Dumb People Town - Amanda Seales - Bird Truthers
Episode Date: August 30, 2019Amanda Seales comes to Town to talk about a movement who has doubts about birds. ...
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Star Pains, I know. Hey townies, welcome to another episode of Dumb People Town.
Population Seals.
Amanda Seals.
Amanda Seals.
Hi, girl.
Welcome to Sound. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Can we... This is...
I have wanted to do this
since we hung with you at Moon Tower
and you did your set as you were sort of ramping up
to the HBO special.
That was like all that material in there.
I know, but there was so much material in there. It feels like nine years ago.
I know, but there was so much material in there,
which was like the woman on the plane,
the reach over, open the window, woman on the plane thing.
I think about that every time I get on a plane.
I just can't handle stupid behavior
and how it's like now creeping into our lives.
You know what I mean?
Creeping?
I feel like it's a tsunami.
Okay, so good.
So good.
So now you are here in Dumb People Town, okay, where we believe that the world is getting
dumber.
Absolutely.
And we have proof.
Our great fans send Dan great stories that we, the three of us, don't know anything about
these stories.
We've never heard them.
We're going to hear details about what's happening for the first time.
We try to break it down and understand.
Shall we jump into one?
Yeah.
I was going to tell you I had a plane situation happen yesterday.
Hold that story.
Wait, wait.
I said hold that story.
Let's do it after the break. So hold that story. We got a plane situation happen yesterday. Hold that story. Wait, wait. I said hold that story. Let's do it after the break.
So hold that story.
We got a plane story again.
Amanda Seals.
Let's jump into this story and then we'll get to her place.
Sent in by Kelby W. Davis at Kelby W. Davis.
KWD.
Don't you love when a Twitter handle is the name?
Yeah.
Because most times it is not.
Because you know they're not trying to hide behind some opinionated bullshit.
I'm Amanda Seals at Twitter.com.
But the most opinionated people
that don't have any backing to their opinion
have the names like Monkey Fox
1192.
I'm like, who are you? Don't ask.
Don't ask. Well, good for you
for getting that handle. And their
Abby is like Garfield
with a pizza hat. Wow, that is
some right wing shit from Garfield and a pizza hat. Like, wow, that is some right-wing shit from Garfield in a pizza hat.
She 3PO is coming at me with some serious shade.
Oh, one of my favorites was Klu Klux Kunt.
Oh.
KKC.
A lot of baking recipes on their account.
A lot of baking recipes.
Here's how you do sticky balls.
All right.
Well, Kelby W. Davis has got nothing to hide.
You are you, Kelby W. Davis.
Thanks for being a townie.
If you want to be like Kelby, you can just tweet at me.
You go at DanielVanKirk, hashtag Dumb People Town,
and that's how I get the stories for this show from you.
That's the method.
All right, ready?
Ready?
Let's jump in.
Memphis, Tennessee.
Don't know if we've ever been around Memphis.
We haven't.
I have.
I went to Memphis for my mother's 70th birthday. She's from
Grenada, so everywhere in America
is foreign.
Mexico, Missouri.
She was really set on going to Memphis.
I'm going to read you the headline
and just off that, I know
I say this a lot, but it always makes me happy
and I have to point out, we could just
riff for 10 minutes on this headline.
By the way, just to correct my own mistake here,
I thought she meant that her mom was from Grenada, Tennessee.
Like it's a town near Manhattan.
She's never gotten out of there.
There is a Mexico, Missouri.
Sure.
And there is a Lebanon.
I'm going to inquire about that joke after,
because I'm going to keep trying to figure it out.
No, Grenada, the island in the Caribbean.
I am wrong. Okay, let's just go. Okay, because I'm going to keep trying to figure it out. No, Grenada, the island, and the Caribbean. I am wrong.
Okay, let's just go.
Okay, ready?
Yeah.
Here's the headline.
It's five words.
That is all we would need, but we've got a lot more.
Let's hear it.
Birds aren't real, says man.
Nope.
Oh, come on.
Oh, wow.
