This is Justin from The Generation Y, and we're doing a four-part series on rambling the story of

Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at Rikers Island for three

years without trial. This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.

Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

Kurt, I'm going to introduce a story to start the episode. What do you think about that?

I love it. I love it. It was changing all around.

Manatex wasps nest with flame thrower is badly stung and sets fire to the tree.

Yeah, that's bananas.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to bananas. I am one of your hosts, Kurt Brownal.

And I'm the second banana Scotty Landis. I'm glad to see Kurt again. He's been away for a little

bit. This is the only time I ever get to meet new people and catch up with my good buddy. So

welcome back to the bananas program. Yeah, we took all of August off from recording. So which means we

had a very busy July and then a not busy August, which was very nice. But we're back. Swing

at things and it's exciting to be here. And I'm very excited to bring on our guest today. Our

guest today is an ornthologist, birter, science communicator and co-creator of Black Birters Week.

You may know her as Hood Naturalist on Twitter. Please welcome Karina Newsom.

Yeah. Thank you. It's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me. I love you guys.

Oh, well, we're so excited to have you on to talk about some dumb stuff. We love having very,

very smart people on to talk about really stupid things. Yes, we like for your side the

the intelligentsia to see what's going on down here with the garbage pale kids. It feels right.

I just thought it. So, you know, I have been I'm so excited that you're a birter and an

ornthologist because I have been I've been writing comedy for many years and I have so much bird

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