Ep. 453: Underpants Poacher, Old Bear Attacks, and the District of Columbia
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4.9 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week, Cal covers an especially creative abalone poacher, a really, really old bear attack, and an update from our nation's capital.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps. |
| 0:10.3 | 12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout |
| 0:15.0 | 2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love. |
| 0:20.1 | The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. |
| 0:23.4 | If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. |
| 0:28.2 | My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. |
| 0:36.5 | Check it out now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 |
| 0:41.5 | in the coming months. |
| 0:53.0 | From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-Alla. |
| 1:02.2 | Here's Cal. |
| 1:04.0 | A California woman made the news last week for illegally harvesting abalone and then hiding it down her pants. |
| 1:11.1 | The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reports that a game warden became |
| 1:14.6 | suspicious of the woman and her male companion after observing them harvesting purple sea urchins |
| 1:20.8 | in the intertidal zone. As he watched, he observed the woman, quote, discreetly conceal what |
| 1:27.4 | appeared to be an abalone down |
| 1:29.6 | her pants, an unconventional storage method, especially if you're doing things legally. But this |
| 1:35.2 | story gets even better. If you've ever been tasked with confiscating candy from a child, you can |
| 1:40.3 | probably predict what happened next. Game warden stopped the couple and asked the woman to produce the abalone from her nether regions. |
| 1:47.9 | She handed it over, but the warden was still suspicious. |
| 1:51.1 | So he called over a female colleague and told the woman she'd conduct a more thorough search. |
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