No, I have a mini story about how I have a friend whose cousin, he was like, my cousin
is coming here to meet us. We're eating dinner. he was like, my cousin is coming here to meet
us.
We're eating dinner.
He's like, my cousin is super handsome.
She's like, don't fall for him.
Okay?
He's just like a-
That was her first intro?
His.
His first intro.
He was like, a womanizer, don't fall for him.
And I was like, all right, cool.
So he walks up.
Good intel.
He's drop dead gorgeous.
And I was like, touche.
And my boy was like, I got to go to the bathroom.
I'll be right back.
I'm like, cool.
He's like-
Do not have a meet cute. Do not have a meet cute.
Do not have a meet cute while I'm gone.
So we're sitting there and his cousin's like, what's up?
And I was like, oh, I don't know.
I just feel like I can't wait for Mercury to get out of retrograde.
And he was like, oh, like, you believe in that shit?
And I was like, what do you mean?
He was like, you believe in, like, space?
Space?
Space.
And I said, what?
What do you? And I said, again, what do you mean? He was like, you know, like space. Space? And I said, what do you,
and I said again,
what do you mean?
He's like,
you know,
like planets and shit.
Mercury.
And then you were like,
you were like,
I just fell for you.
You had me at,
fell for that.
Right.
Like he literally thought like,
planets,
Mercury.
He heard Mercury and then tuned out.
That's all he heard.
That's what I always ask for these people.
And I would say it to this person here. We'll dig it we get in it what would what's to gain what do people
have to gain by space not being real i don't know i don't so they're like if i don't go up and
experience it with my own eyes meanwhile and what you're talking about mercury mercury out of
retrograde is like it's astrology it's astrology so it is
connected to the stars but he said he threw out all of astrology because he doesn't believe in
astronomy he threw out astronomy science right so now hang on a second like but he did one he
did want to investigate uranus he told me that don't fall for that so he's But space is like
Okay we say space and space is out there
And it's stars and it's black and it's dark
And what not but like there's space
Between us right now
Dave Matthews knows that
So your boy is saying
He does not believe in like
Space as a concept
No like space as planets
But it's just like also like hella people have seen outer space.
Like it's not like it was just Neil Armstrong at this point.
But that's what Randy was saying.
That they live in this world of like the earth is flat.
Like if I haven't seen it myself, it's not real.
And I always wonder, do these people think like water slides are magic?
No, there are people.
Because they're at the top and they're like, there's no ending to this side.
I can't see it.
There's no slide.
There's no ending.
Get in. Find out. Your's no ending to this side. I can't see it. There's no slide. There's no ending. Get in.
Find out.
Your world's about to be blown.
I sat next to a person who sells satellites for, come on, what's the big company?
Halliburton.
Woo, there it is.
And so it was like Halliburton or Lockheed Martin, but it was like one of those.
And he's also the brother of the prime minister of Grenada, the island.
There we go.
Not Grenada, Tennessee. I don't even know if there is one. And he was like, he's also the brother of the prime minister of Grenada, the island. There we go. Not Grenada, Tennessee.
I don't even know if there's one.
And he was like, he's a physicist.
And he's like talking to me about it.
And finally, I was like, I know this is going to be a dumb question, but like I have to ask it because so many people really think this.
Is the earth round?
And he was like, well, of course.
Yes.
And I was like, but how do you know?
He's like, because I've seen it.
I was like, when did you see it? And he's like, all the time. And he's looking at me like but how do you know he's like because i've seen it i was like when did
you see it he's like all the time and he's looking at me like where who doesn't know this and he's
like this is common knowledge like he's like we look at this all day like he's like but we've i've
seen the earth rotate he's like i've literally seen it with my own eyes right all right daniel
give us birds real birds no memphis tennessee right uh just 20 miles from Grenada.
Okay, fine.
All right, stop.
A new movement is accusing politicians of spreading lies through tweets.
Literally.
This month, a billboard that reads,
Birds aren't real went up in the Highland Strip near the University of Memphis.
According to one Memphis man,
it's a part of a movement to educate people on the mass government surveillance program that replaced
birds with drones. No.
