Name: Going Deep on Birds and Bird Calls (w/ Steven Rinella)
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Going Deep on Birds and Bird Calls (w/ Steven Rinella)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-13. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Going Deep on Birds and Bird Calls (w/ Steven Rinella)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-13. Transcript available.

I would say volume control and going from soft to aggressive, if that's what
you want to call it,
or louder, is important to find in a diaphragm. If you get those tones and you
can control that,
it don't have to sound perfect. My opinion on turkey calling, rhythm is more
important
than specifically the sound of it.
That's what I've been saying.
That's what I've been saying. Dude, I think one thing that would be cool,
I wonder if he could put together almost like an animal call orchestra where it
was like
you had this sort of like an orchestra pit and somebody was like the conductor
and they had all the animal calls.
That's a good idea.
It'd be kind of neat.
We got, I was hip on this idea for a while. We didn't take it as far as I
wanted to,
but what I wanted to do is I got a directional, we bought a directional mic and
I wanted to build
a catalog of, I didn't know what I was, I never thought about what I was going
to do with it.
We actually bought the damn thing. I wanted to build a catalog of animal noises.
Yeah.
So we picked up different noises and then kind of abandoned it. I think because
I didn't know
what, we didn't, I hadn't really decided what we're going to do with them.
I could think of something.
I just wanted them.
Oh yeah.
Like a great catalog of animal noises that people wouldn't know.
You could do a couple of things with them that come into my mind.
One of them is you could.
The orchestra.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Create to have that.
A second one is people that are deceased, put a special headset on them.
It guarantees it'll play for 30 years or whatever.
They get to have that all the best animals of the world on the way out.
A third idea.
I think it could be neat would be if you created, Oh, this would be cool.
You create one of those things.
I shouldn't say it'd be cool.
Who knows?
It might be horrible.
I don't think it's that great.
I'm going to say it.
What it is, is it's like one of those white noise machines, but it's all the
fucking animals,
dude.
And it's Steve Rinella's fucking come sleep with Steve.
It's called.
That's a great thing, man.
I checked my wife on that shit.
I know every now and then, every now and then in the distance of the animals,
you hear Steve's
wife be like, it better just be you in there.
But that's what it's a special machine and it's all.
And then every now and then you can go to different regions of the world and
hear them.
You go to Africa.
You go to like.
Sleep with me in Africa.
Yeah.
Sleep with me in Asia or whatever.
Yeah.
Sleep with me in Alabama.
And every now and then there's just some country dude.
And he's like, oh, something's.
I'm going to go fuck one of these things or whatever.
You're like, whoa, whoa, buddy.
But it's just like a unique way to fall asleep at night.
Are you hip to the.
Are you hip to the app Merlin?
I've not even heard of it.
Yeah.
You should check it out.
I've had people that design the app on.
On your podcast?
Yeah.
So.
Is your podcast called Meat Eaters 2?
It's called the Meat Eater Podcast.
Meat Eater Podcast.
So when you're out in your yard and you hear birds off in the distance anywhere
and you open
it up, it just listens and tells you what birds.
Tells you what birds.
It is a phenomenal app.
The reason I bring that up is it's what's what is harmful to people's self-esteem
is when
you're turkey hunting and you're making, you're mimicking the noises.
So we'll open up Merlin and be like, oh, is it picking you up or not, bro?
Is it, is it throwing, is it saying there's a turkey over there or is it not
saying there's
a turkey over there?
Yeah.
Like I got friends that are very, that put enormous amounts of energy into
learning how
to mimic the call of a barred owl.
Really?
Yeah.
Like you mean those.
What is it?
They go like.
I got to roll.
Yeah.
You do it loud as shit.
Okay.
Well, just give me a second.
Give me.
Yeah.
I'm not good at it.
Southerners are good at it.
It's a very Southern thing.
There's like Yankees that can do it, but they're not going to do it like a Southerner.
The barred owl.
Pull it up.
I just want to get a gander at it.
Sorry you had it up.
Yeah.
Pull up Clay Newcomb.
Say Clay Newcomb barred owl.
Unless you want to hear the real thing.
No, I want to start with this man.
Well, he's a Southerner.
Oh, yeah, he is.
Oh, this is me and Clay.
Clay.
You see Clay and the birds, right?
Anyhow.
Definitely, dude.
You got to stay in school, brother.
What is fun is to open up Merlin.
And see who's got it.
And then get off a ways.
Yeah.
And so one of my buddies, who is a Yankee, he's a Northerner, buddy Seth, like
he's a real
good owl caller.
Yeah.
And it started, when he realized that Merlin, like when he realized that Merlin
wasn't picking
him up, wasn't putting him down as a barred owl, he like had like an emotional
crisis and
started redoing his shit and working on his shit until Merlin, he had to change
his stuff
until he could figure out why Merlin wasn't grabbing him.
Look, all I'm telling you is that motherfucker ain't registering on Merlin.
That's all.
Look, I'm going to shoot you straight.
