The Specialist

Traffic surges, tactile clues, and the smell of crispy bacon: meet a specialist who helps blind and low-vision people learn to get around independently.

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Listener Amy Strauss describes her time overseeing a colony of flesh-eating beetles.

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Bird bombs, decoy coyotes, and wailers: the tricky job of keeping birds away from planes.

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Listener Heather Fife got in touch to suggest a Specialist about her parents, who've performed singing telegrams for 34 years — and who had Heather and her four siblings perform them too.

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"This job is as much about self-preservation as anything else... feeling good about yourself as a human being despite a lot of rejection."

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A man who's paid to behave badly towards women — and what happens when he does his job well.

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Snap Judgment's Anna Sussman tells the surprising story of a search & rescue tracker; tales from the trail in Chile, & a special sneak peek at The Specialist Season 2.

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Meeting wild animals' needs and wants, and the dietary preferences of a very picky vulture.

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Comb, wipe.

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Home stager Cora Sue Anthony on how to turn the place you live into a product you're selling, the difference between house and home, and why you never want to run into the back of a sofa.

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