This week on Search Engine, a mystery that has haunted us for years. Why are there so many chicken bones on the streets? That's after some ads. Gracias. Welcome to Search Engine. I'm PJ Vogt. A few months ago, I got an unusual message from some unusual people. Why don't we start? Do you guys just want to introduce yourselves? Sure. My name is Manny. I'm Noah.
I'm Devin. Manny, Noah, and Devin. They're all journalists. Noah works at a newspaper. Manny and Devin work for a national broadcasting company called NBC. The three of them met early in their career. And what is your relationship to each other? We used to sit next to each other at Business Insider a long time ago and argue every day. And what would you argue about? We would argue about things like whether water is wet.
A classic. What else? Whether CNN puts an orange filter on Trump. You know, things like that. But just on Donald Trump. Yeah, so they press the Trump button when he's on. It's not a button. you know we know how to do this it's not like magic but so like the kind of conversations people have when they're locked in a room for a really long time whether that's like
confined or purgatory or a job that's not as engaging or whatever. It's just like, we're in this room all day, every day, and this is what eventually happens. Yeah, I'll put it this way. The work we were doing back then was not very taxing creatively. And so I think we found ways to entertain ourselves. Okay. So normally the way the show works is like either we have questions ourselves that we go try to answer or people send in questions and then we try to answer them.
You guys sent an unusual email and you were like, we've got a bunch of questions. They're really good questions. They were really good questions. And you were like, and we want to answer them. I was like, that seems cool.
Also, normally, just to talk about what else is happening. When you put it that way, it sounds bad. No, no, no. It's good. It's good. We are the experts. We can handle this. And it was funny because typically when podcasts have a freelance reporter, it's like, uh, freelance reporter, but you guys were like, no.
We're three people in a person series, and we want to both ask and answer the questions together. Yeah, just hand us the mic, essentially, is what we're asking. Three mics. Yeah. So what question do you have for me for you to answer? Our question is, why are there so many chicken bones on the street and who is the culprit? That's a pretty simple question, but we dug into it a little bit and it turns out that there's a ton of layers.
to this question uh the inception of the question actually started with devon yeah so me similar to a lot of people during the pandemic got really bored yeah uh started fostering um dogs and then I quickly started to notice how much trash there is on the streets. Yeah, you never notice how disgusting the streets are until you have a dog that's trying to eat everything disgusting on the streets.
and the second dog I had would like to try to eat literally everything at one point I had to take him to the vet because he ate a rat Like an entire rat? I don't know how much of a rat because it was just the tail sticking out of his mouth. Did you try to pull it out? I just shook him a lot. I was like, you're not even really my dog.
i'm just fostering you so i wasn't putting my hand in it's so disgusting imagining like like like the end of a piece of spaghetti just like i'm right because i'm like you know Dogs eat a lot of stuff on the streets, but the thing that I kept coming across were like chicken bones. Yes. And I was like, why are there just so many chicken bones? You know, more chicken bones than dead rats.
Um, and then we talked about it and I'm like, oh yeah, like in all of our neighborhoods, we're noticing like just a shit ton of chicken bones on the ground. We noticed that this was an issue in our neighborhoods in Brooklyn, but we have journalism backgrounds, so we wanted to make sure that this happening to us was also happening on a larger scale. in order to confirm
we started texting a bunch of our friends to send photos to us whenever they encounter chicken moons just to make sure that this is happening on a broad scale. And I wanted to show you just a sample of those photos. Okay, so this is chicken bone evidence. So what happened was I think we accidentally created kind of a surveillance state of people across Brooklyn who are sending in these photos of chicken bones and encountering people who are...
throwing them on the ground. And when they send us these photos, they are also sending
where they are when they took the photos. Either that or depending on your iPhone settings, I can click into picture and see the metadata and see where the photo is being taken so most of these photos are just like it's somebody taking a picture of their sneakers on the concrete and like they're like gross like there's like a push down Dunkin Donuts bag and then a chicken bone there's like two chicken bones and I think yeah getting closer one of these photos has
maybe 16 bones yeah I'm only getting one with a lot a lot of bones so because these have metadata it's like you're also getting because it's not like chicken bones are evenly distributed throughout New York City you're getting a map of
what are the hotspot neighborhoods for chicken bones among the friends you surveyed. Yeah, and it's, you know, admittedly not a gigantic sample, a big enough sample to do an official study, but I found that, like, Generally, Bedstein, Crown Heights have a more concentrated... you know, proliferation of chicken bones on the street. Well, I'd also say, so we wanted to expand it to see like, is this just a New York thing? So we did search and like...
