Gorillas in Cincinnati! Atheists Find God! Christian music is relentlessly happy! Katelyn Beatty joins the podcast to talk through apes, atheists, and much, much more.
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Gorillas in Cincinnati! Atheists Find God! Christian music is relentlessly happy! Katelyn Beatty joins the podcast to talk through apes, atheists, and much, much more.
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I hate to be a whiner, but can you revert back to the old intro music (the kinda jazzy bass line?). This new feedback, non-melodic thing is offputting.
🙂 Thanks!
I’m collecting feedback. I don’t want to go back to the old music, because it was a royalty-free piece that anyone can use for anything (and pops up in numerous places around the web). But I’m open to finding something new.
Makes sense to want something unique. I also think the new intro music is kind of jarring as a podcast opener. Doesn’t bother me in the outro though.
I hear you. Thanks for the feedback!
I remember the Weed Park Zoo in Muscatine, the buffalo and Dolly the elephant. It’s also where I developed my strong fear of alligators!
There was a picture in the Muscatine Journal of my sister feeding Dolly the elephant a peanut when she was 5 or 6 years old! (She was the Kiwani’s Peanut Girl or something.) Hail Dolly!!
Cool about your sis and Dolly! Did you know that Dolly appears to be in Denver, and has taken up painting? http://muscatinejournal.com/news/local/well-hello-dolly/article_2e8d850a-16d5-11e0-af66-001cc4c002e0.html
I can’t believe I forgot this (in light of the whole gorilla incident and all), but it just popped back into my head. It’s my parents’ memory, not mine, but back “in the day” at the old Weed Park Zoo. . . apparently you could walk right up to the bars of the monkey cage. (Don’t know what kind of moneys, but just plain old monkeys, not the chimpanzee.) One day on a family outing to the zoo, my parents were talking or something, and my little toddler self toddled over to those monkey cage bars. I was wearing a red shirt, and maybe monkeys like red. One ran to me and reached between the bars and grabbed my shirt, apparently trying to pull me in. My parents heard commotion and Dad came running to the rescue. Phew! I don’t think I made the Muscatine Journal for that, but surely would have if I had slipped between those bars! Don’t know how long it was before a second fence was constructed and you could no longer go right up to the cage. (Yeah, it was a cage. . .no other word for it.) Funny, though, that a fear of alligators will always be associated in my mind with the Weed Park Zoo, not a fear of monkeys. My mom, however, has a very, VERY strong dislike of monkeys . . .
That’s nuts! Thanks for this!
Phil, this doesn’t need to be posted. Actually, please don’t post it! 🙂 I emailed my mom to see if I had remembered the story accurately. Below is what she emailed back. I got a chuckle picturing this in my mind, and thought you might, too. (Btw, you will probably be getting a lengthy email from me if you haven’t already, if your team forwards it to you. I promise I am not e-stalking you!
From my feisty mother – the monkey hater!
So, if my memory serves me right, I saw you first being grabbed by the one monkey, and ran over (you weren’t far from us) as we were reining in Marc I think, and I yelled at the monkey to let you go as I grabbed you, and your dad came right away to help me, but I wasn’t letting go of you, and I was about to hit the monkey with my fist, but I got you. I think you were around 3 after we moved back to Muscatine from Kirksville.
I’ve been enjoying the podcast for quite awhile now, maybe 1-2 years. I enjoy tossing specific podcasts to people when one of the topics come up, normally because you do such a good job having thoughtful conversations with experts (or at least stakeholders) on the various topics you discuss. I’m always eager to see a new one available on my phone.
The zoo discussion was a let down. It was clear that no one on the mic had much knowledge of the current debate about the role of zoos in animal conservation. A quick Google search gets you pages like this: http://animal-facts.org/animals-kept-in-zoos/ which at least mention some of the scientific merit for keeping animals in zoos, even if the page is an un-vetted blog. While the debate on ethics and morality of zoos was brought up, everyone kept agreeing that this topic wasn’t popular in the general population. I very much doubt that – zoos are having to scramble to remake themselves as funding sources for conservation properties and research around the world, beyond their own properties. Additionally, there are philosophical arguments involving exposing people to things that may become a career, a passion, or just simple enjoyment. There are many more thinky items related to this topic which were missed out on due to naivete.
You would have been able to dig deeper into this topic if you had done what you normally do. To wit: found someone, Christian or not, who is involved in a Zoological career to discuss the pros and cons instead of chasing the topic down a rabbit hole of agreement with each other due, in part, to ignorance of the current discussion of this topic.
Yes, I’ll have to agree with you there. It seemed like zoos were getting a bum rap, but I didn’t have enough info at hand to argue on their behalf. My fault!
I have to agree that the Zoo discussion took way too long. But my husband and I have decided not to visit Zoos anymore. We’ve observed that aspect of the animals being used solely for our entertainment, but also seeing stuff like 10 massive cows kept in a small pen together (they could barely move); or birds like hawks and eagles CHAINED to the ground. I don’t live in America, and I don’t know what are the arguments pro Zoos either, but we visited Zoos in Brazil (my home country), Iceland, Spain and England and in all of them there was something like those above that brought us this disgust.
This story about the conversion of this Atheist was great. Before I became a Christian I never had any conversations about sin/salvation. Then when I was 17 I started dating this guy and he was a Christian. I hated any sort of church because of all the money scandals in my country. So he never tried to convince me to even go visit his church. But when God started to work in my heart, I was in a crisis. Then I turned to him and said that I was going to his church, and on that day (first day in a Christian church) I became a Christian. Not the right books, like this Nicole you mentioned, but definitely it was God guiding me to the right voice.
Thanks for doing this Podcast guys.
I just found your podcast few days ago, so I’m trying to catch up with past episodes 😀