That is what this guy
believes. So he's saying birds are
real, they're just drones. This is what Calbee Kirby
or what? No, no, no. Calbee Kirby just saw it
and found the story.
A man is saying that every single bird in the
United States has been replaced by a drone, which
watches our movements and reports back
to the government. I don't doubt that that might
be like, there might be one out of
every hundred birds is a drone.
Sure. I'm not... We're willing
to entertain that. I'll entertain that
for like a moment. But birds are real.
Actual birds. That may
sound like a joke to some, but don't tell that
to Peter McIndoe.
McIndoe.
I mean, come on.
The Big Brother,
or would it be Big Bird?
Stop telling jokes,
person.
Stop it.
It's not funny.
The Big Brother theory
is that beginning in 1959,
the United States government
started killing off
all birds in the country
while simultaneously
replacing them
with identical
undercover surveillance drones,
what we now call birds.
Believers say that footage is used to monitor all Americans every day.
Okay, so now we are all comics here.
We all are trained to look at the world and say,
why is this the way that it is?
And we are trying to figure out why people behave the way they do.
That's what we all try and do in our standard.
No, this is a dude who a bird looked at him funny once,
and he's like, well, there they are.
They're looking at me.
He's looking at me. once, and he was like, well, there they are. They're looking at me. He's looking at me.
But I'm saying, like, wouldn't it be great to just believe in all this crazy shit?
No, you'd never stop.
I know, but I'm just saying, like, this guy is-
You think your TV is recording you.
I know, but this guy's so confident.
I've dated that person, too.
You have not.
I've dated every kind of person.
I've dated the person-
I did, though.
I did.
No, stop it.
But I dated that person who was just like i don't like being
recorded i don't like like we were making out in front of my tv and he was like he kept looking
and i was like what are you looking at he's like i just don't like doing stuff in front of a tv and
i was like why oh also also uh plot twist he's an actor yeah like what do you mean you're gonna
have to do this if you want to and then I cannot make out with you
he did a sex scene
like I can't make
in a movie
yes
man this is what you don't understand
wait you dated Paul Giamatti
I'm fine with doing it
as long as someone
slates first
and then I dated somebody
who literally
and I talk about this
in my special
who literally was like
I don't fuck with birds
really
and I was like
what are you talking about
do you mean like
promiscuous women
and he was just like I don't like birds he. Really? And I was like, what are you talking about? Do you mean like promiscuous women? And he was just like,
I don't like birds.
He was like,
aren't they funny?
I don't like how they move.
They don't trust things
that can fly.
How do they just move
and start flying?
How are their bones
thin enough
and light enough
that they can do that stuff?
That's a healthy dose
of paranoia.
I don't fuck with birds
is like one step removed
from Birds Aren't Real.
Exactly.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like in 20 years,
that guy's going to be like birds.
What was that hip hop song
that was like,
I don't fuck with birds,
but it's you instead.
Remember what I'm talking about?
Who is that?
Dick Sean.
I don't fuck with Jim,
but he was talking about a bird.
Right.
He was talking about a bird.
There you go.
Maybe he got it from that.
Nick and Doe,
who is from Arkansas,
which tells you right away, the person from Tennessee
who wrote this needed you to know.
Not Tennessee.
Not from my state.
He's from that shit-ass state right next door.
This guy's from Arkansas.
Let's just be clear.
Let's be clear.
First up, that's what they should have written.
First up, Nick and Doe, who's from Arkansas, and said he moved to Memphis to become, quote,
a full-time activist.
That is, you cannot put that on your taxes. So I'm becoming a full-time activist. I have, quote, a full-time activist. That is, you cannot put that on your taxes.
So I'm becoming a full-time activist.
I have also dated.
A full-time activist?
Legit, yes.
When you break up with people, you say, I'm glad this is over,
but also I'm more glad for the minutes I got out of it.
I literally broke up with someone 10 hours ago.
