The father is incensed and he's yelling at the guy, what are doing around my daughter? And I just keep on asking them, show me where I'm wrong. And then he waits for me to answer. Thousand-- OK, how many of those lean Republican? Years ago, there was an infamous spate of attacks by a cantankerous great horned owl who kept dive bombing skiers with its steak knife talons. Why is this policeman writing me? He says he never thought of it again until I emailed him. You're fired. And do hawks even eat peanut butter? It's a perpetual birthday party or something. But she didn't say a word to me about it. We'd get together in person and Liz's backyard to find out. He was drunk. They have ridiculously huge heads with gawky antlers-- almost flat in places sometimes, like broad, buckled sheets of plywood. It would be a two-hour round trip. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Yeah, they were anonymous. I'm like, wait a minute. Brita, Royal, Odell, Oriana, Kenny-Jack, Edith, Magnus, and Sayla. Did you see that it was signed? And then Liz and I act like crazy people for the next 24 hours until he emails back. This is a public park. He was a-- he liked to spend time in the city. I have resources not every person has because of my position. The female volunteer-- the one who was singled out with the death threat-- the one who'd sent the video of the two scuba divers to the National Marine Fisheries Service-- she was considered a federal witness. I asked if he thought we were going off the rails this time. When the seals get scared, they all do this sort of wiggle stampede back into the water. The first thing I learned was how fleshed out these people were in my mom's mind, like Carol from the West Village, who warned that irresponsible drinking could lead to lawsuits. Those were ballots that had been placed in drop boxes, which he points out he's not a fan of drop boxes. They'd pretty much taken over half the sand and established a permanent rookery here. And her part, she was totally upfront about that. And his antlers were-- I don't know-- at least three feet across from tip to tip, maybe four feet. Forensic audit is the battle cry for people who want some external group to look at the ballots and everything, which for the record, have already been through a state-led, bipartisan audit in Michigan. What languages do you speak? He wasn't dangerous. They use their hooves in front and they're very large and very heavy and very sharp. But when she named him Buzzwinkle and it was in the paper and everyone started calling him Buzzwinkle, then he became Buzzwinkle and I used the word, too. He wasn't able to get a shot at him. I started to feel like this was our chance to be a bona fide loving family. I sent them out of anger. No, it's not OK to harass the seals. None of us girls have stationery. D-u-why?! - This American Life How did it affect you to see him like that? But now, there's this one fresh faced kid just out of drama school who brings down the house in every scene. And he was so skinny. The feds had Biker Bobbie in the crosshairs. Ernie looks bewildered and heartbroken. This American Life. But he says he doesn't remember much else. Anupgiri also played a key role in the rise of Najaf Khan, the Persian adventurer, in Delhi. So this first story is about a man trying to communicate a thing, a very particular thing-- that the 2020 election in the state of Michigan was not stolen, that Joe Biden won. Finally, realizing there was no chance of getting at the wolf unless the coyotes were killed, Williams shot them hoping that he, then, had a clear field. Let's be honest. I feel like there were maybe 20 seals on the sand. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. It's the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or . Each winner can bring a friend. Liz cut her off. Never mind, which could only mean one thing, she did. Then writes, I am very concerned. Moose wind up staggering around Anchorage with long trains of Christmas lights trailing behind them, or coaxial cable, or big yellow tether balls on ropes. Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme. She presents my father to ask if she can leave the Swedish psychoanalyst. And I think she may be headed in the wrong direction. You would have called Kevin. It's right in the heart of downtown Anchorage, across from the Nordstrom's. It was a kind of municipal spirit animal. If you ever wanted an essay about the specific sensation of applying coconut oil to a shower damp body, that would be delight number 101. My mom said she went so hard because--. But if there was a lot of traffic, he would use crosswalks. It elevated moose. But there was stuff he definitely felt deserved looking into. And off to the left, I remember, is a big, huge wardrobe, and there's a large window there and a little bureau. She gave the moose a nickname. Video Quimby the Mouse It's not like it's a Mormon thing. It was a threat. Normally, I don't name animals. Can you say what you just said out loud? I guess I'm asking if you actually always feel that way? So we're working on that as one of our forward strategies. In winter, when there's only twigs to eat, a thick carpet of fallen fruit-- even rotting fruit-- is a pretty big caloric bonanza for a moose and they get plastered. Amelia Bedelia's boss, Mrs. Rogers, had sent her an email with a list of instructions. He said, "don't get too close to the seals or I'll make your life miserable.". grunge.com - S. Flannagan 11h. So we wondered: what's it like to be at the country's top party school? One weird coincidence, he tells us that for years, his father dated a woman who lived in Bronxville, New York. He'd come in for the weekend. You can almost imagine it as a buddy film, though with a pretty twisted turn. And he's got to walk it just like we did. He's pretty insistent. Rick was the guy you'd call for problems like that. And the bird doesn't think anything at all. And there was no man throughout that region who did not feel a shiver run down between his shoulder blades when, alone or in the dark, he thought of this gray devil of the desert. "He loped through every kind of danger and spurned them all. Liz yells, wait! He lays out each of the theories and really why they can't be true. He sent a letter of apology to the Animal Protection and Rescue League. The moose was humongous. She's brought this on herself." And I realize, he seemed to see each of those animals the way I saw Buzzwinkle-- as an individual. He wasn't surprised nobody switched sides right in front of us. My mom then explains to them that I'm doing this event called The Drunk Show. Amelia Bedelia introduced herself. But because I'd only recently left the church, I was brand new to drinking. It feels that way. They speak over 35 different languages. She said over email she still believed there was election fraud in Michigan, enough to overturn the outcome, and that Ed McBroom was covering it up. If mom were to hear that, she'd send an email to the whole family about how you're an addict. This is the same Barbie DreamHouse that Airbnb listed in 2019 for $60 a night in honor of Barbie's 60th . 117 page transcript of Zelda and F. Scott's therapy sessions that Steve hand copied at the Princeton archives. And Julia asked me what I was going to do about it. I can't think about putting on a revival of a 1996 musical right now, Alexis, said Amelia Bedelia. At a certain point, he stopped going to the Children's Pool altogether. Each step at the staircase by the main entrance says welcome in a different language, private spaces for Muslim students to pray, shelves full of winter coats and backpacks for students who arrive with none, special curriculum and services tailored to them. I watched Ed talk to one more woman. And Ernie gives my dad a picture of Raqui for his birthday. But she knew her job was to do what Mrs. Rogers wanted. And then maybe she'll take it seriously. Mrs. Rogers hadn't said what order to put her lunch in, so Amelia Bedelia decided to be an overachiever. It's not a common sense reaction. Is there some part of you that is tired of it? Right there! Amelia Bedelia, I hired you to increase our brand engagement, not to waste my time. It's expensive. So Rick got in his truck and headed over to Bernie's. And Ernie The Attorney's face, which is identical to my father's face, pops up off the screen and attaches itself to my eyeballs. Anybody who wants to see the seals can still watch them from the sidewalk and the seawall. At some point in the night, probably, he had just fallen over. But of course, back in the day, generally, a wild animal showed up, we would just kill it. Then the rain comes down, and we hustle inside, and we're fumbling to get back to that initial connection. Breaking their legs, biting off their tails, mutilating them in unspeakable ways. Jon Mooallem. He was also a philanderer. This is a seal "crookery," as far as I'm concerned. I don't know why, but I just think moose are super weird. But you have to hand it to my dad for simply not losing it for over half a century. The Book of Delights is a series of daily snapshots into one man's habits and pleasures. He made me Raqui's Panamanian Christmas cookies. But I didn't even-- I didn't even-- as far as I recall, the content wasn't even meant to scare anybody. