Episode 207 - Birds!

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Oh, robots. Robots are the worst. You know,

that's why today we're talking about birds. Yep,

because birds are definitely not robots, right?

Yep,

we'll talk about that later. Welcome to Fun back Friday. We're a weekly, weekly podcast where we discuss facts surrounding a different topic each week. We missed last week,

yeah, going on dentist appointment.

Got sick. It's been a week, uh, Leila had, man, you had some some band stuff to do. Yeah, band, band, B, A N N, E, D, but band, no, it

was B, B, A N N,

Ed the band. Band, yeah, no, y'all want a bunch of trophies.

Oh, we did. Yeah,

it was awesome, and we had a good time. I ate, I ate some really, really bad street tacos, and I ate and, oh my gosh, let's talk about that before we get started. Leila has there's this whole new thing.

What the new language, eat,

ate and cooked, okay,

and fried and baked. And what, what? Well,

there's even more. Sorry about the microphone handling noise there.

Mainly fried

so eat an eight. Eat and eight are good things, right? It's like,

Oh, hold on. Wait.

We we ate, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So, what's Eat? Eat

is the like the past tense, okay, the current, the current tense of a present, present that's what it is. Present tense, yes,

oh, wow. So, and then cooked can mean good or bad, depending on the and

I honestly don't know when some people are using it if they're meaning it good or bad. That yeah, it can. It could be on our board for band. We have one of our competitions written out, and it just says cooked with an exclamation Park beside it. I don't know if that was written before or after the competition, so I don't know if it means we're cooked or we cooked, right?

If it's we cooked, then we did awesome. We did great. We're cooked. It's very bad. Yeah, it's like, oh no, we're done for like, like, we fell into hot lava. For our first

competition this season, my friend was like, Oh no, we're not cooked. We're baked, or, like we're burnt, right? I love that.

I'm caramelized over here. So this week we're gonna be talking about birds, but we have few things real quick to talk about beforehand. But like I said, it was got it. We just had a lot going on. Yeah, last couple weeks, that's why we've been so sporadic. But we're back in the swing of things, and we're good. It is, it is, what's it called, parade season now? So we're going into parade season, yeah, but yeah. So the other thing I wanted to mention is it'll be concert season, and

so she's on our show, right for the reality TV show, talking about,

talking about reality TV and whatnot

and whatnot, so and not why?

Yeah, that go, definitely go check that out and let her send her, put her review or whatever, learn, let her know we sent you over from Fun Fact Friday. And yeah. So there we go. So what I want to hop right into talking about the facts I do too. I learned a lot on this one, the type of diet

a bird eats in the wild is directly related to the shape of the bird's beak. Now, this obviously makes sense, because you gotta, you gotta eat, yeah?

You gotta get if evolution what you're eating is far away, you gotta get to it, right? Yeah.

And it's just so crazy to me how, like, an animal is built perfectly for a situation they're in, yep. Like, I was looking at a bird, and I was like, Yo, that's actually kind of dope, because they have beaks that are perfect for eating the food that they eat. Their wings. They don't need hands. What do they need? Hands full. We got these banging up stuff, and they don't need to pick up stuff.

We got. Why? Multi Tool mouths? I'm

not done.

We got sharp teeth. I'm not done. Okay?

They have feet for grasping onto telephone wires that were obviously there when they were made. So that's all they're for. They got a charge now, but we'll

talk about that later. But

they're, they're perfectly made for the environment that they're in. And it's like, whatever type of bird they are, there's birds in, like, the rain forest that are perfect for the environment. You know, it's just really cool. That's really cool. And that's not just with birds, it's with all animals, pretty much. Yeah, perfectly designed,

yep, the whole environment is perfectly designed to be in homeostasis with itself. Yeah, I learned that word on the movie biodome with Polly shore. Hey, Polly, when you coming on. We know

you watch the show. Actually, wait. He might listen. Yeah, watch.

You watch

Twitter. It is

following us on Twitter. That is so, yeah, clip this, clip this part, and send it over to Polly on x. I actually hit him up. I hit him up today on there and asked if he wanted to come on again. So, yeah, okay, so birds. How many birds are there? Species wise, 9500 different. Species, and they grouped them into like 30 different categories. So there's, there's a lot. Two thirds of those are they live in the rain forests, like out in the tropical rainforest, yeah.

cans, the one that eats the little, little circles that are like colored different ways, and it tastes like fruit,

yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah. I was Yeah. I was reading something while you were talking, yes, 100% they have these little rings of fruit down in the rainforest. They're loops of some kind.

