From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.

Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, moment of um, um, comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Goldfield and I'm lying on the couch in my therapist's office.

Um.

Do you always narrate your life like that?

Sure do.

And sometimes I even do my own sound effects.

My best ones are trumpet, motorcycle, and laser,

but I don't get to use them as often as I'd like.

Well, I mean, now I've got to hear them.

Here's motorcycle.

Here's a laser.

And here's my trumpet.

How's that?

While those are incredibly accurate, it sounds to me like you're podcastifying your life to hide from your problems.

Like an ostrich sticking its head in the dirt to hide from a lion.

You know your problems are still going to be there when you lift your head back up.

Doc, I hear what you're saying, and I appreciate your point, and that's something I'm going to work on.

But also, I need you to know that you've got to learn more about ostriches.

Fortunately, I happen to know a bit about them because we got a great question over at Moment of Umquarters about ostriches from a listener.

Why do ostriches stick their head in the ground?

That's a very good question. So my name is Sushmar Reddy, and I am the Reckinridge chair of ornithology at the Bell Museum that's at the University of Minnesota.

Ostriches don't do that to avoid things. What they're doing when they bury their heads is probably

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