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00:00:02| they've been around for over 400 million years no I'm not talking about the in-laws talking about hexapod invertebrates they seem unnatural they seem creepy crawly ha they're not
00:00:20| exactly our best friends and if a nuclear war happens they're the only ones that is going to be left that's right folks today we're talking about insects
00:00:36| so I'm Dan and I'm Nick folks we're old friends dissecting one topic at a time people technology media we've got it all covered each discussion here is a deep dive in or unique perspective taboo or
00:00:52| visit subjects they're all on the chopping block baby we don't pander to popular opinion we might even get a little bit dirty morning this podcast may contain mature language and sexual
00:01:03| content and is for entertainment purposes only so join us have a good time open up your earholes [Music] so we're gonna talk about insects
00:01:30| tonight Knicks favorite topic of all of them is incest open sex sorry I mean sex yes that's what I love yes oh I'll bet in sex here I guess you
00:01:44| love trophallaxis the most ooh what process is that I didn't come across that problem you didn't you've never done this before mmm no it's you know when ants greet
00:01:57| each other they're trying to figure out who each other is yeah so they they're also hungry so they they just swap spit and then regurgitate a little bit of food all right right now each other's
00:02:09| mouths and then they they figure out who each other is through their food selects phrases we just did a process of microbiology is that based on that process I mean the gut flora of an ant
00:02:23| worker ant is gonna be different than a queen ant and that's based on I mean that's the only thing that we change the taste of the food to determine who you are
00:02:32| right well the answer unique because they're a a widespread be they're like super organisms they live in hierarchies and they have unique defined roles so while you're talking about an ant the
00:02:45| brain structure of an ant is different based on the job that it does that crazy it's the same base organisms but because this at worker ant versus a queen versus whatever I don't know if the other roles
00:02:57| are but worker queen and the other one it's just like man and woman they carry out the dead right and they've got the job I'm pretty sure yeah take care of the young I think you'll manage the eggs
00:03:09| maybe there's probably like digger ants we're making these up now folks servers types of ants cigarettes that's incredible you Hannah called hexapod invertebrates I assume because they have
00:03:23| six legs and during vertebrates that's what makes an infected insect so an insect is not a spider did you come across that at all a spider is not an insect really it might be I didn't do a
00:03:37| whole much and I just well hexapod think about it though it wouldn't make sense nice I mentioned in our text previous this episode that we would talk about that I
00:03:52| thought maybe you would have taken the onus so scorpions mites ticks our part of the arachnid family erect ins are not insects frak knit uh-huh see what bitch that's half my research Oh anyway
00:04:08| yeah it's based on the number of legs actually insects and arachnids tonight will erect a 10-8 hope the differences yeah well the people in will sloshed around or our intelligence and see what
00:04:23| comes out yeah we're gonna see how this episode fleshes out what I find interesting about insects the most oh yeah ready for this mm-hmm ate their guts you well it is interesting most
00:04:39| people do hate insects yeah I actually in my core of my person I hate insects I I have a borderline fear of them like I don't have a fear of them because I will step on them maybe
00:04:52| even with my bare foot it depends on honzik uh-huh situation yeah but something about them makes me it builds up this weird in a must kill Wow and I don't know how to explain that like so
00:05:05| you've been so like a feeling of ants crawling in their skin like everyone knows that feeling right yeah that doesn't bother you as much like beetles crawling on my skin no I would get me
00:05:16| that's interesting so they have a name for that it's called formication formication is actually the derivative of Latin it means ant is forma so they have really yeah and one of the first I
00:05:30| guess acids that man used was actually formic acid which they would grind up and bodies to make the acid from really mm-hmm and mush actually makes a pretty strong
00:05:45| acid I didn't come across that in my research yeah tonight so if you have creepy crawlies under your in like if you're in withdrawal or some other form of actually maybe having an
00:05:56| insect on you can feel it because it's called formication crawling scan weird is the e that feeling is interesting because it's too small it's weird that we notice it when it's that small of a
00:06:12| feeling is that building to our own sense is kind of like we're attuned to it yeah they also greater than we should be they defined for mutation is also like the like wind blowing on like a
00:06:24| hair follicle or like the Electra like their phones when they vibrate that's a form of formication cuz it like I can have the phantom media like that actually oh yeah false
