Nature Quest: Are Flowers Blooming Early?
Short Wave
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4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jesse Thorne this week on Bullseye Fat Joe on being a late middle-aged rapper with an 18-year-old daughter. |
| 0:07.8 | She's really looking at me like, I'm a dinosaur. |
| 0:11.0 | She's like, yo, dad, come on now. |
| 0:13.8 | You're going where? |
| 0:15.0 | Stop. |
| 0:16.3 | Just stay home. |
| 0:17.6 | Watch Jeopardy. |
| 0:18.8 | That's on the next Bullseye from Maximumfund.org and NPR. |
| 0:24.5 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi everyone, Emily Kwong here, and welcome to a brand new segment that we're calling Nature Quest, |
| 0:39.3 | where every month we'll bring you a question from a fellow shortwaver who's curious about how |
| 0:43.9 | nature is changing, how to pay attention to the land around us, and how to make everyday Earth Day, |
| 0:49.9 | which sometimes looks like taking a walk around your neighborhood. |
| 0:55.0 | Shy Sour is a social worker in Oakland, California. |
| 0:58.6 | He works in the hospital system. |
| 0:59.9 | And during the pandemic, he started doing sessions remotely. |
| 1:03.3 | Between appointments, I would be walking in the neighborhood to get some fresh air, |
| 1:08.5 | to clear my mind, to just, like, move my body. |
| 1:13.1 | And, you know, I think that started me just being more aware of the, like, nature in the |
| 1:19.6 | neighborhood. |
| 1:20.6 | Wildflowers, plum trees, California poppies. |
| 1:23.6 | Shai technically lives in East Oakland. |
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