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Birding Outside the Home

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Katherine tries to convince Jim to take on a new hobby with help from self-described “bird nerd,” Jason Ward. Follow Jason Ward on Twitter & Instagram. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at www.theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:05.0

Hey, Catherine.

0:06.0

Hey, Catherine. Hey, what's up?

0:09.0

I don't know if you heard this weekend I was brutalized on, wait don't tell me oh my god how

0:16.4

they said I was dirty and that I probably smell bad and that I probably don't probably smell bad and I probably don't have a nice apartment.

0:27.0

That's a good show. Yeah, it was just like what we were talking about on here. The kind of low blows, not really wanting to engage with the science of the biome, but fully

0:47.4

embodying the classism that is defined cleanliness throughout the ages. How are you?

0:55.0

Well, Jim, I had an exciting experience this morning and I'd like to tell you about it.

1:01.0

An exciting experience.

1:02.8

Well, this is abnormal for our times.

1:06.0

At the beginning of the pandemic, I was so isolated

1:11.8

because I live alone. And that was bad for the for the old psychic state right sure and then I a friend of mine who is outside the city started describing that he'd gotten really into birds.

1:26.0

He had set up a like bird feeder in his yard and he was feeding birds and he had gotten really into it and he's like an unlikely person to be a birder like he's not someone I would have pegged as a birder.

1:41.0

Because he's human? He is a birder. Because he's human.

1:43.2

He is a human being.

1:44.2

Yeah, we're natural enemies with birds.

1:46.8

Why do you say that?

1:48.8

Hmm, I just feel it inside me. Okay.

1:54.0

Do like little dinosaurs?

1:55.0

Yeah, that's part of what makes them cool.

1:57.0

We're going to put a pin in that.

1:59.0

All right.

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