The Far Side, Tree Poaching, Disney & Racism

The Far Side, Tree Poaching, Disney & Racism

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1377

  • Jul 10, 2020 6:00 am
  • 1:44:30 mins
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The Far Side’s Enduring Popularity (0:35) Guest: Kerry Soper, Professor in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters, Brigham Young University, Author of “Gary Larson and the Far Side” Cows, cavemen, lumpy not-so-smart humans and animals always outsmarting them. Gary Larson’s strange, but smart, humor made The Far Side a hit. And now, the cartoonist is publishing new comics for the first time in 25 years. They’re on his website, thefarside.com. (Originally aired 3/18/2019) Feral Pigs Are Destroying Wildlife (22:26) Guest: Marcus Lashley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, University of Florida There are just under 7 million feral pigs running free around the US – that’s triple what there were back in the 1980s. And even if you are a bacon-lover, this is not good news. Wild pigs can destroy ecosystems, and they’re not native to the US, which makes their effect even worse. (Originally aired 9/18/2019) How to Catch a Tree Thief: Timber Poaching in the Pacific Northwest (37:37) Guest: Anne Minden, Former Special Agent at the US Forest Service, President of Minden and Associates, LLC Animal poaching is a problem you’re familiar with. But did you know that people also poach trees? Timber thieves will take chainsaws onto Forest Service land, bring down a Douglas fir or a bigleaf maple and make hundreds of dollars selling the wood to a sawmill or a furniture manufacturer. Anne Minden is one of the handful of people who track down tree-robbers. (Originally aired 10/21/2019) This Content May Contain Outdated Cultural Depictions (52:49) Guest: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies, University of Virginia Disneyland’s famous Imagineers recently announced that Splash Mountain will be completely reimagined as a new ride based on “The Princess and the Frog.” Meaning, it will no longer be based on one of the most problematic films in Disney’s archive – “Song of the South.”Many of Disney’s classic animated films are so problematic they currentl