This is a HeadGum podcast.

Hello everyone, welcome to Factually, I'm a

Madame Connober. Thank you so much for joining me once again as I talk to an

incredible expert about all the amazing things they know that you probably don't

know that I definitely don't know and both of our minds get blown together.

That's how I'm introducing the show. I think it's pretty good. I think it's a

pretty good description. Let's jump into this episode. You know, I might have

mentioned this on the show at some point, but I am a bird watcher now. I watch

birds. Okay, get over it. It's what I do. I'm not going to stop just because you

don't like it. It's a hobby that I took up in one of the earlier stages of the

pandemic and I fucking love it. It's an incredible way to spend time outside

without wondering, okay, what do I do now? You know what I mean? Most of the time

you go outside, you're like, it's nice to be outside, but like, does my

computer miss me? Should I pull out my phone? What's going on? And you know, when

you bird watch, you go outside and then you look for birds. Two hours fly by.

It's amazing. It gives you something to do outside and also you get to

participate in a big citizen science project or port how many birds you saw

or a thal just can use that to track bird positions. It's fucking awesome. I

can't shut up about it. But let me tell you one of my favorite things about

bird watching. Okay, what is that? I live in Los Angeles and I normally think of

this place as like a, you know, a concrete blasted wasteland. You know, no

natural anything around except a couple of barren palm trees that are going to

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