A community of seals-- harbor seals-- in La Jolla, California near San Diego. HBO By Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman Dr. Hagelin and Dr. Silverman are associate professors of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, and the authors of "The New Female Antihero: The. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, late-night talk shows like "The Tonight Show . Are American Presidents Allowed To Get Drunk? Biker Bobbie emailed two other threats to the Animal Protection and Rescue League. From Chicago Public Radio, when our program continues. That keeps me up at night, you know? And what I learned from my brother, years after the fact, is that my mom was so worried that I was doing this show, she sent an email to my family, my extended family-- uncles, cousins-- and family friends who I grew up with, like the Mitchells, the Coxes, Heidi, my middle school drama teacher. For over two decades, he's tried all kinds of things to get them to leave his house alone. But the stun gun would not have been-- I call it a stun gun, but it's really not. I couldn't leave Buzzwinkle helpless, feebly tracing arcs in the dirt with his hooves to be worried by dogs or to lose his eyes to a raven. And you know how big their brains are? As long as you don't hurt or threaten anyone, you can be as eccentric as you want, or even totally annoying, if that's your nature. But you, I got to put your numbers a lot lower than that. Are you saying that you are like that or that I think-- you think--. When he got back to his office, he looked up the tag number. His first word-- baloney. Newsy stories that try to capture what it's like to be alive right now. It just seems so odd that nature would make these hulking, vacant things and leave them standing around all over the place. Says he had an expert witness declare it not a stun gun. Both sides dished out a lot of propaganda. Why go there? Someone will say, there's a-- I need to get to work and there's a moose between me and my car and I can't go out the front door. And more important, everybody is more comfortable with each other and with her, which means they're more comfortable speaking up, projecting, making themselves heard through the mask. You don't talk about these unpleasant things. People like to call these animals distinguished and noble, but they make terrible moaning sounds, like phlegmy old men with gout. I want you to have this. Don't do that. For over two decades, he has been aggravated by their birdy jackhammer noise. And she had said that they were-- their whole family was scared for quite a while. Don't get too close to the seals or I'll make your life miserable. Sept. 28, 2011 Ira writes: Hi all! He broke the swivel of the trap and ran on with it on his front foot. Ed doesn't convince any of them. I was saying, call the police. Trump won Michigan, the guy said there. Get him on the phone, and within two minutes, he launches into a steroid-fueled monologue about his obsession with the beginnings of the neocon movement or with Russian ballerina Diana Vishneyva. My dad says, you mean, the doctor? He wrote letters to the local editors. All over the state. 699: Fiasco! - This American Life Now just try to relax there. You can't expect them on the spot to really discard that. Elna, just tell me. And it's killing me. Her father says, no, you're staying put. After making a kill, he would go on some distance, back trail for a few rounds to a point where he could keep undercover and watch the hunter on his trail. Mrs. Rogers hadn't said what order to put her lunch in, so Amelia Bedelia decided to be an overachiever. I can't think about putting on a revival of a 1996 musical right now, Alexis, said Amelia Bedelia. You can buy a t-shirt or a seal toy. But when settlers arrived, we killed off the animals that wolves used to feed on-- bison, elk, deer. We have 17 grandchildren. I guess, when you ask what would I have done over again, I probably would have just pinned him down again. The thing that you don't hear in all those YouTube videos is the sound of the place without the hate, when people are not screaming. Video: Woman loses pants in treadmill mishap caught on camera | CNN I'm like, wait a minute. I can put this on here in somebody else's voice. And all the penalties in the games were things like, take four shots of whiskey. Monday, January 17, 1921. D-u-why?! I think this week of all weeks, we should all be a little more sensitive and full of introspection. But she didn't say a word to me about it. They just had a folding table with signs and flyers and they would yell down at anybody they thought was too close to the harbor seals. Sometimes I'd be down there, but generally, it's not very productive to be engaging in shouting matches with people that just don't agree with you. We Won a Peabody Award for Our Coverage of the Fall of Roe v. Wade. Amelia Bedelia was stunned. Stay back. 2007 2 Seasons Documentary, Reality. And as I hobbled around post c-section, packing our suitcases and breastfeeding the baby, completely about to fall apart, he nibbled on the blue cheese and talked about Zelda Fitzgerald's abortion and its aftermath. Finally he says, I think I'll have a great relationship with Ernie. Liz calls my dad. So the machines that