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Episode Transcript

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On pearl jam and even flear.You know, sometimes Michelle reminds me of
Steve Jobs, especially when I'm buildingsomething in the backyard, because you know,
I'll stand there with my hands onmy hips, all proud of the
latest chicken coop or fence that I'veput up or whatever, and then she'll
come out of nowhere and be like, oh, and one more thing,

(00:22):
like an Apple announcing a new device. The one more thing always involves me
building something else. Yesterday it wasan additional gait. Looks like a baby
gate. Separate two roosters. We'vegot one rooster that's like a just a
bastard, but you know, he'ssweet to us, but he's a bully
to the other rooster, which iscommon. You know, We've got plenty

(00:42):
of hens to go around. Butthis one rooster, for whatever reason,
wants to eat the other rooster.The other rooster I'm talking about doesn't realize
that he's actually bigger than his attackerand could whoop his butt if he actually
wanted to. Instead, he actuallyscreams and runs away, kind of like
I did in high school when Iwas being picked on. So anyway,

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separating the roosters has kind of becomea thing. So I had to build
like an additional coop. And thereI am, hands on hips, all
proud of myself, and the Michellecame around the corner and went one more
thing, so off to build agate. That's essentially what I worked on
yesterday evening. Now, what startedout this is chicken math, by the
way. What started out as hersaying, I guess what like a five

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by a five space in the cornerover there by the fence, and we'll
just get a couple of chickens.It'll be nice. I just want to,
you know, pat them and hangout and maybe get a few eggs.
So chicken math works like this.You get three and before you know
it, you blink your eyes.You're like, well, if I'm really
happy with three, twelve would makeme really happy. Bam, there's twelve.
Then twelve quickly became twenty four andanother portion of the yard being eaten

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up for chicken space and another coopbuilt. Then twenty four becomes somewhere around
thirty ish and I don't even knowhow many we have now, I can't
count that high. And we letthem free range during the day. The
advantage that I'll tell you we don'thave a scorpion. We don't have a
lizard. You can't find a frog, you can't find a bee. They'll
eat bees. They'll eat every insectthat they can get their little beaks on.

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And watching them run around in thebackyard with a frog sticking out of
their mouth is crazy. They'll grantby the foot and it's like watching a
football game while they run from oneside of the yard to the other,
being chased by all the other chickens. It is wild. They look like
tiny tea rexes. Did you realizethat chickens are actually the closest living relative

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of the t rex facts. Theycan actually distinguish between one hundred different faces,
which is wild. They recognize whenMichelle walks out in the yard,
they recognize me. They treat usdifferently. They see more colors than humans
do. They make friends, andthey actually grieve if one of them dies
or one of them moves away.They can taste salt, but not sweet,

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and they even have dreams when they'reasleep, and I've seen this firsthand.
We've got cameras set up in thecoops, so at night, you
know, you look out for predatorsand stuff. Like that, But I
don't know how they get over thosefifteen gates that I built. But anyway,
we've watched them night and we'll kindof check on them on the cameras
and you can see when they're dreaming. It's really wild, So be careful.

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If your wife or girlfriend or whoeveryou're around says that they want chickens,
it will quickly take over your life. It is fun and we don't
need any pest control services now,but it is it's demanding, to say
the least. Got Alison chains foryou all. This is fitting. It's
rooster on one oh one, gotthe doodle? Do help me