The Cat

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

One Strange Thing

True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Cats have always a reputation for magical affinity--for the ability to walk between worlds; so, is it so strange to imagine they might shepherd us between them?

Special thanks to Fig Currie for lending his vocal talents.

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's
0:10.3	news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:16.0	They say there are cat people, and there are dog people.
0:28.8	We, at one strange thing, feel that this is a reductive view,
0:33.7	and would like to officially endorse all pets, including the scaly ones, ones that have
0:40.6	too many legs, bitey ones that shed their skins like terrifying pantyhose, and even those electronic
0:48.7	egg things that you let die in your pocket back in 2004.
0:54.2	All are welcome here. As long as they don't eat the recording equipment.
1:00.4	That said, there is something special about cats, isn't there?
1:07.1	Sometimes slinky, sometimes fluffy, often judgmental and imminently memeable.
1:15.3	The domestic cat is the unofficial mascot of the digital age.
1:21.1	We give it cheeseburger.
1:23.5	We make up new words to describe its ever-expanding body, and we never, ever,
1:32.1	f*** with it.
1:33.6	The cat has become our favorite gift.
1:36.6	Don't email us about that pronunciation, by the way.
1:40.2	Life is hard enough.
1:41.5	Our pandemic pal, the star of our TikToks,
1:45.6	the focus of 1,000 podcast litter commercials,
1:49.7	and worthiest of the fanciest feasts.
1:53.0	Indeed, we're so busy Instagramming their tiny toe beans
1:57.5	and baffling aversion to cucumbers that we've forgotten, well, their reputation.
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