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Episode 200 · April 11, 2026

Eat. Prey. Love.

Jason asks whether a buzzard is a vulture and what a condor is, then the hosts hit tangents on the Kentucky meat shower and albatrosses. A bonus bit at the end decodes the word 'cheugy'.

“That's where our words come from now. Used to be Shakespeare, now it's angsty high school kids.” (18:31)

Questions

Is a buzzard the same as a vulture, and what is a condor? (00:33)

Our guess
Buzzards are smaller, browner and different from vultures; condors are just very big vultures
Reveal the answer
The answer
In the US, buzzards are hawk-like raptors that hunt live prey while vultures eat carrion; in the UK 'buzzard' is a hawk and vultures are sometimes also called buzzards. Every condor is a vulture; the Andean condor is the largest vulture species.
Verdict right

What does 'cheugy' mean? (17:30)

Our guess
Gen Z slang for lame millennials, maybe connected to 'bougie'
Reveal the answer
The answer
A term for early-2010s lifestyle trends considered the opposite of trending, or trying too hard to be trendy; coined in 2013 by a high school student. Not related to 'bougie'.
Verdict partly

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Transcript (auto-generated)
[00:01] Well, you got time I think for one under Google
[00:20] Super excited
[00:26] In the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
[00:33] Jason I know you had a burning question and I want to dig into this one. What do you got first this show?
[00:40] I did so I don't know where
[00:42] This came from but maybe I was probably talking to Ethan about animals and stuff and I
[00:52] Something about
[00:53] bird
[00:54] Buzzards or something like that buzzards flying and I thought what is a buzzard? I said, well, it's a vulture
[01:01] But is it is it a vulture? Is it a buzzard and side note?
[01:06] What's a condor and are they all they're related?
[01:10] Well, so I think right away
[01:14] Ethan thinks that buzzards and vultures are the same thing because you told them they were right? So in his mind, it's the same thing
[01:21] That's true. It's true
[01:24] Ethan will never know the answer now. No
[01:27] Imprinted with the wrong now
[01:30] Wait, do you let him listen to this show? I can't remember
[01:33] He has now listen to the show. No, I don't I surprise for later. Yeah, exactly
[01:39] So they all
[01:45] all of them these are large
[01:48] huge birds
[01:50] I'll do they carry in birds
[01:53] They dead animals, right? I guess most of my question was is a buzzard a
[02:00] distinct type of bird
[02:02] Or is it just a slang for a vulture? I
[02:07] kind of thought that and
[02:09] Is vulture is vulture a type of bird or is it like a family?
[02:15] It's a good question. I know it. Okay, cuz the buzzard would be in the vulture family I would think
[02:21] Well, there are things for sure called turkey vultures
[02:26] They're very turkey buzzer there around here. Whoa, really is that because they're the same thing. Hmm. I've heard of turkey buzzards
[02:36] That wasn't his question
[02:39] I'm not listening. What this is not wild turkey buzz
[02:51] So I thought okay, I thought buzzards were different than vultures
[02:59] I thought buzzards were
[03:02] slightly smaller
[03:04] compact browner
[03:06] Okay, browner. Yeah, browner smaller heads
[03:10] Smaller so just so basically just brown mini vultures
[03:16] It's they're like big Hawks smaller vultures, that's good. I think it was a buzzard. Okay
[03:23] And there look is it that's just I mean cuz the other possibility is just a regional dialect thing
[03:31] They're like on the East Coast. They're more lawyers and then
[03:35] In the West they're called buzzards or something like that
[03:38] That that makes and if it is a slang term why buzzards
[03:44] No, cuz they buzzed their buzz in around they don't really make a lot of noise
[03:48] You don't really make a lot of noise
[03:50] They definitely do circle though
[03:53] Yeah, not a circling
[03:56] Is that we're like buzzing the buzz in the tower comes from we're like flying circles over your no that came from soft gun. Okay
[04:05] Look at that. I got a movie reference
[04:09] Extra points
[04:13] Okay, and then condors
[04:16] Different things. Well, obviously they're they're the bigger. They're huge. Yeah. Yeah, they're bigger vultures with
[04:25] And they're blacker, yeah
[04:32] Yeah, they definitely I think are no I know them for being just incredibly large and
[04:39] You know really among the biggest birds that exist are they as big as albatross is
[04:47] Is that the plural?
[04:49] albatross I
[04:51] The is is an albatross also a vulture
[04:55] family bird
[04:56] Is it a carrion bird an albatross sea birds? Yes, see foul. Okay. Yeah, and I think condors are probably
[05:05] There
[05:06] Okay. Yeah, I think condors are the biggest birds out there. I always think about them in like
[05:15] Mountains or canyons like I don't kind of
[05:18] Because yeah on vultures this pop back into my head because I've heard of the crate the great Kentucky meat shower
[05:29] Yes, yes weirdly
[05:31] Okay, and the theory is that it's like volt there was a pack of vultures like flying
