 Oh my God, let's see if I can see what's going on here. Whoa, the lighting is, oh maybe, what's up? Okay, a little bit darker than, let me brighten up my screen so I can see everything you have to say. All right, Josie, come here. Hello, hey, mock fanatic. So Josie's like, wait, do I actually want to be in the live here? Yeah. Okay, so for those of you, I wanted to come live with Josie, but by the way, before we even talk about anything about her, I just want to let you know she loves guys, okay? Like loves guys. So yeah, you. So yes. So if she is a different person around a guy, then she is with me. Hi, Carol Slap. Hi, Kevin. Hi, Tattooed Granny. Oh, that's a good name. Hi, Kathy. Ooh, love from down under. Say hello to my fan, the place I have not been to, but I would love to. Hi, RetroX. Hi, Zarya. Hi, Ash Curie. Hi, Amy. Thank you guys so much for joining. Oh my God. Hey, Denonia. So what's up guys? I wanted to join live and what's up Angels Life and Disney Girling? I wanted to, oh, by the way, we are facing planes. And so Josie, like I don't think she's sat in front of this window before we're facing a window and all these planes are going over the building. And so she is going to be kind of enamored with that. I say she based off of some instinct and some things that I've pieced together about Josie, but Josie's not had a DNA test or anything. So we actually do not know, but for the purpose of this video, I'm going to refer to her as she. Now I wanted to go live. Hi, Happy Face. Hi, Caitlin. Hi, Eliza. Hi, Lori. To update you on Josie. And when I say update, I mean, I don't think there's been any significant updates, but I know that a lot of you might enjoy meeting her and asking some questions about her. Okay, Kenny Caretaker. Yay, a question. What is her favorite thing to say? I don't know if you guys saw the short video I posted where she says, she goes like this. She goes, what's a football? Like that. And so I don't watch football. So I don't know if it even is football, but that I guess is my instinct. So I think that's her favorite thing to say, but she also loves to say hello bird. She goes, hello bird. Or like a bird. She loves to say that, especially when you have something that she wants like when she has food, when you have food. I love you Disney for watching my videos for years. I see some more questions here. Hold on one second. Okay, how do you determine the gender Zaria W wants to know? So how you determine a bird's gender officially is by taking a DNA test. However, there are certain birds that you can tell by their coloring. Like if they're male or a female, for example, the mustache parakeet, you know, when that beak goes orange at about like two and a half years old, some birds that happens later earlier than others, then, you know, you know that that's a male. But in terms of guessing that she's a female without a DNA test, there are a few things that helped me determine that the bird might be a female, which refers to the way in which the bird tends to get stimulated, I guess we could say. And I'm not saying go, you guys know what I'm saying. I'm not saying like stimulate your birds to test this. I'm saying like, first of all, when Hosey was dropped off, there was something Bruce said about how, you know, the bird used to like to cuddle it with his dad and his dad would like pet the bird. And I was like, oh, that would be the way a female gets stimulated, like more on her back. Whereas birds that tend to like try to, you know, mess with your hands and their bottom, they're usually males. So sometimes that gives a really big clue as well. So right now we're referring to her as a female. And there's no specific thing that says like female birds love human males and vice versa. But it does happen a lot where they just can sense that it is the opposite gender. Brando loves boys, Jersey loves boys. And she does. Cody could care less. Oh, Mary, thank you so much for your beautiful comment. And by the way, you know, you could always take on a rescue bird, but I totally admire, you know, not trying to have a bird, but you know, there's so many that go around that any years that you could make good of a bird is valuable. Happyface wants to know, does she love George? She, I wouldn't, okay, how do I explain this? I don't feel like she's obsessed with George. She's obsessed with my brother. She absolutely adores my brother. Right now my brother's her favorite person. So how you can tell a bird's favorite person? Oh, look at you coming over. Do you want to say hello real close up? They would love to see, where are you trying to go? I'm surprised that she's being this busy because usually birds are, when they're kind of like still new of a rescue, they're not this busy yet, especially when they kind of are like a little bit timid in the beginning, but to continue to answer that question, how you can tell whoever loves most, how we do the test is like who she will step up to from. So for example, if she's on my shoulder and George comes to get her, she is going to absolutely jump to George because she loves guys more. But if my brother comes to get her off George's shoulder, she will absolutely then move on to my brother. Now, if George goes and tries to get her off of my brother's shoulder, she won't go. So that is where like the line ends. You know, you're like, okay, now we know who's the favorite. Oh, she smells really good. Let's see what else you guys have written. Does she have a favorite toy yet? So I haven't seen her play with toys or actively chew anything. She's very much like Leo in that way. Now, when you first get a bird that's a rescue or, you know, that has been moved around or anything like that, a lot of times they don't show the things that they're gonna play with. They don't show all the antics that they're about to cause later on. And they can cause antics. I don't know if I'm choosing the right words, but you know, birds can get into things. And you could have a bird that looks like it's never gonna get into things. And then six months later, it's suddenly comfortable in chewing the baseboards. For example, when we got Merlin, I could just kind of let him sit on his cage all day and he would just, you know, not really move. And you're kind of thinking, oh, well, that's the bird that like doesn't get into anything, that's how he's gonna be. And six months later, he started like coming down off the cage, walking around, where are you Merlin, but chewing the molding, you know? And you're like, there it is. And you know, now years later, he'll fly to George. He like takes ownership of the house. So there's, you know, with other animals, they might assert their comfortability a lot sooner than birds do. So that's why I say have patience because it can take years sometimes for them to show you exactly who they are. And the more freedom you give them, the more personality they're gonna show, the more choices you let them make versus choices that you make for them in terms of being themselves, versus trying to control every aspect of their environment, you're gonna find out so much more about their personality. They're gonna show you who they are, which is a lot of fun. Sorry for my big finger coming up, looking in there. Josie, not Jose, my phone re-spells. Yeah, I'm going with Josie right now. Ah, oh my God, Danu, who said this? Danu's daughter says, I wanted my Amazon wants to know if she's single. As of right now, she