Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Azurige Trends.
Speaker 2: Oh man, my name is Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 1: That over there, well, that is mister Miles Bradna.
Speaker 3: Thank you back.
Speaker 4: Just going through some historical documents from ancient Azgion.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Oh but what a time to be alive.
Speaker 2: How are you doing here? You're on the East coast.
Speaker 3: I'm on the East coast. The weather's crisp.
Speaker 2: It suits you, it does?
Speaker 3: It does? It? Does? It does? I don't know what
Speaker 3: else to say.
Speaker 4: I'm just so overcome with emotion because it's under seventy degrees,
Speaker 4: so I'm like.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is this is heaven.
Speaker 1: Just walking through a park, a nice jacket pulling you yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: having the scarf, no scarf. It's definitely not that cold.
Speaker 4: As much as I want it to be, it is
Speaker 4: not that cold, and I will start sweating and I
Speaker 4: don't want to show up to my mother in law's
Speaker 4: house looking like a sweat show.
Speaker 2: Shut your jacket off at the door. They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: why don't you ring that out before you come in?
Speaker 4: Oh this old jacket, splash this old.
Speaker 3: Mop.
Speaker 1: Well, let's tell the people. A couple of things that
Speaker 1: are trending. We just we're taking a moment before we
Speaker 1: started recording to marvel at the past few days of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's campaign. We've covered a couple of the highlights.
Speaker 1: But you were playing some audio. We were referenced one
Speaker 1: up top the Azurasians.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: It was either Arizonans or Assyrians. We don't know. We
Speaker 2: don't know quite yet.
Speaker 3: Which is still a weird thing.
Speaker 4: But okayt shout out ancient Assyria and I know, like
Speaker 4: you were talking about like the music being played at
Speaker 4: that Oakstown hall where.
Speaker 2: He yeah, we talked about the idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, but there's just like this moment where,
Speaker 4: you know, before it starts. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: got to that clip where Christy Nome's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: so do you want to play your special song, babe,
Speaker 4: and he like was confused. That's what makes the whole thing,
Speaker 4: I think again, I think only the Washington Post really
Speaker 4: had a headline that was like what the fuck just happened?
Speaker 3: In Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like the New York Times I think did some
Speaker 4: more Saine washing where they're like, I know when Fox
Speaker 4: are like, oh, it's quite an intimate atmosphere prompt improvisational.
Speaker 4: Yeah it Yeah, the dude gave up on life on
Speaker 4: stage and said, just play some real Okay, look, I'll
Speaker 4: play the track because again, I think it's interesting to
Speaker 4: see how that whole situation started, which was Governor Christy
Speaker 4: Noms trying to remind him that this was his weird,
Speaker 4: hair brained idea to just play fucking Conte Patiro by
Speaker 4: Andrea Bucelli and shit, and then we go into this
Speaker 4: like forty minute sundown jam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is what leads into the sundown jam.
Speaker 5: Yeah, have them in this beautiful factory condition.
Speaker 3: Anyway, go ahead, go ahead, Christy.
Speaker 4: Well, sir, do you want to play your song and
Speaker 4: then great a few people or do you want to.
Speaker 5: Well, you had said you wanted to close with a
Speaker 5: specific song.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's show a couple of past questions.
Speaker 5: So justin, how about a couple of really beauties and
Speaker 5: we'll sit down relaxed. Let me just give you the
Speaker 5: bottom line though.
Speaker 4: See, the whole thing was I'm pretty the thing was
Speaker 4: her question answer to yeah that, oh man, I think
Speaker 4: anybody who's had a grandparent who has dealt with dementia
Speaker 4: and things like that, there's like this early phase where
Speaker 4: you're kind of in denial about it. They're a bit
Speaker 4: into like they're very self conscious about the fact that
Speaker 4: they their memory is starting to.
Speaker 3: Change a bit.
Speaker 4: And the tone that Christinoman used, I have definitely used
Speaker 4: that with an elderly grandparent like yeah, memory said.
Speaker 1: I feel but you would not be as condescending as
Speaker 1: she just was, where she was like remember.
Speaker 4: Fuckhead no, But I think it was more to also
Speaker 4: not to be like what you forgot right?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's like that's the alternative. It's like, don't tell me
Speaker 4: you forgot this shit already. It's more like oh, she like, nah, Grandma,
Speaker 4: remember how you said we were gonna I know, I know.