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty good compromise. And one guy who's been watching jumps in. Can everyone else please make up fake accounts and also comment? Some really extreme stuff that people had claimed to have witnessed. The people who put together today's program include Bim Adewunmi, Elna Baker, Susan Burton, Dana Chivvis, Sean Cole, Aviva DeKornfeld, Rudy Lee, Tobin Low, Stowe Nelson, Katherine Rae Mondo, Alix Spiegel, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp, Laura Starcheski, Lilly Sullivan, Christopher Swetala, Matt Tierney, Julie Whitaker, Chloee Weiner, and Diane Wu. Ed's approach to these conversations is to answer whatever questions people have in detail, however long it takes, which is premised on an idea that I hope is true, but I kind of fear isn't. This American Life is a weekly public radio program and podcast. All right. What are you saving them from? So after all these stories of conflict between humans and animals, let us close out our show today in a city where people actually take pride-- many of them do, anyway-- in being able to co-exist side by side with wild animals. Today on our program, "When the Beasts Come Marching In," we human beings think we run the world. But I have to push him really hard to say anything about meeting his son. He asks me how I am and how I feel about this or that. He apologized to the victim in court. He was 44 years old, 6 foot 4, 220. I'm Not As Think As You Drunk I Am - This American Life Well, he says 10 years after 9/11, and this is where New York is? Like, I do think if anyone could sway people it might be Ed, someone from their own party who also hadn't wanted Biden to win, who explains it all so patiently and clearly. Absolutely did not. She'd gone above and beyond and did something she did not enjoy for me. Has she lost her mind? For over two decades, he has been aggravated by their birdy jackhammer noise. But then someone would say, well, what if it happened this way? My uncle died at age 30. And in the end, what are they going to gain when they know that in Detroit, these absentee ballots are going to run 95% for Joe Biden? What if someone was given a Sharpie to mark their ballot and it bled through? We have stories of what happens when animals intrude on the world that we humans have constructed for ourselves. Actor Mike Sause performs in Drunk Shakespeare, a show that combines improv with classical theater. The story of a company trying an experiment at marketing dolls to little girls:A new kind of doll store near Chicago's Magnificent Mile called "American Girl Place." The company has figured out all the ways little girls love dolls and they're trying to sell to nearly every one of those desires. We have tons of other stuff. For the rest of the winter, when people called in Buzzwinkle sightings, Rick always asked them, how does he look? What languages do you speak? This is Kent again. I wouldn't go out for that unless someone was in a wheelchair or something, where they really couldn't go out the back door. And so I guess I'm worried about Ernie's big day. 5 Roger Ebert Most don't know that famed film critic Roger Ebert was once a sauce hound. I wanted to see how that was going and what the conversations were like. Then she ordered her lunch alphabetically, bread, cheese, chips, lettuce, tomato, turkey, water, perfect. They looked official. Why don't you just go order your lunch? This zapping device would not have been involved. That's kind of how he's known, the state senator with the cows and kids. And the pro-seal activists would lose their minds. Amelia Bedelia joined the Zoom call and began jumping up and down. I regretted it after I did it. About - This American Life He was an old wolf, with fur that was almost white. People stop by who know him to catch up. He used to do kind of the old-style comedy. The show is being promoted online. We are everywhere people are being hurt. Their plump little bodies like speckled bean bags. When Rick said Buzzwinkle was no different from other moose, it didn't cheapen Buzzwinkle. Your English is good. In other words, mom was right. Like, the family asks Amelia Bedelia to draw the drapes. And she opened her laptop while still in her pajamas. Biker Bobbie emailed two other threats to the Animal Protection and Rescue League. But that long pause, the fact that Ms. Handley asked him the question a second time, that's going to make a lot more sense if I just play you the sound from the microphone that was pinned to Ms. Handley's lapel. Which, of course, raises the question, how exactly do you form an alliance with a hawk? So Amelia Bedelia sat at her laptop and typed the words, the new home page, 50 times in a row. She didn't want to confront me about drinking, because she has so much trouble with confrontation of any kind with anyone, going back to when she was young. It