is very single. Okay, Kathleen, I missed you so much. How are the dynamics with your other birds, friends and conflicts with this bird? So here's the thing with, I think a lot of you noticed in my last video, I saw some of you ask this. They're like, where the heck are all the birds? And they are all still in my house, but we are building a bird room. And so the birds, while we were building the bird room and doing some more building and painting and stuff like that, I wanted them to be safe and out of the way. So they were upstairs in a temporary bird room, which was my YouTube room. And they were there during that video. And we've been working on and building this bird room forever because I guess really the truth is because George is like doing it himself. So like it depended on when he has time and when he has fun. So we're just going at it. And also trying to make it very safe, but also true proof and all sorts of things like that. So the, why I'm saying all this to answer your question is because Josie has not been with the other birds because it started off that, I wanted to keep her more in a quarantine situation, even though she's 45 years old and been with the same owner for 35 years, single bird, she would have displayed any sign of disease and things like that. Then she's been more like, let's say in the kitchen, whereas the other birds were upstairs. So she, the issue with that and the issue with sometimes a quarantine. Where are you going? Hold on one second. Guys, come here, Ozy. Come here, baby. Here, step up. Oh, you want to go on your stand? Do you have to go potty? Do you have to go potty? Come here. I look like I, do you see that? Okay. So hold on, let me show you her. So sometimes with this bird, she's really smart. I actually was wondering if she might've wanted to go potty because sometimes she'll do that like, can you guys see her? Hold on, let me move the tripod up. I don't even remember what I was saying, but one second, I want to make sure you guys can see her. There we go. Did you, did she go potty on me? Stop guys, really? Oh my God. Take my shirt off. I knew she had to go potty. All those antics usually signify like, I want to get off you, so I don't go potty. But I was like in the live, so I'm like, eh. Yep. So she's, you know, not as trained as the rest of our birds. But actually she's been very good. See, I have a shirt under this, so I'm good. This is the biggest bird guys, wow. That I have ever seen for an Amazon. Like I have never come face to face with a bigger Amazon in my entire life. Okay, I swear. Ooh, I just saw Ireland. Now I wish there was a way for me to, I wish there was a way for me to not have to press this. There we go, okay. She fit, you guys can tell. Can you tell? Look at this, here, hold on. What do you think? Chonk. They're saying you chunky. They say you chunkies. She lets me kiss her in everything. She has more app to let me kiss her. By the way, I have this theory about female birds too. Just based off of the birds in my house. So like when Jersey is anxious, and I actually did this on a video recently for you guys, but it's not out yet. I did a video of me coming home because I've been gone for a month, which is crazy. I was in Ireland for a month and I went to Portugal for my brother's wedding. And I noticed something, like the birds I get mad, especially my females, they might get mad and refuse to step up, but they will still give me a kiss. She's like that. She's like, like what? She's gonna be like, yeah. Like she's irritated. She doesn't want to step up, but she will be fine with me giving her a kiss, which I noticed in our house, the females are like that. It was very interesting. Like a lot of my female birds, I can trust that they won't bite me if I go to kiss them even if they don't want to step up or they don't want to deal with hands right now. So I think that's kind of interesting. I'm still working on that observation. It's only with my birds. And kind of like maybe the way their behavior is in my house or the training or like their social interaction with me, you know, because it would differ for everybody the way you treat your birds in your home, right? So if you include them like they're your family, then they might be like fine, I'll always kiss you, but I won't, you know, but I'm mad, you know, like a polite thing. I know that sounds weird, but it's just a vibe I get from a lot of my birds. You're fat and tired, you're fat and tired. She looks like a mealy Amazon. Yeah, you know, that is kind of possible. She's got like a Mr. T. Do you see that? Yeah, your female cockatiel is the same way. She'll shake her head no when she doesn't want to step up, but she loves kisses. Yeah, Brando's the same, Jersey's the same. Like Brando might try to bite my finger, but she'll like give me kisses and stuff. Hey, crazy Carlos. I'm so surprised that you guys could tell how big she is. Is that also from the vlog that you guys saw? For those of you who wanna know more about Josie, I think after this video, after this live, I'll be able to keep it up and I'll put the link in there of the vlog of the day that we got her. And maybe there there's a lot of perspective too. She's really big. Like in that video, I took her onto our podcast and one of the producers was like, what is that? And I'm like, I mean, it's the same kind of bird as Leo, like in Amazon, because I'm not gonna go into specifics with people that don't really know birds. And he's like, it looks like it ate Leo. And I'm like, yeah, it does look like it ate Leo. Why won't this stay? So I could see what you guys are saying. Yeah, your three eclectus, Tracy says, your three eclectus females are like that too. We'll be happy to give a kiss, even if they don't wanna step up. And this is very interesting because now it's a theory that I just realized the other day. It's like I knew it about my birds, but I was like, wow, the females are like this. It's like they have like a sensitivity where like, fine, I'll kiss you, but. And so it's always good to like compare notes with you guys and see if it's the same. Yeah, a lot of you are saying she looks like Amelia Amazon. You know why? I really hadn't even thought of that, but that makes complete sense. I didn't thought much of it because I don't know why I didn't think. Actually, she's doing her beak grinding. Marley, do you know any insurance company that covers bird vet care? I actually don't. I mean, it would be something to look into. Oh, Allie says your male is like that. He'll be happy one minute. And then he'll try and attack. Oh, okay. But not regards to the kissing thing, right? So, you guys see her? There she is. She's such a brat. What else? She loves, oh, you could tell because she was on our shoulder. Yeah, crazy Carlos. I love how you would remember. Wow, 65 when your bird, your dad's Amazon passed away. We were just thinking about that too. Oh, how is she adjusting to her new life without the previous owner? Female parrots are more difficult. That's so funny. Oh, Carisha, I met you at the parrot store when Brando was a baby. I remember that. I actually thought of you the other day. Hello, and good to see you again. Glad that you are on here. So, somebody asked something. I wanna make sure that I answer as much as I can. Where was it? Man, why is it making me put my damn finger in there? Okay, got it, got it, got it, got it. Is she adjusting to her new life, Margaret wants to know