So if you guys want to stick your headphones on you're going to need them.

We don't even know what we're doing. I know. This is unfair.

Yeah, that's all right. Hello this is Sam Evans Brown and you're listening to Outside In a show about the natural world and how we use it.

And I'm here with two guests who we have surprised by bringing into the studio.

Can you guys introduce yourselves?

Sure, I'm Dave Anderson from the Forest Society.

And I'm Chris Martin from New Hampshire Audubon.

And we're the co-host of NHPR's Something Wild.

But we're not here to talk about that. We've brought you here to talk about something special.

Producer Maureen McMurray, you want to do the honors? Sure.

Why do geese make feasts? Does the bumblebee sneeze? Can a person eat trees? In a polar bear freeze, Is a kidney stone kind of like a pearl and a clam?

But I don't know. Ask Sam.

So Ask Sam is our semi-regular segment where I answer audience questions about the natural world.

But sometimes Sam doesn't know. audience questions about the natural world.

But sometimes Sam doesn't know the answer?

Right, because I don't actually know that much.

So instead of I've sprung this on you guys.

We've invited you in here because we're hoping that you can

help to answer some of these questions we could do that Chris is an ologist he's an ornithologist

and he's a senior biologist that New Hampshire Audubon I work as a naturalist which means

I'm kind of a hack but I lead trips and take people out in the woods.

Yeah, and hugs trees.

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