00:06:34| popularity nothing happened no my phone vibrate now it's like no people like me mentioned it I'm getting retweets and likes people yeah any of them all my phone was blowing up
00:06:53| by the way I don't know what to know I do know what visit me that's me yeah once it's an account we share oh I do try to pop that up as much as possible I pop that up I mean prop that up because
00:07:06| I do all the work good ok that's alright that's alright it's good what works alright it's not interacted but it's ok we wanted to move into before all these things started popping up on my desktop
00:07:23| yeah was hell I don't know I talk about the flies or flies & insects I do actually had them dated 300 million years ago the beetle became very populous hmm as a creature from there
00:07:46| fly around 250 million years ago and then moth and may be caterpillar 150 million years ago it's not actually that old from where I figured as I said in the intro the
00:08:00| oldest known insect was around 400 to some kind of beagle but not like the current they'd be those we have now the oldest insect fossil is the Devonian Rodney Kadapa yeah yeah yeah that's him
00:08:17| Wow Rodney a gaba you're thirsty I don't know what that is but it's fine good good for him I did it disappear you that sucks because I had that page open
00:08:29| but okay well we have even less information than we had a few minutes ago folks it's one of those flying things it's a it's a classic thing if you're watching an intro to any cartoon
00:08:39| dinosaur thing and select thing that flies around and then like an iguana like gets it it's like almost like a dragon final good things yeah I know you're talking about yeah yeah that's
00:08:51| the oldest insect who knew that those cartoons were historically accurate actually accurate yeah I like it also one of the weird things about since we're in like the Jurassic period is
00:09:04| that shirt for every occasion yeah I'm wearing a shirt and nice jeans again this is literally two episodes in a row or I'm wearing nice jeans and an outside coat like where I go yeah the restaurant
00:09:15| luckily he stole that from someone much much a long long ago and what you're long ago probably weighed this is probably much it's probably way dated look at this point but that's alright
00:09:28| I'm gonna take it it was free mm-hmm so uh Kiera I don't know if this is accurate I believe someone said that the oxygen levels in the Jurassic period were much higher and they jumped yeah I
00:09:41| think up right yeah I hope you're wrong mm-hmm I think they're up because which is why the size of the dinosaurs grew sure I'm with a dungeon well makes it easier for them I guess
00:09:52| him yeah that would I have everything could grow bigger because there's more healing to ATP and all this other stuff going on it's the biology thing I'll fill you in later
00:10:02| yeah yeah here's the first insect that when you talk about I think yeah so the whole thing about her increased oxygen so a lot of insects don't have lungs so there's no actually I don't think I
00:10:18| don't know that's a definable thing that they don't have lungs I don't know if any of them have lungs trachea should die if I should've but saliva that's for damn
00:10:29| sure so part of the the size of the insect is directly proportional to its volume because oxygen is actually penetrating this like exoskeleton of the insect and
00:10:43| allowing it to absorb oxygen so when you increase the oxygen amount like in the Jurassic period bugs can become larger because oxygen can permeate further in right otherwise
00:10:55| there's a there's probably law for its surface area versus amount of you can take in through your whatever be mmm yeah so that's the creepiest as fucking hell because if there's ever an
00:11:06| increased amount of oxygen the largest insect known a man can get even larger which i think is a goliath beetle is that the largest right now biggest insect titan beetle titan the beetle
00:11:24| Damon so cause it's as big as your hand that's pretty big it's pretty big there are other ones that were like like three feet across but they're they don't live anymore yeah
00:11:38| okay they're like a massive virgin trilobites I thought were oceans well in fact I guess yeah I just that's one patron so I guess that's what and those kind of ocean two dwelling
00:11:51| creatures when they took the land became insects is that the type of evolutionary pathway we're looking at maybe yeah it does seem like they were once right water creatures and then they became
00:12:03| yeah land creatures or flying creature nation took to the air which is interesting enough yeah I wonder what the like we did really good research I'd want to know what percentage of insects
00:12:14| are flying versus crawling it's like that's a good question right hmm I don't even know I don't even know thing what's crazy is that insects are one of the few creatures that live in abundance
00:12:29| wherever you live like it's not like it's like oh well I guess you get more of them out in the country but they still persist in cities yeah and hi metropolis metropolis metropolis the
