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Oct 2, 2026
John GregoryHOST
Well, a statue of Hollywood's most famous mountain lion is almost finished.
John GregoryHOST
Uh, we're getting a sneak peek of the statue celebrating the legacy of P-22.
John GregoryHOST
The mountain lion roamed the Hollywood Hills for over a decade.
John GregoryHOST
LA-based artist, Adam Atano- Matano, uh, has completed the final clay form in his studio.
John GregoryHOST
The statue will be bronzed in the next few days.
John GregoryHOST
It's been a months' long labor of love.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
P-22 is the star, but that we get to know, that we love, but I feel like all animals can do that if we take the time.
speaker_12SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, so that was kind of my goal is that you focus on P-22, but then you see all these other animals and, and it kind of shows that, that we're all connected.
PatrickHOST
[imitates trout flapping]
JacobHOST
'Cause the only reason P-22 was alive was because, uh, he was able...
JacobHOST
he got across the freeway.
CharlotteHOST
Yeah.
PatrickHOST
It's usually like a f- suburb or like further out-
CharlotteHOST
Right
PatrickHOST
... for whatever reason.
PatrickHOST
But, uh, there was this really bad tornado, and me and my friend were, like, trying to find something to eat, and we'd heard about some place, I don't remember.
Mike MartinHOST
In the spirit of the tea house's purposefully mysterious origin, the Knoll Hill location was originally revealed with a cryptic tweet reading, Where the world meets the city and red cars still roll, near the fourth longest passage which asks for no toll.
Mike MartinHOST
Above the entryway is a half puma, half eagle symbol wearing the same tracking collar as P-22, the famous puma who crossed two freeways to settle in Griffith Park for 10 years before being euthanized in the aftermath of a car strike in December of 2022.
Mike MartinHOST
He was an icon, untamable wildness in the face of everything boring and terrible for many.
Alex FacianeHOST
Okay, so I probably don't have to say just how many coincidences we have here.
Alex FacianeHOST
He was a really good writer.
Alex FacianeHOST
Yeah, he went viral for a lot of things over the years.
Alex FacianeHOST
But one of the very last things he wrote that a lot of people read was actually a eulogy for P-22 after he was put down.
Alex FacianeHOST
And I thought in the interest of coincidences, it would be cool if Mathis read a little bit of that for us now.
Adam DevineHOST
I
Blake AndersonHOST
used to see like… P-22, huh? P-22.
Blake AndersonHOST
P-22 is like a really famous mountain lion that used to walk the hills of Hollywood.
Blake AndersonHOST
And it was completely unafraid of humans.
Blake AndersonHOST
And it would show up every night just cruising.
Adam DevineHOST
say it and we'll bleep
Anders HolmHOST
it.
Anders HolmHOST
Someone we know who wrote on Workaholics, they found P-22 in their backyard eating a raccoon just like on their pool deck.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
No, the two stars I'm talking about were notably less talkative, but the camera loved them.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
Grizzly 399, the sow brown bear, who was known as the queen of the Tetons, and P-22, the so-called Hollywood cat, a mountain lion who lived most of his adult life on an island alone in Griffith Park, L.A.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
These were some of the most photographed animals on the planet before both of them were hit by cars.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
A life-size brown statue of Grizzly 399, titled Against All Odds, was unveiled this month at the National Museum of Wildlife Art near Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
I talked to a bunch of biologists over several beers one night down in the Jackson side of the GYE and habituated as shoot was repeated often when discussing Bear 399.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
Part of her survival strategy was to use humans as a deterrent to competing male grizzly bears from coming in, killing her cubs, giving her a hard time too.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
So the statue of P-22, the lion, is entitled Earth to City Rhapsody of the Wild King.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
This one is still under construction, but conservation groups, including the National Wildlife Federation, announced that it will be installed at the Griffith Park Visitor Center once it's completed.
StoshHOST
So first off, let's talk about this.
StoshHOST
Uh, we, we're always talking about mountain lions on the show, so over in California, famed mountain lion P-22 is finally getting a permanent memorial.
StoshHOST
So if you haven't heard about the mountain lion over in, uh, called the Hollywood Cat, over in California called P-22, he is getting a proper memorial over there in, uh, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, because this guy was once again a famous mountain lion that crossed a bunch of highways.
StoshHOST
Uh, 101, let's see, 101 and 405 freeways, busy as heck, and claimed a lot of lives and such.
StoshHOST
And they are putting a memorial for this mountain lion down in Los Angeles, and it's titled Earth to City: Rhapsody of a Wild King, uh, located off Griffith Park.
StoshHOST
So a little bit of background about P-22.