they changed the battery in--. So they're sitting among a bunch of strangers at this point. A couple of months after the night at the martini lounge, Rick started getting some calls from concerned residents that Buzzwinkle looked hurt. It was Amelia Bedelia's first day working from home. We have lists of favorite shows. Amelia Bedelia checked her list from Mrs. Rogers again. And the call went so badly that I started crying in front of the audience. This is the rare something-something ground squirrel habitat and you're bothering them. Oh, well, that's true. I'm Not As Think As You Drunk I Am - This American Life It didn't happen. And it was already hard to get her down for naps. This is the federal government sending this out as a press release. In winter, when there's only twigs to eat, a thick carpet of fallen fruit-- even rotting fruit-- is a pretty big caloric bonanza for a moose and they get plastered. As a matter of fact, sometimes I'll go out in the morning and I'll yell at him or clap my hands and he'll just continue and just not even pay attention. Bryan Pease, the pro-seal guy who started the Animal Protection and Rescue League, says that the money collected through donations was barely enough to hire a nighttime security guard. That's in a minute. But also metal pie tins that he would hang from strings and colored streamers, on the theory that that scares woodpeckers away. This American Life is delivered to public radio stations by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. And you would have had the show anyway. This zapping device would not have been involved. Go look at one. We have stories of what happens when animals intrude on the world that we humans have constructed for ourselves. And there's an air conditioner running that's in the window just to her right. A month later, the wolf gets his foot caught in a trap, but not completely, and he pulls it out. Flushing the seals is also illegal. When we go and recount these precincts by hand, we don't find a single one of them to be out of line. This one's a little hard to hear. Showtime Original. You just go person to person as long as it takes. People aren't screaming at each other. But they were really there to discourage people from putting down their towels and coolers. As interventions go, it was the least successful one I've ever heard of or could imagine. Almost all her friends are Mormon. I don't think so. And we both giggled about that. Probably the least threatening Hell's Angels nickname of all time, but still. The beach is only 150 feet wide and by the winter of 2010, it was covered with seals. It really does. I drink socially. He was lying on his side, up against this wooden fence. She's brought this on herself." He couldn't tell me any details from that day. You can almost imagine it as a buddy film, though with a pretty twisted turn. Charles Baudelaire 1821 - 1867 You have to be always drunk. The wolf got on his trail that night and showed signs of great excitement at what he thought to be the presence of a possible mate in his neighborhood. It wasn't meant to be a real threat or anything like that. It's very childish. That's my part in this. Clearly, they like it here. What if someone was given a Sharpie to mark their ballot and it bled through? Drunk History (TV Series 2013-2019) - IMDb Return to the Scene of the Crime - This American Life We, as a species, are aggressive. This American Life It's the world's stupidest name for a moose, but that was his name at that point. Keep them away from the seals! I didn't drown even once. He says he never thought of it again until I emailed him. And on this point, both men agree. But you have to hand it to my dad for simply not losing it for over half a century. And when they confronted the author of the emails, it turned out he was not an actual biker, nor was he a Bobbie. Even talking about it now-- it makes him squirm pretty good. But instead, he says, now, should I hang on to this and give it to you later or now? His latest idea? Transcript. I didn't do the balloons for long, but I had them in there for a couple of weeks. You need one, badly. If they're on drugs. They're not native English speakers. It's totally fenced off with just one or two little gates in it. He would wait till the light-- at least I saw him do this once. One morning, it's cold and foggy on the beach, and a 70-year-old pro-seal activist just has had enough of a shared use guy who's filming her and she charges right up to his camera. The feds could arrest or issue citations to anyone who violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The idea here is that the batteries had been changed in some of the voting machines, causing them to erase data. But they're making a fuss for whatever. My mom, a devout Mormon, saw an article about it and freaked out. She has relatives who died of alcoholism. It's where they give birth and nurse their pups. And Williams motions for them to go away, but they don't understand what he means. And at some point, they really began to brandish it. At the time, I was about to host a comedy show in New York, where me and a bunch of performers would play drinking games on stage. When the sun is shining and the seals are sprawled out across the white sand. That's Rick