And so, yes, I've literally had to be like I'm sorry
The material
The material
It's all going in the works
So you dated an activist
I dated somebody who
The bits
I dated somebody who I literally was like
How are we gonna
Make a living
Like how are you making a living
And he was like
I'm a revolutionary
And I was like
That's not
You can't
You can't sign a check with i'm a revolutionary
and mind you we're really good friends now but like six years later he's like i see what you
meant when you said i get it i get it now i gotta revolutionize my finances and what you did and now
he's like i see how that i got you i gotta make paper not just sign so mick and doe peter if
you're nasty moved to uh memphis to be a full-time activist,
said he didn't start the movement,
but around 2015, he joined because he always had a, quote,
distrust of feathered beings.
There you go.
He wanted to spread that message further
than the stickers or posters,
so he put up a billboard in Memphis.
He's got billboard money.
Wow.
He's got billboard money. I. He's got billboard money!
I don't know. Maybe you should be dating this guy.
I don't know. That's the kind of activist we're talking
about. Is he independently wealthy?
Maybe. I have no idea.
You know what, though? I appreciate
that his white man craziness
went to billboards and not to movie theaters
with guns. Thank you.
Thank you.
I can get on board with you. You want to throw up a billboard that makes
no sense? Go find. He did
an interview of all of this and we will break it down
right after we take a quick break.
Stick around. Make it sound.
There's more Don't People Town.
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And you were saying you just got off a plane.
I just got off a plane.
I just got off a plane.
What happened nutty on the plane?
What dumb thing happened to you there?
On the way to where I was going, I ended up in an emergency row.
Yep.
And, you know, they always ask everyone, can you do what needs to be done. Can you perform the function and you have to audibly
say yes. Yes. Audibly say yes.
So there was a
I would say like 17 year old blonde white
woman sitting next to me like 17, 18 but she
was old enough to know
things. Sure. Okay. So she's
sitting next to me and
she's last to be asked. So the woman asks
every single person we all say yes.
Yes. Yes. So she's seen it been asked. So the woman asks every single person, we all say yes, yes, yes.
So she's seen it being done.
That's always my favorite too,
when the flight attendant asks somebody,
ma'am, ma'am, can you just take this out?
No, this guy was looking at his phone
and she was like, sir, sir.
He was like, oh, yes.
So I said yes, then she's like,
and she's like, you know,
she does the head motion to somebody.
You know, when you just look at somebody
with your head and eyes like,
I'm prompting you. And the girl was like i don't know i don't know i don't know
and then she looks at me and it's like what does she want and i was like what do you mean and then
the guy on the other side of me is like for real there's only one answer and she was like and then
the flight attendant is like don't give her the answer don't give her the answer right and then
she's like i don't know what you like, what, and she's like looking around
like, panic. I don't know what you
guys are, what is, what is
So ill-equipped. She's like,
what is happening? And I'm just like, is this
happening? Like, she was so
verklempt. Like, she was
really. But can we give credit
to Amanda for this? I'm now
going to now employ this. If you're ever
like, involved with someone
who is being crazy,
her question,
she put it back on the woman.
So she's like,
I don't know what it means.
And you're like,
what do you mean?
So now you put it back on her
and she has to explain herself.
That's literally therapy.
What do you mean?
I'm not going to figure this out for you.
What do you mean?
That's literally the work
of anger management and therapy.
That is so mean.
Let me not try and figure this out.
Let me give it back.
Because if I try and figure this out, I'm going to get annoyed.
Did she get moved or figure it out?
So she was like, I, and so the flight attendant was like, I'm going to say this again.
Do you have the abilities and capabilities to do the actual tasks for sitting in an exit
The flight attendant was Rosie Perez?
Yes.
Funny enough though, like, yes.
And she was like, I mean, I don't, I guess.
Like, I guess.
And she was like, I, uh.
Oh, my God.
Rosie Perez was up in arms, and then.
She's like, Mookie!
Mookie!
And she turns around, and then when she turns back around,
an Asian man is now sitting in the seat.
Yeah.
So somehow a switcheroonie happened that quick and
Asian man was like, yes.
I get this.
Good to be here.
Isn't it crazy in this day and age?
Whenever I travel
and someone goes through
the metal detector and they don't know what
to do, I'm always like, here we are.
