Gorilla Radio Podcast Network
128 episodes listed below
Primatology with jokes, teeth, and sources.
Gorilla Radio Show turns primatology into a fast, messy roundtable: chimpanzee field stories, bonobo research, macaque disease scares, bushmeat debates, and monkey art all get pulled into the same current. It is loose and joke-heavy, but the best stretches land on real questions about conservation, animal welfare, cognition, and human responsibility.
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Gorilla Radio Show is built around primatology, but it rarely walks straight at the subject. It swerves. Austin, Chandran, and Greg might begin with a license plate giveaway, a grocery-store phone call, a webcam mounted in the wrong place, or an argument about food, then somehow arrive at chimpanzee politics, bonobo conservation, macaque disease risk, or the ethics of animal media. The show’s charm is that the mess is not a disguise for emptiness. Under the tangents is a real appetite for sources, stories, and uncomfortable details. A segment on B virus reads like internet panic until the hosts settle into the rarity of transmission and the odd human decisions behind documented cases. A conversation about monkey art jokes about paint-eating, then circles the treatment of zoo animals and the difference between novelty and care. The bushmeat material is especially thorny. The panel can be crude in motion, but the argument recognizes hunger, migration, disease, trade routes, and the separate cruelty of selling infants into the pet market. Guest episodes give the show more ballast. Bill Wallauer brings field experience with chimpanzees, including the emotional contradiction of caring deeply about animals that rightly experience a researcher as scenery. Dr. Sara Skiba explains bonobo research, the Ape Initiative, and the social-media pipeline that can turn great apes into commodities. Paul Koberstein pulls the frame away from monkeys toward the great North American rainforest, climate, politics, and the history behind spectacular trees. The hosts do not pretend to be polished public-radio naturalists. They interrupt, over-lap, correct themselves, and let jokes run too long. That looseness is part of the product. It makes the science feel less sealed off from ordinary internet life, where conservation news, bad headlines, disease anxiety, pop culture, and personal nonsense all arrive in the same feed. Gorilla Radio Show suits listeners who can handle rowdy banter and want animal talk that is funny, skeptical, and more serious than it first sounds. It is not tidy. It is alive.
Made for: For listeners who like animal science, conservation arguments, and chaotic panel chemistry more than polished narration. It especially suits people who want primates discussed with humor, source-reading, and moral complication.
What sets it apart: The show pairs genuine primatology curiosity with internet-native riffing, so interviews and research stories never feel sealed away from everyday absurdity. Its best moments turn a joke or tangent into a real point about cognition, animal welfare, disease, trade, or conservation.
Podcast about primates featuring a primatologist and maybe some other guys, Jane Goodall estate please don't sue us. www.patreon.com/gorillaradioshow
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Primate science becomes vivid through sharp source work, informed guests, and three hosts willing to follow an odd question somewhere consequential.
Gorilla Radio Show lets Austin, Chandran, and Greg bring primate science into a deliberately unruly conversation. Their subjects include disease transmission from macaques, paintings made by apes, the bushmeat trade, bonobo conservation, and chimpanzee behavior.
Chimp politics, monkey herpes, and lead-paint art become the group chat you wish you had.
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A loose chimp conversation that lands on memory, personality, and the strange honesty of watching animals on their own terms.
This episode follows Bill Wallauer from Arizona to Oregon to Tanzania, but the real center is the chimpanzees. It moves through the Peace Corps and Jane Goodall into the slower discipline of being accepted in the field: watching without trying to force a bond.
A chaotic B virus conversation that still lands on the main scientific point.
Episode 97 of Guerrilla Radio Show turns a B virus discussion into something messy, but still useful. The hosts work through CDC language, the wound ointment case, and a wife's accidental exposure, and the point comes through cleanly: the risk to humans is real, but it is still…
A messy art-prank riff that uses monkey jokes to probe taste, context, and the frame around serious art.
Gorilla Radio Show episode 96 takes a monkey-in-an-art-show setup and turns it into a sharp, good-natured argument about how critics read context.
A funny, shaggy episode that folds pangolin trade and disease questions into the banter.
The episode opens in loose, joking territory, with apartment-gong talk, sick-day banter, and the hosts needling each other, then eases into a more serious stretch about pangolins, imported taste, and the ways contraband can move through smell, cooking, and transport.
Bonobo science and conservation ethics, with a hard look at bushmeat, infant trade, and the pet trade.
Episode 94 is a blunt, engaging conversation about bonobos, the Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, and the difficult realities of conservation work. Dr. Skiba gives the discussion its center of gravity.
Science education between theory and classroom reality.
Bill Wallauer joins the hosts with stories from the overlap of wildlife filmmaking and chimpanzee fieldwork.
The show opens with a joke about getting addicted to fentanyl.
Episode 96 opens with goat noises, half-heard goodbye chatter, and the hosts trying to work out what is actually happening.
The hosts start off in full tangent mode, joking about a gong in an apartment, the feel of morning noise, and the malaise that can hang around after it.
Guerrilla Radio Show episode 94 brings Dr.
This episode features an interview with journalist Paul Koberstein about his book 'Canopy of Titans', which explores the great North American rainforest, covering topics like history, science, politics, and climate.
The co-hosts of Guerrilla Radio Show engage in humorous banter about fixing a webcam, visiting a trans bar in Asheville, and exchanging playful compliments.
The host discusses their cats, including a feral one with a flipped ear, while reflecting on the podcast's nearly three-year anniversary.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
The host Chandran introduces episode 58 of Gorilla Radio with chaotic banter about monkeys, primates, and a friend's intense gaming experience with Elden Ring.