If you search just like chicken bones on street, you'll find like every major city's Reddit has at least a few threads. on this issue. So it happens everywhere. It happens everywhere. People gather in cities. Yeah, it seems like any dense area is going to have someone complaining about chicken bones on the street. And is it usually dog owners?
Yeah, typically it's people complaining because their dogs are eating them. There were some TikToks we found, too, that are about this issue. Yeah, we can play. Yeah, always TikTok on TikTok. Stop throwing your fucking chicken balls on the ground. I can't keep fighting with my dog every fucking morning. This person is prying their tiny pomeranian's mouth. I've been trying to get chicken bones out of it. And it has 75,000 favorites. So this is a thing that people are feeling. Yeah, this is real.
Okay, so coming up after a short break, this real thing, this plague of chicken bones in American cities, who's behind it? We'll investigate. How did the internet go from this... You could actually find what you were looking for right away back to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is,
and my plan to fix it. Find who broke the internet on whatever terrible app you get your podcasts. So, once we confirm that this chicken bones thing was a real problem and has been for years in multiple American cities, The three of us began our investigation into this question. Why are there so many chicken bones on the street?
And we divvied up the work into three prongs. And who took what prong and what are the prongs? Each one of us has like a thing we're kind of good with, if you will. We're going to start with Noah. He's like... nerd. He really dug into the history of chicken consumption in general. So we'll start with him. Yeah, so my job was to look into why there are so many chickens that then turn into bones. Yeah, okay, so why are there so many chickens? So I went way back and pretty deep on this.
to like the first domesticated chickens, which would be in modern day, what would now be like central time. I just want to say, I really appreciate the depth of research on this. Yeah, did a lot of reading this weekend. Okay, so wait, so the first domesticated chickens are when and where?
So the first unambiguous domestic chicken bones, that's kind of the term they use in this recent research I've been looking at, are dated to around 1650 to 1250 BC in central Thailand. There's some debate about other regions, but the theory is basically wild jungle fowl.
were drawn there by rice agriculture. I never would have pictured that there was a wild version of a chicken, but of course there was a wild version of a chicken. Yeah, if you look them up, they're actually pretty beautiful little creatures. They're like, there's... Red ones, gray ones, different colors. It's like Pokemon. Yeah, yeah. It seems like they were attracted to the rice because it's like easier to just live off grains other people are growing and you can stay in one area.
That sort of thing. So they wander in and get domesticated. Exactly. So then people would take them in or whatever. And those are the first kind of domesticated... Chickens is a theory. Then it's like they spread from there across South Asia, Mesopotamia, Europe, and Africa. They're not really primarily raised for their meat. It's really much more, they're kind of novelties. They're sent along trade routes as gifts for royalty.
In this time, they kind of develop different sorts of associations. So like in Japan and China, they're associated with sun gods, which makes sense because they'll grow in the morning. Right. So they'll start the day. In ancient Greece, they were associated with lots of medical uses. So like the chicken would be taken apart and all different parts of it would be used in different medicines. And you can see stuff like that today in like chicken soup that we have. It's kind of a cure-all.
that idea traces back to the idea that chicken is like a medical cure yeah exactly and then today and like vaccines they use egg protein so like certain people can't have flu vaccines because there's eggs in them so chickens are kind of associated with medicine and some people can't have them because of the 5G chip yeah that's correct but it's like if today the thing about the chicken is that it's ubiquitous in the moment that you're describing it
They're not ubiquitous. And so it's like, they're serving a lot of different functions, but one of the things that they have in common is that chickens are rare. And so a chicken is traveling on the straight route because it's a gift from somewhere else that means Something different depending on who's receiving it. Yeah, exactly.
And now we're going to fast forward a few thousand years to America. Sure. There's some debate. The main theory is that Christopher Columbus brought them in 1493. There's also a theory that Polynesians brought them. And that would have been about 100 years earlier. But at this point, they're coming because they're...
a source of food, not because they're an exotic gift. Yeah, that's more just like, okay, these are good animals we could eat. Yes. And they made it over because they're hardy animals, so they could survive a passage like that, so they were good as an option for food. And then getting forward to like...
the 20th century pedigree chicken breeding begins. And this is kind of when the commercial broiler chicken comes around in 1923. And that's a broiler chicken is a chicken raised for meat and not for eggs or other things. So this is really those, like when you picture a chicken dinner, that's the broiler chicken. So it's like we're turning...
chickened from something wild to something domesticated to something that is almost an industrial product. And as that happens, they become more popular in America. Yeah, exactly. And then that's in the 20s, and then it kind of develops pretty quickly from there. The main touch point is World War II. There's rations on beef, pork, and lamb. So...