Are you joking? This is
crazy that you do it.
It's Europe. Guys, Europe, still
people can't figure out how to get on an escalator.
No. Or all. I did see. I'm like,
we're 40, 50 years into escalators. We've been doing
escalators. And we still got people acting like they're
Indiana Jones in this shit.
It's definitely
playing double-dutch. And I don't,
I watch someone today
struggling to get off a people mover.
And it wasn't someone that was like an elder.
It was just like
someone who should know.
Right.
You got on.
You got on.
You figured that part out.
Did you think this was your new life?
This was never going to end.
This was going to take me
to my car.
You get to wally it
the rest of your life.
It's all taken care of.
It's going to take me
past my children
and show me my future.
I just liked that the person's wife
looked at him like,
what is your problem? I wouldn't look like him like I just like that the person's wife looked at him like, what is your problem?
I wouldn't look like him like that. She walked by him and looked back at him like, get off.
What do you mean is my new response to anything crazy?
I'm so serious.
What do you mean saves you a lot of energy?
I'm going to put it back on the feed.
All right, let's finish this.
What did this dummy say about his interview?
Really quick, though, before we get into this, in case you guys have any, I want to remind
people I'm running my hour at UCB on August 29th, Thursday at 8 o'clock.
Do that.
And then I'll be in Jacksonville the 12th through the 14th in September.
And in October, I'll be at Zaney's the 16th through the 19th.
And there's a ton of other dates at danielvankirk.com.
So go to those.
And on the 9th of September, live Dumb People Town.
We do live Largo at Dumb People Town.
People, come on out.
Tell them.
We've got Pete Yorns playing music.
We've got Andy Richter and Kate Micucci.
Great show.
Andy Richter just put up a funny tweet about a guy who had his feet up.
Was his feet up on the thing.
I read that.
That's ridiculous.
Guy put his feet on the TV screen.
So he'll be on the show.
And then at the Bell House in Brooklyn on October 13th, we're doing a Live Down People's
House with Michael Che.
And if we can sell it out, we'll add another one.
So anyway.
Superschoolers.com for a ton of dates.
AmandaSeals.com. Is that for all your dates and stuff? Yeah. You can go to SmartFun one. So anyway, we'll add another one. And superscrollers.com for a ton of dates. AmandaSeals.com,
is that for all your dates and stuff?
Yeah,
you can go to
smartfunnyandblack.com
and I will be doing my show
Smart Funny and Black
at the Novo on September 14th
and in Chicago
at the Chicago Theater
on September 28th
and it's a live
black pop culture game show.
We're going to be in Chicago
the 27th actually,
the night before
we're down at
Tinley Park
at the convention center
we're doing a show there.
Basically what we're saying
is we're busy
we're busy
and come see us
we're coming to you
here we go
ready
he put up the billboard
we don't know how
we got billboard money
this is what he said
in his interview
we wanted to put it up
in a big city
the Paris of the West
you have now somehow
said something more ridiculous
than Burns are real
is it the Paris of the West
Paris Texas of course it is okay fine I'm just wondering Is it the Paris of the West, Paris, Texas?
Of course it is.
Okay, fine.
I'm just wondering.
What is the Paris of the West?
New York.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Memphis is like Midwest or East.
East of the Mississippi.
Memphis, I believe, is literally Eastern Standard Time.
Yes.
I think you're right.
It's East of the Mississippi.
We know that to be true.
We came to the one city we knew would be the big deal, Memphis, Tennessee, the 901.
All right.
The 901.
Which is also, you're from Arkansas.
You don't get to yell out other area codes.
The only person who gets to do that is Ludacris.
Yes.
If you try to do it, it's just Ludacris.
It is just Ludacris.
Nice.
Said, bird truthers have come to Memphis just to see the billboard.
He also said
other people think
it's a joke.
A.K.A. the Audubon Society?
Like, is that who
bird cheaters are?
Adam K. Collins
just out there,
look at that sign.
Just people with binoculars
looking at it.
Wait, do you know that
you've seen The Incredibles,
the original Incredibles?
