Cry Fowl
Hyperfixed
Alex Goldman & Radiotopia
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In the summer of 2022, several dozens of residents of Birmingham, Alabama disappeared without a trace. This week, the Hyperfixed team breaks the story of what happened to them.
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- Joe's story about the ducks: Avondale Park ducks, geese disappear before The World Games
- Subreddit discussing Joe's piece: https://www.reddit.com/r/Birmingham/comments/vkq61r/avondale_park_ducks_geese_disappear_before_the/
- AL.com story about World Games debt: World Games $14 million shortfall; ‘We have every intention...to pay our vendors,’ says CEO
- Story about geese removal in Pike Road, AL in 2019: Nearly 150 geese removed, ‘humanely euthanized’ from Ala. community
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Robin here from PRX, and I want to tell you about a brand new show in the Radiotopia family, an exciting partnership with our friends at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and fellow indie network talkhouse. |
| 0:14.5 | It's called Music Makes Us, and it's hosted by cultural icon, the legendary Kathleen Hanna, the frontwoman of Bikini Kill and La Tigra. |
| 0:23.7 | She sits down with revolutionary musicians like Shaka Khan, Olivia Rodrigo, and Haley Williams of Paramour |
| 0:29.9 | to speak about the things artists really want to talk about. Perfect lyrics, unforgettable shows, |
| 0:36.3 | treasured artifacts, and even snacks. |
| 0:39.3 | From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Radiotopia and Talk House, Music Makes Us. |
| 0:44.7 | Out now wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:48.9 | Hi, I'm Alex Goldman, and this is Hyperfixed. |
| 0:52.8 | Each week on our show, listeners write in with their problems big and small, and I solve them. |
| 0:57.4 | Or at least I try. |
| 0:58.9 | And if I don't, I at least give a good reason why I can't. |
| 1:02.7 | This week, cry foul. |
| 1:09.0 | The story you're about to hear took 11 months to report, and it really shouldn't have. |
| 1:15.5 | To answer a question like this one, we shouldn't have had to contact experts or lawyers or government agencies, but we did. |
| 1:23.6 | We ended up having to do all of that stuff, because when we started sniffing around this question, we immediately got caught in a campaign of coordinated obfuscation. |
| 1:33.1 | We just didn't realize it immediately. |
| 1:35.7 | And that's probably because the question we were chasing, it was about ducks. |
| 1:41.8 | I don't know if it's always had ducks, but if somebody were to come up to me and be like, hey, do you know the park with the ducks? |
| 1:47.4 | I'd be like, yeah, Avondale Park. |
| 1:49.4 | It's kind of known for that. |
| 1:52.2 | This is John. |
| 1:53.2 | He lives in Birmingham, Alabama. |
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