Urban Rodentology (SEWER RATS) Encore with Bobby Corrigan

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Let’s kick off Spooktober with… RATS: They love pizza. They invade taquerias at midnight. They scurry. They cuddle. They outsmart. They inspire movies that inspire musicals. Proving that not just woodsy megafauna can be charismatic, rats have lives we would never suspect. Globally-lauded Urban Rodentologist Dr. Robert Corrigan, or Bobby if you like, has been studying these animals in their big-city ecosystem for decades and he is a wonder-filled joy. Learn about rats’ origin story, the difference between a rat and a mouse, where they live, their preferred “food dialects,” and how to (hopefully humanely) keep one out of your house -- or car? Might as well start to love and respect them, because we’re not-too-distantly related and one day… they may be steering the ship.

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0:00.0	Oh, hello. This is the start of Spuketober and we're kind of like rolling in with a
0:06.4	sweet sweet cute creature and a place you're probably afraid of. So here's the
0:10.6	deal. I've been actually in New York all week and I was working with the Wildlife
0:15.6	Justice Commission and I was also there for the wedding of your favorite diabetologist
0:19.9	Dr Mike Natter and his new bride Alice.
0:22.5	And while I was there, I saw a few rats
0:24.9	and I thought about them fondly,
0:26.3	and you will understand why when you listen to this episode.
0:29.5	So I took the week off to enjoy New York and to go record some episodes that you're going to hear very soon.
0:35.0	So enjoy this encore with honestly one of my favorite episodes we've ever done.
0:40.0	I think about this and I want to cry you'll find out why okay.
0:43.0	Oh hey it's that guy who's asleep upright on the bus and doesn't know that you're
0:47.8	staring at him waiting to see if he'll wake up.
0:50.1	Alley Ward back with an episode that's just like musical to our ears.
0:55.0	If you are following the recent release of the fan-created
0:58.5	Tic-talk Ratatooey musical, but even if literally none of those words in succession made any sense to you, that's okay.
1:06.0	This ology is one that is of dark intrigue and cuddles and appalled curiosity,
1:12.0	so better to arm yourself with facts and trivia
1:15.9	about the critters that you curse rats but not just any rats city rats sewer
1:21.6	rodents pizza rats, Chipotle Goblins, the outdoor pets that none of us own, let's learn to love them.
1:29.0	Okay, but first, some love for you. Thank you to the patrons.
1:32.0	Thanks to the folks who take a second to
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