was just-- it was the last, maybe, hours of his life-- certainly, the last day or two. It's against the law. Why do it? This time, we're going to dig out the classic December . And what are you going to say to that? It's a classic story. These stories, of course, are so old fashioned. Created with 1&1 WebsiteBuilder Quote, "He stepped into a trap in the morning and it got a good grip on him. His first word-- baloney. A moose walks into a bar--. She didn't hear him at all. I don't know. So he started an investigation. Music help from Damian Graef and Rob Geddis. And he attacked me and I was using reasonable force to defend myself. Oh, absolutely, because I'm this fuddy duddy, old fashioned Mormon lady that doesn't know anything. I'll never be involved in anything like this again. He hung the owl on the rope and pulled him side to side, using the pulleys. --as they chased the lawbreakers all the way back to their car. And now, for the ending my mother requested. We slept in the same bed. The email continues, "Many of the local divers have close friends in the California motorcycle clubs. The seals were not endangered. And then they get tired of coming down there. It comes out to 14 years. And you know how big their brains are? The program made its debut on CBC Radio One in . Stay back. Newsy stories that try to capture what it's like to be alive right now. A week ago I appeared onstage with Rachel Maddow, John Hodgman, Eugene Mirman and others, and the next morning, woke up in my own clothes, in my own bed, smelling faintly of vomit, unable to remember anything that happened onstage after the first 15 minutes, not even sure how I got home. But big picture, Carol from the West Village knew what she was talking about when she said, irresponsible drinking can lead to hospitalization. Have you seen it, he asks? A judge ruled in their favor last May. Come on. Drinking Games | The New Yorker In other words, stories! The second season finale aired on September 3, 2008, [1] and Showtime aired one final episode in May 2009. But when settlers arrived, we killed off the animals that wolves used to feed on-- bison, elk, deer. And now, the sentiment began to ring more true. There weren't any seals back then. I mean, as a little kid, I used to just admit fault to anything that happened in our family in order to get the confrontation to be over with. And then when they had it, the activists would turn over the video to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the feds would issue fines of $500 to anybody who made the seals flush. So there's a lot of anxiety and nerves. And some of the shared use people are mounting a legal campaign to have the Coastal Commission decision overturned. Transcript. I saw my mother as sheltered. And these newly minted "shared use" advocates-- they were done taking orders from the seal activists. But mostly, it's just nice now. Sullivan High School in Chicago is a school where communication isn't the easiest in normal times. And then, surprise, they can kill you. Over half the kids are immigrants or refugees. While the woodpecker's been away this winter, a hawk showed up in his yard. Note that the version of this story that we're putting online and as a podcast includes some curse words that we have unbeeped. The series premiered on March 22, 2007. The government goes to him with instructions to stay with the wolf until the wolf is killed no matter how much time it takes. Though it does seem true that this wolf was really good at being a wolf. So I walked back to the truck and loaded the shotgun. This woman fell on the treadmill at the gym. They're not native English speakers. Picture that for a second. We think we've got things under control. Act One, Until The Cows Come Home. And then I just had this little epiphany. Williams went. Soft and rubbery like a pony's. He has a son in New Orleans. Ed told me in the days after the election, he started out with the same questions these two people have. These deaths were all preventable. It's the same basic rules for animals as for people. It's like a live version of what happens on social media, and I think why things go so badly there. But all the issues they bring forward are either flagrantly impossible or issues that have already dealt with to a deep dive extent. And they're disturbing the peace. He acts like he wasn't keeping this from us for 62 years. I was interested in Ed, because honestly, it's alarming to me all the people who still believe the election was stolen. Tourist stuff-- they don't want to listen to that. This all started when I made a joke about me buying weed to my brother. For over two decades, he's been replacing shingles and patching these holes. I asked him to read his