without her previous owner? Here's the thing, you never know. Like, it's gotta be hard for the bird. It really does, you know? Like, I don't wanna come on here and be like, absolutely, she's totally fine. But I can tell you that some things are happening that probably didn't happen before for her. So for example, the lady that owned her before, I think she had had him for a while. And I think at one point, I had heard through her son through that she originally really liked his dad, which explains a lot. Which also explains if you go back and look in that video, his mom says she really likes her cage. And that could be because, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean she kept the bird in the cage. She probably had the cage open, but the bird probably appeared very attached to her cage because like, look, you know, how she is, like she's like this, you know, she doesn't really wanna come to me. I have to use some tactics to get her to come to me, like different things that I realized she's comfortable, more comfortable with. Like for example, she doesn't like me to put up my hands, me or anyone else. It's not my nails, just so I can clarify. But she'll actually sometimes step up to like more of a, sorry, I'm in a, I know, I know. She'll actually, let me see if you guys can see, sometimes she'll prefer to step up to an arm. You see how she's, okay, you know. But in general, there you go. See, she's annoyed right now. She doesn't wanna deal with it. But in general, so I feel like when you get a bird that's like a rescue or coming from a new home or a re-home, there's a lot of clues, right? So one of the clues is like, you know, his owner was a female. She's behaving like this with me. So, and since the other piece of the puzzle is, and since she's very, very easy to step up to my brother and George, she obviously prefers males. So in that case, it's probably safe to say, from that video when she said the bird really likes her cage, that Josie didn't really step up to her as much. And probably safe to say since Bruce said it was originally the father's bird, that this bird is looking for male interaction. So it's probably, I could assume that in maybe the last, I don't know how many years it's been since the father had passed away, but in those last years, the bird probably was not, although maybe free, not getting as much interaction that it might have craved with another human being cause it just was like sad about the dad and maybe preferred males. So now what's different for this bird is that like, I kind of am in a joint custody situation, I guess you could say with my brother, like he comes and steals the bird and then takes it home. And then when he goes to travel, he brings her to me and I get videos of him, my watch just stopped. I get videos of him, like in the bed with the bird, like, you know, just like hanging out, waking up in the morning, going and get the bird, like eating with them, doing all these things that I bet she wasn't doing before, a lot of cuddling, a lot of canoodling, everything. So I think in that aspect, she's probably having a pretty good life right now in terms of my, you know, trying to unsolve the mystery. But that's not to say that she doesn't miss her home or, you know, the life that she came from. Oh my God, Liliana, I see this part of your comment. I love that you learn so much about the birds from me. That means a lot to me because honestly, like I made this channel to help birds get better lives. And like, if there's only one bird that gets a better life because a male is more included or gets more love, I mean, that is my goal. Ash says, my 10-year-old male cockatiel is a phobia of hands and hates all women. All I know is this first owner was a male with a tall, deep voice. He refuses to step up and bites and will only sing for my dad, what should I do? So it's hard to tell you what to do in like a really quick live, but because I don't know all the dynamics of your house and all of this stuff is like solving a mystery. So for example, if your father and you both live in the same house and your dad's there all the time, like I don't know if you're like living a different house and when your dad comes over, you know, he sees the bird and then the bird peps up. But usually in these cases, then the bird is kind of like being loyal to your dad. And as long as your dad is around or in that presence, the bird is going to prefer him and be difficult with you because birds have like this monogamous thing about them, right? So it would take a lot of individual work with you. And I would say like habituation, so don't approach with your hands, don't worry about hands, worry about including the bird in every which way, roll a stand around, hang out, be on your computer with a bird, give it toys, give it food, things that will make the bird understand that life is better with you and better being on your side. Yay, I wish just in Ireland for so long. Oh, somebody found a life insurance company, Brook Sprayway. Somebody asked, oh, they were late and said, how does the bird smell? I love Amazon sniff. It's like the best, okay? Like that musky smell is just to die for. Yeah, I see, you see that small movement, just that small movement of interest. This is that ties to you by the way. It's on parrotstation.com. When I was in Ireland, one of my mom's friends said, it's on the dot com. And I was like, I'm gonna use that from now on. I'm gonna be like, check out parrotstation on the dot com. Cause I thought it was the cutest thing, but you smell really good too. You know, I won't, you know how you think you might not be able to imagine a smell like, like a smell you know, but you're not near. Like, can you imagine it? Like, can you actually feel it? I can feel cockatoo sniff. Like, I just, I mean, not, sorry, not cockatoo, cockatiel sniff. Like I don't even have a cocktail, but like right now, if I don't imagine it, I can smell it. Like I love cockatiel sniff. Ooh, that'll make it easier than me putting my big finger in there. Now I can put my big pen in there. Ah, you have a rosella. Sarah has a rosella and a ring neck. I, how did they get along? I'm very curious because I have this theory about ringnecks that ringnecks are kind of like the best bird. If, so I don't ever advise trying to get your bird a friend because in most cases, the friend, you're going to have two birds that both are fighting for your attention more than the possibility of them being friends, you know, being into each other, but ringnecks will make a great effort. Oh my God, Sal, what's up? My childhood friend, Sal Vador, Scott O'Daniela is online right now. My friend from Jersey, one of my best friends forever from New Jersey when I grew up in New Jersey who has an amazing Italian restaurant because they're obviously Italian with that name. And if you guys are ever in Jersey, go to check it out. Although what's the name of it, Sal, I forgot. Quite Saluki. I only have Borks parakeets, but I still love them so much. Oh, I still learn so much from seeing your interaction with larger birds. You know, I've been thinking about this a lot lately and I don't prefer larger birds specifically because I was like, oh, it's very interesting that I have like mostly larger birds, although not the largest. It's not like I'm a Macaw person and have a ton of Macaws. It's more in that range of like, you know, Amazon, African gray, a cockatoo. And Jersey's a small