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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Wild Life Week: Celery Makes A Nature Documentary

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We all love to zone out to a soothing nature documentary. But what you’ll learn about them in this episode will make you watch – and listen! – a lot more carefully. Reporter Abigail Keel tells Dylan about her conversation with sound designer and mixer Graham Wild about the not-as-real-as-you-may-think sounds that bring nature documentaries to life. Preorder your copy of our new book, Wild Life, today!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Day 3 of Wildlife Week.

0:04.0

If you missed yesterday's episode about the female alpha wolves that rule Yellowstone,

0:10.0

go check it out. It is really good.

0:12.0

And be sure to come back tomorrow for this incredible story that includes tape of one of our producers getting very close and personal with lionesses. It is wild. But first I have a favor to ask. The reason we are

0:27.4

doing Wildlife Week is we have a new book coming out called Wildlife. And I can't explain to you how good this book is I mean I guess I will try there

0:36.8

are stories from every corner of the earth every biome every place and you will learn things about the natural world that will amaze you

0:46.1

and you will not be able to stop talking about.

0:48.6

So please go pre-order the book today.

0:51.6

There's a link in the episode description. For a limited time

0:54.6

when you pre-order you can also get yourself a free luggage tag. It's really it's

0:59.8

cute, it's well-made. So pre-order the book and claim your luggage tag and then go out into this

1:07.2

weird, wild world. Okay, on to the show.

1:10.8

So I have this ritual.

1:14.0

I think a lot of people actually share this ritual,

1:16.0

which is sometimes after a long day, I will sit down and I will put on whatever nature documentary is available that I haven't seen.

1:25.0

You know, a rain forest and it's beautiful and you hear the dripping water and some

1:31.0

creature crawling through the underbrush.

1:33.4

There's just one problem with this peaceful escape.

1:41.4

It's a lie.

1:42.4

You're watching a lie.

1:47.0

I am here today with reporter Abigail Kiel

1:50.7

to tell me about this lie, about what I am actually hearing when I watch one of these soothing nature

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