The government then encourages way more chickens to be raised and eaten to kind of make up for that. So by the end of the war, there's three times more chicken being eaten than there was before, which is a pretty huge kind of immediate jump in just a few years. But then the war's over, so everyone can have their beef and pork back, and then people aren't really that into chicken still. It's like, yeah, we ate that during the war because we had to, but...
we can kind of go back to the good food now. Yes. So the government's like, okay, we have all these chickens and no one wants to eat them. We're like, we know we can make all these chickens and they're really cheap to make. because of all these other things. But how do you make people eat that? Exactly. So there is actually a contest called the Chicken of Tomorrow Contest, which was sponsored by the USDA and the A&P grocery store chain in 1948.
And the whole contest was set up to encourage farmers to develop. Bigger, better chickens. And there's a very good government-made and Texaco-sponsored documentary, which I can show you some clips of. Besides being a good egg layer, the chicken of tomorrow will be an improved meat producer.
Oh, so there's the chicken of today next to the chicken of tomorrow, and the chicken of today is much... I mean, it's a carcass, but it's much skinnier. Notice how breeding has increased the amount of meat on the breast. Look at that drumstick. Oh man The chicken on the right looks like the chickens you're used to, and the chicken on the left looks like a chicken that's never lifted weights.
Make your own guess as to which is the more profitable to raise. I have to say, it's kind of working on me. Look how pumped that thing is. Yeah. And when the chicken of tomorrow gets to the dinner table, its advantages are still more apparent. This video, from the perspective of check-ins, is just really dark. Yeah, the overall quality of life definitely seems to go down from the days of being kind of gods of the sun. But there's more of them.
And they're like jacked now, which is also cool. That's true. So bleak. Okay, so what happens now? so chickens are much bigger now and then this is when big name brands emerge so tyson purdue etc and there's kind of a real commercial chicken industry
And then fast food comes along, so KFC and later McDonald's. So by the time we're in the late 70s, 80s, we're at the point where chickens are starting to catch up with other meats. Okay, so 80s is when it starts to become like... fast food fried chicken which I'm assuming is where like it really takes off yeah yeah so like today worldwide there's 74 billion chickens a year raised and slaughtered for food. And that's even risen so much. In 2000, that was 40 billion, that number.
So, I mean, it went from $40 billion in 2000 to $74 billion today. Mm-hmm. when you describe it like that it's almost surprising that like every street isn't just fully like knee high and like a macabre red carpet of chicken bones i did i did a quick Number Crunch, and there's about 120 bones in a chicken. If you do 120 times 74 billion, I believe this would be 8.88 trillion bones.
per year per year yeah available to be on the ground available yeah so honestly the real question is why are there not more chicken yeah we should be drowning over them yeah Okay, so we have a history of the chicken's popularity to humankind from 1600 BC to today, which is the prerequisite for how you get streets filled with chicken bones. What is the next prong here? So the next prong here is we come back to the question. And now we begin to look at the suspect.
Who is throwing these bones on the street? Our first and leading suspect is human beings. Right. Lots of accusations online with people saying this. people are eating their chicken wings, legs, thighs, whatever, and then discarding the bones on the ground when they're done with them. That's what the allegation is. That has been my assumption. Yeah. And I, Manny, was responsible for this part of the investigation because I think I'm kind of skilled at surveillance in a way. He's very nosy.
So in order to kind of confirm whether or not this was happening, I asked a bunch of friends of mine Send me photos of when people are doing this in real time, eating chicken bones. You asked your friends to do chicken steak outs. Chicken steak outs, exactly. How does a chicken steak out work? Do you sit outside of a chicken place? Do you sit in a cruiser? What do you do?
personally sat outside of a couple of chicken places on couldn't find anyone unfortunately but i did get a text message from my friend dre who saw a woman eating chicken wings in her driver's seat of her car and then throwing the bones out onto the street. And I'll show you that text message right there at the top left. Okay, so this is exhibit A. Bye. It's a photo. All you can actually see is a parked car, but the text underneath says she's parked eating chicken wings.