cockatoo. But when I analyze like the birds that like I just, it really goes by their personality, but I mean, I could probably have like 10 ringnecks and be so obsessed. Like, I don't know. I think that's like just so cute. I love ringnecks and mustache parakeets. Mustache parakeets are my all-time favorite. I'm a little sad right now that I don't have a male mustache parakeet because Brando's a brat, a real big brat. So yeah, let's see. Oh, was it? Who said that? Oh, La Terraza, by the way, in New Jersey. If you're ever in Jersey, go see Sal's restaurant, La Terraza. Oh, Sarah's birds are in separate cages so we don't know how they get along, but that makes sense. Oh my God, the saw leaf. I love that. The head scratches. Oh, Gail. My female ringneck fell in love with my parrot lip. Both were blue. She couldn't figure out why the ringneck was so quiet and small and he looked at her and wondered what she was eating. Yeah, ringnecks are like really good and friendly. Naomi says I'm obsessed with my four-year-old love bird and he's the smallest of the parrot family. I know. I know. Jersey is the best, the star. Danoya, she absolutely is a star. By the way, I don't want to pronounce your name wrong because I realize it's Irish and I know it's probably like, you know, Siobhan or the other one that me and my mom love. What is it? It's got, you know, they're Gaelic when you see that H and the B. I don't want to say your name wrong. How do I pronounce it? When I was in Ireland, just like two weeks ago or last week, I was going through an Irish names book in the store and I was like, I was like, I really love these names and I would so want to spell it that way too. Cason's, training two of your four cocktails. That's pretty impressive. I love that. What else? What else? Oh, the sally, that means that your bird is stretching. When they go like this, that means that they're stretching. It's so cute. Hello, say hi to Isabel Caitlyn. My Rosella is the boss and bullies the ring neck. Oh no. I feel you. What else? I am probably missing some things, guys. Oh, ring neck's the perfect side. Who has two? Oh yeah, Gael, I know you have two mustaches. Guys, I can't, when I see like Instagram and there's a mustache parakeet, I'm like, is this how you guys feel when you see my birds? Cause like, when you're like a creator or like when you make the videos, I'm very much not a scroller. I'm not very much into looking at social media. So sometimes I don't know what the other side feels and sometimes that's why it may feel like I go ghost is because I don't even imagine you guys missing the videos. You know what I mean? I'm like, yeah. Like, so, but this is what I see. Like a mustache parakeet. I'm like, oh my God. And then I'm like, oh no, maybe this is how they feel about Jersey. I got to post more Jersey, you know? Of course I like green cheek conures. Conures can convert anybody into a bird lover. But man, the amount of conures people try to give up to me is so crazy. Ah, Sally, you're so cute. Hey, you want me to sniff you? It's like an addiction where like it's been a few minutes and I haven't gotten a sniff. Yeah, there's something about that cockatiel smell. Last night I had a dream. It was such a good dream because I went into work and had a desk and had nothing to do. I was so far ahead that I was like, I have done everything which is not me. I'm like take on a lot and then procrastinate because I have 100% confidence in myself and then have to turn over something amazing under lots of stress. The Eastern Rosella has green markings on the wings near the shoulders and the golden mantle is more yellow, hence the name. Oh guys, I got to tell you something. So I think it's on YouTube. We have this one TV that was in the YouTube room and it, long story short, it wouldn't connect to Netflix or something. So I wanted to put stuff on for the birds. So there was this, I guess you could call it a YouTube channel but it was very professionally done like a TV show and it's of like 4K parrots around the world. Now, the audio is just like other birds but it shows these parrots and there's multiple videos and why I like them is they go on for like 15 hours. So you don't have to come back and change it to like, have your birds have something to watch. But anyway, while I was watching it, there were, it's like they are in the jungle, really in the rainforest and you're looking at these birds and it's unbelievable but it's not so much like a show that narrates it and says like, the ringneck parakeet is looking to mate with a female. It's not like that. It just has this like overlaying audio and the audio does not connect to like the parrots. Like it's not parrot audio necessarily but the birds are stunning. So why I'm telling you this is one it's pretty good to keep on for your birds but two, cause it's more relaxing and less parrot screaming but two, you, when you're going through it, you'll see these birds that I was like, I have not seen that mutation of that bird. So I would go through it and then pause it and then Google photo it so that I can try to figure out exactly what that bird is specifically. And it was really cool cause I had seen some things that, you know, I hadn't really seen before. There was even one that I was like, I still don't know what this bird is. Oh yeah, Parrot Town. I love that they do that. I love that they do that, by the way. You had a budgie, a budgie that was the bully of the rest of the birds. I love that. Yeah, Parrot TV, that's great. I love, we got a TV in our, yeah, of course, Cosmic Chory. You can paint, Josie. Here, I'll give you a close up. Look, she has eyelashes. Can you see? Look at you, watching birds react like, you know, like when someone comes in and I don't look at the person coming in. I look at like Jersey and I see where her eye goes and how she's feeling. That's so interesting to me. Sharon Zoo has multiple TVs running all the time for her birds. Oh, that's cool, I'm gonna check it out. What, in the bird room, we were thinking about having the birds live so that you guys can see the birds and see what they're doing. Cause we always have cameras on them anyway in the house. Where's cameras in our entire house? Oh yeah, I see what you guys are having, your own conversation. That's good, that's good, that's good. That would be amazing. Yeah, it would be fun. I noticed, I haven't been on YouTube as of lately to look at Parrot Town or Sharon Zoo to see how they're going live. But I remember one of them or whoever was putting other audio behind it. So it's not like you're hearing the audio of the birds. It's kind of like a consistent play of the birds, you know? Yeah, I think it'd be very entertaining. Can you imagine? Oh, you're so cute. Can I get a sniffy? You guys wanna see me get a sniff? Come, let's do it. See, first she's like, don't take me. Do you see the nostril hair, how cute it is? Can you guys see? You had hairy nostrils. Just so you guys know, the sniff, if anyone doesn't have a bird, by the way, I'm so aware of how valid I sound to the Parrot community, but how crazy I might sound to everybody else I'm aware. Like, and the comedy in me makes me laugh while I'm doing things, because I know, look. So sniff, perfect sniff, where they actually sniff, the best is from their nostril. It's when they breathe out and you breathe in. Yeah, she can talk. She says, hi bird. She says the football thing. She says, what else does she