Sinnott, and that's the call he got late one night about a moose hanging out at a bar in downtown Anchorage-- a martini lounge, actually. Breaking their legs, biting off their tails, mutilating them in unspeakable ways. And did they change the batteries in the machines? It's painful to listen to-- hearing these students give the teacher exactly what she's asking for. The whole thing with Ernie was fun and exciting. We counted the same garbage that was there in the first place. You know, I'm like from 1950. Things started to come into sharper focus after he was arrested by federal agents as he walked back to his car from the beach. I played there when I was a kid. Yep. Have you got that on camera? But it was all words. The following week, Liz goes to my dad's and helps him get on a Zoom with everybody. Have you seen it, he asks? It had happened in the dead of night. And then the hate mail started to roll in-- threatening phone calls and emails-- by Kent's count, more than 200 of them. Like most outdoor men, he did not want to talk in heroics. And to Bryan and the other seal activists, flushing the seals is abuse, especially during the pupping season, when the mothers are nursing their young. Amelia Bedelia's boss, Mrs. Rogers, had sent her an email with a list of instructions. Jeanne Darst tells what happened. But he says, this is the truth. But no, I didn't have any intention of hurting anybody. They got through it here in Ms. Handley's class. Biologists call it flushing. So there's a lot of anxiety and nerves. And I click a link I'd never seen before-- view all DNA relatives. I never had any problems with the seals. And then I just had this little epiphany. Ed's trying to have one conversation, and feels like he's maybe getting somewhere. I was interested in Ed, because honestly, it's alarming to me all the people who still believe the election was stolen. Because in my mind, wolverines were the opposite of the caricature Buzzwinkle had become. They don't know each other yet. The people who put together today's program include Bim Adewunmi, Elna Baker, Susan Burton, Dana Chivvis, Sean Cole, Aviva DeKornfeld, Rudy Lee, Tobin Low, Stowe Nelson, Katherine Rae Mondo, Alix Spiegel, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp, Laura Starcheski, Lilly Sullivan, Christopher Swetala, Matt Tierney, Julie Whitaker, Chloee Weiner, and Diane Wu. These dumb, agoraphobic vagrants with quick tempers and malfunctioning jackhammers for legs. So ranchers and the federal government set out to exterminate the wolves. Yeah. And so they put out press releases that include facts, but do not seem constrained by facts. It feels like you're being let in on a secret, like this is how the world is without us. And in the end, what are they going to gain when they know that in Detroit, these absentee ballots are going to run 95% for Joe Biden? The size of an orange. So Ed has been on a kind of personal campaign to talk to anybody who doubts him, as long as they want, in the hopes of being able to give them the facts they need to reach the same conclusion that he did. There were lots of calls into his office after the election. This is the line that struck me the hardest. I regretted it. During the rest of the year, there's a permanent guideline rope down on the sand to provide a buffer between humans and harbor seals. This American Life is a weekly public radio program and podcast. I touched his arm to get the camera out of my face. This American Life - Google Podcasts Things went off the rails quickly. Ernie looks bewildered and heartbroken. It seemed like everybody in San Diego took a hard-line stance and they all fell into one of these two camps. In any case, when he got down to the beach, the seaweed kicker confronted him. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. And then an animal shows up and things do not go like we planned. We'd get together in person and Liz's backyard to find out. Seals aren't being flushed from the beach. And the three of them have lunch-- her father, my father, and a newly pregnant Raqui. Motorcycle club members have been contacted about witness and she will be dealt with very harshly, if she is not killed. Buzzwinkle was a very old moose-- the oldest bull I'd ever seen.". Oh, I don't know. Kids constantly have to pass their phones back and forth with Google Translate so they can understand each other. What we've got here is failure to communicate. Neither side seems to be able to communicate with each other. From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life. D-u-why?! - This American Life Really, Ed? Amelia Bedelia introduced herself. When her grandmother wanted to get a message across, like don't leave change lying around, she put an article on the fridge saying, toddler chokes on penny. Does he honestly have zero curiosity about this person, this child whom he almost missed entirely? The wolf played hide and seek with him. The lady's saying that the seal activists are blocking her from sitting on a bench. It was a kind of municipal spirit animal. Let the seals get up there. Just in talking to you and getting the opposite, you know--. I can't get past the fact that there's no fraud to be seen. She'd gone above and beyond and did something she did not enjoy for me. There's a