If you're a New York mobster from the 1950's, what does it mean for your biographer to write that you talk like a New York mobster from the 1920's? Does it just mean that the way you speak is a bit out of date?

The two circles 'boomers on Facebook' and 'extended families of gangsters' are discovered to coincide in a very attractive way.

Tristan would have become a gangster if Goodfellas ended right after the Luftansa Heist. Nathan is struggling in London.

Edward "Eddie the Butcher" Cummiskey Jr. (1934, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan – August 20, 1976, Chelsea, Manhattan) was a New York mobster who served as a mentor to Jimmy Coonan, leader of the Westies. Cummiskey is reputed to have shown Coonan how to dismember and dispose of murder victims by scattering their remains into the waters around the sewage treatment plant, which was operated by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection at Randalls and Wards Islands, notably in the Hudson River. Cummiskey was murdered by hitman Joseph Sullivan on August 20, 1976, in a bar.

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It sinks in that ~20% of Wikipedia articles are about particular species.

Once you have a substantial zoological collection going it's damn near impossible to get rid of it.

We notice a tendency to just say facts from the article to each other and say they're 'cool' or 'kinda cool'.

We manage to stay off Syd Barrett and NHR is rocked to learn that the phrase 'down pat' is not 'down packed'.

NHR then takes us home with a lurid anecdote from his scouting days.

I Tristan am also involved in the episode; I just chose not to mention it until now.

The short-toed treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla) is a small passerine bird found in woodlands through much of the warmer regions of Europe and into north Africa. It has a generally more southerly distribution than the other European treecreeper species, the common treecreeper, with which it is easily confused where they both occur. The short-toed treecreeper tends to prefer deciduous trees and lower altitudes than its relative in these overlap areas. Although mainly sedentary, vagrants have occurred outside the breeding range.

The short-toed treecreeper is one of a group of four very similar Holarctic treecreepers, including the closely related North American brown creepers,[2] and has five subspecies differing in appearance and song.

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NHR provides a long overdue explanation of what he was thinking with the original title of the podcast. Tristan hauls him over the coals again. We discuss NHR's antipathy to biology, and the fact that he has reached full maturity. We get into what it means to dry a moth for a collection, and how the resulting item could survive a fire. As the episode draws to a close, NHR argues that Tristan is a Renaissance man and we announce NHR's move to London to pursue a career in stand up comedy, all while wearing headphones and recording the pod.

Oenochroma is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Achille Guenée in 1857.[1]

Oenochroma means "wine colored" from the greek oeno (wine) and chroma (color).

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