Cattle, known for milk beef, famous for milk, beef, uh, farts, I guess.

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

Let's find out why cattle are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey,

Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. This week's special guest is comedy writer, podcaster, and bird person, Katie Golden.

And I hope you've already enjoyed the work of Katie Golden before. She writes all kinds of

comedy. Her most public stuff is the actual funniest Twitter account in the entire world. It's

at pro bird rights. And that's rights as in R-I-G-H-T-S, like fighting for our rights, because the

character is a bird demanding more rights for birds, and also demanding bagels and stuff,

calls them bagels.

Katie's account is so good and so famous that she is recognized as the coiner of the

internet term, burb, by the Audubon Society, like the actual one.

Also, Katie hosts a phenomenal podcast titled Creature Feature on IHeartRadio.

It's all about animal behavior and human behavior and where those come together.

So find that in your podcast app.

Katie is today's guest.

I am so excited about it.

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources like native dash land.ca.

To acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the Kataba,

Ino, and Shikori peoples, and acknowledge Katie recorded this on the traditional land of the

Kich and Chumash peoples. That is a new practice for me, and I think that feels worth doing

on each episode of this podcast. Also, as you'll hear in this episode,

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