[05:37] So that so the phenomenon right is that all of a sudden one day?
[05:42] Shards of meat come flying down out of the air
[05:47] like
[05:48] covering massive amounts of area and
[05:52] And it's a mystery nobody knows exactly where it came from but the theory is that it's it was from
[05:59] Vultures who had just probably eaten a meal and want a vulture response to threat is to just throw up
[06:06] whatever they have to like
[06:10] Scare a predator. Yes or something. That's that's like their octopus ink. It's the best they can do right
[06:15] Yeah
[06:16] And so the theory was that they were like flying through the air and then something in the air spook them so a whole like
[06:22] flock of them just like
[06:24] Ralph at the same time
[06:26] So would that be useful so like if I were a predator I'd be like, oh well
[06:31] There's just some free vomit. So I don't have to go after the living thing. Yeah, so much a vomit. Yeah
[06:39] Part of why it would be a defense mechanism. Well, that's also losing some weight. So that's faster. Yeah
[06:45] Yeah, well, why throwing up while you fly would be useful. I'm not sure. Yeah, I guess it would make you faster
[06:52] Well, I don't think they typically throw up when they fly. I don't know. Yeah
[06:58] Very sure. Okay, so this is that sidebar. But so do you condors throw up in flight as well? That's another question
[07:06] That is another question. It's probably the most important question
[07:10] Also, so they they don't say a condor around your neck. They say I'm albatross around your neck
[07:18] Checkmate
[07:22] So to get back to the question that was
[07:30] Sorry to cut you off there Coalson
[07:34] So what I think that we all seem to think that the condors are just totally different species, right?
[07:41] like nobody
[07:43] Correct. I mean, they're related. I think they're yeah. Yeah, but they're a different
[07:49] different species, but I think the question I think that we're not clear about is our
[07:55] Vultures and buzzards the same thing. I'm gonna go with definitely different
[08:00] Yeah, I think the the vultures being a family to me that
[08:06] That rings the most true because I think I've heard of
[08:10] not many but a couple different kinds of vulture I think the turkey vultures and
[08:16] and
[08:19] Probably some other ones. Yeah
[08:22] In vulture vultures, and I'm gonna go there. They're different things
[08:28] I I think we probably talk about them in or like we interchange the way we talk about them by seeing them in the air and stuff
[08:35] But I do think they're probably
[08:37] regionally different and they're just close enough
[08:41] That we just kind of
[08:43] Call them the same thing. Yeah, I think I think the buzzard is smaller and browner
[08:49] I kind of think this into they're probably
[08:52] genuses
[08:53] Be my guess but con so but Joey may have been on to something about condors being the more mountainous of the two
[09:00] And vultures being like more prairie
[09:05] Desert
[09:08] Nah, you always think about the vulture in the you know circling the
[09:14] Guy dying of dehydration. I got you. Okay. Coalson is right. They are different things
[09:21] Whoo
[09:23] Let's see. So so they're just different different like like way different actually. Yeah. Oh, okay, so
[09:34] They're both birds of prey
[09:38] But
[09:39] vultures are
[09:41] carry-on birds they eat dead animals
[09:45] But buzzards eat live animals. They catch rodents and so they're not carrying sometimes carry on but
[09:52] mainly
[09:57] Live food I believe. Yeah, cuz they have like feather. They look like hawks
[10:05] Yeah, so I was like, you know, they're bigger than hawks though, right? No, they're smaller and browner. Okay
[10:17] It looks like all condors are vultures but not all vultures are condors
[10:22] Okay, what that's kind of what we thought, right?
[10:25] Yeah, and the main difference seems to be size
[10:29] Condors are large
[10:34] there are over 40
[10:36] nearly 40 different species of vultures and
[10:39] 20 or 25 species of buzzard. Yeah buzzers to me just look like hawks
[10:52] Buzzards enjoy different climates and biomes including open meadows and plains
[10:58] Where they can easily hunt for their prey
[11:01] Vultures tend to stick locations with a wide variety of animals so they can feast on the dead or sick
[11:11] Vultures avoid cold climbs
[11:13] The Andy and Condor is the title for the largest
[11:17] vulture species
[11:20] Weighing up to 33 pounds with a wingspan of 11.4 feet
[11:30] Wikipedia says that the largest extant bird however is the is the wandering albatross
[11:39] Point for Coalson. What do you got for a wingspan on that bad boy? About 12 feet 3.65 meters
[11:48] Pretty pretty close
[11:50] Coalson could you take could you take a
[11:53] One of those in a fistfight?
[11:54] Oh, yeah, I mean really? Yeah
[11:58] I mean, he's definitely got wingspan on me, but
[12:03] If I can get in close I've got it
[12:06] All right
[12:08] Well
[12:09] It's good
[12:10] Uh, I'm gonna make some phone calls to netflix and see if we can get this
[12:15] On the air