power in physically being in the same space as another person. So your objection to taking a moose to a landfill was financial? Communication is delicate. I laughed. In 2021, 13,384 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths a 14% increase from 2020. All Episodes Available. At the bar that night, he'd noticed an orange tag on Buzzwinkle's ear, the kind Rick attaches every time he handles a wild animal. But he says he doesn't remember much else. In fact, on the International List of Threatened Species, harbor seals are classified as a species of least concern-- the exact same designation that's given to the common pigeon and to the house rat. Each step at the staircase by the main entrance says welcome in a different language, private spaces for Muslim students to pray, shelves full of winter coats and backpacks for students who arrive with none, special curriculum and services tailored to them. When Rick said Buzzwinkle was no different from other moose, it didn't cheapen Buzzwinkle. It is tragedy. Today's show, we have people trying, sometimes saying the exact right words that you think would get across the meaning. He tells Ed he doesn't understand why they can't have an independent audit. He's more deliberate. People on the shared use side had always accused the seal activists of valuing the lives of animals over people. Because when the seals flushed, they always came back. Most people liked the seals. When I make a radio story, I listen to my interviews over and over again. And Peter Pan comes in and has a little speech where he says, anybody can fly. Five of the kids are Ed's. Well, see, I'm twiddling my thumbs, right? You brought this device down there? Amy says, google "Ernie The Attorney." In my post-mortem with my dad a few days later, he talks about the food, about my niece's pretty dress, talks about all kinds of things. I knew what this meant. The bird's in charge. He never took another. You just need to hear it from New Yorkers. And threatening a federal witness is a federal crime so the FBI got involved. As it turns out, though, Rick was into this moose before he was famous. When I tried to get him to talk about what he was feeling or take some interest in what I was feeling, he wasn't mean about it. Lots of his fellow Republicans do not accept this conclusion. Hey, Dad, Amy said she found you googling this guy late at night and that he's your son-- that you have a son in New Orleans. It took way longer than he'd thought. Finally, realizing there was no chance of getting at the wolf unless the coyotes were killed, Williams shot them hoping that he, then, had a clear field. Even our animal-protecting, confrontation-avoiding attorney, Brian Pease. My family is like a long-running production of The Fantasticks, where all the actors are too old for the characters they're playing and the lighting people miss a third of the cues. They tracked the email sender's IP address to a public library about five blocks away from the Children's Pool. It's almost like asking for trouble. He was a big moose. See, now these are new. Yeah. Then Amelia Bedelia had an idea. And that the shared use people were animal haters-- that they just wanted the seals gone. Forensic audit is the battle cry for people who want some external group to look at the ballots and everything, which for the record, have already been through a state-led, bipartisan audit in Michigan. And then Amelia Bedelia pulls out a pen and paper and draws a picture of the family's curtains. Yeah. It's bad enough that we as a country seem completely divided on everything-- the climate, vaccines, immigration. This American Life (TV Series 2007-2012) - IMDb And her part, she was totally upfront about that. Happens all the time. I went to my bedroom and unlocked my gun case and I loaded a revolver. It's why they call it the Children's Pool because it's where adults go to act like children. It's just a joke. Right there! I always hated to do that. And that's if it works. My wife is screaming at me and it hits me all at once. It's just that we know what was in them--. And nobody knows them well. I'm feeling my neck turn to stone. And he had been injured somehow. I regretted it after I did it. He tells us that his parents got divorced when he was five and there was a big custody battle. The feds had Biker Bobbie in the crosshairs. And many people supposed that he devoted himself to revenge for her death. But if you actually talked to a shared use advocate, they'd tell you something different. They're real in a way that someone online or on TV isn't. My sisters and I were talking on the phone all the time, you know, the three of us that are currently speaking to each other. OK, why were the elections in six states closed off at 3:00 in the morning and only to resume at 8:00, when that's never happened before? Oh, sorry, I meant the attorney. Is there some part of you that is tired of it? He showed me a table full of gear and chemicals, foam to fill holes in his house, aluminum flashing. Careful, he said. This couple here, they're sort of staggering a bit. But this guy probably lived his whole life within a few mile radius of the downtown area, just walking around on the sidewalks and sometimes walking down the middle of the road. I wanted to