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
Buzzards are smaller, browner and different from vultures; condors are just very big vultures
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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.
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'
Gen Z slang for lame millennials, maybe connected to 'bougie'
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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'.
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
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 [16:31] You can find us on twitter. We are at under beatables or facebook.com slash the end of the rules [16:38] Our website is the end of beatables.com. There's also a contact form there. You can use that to send us a message [16:43] And email shout out at the end of beatables.com [16:48] For the architect dunny walsh and our once and always hall of fame coach bobby ciclinard [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