Welcome to Michigan Hockeycast 8.6, where I guess we're all just sad now.

Sorry. in true Thomas Dascus fashion.

Alex, what is your favorite bird?

Hmm.

Um, I'm not a huge fan of birds.

You don't like birds.

What?

I mean, I'm just not like a birder.

Um.

Not meaning like, are you going out and like bird watching? Birds are also not great pets in my experience you have bad experience

with birds as pets i uh i had no idea what i was getting into i had a elementary school

teacher that had a class pet that were birds there were two birds okay they were very loud

and like during class yeah they're just they're they're they're they're loud pets and they're very messy pets. They kind of smell, don't they? There's actually one of my neighbors in my apartment complex has a parrot or something. Can you hear it? Only if she brings like the cage outside and puts the cage outside to get fresh air. And so then some days I'll be walking towards

my unit and then it was here at like, that's amazing. Do you ever go over and talk to it?

No, not really. But is that on the to-do list? I think, I think you need to go address this bird.

I would probably say something like a, like a falcon or a falcon, like an eagle or something, like a big.

So just an NFL bird? Like a predatory bird. Like an albatross? Possibly. Or a vulture?

Cardinals and Blue Jays and, you know, those kinds. Those birds that like come to your bird feeder are fine.

That was, well, Blue Jays are mean, supposedly.

Are they?

I don't know. You don't know? They, like, chase away other birds. So you either, you either, like, NFL birds or MLB birds? Is this what we've got to? I don't have, I mean, I'm not like, oh, I really love cranes. I really live, like, you know, herons. Herons are cool.

They can be, but those are like,

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