HBM106: Beautiful Stories about Dead Animals (part 2)

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

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🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This is a special two-part episode, in which Kryssanne Adams describes the many times where she’s seen death or inflicted it upon animals.

Content Note: Animal slaughter and other descriptions of death

Kryssanne is a writer in Bellingham, Washington, where she also helps run the Bellingham Alternative Library, sings in a Threshold Choir, and works at a museum.We turned these episodes into a book, which is available for purchase in our store.

Producer: Jeff Emtman

Editor: Jeff Emtman

Music: The Black Spot, Serocell

Transcript

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0:00.0	Tell me about your friend who brought over a liver to your house.
0:08.0	Oh, just the other day.
0:12.0	Yeah.
0:16.0	From KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters.
0:19.0	And this is part two of a special two-part series that we're doing on Animal Death. Now if you haven't heard
0:24.7	part 1 yet, it's episode 105 and you should be able to find it on your favorite
0:29.6	podcast app or over on our website which is HBM Podcast.com. Now two quick things before we start
0:37.2	the show first I want to mention that this episode more so than last episode is kind of explicit and I'm thinking specifically in regards to this
0:47.4	description that Chris Ann has in this episode about slaughtering animals.
0:52.2	Now she does it in the way that she speaks which is accurate
0:56.7	and beautiful and honestly quite graphic. So I just want to give you a heads up on that.
1:02.0	The second thing is that we are turning these two
1:05.7	episodes into a book and we were hoping to have that ready by now but it actually just needs a couple
1:10.1	more days of work. It looks really amazing and we can't wait to show it to you, but as soon as we've got it in stock,
1:16.0	we'll post about it over on our social media feeds.
1:19.0	Okay, here's the show.
1:48.7	Yeah, I have this friend whose parents were Amish and they taught him how to do everything. So he knows how to cook really well and do all kinds of preservation. He knows how to make his own booze, and he's really good at salvaging roadkill.
1:51.1	The other day I was feeling really down and he sends me a picture of this dead rabbit and he asks me, you want to help me process this rabbit?
2:06.3	Half an hour later he shows up and he's got a little bag and inside of it he's got this rabbit skin that's wrapped around its head. The head is still in
2:19.1	there because the brain is really good for tanning.
2:23.0	Every animal has exactly the right amount of brain to tan its hide.
2:30.0	And aside from the head, the body's already been disposed of.
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