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We Have Concerns

Hummingbirds, Penguins, and Cockatoos, oh my.

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Three stories this week, all concerning birds! Pranksters, scamps, potential saviors of earth? In the first, cockatoos in Australia have learned how to drink from public water fountains. Anthony and Jeff discuss how and why. Next ups, the penguins of Antactica might be helping offset climate change... with their poop. And finally, have humans altered the course of evolution with hummingbird feeders? Anthony and Jeff wing their way through all three topics!

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'll check back in with you next week, but it sounds like you have lost $400, sir.

0:18.0

This is, we have concerns.

0:19.6

Hi, Jeff Kanata.

0:20.7

Hi, Anthony Carboney. Hello,

0:22.5

concerned citizens. Jeff, it is time once again to call out those fucking birds.

0:31.2

We, you know what? It's been a minute since we were on, we like to stay vigilant on the birds,

0:36.8

but I think, I feel like we've been slacking a

0:38.7

little bit we've been slacking a little bit and the birds believe me jeff what i tell you the birds

0:42.3

have noticed and they've been taken every inch every inch that's what they say you know you give them a

0:47.9

you give a bird an inch it takes a wings where i don't know the birds are bad. Yeah, fuck a bird anyway. Yeah. Yeah, they suck.

0:57.0

Birds, of course, are pranksters, notorious pranksters. That's right. They're too smart.

1:02.2

They look stupid on purpose. That's right. That's how they get you. That's the genius.

1:08.3

Their genius is the googly eyes and the and the cheap, cheap, cheaping and the, and it just like standing there looking like idiots, but they're not idiots. No. They flip their head around. Like, you know how kids and dogs will do that head tilt? Like, they don't know what you're talking about. Bird will tilt 900 degrees. So it looks extra stupid, but it's doing that on purpose.

1:28.2

Right before it steals your bologna sandwich.

1:30.3

That's right. Or your wallet.

1:31.7

Yeah.

1:32.4

I had to call my credit card company the other week because somebody kept trying to charge like, you know, like amounts of gas at a gas station, like $20 of gas, $40 of gas.

1:43.3

You know what I mean?

1:44.0

Like apparently that's like a huge thing that fraudsters do.

1:46.7

Just, it was just three cockatiels.

1:49.8

I figured.

1:51.0

In, in an extremely small trench coat, that's the thing.

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