A quick warning.
There are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org it was Jeff's first time working for his big brother.
His brother needed somebody last minute because the guy bailed on him.
Jeff also had somebody bail on him.
He moved back home for the summer for this girl he liked.
And it became, like, really apparent right away that that wasn't going to work out.
So he had some time on his hands.
His brother was doing a research study on black bears.
His brother's a wildlife biologist and offered him this job as a field tech.
And a summer working with black bears was a dream.
So that wouldn't be a dream for everybody.
Why was that a dream for you?
Oh, I just think bears are the coolest animals.
They're so cool.
Black bears are like, so cool how fast they can, like, climb a tree.
Like, their ears.
I love, like, bears ears.
I just love everything about bears.
So Jeff loves bears.