I so I hear, yeah, I mean, so there is a bird

called a whole hatson hots. And really unique looking bird

by Southern or wanted to call it a hotsian

hot Z and chicks, they have two, two claws on each wing that fall off as they get older. But they use this when they're when they climb out of their nest, and they use it to hang on to mangrove trees. What go on is this in Minecraft,

mangrove trees are now in Minecraft, and they're pretty dope. Oh, okay, yeah.

But these bird, these birds in real life, they hold on to the mangrove trees, and once they become, I've never seen a bird in real life, once they learn to fly, they're not really good at flying, but they do mature, and they lose the claws that they basically just use to hold on to stuff because they're not great flyers. So

this is a very common fact that people, I think should know, uh huh, or do know that flamingos are not born pink, that they eat crustacean and plankton, plankton, and they get the beta carotene in them, and it transfers to them. It makes them think.

So we need some kind of filter that you can push the button before you, because you've started doing that a lot more singing a single word, no. And you need to have a button that you can push right

before you reference. Hold on. So, oh, okay. It's probably a really niche one, so I'm gonna pull

it up. Okay, so that's fine. Take your time. The longest feather we've ever seen have been they were on a chicken in Japan. Its feathers were 34.7 foot long. That's That's too many, more than twice as long as the studio is that we're in right now. Leila, oh, that's two of these studios. The one feather was that long, 10.5 9m whatever that unit is

at the bottom. So you can play it. I don't want to hook up on my Bluetooth.

Oh, yeah. We need to. You need to. Takes too long to do. All right, so do I need to

return? Go ahead. I don't think it's fine to play on the show. I doubt there's copyright on it,

yeah, but I'm just, I wanted to turn it down before because I don't know how long it's gonna be. Go to the link. I already did I turned it, yeah, but which sliders? I don't know it's either, it's either this, this one or this one. I

fun. He just got a whole bunch of figures on a shelf.

Mr. Crab. This

is so dumb. Squidward. Squidward.

Bird that you

stepped on. The

whole thing stepped on the whole thing. No, oh, no,

what it was.

I used to know them. I used

to have that thing memorized. So that

was a nice detour. Do you remember that being shorter? For some reason,

I guess I saw it sped up. And that's just the original. I don't remember him talking that slow. It was just like Spongebob splash, but like, it was very sped up as the way I remember it. That's a very old Okay,

so we, we, I said that as two years ago, went over this one. This is one of the ones that I love. We went over this one on the phobias episode, whoa, way back. Yeah, there someone who suffers from Anna. Tip day of phobia. Yeah, believes that somewhere, somehow, a duck or goose is constantly watching them. I remember, I remember it comes from the Greek word and Anna today, which means ducks, geese

that's a 23 because

it's not like they're necessarily even afraid of ducks or geese. They're afraid that they're watching them. Yeah, talking about flamingos, earlier you said that they're not pink, the more there are more fake flamingos on Earth than real ones.

I believe that Oh, my God. Everything reminds me of a song at this point. You're in me. You got music. I'm in Music Mode,

practicing music.

Oh my gosh, every day.

So, um, what's another one we get here? That's actually really interesting.

A green woodpecker can eat as many as 200 ants per day.

Two kind of good for them per day. That's, I mean, they go to town in our backyard because we got, oh

my goodness, not really, actually, no, sometimes

we get a, oh, no, what

did you do? It's back. It's fine. We

had a formatting error. Yeah, we did everything.

Just kind of split off. And there's like three versions of everything, everything split

off, speaking of a splitting off, all right? Disclaimer,

oh, no, this. Claim this,

this, this episode. Okay. This episode is landing on, um, November 8 in the US here. We just had a big event. We just had a presidential election. Now we don't typically get political on this show. And Leila, I will 100% allow you to tell me if, if you want to edit this out after the episode. So I get to edit but I got one. I got I got a couple of things I need to say, okay, and that's, that's just all I'm gonna say about it. That's all. I

don't know if we're leaving that in. I might, I might. Yes, you gotta edit on the stupid I will whatever.

You gotta take that all out.

Yes, absolutely not letting anyone know. You just said,

Oh my gosh, it's the big thing. No, I am gonna say. I'm gonna say one more thing. One more thing, everybody just needs to be kind, whether your team calm down lost, whether your team won, whether the everybody needs to just chill out and be nice.