00:12:41| tropi there's a word a metropolitan city thank you that's awesome oh you don't know it that's pretty cool I went on a date tonight yeah he's busy I was a dude I
00:12:54| guess you probably remember this cuz it's a childhood thing up where I used to live where you currently live when there are beetle infestations they used to put those things on the lawn they put
00:13:05| that bag and those are um what kind of beutel's they have a name Japanese Japanese beetles I think so I think some Japanese beetles yeah they're little like gold they have like the shell on
00:13:19| them very hard exoskeleton yeah and they're really annoying they they eat the hell out of some crops yep they they be chomping some leaves if we were to use our scientific terms here
00:13:32| one of the more satisfying feelings in the world is hitting those with the yellow wiffle bat oh yeah you go around the beetle bag and why I guess that was a sex related thing they they smell the
00:13:45| pheromones yeah is that a pheromone trap yeah I think I believe how many men would fall into that trap if they were like a hot girl turns a corner
00:13:54| I would I would run into it okay and there'd be some beetle with the trap down a well she's like come down here I'm I need help but I'm naked and you're just like I'm like oh I got a favor I
00:14:07| have to do it this is probably a trap but if it isn't yeah you got that like you never know I could just see you look down the well and she's just like spread-eagle and you're just like well
00:14:19| yes no and it says trap you never know they could've just broke that on the wall by accident god I do it was there a cartoon series that had feel like this is like a Rick and Morty thing with like
00:14:35| a giant insect croc Roach that would shake his head they yeah there is a Rick and Morty they do a lot of insect we'd aliens and some of them are higher level than we are I guess and the dog
00:14:47| with the hey I feel like the insect would be beside the well being like no no don't do it dude don't do it but a guy would do it anyway what I was talking about Morty with oh that's funny
00:15:00| the one that tries to trick Rick and be giving away how he makes the portal gun it's how one of the seasons opens it's actually a really funny one of my favorite episodes it's like Rick we're
00:15:11| inside your mind right now it's voiced by someone really famous what I'm not going to in fact it's probably the dude who um he's the writer and all the shows it's like a crime detective show its
00:15:26| reach and Hannah damn it no I know but I know what I'm talking about I just I need one more key word to break through raamaiah what's it groms alone light Sam key her
00:15:36| nun China thing a lot picture that was a guy's name he does um he's a writer and he works with a female cop who's like good investigating crimes and he saw it's the
00:15:47| best commuters no no no by writing he's like it's a it's like one of those comedy things yeah you know what I'm talking about know exactly what I'm talking about I
00:15:56| need a keyword whoa he's from dune I think is he dude I'm older damn it now I'm gonna google it MacGyver oh god damn it you just in one of our other episodes where I I'm bad
00:16:12| with celebrity names folks I really apologize listen whatever up other episodes where I was literally talking about on like Iran's name well I'll talk about my Beatles story please fuck about
00:16:28| your Beatles so I look this up like in the summers all the Beatles would go into this variable rap Oh Nathan Fillion say Nathan Fillion yeah I think it's Nathan Fillion who does the
00:16:38| voice you should've just said maybe doing it was his name I couldn't remember it was castle and Nathan Fillion huh and if I got those two it would have said he's the beetle who says
00:16:50| Rick we're actually inside your brain and he's like oh really and he's like I uploaded a virus and you just you just demolishes the beetle but the beetle people I never
00:17:01| feel bad for when anyone kills them that's true like beetles there's such animosity there do you think it's like a genetic thing that they over time or 100 seconds
00:17:11| there's no other reason why I feel this way well they're the only thing that really gets in your house cuz they're small enough to crawl through cracks and stuff like you get little your way I
00:17:19| think mice are cute he might say my house oh I have a math story it's an insect but you can say it as long as he eats an insect at the end so to my stories an insect day we used to all
00:17:42| have to eat dinner as a family all five of us in my immediate family like 5:30 every day after school work and we get home family dinner family time we all have our own seat you know and I mean
00:17:54| and there was a fan above us and it would just go in the summer and then not the winner makes sense it would always tick over technically that's just we're in the
00:18:07| city it wasn't a very expensive house like that's just like where this went on for like five years seven years I'm 10 years who knows when we were moving out of the house we were cleaning things we
00:18:21| popcorned all the ceilings that was the end look at the time we painted the wallpaper a different color we did a lot and when we were dusting or fixing the ceiling and we
