Mon. 02/21 - Emo Poet & Wrestling Champ Abe Lincoln

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Hundreds of birds dropped from the sky in northern Mexico. Why it happened and two brothers in India who heal birds who have suffered a similar fate. Plus: wrestler. Poet. Mattress King? The semi-true extracurriculars of Abraham Lincoln. And some recommendations for Brad Neely Appreciation Day. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: Why did birds fall from sky in Mexico? Probably a predator, experts say (The Guardian) Jordan Peele posts Nope hashtag with video of creepy bird disaster (A/V Club) As More Birds Fly Into Buildings, Scientists Study How To Limit Collision Deaths (NPR) All That Breathes: The Indian brothers who heal birds dropping from the sky (BBC) All That Breathes Review: Transfixing Doc About Delhi's Bird Rescuers (IndieWire) Is Abraham Lincoln in the Wrestling Hall of Fame? (Snopes) Poems of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln Lincoln in the Bardo a book by George Saunders I'm Abraham Lincoln and I Beg of You, Please Commemorate My Birthday with Mattress Sales (McSweeney’s) Before Hamilton, there was the Washington music video (Polygon) George Washington (TheRealBradNeely, YouTube) The Professor Brothers - History Lesson (JFK) (TheRealBradNeely, YouTube) Wizard People, Dear Reader (Brad Neely, SoundCloud) You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe Jack's Presidents' Day Playlist (Spotify) Presidential podcast (Washington Post) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Monday, February 21st, 2022.
0:40.3	I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.3	Hundreds of birds dropped from the sky in northern Mexico.
0:47.3	Why it happened, and two brothers in India who heal birds who have suffered a similar fate. Plus, wrestler, poet, mattress
0:57.6	king, the semi-true extracurriculars of Abraham Lincoln, and some recommendations for
1:04.8	Brad Neely Appreciation Day. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:13.6	So you might have seen the video last week or over the weekend of hundreds of yellow-headed
1:19.2	blackbirds dropping from the sky in northern Mexico. And if you haven't seen the video clip yet
1:25.1	and you are okay with the chill and sadness that the graphic
1:29.0	imagery brings, I do kind of recommend watching it because I did not accurately grasp just how
1:36.2	many birds fell from the sky from just reading the headlines. It wasn't until I watched the video
1:41.7	that I was properly gobsmacked.
1:48.9	Most of them get back up and fly away, but tragically, some of them do not.
1:50.9	And it's completely sudden.
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