BONUS EPISODE: Arm the Birds

Bombs to bats is the name of my folk/crust punk/train hopping band

WE RALLY ROUND THE ACE HARDWARE STORE……..WITH A POCKET FULL OF PIGEONS!!!

I have just listened to the bit about the CIA cat, with my 6kg boi sitting on my chest. The conclusion of the scientific paper had me laughing so hard I dislodged him.

I do not appreciate the horse and cat slander!

Skinner coming up with a stupid idea? More likely than you'd think. Psychology has a problem, which is that the early people who were wrong and dumb showed up after we started writing everything down. And it took till the 1960s for psychological researchers to start adhering to ethics (which also means a lot of studies before then are bad science in addition to being reprehensible).

Now I have the words "Schroedinger's Podcasting Microphone" seared into my brain

There's an entire kids book series about the bat bombs called Silverwing. I remember reading it in middle school. It's told from the bats' POV.

So this is Jaegers from Pacific Rim but with pigeons.

Is there s why Homing Pigeon a weapon in worms Armageddon. Also the Jed hardware in my city use to sell bird until 2006 or 07.

Just in case you haven't seen this story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/the-lunacy-is-getting-more-intense-how-birds-arent-real-took-on-the-conspiracy-theorists

Has anyone seen the CollegeHumor weberies "WTF 101"? They actually did an episode where they touched on three batshit espionage/military ideas - Acoustic Kitty and the Bat Bomb were two of them. The other was Operation "Who...Me?" where they would give Chinese kids cans of super stink spray to spray Japanese soldiers so they smelled horrendous and lost morale from people saying they shit their pants!

Clowns In America

https://youtu.be/zUi5xKQXG6I The moral of the story is the bird is the word

“ There’s no pigeons operating war heads THAT WE KNOW OF” so that’s what was in Mar-a-Lago

Olga of Kiev burned down an entire city by tying burning sulfur to birds’ feet

We really need a bat and a pigeon in a nuke as a sticker.

Sarah has become the whale biologist from Futurama who knows too much about orcas to think they're cute

Awesome as usual! You did however miss one clearly bonkers British ACME style Cold War bird project. The chicken warmed nuclear landmine, project "Blue peacock": https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-developed-chicken-warmed-nuclear-landmines-2016-11