HBM042: Deers

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters Podcast

Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Personal Journals, Documentary

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🗓️ 8 July 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Andy Wilson and Ryan Graves are best friends, despite having very different opinions on the hierarchy of human and animal life. The two come face-to-face with those differences after a fatal encounter on a frigid winter day in northeastern Idaho when Andy's dogs chase a deer into Lake Chatcolet.

Today, Andy is happily married (celebrating his year anniversary next week), working as a fine woodworker at Renaissance Fine Woodworking, and living in Pullman Washington. He now has three brown dogs and Quincy (the brown dog from the story) knows the word "deer" - but is less likely to chase one in his 11th year.

Ryan works as a nurse in Pullman Regional Hospital and lives just outside of town. His duck died last week, but he's looking forward to the five Muscovy ducklings he's going to acquire soon. And he's looking forward to deer season.

This episode is heavily adapted from a short animated film also called Deers (embedded below), produced by John Summerson. His film received support from the Princess Grace Foundation USA.

Bethany Denton produced this piece for Here Be Monsters, with editing help from Jeff Emtman and Nick White.

Music: Flowers ||| Lucky Dragons ||| Flower Petal Downpour

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0:00.0	From the independent producer project of KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters.
0:07.0	To hit or not to hit to swerve or not to swerve.
0:19.0	It makes more sense to just smash that deer, stay on the road.
0:24.0	Everybody always says, don't swerve and I always would have said don't swerve,
0:29.0	but I'm so glad that I swerved and went off the road.
0:32.0	I'm glad that I did that because I think maybe that
0:35.2	deer did survive. But if the deer does have to die, then you ought to do something for it, not necessarily even with it, but like for it. I think my opinion on life and death is a little skewed compared to a lot of people.
0:57.0	Everything dies.
0:59.0	The fact that most people haven't seen somebody die and everybody dies.
1:05.0	Doesn't that sound weird?
1:07.0	There's people that haven't seen an animal die.
1:09.0	I purposely kill deer.
1:11.0	I kill them for sport and for food for enjoyment because I really enjoy it.
1:29.0	Here be monsters, the podcast about. Cutting Rudolph in Christmas Village.
1:32.0	The podcast about the unknown. You're going to. The location is Lake Chaculate, Northern Idaho, Banawah County.
2:05.0	I had gotten done with my day's work and I was going off for a little expedition
2:10.0	with my dog and another dog. And the lake probably has some ice in patches but for the
2:16.5	most part is clear. So we're going along the bike path and you you know, see a deer up there on the bike path, which is nothing unusual whatsoever.
2:27.0	Both of the dogs start going after it.
2:31.0	The deer goes and launches itself into the lake. It's
2:38.8	instinctual for them. They think that's a good escape route. The deer is just kind of swimming off into oblivion. I look around a little bit like what can I do in this situation? What is the next step?
2:52.2	Basically I'm trying to remedy something
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