Steve Backshall, a bullet ant ritual and 100 men against a gorilla on The Fellas
Episode 303 sends Calfreezy, Chip and AB diving with crocodiles and swimming with great whites, and the comments are ranking him among their best guests ever.
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Steve Backshall Reveals His Deadliest Animal, Near Death Experiences & Fake Videos! EP. 303
"Steve Backshall Reveals His Deadliest Animal, Near Death Experiences & Fake Videos! EP. 303" is the Tuesday episode on The Fellas, the podcast Calfreezy, Chip and AB say they broadcast from their campsite. Their guest is the naturalist who spent years on CBBC's Deadly 60 hunting down the planet's most dangerous creatures, and the chapter list reads like a highlights reel of that life: diving with crocodiles, whether you can really punch a shark, the bullet ant ritual, a bad climbing accident and the time he nearly drowned.
There is room for nonsense too. The hosts get to the old internet question of 100 men against a gorilla, ask how dangerous hippos really are, and the description promises a look at whether AI animal videos have gone too far. The episode passed 380,000 views in six days.
The comment section has turned into a ranking exercise, with viewers arguing over where Backshall sits among the show's all-time guests, and plenty of them saying the episode took them straight back to watching Deadly 60 as kids. Some ask for a second part. A few also credit Cal's interviewing, and one viewer suggests bringing Backshall back for the final round of the challenges he set the boys.
The short-form cuts were quieter, apart from one: "AB almost died?!" picked up more than 40,000 views in under two days. Chip and Sabina's wedding special from the week before keeps ticking along beside it.
As a whole, the channel ran a touch above its usual pace and added a couple of thousand subscribers. Among the podcast channels around its size, the louder weeks belonged to Club 520 Podcast and The Other Channel, both well above their norm.
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- September 29, 2026
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Steve Backshall became famous for which CBBC wildlife series?
Backshall presented Deadly 60, in which he traveled the world to find sixty of the most dangerous animals.
