S9E9: I'm Like a Bird

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As an animal researcher, Meghan Martin made groundbreaking discoveries about how giant female pandas choose their mates. She realized that they wouldn’t shack up with just any old male. They wanted a choice. The same held true, she would learn, with rabbits, birds, and other species. The question for Meghan was this: Could she apply those lessons to the human world—to her own world? Plus, we visit a Rhode Island animal shelter that raised money by letting people pay to have cats defecate on the names of exes. Email us at [email protected]. You can also send relationship questions to Meredith and sign up for Love Letters updates by texting 617-744-7007.

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0:00.0	Did you kill Kill Marlene Johnson?
0:03.0	I think you're one of the first people to have actually asked.
0:07.0	From WB and ZSP media, this is beyond all repair.
0:12.0	A new podcast about an unsolved murder that will leave you
0:14.7	questioning everything. Somebody should be in jail for murdering my sister. A
0:19.7	woman who's never been believed. As long as they think I have done this,
0:24.0	then they're not looking for who actually did this.
0:27.0	And that's what makes it a cold case.
0:29.0	No, it's a botched case.
0:30.0	And a search for the truth, once and for all.
0:33.0	Wow, it just gets more interesting.
0:37.0	Beyond all repair, listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.0	Be careful. You're digging in a place. get your podcasts
0:44.0	digging in a place that's been very peaceful for a while.
0:47.0	Do it anyway.
0:49.0	Dig. you're going to. Test, it's recording.
1:09.0	In early February, I hopped in the car with my producer, Jesse, and our social media manager, Maddie.
1:15.0	All right, we just pulled into the parking lot at Rhode Island SPCA, is that right?
1:23.6	Tell us.
1:24.1	It's the Rhode Island, R-I-S-P-C-A.
1:27.4	That's the Rhode Island Society
1:29.0	for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
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