Brown bears, known for being grizzly, famous for being brownie.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why brown bears are secretly incredibly fascinated. Fascinating.

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Welcome to a whole new podcast episode of podcast

All About Why Being Alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name's Alex Schmidt.

I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie.

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of brown bears?

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see see i see a red bird looking at me red bird

red bird what do you okay i'll stop that uh but uh yeah no i like i like them i like a bear

now next week's show has to be about red birds. That's going to be hard.

Yeah.

Hungry caterpillars. What's secretly incredibly fascinating about caterpillars with an appetite?

My favorite thing about brown bears, and maybe we'll cover this, I don't know.

Alex is very coy about his notes. He never shares them with me.

Secrets.

Secrets.

But I do know that there's like the fattest bear competition every year.

It looks at brown bears specifically to see how chunked up they're getting because they get real chunky.

I know that they're the chunkiest of the bears.

So grizzly bear and brown bears are strictly speaking the same species, but they're,

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