 Flores paints a vivid picture of American fauna and its decline from the Pleistocene until now with a bit of hope at the end. For more, read Wild New World, the epic story of animals and people in America. This is Lynn Foster with Nature in the Natural State. This week on This American Life, Bowen thinks a huge part of who he is can be traced back to a moment before he was even born when his dad met this guy named Dave at the Oklahoma City airport. So, one day, Bowen calls Dave.