{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Re:sound #239 The Stupid Pet Tricks Show","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61009a3631fd81f125b34e75/61009ac8121e70001399e287.jpg?height=200","description":"This hour stories dedicated to our furry and not-so-furry friends.\n\nFlash! (parts I & II)\nby Daimiano Marchetti with Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt (Reply All, 2016 & 2017)\nCraigslist: Santa Rosa, California. Lost & found. Post title: Lost tortoise. Flash has escaped.\n\nCharles Mingus Toilet Trained His Cat. We Put His Method to the Test\nby Jody Avigran (Studio360 [WNYC], 2014)\nThe jazz musician Charles Mingus was a celebrated band leader and one of the most important composers of his generation. But at the same time he was recording The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, he was working on another masterpiece of sorts. He figured out how to get his cat, Nightlife, to poop in a toilet — and he decided he’d share his method with the world.\n\nSnowdrift\nby Jennifer Wing (Sound Effect [KNKX], 2015)\nThe story of a lost cat that didn’t actually want to be found.\n\nAre Animals Creative?\nby Sean Cole (Studio360 [WNYC], 2006)\nWhat separates humans from animals? It used to be tools - and then we found out some animals are pretty handy. But what about art? There may be nothing prettier than birdsong, but each species sings pretty much the same tune. Are animals ever really creative? Sean Cole went looking for animal artists and found a dog painter and an orchestra of elephants.\n\nCharlie’s Conundrum [excerpt]\nby Sook-Yin Lee and Veronica Simmonds (Sleepover [CBC], 2016)\nEight-year-old Charlie tells us about her one great love… her guinea pig, Turnip.\n\nThis episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk.\n\nMusic featured on Re:sound is provided by Patient Sounds a private press record label and book publisher based in Chicago. For a tracklist of songs, go to www.ThirdCoastFestival.org","author_name":"Third Coast International Audio Festival"}