00:18:33| realized that a mouse had died in our ceiling and the little rotor tail was hanging down just far enough that the fan would hit it every time it went by I thought that was like rot and fall off
00:18:46| listen got my god I have no idea I can't explain this all I know is that we found a dead mouse up there and its tail was long enough to hit the fan and make a ticking sound so what's this years or
00:19:00| just for one year this is like years I would think it would fall off but who knows I would I I can't explain it but that was over our dinners number two now story um I saw a mouse at
00:19:14| work one day and I was standing on it was like four feet away and we would get mice and you know everyone likes in a warehouse eight cardboard for chrissake and I was looking at it and I said to
00:19:25| one of the other guys at work and I pulling it to the mouse and I said I'm gonna step on it so it sitting there minding its own business I lifted my leg like real big like I was like a big shot
00:19:39| and I went to stomp on it and it freaked out to the point where it didn't know which direction to go and my foot came down on it and I could feel it under my foot and I guess still alive or is it
00:19:53| just yeah but it was still alive twitching still there or something was happening cuz I didn't put all my weight on it I just put some weight on it so I gritted my teeth and made a face like
00:20:05| this and just had to kill it and I had to keep squishing it with my foot it was like good cry it was a saddest thing ever into things and it take away there I'm a really sensitive man ladies oh
00:20:16| yeah very much and too I am fast enough the Ilham house fast enough mr. thing I don't forget about nothing you didn't I'm done until slowly well it confused it I think but um yeah so my reaction
00:20:33| time is incredible I can actually step on a mouse with my own foot and kill it when it's not moving I mean it moved just not far or fast enough did you have to do your tracking imperfectly you're
00:20:49| really good at killing mice Nick I am impressed and if I was a woman in mice if I was a woman says extra deep wound anyway so you were going with a beetle story before I interrupted with my story
00:21:08| yeah it's the last of the place stories if we should have took a mice for there that's the episode that's what like a visceral thing when you see that bag of beetle so you have no remorse towards it
00:21:17| and like the bags used to fill up like you used to be like even bigger than baseball yeah they'd be like a sack of beetles well turns out you can eat those things not from the bag but
00:21:30| people do people do from around the world so even like things like cockroaches or sea crickets I love crickets Zilla pee yeah yeah they just kind of like Tassimo oil fry them
00:21:45| up a little snack a little con chocolate covered crickets that's a thing yeah they are like mealworms mm I guess that's an insect that's in the middle who knows those things we
00:22:03| don't care about but it's it's weird because like in art and the our country the United States like it's not a very common thing never there's only like two or three restaurants that actually serve
00:22:14| insects and they're owned by the same person so it's like the one guy in the web yeah I did weird makes sense yeah and there's like insects holy crap so outliers
00:22:29| yeah we're outliers here we have a weird aversion good for them that's exactly what I think I think we're like we don't need that we can eat a cow which is a much bigger animal and costs more money
00:22:41| if if we were dirt poor we'd be like cricket got it that's really cleaner it's weird but anyhow my picture I'm like obviously it bugs the dirtiest friggin thing I
00:22:51| hate them but I don't know that's true I don't yeah I don't know that it's true because the maybe they are I don't know I just a throwback to one of our previous guests Susanna
00:23:00| she would probably say that the bacteria that are on a cricket are wildly different than the bacteria that are on a cow so if you have a wittekop out and you someone else's yeah cop-out that's
00:23:12| totally her cop-out and that would be a no mmm yeah so I don't know that a cow is a healthier thing to eat then a cricket it's just easier because it's more more used to it I guess if you're
00:23:25| gonna be an upper echelon type of now person now the big more protein in it obviously yeah so the less I guess what equal weight crickets an equal weight cow it's exactly it so the
00:23:38| sustainability of a cricket is like probably like a factor of two or three easier like for the amount of protein you get from a cricket and that's like whole protein it's like you don't get
00:23:48| partial proteins it's the the completeness of the protein is is equivalent to a cow meat so if you were to grow crickets instead of cows you could
00:23:59| probably do two or three times as much protein in the same amount of land and using the same amount of water yeah well I think there's there's the problem you run into is a skin problem skin well
00:24:15| whatever you want to call it the outside the not protein parts of the cricket we'd start adding up in factors of two or three more than the cow well because you can't cut up a cricket to pieces