Speaker 3: You're playing around.
Speaker 4: Let's okay, let's do And they're like, oh, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I do remember.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You want to give them the out to be like
Speaker 1: you didn't just completely remember, like forget all this shit,
Speaker 1: did you? And I think that's like the that's like
Speaker 1: that that part kind.
Speaker 3: Of resonated with me a bit.
Speaker 2: The way that was because he's like, what song, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then they played a song.
Speaker 1: She's like, you literally just said fifteenth this song to yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to play the There's also a moment later
Speaker 1: where he you know, like thirty minutes later after he
Speaker 1: plays not just one song, but you know, seven of
Speaker 1: his favorite songs in a row, where he's doing a
Speaker 1: little like hand dance. I think it's during November rain
Speaker 1: and she like starts imitating what he's doing.
Speaker 3: Did you see that part?
Speaker 1: Like I even though she wouldn't knowingly Christina, I think,
Speaker 1: even though she wouldn't knowingly like do anything to antagonize him,
Speaker 1: she is just like, down to her bones, such a
Speaker 1: mean person that she can't be around somebody who's like
Speaker 1: doddering like this without just being an asshole. She's like, sir,
Speaker 1: do you remember, And then she was like imitating his
Speaker 1: shitty dancing, which I don't know. That's she is a
Speaker 1: person who murdered puppies and then instead of like trying
Speaker 1: to erase, like photoshop it out of her brain and
Speaker 1: history bragged about it in her memoir. So it's just
Speaker 1: it's just like interesting to see her with a person
Speaker 1: whose brain is malfunctioning on the point of being a
Speaker 1: little bit helpless.
Speaker 2: The alternative is elder abuse.
Speaker 4: You know, Oh, don't tell me you forgot about the
Speaker 4: fust song you want you want to play some fucking
Speaker 4: weird ass you wanted to play the Pavarotti version of
Speaker 4: its world?
Speaker 2: Really Beau auven Maria like twice?
Speaker 3: Are we? So it is?
Speaker 4: Because then I'm reminded of those videos where like they
Speaker 4: show like people in old folks homes, like they play
Speaker 4: the music like of their youth, and like they like they.
Speaker 2: Get a far off right up, you know, like they kind.
Speaker 3: Of they're like, oh shit, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: But forty minutes of that was clear that he just
Speaker 4: could not handle doing question and answers. He's just like, lit,
Speaker 4: can I just stand the music?
Speaker 3: Please? Can I take a break? Teacher?
Speaker 2: But then yesterday he had this other rally in Atlanta
Speaker 2: where he's they need to give motherfucker.
Speaker 3: All kinds of weird.
Speaker 4: First of all, he starts off with such low energy
Speaker 4: at this one where he's just like talking about like
Speaker 4: the teleprompter breaking.
Speaker 3: This is this is just hout. This is early in
Speaker 3: the in the rally in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 5: Two days mister congressman thirty two, she's good and the
Speaker 5: election will be in thirty two days.
Speaker 4: He was talking about a teleprompter, talking about a teleprompter, gaff.
Speaker 5: The teleprompter to crash thirty two days.
Speaker 3: She kept going. But even like his hit.
Speaker 5: This love to you know what kickback and it's called
Speaker 5: a kickback, like some people know a lot about a kickback.
Speaker 4: It's called this is like we're just on some Tony
Speaker 4: Morrison beloved stream of consciousness and that's I think I'm
Speaker 4: literary watching.
Speaker 2: His his his mental now he's doing he's doing.
Speaker 1: You know, this is literally this is art. This is
Speaker 1: poetic license and I want you to leave him alone.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry sorry, And then then he talks about World
Speaker 4: War two but makes a sound I have never I have, Well,
Speaker 4: this is this is interesting. This is an interesting way
Speaker 4: of saying big, we.
Speaker 6: Won two beautiful big sorry, too beautiful, big, horrible.
Speaker 1: Too beautiful, Brig, brig, what are you?
Speaker 4: It definitely is Benicio and Escape from Dan and Moore
Speaker 4: of vib Don't.
