From pilfering chips to swallowing whole starfish, gulls are known for their voracious appetites.

For anyone alarmed by all of the widespread predictions about A.I. swallowing whole entire job sectors, the show’s measured coverage might prove reassuring.

“You’re Long John Silver and you’ve got snakes in your boots, fortune cookies and glazed donuts, and you’re drinking iced coffee — eating dried beef and picnic ham, swallowing whole mouthfuls of Boston cream pie. … This song melts everything down, browns it up and deep fries it — it’ll milk the cow till it gives blood.”

As a generalist, Burns is prone to swallowing whole the perspectives of the participants and experts he’s taken with.

Boxcar doors were clanking, swallowing whole parades of people.