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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 870: Chimp Wars, Cocaine Hippos, and Steve Destroys Animal Rights People

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella and the MeatEater crew discuss: House cat jerky; Seth's baby; Save Tuckertown!; Lane Legacy Beef; how warped Colorado's animal rights folks are; a Ken Burn's-level Philandering Randimals production on the chimp civil wars; El Chapo's cocaine hippos; proposed federal cuts to conservation for 2027; black bears biting; an American hunter killed by elephants in Africa; and more. 

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at firstlight.com. Welcome to the news show, everybody. This week we've got cows, not condos, a bit about house cat jerky. Army tanks are using up all the turkey ammo.

0:45.2

Randall covers a chimpanzee war. An American hunter is killed by elephants. Spencer covers a war on cocaine hippos.

0:53.7

And more, including for real this time.

0:56.0

We cover the ongoing goofiness and cluelessness of Colorado's animal rights movement.

1:02.1

But first, Seth Morris is back from his year-long paternity leave.

1:07.1

He has a new baby.

1:09.6

I do, yeah.

1:12.2

A new baby. He kept me up all night last night

1:13.8

tell everybody about that baby

1:15.3

it's the only kid in America

1:16.7

named Virgil

1:17.4

Yep Virgil

1:18.7

It's an old timing name

1:20.1

that we're bringing back

1:21.0

Virgil Morris

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