Oh, okay, so history class, right? I failed a test. I am not telling what y'all what I got on this test, what it's embarrassing episode. And look, he let us get some extra credit. So I was like, score. And he was like, Okay, I don't know what to do, so I'm just gonna give you all the same thing that I get my civics class. Y'all have to take this map and y'all have to color it in with either blue or red on what y'all think the states are

oh no, they finished. They finished counting, yeah, like, right now, they finished earlier today, I believe,

or, well, they hadn't as of history class, right? As of, yeah, that you knew, but we just, we just assumed that they were gonna be Republican, because they're mostly leaning towards Republican. And I got every single one on the map, right? I was one of three in this class, mainly because I helped other people. I gave them this, I gave them this map, and I was like, Yo, study this. This is what I think it's gonna be.

So now they think you're a genius, a political

genius, political genius. I got 20, what was that? What noise? Um, they got. I got an extra 20 points on this test. Good job. I'm so happy you still fail it. Uh, no,

okay, good.

I now have a better grade on this test. Okay, it's not failing, though. Okay, good. As long as

you're not failing, long as long as you graduate on time, I'm happy, yeah, I'll be good. I think, I don't think I gotta worry

about currently, without even the extra credit, I do have an 85 in his class. Okay, it's, we're good. All right, I'm good

passenger pigeons. Oh, yeah, before 1840 there were 1000s of millions. So that means billions of passenger pigeons in North America. However, they were slaughtered for food until there was only one left. In 1914 she died she was 12 years old. I didn't they just civilians at a zoo in Ohio, because I don't know Martha. I don't know. Yeah, Martha was the was the bird's name, the last passenger pigeon.

What do they look like?

I don't know. Probably pigeons, probably, they probably look just like pigeons. I don't know

if there's another list, but did you know that pigeons were like, um, domesticated. Hold on. I Okay, wait, I realized how much of a bird nerd I am. Hold

on. This. No, this. Like the website, I

love birds.

They're pretty dope. One of the the website, that's bird facts in the show notes, has all. We're not going to read all of them, um, but it has so many interesting facts about birds. I was like, this is fascinating, because I didn't go looking for this of just pigeon domestication.

Pigeon domestication was believed to have occurred over 5000 years ago, with evidence of pigeon domestication appearing in Mesopotamian, yep, tablets and ancient hero hieroglyphics, rock dove, or rock pigeon, is considered the ancestor of the domestic pigeon. So they domesticated pigeons, and they were probably for their meat and then their droppings for fertilizer, but they were made as like pets, or kind of how, like cows are domesticated now, but they're just kind of like

we've got a lot more efficient ways of making meat. Pigeons are dope pigeons, because you don't get a lot of meat off a pigeon, yeah, but they, back in

the day, there's a whole bunch of them. Also, they do,

oh, what's it called? I thought it was a neat little fact, messenger pigeons. They would tie messengers, messages to their to their leg, and send messages out. Carrier pigeons, messenger pigeons, carrier pigeons, carrier pigeons. Yeah,

I think you call them anything. I mean, I'm gonna use that as my buffalo next time we do that, because we have this thing called high low buffalo now that, yeah, it's

pretty in class. No neat thing to do with the family or with a class or group of some kind. So like

my teacher will point us, point one of us out. My band director will point one of us out and be like, Hi, love Buffalo. Go and you say a high point your day, a low point your day, and a random fact, either that you learned that day, or they just know. And I think it's pretty neat. And it's really neat because Leila so many Leila

knows so many facts because she is her job, but, yeah, we've been, we've kind of been doing that betwixt the three of us in the family recently, too. You know, we're sitting down to dinner. We're in the grocery store. I'm just because the bold

strike thing that I have to click, it makes my eyes hurt.

I have to click the dots. Yeah, to do bold on our software we use as we're reading the facts, we're marking through them. I was bolding them and she's strike throwing them. Have you ever seen a movie the birds by Alfred Hitchcock? Nope. Okay, so there's this movie called The birds, and Alfred Hitchcock made it in 1963 the actress in it, the main actress, was Tippi Hedren. She was attacked by birds in the movie. That's like

to go on a little rant about, uh, Latin prefixes right

in the middle of the birds episode. Yeah. Okay, so this is what got

me thinking about it. The word Falcon is from the Latin word falx. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

Leila rat,

thank you so much. Parkour Parker, the word Falcon is from the Latin word falx, meaning curve, blade, pruning hook, sickle and war size. Now this got me thinking about oh, Latin prefixes. So I learned something this week, the word the Latin word Grex there. Okay, you know how everybody was a shepherd back in the day? Literally everybody, literally everybody was a shepherd. So sheeps became a very important part of their language. Like you'd you talk about sheep a

is, you know what also is used by the field fair bird. It's feces. Oh, it can kill an enemy bird. The field fair bird has a special way to attack its enemies. They gang up on it, make it fly to the ground, and then the field fair birds fly into the air and poo on them, and the poo kills the other bird. All right, poo attack. Oh, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's an ISO, right there

a flock of ravens is called an unkindness, yes, or a conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy of ravens. That's pretty dope.