see how that was going and what the conversations were like. And there was so much more miscommunication. How much time did you spend looking into it do you think, all told? Oh, Ernie, have we seen it? This time, they don't get interrupted by anyone else. I thought about that image a lot. The bird doesn't care. My friends are freaking out. But it says stun gun on the package and that's how the newspapers reported it. It was just more of a-- just a reaction. The moose would walk across the crosswalk with the light. What? But for her, it really just feels like one more thing to deal with. So for one thing, the state has done two audits. Nothing Rick needed to do, they were just excited-- a star sighting. So we end today's program with one final act of miscommunication, a dad who has a crucial bit of information that everyone in his family would want to know that he somehow neglects to mention for over a half century. Williams went. He took full responsibility for his actions. He would come into contact with 20 different ones a day, easy. So what's happening to you when we do it? I feel like that's the perfect answer. I'm Ira Glass. By the way, they know this, they own it. You heard that one before. And OK, some context. Are American Presidents Allowed To Get Drunk? | Flipboard What happened next will stun you. He was goofy and urban and out getting tipsy, closing down the bar, whereas wolverines are nasty and elusive and relentlessly wild. They'd pretty much taken over half the sand and established a permanent rookery here. If you had to pick one word. This is a seal "crookery," as far as I'm concerned. Come on. Later on, he attached to himself two coyotes-- not his equals, but his servants. It's kind of a famous one among wolf people, apparently. The victim in Aaron von Ehlinger's rape case speaks out Ira, who was in the show, got blackout drunk for the first time in his life, he said, and then threw up into a trash bag. Ernie looks thrilled and says, I know a guy in New Orleans who can fix it. And people loved to come here and sunbathe and swim and take selfies with the seals. Bryan's a smart guy and super thoughtful. They use their hooves in front and they're very large and very heavy and very sharp. They looked official. You don't-- you're not supposed to-- what I was told by my attorney and other people-- you don't talk to those people. All around Anchorage, Rick says, you've got this endless scrimmage playing out between people and wild animals all trying to live in the same space. So I know my dad is definitely talking about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his theory that Fitzgerald forced his wife Zelda to have an abortion at the Plaza Hotel in 1922, a topic which has dominated our lives for decades. And then they get tired of coming down there. So Rick got in his truck and headed over to Bernie's. Well, the press release explains the bounty started at $100. The 'naked' warrior who helped British capture India - BBC News And it not only returned, once Dick came outside and saw the owl and a woodpecker--. She's dealt with lawsuits that have involved drunk drivers or something with alcohol is involved, right? Based on the wildly popular public radio show, This American Life explores a theme - fiascos, do-gooders, conventions, the job that takes over your life - and transforms the stories into something funny or poignant, enlightening or bizarre. He asks me how I am and how I feel about this or that. I asked if he thought we were going off the rails this time. We know who you are. Blessed or hard-- blessed or hard. That's all there is to itit's the only way. Also, can I move in with you? And it totally worked. And it says they took nine years to capture this wolf. Their goal in all of this was just to make sure that the beach stayed open to people, that they could keep sharing it with the seals. Then the rain comes down, and we hustle inside, and we're fumbling to get back to that initial connection. The problem Ed runs into all the time is that he'll carefully build this wall out of blocks of facts. But somehow, this idea that so many people look at the official election results certified by the states-- the method we have for settling all these disputes-- and say, that's a lie. Are you really not cleverer than this? Here is what Hallie came up with. Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. Here tonight, tomorrow night he'd devastated a range half a hundred miles away.". And the little black car phone--, Well, nobody's denying that the vans came. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Rick wrote an essay about Buzzwinkle in The Anchorage Daily News, a kind of eulogy. I'm so sorry. It's just this is right in my ear. A bunch of videos just show a close up of a face holding a video camera pointing right back, filling the frame. Is this just going to be a few Zoom calls, or are we going to get together at holidays with our kids for years to come? Amelia Bedelia read, first thing in the morning, touch base with HR. They'll come in the winter time and then they'll go back into the mountains. But the thing that stood out to me was the stuff in the background of the photo, total chaos in the kitchen behind her.
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