The Animals: Harry, Flamingo

Everything is Alive

Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Harry is a flamingo. He may have been born at the zoo, but he can’t be contained.

Featuring Vinny Thomas. You can find more from Vinny on Instagram and Twitter and a million other places too.

Vinny’s audio was recorded at Western Sound’s North Fig Sound Studio in Los Angeles, California.

The Animals is a special series presented by Everything is Alive.

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0:00.0	Hey, Ian here and I want to tell you about a new series from our fellow radio topia show
0:05.1	radio diaries. It's called the Unmarked Graveyard. I share a studio with the radio diaries folks
0:12.0	and I have been hearing about this series for months and it sounds incredible. Here's what it's
0:18.7	about. In the waters off New York City, there's a narrow strip of land called Heart Island.
0:24.5	More than a million people are buried there in mass graves with no headstones.
0:30.4	Over the next few weeks, the award-winning team at Radio Diaries will be untangling mysteries
0:35.6	from America's largest public cemetery. Neil Harris was last seen and him would New York
0:41.1	on December 12th. So many questions man, so many questions. You can't help but wonder what her life
0:46.4	has been. I never went back and I never looked well again. Subscribe to Radio Diaries wherever
0:52.9	you get your podcasts. Every year before they put us outside, they give our primary wing feathers
1:00.3	a trim so that we can't fly. Okay. And one year they missed me. They just skipped over you.
1:08.4	They just skipped over me. They didn't notice. There was a new keeper and he just did not trim.
1:18.2	So they put us out onto our little pond and I took a deep breath of air. I got a running start
1:26.1	across the water basically running on the water like your Jesus Christ and I kind of catch myself
1:33.1	with a little flap and then I flap again and oh my god I'm slightly above the ground and I got
1:44.1	faster and faster and and and I just ran right over the topiary which seems impossible
1:53.9	but I did it and I run over the topiary and I said this is it and I took to the skies.
2:00.8	I could feel the air in my lungs and the wind on my face and I hated it. It was disgusting.
2:09.7	It was a bug immediately flew into my face and into my mouth. There was nothing redeeming
2:17.8	about it. It was a horrible experience, a flight. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
2:23.3	My name is Harry and I am a flamingo. Well tell me tell me about a little bit more about your
2:30.0	enclosure. You're in there with is it 20 other flamingos? Oh the the flock is actually larger than
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