Speaking of Congress with your Grex thing, yeah, Congress is the alternate term for a large number of crows. You know, normally it's a murder of Crooke political figures. Yeah. Oh, wow. Um,

this is pretty good episode. Yeah. I gotta rant a lot, so I'm happy, right? And, I

mean, the facts, I'm like, some of these are really interesting. I like birds. Did you know that a bald eagles nest is they? They're big. I mean, obviously, because. It's a very large bird, but like one second,

she knows that a pea is neither a pea. No, does she know that a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut? It's a legume. What is that from?

That is from an episode of Third Rock from the Sun. Dang. It.

Okay, yeah, um,

Laurie Metcalf's character says it Yeah, over and over and over. So that's kind of the joke the bald eagle. Yeah, I was, I had a I had an issue, kind of taken care of, though, the bald eagle can. They found one of their nests was 10 foot wide and it weighed almost three tons. That's 6000 pounds. I pounds of nest. Yeah, they're typically about nine foot wide. So that that, that's pretty big.

That's more heavy than I think it should be.

That is, that is part, the part that interested me, to three tons. What is that made out of? Man,

you can't measure that. That's

nothing's ever been that heavy before. Man,

nothing's ever been that heavy before. Here's

the line I was looking for. It was right above that one. So talking about a congress of crows,

no ravens or No, yeah, Congress

or a Murder of Crows. A group of owls is called a parliament, a wisdom or a study. And a group of flaming flamingos, of course, is a flamboyance. Yeah, we talked about, we've talked about that on previous episodes. We

had like a, did we have an episode that was groups of Yes, it was what groups are called. We were talking about, or owls today on a bus with my friend. She was like, I really want an owl. I'm like, no, no, to kill you. Yes. And I was, she was like, no. And she looked it up, and she was like, they can be aggressive, but there's only been, like, two people that have died, and I'm like, still I'm here. There

was a whole like, it was here in North Carolina, some famous person went to jail because they say he murdered his wife. But there was so much evidence that it was an owl, like, there was, like, all this evidence there was an owl, but he still, he still went away for it. I can't remember the name, guy's name, but birds, being birds and all, you kind of wonder what they're up to sometimes, right? Yeah, so I looked into it. They could trade

you a nut for a draw tuna.

Yes, there are some birds that will trade you items. Yeah. There's one guy, I want to say, a couple years ago at a YouTube channel or something. And he had a bird that would come and he would, they would take, he would take his spent cigarette butts away and bring him money. Nice. And I was like, wow, infinite money glitch. Like, it's

like those, um, monkeys in those countries that will steal stuff from people. Yeah, they train,

they train the little, cute monkeys to just go up and steal from tourists. Yeah. Oh, the tourist like, oh, that silly monkey. He's just gonna take my purse and go into the woods with it. Nope, he's going right back over to the town. And they're selling the purse. They're selling anyway. But yeah, the birds, I'm still there was something fishy about them. So I started looking into it, and I found out some super secret info. Oh, birds aren't real, yep, all this stuff we've been

website. Yeah,

the birds aren't real calm, yeah? But my favorite thing, there's a link in the show notes. It's birds aren't real. There's a birds aren't real, and a birds aren't real.com. And the birds aren't real. Link is a YouTube video. Y'all should go watch. I would play it, but it's like, four minutes long. And basically, this kid goes out and he's talking about the birds aren't real movement, and he kind of, it's, it's very, very good. He's very good. Like media trained.

it's completely hot dogs. I

was like, what? Yeah, my brain. My brains anyway, so the birds aren't real. Basically, what they're saying is that birds in the 70s, I believe, were replaced, maybe the 60s were all killed and replaced by the government. With drones that are recording and listening to us at all times. Yeah, and why? They go up and land on the telephone wires and the power wires, because they have to charge their batteries up

Have you ever heard of a shoe Bill stork?

No,

maybe the scariest thing in the world. What? Okay.