say? She says a few things and actually she says some things. She says some things that like, sometimes new things that I hadn't heard. Who said their bird has a crush on Jersey? Let me see that. If you have a love, oh, that would be interesting to watch Jersey all day, Barbara says. Yeah, that would be cute, cause that is so intro. Oh my God, my budgie loves your intro song. When she hears your voice, she knows the intro is gonna start, so she starts singing. That's actually, could you guys help me with something? I love my intro song too. I created my intro song, fun fact. I didn't do the music for it, but I like directed it. I don't know what you would say, but these days for YouTube, it's kind of long. But I still, I'm like, I can't take it out because like, I think it sounds so good and shows everyone who the birds are. But like when you go in like the technical YouTube world or like no intros anymore, like the people wanna get right to the subject and I'm like, I get it, but if they're here, then you know, you need to see who the birds are, I think. I don't know, what do you guys think? You can tell me honestly, I'm totally okay. And I'm just cut too. I don't like the intro song. No, I love it. It gets me pumped. Your budget doesn't care how long it is, but it makes sense. You see like, I noticed early on in YouTube, a lot of you were messaging me and you were, I love that you guys love the intros, making me happy. A lot of you were messaging me, showing me videos and oh my God, your birds start to dance. This makes so much sense. I love it, but you could move it to the end and people could watch or not watch. I wish it did what Netflix did where you could do skip intro. That would be so cool. So like if you know it and you're like, I need to get right to the video, you could do that. But what I did do in one video, it's kind of a lot of work, but I did do it. And that was like, I would put like a timestamp of where to skip the intro. By the way, oh my God, Mrs. Roy, I've been watching you since the old intro with the George audio, the new one is great too. By the way, George's audio is in the new one. I mean, it's in this, that's been new for a while, but yes, so I don't know if you can hear it, but it's in there. So I did not take that out. So I love that you remember that. Yeah, Jackie says, I wait, I know, couldn't I get them to add that? No, Monica says, if the birds recognize it, keep it. Exactly, yeah, I agree. Like now I didn't even think about that. That's what I was trying to tell you guys. So in the beginning when I started making YouTube videos, a lot of you would message me and you would say, here's a video of my bird that's obsessed with one of your birds. And I was like, wow, these birds are all watching TV. Like we're not just making a show for people, we're making a show for birds. And it was so exciting to me because it was like, what a breakthrough in the animal world that like, like Josie could be really into one of your birds or that one of your birds specifically like Jersey. Now, when I watch TV with my birds, they can be like that too. So it's obvious like, yeah. And it's the same thing with like, when you get the feathered fun box and the bird toys are in it, they start to know that this is the box for me and they get excited over the box. Some of my favorite comments were when you guys were like, well, my bird knows the box now. And like, you know, there they are. Like my bird knows the box now and is excited for his toys. And I'm like, yeah, that's so, that's so funny. And it's the same thing now when you guys are saying my bird likes the intro song or my bird specifically likes one of your birds. It's like, it's so, it's so fascinating. But I guess why would it be any different, you know, Jersey? Like we FaceTime with Jersey, like when we were gone and the girl that was bird sitting in animals, sitting all of our animals, I would FaceTime the birds and I would, you know, also talk to the dogs and everything. And she goes, wow, look, she doesn't have birds. And she was like, wow, it's so impressive how the birds are like so aware when they FaceTime you. Like Jersey will be like, hi, how are you doing? And like, but meanwhile, like the dogs are like, they're just not, they're not like getting it, you know? But Jersey will go around the camera and like look to see like where we are and if we're in there and like, it's just so fascinating to me, birds are unbelievable. That's why I'm obsessed. Yeah, renex can be bullies though. That's so true. Archie thinks it's a gift from Jersey and her mommy. Stop, that's so cute. I love that. Yeah, the character art. Somebody wrote me something and I meant to answer it, but I don't remember what it was, someone. My male cockatiel Scruffy loves talking on FaceTime. He talks to everyone and anyone. Did you guys see that about, I think it's called Parrot Kindergarten. She's so amazing with the birds and you know, they're like iPads and they FaceTime and they call people. I even saw a budgie go through photos on Instagram or something and it wasn't one of hers, but I don't think it was. I don't know, it was another account. It was like shared with me and the budgie is like going through all of the stuff and choosing its favorite pictures and getting excited when it sees a picture of its owner. Purple Dusk, I have sound sensitivity. I totally get it, I do as well. I have certain sound sensitivity where like even the music in our videos, they can't have like this repetitive thing. Like it's hard to explain. There's certain sounds that like trigger me and I'm like, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off. I totally understand you, I totally get it. I also get more sound sensitive at a certain time of the night and certain sounds and certain noises and like sometimes when all the music and stuff stops, I'm like, I can't have like the sound of like, I can't have two noises going on at once that drives me insane. Like if you go to someone's house and they have the TV on but also like a radio in a different room, like I lose my mind, like I can't, like I can't function. You know, I totally understand you and I feel you 100%. Oh yeah, Barbara, a bunch of grays are alive and they, that's like Hubert, right? They're so cute, they're adorable. I've seen them before. Well, they, so the reason, so you guys are talking about how Josie pronounces her name. How do you pronounce your name? So in the original video, the previous owner says, this is Hosey and then when Brew came and brought the birdie said, this is Hosey and then he told me they kinda called the bird both, Hosey and Hosey. Both didn't flow for me off the tongue, but then when I found that the bird was like, well, I feel like the bird is a female, we'll probably DNA star, I was like, I think Josie is gonna be the easiest version of this. So right now we're just saying Josie because it's hard for me to say Hosey and Hosey doesn't seem right. So to keep the essence of the name, look at this tired birdie. The noise is probably gonna keep some silence for you guys. Yeah, so let's see if she's into it. So, so you're gonna approach and like I told you guys, she likes guys. So if my brother George went to approach and give her a head scratch, she'd be right with it. Now give your head scratch? She let Morgan give her a head scratch today. Oh, stop it. Oh, stop it, little baby. Sometimes, I don't know if you guys can see this, this might