Of course.
That animated movie?
Yeah, phenomenal.
There is a moment
where the bird comes up and
looks at him and they start talking. They're like, oh,
that bird. And then it goes, and
it is a drone. Maybe this guy just saw
that. He saw that
and was like, they're into it.
I'm not alone. Why
would they put it in the Incredibles if it wasn't real,
yo? I mean, everything in the Incredibles is real.
More from Mick and Doe. We don't
find this humorous, he said. This is a serious issue and this is something where we're trying to
spread awareness of unconsensual surveillance happening having consensual sex i don't know
like is someone fucking surveillance it's always needs enthusiastic consensualisms yeah uh i made
that up happening on a mass level Birds are lying to them every day
Every tweet by a bird is a lie
What bird hurt you?
Does he think birds do Twitter?
I think he thinks birds are Twitter
The logo is a bird
Maybe this is metaphorical
The reason I ask if he's having sex
Is because these are the moments
Remember I just broke up with someone
And these are the moments where I'm like
Is there someone for everyone?
Because did McIndoe's
find another bird hater?
And they were like,
I've been looking for you
my whole life.
The couple that hates birds together
stays together.
He's always said that about me.
Peter McIndoe insisted he's not the...
The couple that flocks together
flocks together.
There you go.
Insisted he's not the founder
of the movement,
just a messenger. But he said the founder of the movement, just a messenger.
But he said the leaders of the movement prefer to remain anonymous, and even he doesn't know who they are.
Though the evidence may seem scarce, McIndoe said he knows enough to know a cover-up is happening.
By the way, I love the movement. You can never know a cover-up is happening because it's not a cover-up.
Right.
If you know a cover-up is happening.
But I love that he always trusts a movement where the leaders of the movement won't let you know cover-up is happening but i love that the always trusted
movement where the leaders are anonymous won't let you know who they are that's right yes right
100 so he believes that he believes everything they're saying but he cannot know who they are
right quote there i consider myself remember so he's done two ridiculous things birds aren't real
and i've memphis is the paris from like you know god's not far-fetched from, like, you know, God. It's true.
Quote, I consider myself to be a normal American, Peter McIndoe.
Sure you do.
I wake up in the morning, brush my teeth, wash my car, and have an avid disbelief of avian beings.
Every day?
You wash your car every day?
That's the first crazy thing.
Well, the interesting thing about that, is it because birds are shitting on his car?
There you go.
That's it.
He has to realize it's the proximity to the tree. This is it because birds are shitting on his car the proximity to the tree this is it we don't find this humorous this is a serious issue and this is something we're trying to
spread awareness of unconsensual surveillance happening on a mass level he said the government
controlled bird drones use a power lines as charging units to power up and the birds that's
brilliant and birds that are eaten like chicken and turkey are actually synthetic
meat alternatives. I'll take it.
I knew I had to give
my all to the movement, so I
abandoned everything. I left my friends. I
abandoned my family. I've not spoken to them since.
Let me correct that. Your friends left you.
It's like he's starting to talk about this shit.
I've not spoken to them since, and I made
the truth my family. Just as lonely.
Just so you know.
With or without the truth, you're just as lonely. Just so you know. The truth.
With or without the truth, you're just as lonely.
You spend Christmas with the truth.
It's not fun.
Truth?
Truth at home.
I need to write.
Spending Christmas with the truth?
Christmas with the truth.
Amanda Seals is spending Christmas with the truth.
I want to be in that Hallmark movie.
That's a Hallmark movie.
Christmas with the truth? She marries the truth. I want to be in that Hallmark movie. That's a Hallmark movie. Chris is with the truth. She marries
the truth. Oh my God.
Like Amanda Seals is hanging ornaments
on her and then breaks down and starts like
one falls off and she starts crying.
Do the truth. I should have
married the truth. He doesn't consider, McIndoe doesn't
consider this a conspiracy and he
said he doesn't identify with other conspiracies.
Quote, flat earthers are out
of their minds. They're nuts.
There's a lot of crazy people out there.
