Oct 3 2023

Night of the Grizzlies

56 min 2 movies discussed
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Grizzly bears had never killed a person in Glacier National Park until the night of August 12, 1967. That's when everything changed for National Parks moving forward.

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# The Night Two Young Women Were Killed by Different Bears in Glacier National Park

This episode dives into a tragic night in August 1967 when two nineteen-year-old women were killed by separate grizzly bears in two different locations within Glacier National Park, an event that sparked a major national conversation about how humans and bears can coexist. Josh and Chuck explore how decades of mismanagement—from feeding bears for entertainment to keeping them habituated to human food—created the perfect conditions for disaster, and how the park's casual attitude toward these massive predators stood in stark contrast to the real danger they posed.


Movies Discussed

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004 1h 35m
★ 6.7
"that doesn't keep the media from reporting something like this. Sure. And then it showing up in Anchorman as a joke years later. — Referenced how the myth about bears being attracted to menstrual blood was later used as a joke in the comedy film Anchorman." — Chuck
The Yogi Bear Show
The Yogi Bear Show
1961 TV-G
★ 7.0
"the Yogi bear cartoon was a big thing. And Yogi and Boo Boo as these sort of friendly bears — Discussed how the cartoon depicted bears as friendly picnic basket thieves, reflecting how people actually encountered bears in national parks at the time." — Chuck

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