description of what happened next. The seals like us. He never told anyone I'm sure, because he knew my mom would never stop bringing it up. Ed reads a lot of American history. And someone ended up in the hospital. Everybody that I know likes the animals. I'm Ira Glass. He admitted in the police report that he was not shocked through his thick sweatshirt. And people loved to come here and sunbathe and swim and take selfies with the seals. Dad, what? Liz yells, there's a doctor too? In fact, on the International List of Threatened Species, harbor seals are classified as a species of least concern-- the exact same designation that's given to the common pigeon and to the house rat. I appreciate you giving us an open ear to it. There were so many mooses Rick had known. He said the social fabric has been stretched before, and we've gotten through it. Just a few at first, and then a bunch. Elly Fishman Kids are really nervous. With its reserves depleted, the larder empty, and nothing green in sight, it's not uncommon for a moose to succumb during the slow transition from winter to spring. Their goal in all of this was just to make sure that the beach stayed open to people, that they could keep sharing it with the seals. They come from close to 40 different countries. But also what made it so exciting was how together an "adulty" he was. I really feel like you're invading my privacy right now. Then she heard the sound of hammering and frustrated cursing from outside. It was up to Rick to manage that coexistence. Are you really not cleverer than this? And then this disruptor comes in from the side. People like to call these animals distinguished and noble, but they make terrible moaning sounds, like phlegmy old men with gout. There's a power in physically being in the same space as another person. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. Amelia Bedelia was thrilled. Stay with us. The victim in Aaron von Ehlinger's rape case speaks out Stocking his yard with mice or with rabbits seemed to Dick like it crossed the line into crazy town. Motorcycle club members have been contacted about witness and she will be dealt with very harshly, if she is not killed. I love the idea. And you're just thinking, oh, just a couple more minutes, they're going to flush all the seals away. The activists set up camp on a sidewalk at the top of the steep steps leading down to the sand. I'm incredibly dismissive. I feel like that's the perfect answer. Why did you think, like, Don saying this to me would reach me? This was the most direct conversation I've ever had with my mother, and the longest real conversation we've ever had. People on the shared use side had always accused the seal activists of valuing the lives of animals over people. Hosted by Ira Glass,. Abdal? Drunk History: Trump Edition | The Daily Show - YouTube We, as a species, are aggressive. I'm watching this and I'm going, who the hell is this guy? So there's 13 of them. The same sorts of things have been happening to me, Amelia Bedelia said. The man's name is Ed McBroom. What I did was I rigged a pulley system where I put a pulley at either corner of the house. Those are big. The Yellowstone prequel spinoff, 1923, tackles one of the darkest chapters in the history of Indigenous Americans living in Montana in the '20s. And we both giggled about that. The harbor seal rookery here was thriving. And then he, rather matter-of-factly, tells Liz that when he was a 24-year-old reporter in New Orleans, he met a 22-year-old married Panamanian woman named Raquel Elena Lefevre, he called her Raqui. What? Kids are really nervous. At that time, there were news reports that people had been seen stabbing seals and burning them with their cigarette butts and things like that. It's just disruptive. Our website, thisamericanlife.org, where you can stream our archive of over 750 episodes for absolutely free. Get that off the beach! Street smart, Rick called him. Rick let the moose sleep it off. You don't hear me. Get This American Life a Day Early in New York Times Audio. When I tried to get him to talk about what he was feeling or take some interest in what I was feeling, he wasn't mean about it. I call my dad the next day. He looks more like my father than any of us. The next comment comes from the East Village, from a commenter named, Please. And trappers tried, sportsmen tried. I always hated to do that. Ultimately, Rick had to dart Buzzwinkle with a tranquilizer, then patiently unravel the whole tangle. Quote, "When Williams first went into the country where the wolf ranged, he tried to find fresh tracks, but without success. