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🗓️ 14 November 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Daniel Framson and I'm an editor for the New York Times magazine. |
0:05.1 | And I'm going to Sharon Art, because I wrote for us recently. |
0:11.0 | Several years ago, when I was early in the reporting of this story that I'm about to read, |
0:16.0 | I found myself visiting this turn of the century mansion that is located in the coastal |
0:21.6 | fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. |
0:23.8 | You have to imagine this kind of imposing, tutor style, grand home on a cliff overlooking |
0:30.9 | Gloucester Harbor, literally built by a diamond mining tycoon in the year 1900. |
0:37.5 | Something like the Great Gatsby. |
0:39.7 | Except it was a lot quieter and virtually empty and ended up feeling a little bit like an |
0:45.7 | abandoned museum. |
0:48.4 | So we walked in and I mean, the foyer is absolutely covered with photos. |
0:53.4 | And the photos feature one man in particular, this middle-aged Korean man who is usually |
1:01.9 | fishing or posing with fish or in various maritime settings. |
1:09.4 | So for instance, in one photo, he is with a giant halibut, the size of a huge human being. |
1:15.2 | And in another, there are salmon and he's in Alaska. |
1:18.7 | And then he's in Hawaii posing with a blue marlin or maybe it was Florida. |
1:23.0 | And there was even a picture of a couple of his children who were riding a giant bluefin tuna |
1:28.1 | as if it was a horse. |
1:30.5 | Probably my favorite photo was of him in a seafood warehouse with his wife and they're |
1:35.3 | each holding a truly enormous lobster, like a 10 pound lobster. |
1:40.2 | And his eyebrows are just arched and his mouth is kind of open. |
1:43.6 | And a look of sheer delight. |
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