Songbird accents, eating rats, and why we need the moon

Outside/In

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In which we consider Flaco the Eurasian eagle owl, impulse goat purchases, and a big night for salamanders. Plus, our host graces us with a rendition of a Tom Waits song.

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0:00.0	Justine, are you recording?
0:03.6	Yes.
0:04.6	Would you ever live in New York City?
0:06.6	Ooh, an eternal question.
0:10.8	I would like to say yes. I feel like there's this idea that you should move to the country
0:18.1	when you're retired. But I wonder if you should move to New York City when you're retired
0:21.9	because it's easier to get public transit.
0:24.8	You can, it's more walkable than a lot of parts of America.
0:27.8	A lot of stuff going on, a lot of interaction.
0:30.1	You can go sit at the bar pretty quickly.
0:32.3	I once heard an anecdote. The average New Yorker
0:35.4	walked somewhere between like two and a half to four and a half miles a day, which I think is so cool.
0:41.8	Because it is such a walkable city. I love New York. Yeah, it's a magical place.
0:47.0	And this actually brings me to a question we recently got from a listener on the outside in Instagram.
0:52.0	Ethan reached out to ask... from a listener on the outside and Instagram.
0:52.8	Ethan reached out to ask,
0:54.9	What would New York City look like in 50 years
0:57.8	if everyone left today and stayed out?
1:00.3	Oh. I can imagine lots of pigeons and then lots of pteragrin falcons that live way high up in the buildings and just this really cool ecosystem.
1:16.4	The ecology of the skies, yes.
1:18.9	Yeah.
1:19.9	We are not the first people to think about this question.
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