Oh, hey, it's the guy who runs the local board game night, hoping someone shows up at the pizza place to game.

Allie, boy, hooty, I've wanted to cover this one forever. And it was all a matter of finding the right owl person.

And we did it. We got them. I have so much to say about this guest that I'm going to list it in bullet points.

Okay, so they got their PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. They have studied owls for over four decades. Their papers have been cited

nearly 14,000 times. I noticed that in their papers, they thank their wife, KT, and they seem

genuinely in love. They came highly recommended by several other ologists, including Dr. Gavin

Jones, of the fire ecology episode, I had to beg

this owl guest to be on this episode because they kept asking if they were right for it.

I did this by taking a phone call as I was driving through the desert, and I pulled over

at a dusty turnout to chat with them for like 30 minutes about why I was already obsessed with

them and their work. Before we recorded,

this guest sent me some pictures and owl videos, but there was nothing attached to the email.

And then I got another one five minutes later with the subject line, oops. And the email just said,

I got distracted by critters outside my window, so I forgot to attach the files. When we finally did log on to chat,

they were wearing a sweater with owls on it. Uh-oh, I love them, and you will too. It's all the

fieldwork stories and passion of a Merlin Tuttle bat guy with the soothing mellow vibe of the

Briology Moss guest, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. This one, it's an instant classic. We will get to that in just a sec, but first thank you so much to all the patrons who sent in their questions. You too can support the show on Patreon for a mere dollar a month. Thank you to everyone out there wearing Ologies merch from Ologiesmerch.com. Also, if you need shorter kid-friendly episodes that are classroom safe, we have them in their

own feed for you called Smologis. S-M-O-L-O-G-I-E-S. You can get them for free by subscribing to Smologis where we get podcasts. Also, thanks to everyone who leaves a review for us, which helped the show so much. I read them all. And this week, Unfoldeded-Shoe wrote one that said, the other night I had a dream, a dream in which I was in a lecture hall being taught by Professor Ali Ward and assistant professor Jack Black. I don't know if you two will ever teach higher education together, but needless to say, this is my favorite podcast. Unfolded Shoe, I don't know if that will happen, but I am open to it. Also, we're doing our first

ever live show. Not Jack Black. He won't be there, but I will. It's on Monday, November 17th at the Bell House in Brooklyn, but we are sold out. But that's good news because it means that there might be a bigger tour coming soon. So we're going to pilot it on the 17th. We're going to see how it goes. Okay, so let's get into strigiform.

Straight up, it comes from the Latin for owl, which comes from the Greek for owl. So cozy

up and a blankie. Sit on the porch and the dusk to catch some owl parenting facts, why they

have pokey things on their heads, facts about eyes that left me unable to think

...