[12:16] He's promoting the yeah mike tyson
[12:19] qualified whoever's doing that
[12:21] So it does seem to be in the us that the term buzzard is not
[12:29] Recognized in terms of these raptors that are buzzards
[12:34] Uh as referred to in the uk and quite often vultures are referred to as buzzards instead
[12:42] Okay
[12:43] So we just made up our own shit, right?
[12:46] Okay. Well that makes me feel better because that makes me right right exactly
[12:51] Uh, and i'm trying to figure out the difference between a hawk and a buzzard
[12:56] I can't figure it out. I do also
[12:59] Uh, give a shout out to wmms in cleveland
[13:05] They are nicknamed the buzzard
[13:09] And I just remember you know seeing on uh, their their mascot
[13:17] Which looks to me more like a vulture then
[13:22] It also has blonde hair so
[13:26] Not sure
[13:27] I would like to shout out to the falconry center
[13:32] Who just taught me that most american species of hawks the red-tailed hawk harris hawk?
[13:37] for rugenous hawk
[13:40] Are actually buzzards
[13:44] What you want to call the falconry center liars coleson, is that what you want to do no
[13:51] No
[13:54] I'm gonna pick my battles here. You're gonna be stronger strong and stand up to big falcon, but
[14:04] No, i'm fighting condors not falcons
[14:07] The uh, so condors and vultures are the same thing essentially
[14:12] Yeah, they're just a really big vulture. Yeah, right
[14:15] Okay
[14:18] Man, they are ugly. Yeah
[14:22] Vultures yeah, or uh, yeah condors, but yeah, so
[14:27] They are definitely ugly birds. Yeah, could you take a condor?
[14:33] Yeah, yeah
[14:37] I'm just not taking a falcon. I can't take a falcon or the people that work at the falcon society
[14:42] I'm sure they're all very nice people. So you can't take them. No, no, but
[14:48] Condor. Yeah
[14:53] Betting heavily, uh on the other on the other one. Yeah, plus if you take on a
[14:58] A falcon of any kind. I think you're gonna have a whole mess of falconry center folk
[15:04] Handing that beat down
[15:09] Well, you know falconry is normally the answer to one of these things so
[15:13] Yeah, we just started there and worked backwards
[15:17] I have no I have no beef with the falcons
[15:20] Or the falconers
[15:22] And they're birds of prey, you know
[15:24] I don't know
[15:26] You don't have a cool nickname like that. Do you?
[15:29] Uh, look condor is just a he's just gonna eat dead stuff or sick stuff. I'm not afraid
[15:35] You just had you know what? I see that little thing over your shoulder. It says eat laugh. Pray. That's look like the closest thing you got
[15:45] Live
[15:47] What is it live?
[15:49] Live and let live eat. Pray. Love
[15:54] Yeah, live and let live
[15:59] Coalson you're not on the urban dictionary, are you? Well, I just
[16:05] Yeah, I knew it I knew it
[16:08] Damn it when he gets quiet for too long. I'm not allowed to be honest. That's why I was helping you wouldn't ask
[16:15] Anything good over there? No
[16:20] All right. Well, if there's nothing good there, then it's time to get going
[16:25] We are well, we'll be back with you next week
[16:29] until then
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[16:55] Turn out
[16:59] The party's over
[17:02] Um, it's like uh an allegory for the season started a little rough
[17:07] It got better. Let's get it nice and smooth to the end. Let's just smooth the sail the rest of the way
[17:11] Okay. Okay. You don't want to be singing your best songs in november, right?
[17:19] That's right
[17:21] ouch
[17:30] All right, what's the question I learned a word today is that's chewy is that right? I think you're uh
[17:38] Pucking the wrong people. Yeah
[17:42] I think that's can you use it in a sentence? Yeah the the uh
[17:47] Live laugh love
[17:51] Painting in your house is chewy
[17:57] Is that like a portmanteau of something or a shortening of something?
[18:01] I think what I I so it's it's the jin z calling
[18:07] um
[18:09] millennials, um
[18:12] Like lame, I think okay
[18:15] Um, and I think it's connected to bougie
[18:19] Okay, but I think that should be a speculation on my part. Ah
[18:26] Because I don't know what any of this means but somebody used it today and I was like, what is that and
[18:31] my
[18:32] Millennial bartender will explain it to me
[18:40] majority
[18:41] term for lifestyle trends from the early 2010s that are considered the opposite of trending
[18:47] There you go. So not connected to bougie at all. I'm cool
[18:50] Trying to be trying too hard to be trendy and it was coined in 2013 by a high school student
[18:56] That's where our words come from now
[18:59] And it made the dictionary. Yep used to used to be shakespeare now. It's angsty high school kids
[19:10] Similar to the word basic
[19:13] If you're old like yeah to describe someone who is
[19:17] Out of hate for trying too hard. I feel like this is them just playing with us
[19:22] Chewy people defining chewy like this
[19:30] That's a strongly disagree with the spelling. Yeah. Yeah, seriously. C h e u g y
[19:49] You pray love, you know, that's all I know
[19:52] Was that what it was?
[19:53] Are those the three sure?
[19:55] Those are three things