Garrett Graham
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369 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jul
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Sick.
Okay, skeleton crew. All right. So I'm going to ask for about 10 minutes of your attention.
We have something of an answer to the Grammy Award question of 2024. Romi and Anouk are going to tell you a little bit about what we've been up to. You guys want to come up front and, yes. Oh, applause.
Anybody else have any follow-up questions just while we're here? This is your last chance to interrogate a dairy product. Good? All right, excellent.
Search Engine · Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic) · 18 Apr 2025
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You have a recommendation. You have a pick from the internet. Yeah, it's not so much a recommendation as it is just my favorite thing from the internet this week.
Do you know what it is? I'm like, I have a feeling I might know what it is, but I'm not sure that I know what it is. I think you probably know what it is. You are definitely more online than I am. And so if I've seen it, it probably means that you've seen it. Is it the fake Euro song thing? It's not the fake Euro song thing.
Well, the fake Euro song thing is pretty good. What do you have? So my thing has to do with a Chinese zoo.
So this gets posted on Weibo, and immediately people are like, that doesn't look like a bear at all. Yes. But the first theory is like, okay, it's not a bear. Maybe it's like another kind of animal. Maybe this is like a dog posing as a bear, which is only funny because like a decade ago, a different Chinese zoo got caught trying to pass off a dog as a lion. Wait, really? In one of their exhibits.
Yeah, a Tibetan mastiff, just like this big, furry, hairy dog. They had like, they sent off their lion for like whatever you send animals from zoos away for, and they replaced it with a dog. Yeah. And people called on, and they were furious. So at first, people on Weibo are like, OK, that's what's happening here. This is a rare breed of dog that they're trying to pass off as a bear.
But then somebody posts something to the internet, which is what everybody should have said the first time they saw this video, which is like, It doesn't look like a dog either. This doesn't look like an animal at all. This looks like a human in a bear costume. Exactly what it looks like is an ill-fitting mascot costume at a D3 football game.
It's just been plopped on a poor summer intern and thrown into the bear cage to pretend that they're a bear at this Chinese zoo.
So it creates such a controversy that eventually the zoo decides that it's going to respond to this hilarious accusation that it's putting humans into bear costumes and throwing them into cages. And what do they say? They respond in what I think is the best possible way, like the most unhinged way possible, which is they write a letter from the perspective of the bear...
And so I'm just going to read you part of that letter. Please, yes. Which the New York Times very helpfully translated in their article about the piece because I do not read Chinese characters. Or speak bear. Or speak bear. The letter says, this is the bear, bear named Angela, apparently, speaking.
The bear says, yesterday after work, I received a call from the park manager asking me if I was slacking off and had a biped replace me. Much to my surprise, I'm just sitting in the mountains, and I go viral on the internet. Some people think I look too human when I stand up. It seems you really don't understand me. Previously, some visitors even thought I was too petite to be a bear.
I want to emphasize again, I am a Malayan sun bear, not a black bear, not a dog, a Malayan sun bear. I do think it's a little suspicious that they don't explicitly say that they're not a human.
I think that's what's happening here. I think this is a brilliant PR move. I think this has actually generated more attendance to the zoo. People are going to check out. There's definitely not a human bear at the zoo.
Thank you. Search Engine is a presentation of Odyssey and Jigsaw Productions. It was created by PJ Vogt and Shruthi Pinnamaneni. It's produced by me, Garrett Graham, and Noah John. Theme and original composition by Armin Vizarian. Fact-checking by Elizabeth Moss. Show art by Ali Moss, no relation. Our executive producers are Jenna Weiss-Berman and Leo Reese-Dennis.
Special thanks this week to Chris Jang. Our agent is Oren Rosenbaum at UTA. Our social media is by the team at Public Opinion NYC. You can follow and listen to Search Engine with PJ Vogt now for free on the Odyssey app, on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you for listening. We'll see you next week.
Yeah. I am here to tell you about some digging that I've done.
So walking out of that conversation with Heidi, it felt like she had mapped out this like crazy wall of suspects connected to the palace by like red string. And all that was left for us to do was like trace that red string until we found a suspect who would talk and like flip somebody. Are they convicted of a crime?
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