And then finally, he agreed, gave Kirk like a week's notice. (10 minutes) In his early 20s, he went to Iraq and ran rebuilding projects in Fallujah for USAID after the invasion. I don't normally pull this card out, but I feel like my time in Fallujah has calibrated my threat perception a little bit differently. The broken window wasn't discovered until the following morning. This American Life also co-produces, with NPR News, the economics podcast and blog Planet Money. Kirk Johnson wrote an excellent book about the museum heist, which was the basis for this story. Kirk says Edwin just didn't seem like someone with Asperger's. They look around, and the museum and the cops together conclude that nothing seems to have been stolen. And then he started crying. I found them. I was actually going to say, at the moment of their decapitation. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Like, if he was trying to turn me away from this story, it was like he had just filled my tank up. And they told me, that particular security guard doesn't even like soccer. There were no labels. Because I was like, this is not-- there's nothing really triumphant about this moment. What he learns forever changes their impressions of that day. And about four years in, he contracted malaria and figured he would just hunker down in his shack to sweat it out. You remember, right? The one animal we cant seem to live without, even when we really, really want to. But a lot of what we know about how he came to be in the museum that night comes straight from him. Aisha Turner Again, Edwin had stolen 299 birds from the museum. Or is it parceled out over time? Are we at the anger level at this point? Oh, and also--. Music. And I said, no? But what would come of them sending back parts of birds, or feathers, or whatever? Mario Garca * Act One: Producer Ike Sriskandarajah revisits a maritime disaster that left an impact on a group of friends from his youth. There was a financial penalty, too, but no time behind bars. So Kirk starts Googling around to read everything he can find out about the case. Youll never believe what happens next. And his bird is, meanwhile, kind of nibbling on my earlobe. I was like, this is the craziest sentence I've heard. Recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with Not My Job guest James Marsden and panelists Karen Chee, Adam Felber and . The Chapman family hide caption. Designers in the US and Europe couldn't get enough of this stuff. (2 minutes) Listen and follow The Daily Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately underinvested in its. And so I think he was 14 when he went up to Maine one summer and got lessons. And they were meeting him at their hotel room. August 20, 2021 Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, began chronicling their life together in the early days of StoryCorps from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer. Obviously, he'd been up here before. But it is true that Edwin sent him a bunch of presorted packets of feathers and three or four whole bird skins to sell. HPR-1 Schedule | Hawai'i Public Radio So Edwin happened to watch an instructional video on how to tie flies using this specific kind of feather called a hackle. Dalia Faheid. And even back then, he was shaping up to be a great musician. Then, the opioid crisis hit their community, The day Santas stormed Macy's to protest for AIDS awareness, Her mother went missing 22 years ago. Darwin's birds, the famous finches, which were still safely cuddled in their drawer. Around the year 1900, certain snowy egret feathers were more expensive than gold. Those surely were not interesting photographs, but they may have proved useful later on. Was someone else selling them? And sometimes, these hats had several different birds mounted on them. hide caption. Because I was so close related to Edwin. Just to give people a sense of-- OK, so this is the recipe for the first salmon fly that Edwin ever tied. Whole species were decimated by the fashion industry. I mean, this is like a pretty thorough-- like the number of specimens missing July '09, intact specimen was labelled-- without label. They're just for show. Now that the war is over, he says, "I feel like I failed the Afghan people. No scientific value. Schedule | WBUR Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago. Black and whites alike, it made no difference to her," Mary Othella Burnette says of her late grandmother, a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia. And so I said, well, so then, if that's accurate, where are they? But this thing was intricately tied together with bird feathers and silvery thread, maybe an inch and a half long, kind of a moth-sized peacock, like an Impressionist version of an insect or a dream about an insect. Edwin had already stolen the birds at that point, but he hadn't been caught yet. So not only are you getting a better accounting of their co-involvement and the number of birds that were involved, but also there's something else that you've been looking for, which is like contrition, kind of. View the WFYI, PBS and NPR Broadcast Schedules | WFYI Indianapolis It's the story of an idealistic and serious Jerry Springer, a progressive politician, and the most popular mayor ever of a certain American city. Also, this unsettling thing happened during the interview. And there is a security guard there that night. And once again, little Edwin's mind just froze. You can't go back and get another bird from 1860 anymore. And you can't do this to friends. And anyone who was anyone wore hats with a lot of feathers on them, from parrots, egrets, ospreys. Another 1.5 million people download the weekly podcast. He clips some strands of barbed wire in order to get to a