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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 466: The Hog Terminator, Bear News, and a New Record Rainbow Trout

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal delves into a whole bunch of bear-related developments, an AI robot chasing wild hogs, and the unusual backstory story behind a whopper fish.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Listen up, Mother Scratchers.

0:05.6

If you listen to this show, you know how I feel about public land.

0:08.9

Well, right now, there are 4,000 acres along the Tucker Town Reservoir in North Carolina.

0:15.7

That could either go to developers or they could become public game lands forever.

0:22.1

We've teamed up with our friends at OnX to make sure it's the latter.

0:26.5

We want them going public.

0:27.6

Here's the deal.

0:28.7

Meat Eater and OnX have each put up $100,000 to match your donations.

0:34.1

That's $200,000 in matching funds on the table. but this only runs from April 14th to May 14th.

0:40.9

When the money's gone, it's gone. Go to savetuckertown.org. We're raising money to help keep it public.

0:53.7

Music From Meat Eaters World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cowell's Week in Review with Ryan Cal-A.

1:08.9

Here's Cal.

1:10.9

Long time listeners know that I am no fan of wild pigs.

1:15.5

They destroy habitat.

1:16.9

Out-compete native species.

1:18.6

Spread like wildfire.

1:20.1

Raid nests.

1:21.1

The whole list goes on.

1:22.5

So I was interested in a video that went viral last week of a humanoid robot chasing a pack of pigs through a parking lot in Poland.

1:30.0

The sleek white robot jogs along after the pigs who scurry through the parking lot,

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