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Radiolab

A Flock of Two

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2011

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today's short, we get to know a man who struggles, and mostly fails, to contain his violent outbursts...until he meets a bird who can keep him in check.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Wait, you're listening.

0:01.1

Okay.

0:02.4

All right.

0:03.6

Okay.

0:05.0

All right.

0:06.6

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:09.4

Radio Lab.

0:10.1

Shorts!

0:11.5

From W. N. Y.

0:13.8

C.

0:14.7

See?

0:15.0

Yes.

0:16.5

And NPR.

0:18.7

Hey, I'm Chad Aboumrod.

0:20.5

I'm Robert Trilwish. This is Radio Lab, the podcast. And we're going to St. Louis. Yeah. Nice. Nice and direct. He likes that because his mom lives there, but you'll like that because you're about to meet somebody unusual. Unrelated to my mother. Thankfully. This comes from our producer, Pat Balters. It's the story

0:39.1

of a rescue. A

0:41.4

double rescue, really. It's one we've been

0:43.1

wanting to tell for a while. Pat

0:45.1

Walters. So a few months ago, I went to St. Louis

0:47.5

because I'd heard this story

0:48.8

about a guy

0:49.8

who had this pet

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