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🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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An underwater photographer sets out on a quest to document harp seals and experiences a moment that becomes a part of her forever.
This story contains descriptions of animal death in the wild. Sensitive listeners, please be advised
Thank you, Jennifer Hayes, for sharing your story with us! Special thanks to Jennifer’s guide Mario Cyr and her husband David Doubilet.
You can find Jennifer and David’s stunning photographs of harp seals in National Geographic Magazine, on their website, or on Jennifer’s Instagram.
Produced by Shaina Shealy, original score by Renzo Gorrio
Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 12 - Episode 5
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0:00.0 | I'm 12 years old. So normally I don't care about the news. I always talking that boring |
0:21.1 | stuff. But this morning, when I turn over under the covers and see this snow drift, |
0:26.5 | I'll give my bedroom window a run. Top speed to turn the TV off. And the weatherman is |
0:35.0 | giddy. It's coming down folks. Be sure to wear that extra layer of long john and stay home |
0:41.0 | with the cans because the roads are treacherous. The screen shifts over cars, veer to odd angles and |
0:48.5 | ditches. Already school systems are reporting cancellations. Genesee, Byron Center, Zeeland, |
0:55.2 | Caledonia, at the link effects. No one sent me. They want me going to school today folks. |
1:00.1 | Comstock Park just called it quick. And by now, my brother is sitting next to me on the couch. |
1:05.9 | And we suddenly both found our religion praying to Jesus and God in the Holy Spirit to please. |
1:10.6 | Please, please, please. Say, can't win. Can't win. Say, can't win. What was like? |
1:16.6 | Grand Rapids school, including the key squad rapids area, ask all of their students and faculty to |
1:22.4 | stay off the roads today. Say, can't win. Alan Day, Grand Haven, |
1:27.3 | Carrotsville. Everybody in the world could close their school and we still have to go like they |
1:33.9 | want us to slide off the icy roads and die. Hudsonville, they're down for the count. |
1:39.1 | Muskegon called in quick. How in Michigan do I even have to say it? Keep under the blanket. |
1:44.3 | Nice and warm. And I'd say for the school cloggers today folks, Bob, be accurate or for care. |
1:50.0 | No, no, no, no, no. Well, thank you, Jim. |
1:54.7 | Just a minute Bob, one last additional list. When the kilowatt school system comes in under the |
2:00.4 | wire, you know it must be bad. Hello, Clay. Joy. Joy, joy, joy. The feeling of having to go to |
2:11.4 | school and then not having to go to school on a Wednesday, even today, they're outweep in memory of this |
2:20.0 | elation. But my needs is to tell me my needs is to live not two miles from where I grew up. They tell me |
2:27.6 | Uncle Glenn, we don't want to get mini snow days. That wasn't what what you mean, why not? |
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