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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | So I have a compost pile in the back, back corner of my yard, and sometimes I forget |
0:07.0 | to take out the little compost bin that we keep on the kitchen shelf, and it gets too |
0:11.9 | full, and then you've got to take it out and become an emergency. |
0:15.0 | And one night, I went out with my overflowing compost bin in a flashlight, because it was |
0:20.0 | late. |
0:21.0 | And as I got close to the compost pile, I suddenly saw the reflection of these two little |
0:27.2 | eyes on top of the pile. |
0:30.4 | Because they are sitting on top of it, hissing at me aggressively, was this sharp toothed, |
0:39.4 | fat, tailed, bristly haired, like giant rat creature. |
0:44.7 | And in that moment, I thought this has got to be the most hideous and sort of simultaneously |
0:54.2 | adorable creature I have ever seen in my life, and then it's gampered away. |
1:02.3 | That creature was a possum, and to be honest, finding a lurking on a pile of old rotting |
1:07.7 | food scraps made a lot of sense. |
1:10.1 | It felt like a natural place for a possum to be. |
1:15.7 | But there's this old photo archived in the Library of Congress that tells a very different |
1:21.6 | story about this animal. |
1:24.3 | From 1909, it's in black and white, and it is taken in a banquet hall. |
1:29.1 | And inside this banquet hall are rows and rows of these important looking dudes with |
1:34.5 | slick back hair, they're in their tuxedos and bow ties, and they're all sitting at these |
1:39.3 | long dinner tables. |
1:41.3 | They're here for a very, very fancy meal, a fancy meal featuring not roast beef or prime |
1:48.9 | rib, but possum, possum and taters, to be exact. |
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