Stories you absolutely did not need to know are arriving twenty minutes before Artemis splashdown and they are exactly the right warm-up. A small bird with a giant needle beak is filling Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan every single day. New Yorkers are showing up on purpose. The bird meeps.

The North American Woodcock is grapefruit-sized, has been the subject of internet memes for decades, and the males meep before flying high and erratically into the night sky to attract a mate. This is a documented strategy. The Blue Jays sold 77 cent hot dogs to mark their 1977 inaugural season and moved 102,202 of them before the game was over. Gen Z calls hot dogs glizzies. Engineering students in Squamish painted a hollow Volkswagen Beetle with a Canadian flag, put a letter E on the roof, and hoisted it onto a cliff face called the Pooh Poohs. They have done this kind of thing before. It does not always stay up.

Tonight it is all leading to Artemis. That is the actual programme.

Topics: stories you absolutely did not need to know, North American Woodcock, Blue Jays 77 cent hot dogs, Squamish VW Beetle, Artemis splashdown

Originally aired on 2026-04-10