And then you say, I'm throwing them out. I need video if possible. The leading question. And then Dre says... scared her and she left yeah and i want to show you the photo that's just above that that didn't fit into that oh yeah that's a good shot There's four, and they look almost like shell casings in a crime scene. But there's four chicken bones on the street. Oh, and then below is the photo of the car. and i will say like i feel like as like i don't know what we are but like
I feel like a bias among progressive journalists is when there's a problem, you're kind of like, well, it's not people. It's structures and systems. I've seen people do disgusting stuff in New York City. I've seen people litter. I've stepped in human feces on the street.
If the answer that you have found in your reporting is there's actually enough people who just genuinely don't give a shit, and those people happen to eat a lot of chicken, and it's like a small amount of people are causing this entire problem, I'm open to play.
Yeah, well, that's where I started. That was my question. Like you just said, I consider myself the average lefty liberal who cares about the environment. And so when my friend Dre sent me this photo, I was like, why the hell would someone eat it? in their car and then throw it right there onto the ground. Wait, and can I also say another thing? First of all, just to, because I don't want to make a sentence about you guys. Do you guys litter? No. No. No.
And when you say you don't let her, would you throw an apple core on the ground? No. I don't really eat apples, so I can't speak to that. I can see... I mean, I don't drive. If I was driving on the highway... You would throw an apple on that. If I'm driving in this woods. No, listen. And there's woods to my right, so I'm driving.
Somewhere. A long drive. Long haul drive. I would throw that out. Because you're crazy. People aren't walking around there. I guess there's an argument to be made that if the thing you're discarding is biodegradable.
Who are you really harming? I think that's my argument. When you say it's biodegradable, I definitely have a memory. I'm not going to say who else is in the memory, but I remember being young, getting the no littering rule drilled into my head, and then being around an adult and watching them litter.
And you're like, what? And they're like, it's biodegradable. I think I learned about the concept of biodegradable. Yeah, exactly. And I will say, if I was driving down a highway, and there was a copse of trees to my left, driving all day, eating apples, Anything happens?
apples like you are. Where are you going? And the only restaurants are apple restaurants. I can imagine a world where you're like, okay, it's biodegradable. There will be an apple tree next time I drive by here. Otherwise you have a sticky apple corn.
next to you. And it's browning. And you still have hours to go. You can't stop. We've got a long way to go. No, you can't stop. This is like speed where it just slows down and the car explodes. You're in big trouble. If I'm in the bus and the movie speed, then yes, I will. but i could imagine a world where like the it's biodegradable idea travels up the food chain a little bit and there's somebody or somebody lots of people throwing chicken bones on the ground being like they're
biodegradable. I don't think they are. Yeah, I looked into that a little bit to see how long it would take for it to And how long does it take?
longer than even like composting it takes a little bit a couple weeks that's within like the soil and like it's set up to do that yeah if you're just throwing it on the street it's i think it would take i don't know i don't have a number for you but longer than an apple core yeah So I'm gonna bring us back to my surveillance I got these photos of this woman throwing chicken bones onto the street
And I was honestly kind of stupefied. And so I went on to Google and I tried to find studies as to why people would do this. Yeah. The leading kind of theory is that people throw things on the ground. People litter because there aren't enough trash. cans around. They put it in a specific way, which was that the strongest indicator of that song
distance to a trash can. So, I decided to walk around my neighborhood and count the trash cans. There are, I might have missed a couple, there are at least 20 I was surprised. When I read the study, I was like, alright, there's out here that's why everyone's throwing their wings on the ground i walked by maybe not up to snuff maybe there shouldn't be more trash cans Enough for you not to throw your garbage on the ground. And in many cases,
A lot of these chicken bones are next to trash cans. Oh, so people are just making a choice here. If it were human beings doing this, if they were the most likely culprit, this person would be walking up to a trash can and then throwing the wings on the ground next to the trash can.
Okay, wait, so just to follow, because one way you can take this is If the academic research is saying people are less likely to litter when a lot of trash cans are around, and you're seeing tons of trash cans and tons of chicken bones, it's like either you have to decide that the academic littering research is wrong, or you're deciding
something additional or something else is going on here, and where you're going is something else is going on here. Yeah, either people who live in Brooklyn are worse human beings than everyone else in the United States. Which there's tons of evidence for. There's a lot of evidence of that, to be fair. It's not humans. Something else is causing... to be all over the ground. More after a break. Welcome back to the show.