Speaker 1: His voice well like it feels like he's a animatronic
Speaker 1: that's running out of batteries at very point, like do
Speaker 1: you remembered, yeah, do you remember that having a walkman
Speaker 1: that would like be running out of batteries?
Speaker 2: Was that before your time?
Speaker 3: Like the tape?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like they would blind down and
Speaker 1: then they would like kind of start picking or and
Speaker 1: then like that feels like he feels like he's straight
Speaker 1: up running out of batteries, like the adderall is like
Speaker 1: wearing off and.
Speaker 2: Then coming back in and.
Speaker 3: He can't get his makeup right.
Speaker 4: Then there's another one where he was talking about I
Speaker 4: think he's trying to say insurrectionists here.
Speaker 3: Just again, someone if they can decode this, let me know.
Speaker 5: He walked in with a couple of young constituents to
Speaker 5: show them the capital as I remember it, and they
Speaker 5: accused him of showing in Russia's what And he became
Speaker 5: what I said, of most people, they say, oh please what.
Speaker 1: But like he really seems like it has the vibe
Speaker 1: of I recently went to a show, a concert and
Speaker 1: the singer like the drama of the watching this particular
Speaker 1: band on this particular night was like, is this motherfucker
Speaker 1: like too fucked up to be in public right now?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: And like each song you were like always pulled it together,
Speaker 1: for this one it seems to be falling apart, and
Speaker 1: ultimately pulled it together, but it was.
Speaker 3: What the Fuck's going on?
Speaker 1: It was like, Oh, man, is this gonna be really
Speaker 1: sad and like that feels like the experience of watching
Speaker 1: Trump right now. It's like he's just you Ruspin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, used him of showing what is I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: They just again the fact that there's only like maybe
Speaker 4: one newspaper, yeah, accurately being like, yo, guys, this is
Speaker 4: fucking this is this is bad. This is like I'm
Speaker 4: worried if this was your family, you'd be like, this
Speaker 4: person doesn't need to be doing this.
Speaker 3: The only way I lay down.
Speaker 1: Describe how this story would be treated if it were
Speaker 1: a Democrat doing this ship is this would.
Speaker 4: Be a bird story. Yeah. That's again at the very least.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is how you know where you know
Speaker 4: that that mainstream media is like we're like, we're kind
Speaker 4: of okay with covering for a fascist.
Speaker 3: Okay, like we do it all the time. We don't
Speaker 3: want to freak out people.
Speaker 1: They are like if you want to understand like the
Speaker 1: thought process behind the mainstream media, all you have to
Speaker 1: do is look at the mainstream Democratic Party and like
Speaker 1: they have just let the Republicans set the terms of
Speaker 1: the conversation so profoundly that they've become like the old
Speaker 1: Republican Party. Essentially, they're just like, look at us, we
Speaker 1: got Cheney baby so fucked man, Yeah, so bad.
Speaker 4: I mean it's like both the mirror in the UK
Speaker 4: is like Trump plays favorite music to baffled crowd as
Speaker 4: unhinged ex presidents sways silently for thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: It was actually around thirty seven minutes. Yeah, so be fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and then
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about something that is making me happy.
Speaker 1: I think that's that feeling. I think that's that like
Speaker 1: kind of swelling feeling in my chest.
Speaker 4: Yo, we didn't get Aliens, but we're getting this, and
Speaker 4: this is getting something.
Speaker 3: This is actually better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is fun.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and we're talking about bird song.
Speaker 2: Wow, you came alive.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So I've been talking about this Merlin app which is
Speaker 1: like Shazam for bird song.
Speaker 3: I really wish you were getting a check from Merlin.
Speaker 1: I know, the most I've ever thrown my weight behind
Speaker 1: a product.
Speaker 2: Ye, so that it's not a like capitalist institution.
Speaker 1: It's like part of Cornell's like science lab, and by
Speaker 1: using it I actually help them because I'm basically recording
Speaker 1: bird song, and it is helping them train an algorithm
Speaker 1: that helps them use any bird song that it hears
Speaker 1: to identify what the bird is. So like, I meditate
Speaker 1: in my backyard every morning and I fire up the Merlin,
Speaker 1: and when I'm done meditating, look over and I've got
Speaker 1: some dark eyed junkos in the backyard.
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 2: The names of birds are fucking.
