The Bird Show

Good morning, Christine.

Hi, good morning.

How are you today?

Excellent.

And I think this is a little ghost hunterish here. Yes. You know, like we play the audio and we couldn't really quite hear it in here, but maybe somebody in their car could figure it out. Right. So we're not going to say what Christine thinks it is until we've taken a few calls, right? I don't even have a clue. There's no sheet here in front of me that says what this bird is saying.

I don't think she knows, right?

That's why she came to us.

No, she hasn't it? a few calls, right? I don't even have a clue. There's no sheet here in front of me that says what this bird is saying.

I don't think she knows, right?

That's why she came to us. Right. You have an idea, though, don't you? I sort of think I know, but I could be way off. Okay, well, the only way for this to be a properly good bird listening experiment because I used to, I did these in college.

So the only way that

this is properly going to work is if you don't tell us what your idea is and we hear it cold

and the listeners hear a cold and then we'll give our guesses and take calls and if any of them

match up we might have something okay what kind of bird are we talking about here?

It's a cockatiel. A cockatiel. One of those growing up. My parents had one of those. Okay. It actually belongs to my daughter. She's six. And she loves animals. She has a guinea pigs, cockatiel. We've cat. You know, the whole deal. All birds' favorite animals wrapped into one. Do you have a ferret also?

Because then we could totally complete the set right there.

No, no parrot. All right, so I've got three clips to play, and I think they're all different. One is 15 seconds long. One is 25, and the other one is just a second. I think they're all different. So if you guys listening in your car can hear what this bird is saying,

then give us a call. Hey, do we... Are we going to... There's sometimes when we're doing the show where I can, like, sort of have this out-of-studio experience and see the ridiculousness in it. Oh, it's funny. We're doing a public service. Are we getting paid right now, or is this kind of like just... We're on our own. I think we're actually getting paid?

No, we're paying the bird.

I just remember hearing on the ghost thing that, remember they were saying titty roll. We all thought they were saying titty roll. And then a caller called in and goes, no, I hear this. And I was just like, wow, that is exactly what I need. Because when I look at him and he's making these noises, I swear he's saying one thing, but I just can't get like his little face out of my head when I hear that noise. So I'm just hoping that someone will be able to do that. Do you tell us what his expressions like? Will that help us? No expression. None, okay. Do you think he's a gifted cockatiel? I don't know. He gives kisses and he wolf whistles and whistles like that. I mean, he's really fun. The kids play with him all the time and he's friendly. When he gives kisses, does he have soft lips? No, he doesn't actually touch my mouth. Oh, okay. Let's not get weird about this. Yeah.

He just kind of makes the noise, like a kissing noise.

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