Gonzo's Near Death Encounter

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" For now we have to say that because beard is coming up prepaid programming. Thanks for all the terrific emails last week all the female and male the gonzo -- stacked in an up if he needs it at any time will pass it over -- wallpaper my apartment without itself. Email us at E O'Brien GOP RAE and it WRKO dot com but first how are you -- how are you not very well I'll tell you that you almost had to do the show solo or with a new cohost this week Ratliff had ten of them so I -- called -- really human data go back -- year old next to find somebody I almost died this week. General sees it is that it is it is a joke and no -- an engineer had a near their ground experience what happened let me tell you. So I was on my way back our offices the -- magazine offices are back -- And I was on my way back from the gym where incidently for the listeners I was getting totally school I was on my way back from from building up my body. And I see out in the middle of Massachusetts avenue. What looked like I gigantic bird it was in fact it didn't look like -- like prehistoric precise Tarek it was it what I wild Turkey there was according to another on marker a falcon."

" It was it was gigantic -- I'm headed straight Nationale can't listen to me excuse me that you live in central square you risk -- cheers yeah I don't want to -- hackers -- specialist -- like the -- you go to that is I don't -- camp are anything like that no I don't know you're very metro sexual I don't I'm not mattress actually I I mean you're you're very urbane. And you think he's or urban are -- them."

" But no I'm telling you this thing was huge huge enough that this bird I'm I'm being serious now this birds stop traffic in both directions it was perched on top of some kind of -- which was. Which it was holding in its talents and it was large enough and confident enough that as traffic snarled to a halt a -- on Massachusetts avenue. People were -- And screaming at the spurt and it didn't care it just stared right back at -- Mike what are you gonna do -- John's life was endangered during an -- I'm getting a fascinating wildlife are generally has itself so I think to myself this is something that needs to be documented because I'm a journalist. I didn't. I'm a journalist and I'm going to write about this on our website and let me tightly in Boston magazine does the best of falcons you -- there on the guy didn't the story so I think to myself I'm gonna go over -- there's a bunch of people now as again it's tropical storms snarled to a halt and that -- I'm series came up probably about -- somebody's neat that's how -- Iraq so it's holding onto its sprite and I think probably get picture it's because your other pedestrians snapping pictures right this is -- this is where it all went horribly other civilian journalists apparently and all went horribly wrong right about here so I decide. I'm gonna go over. With the rest of these pedestrians to take a picture. And as I walk. Towards the bird the bird decides it's had enough of this whole thing and takes to the air. Right and this is work it's -- it flies right towards my hat. Right towards my -- which in the birds' defense I have a gigantic -- for -- and it must've bought them like whatever was in its talons wasn't as attractive as my head very wary of this story about how close did the Belkin and the patent."

" Here's a picture it -- and dollars. Fresh from central square -- traipsing around back -- hunting and gathering young women. Feet of pigeon. And over -- I am telling you -- I'm telling you that two other Boston magazine staffers can confirm this story they saw this there were people gathered our national debt this -- that people. This ad and cars stopped for the -- so the bird the falcons had a pitching in its towns this stop in. No hold on now this pigeon that was in its talons and ended up flying away a guy because as it came towards my head it released the -- only that the Irish. It's Ohio and I started death what it was like five I was about when I started running was about I would estimate about five yards his -- you. It felt like it one. It felt like you guys so I may get an emotional response -- based on act as I act as I ran from this -- I may or may not have let out a scream I was a little busy running I -- let's call it immediately -- its cold. Evil little eyes locked on mine and about five yards from impact it took to the skies but I'll tell you what I have checked it was it was a very -- it okay it didn't want you understand. That it was lifting up its Houston actually trying to if you wanted to target you're -- Alan -- would have had wanted and this is what I'm saying this. This can I think as a got closer to me realized that I would have taken any and it's -- An -- got six and I want any part of him. Right about now you're wishing that an event successful tepid act I would expect that falcons this we would hurt by its filing as -- you want to weigh in on the story."

" Adequately approximately a lot about it newspaper -- thank you -- I believe there are just simply gonzo has the good judgment to determine if he's the seen it they're the newspaper frequently. How big helping the ones that have been there at peregrine falcons I don't know I mean they're real aren't a larger -- America. -- who worry Jack Hanna just we're not we don't know we don't know but these are larger prey on people. They -- Some -- cop opposed -- square they have not out there. They may even -- yeah out but -- they're they're they're they're bound to be at large cities because the that's -- buildings are comparable to the wild you know replicate. They're wild advocate these help build and they -- it and it's there's there's several Arab have been reported and in the newspapers throughout the last years and they."

" Feet don't pay agencies and that's what I had and its talented had a gadget in its talent IRA actually that you had to confirm the story separately into a big angry wild turkeys death and those are those are scary when -- right next the paper April raid around me up and down like beacon street it's very it's it's that they let him people aspect adds that there wouldn't let him -- haven't seen any in -- and -- No I haven't seen the coyotes that supposedly -- and can I tell you that I'm I'm a little disappointed in new number one I'm disappointed. That you were more concerned for my safety and not I don't. I don't think that I'm getting nearly enough credit. For scaring that thing off because it I get it got really close and it looked at me and said not -- estimate that --"