Now this, I really understand wanting to be this animal and my, my.
Being an owl.
Yeah.
Wanting to really get into their head.
And we had, I've had a little bit of owl actually.
My sister's husband cooked two owls during Thanksgiving.
Well, he might want to keep, he might want to keep that more secret.
Yeah.
I don't know if he did it.
He, I mean, I haven't seen him in a long time.
That's what I'll tell you.
But he, uh, it's not a lot of meat.
I'll tell you that.
It's kind of like the, like you see those women in little house on the prairie,
a lot
of skirts, not a lot of meat under there.
You know, you think it's going to be Philadelphia under there, but it's a
little more Arizona
when you get under there.
See, I'd tell you a good story.
My father told me, but I don't, when he's dead, so they're not going to do
anything bad.
I will tell it.
I don't know why my father did this.
Okay.
I don't know why my father did this, but in talks about that, like a lot of
skirt, not
much, not much meat.
Yeah.
So obviously my, my father was from another time.
My dad was born in 19.
He had me when he was old.
He was born in the great depression.
Oh, wow.
Like 1910.
No, not that late.
He, he, he was a world war two veteran.
Oh, wow.
Anyhow.
Thank you, Mr. Rinella for your service.
He tells a story about sitting deer hunting with his bow and some, oh, there he
is on the
right there.
Oh, he tells a story about sitting deer hunting with his bow and, uh, deciding
to shoot owl
with his bow.
And he says he doesn't, and he like, it feels like he hits the owl.
I can't account for why he would decide to do this.
It's not something I would do.
I don't condone it.
Shoots the owl and like hits it dead center.
But he said, the owl doesn't even change tune.
Wow.
Cause he realized just, it's all feathers.
Yeah.
It's all brassiere, baby.
No tit.
That was his only owl hunting story.
And he didn't, the owl escaped unharmed.
Yeah.
I mean, look at these motherfuckers, bro.
What are we doing?
What are we doing, dude?
Oh yeah, there you go.
If you don't think all of the world is a psyop, look at this MF-er, homie.
Look at this thing right here.
You know, do you want to know a current controversy about the barred owl?
I'd love to.
So the noise that Clay was just making there and the owls were making.
Okay.
Do you remember back to, do you remember back to the kind of culture war issue
around spotted
owls?
Like logging in the Pacific Northwest and the spotted owl?
Well, I think they were tearing down their habitats, right?
Exactly.
And then the spotted owl became, this happens to animals now and then, where a
spotted owl
stopped being an owl and kind of became like a cultural emblem.
Oh yeah, like when they put them on frontier airlines, like on their wing.
Yeah, sure.
It'd be like, like, like wolves occupy this now.
Like there's wolves as flesh and blood creatures.
And then there's sort of the symbolism of the wolf.
Right.
So the spotted owl became a symbolism of land use, you know, like land use
controversy.
Okay.
Meaning there, you got loggers in the Pacific Northwest trying to produce
harvest, you know,
harvest timber products.
But there's this owl, they're trying, this endangered species, this owl that
they're trying
to protect.
So the owl becomes this kind of like proxy symbol for whether we should cut
trees or not.
I remember even in Dumb and Dumber, they had the, they went to the banquet
where they
were raising money for the spotted owl.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
So it became like a cultural thing.
So barred owls are one of those species like Canada geese, white-tailed deer,
crows that
do really well, that, that, that they benefit off people.
Right.
Like the more people there are in more places, the more beneficial it is to
that owl.
That owl does well in disturbed ecosystems.
They, they, they like people.
They'll hang out above your house.
They'll hunt in your yard.
Like we don't bother them.
Other things hate people.
But this thing that's gradually happening is barred owls, which were
historically more in
the Eastern US.
are colonizing the, the spotted owls range and displacing spotted owls.
So there's this big push and there was even federal money.
I don't know where it stands right now.
I think the current administration was rolling it back.
There was a push where they were going to go kill right there.
They were going to cull 470,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest.
To keep them from migrating?
To, to try to save the spotted owl.
The spotted owl.
Fuck.
And I think they might've pulled that money.
I'm not sure.
Ugh.
But, um, just a little like, you know, like wildlife politics.
Like there's always wildlife politics brewing, you know?
Yeah.
And so there's this kind of thing, like, does it make sense, you know, that you
ask the question
and it's not like people are moving them in trucks.
They're moving on their own.
So if like, if this bird is getting there on his own nature, yeah, he's getting
there on
his own, under his own wing, spreading across.
Is that, can you really call it that that's like bad or, or is it just that it's
natural?
Like throughout your 45 years of life, raccoons have gone north and west
throughout your 45
years of life.
Opossums have gone north and west.
Barred owls have gone west all on their own.
It's human in that they're sort of like our crop fields, our clearings, our
developments
don't bother them and they're beneficial to them.
Right.
So we don't have an effect really on it.
Yeah.
So we're like, it's happening and they're talking about, you know, dusting off
that many,
you know, dusting off that many owls and I don't know.