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Ologies with Alie Ward

Ornithology (BIRDS) with James Maley

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Birds! Horned screamers! Winged pirates! Professional bird-person and all around cool dude James Maley joins Alie to talk about bird mating, monogamy, the cult of ornithology, absurd birds, parrots that are smarter than your friends' kids, a surprising fact about owl ears and history's most tragically zealous bird nerds. If you love birds, you'll be at home. If a bird did you dirty, you'll open your heart and learn to love again.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so I just wanted to say a really quick cool merch announcement if anyone needs

0:09.5

toats and mugs and hats and all kinds of cool stuff.

0:13.6

My friends Shannon Feltis and her sister Bonnie Dutch have been awesome at helping me set

0:18.3

up a merch site.

0:19.3

It's at oligee's merch.com and this week we just put them up, limited edition, enamel,

0:25.3

oligee's pins.

0:26.3

They come in a pack of five, the first four episodes are each represented in this little

0:30.8

cool pin and then there's an oligee's logo pin also.

0:35.3

So they're super awesome.

0:36.3

They're limited edition.

0:37.3

So if you want them, get them.

0:39.3

Just wanted to tell you up top.

0:41.3

Okay, onto the episode.

0:43.7

Birds, birds, birds, birds, birds, birds, birds.

0:46.0

Burbs, burbs, boids, chirpy chirps, flappy flappers.

0:49.6

Last week I covered death and dying and it was enlightening and shockingly not a bummer.

0:54.4

But I wanted to get into birds to just kind of shake off that October mist.

1:00.7

Just just talk about birds.

1:02.9

So I don't know how you feel about birds.

1:04.6

I've always had kind of a distant wonder about them.

1:07.3

But I'm also like birds.

1:09.2

You would never let me pet you, any of you, which is kind of a really bitchy way to evaluate

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