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I'm Nate Swick.

Did you watch the Super Bowl?

Did you see it?

I'm not talking about the game.

I lost interest once the possibility of an all-bird matchup became impossible.

Thank you very much, Baltimore, for not even making the playoffs. What an embarrassment to Corvids around the world.

I'm talking about the birding commercial from Doritos, favorite snack chip of house sparrows

and European starlings alike. I'm not here to give Doritos any extra publicity here, but, you know,

for delays, call me. I have experience with the product. But anyway, the commercial in it,

a birdwatcher, a black woman birdwatcher, no less score one for representation, chasing what

appears to be a pita, maybe Indian, maybe blue-winged hard to tell the birder is hanging

off a large tree branch about 20 feet in the air so maybe the advertising agency does not

understand birding as well as we might have hoped but no matter matter, we're moving on. The bag of spicy Doritos

falls out of the backpack onto the ground in a menagerie of animals, including sloths, deer, bear,

and a beatboxing fox sing Salt and Peppers push it with a vermillion flycatcher, voiced by

Megan the Stallion doing the ooh, baby, baby part from the mouth of a

crocodile. It's a, it's quite a thing. It seems like an odd use for Megan the stallion to put

her voice in a bird. I mean, I love vermilion flycatchers, but I think she's probably more

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