We've now arrived at the next prong of this investigation. This whole question came from Devin being a dog owner and encountering chicken bones everywhere. And so Devin's specialty, so to speak here, is animals. We're calling him the Wrangler. So, yeah, you know, like I heard Dan now. Is that it's not humans so there must be something going into the trash and taking out the bones So like, who's doing that? Mm-hmm. Okay.
some type of animal yes all right in fact one of these photos i'll point you to the photo here in the middle you will see a trash bag oh it's a trash bag with an opening and it's been chewed open and there's trash coming out of it i see where you guys are going with this but proceed
So, a lot of theories, you know, we kind of combed through the Reddit threads and kind of went one by one with all the different animals. So we'll start with squirrels. Okay, not where I was thinking. We'll get there. We'll start with squirrels, though. So there are some first-hand accounts of people saying, hey, I was blaming people. I was walking my dog, and I looked up, I actually saw a squirrel drop. Let me pull up this quote because it was pretty funny.
Nelson who owns a yellow Labrador admits that she had for some time also pointed fingers at her neighbors for their serious threat to her pooch. It was like, oh my god, who's throwing their chicken bones on the ground, she says. Not until just a bone literally fell out of a tree right in front of her did it occur to her that squirrels might often be to blame.
That's so funny. It's funny because it's like we live in a way where we think so little about nature that the idea that nature could be causing these problems is not even like on the menu of ideas. Like you're like, obviously people are screwing me over. It's like, no, the squirrels might be doing something. Maybe the squirrels. There's some good video online of squirrels like gnawing on chicken bones, it seems like.
You know, it's a thing. So then we were like, all right, but like, we don't see that many squirrels. No. In New York. No. Right? So there's actually these people who do like a squirrel census. There's a squirrel census? How do you get them to answer the surveys? We don't get them to answer the surveys.
So the last time they did it, you know it's a few years old now but it was in 2020 march of 2020 wow i didn't even think about that they were like the world's shutting down only essential workers and the squirrel census people are allowed out of that all the squirrels left new york I'm going upstate. More space. There were 72 volunteers. I went to 24 parks in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Do you want to guess how many squirrels they counted? Because I thought it was kind of like insane. I think I want you to guess the number. How many squirrels do you think they counted in New York City? How many parks and 24 parks. And over how many days? No, just one day. One day, 24 parks, a couple hours. How many volunteers? 72. I'm so bad at math. I can't even count jelly beans. Uh... A thousand squirrels? 433. That was really not a lot of squirrels. Yeah. That seemed really low.
It does, except for that, like, in New York City, I'm like, there's no living nature whatsoever. But that does seem very low. We're like, there's not enough squirrels.
you know if people are like actively going to parks and looking for hours and they only counted 433 it's like it's not enough to be causing the amount of bones also the parks are their domain more so than like franklin avenue you're not seeing them like just on the street like it's you know my dog doesn't love well he loves squirrels so like i notice when they're around yes and it's not that often yes which brings us to suspect number two
raccoons you know they have little hands uh so maybe they're a little better at getting bones out of the trash there's this random article from the new york times um in 1975 that they were talking about how like Raccoons actually really enjoy chicken bones. Really? Yeah, according to this article, if you give raccoons scraps of food, the first thing they go after is chicken, and that's including the bone. Raccoons have a preference for chicken bones. That's such a weird thing to know now.
Was this article... from 1975? The article was from 1975 and it was just like, what was the news value in being like, what do raccoons like to eat more than the other things they like to eat? Like, why were they trying to figure this out? Vietnam War is happening. The moon landing was relatively recent. What we really have to get to the bottom is what records like to eat the most. But
I've literally never seen a raccoon in New York City, so it couldn't possibly be a raccoon. So that brings us to suspect number three, which is birds. I still feel like there's an animal that I think. Let's go through birds. I have personally seen a pigeon pick at chickens. Yes, I have too. Birds will eat birds.
Yes. That's disgusting. Pigeons will, and, you know, crows and ravens would seem more likely because, you know, they eat meat. Yeah. I mean, the problem a little bit with the bird on bird theory, is that the bones are being found, it sounds like, near the restaurants. And my assumption, and maybe I'm wrong, but my assumption is like,
the crow would grab the thing and, like, fly away. Yes. So that's when we were looking into it. A lot of people were saying, like, you know, there's some people who feed crows and, like, crows come to their windows. Yeah. This is big on TikTok. And people are saying, like, oh, my crows sometimes bring me bones as, like, gifts. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. But to your point, right, it's like where we're seeing most of this stuff is, like, on sidewalk.
usually where trash is so like if a crow was picking up something from there wouldn't just drop it in the same spot takeout. You want someone who's eating it. Yes, exactly. Which leads us to Lions. I feel like there's like just people who have been like screaming rat. We could do more on pigeons. Hold on, hold on. Yeah, rats, rats, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's our... leading theory is that it's rap.