be helpful to somebody. So when you wanna go test for a head scratch for the bird, never go like to their beak where they can bite you, but always go over the beak. Let me see if you guys can see this, right? Well, hold on. Where if you needed to push the beak down, you could. Can you guys see that? Hold on. So yeah, she's like, no, thanks. So for example, like if I was able to touch the beak, you know, I'm in a safer spot because I could push down, right? From there, you can try to work your way up, but she's not into it. I don't wanna force her. But are you gonna be into sniffing because I would love some sniff? Guys, it's so good. It's so good. I can't. How crazy do we all seem? What does she sniff? She sniffs like musk. You know that musky smell? You do it so good. I could stare at a bird for hours, like just, I forget I'm doing something. I forget, like I'm in a live, I forget I'm filming. I have to edit out how many times, like I do this, right? Like, so let's say I'm filming for you guys and I'm like, I'll be like this. I don't forget, no, I'll have to like cut that out. What do you think Sennie sniff like? Don't know. I have to go home and sniff Nellie and Monty. I do something different with them. Like, so cute that I just like take them. And with Monty, I just like keep like this and like, and like, ugh. They're so cute, but probably the most annoying of my birds, both of them. And Brando, Brando's a brat. Oh, grains. Yeah, someone says their bird smells like grains. That makes sense. So yeah, it's hard to describe them. She smells warm, not in a cinnamon way. Yeah, I know. You know, I'm gonna have to like, okay, Picasso, Picasso and a lot of mustache parakeets, if they don't smell like flowers and baby powder, they smell like the Aria Hotel in Vegas. If you ever go to the Aria and you step in and you smell that hotel, you are smelling Picasso. That's what they smell like. Cause it's usually like, I couldn't live in Australia. I love birds so much. All of them would be, guys, I'm planning, if I could have one of those balconies in Australia where these birds come up to me. Oh, by the way, so my parents, they live in Ireland, but they also like live in the Canary Islands in Spain. And my dad, before they had their place there, they were in a place where all the ringnecks would come. And I found all these videos of my dad feeding the ringnecks on the balcony. And mom said that they would scream at like 8 a.m. and wake him up. And then he would have to go like feed the birds because they would yell at him and they wanted breakfast and dinner. I don't like, that would be my dream. Are you kidding me? Um, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. My love birds smell like clean lemon. If you sniff and slurp, it says they might not be, aren't they fearful that you're gonna eat them? No, I tell them I'm gonna eat them and they still know I won't eat them. They try to eat them. Yeah, you look tasty, you look so tasty. I'm gonna eat you. They're not even phased. What place in the valley do you like best? Like as a bird store or something? Perfect. Parrot is really beautiful. That's a beautiful store. Could over discount birds, birds plus. There's another one. I think it's in Woodland Hills. Parrots naturally maybe? Oh, sassy. Oh my God. You used to live in India and do that? Sniff, sip, swirl, swallow. That's funny. The tattoo, the talking parakeet Josie is like this, like right now, part time at my brother and part time here. Well, you guys are all like birds plus. Why I liked birds plus a lot. I haven't been in a bird store in a while because obviously we have this whole store here of our own now, you know, with the toys and the feathered fun boxes and stuff. If you guys haven't checked it out, go to parrotsation.com. We're in the middle of a website update, so that's why some things are temporarily down, but we have mystery boxes up. So I haven't been on the bird stores in a while, but why I liked birds plus was because Lloyd, when he was in there, well Lou when he was in there was so informative. I mean, things that I had never liked, just like I learned so much from him. Look at you breathing. No way. Warm fuzzy vibes is when I look at Josie, she looks at me and then when I look at the camera, she looks at the camera. That's so interesting. Well, I'm getting all these like notifications on my phone as if I'm not live. Let me eat the entire screen. Madeline, does Josie step up for you? Well, she's a little cranky. She will, but like I have to like kind of do some tricks. Like one trick, by the way, if you ever want a bird to step up, take like a bird that's like Josie, like maybe cranky or maybe not in the mood, maybe normally would step up, but isn't stepping up now and you're in a hurry and you're out of time. Hey, Wendy, what's up? You like, let's say you approach and see the thing is she doesn't want to step up right now because she's very comfortable, but one thing you can do, I don't want to bother her too much, is you go like and tap the tail and it makes them move forward because they're like, what the heck is behind me? I'm going to step forward and that's like one of my tricks. Liliana, in Portugal, there's no bird stores. They have bad bird food. Oh, you know what? I had a hard time in Portugal with food myself. Really, I did. Like they're not yet on the gluten-free kind of thing, you know, this is a little hard for me over there. They also were not on the mocha latte kind of vibe. That wasn't as easy and definitely we're not on the almond milk vibe. So I had to go to Starbucks and I had already given up Starbucks, tried to go more local places and stuff like that, but yeah, Portugal was hard, but I mean, it was beautiful. Like Lisbon was beautiful and I got to know that whole town. I love those European cities that are really warm. They're so much fun. Paper. You guys talking about paper shredding? Very interesting. So it looks like I just hit an hour on the live and I don't want to take up any more of your time and also my battery is dying on the phone. Do you see that reaction from Josie? That was, she just saw an airplane. She woke up and was like, whoa, that was a loud airplane. We have a really cute view of, it's not the cutest view, honestly. There's like, it's a nice big window, but like, the planes go overhead, which is cool. You can see some mountains through some wires. Let me see if I could show you guys. I didn't turn, the camera did not turn, did it? There you go. So she's looking at planes overhead and I'll show you guys, look at all our, look at all our stickers. I was like organizing stuff for our Etsy store. We made a new Etsy store and look at this big sticker. I love these big stickers for like your binder and folder. We're getting all of that on. This is the proposal. We have so much going on over here. I throw in these secret messages for people. So in my fantasies, we found Picasso. So that's why I put that on his pop art. If you guys wanna see some more stuff. I'm uploading all of these to our Etsy store. This is Brando's sticker pack. She's like a princess, loves the couch. She's a director. We got a Picasso magnet. We got Lucy singing. We got the proposal. What else do we have down there? We have the Dooley stuff, tie, Vinny. This is like one of my favorite stickers of all time. I don't know why I just love this. Oh, these, this is the, aren't they so cute? This is Monty and his gambling thing. When