the tragic tale of a hunting safari gone wrong, new crossbow rules in the Empire State, and a proposal in Oregon to ban hunting.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed human.

0:14.0

From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana,

0:18.3

this is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-Alla. Here's Cal.

0:25.1

A Wyoming Small Claims Court recently dismissed a suit by a jilted lover who had spent $6,000

0:31.7

on his sweetheart's tickets for a hunting safari in Zimbabwe. Only to have her back out at the last minute,

0:38.6

she argued that she didn't know about the plans when the tickets were bought

0:42.0

and would have said no if she had known.

0:44.5

It's not every day that you see a lover's quarrel

0:46.7

with an African elephant trophy on the line.

0:49.3

A couple wrinkles in this case.

0:50.8

First, both parties in the case have the last name Weber,

0:53.9

but you spell Nina

0:55.1

Weber with two Bs and Scott Weber with one. Next, Nina Weber is a Wyoming state rep, which raises

1:03.4

the profile of this spat even further. So what were each of these hunters of the heart arguing?

1:09.8

Nina said that her legislative calendar would have

1:11.9

prevented her from traveling during the hunt season. She also wouldn't have accepted the

1:16.1

Sfarie invitation because the last one the couple had gone on in 2003 had been a fiasco. Among

1:23.1

the lurid details, a black mamba apparently infiltrated their camp, the son of the cook stole from the guests,

1:30.3

and Nina alleges that a group of Zimbabweans who had never seen a blonde woman before began chanting the words

1:36.1

white witch in their native language when they saw her. Now, to me, that makes for a darn good story.

1:43.9

To each their own.

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