Yeah. And they're basically just digging in, because part of the problem in New York City is we don't have alleys, and so all trash goes out onto the street. Which would also explain why, because like, People are eating chicken in the suburbs, but the suburban streets are not filled with chicken bones as far as I know. That is what is different about here besides density is How we throw out our trash. Right. So, people eat chicken.
Many of them are not littering. They throw it in the trash. There's a little bit of meat on it. The rats go into the bag. The rats pull the bones out. They pick it clean. They leave it on the street. Is that the... That is the theory. Interesting. Okay, but... Here's a question of that theory. Why then are chicken bones unevenly distributed? Because rats in New York City neighborhoods, I think, are kind of evenly distributed, right?
Yes and no. Right. So I would say to Manny's point earlier, some neighborhoods are better about taking care of their garbage than others. Right. And the way that some neighborhoods even get rid of their garbage is not the same as others. So I think. The big problem with the neighborhoods that have more chicken bones is that most slayed are throwing out their trash by just putting plastic bags on the street.
versus like a container that's being picked up. So there's a little bit of a backstory here with plastic trash bags in New York City. So a lot of the big apartment buildings For years, they would just burn their trash. But then there was the Clean Air Act in 1970, and they're like, yeah, you can't burn trash anymore.
And then around the same time, plastic bags were becoming a thing. What was it before plastic bags? So they, you know, like the Oscar the Grouch sort of like trash cans. Oh, and the trash would just go directly into the Oscar the Trash Can? Yeah, so people would take their trash, put it directly in there.
If there were bags, there would be, like, paper bags. Yeah. You know, those break apart. That's wild. So, yeah, people would just put, you know, raw garbage in a can. That's so interesting. And they switch over to plastic because they're like... these things are loud yeah it's really gross to have to clean out right if you're just putting garbage directly into that can and then like you're just responsible for getting the remnants out yeah um and it was really slow for
trash people to pick up the trash because they had to go to everybody's can, empty it out, shake it, bang it. Right. Interesting. Okay, so... If you guys are right, rats are the culprit, and it is kind of like a structural problem. It's like how the city is set up, it's how trash works in the city. So how do you test the theory?
I'm glad you asked. Great question. We actually have experiments that we're going to pitch that we think might prove that rats are the culprit for the amount of chicken bones that are on the streets of Brooklyn. So what are the experiments? Number one we go around and we pick up chicken bones off the street that we're seeing and we send them off to a lab okay
We try to see if the lab can identify if there's rat DNA on the chicken bones. So they're looking for, like, rat saliva particles? Yes. We can test all the other animals as well. See what we find. Okay, so one possibility is laboratory testing, which search engine always likes. What else is there? We also thought about getting a bag of chicken wings and just putting them out on my sidewalk and setting up a GoPro. That was my
And you put like night vision on the thing and you wait to see if you're making a feast for rats. That's right. Okay. I like that one. I feel like it's funny if someone will end up writing a complaint where they'll be like, my neighbor's trying to kill my dog. That's the one thing I am afraid of is if I'll cause an influx of rats in the area that might come back the next day expecting more chicken to be there. I don't know how smart they are. Rats don't travel very far. Around 600.
This is good pseudoscience. I like all of these. the snoop and devin the wrangler you can follow their adventures at their website manny noah devin d-e-v-a-n dot com and next week it will be back on search engine. Our investigators will return. We will dip into the perilously low search engine discretionary budget to rent some GoPros from Alex Gibney and bait them with premium Brooklyn chicken wings. I'm headed downstairs.
To set up this GoPro. Oh! Oh! That stick is for hitting the rats. That's crazy. Okay, I found the bag. Oh my god, and I found chicken bones. Oh my god! all this in the service of bringing you an answer. A real answer, not some mealy-mouthed podcaster crap about the the way. Or how the hot sauce and sushi is a metaphor for like Occam's razor or something. No. We're going to find out if the rats did it. And if so, they're going to jail. That's next week on Search Engine. Armin, play the music.
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