Speaker 4: I know when you when you learn about the animal kingdom,
Speaker 4: you're like, yeah, I know birds.
Speaker 3: There's dub pigeon.
Speaker 1: Crow, how about scrub jays, a lesser goldfinches, oh, black
Speaker 1: red star Indian night jar? Oh yeah, Indian night jar
Speaker 1: is like that sounds like a name of like some
Speaker 1: sort of opium orange crowned warblers, Europeans starling. I guess
Speaker 1: that one's pretty well known, but I don't know it's
Speaker 1: starlings obviously.
Speaker 2: But yeah, murmur.
Speaker 1: But it's just I appreciate the artistry and the verve
Speaker 1: and life that is thrown into the naming of these birds.
Speaker 1: It's always fun to like find out what the birds are,
Speaker 1: and then you look at a picture of them, and
Speaker 1: then you kind of keep an eye out and sometimes
Speaker 1: you get to see the lesser gold finish the other day,
Speaker 1: I heard a great horned al in Los Angeles. They
Speaker 1: were even surprised in the Merlin app They were like,
Speaker 1: this doesn't seem.
Speaker 4: Right to like this catastrophic all of these recordings, Yeah,
Speaker 4: this is going to be really bad. Oh no, no,
Speaker 4: all these recordings are going back to the central database
Speaker 4: and it's helping them train to identify what the bird is.
Speaker 1: But they're also working on what the birds are saying, right,
Speaker 1: which is wild. So in some species they figured out
Speaker 1: the difference between like a mating call and a call
Speaker 1: about a specific predator that they're afraid of. When it's
Speaker 1: a snake, they have a different call than when it's
Speaker 1: a jaguar.
Speaker 4: This is from a New Yorker article that everyone should read.
Speaker 4: It's called how scientists started to decode birds song And like, yeah,
Speaker 4: to your point, like the thing about the different word,
Speaker 4: Like they have words for predators, so like the one
Speaker 4: call made them look up for like an airborne threat,
Speaker 4: one made them look down for like again, like you said,
Speaker 4: a snake, and another to chop in a tree as.
Speaker 1: A way to do that, I get the fuck out
Speaker 1: of the nest, just like deuces. But like they're there's
Speaker 1: just all these details, like some of the time they're
Speaker 1: singing to the babies in the eggs, like they're singing
Speaker 1: to the eggs before they hatch. And then when the
Speaker 1: babies hatch, they have a distinct call because they were
Speaker 1: listening from inside the eggs. And like the article points out,
Speaker 1: and human babies do that too, like human French and
Speaker 1: German babies emerge like crying with accents essentially Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 7: Bit you ever you ever heard of German baby cry?
Speaker 7: They're like, you know, what about a French baby? They're like, alright,
Speaker 7: carnival cruise. I'm making me like Jerry Seinfeld, it's pretty good.
Speaker 7: That was the first sort of old school comedian.
Speaker 2: But no, it is true.
Speaker 3: But is amazing that there are these parallels between us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like they so they all also are talking
Speaker 1: to one another, like they can understand one another's call.
Speaker 1: So scientists will like play the thing that they know
Speaker 1: means leopard nearby, and the other species of birds know
Speaker 1: that call, so they can like it's you know, each
Speaker 1: species has its own kind of distinctive calls. Although, like
Speaker 1: one thing that was interesting to me is that like
Speaker 1: when you when they're orphaned birds that are raised by
Speaker 1: a different species, they will use the calls of the species.
Speaker 3: That they're raised by.
Speaker 2: So they're like learning.
Speaker 1: It's not just this, Like they're not just these little
Speaker 1: bots that are you know, programmed, pre programmed to sing
Speaker 1: in a certain way. They're learning from one another, one.
Speaker 3: Of the things.
Speaker 1: So their calls like evolve over time in the same
Speaker 1: way that like language changes over time. This paragraph kind
Speaker 1: of blew me away about like how they learn. In
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties, tits from Swathing englis and figured out
Speaker 1: how to open the caps of milk bottles, and by
Speaker 1: the late forties, tits across Ireland, Wales and England head
Speaker 1: learned the trick. If language is more a capacity than
Speaker 1: it is a speech act, it seems possible that birds
Speaker 1: possess it.
