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Tooth & Claw

True Crime, Nature, Science, Comedy

4.8 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to Tooth and Claw podcast. We have our wildlife biologist,
0:19.0	Bear biologist, and CNN regular Wes Larson with us.
0:24.5	That's me.
0:25.3	Fat bear correspondent.
0:26.6	Wes, you think it's beautiful when grizzly bears kill each other, huh?
0:31.0	That's kind of what I said in front of an audience of millions of people.
0:36.0	Yeah. I'll be honest. I really like it when news companies contact me to be a
0:41.6	bear expert for them. If there's one aspect of bears that I don't love talking about on those
0:47.7	kind of shows, it's Fat Bear Week. It's like no one thing. Yeah, I just, I really like Fat Bear Week.
0:53.9	I think it's great.
0:55.0	It's just like, it's fluff, you know? And it kind of, I just kind of get tired of talking about it. I don't know. But I was glad they reached out to me. All right. We won't bring it up anymore then. No. Were they glad they reached out to you, though? I don't know. They might be because the producer that reached out said they might want to have me back on to talk about the winner.
1:16.9	But, yeah, it didn't seem like they loved my answers to some of their questions.
1:21.8	So I was a little surprised that she said that.
1:24.1	Yeah, they are like, look how cute bears can be.
1:26.7	And you're like, yeah, they kill each other sometimes.
1:29.4	Babies.
1:31.3	And I think that's beautiful.
1:34.1	Yeah.
1:34.8	And then we have me.
1:36.0	I'm Wes's little brother, Jeff Larson.
1:38.5	I'm a bit of a bear biologist myself.
1:41.1	And then we have Mike Smith, our sound guy. 2% bear biologist, Jeff. One. I got a little bit of a little bit of a little bit in me.
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