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. So I am thinking now, as my forward plan, of making an alliance with the hawk and seeing whether I can entice him to come more often. Why did one county here flip so dramatically from one candidate to the other? Just in talking to you and getting the opposite, you know--. And they were ready to rumble. And then the hate mail started to roll in-- threatening phone calls and emails-- by Kent's count, more than 200 of them. I mean, it's all about the comedy for you. They used poison, they used dogs. What happened next will stun you. Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. It was definitely Buzzwinkle. For the record, The Drunk Show was a disaster. Rick wrote an essay about Buzzwinkle in The Anchorage Daily News, a kind of eulogy. Yes, 1923's Most Horrifying Scene Is Based On Real Life - Screen Rant And then Ernest, raised by a psychoanalyst, says he considered the information and had no idea what to do with it, and promptly repressed it. And so that's a lot of crazy rigmarole. Like, when my mother died of a stroke after years of really grim alcoholism, he offered no words of comfort, but instead asked me what we should do with the bloody couch that she died on. And the sound blasting out of the neighbor's stereo made something come loose inside me. In a way, it'd be safer and easier just to shoot them all. I'll probably get arrested. Everybody was filming everybody. They're checking the applications. And everybody seemed happy. Act Three, Amelia Bedelia Works From Home. It's pretty interesting, Ernie says. And if what we were going through might be fatal in some way. Everyone in this story I should just say, men, women, everyone in this story is a philanderer. Although, where the hell am I going to drag a bloody couch? Our website, thisamericanlife.org. And I'm generalizing here a little bit. One word-- I think I'm going to say blessed, I guess. He says comedy, where you are laughing at the performers and not with the performers is not comedy. Happens all the time. I'm already aware of that. I don't know what-- 30 feet or more of white lights dangling off of his antlers. Her grandfather was the president of Panama. I'm in suburban Connecticut and an 83-year-old man, Dick Paterniti is showing me the holes that woodpeckers have made in his house. I took a dead moose to the landfill. It's just a joke. See, now these are new. And "I'll fuck you all up." Our senior editor David Kestenbaum wondered if he was persuading anybody, and a few months ago went up to spend a day with Ed at the Upper Peninsula State Fair. All of us. He's a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine and the author of the book, Wild Ones, where, among other things, he writes about a moose that Thomas Jefferson felt a need to send to France. She's a lawyer, because that's the way a lawyer would say things, isn't it? From Chicago Public Radio, when our program continues. He never permitted them to come near him and they could feed from his kills only after he himself had finished. Don't do that. Ed put together a 35-page report with a 20-page appendix. In one, he threatened to burn down the organization's storefront and to bomb a coffee shop. And then Amelia Bedelia pulls out a pen and paper and draws a picture of the family's curtains. Here tonight, tomorrow night he'd devastated a range half a hundred miles away.". Earnest says to me, it's amazing to talk about my mom with a man who loved her, which Swedish dad did not. But lots of calls didn't really seem like problems Rick needed to rush out and solve. She's been taught since she was little girl to be careful around alcohol. You're less than a foot away. When he got back to his office, he looked up the tag number. Period. And their stubby flippers. That's my part in this. Like in one story, the future of democracy is at stake. Today's program--. But he'd stand there on the sidewalk and watch the light. I know they went in there. As interventions go, it was the least successful one I've ever heard of or could imagine. So I reached out. It's kind of a famous one among wolf people, apparently. Stay with us. It had happened in the dead of night. So I said, all right, I'm going to come down there. And that's my fault. And anyway, the only other option would have been to haul Buzzwinkle to a landfill and that didn't sit right with Rick. All around Anchorage, Rick says, you've got this endless scrimmage playing out between people and wild animals all trying to live in the same space. Two winners will get an overnight stay on July 21 and 22. Here's David. Bryan Pease, the pro-seal guy who started the Animal Protection and Rescue League, says that the money collected through donations was barely enough to hire a nighttime security guard.
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