Speaker 4: They're fucking talking. Oh, they're cole ephants. There's another about
Speaker 4: elephants have names and shit, yeah, they're name is specifically
Speaker 4: for one for each other. Yeah, And it is one
Speaker 4: of those things you kind of just sort of brush
Speaker 4: off because you're like, I don't know, are fucking chirping
Speaker 4: and you're like no, no, no, no, do not disk don't.
Speaker 3: It's it's not that simple.
Speaker 1: It's almost like too beautiful and complicated. There's just like
Speaker 1: the world is alive with so much meaning and like
Speaker 1: our brain isn't able to let it all in because
Speaker 1: it's just like too overwhelming. So yeah, so we're just like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: bird's song is like background music that happens for me.
Speaker 2: Some come out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like no, they're actually they're in a they're
Speaker 4: having a crisis, and you just think it's pleasant.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know the world Like this is just
Speaker 1: one of those things where I'm just like reminded that
Speaker 1: the world is so much more interesting and meaningful than
Speaker 1: the default version that exists in my head when I
Speaker 1: like wake up in the morning, you know, like yeah,
Speaker 1: I inherited from just like the accepted wisdom and like
Speaker 1: public schooling that you know, my brain is built out of.
Speaker 4: I just love this one thing they were saying, like
Speaker 4: from that article, it said, if you record an Australian
Speaker 4: bird warning of a nearby cuckoo. Cuckoos leave their eggs
Speaker 4: in the in the nests of other species and often
Speaker 4: kill their step siblings. Birds in China will understand the call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, this is like it's we're like because they
Speaker 2: move so much more than we.
Speaker 4: Do, I know, and we're starting to like it's just
Speaker 4: it's so I said, this is what's so like to
Speaker 4: your point about that there's so much more meaning to
Speaker 4: this now. It's very like heartening and magical to me
Speaker 4: that we're like getting there now where we're like nah, man,
Speaker 4: they're talking and now what are we going to have
Speaker 4: like fucking devices where I can be like ok, and
Speaker 4: like they all fucking come through the way we harness
Speaker 4: this for hopefully obviously like the betterment of our planet
Speaker 4: is exciting and also maybe just to fuck around with
Speaker 4: people too, yea'h, Like, bro, if you fuck me, I
Speaker 4: will pull up with a murder of crows because I
Speaker 4: got that app Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet they.
Speaker 2: Won't listen to us.
Speaker 1: I bet they'll be like, oh they made a little
Speaker 1: machine and fuck those people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like fucking larparass mother.
Speaker 4: Oh and they like jump you like you fake being
Speaker 4: a gangster and shit, they're like oh really.
Speaker 1: There's a really good episode of Radio Lab from a
Speaker 1: number of years ago where a person like a scientist
Speaker 1: was studying to do this with a species of monkeys
Speaker 1: in the jungle, and he got to the point where
Speaker 1: he knew the difference between the calls, and he's like
Speaker 1: walking back from where he was studying to like base camp,
Speaker 1: and he starts hearing the call of the leopard and
Speaker 1: like it's following him across the jungle and oh shit,
Speaker 1: like he's hearing the like burglar alarm for like leopard.
Speaker 1: He realizes, Oh, there's a leopard stalking me like right
Speaker 1: now across this jungle. And like, because he speaks this
Speaker 1: like monkey language, he's able to like just kind of
Speaker 1: figure that out. And he obviously doesn't get eaten. So
Speaker 1: we know that podcast, and that's pretty cool. Anyways, there
Speaker 1: you go. That's that's where part of the election is at,
Speaker 1: and that's what is making me okay with waking up
Speaker 1: in the morning despite the fact that we have this
Speaker 1: election bearing down on us.
Speaker 3: Would you so.
Speaker 1: There's that movie click and you made reference to it earlier,
Speaker 1: would way, Yeah, use the fast forward button now, even
Speaker 1: if there was a chance that you would like skip
Speaker 1: too far by three years just to like get through
Speaker 1: this election.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean it's hard, like with a kid,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this election.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, look bro, I'm a little bit ahead
Speaker 4: of you in that timeline.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know, you're not missing. They get
Speaker 3: pretty chilling about three years, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the.
Speaker 3: Whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, get the flu shot, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy, and we will.
Speaker 2: Talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bye bye,