Episode 64: Self-Esteem for Owls, and Newt Gingrich on the Heroin Problem
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour. |
| 0:08.6 | All right, buddy. |
| 0:09.6 | All right. |
| 0:11.4 | Are you ready? |
| 0:12.4 | Are you ready? |
| 0:12.9 | Yes, I'm ready, yes, I'm ready. |
| 0:15.0 | Ooh. |
| 0:17.0 | Ooh. |
| 0:18.9 | You are unflappable. |
| 0:22.3 | When it comes to soaring, gliding, or chilling on a bow, you are definitely number one owl. |
| 0:28.8 | Check out your damn winkspan. |
| 0:31.2 | You dominate all barns. |
| 0:34.1 | If there's a barn, you're pretty much about to dominate it. |
| 0:37.9 | Even when people think you're just chilling on a bow, |
| 0:40.6 | what you're really doing is communing with the mystical rhythms of the universe. |
| 0:46.3 | So there's that. |
| 0:48.9 | No one looks directly at things in a slightly offended way better than you. |
| 0:55.4 | A field mouse might think, |
| 0:57.4 | view, my friend barely escaped by darting just outside that owl's peripheral vision, |
| 1:01.5 | and it's like, actually, I'm just pretty much swiveling my head all the way around to see him. |
| 1:08.7 | A statue might think, I have the patent on being totally still and regal in this topiary garden |
| 1:14.7 | and it's like really? |
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