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Luck of the Lobster

2025/3/6
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Lulu Miller: 我讲述了关于一只名叫尼克的巨型龙虾的故事。尼克非常幸运，因为它年龄很大，而且随着年龄增长不断长大。龙虾通常死于意外事故，而不是衰老。尼克的故事讲述了它如何从差点被吃掉到最终被送回大海的经历。 Bonnie Hazen: 我在一个超市里发现了一只巨大的龙虾尼克，它被关在一个太小的水箱里。我觉得它很可怜，于是与超市店长协商，最终说服他让我带走尼克，条件是我能把它送回缅因州。我联系了各种机构寻求帮助，最终通过当地报纸找到了愿意帮我把尼克送回缅因州的人。 Tony Leone: 我在缅因州波特兰，我看到报纸上关于尼克的故事后，主动联系了Bonnie，并帮助她把尼克送回了缅因州。我最初怀疑Bonnie是不是想吃掉这只龙虾，但她向我保证不会。我们一起把尼克带到了机场，并把它放在头等舱的座位上。 Jad Abumrad: 我们讨论了人们为什么想要拯救这只龙虾。我认为这可能与我们对长寿的痴迷有关。这只龙虾已经活了很长时间，它值得我们的尊重。 Trevor Corson: 我是一名作家，我研究过龙虾，我知道人们营救大型龙虾的故事由来已久。 supporting_evidences Bonnie Hazen: 'I had just gone to our grocery store...and I noticed this tank. A lobster tank. And there were only two lobsters in the tank. One, she says, was really small. But the other one... This huge behemoth that was just so massive.' Tony Leone: 'I'm Tony Leon. And she was saying she was in town for my dad's funeral. And she was returning that afternoon...So I figured I'll just bring him back with me.' Jad Abumrad: 'I actually think that lobsters are very attractive...I think that it has partly to do with our obsession with longevity.' Trevor Corson: 'In 1994, Mary Tyler Moore developed a crush on a large lobster...And there's been other cases since then...But our lobster story is the original lobster story.'

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St. Patricks day is coming up. People worldwide will wear leprechaun hats and celebrate the luck of the Irish. But what about the luck of lobsters? Today we have a story about the biggest, luckiest lobster we have ever heard of — Nick. As lobsters age, they keep growing bigger and bigger. They don’t wear out or get sick like most other creatures do. The most common way they die is through accidents.

One day a woman named Bonnie went to her nearby grocery store and saw behemoth Nick cramped in a small lobster tank. She asked the guy behind the seafood counter why Nick was there. After some back and forth with upper management, the store manager made her a deal. She could have Nick if she could get him back to Maine. 

This is the story of Nick’s escape from the grocery store to the ocean, in first class. 

For more on lobsters, read Trevor Corson’s The Secret life of Lobsters).

Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is edited by Soren Wheeler. Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are our co-hosts. Dylan Keefe is our director of sound design. Our staff includes: Simon Adler, Jeremy Bloom, Becca Bressler, W. Harry Fortuna, David Gebel, Maria Paz Gutiérrez, Sindhu Gnanasambandan, Matt Kielty, Annie McEwen, Alex Neason, Valentina Powers, Sarah Qari, Sarah Sandbach, Arianne Wack, Pat Walters and Molly Webster. Our fact-checkers are Diane Kelly, Emily Krieger and Natalie Middleton. Production help from Tanya Chawla. Sound mixing by Joe Plourde.

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