Ep. 458: Tipsy Hawks, Crime, and Grizzlies in California?
MeatEater Conservation
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4.9 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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On this week's episode, Cal covers the push to reintroduce grizzly bears to California, an Alberta man who claimed to be dating his niece for a chance at deer tags, and what happens when you feed a raptor alcohol.
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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-Aye. |
| 1:02.2 | Here's Cal. |
| 1:04.1 | There is a Cooper's Hawk flying around the Los Angeles area that might have an untreated alcohol problem. |
| 1:12.9 | In June of last year, a 25-year-old L.A. resident named Caesar Gustavo Diaz captured a juvenile Cooper's hawk at a park between L.A. and |
| 1:19.2 | Anaheim. All hawks are protected in America and it's illegal to capture any species without |
| 1:24.4 | the proper permits, but it's what Diaz did next that had the media buzzing. |
| 1:28.7 | In a recently surfaced video posted to YouTube, Diaz records himself pouring a buzz ball down the bird's throat. |
| 1:35.7 | If you're familiar with this modern marvel, a buzz ball is a ready to drink cocktail that comes in a small plastic ball. |
| 1:42.3 | It's that thing that you look at in a gas station and you go, |
| 1:45.0 | please, nobody put this in your body. They have fun and fruity names like La de laura dais had |
| 1:53.4 | selected was lime rita, and the average alcohol by volume is a solid 13.5%. The average juvenile Cooper's Hawk only weighs about a pound, |
| 2:04.4 | so I suspect that bird was in no condition to fly. But his wild afternoon in the park was about to get |
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