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Outside/In

Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging

Outside/In

NHPR

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

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Ask Sam hotline has been blowing up lately! Not like the Galaxy 7, no. In a good way! So Sam, along with a couple of producers from the Outside/In team, took a moment to answer your questions about tree killing, grass eating and the sound in the woods that scared the colonists away. And that's just to name a few. Somebody even gets a trail name out of this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heads up to Outside In listeners who have small people in their homes or are sensitive to such things.

0:06.0

There are some swear words in this episode.

0:08.0

Hey there, I'm Sam Evans Brown and I'm Sam Evans Brown and here comes to music.

0:15.0

Why do geese make fees?

0:17.0

Does a bubblebee sneeze?

0:18.0

Can a person eat trees in a polar bear freeze?

0:20.0

Is a kidney stone kind of like a pearl and a clam?

0:22.0

But I don't know, Ask Sam.

0:25.0

So I'm here with producer Hannah McCarthy.

0:27.0

Hello.

0:28.0

And producer Jim Gutierrez.

0:29.0

Hey, hey?

0:30.0

And this is your first time doing Ask Sam with me, isn't it?

0:33.4

Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I've been allowed into this booth for good reasons.

0:40.3

Anyone have any feelings, fears, hopes?

0:44.0

I don't know the details of nature, but I also hate being wrong.

0:47.0

So I think this is going to be interesting.

0:49.0

I might just say some stuff.

0:51.0

Yeah, it's a perfect combination. Yeah combination I plan on the same considering I do not spend nearly any time in nature and I look forward to nearly any

1:00.3

I mean I'm outside sometimes but mostly in basketball courts.

1:03.8

Mostly on courts. Yeah. All right let's hear the first question.

1:07.6

This is Trevor calling from Horn Cemetery in Bailey, Colorado. The question I have for Sam is the tradition we have of bringing

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