they went to the, they basically Monty threw the bachelor party after the proposal for blue and the bachelorette party was thrown by who threw the bachelorette party? I forgot. Oh, Nellie. Nellie threw the bachelorette party and we did that box. Here's Nellie's magnet. Aren't they so cute? Different artists, believe it or not, George has done some viewer called Lins. She was the best. Like she really started the look and helped me like with the look. She did our very first drawing, which was this. And we were on a live just like this one. And she said, I had made a drawing for Jersey and I was trying to hire someone and find someone. And then when I saw that, I was like, whoa, she captured the soul. Like you see Jersey's soul, but she obviously got so big and so successful that I had to find somebody else. So for a while, George was doing them. He did like this one, believe it or not. Like he's a very good as well artist. You guys would really like this. I love this. It's a bird's world, cockatoo life. This was a box where all of the birds went to the snow and they had a good time and they formed the cockatoo club. No, not all of the birds, the cockatoo club. The cockatoos went. This is Jersey's emojis. So she's crying, she's laughing, she's angry, she's a hard emoji. This is the Jersey, the party. This is the Jersey emoji pack, just really cute. Cockatoo life, right? So cute. This is George and Rocky. We really have a picture that looks like that. This is Rocky's feather. We got something on it. He didn't get it on it. We got something on it. I got to show you a close-up of some of his feathers. They're iridescent. What else are you guys saying? Yeah, George is a really good artist. This, I love this. I remember on Instagram after this box, I got messages, like comments in a video saying we really appreciate the George magnet. This is different. So, see, sometimes I'll have, it's a different one. This is stickers different than the magnet. These are so much fun. Do you guys want a tour of the office? Do you guys want a tour of the office? Let me show you. So, this is all messed up right now because I'll show you from this point of view. Hold on one second. Okay, so, this over here is where I make videos. Normally when I don't have this mess, this chair is here and it's set up like a little living room. But then there's a window. I can see everything. This is for when my brother's birds visit. He likes to have them on this on the window. This over here is where, if I wanted to do videos with a backdrop, all the lights are there. You could see these are what I like to do with the stickers because if anyone else comes into film or anything like that, then I know that the equipment is mine. So, I love to put like our stuff on, you know, on our stuff. So, that's that. So, what you'll see here is like this section back here is all those are the rules, I can change them. This is a mirror to check if I look decent before I film. This was, I haven't decided what to do with this backdrop. I still am trying to figure it out. But I know, flock on, flock off. Isn't that cute? I love that. We come up with a lot of things. We have so many more to make. This is packing. So, this is the shipping station, packing computer, all that weighing scale. And so, this is all for packing. The only thing is I did come in and dump my stuff right there to make a mess. Oh, you guys didn't see this. This is the wedding. This went out in the last box. They got married in Ireland. So, this went out to everybody in the Feathered Fun box. And then, when you order stuff, I put stickers, different stickers in there for you guys. Oh, the Georgie plush to hang off your purse, the pukka, so plush. Anyway, so everything I like to keep super organized. These are some Feathered Fun boxes like when I made extra or ones I wanna keep. The toys, the merch, then the Marlene McComins sign. Morgan is over here working on editing videos. She's editing a Rocky video. So, when I first walk in, usually it's much more organized than this. This is all, like I'll show you guys, like I'm kinda psycho about drawer organization. You know? See, I've been gone. So, that has to be like that. Yeah, these are the remote should be together. Anyway, let's not be OCB right now. But, oh yeah, look, see, I put stickers, the stickers on all sorts of things. Okay, so you guys wanna see? You saw that, right? My sunglasses. So, I come in, I put my sunglasses down. I put stuff down, I walk in, check the orders. I have a little refrigerator over here. I just made something. That's messy right now. That's messy right now, because before the live I had to make something. I have equipment. Ooh, zoom in on me. I have equipment in here, you know? Another door that's irrelevant. The water thing, the toaster, the random chair flying around. The reason this chair is flying around, I'm not kidding you, is because I like to sit on it and go like this in the office. That Marlene sign. And aren't the plushies the cutest? They are on our site, but we're working on getting them on the Etsy store. Then we have some more, I'm very psycho-organized as my thing kind of. Then all the boxes are under there, like, you know. But this to me is messy right now. Ah, sorry, that's annoying, I know. Okay, so that's the room tour. And then I like to put, you know, the magnets all over kind of thing. Yeah, and right here, Lilliana does that with the chair too. We have been redoing inventory. So this whole rack used to be toys, but I right now took them off of the store and consolidated and put the mystery boxes and we have these cool mystery boxes. I'll show you guys. This is an extra small one so that I could just kind of, instead of maintaining the inventory for now, I could put in like all different things, like a surprise, this is a small one. They come in all different sizes. And yeah, there's a lot of efficiency in here. It's never done in my opinion. I always wanna do that, you know. Yeah, thank you, Purple Dusk for saying my organization. Here's another thing, which is really cool. If you guys are organizing things in bins, then dry erase markers work really well on them so you can say how many to put. Yeah, I'll do an update here. You're curious to see if Vinny misses us. Vinny does miss you guys. If you're not on my Facebook, we've been putting a lot of Vinny videos up there. The reason we haven't been putting them on YouTube is because a lot of it is sometimes like clips, the best clips that you guys might have seen. We did do a top five Vinny video recently. I don't know if you saw it, it's on the channel here. Vinny does miss you and he appreciates you asking about him, it means a lot to him. Hi, Soland, I'm so glad to say hello to Brazil for me. I love that you appreciate the knowledge on birds even though you don't have one, that really is really cool. I know, I love bird loft, I'm never on Facebook. So like I don't actually go to Facebook to like participate in social media or post to my personal Facebook, but it turns out millions of people love to watch content on Facebook. So that's why I do that. Thank you, Dex. I love the name Quinn, by the way. Yeah, I get you guys not being on Facebook. Yeah, I totally get it. I try to post on TikTok, but I don't know why. Every reel we post to Facebook, we should post on TikTok. I don't know why we don't do that. We post a lot of Facebook reels and stuff, but oh, by the way, guys, check it out. I