Wednesday, September 30, 2020
From an extremely different era 13
Lately I've added episodes of Can You Imagine That to the bedtime playlist. This was another show along the lines of Ripley or Strange As It Seems. CYIT was calmer and a little more 'intellectual' than the others, with an emphasis on word etymology and music etymology along with the expected bits of ancient and recent history. Like most syndicated shows in the '30s, it had OUTSTANDING anonymous musicians.
In this episode the unusual bit of history is a wolf seen in Milwaukee in 1930. The cops didn't believe the call, but went to look anyway, and immediately shot the wolf. Problem solved.
STOP AND THINK. IN THE 1930S CIVILIZATION EXISTED. HUMANS HAD REMOVED WOLVES AND BEARS FROM CITIES. AN APPEARANCE OF A WILD ANIMAL WAS SO UNUSUAL THAT IT MERITED INCLUSION IN A RADIO PROGRAM ABOUT INCREDIBLE EVENTS.
Now, thanks to 45 years of EPA holocaust, climaxing this year with total holocaust, wolves and bears and moose and coyotes are common in cities. If you try to call the cops or the Animal "Control" officers, they laugh at you. Even professional exterminators won't take the case because they don't want to spend the rest of their lives in jail. We never never never never never never never never never solve a problem. We only make problems infinitely exponentially worse.
¶ 8:13 PM 
