Aw, Rats

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

For years, Jonah roamed the moors of the internet in search of a particular kind of expert to host on the Remnant, but his efforts seemed in vain. At last, however, his sacrifices to Baal have been answered. Today, Dr. Michael H. Parsons, an expert on rodentology at Fordham University, joins the program to discuss everything you could possibly want to know about rats, their behavior, and why controlling them in urban areas is so difficult. What does rat culture look like? How do rats really feel about people? Why are certain cities plagued by them while others seem untainted? And should you be concerned by Jonah’s exceptionally good mood?

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.5	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.5	Can I please have your attention
0:27.8	Greaves your listeners this is Jonah Goldberg hosts of the remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media
0:33.4	I'm gonna skip all of the throw clearing and just get to it because I've been waiting to do this podcast for years now
0:38.8	I've been I've been I've been demanding
0:41.6	That we get a wreck guy on here when I say a wreck. I don't mean like
0:47.1	sort of a half man half rat. I mean an expert about rats and
0:54.2	I find the subject fascinating. I grew up in New York City and we finally have our guy
1:01.5	His name is Dr. Michael Parsons. He's a visiting research scholar scholar at Fordham University
1:07.0	His research focuses on predator prey interactions roadontology and molecular ecology
1:15.1	He's published dozens of scientific articles and I've been reading a bunch of his stuff so I can I can attest already that
1:21.9	He more than clears the bar of rat guy
1:25.5	So with that Dr. Parsons. Thanks so much for doing this. Thank you for your interest in rats
1:30.3	Well, my interest of rats is because I'm a strange person
1:37.5	And my interest is purely on the amateur level
1:40.8	You've gone pro. How do you get into rats? There's a lot to come back there. I don't think anyone wakes up one day
1:47.1	It's just you know, I really want to go into rats
1:49.7	But you know, I was educated in Australia
1:52.7	So I did my post doctor studies there and it did my PhD there and it was the amazing floor in fauna that of the
1:59.1	country that drew me to Australia after a decade there
2:02.4	I got a position in the US and it just happened to be in New York City and I had to give up
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