window. And Long thought that that was what being a friend was. It was beyond difficult, an extraordinary stressful job. * Act Two: Doctors say one effect of the new bans is people seeking abortions much later into their second trimesters. Kirk interviewed more than 50 fly tyers and discovered things that the people investigating the case didn't find out. There were no tears in the Edwin interview. Harry Golomski with Libby Stroik (left) and one of her siblings in 1991. If any of the buyers asked, Edwin made up stories as to where the birds came from. Edwin responded that he hadn't exhibited any obvious symptoms of the disorder until he was in the evaluation room, not long before sentencing. And if they had done that, they would have found out right away that they had been robbed. He lived in tiny huts, his flesh regularly invaded by bugs. Lilly Sullivan reports. Search Query Show Search. It's This American Life. And then he's saying he shimmied up this wall-- which is doable-- up here onto the top. That guy's threat had the exact opposite effect on Kirk than he intended. And I saw someone who was really struggling with his actions in a way that I hadn't seen with Edwin. And he heard about this one kid in America who was exactly his age. Plus other stories of people who try to leave some moment in their life behind, which can be hard. These things, I knew what happened. 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They're just plucked, harvested feathers from 150-year-old birds that will never be returned to their-- you can't reattach them to a bird. At the time, she felt like these stories had been so widely covered that people had gotten used to them and ignored them. And so whenever there were these occasional eBay auctions of the species that he wanted, he always got outbid by these wealthier, older fly tyers who had disposable income. Annie Perasa and her husband, Danny, are StoryCorps legends, first recounting their love for one another in 2004. hide caption, September 5, 2021 Ajmal Achekzai remembers the war in Afghanistan, which brought him back to his birthplace of Kabul. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. So the fixation is on historical authenticity, like a fly tying version of civil war reenacting. Approximate number of specimens represented by feathers and skin fragments, and then a total estimate sort of consolidated. So he just started grabbing whatever he could fit in his hands. * Act Two: Kelly McEvers with the story of Zora, a self-made superhero. And he was just miserable under this line of questioning, but he finally estimated that he had between 600 and 800 of these feathers from Edwin. Uh-huh. Today's show, the Feather Heist, the true story of one of the weirdest capers in recent history, which was also a tragic loss to natural history. * Prologue: At this springs announcement of New York Citys inaugural rat czar, we meet Darneice Foster, who despises the rats outside her apartment. They tied flies together there. (37 minutes) Yeah, and he told me he's never told anyone about this, that not even his family knows about this, that he's never admitted this to anyone. And I asked him what it was. The security guard did not notice it. hide caption. And then he went out the way he came in, shoved the suitcase back out of the window first, and climbed out after it. Our website is thisamericanlife.org, where you can listen to our archive of over 600 episodes, totally free. You can't do anything with them. As a last-ditch effort, and with the museum's knowledge, he went on the main fly tying forum and said that the Tring was ready to accept any anonymous returns, no questions asked. August 6, 2021 At StoryCorps, Charlene Jarvis spoke with her son Ernest about the legacy of her father, Charles Drew, a doctor who developed a way to get life-saving blood plasma to soldiers during World War II. State legislators talked about how proud they were of their ability to do the right thing so quickly. Edwin saw a lot of beautiful colors and guessed dollar signs. They needn't have bothered. And he was there for hours. Alfred Wallace spent nearly a decade thrashing through the Malay archipelago, capturing and preparing animal specimens, and shipping them back to England. One was, here they are. And so a dude with a bunch of feathers pinched between his fingers does not constitute a threat to me. Jey Born New episodes debut in our app a day earlier than the regular podcast feed, and we've also got an archive of the award . View episode details Featured Announcement May 17, 2023 Get This American Life a Day Early in New York Times Audio And these days, the community tying this kind of fly still tries to do it according to the same classical recipes in these 100-year-old manuals. But there was always this one limitation as to what he could accomplish. The Tring is this big, old brick Tudor building from the 1880s. (19 minutes) Someone's got to find these things. Kamilah Kashanie Except he also took pictures of the area around the museum. Yeah, when he was trying to reach for some sugar packets or something. What I remember most is selling small amounts, like packages of feathers. And Edwin said, no, it doesn't seem haphazard. He soon grew into a master fly tyer-- which, by the way, means an expert mimmicker-- able to consistently and perfectly hew to the same classic recipes again and again. Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org, Summoning up stuff thats usually hidden down deep. Back then she adapted one of the stories for our show and were replaying it today, a frank conversation with another one of the presidents accusers, Jessica Leeds, who also testified in Carrolls case against Trump.

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