I'm not crazy.
I'm not crazy.
He said this is just a phenomenon in the U.S.
Quote, sometimes I travel internationally just to breathe that drone-free air, he said.
Sometimes I'll go to the Himalayas, look around at all the birds there.
It gives me this warmth, this feeling of hope for what this country could be
if we fight back, change legislation
and get these drones out of here
and get the birds real quick.
All right, we'll close up on this.
He's trying to raise awareness
and Google searches for the terms birds aren't
real are actually increasing. They increased at the
end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019.
Of course. Here's where we will leave us.
We like to play little guessing games about
the stories we do in this show, Amanda.
All the townies play along with us.
How many Instagram followers
does the account BirdsAren'tReal
have on Instagram?
Now, he started...
I would also like to say before you guys make your guesses,
there's a part of me that hopes
and part believes
this guy's on some sort of Kaufman level,
that he's created this whole thing as a ruse, which either way, better.
By the way, that would be amazing.
I would love this guy so much.
I would love him so much.
All right.
So, Amanda, you can go first.
It's actually Joaquin Phoenix.
And he hates himself because he's a drone.
It's a new Spike Jonze movie.
It's Larry Bird.
So you can either go first.
You can go between the two of us
Which is the Tig Notaro slot
You can go first Tig
Or you can go last
I'll go Tig
Okay
Jay Arant
How many
How many followers
Does Bird's Out Real have
Because we're covering this right now
With her in the episode
It's going up
It's going up
You're welcome
Mick and Mick
I'm gonna tell you right now
I think it's
11,000 11,000
Which is a lot
Amanda Seals
How many followers on Instagram
Does at birds aren't real have
I'm tempted to prices write it and go like
10,900
It's closest no matter where you are
I'm going to go
5,200
I was going to say 3,700 3,700 I thought you were going to go 5,200. 5,200. That's a good guess. I was going to say 3,700.
3,700?
Okay.
I thought you were going to say 37.
Thomas, 3,700.
Get your answers in.
It's definitely over a few thousand.
Get your answers in right now.
If you're in Chicago, go see Amanda Seale's show.
If you're in Chicago in mid-October, go see me.
If you're in Chicago a week after Amanda's show, go see the Sklars.
No, the day before.
Oh, the day before.
I'm sorry.
Go see the Sklars.
All right.
Here we go.
We got your comedy weekend on locks
September 27th and 28th, okay?
And then three weeks later with me.
Here we go.
You hear us in the 312?
The amount of Instagram followers
that Birds Aren't Real has on Instagram
I'm going to be so surprised right now.
Am I not, Dan?
135,000.
What?
Oh my God!
Oh!
What? Yes.
Shut the front door.
That's bird shit crazy.
Not bird shit crazy.
I think we need to change our Twitter handle
to like the wind hates us.
Or something like that.
Or the air isn't real.
Oh my God.
135,000.
I've got to see what the content is like.
Is it verified? You know what I looked a little bit
before I see it? A lot of shirts.
A lot of birds. It's like the guys, if
it's all a ruse, it's just created a merch.
It's all merch. Yes. This is a merch thing.
Oh my god. Birds aren't
real. Amazing. What's crazy is that
in the hip-hop world, that shirt
means something completely
different.
Yeah.
Birds is a euphemism for promiscuous, like for like gold digging women.
That's right.
So birds aren't real is actually like very,
a very strong point of view.
It's what I'm saying.
Like you're not being real.
You're not being real.
You're not being real.
That's a strong point of view.
I'm saying like,
you're not being real.
You're not being real. You're not being real.
That's a strong point of view.
That's just going to lose his mind
when some like famous rap artist
is like,
oh, they're on that show.
They're on it.
They're on it.
Oh my God.
I love it.
We go sit here
with birds aren't real shirts.
I love it.
Oh, Amanda Seals,
thank you for driving by.
We're going to have you on
a full episode coming up soon.
I'd love to.
Thank you.
We love having you here
and for all of our townies,
we love you too.
And oh shit,
we are going back to work.
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Stick around.
Make a sound.
Come here down.
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