StoshHOST
Was an adult male mountain lion who survived crossing the crazy freeways over there, and he is also famous for being the mountain lion who walked kinda like, uh, did a, a famous picture.
StoshHOST
I, I think they did a trail cam that was in front of the Hollywood sign.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
Each of the nine stories highlights a particular big cat, the threats they face, how the impacts that they're reporting unfolded, and the lengths both of them had to go to achieve it.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
Whether it was the two of them going undercover to document the conditions of the Thai Tiger Temple and exposing it as a source for the trafficking of tigers, or Winter spending as much as a year to capture that iconic shot of the mountain lion P-22 with the Hollywood sign in the background.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
The stories, while often thrilling in and of themselves, they tell a deeper story of how when science and communication are melded together, they can inspire communities to come together to protect the environment and ecosystems.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
The Wallis Annenberg Bridge, which will be the world's largest wildlife crossing when it opens this December, is partly a result of that iconic photo of P-22.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
The state of Thailand raiding the Thai Tiger Temple and shutting it down is a result of Guynup's and Winter's reporting.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
Jaguar populations in the Pantanal wetlands are rebounding in part because of Winter's reporting and the work of diligent scientists.
12 MINS LATER
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
so it took you, it took you an incredibly long time.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
And it, we could talk about it for the rest of the podcast, but let's fast-forward to what happened after the photo was actually released.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
Each of the nine stories highlights a particular big cat, the threats they face, how the impacts that they're reporting unfolded, and the lengths both of them had to go to achieve it.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
Whether it was the two of them going undercover to document the conditions of the Thai Tiger Temple and exposing it as a source for the trafficking of tigers, or Winter spending as much as a year to capture that iconic shot of the mountain lion P-22 with the Hollywood sign in the background.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
The stories, while often thrilling in and of themselves, they tell a deeper story of how when science and communication are melded together, they can inspire communities to come together to protect the environment and ecosystems.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
The Wallis Annenberg Bridge, which will be the world's largest wildlife crossing when it opens this December, is partly a result of that iconic photo of P-22.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
The state of Thailand raiding the Thai Tiger Temple and shutting it down is a result of Guynup's and Winter's reporting.
Mike DiGirolamoHOST
Jaguar populations in the Pantanal wetlands are rebounding in part because of Winter's reporting and the work of diligent scientists.
7 MINS LATER
Sharon GuynupGUEST
And, and he brought that to wildlife photography, but that wasn't the way it happened at that point in time.
Sharon GuynupGUEST
And it since, you know, has become that, and it's really important because, again, if you're going to make a difference, you need to talk about and depict the people that share the landscape with these animals, the threats that face them, the scientists that are studying them, and the conservation efforts to save them.
Jack HumphreyHOST
And right now, out in southern California, over 10 lanes of roaring traffic below on Highway 101, the enormous Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is just months away from the ribbon cutting.
Jack HumphreyHOST
What started as a desperate effort to save the genetically isolated mountain lions of the Santa Monica Mountains, galvanized by the legendary cat P-22, has turned into a global blueprint for large-scale habitat connectivity.
Jack HumphreyHOST
Today, Beth takes us behind the scenes of the grueling home stretch.
Jack HumphreyHOST
We dig into the brutal realities of running an effort like this for more than a decade, the wild science of engineering silence and darkness above a roaring river of 300,000 cars a day, and why this isn't just a bridge.
6 MINS LATER
Jack HumphreyHOST
You have a whole other, like, job.
Jack HumphreyHOST
You know, in the same thing, but you, like, do other things too.
Jack HumphreyHOST
And one of the things that I keep thinking about, uh, I'm sure you do a lot [laughs] too, is P-22.
Beth PrattGUEST
Yeah.
Neil SaavedraPANELIST
I have such a good comeback that I could never say.
Neil SaavedraPANELIST
Anywho, talking about beauty, Angelenos who miss P-22, of course, the Wild King Mountain Lion.
Neil SaavedraPANELIST
There's a statue coming to Griffith Park.
Neil SaavedraPANELIST
So the statue was created by Los Angeles-based artist, Adam Matano, will live at Griffith Park right there by the Visitor Center and the National Wildlife Federation and Friends of Griffith Park announced this just yesterday.
Bill HandelHOST
Yeah.
Bill HandelHOST
And then you wonder, you have a mountain lion and somehow became a really popular, I guess, symbol of animals that are endangered in our area.
Bill HandelHOST
And they ended up killing him or they ended up euthanizing P-22 once he was tacked, once he was captured.
Bill HandelHOST
And he committed three attacks on dogs within a month.
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