have, it's not a new channel, but it might be new to a lot of you, probably most of you. We have, our Vlogs channel has been active. We have a video coming out tomorrow. We had one come out last week. It's gonna be like the channel right now. Actually, funny enough, it is kind of bird related, the things that have gone up there, but it's more gonna be like the vlogs and things that you don't see. So if you like to see, like if you like George and I as characters and my sister and Tracy and people like that, like it'll be like when we went skiing. Like I have like 60 vlogs that you guys have never seen. I'm gonna start putting them up and then we'll start putting new vlogs. I'm actually just trying to get the channel monetized and stuff like that. So help me out and go check it out. No, they're not anywhere. Some might have originally been posted very few to my main channel page. And we're gonna repost them on the Vlog channel and take them down off of the main page because it's not that I wouldn't have wanted to put it all in one place. It's just that like it kind of doesn't work like for the algorithm. And the Vlog channel is called right now, Marlene McCohen Vlogs. Later on, I'll probably come up with something else. The latest video is something like a bird. A bird, my bird. I met a bird that used the toilet like a human. I know these names. Like sometimes you have to make them appeal to, you know, other people that don't know, you know? So Rebecca, I love that you're subbed to that channel too and also keep a lookout guys. We're gonna be doing a comedy channel. I already have the content and I love it and I've made a bunch of skits. And I really hope that you guys come join us and help. I think YouTube should. I wish someone would cut this out and share this with YouTube, make my life easier. But YouTube, this is what needs to happen. If somebody has a monetized channel that they commit to and post all the time, they should by default, when they get to a certain amount of subscribers, be able to be a network, which means that they are allotted a certain amount of channels that are monetized. I don't think we should have to work again to put all the effort in to try and get a channel monetized because it deters us. And if you love creating, you love creating and you don't wanna ruin the channel that you have but you also don't wanna start completely fresh. Do you guys know what I mean? I sniffed a bird. Remember I used to sing that? I sniffed a bird. And no, I used to say, I kissed a bird and I liked it. Yay, Karen. Thank you for subbing to the vlog channel, right? Or go from monetized to not because you took a break. Does that happen? I didn't know that happens. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, so the comedy channel is gonna be a third channel. I'm looking to convert. I have a channel called MMS. No, I have a channel called MMC TV where you could see some of the movies I've done but I don't even know how to log into it. So that's not happening. But I have a channel called Marlene McCohen Shorts. And I think I'm gonna turn that into the comedy channel and the vlog channel. Yes, Jackie, it's on YouTube. Check it out. It's called Marlene McCohen Vlogs. So I'll be running three channels. It's gonna be Marlene McCohen, which was this one, Marlene McCohen Vlogs, which I might rename, but that'll be like other things, like vlogs in the family. And then the third channel will all be run with me and my brother. It's gonna be a comedy channel. I already have them filmed, a lot of them. So I'm really excited. And that channel is probably, I'm gonna move the channel I have called Marlene McCohen Shorts into the comedy channel because I don't think there's a reason to have a shorts channel. Yeah, exactly. I think that too, Solin. And it's hard because years ago, I made all these vlogs and wanted to put them on another channel, but I was like, ah, you build up so much energy, that you're like, well, what's the point? To get it monetized, because you are putting money and time and effort into the videos. And it is an investment. And if you can't afford it at the time, it's like, ah, you know, but I think there should be a certain amount of trust, you know? Yeah, I'm smart when Rocky was a little miffed but was still trusting him. Yeah, he's obsessed with George. We take him to brunch. He loves it. Yeah, to get the watch. And then it's so funny because you can get, you know, you can in one video if you look back and find that, oh, you have 500 hours watched, but that's like on this channel, you know? So it's a little bit tough. So I'm just trying to, I realized that a lot of the reason I was gone too is because like when you're stuck in, you feel like you can only create around one subject. I think like it's a little, you know, it's a little, you feel a little trapped. And now that I understand what it is I want to do and what I want to contribute, I think it frees all of my avenues up. So, yeah, exactly. So I think that they will, Sue Ellen, Sue Ellen, Sue Ellen, I don't want to mess your name up. I think like exactly like, but they might say, oh, that's playlist. But the thing that you learn is that also, like when you first create your content, the algorithm is trying to figure out like who your audience is until they like perfect it. They figured out that like my audience is bird stuff. So if I make a video on me and George skiing no matter how entertaining or funny it is, you might be like, wait, why didn't I get this? And then the rest of you might be like, yay, more Marlene and George, more funny, more comedy. So, oh, shoot, guys. That's true, you're right. Maybe I could go live on the channel. That's a very good point. By the way, it looks like my battery is dead, dying to the point where it's on like dark mode. So it's probably gonna go off real quick. What happened to your kitchen or prepping food for the, oh yeah, the cooking show, that was a lot. That was a lot of effort. I actually made a secret episode for Halloween last year. Maybe I could post it this year because it was for the people of the Feathered Funbox, but I could probably post it for you guys right now so that you all could see it. I can't even see your comments anymore. The screen has gone black, but I wanna thank you guys all for being here. It really means a lot to me. I love that you loved the cooking show. I think if I'm able to get myself more back in the game where I can earn more than I spend on making the videos, I'll be able to go back to doing things like that, to do stuff like that. And I have some cool things coming out. I have a Discord coming out that I'm really excited for you guys to see. And so we will talk about that in the next live because I don't want you guys to be cut off, but I love you guys so much. I really appreciate your time. And I think it's fun that we've been able to talk about other things and I will go live more. And thank you for that suggestion to go live on the other channel. That's a really good idea. I think I'm going to do that. I'm gonna be on here much more often. I also, I think I'm like Samsung or something with Samsung because I think I better with my hair like this. I think the blonde was stressing out anymore. See myself, it was terrible. Anyway, I love you guys so much. Thank you. I love seeing you guys. It means a lot to me, really. And also I don't even know how to hang this thing up because the screen is black. Yeah, bye.