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Birdman Bobby on Parrots, Motorcycles, and Giving Back · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome into another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I'm your host Bubba Starts, and with me today is TikTok sensation, Birdman Bobby.
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  Welcome to the show, Bobby.
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  How are you guys doing?
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  I think everybody's great, man.
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  Still recovering, I think, from rally.
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  What a what a slog those ten days can be, but, we're home now, resting up, and no travels for
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  the foreseeable future.
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  So glad to sit down and spend some time with you while we were out there together in
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  Sturgis.
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  But, for those of our listeners that don't know you, why don't you go ahead and, tell us a
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  little bit about who you are and and what it is you do?
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  So I ride a motorcycle with, five parrots on my shoulder.
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  They're all rescues.
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  I don't train them.
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  I don't do anything to get them on the bike.
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  They just kinda follow along.
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  Same with my dogs.
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  Kinda like, if there's such thing as an animal whisperer, I guess I'm one of those.
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  Somehow you have built a relationship with these birds.
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  They trust you.
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  I've seen the videos of them cruising down the highway with you at 80 miles an hour, and, it
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  seems like they really enjoy it.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, if they didn't wanna be there, he has the opportunity to rip my ear off if he wanted
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  to.
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  So Well, do something.
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  Well, you shared a story with me that accidentally that that actually happened last
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  year.
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  Right?
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  Put me in the hospital, got me all infected, almost killed me, went septic.
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  It was it could have been bad.
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  But, of course, he didn't do it on purpose.
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  A flight accident?
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  Correct.
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  Yeah.
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  Those are just you know, he just tries to grab on or like, when he tries to fly to me at home,
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  he wants to stop himself from coming in hot.
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  So he grabs whatever he can, and that requires me to wear a bandana around my ears because I
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  look like an MMA fighter with all the cartilage ripped.
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  Well and I think as, you know, a lot of people are probably not familiar with birds.
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  I think, you know, as far as pets go, birds are at the bottom of a lot of lists.
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  Right?
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  There there's not a lot of, you know and it's hard to say that you own them.
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  Like you said, if they didn't wanna be there, they they wouldn't be.
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  Right?
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  Right.
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  So whole flight.
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  A bird companion, maybe, is a better term.
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  For
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  sure.
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  And because they don't have hands, right, we we forget how how important the opposable thumb
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  is, but birds use their beak for most of the things that we would use our hands for.
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  Yeah.
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  I would say the beak is their probably number one appendage, and their talons are secondary.
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  They use it to climb.
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  They I mean, he can skin a grape with this thing.
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  It's amazing.
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  Incredible.
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  Right?
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  Incredible.
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  So what are you guys doing?
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  You're traveling the country on the motorcycle.
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  I know you're attached to a few maybe nonprofits or or just charities that you've
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  worked with.
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  Can you tell us about some of the people you've worked with to kinda use the celebrity,
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  probably more of the birds than of Bobby, but using that to to bring awareness to great
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  causes around the country?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I've done suicide prevention.
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  We just got done with the R ride, which is for suicide also for PTSD.
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  My girlfriend had a tragic thing happen to her with her ex husband and all murder suicide kind
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  of thing.
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  So, yeah, I'm big on veteran suicide.
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  That's something I'm very passionate about.
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  And that's kind of where we aligned.
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  We met you at at one of our events while we were out there Sturgis.
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  We were at hose clamp customs, and you had trimmed in there.
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  Obviously, we have operation combating veteran suicide, our nonprofit partner, and something
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  that we're very serious about.
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  22 a day, probably more by now.
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  The statistics continue to climb.
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  It is just an ungodly number of human beings, and not just human beings, but in a small
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  community like the veteran community.
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  Those are brothers and sisters.
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  Yep.
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  Bobby, are you a veteran yourself?
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  I am.
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  Yep.
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  Thank you for your service.
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  82 to 87 in the army.
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  So
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  Got out before Desert Storm?
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  Yeah.
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  I got to go play in Honduras in Central America with the seventh group for all the conference
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  stuff.
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  Oh oh, fun.
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  Yeah.
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  We weren't we weren't down there, though.
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  I I was never there.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  What a crazy time that was.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Teaching 14 year old kids how to kill people was fun.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Just it's unbelievable that, our our government was I mean, is still capable of doing such
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  atrocities.
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  We hope that that's changing now, you know, especially with this last, you know, eight,
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  nine months of activity.
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  But think without diligent Patriots such as yourself that are always bringing awareness to
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  these things and and being of the people that that nothing ever changes.
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  So I admire you, you know, going out there and and continuing to be a voice, not just for
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  veterans, but for, you know, people who are suffering from PTSD and other mental health
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  issues.
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  It's, it's very commendable, sir, and and I appreciate your continued service to our
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  communities.
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  Thank you.
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  Appreciate that.
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  So what does the, next couple of months hold for you?
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  Obviously, it's hard to ride motor cycles as the weather continues to cool.
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  You're in Illinois?
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  Yep.
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  I'm just outside Chicago.
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  I'd love to get involved with somewhere where I could, you know, go to all these rallies.
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  Laconia, Traytona.
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  I would just like to travel the whole rally circuit spreading the word about veteran
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  suicide, animal rescue, all those things I'm passionate about.
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  Using the celebrity of the birds and of Birdman Bobby, you know, online and in person.
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  I mean, you're a show.
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  Everybody wants to take pictures.
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  I know my wife took probably several 100 while we were there just for a few hours.
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  And having a cause attached to that, I think, is so important to not just waste it.
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  Sure.
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  It's great that, you know, you guys want a picture of the birds.
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  But, please, you know, while you're here and if you take a picture and you'd like a picture,
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  maybe you can donate, you know, $5 to our cause.
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  And if the, you know, millions of people that you encounter all summer all do that, think of
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  the incredible good that we could do with something like that.
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  Oh my god.
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  It's it could amazing.
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  Yep.
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  Well, we're gonna talk a lot more about that off camera, but I wanted to make sure that we
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  kinda got out, the ideas and what we'll be, working on together.
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  People can definitely look forward to seeing a lot more of you with the SCENE projects and
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  with operation combating veteran suicide in the future.
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  For all of our listeners, why don't you go ahead and tell us, where we can find you and,
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  how we can connect with you and some of the causes that you're representing?
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  You can find me on all social media at bird man bobby, TikTok, Instagram.
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  I'm not that big on YouTube yet, but I'm trying to get there.
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  Don't know how to break into that market, but I'm working on it.
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  I need young guys like you to help me out with all this digital stuff.
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  So yeah.
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  I check.
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  I'm I'm not as young as I once was, Bobby, but I can sure help you as the 2024 content creator
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  of the year.
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  I think we have at least a small idea of what kind of content that people are gravitating to.
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  And I think it's more than that.
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  I think it's community.
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  I I believe that what we are doing, I say it a lot on the podcast that this is how God is
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  speaking through us, connecting each one of us to one another, and, using that to to make a
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  real difference in the world.
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  So I appreciate you guys, taking a little time for me today and and, coming on camera to chat
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  with us.
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  Thanks for having us.
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  I look forward to future projects.
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  My pleasure, and thanks for being part of the scene.