Oh yeah. Look

at this guy. They're huge. They're scary. They make weird noises with their build. They look like animatronics. I don't believe in them. Yes,

they're not real. They look like something out of a movie, like,

can you look it up? The sound that they make look oh my gosh. How do you how do you spell shoe Bill shoe, oh, shoe Bill Bill space. Space Stork,

So, s, p, A, C, E, space or just,

no, just with the space bar,

shoe bore, shoe shoe or, okay, a shoe Bill Stork, that is hard to say, a shoe Bill story, no, the clattering after it. Okay, so here's what it sounds like. Oh, this isn't too loud.

Oh, it's scary. Oh, my god, yeah,

okay, it's only 18. Uh, fascinating,

terrifying. Oh my gosh. If I ever saw one real life, I would run away. They're humongous. They're scary. Their eyes have nothing behind them. Their legs are just little twigs. Their legs are little twig sticks, and they look like that, that they look very scary. What do they eat? Humans?

Probably they look like they eat humans. They do. It looks like something out of a horror movie.

It does. Hold on. Look at what they eat, fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals and water. Birds. What? Okay, this is terrifying. Anyways, they're not real.

Birds aren't real, yeah.com, they sell shirts. It's fun. It's actually my fun conspiracy theory. If it flies, it spies. If it flies, it spies. So this is a value for value podcast, much better than our last episode. I'm feeling like, what do you think?

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then we've got some value for value sent through the stream, Satoshi streaming. Satoshis. We we see the streams. We don't typically mention those, though, but we do see it. We do appreciate it. And then we had some boosts before seven. Let's start. Let's start at the older one. Okay, started the older one here, the from fountain one week ago for Episode 175 beatbox. Boxing with Parker Kane.

Leila rant. That's

Parker Kane. He's

pretty dope. That's Parker king. He's awesome. Here's an episode 175 go back and listen to it. And this is one guy, Kevin Hallisey, rhymes with fallacy. After listening a couple of times, I was struck by how nice Parker is. Yes, Parker is an extremely nice guy. I had a very good time with him down in Orlando at podfest last year. Okay, so back into back in the thing, yeah, after listening a couple times, I was struck by

It is, it is, it's

going I like it. And then we got 888, from Kevin Hallisey, yeah, for Episode 206, worst episode ever. The name of the name of the episode.

Wait, you gotta read it. I didn't know the actually needed. Worst episode ever. Yeah.

Did you see the artwork? Yeah, don't

nobody need no facts. Show 206 delivered fun on Friday. And historical jokes are every bit as funny as they ever were or weren't,

right? Some

of them was just like. Some of them were just

lame. What do you mean?

What do you mean?

What do you mean? 888, and then 847, the thing we don't know what means yet. We'll figure it out one day, one day, maybe something that's like, super obvious, right? Just listen and says, Hey, been a while since I boosted weird ingredient is always a fun topic. Have you ever done an episode about my favorite mammal that was on a weird ingredient? Episode 204, about

my favorite mammal. Well, just listening. Is

that a clue? What is your favorite what's your favorite mammal? I

don't know.

Is it a bird? See now, I

got to go back and look through all of just listeners to see if I can find if there's another bird about what the favorite mammal birds aren't mammals. No, birds are not mammals. Not why aren't

they? Oh, egg.

Why are birds mammals? Egg, what

are they? What are birds? Bird?

On our fact, fact based episode about birds? What? What are birds?

They're not what are they? Hold on vertebrate. They're vertebrate animals. They're vertebrates. Yeah,

they're egg laying.

What were vertebrates? Yes, but we're, they're warm blooded. We're warm blooded. Yes. Am I a bird?

Maybe? Oh, no. They're just, I can't remember. I can't remember. Hold on, let me. Let me see if I can use the find function here. No,

I know. There's like a there's like a circle chart of what everything is. And they're just not in the mammal circle, but they're still vertebrates. But like the mammal circles inside the vertebrates circle and verb rates is like, over here. We don't talk about invertebrates on

this show. Man, we don't like the murder vertebrates over here. So one of the facts I found was really neat is about kiwis. I know we're kind of done with Oh, thank you everybody for donating. We definitely, definitely appreciate everything. But Kiwi don't know their nostrils are the end of their beak, nostrils, and it helps them sniff for food. Birds have nostrils. These do. Actually, all of them do. They're just normally towards their face, yeah, oh

yeah,

it's at the end of

the beak from the regular so,

like, you gotta think, when they go dip their face in water to get some water, they're like, putting their nose in the water too. And I'm just like, that seems like this seems like a problem. Yeah, I don't like it. Why is DoorDash texting me, that's what they all the time. Order some food, All right, everybody. I think we're gonna wrap it up. We're running really long. Oh, well, not as long because you you're probably gonna cut out that whole political part, yeah.

But 50 minutes right now,

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