This episode first came out in October 2022. Stay tuned during the credits for a short update to the story.

Nate, Taylor, I want you to listen to this.

I hear static. I hear that. There it is again. So that little honk?

Uh-huh.

That's a recording of the ivory-build woodpecker.

Yeah.

Captured in 1935 by the guy who actually founded the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Oh, really?

I love that.

I used to go to their website to listen to bird sounds.

Yeah.

So this is a huge bird.

It's as big as your forearm, head like a little pickaxe big perfectly round eyes. It is such a

striking bird that people have given it a nickname. I know the nickname. Have you heard

this? Oh yeah it's the Lord God Bird. I listen to Sufian Stevens.

Mmm, the Lord God Bird. But by the time President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973

We have passed new laws to protect the environment. There hadn't been an officially recognized

sighting in the United States in almost 30 years. And we immobilize the power of

public concern. That's not good. No. But there is much yet to be done.

When the Simpsons first aired in 1989,

Kalabunga dude. It had been almost 50 years since the last official recognized

sighting. No!

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