00:24:26| well actually process is our process there is a process for cricket laughing but the middle yeah they actually do take crickets I think they they take them alive because when you're you have
00:24:39| a live cricket it has excrement inside of it and I think they do the same thing from real worms too they take the crickets and then they boil them rapidly and that causes them to excrete all the
00:24:49| waste and then they Elliott they shit those pans yeah and then they toss them in a grinder and make flour out of them so you can have cricket flour which is equivalent to like wheat
00:25:00| flour which I'm okay with eating it doesn't sound nice I'm gonna do it online against it I'm just not into it that's early so it's strictly cultural I don't know yeah I don't how about um The
00:25:17| Lion King when um Timon and Pumbaa take a sip oh they have the giant slug Hey and you have to eat it's not slug it's like a worm and a beetle and uh it's insects they all have six legs I can't
00:25:30| like that's the grossest part of the effort this shit the move it is cuz it again it's very visceral and then like when he bites it like the juices of the whatever one go to the back of it and
00:25:41| then he's a kid yeah I think swallows one he makes a face he's like slimy yet satisfying yes exactly yeah I would never eat a live insect I don't think would you mmm point
00:25:58| by thousand bucks I mean that's even like if you if you're drinking a coke and a fly gets in there or like a bee like you like you get that thing out of your mouth as soon as you can yeah well
00:26:11| that's that's different I said for $5,000 for $5,000 what would I eat Oh what I eat yeah we do something eat a bug hey to cricket I think a cricket that I'd be okay but
00:26:21| like a fly fly would probably be alright to a bit of beetle so small beetle I could probably eat that boot cockroach I could not do yeah the worst one now weird yeah I don't but so like
00:26:37| cockroaches are one of the worst because they get in everywhere and then they just they survive we were from Northeast Philly and in my particular block was it the downswing
00:26:48| elevation wise huh and then it would go back up and they said it was a it used to be a creek or a river at the time mm-hmm not sure if it's true just but it would make sense to physically from the
00:26:58| layout of the land come back on large street look it up folks okay stalk my ex life I dare you to sew my insert here is that when it gets dry roaches look for water because they need
00:27:13| water more so than food so they will go to the lowest flying point to look for water and drink it at what they do so if your house is moist and the outside is dry and arid that come in your house and
00:27:25| warm on top of freezing cold right mm-hmm and if it gets warm enough they can fly is that why that happens I've never seen a flying one and I heard they do or
00:27:35| there is in different species I don't know which one's fly or not I just know that the hotter it gets the more likely they are to fly I think that species flourish
00:27:47| is more in like Florida you know I mean like that's gross I'm really I've never I don't think I've ever seen a flying cockroach I would shit someone else's pants on myself I have it down in Texas
00:27:58| I have they've when they fly towards you you just fuck no just so he get that thing away from me about but in Northeast Philly we had um mice occasionally and uh cockroaches and they
00:28:14| would crawl behind your like stove and crap like you would find them under things yeah it would come out like they're nocturnal too they don't look like it as they come out like we had
00:28:26| carpet in the basement like they would come out and you would see them and my mom or dad would like step on it step on it and like as a five-year-old I was like no and I still remember if you step
00:28:38| on you can see like white stuff come out their heads and stuff yeah see my son he now he he recognizes spiders so every insect he sees you a spider spider he'll walk up to it and go spider spider point
00:28:49| at it and then the next thing he does is he slams his foot right down on it that's like bad has a certain like me it wasn't about squashing things as a kid I was like nope hmm so that also leads
00:29:03| into so the cockroaches are there because of the water one of the defenses against cockroaches is called diatomaceous earth against all insects actually because their carapace once it
00:29:15| gets this diatomaceous earth in it it starts to like crack it and cause these like it essentially cuts and it come out causes them to lose water really quickly when they dry out diatomaceous earth
00:29:27| it's actually I think like old sea creatures like shellfish that have dried and formed rock and then when you pull this rock out of the earth it falls apart very easily into this white powder
00:29:39| it's very brittle crumbly mmm-hmm yeah so the poured it at your you sprinkle it around it's completely food safe too they actually add it as like a anti-caking agent and certain foods
00:29:53| so diatomaceous or insect some health picks it up and it gets into its system and then yep it gets all over their body if they if they get it like say if you were an insect and you got on your hands
00:30:03| like your hands would start to be all like check chapped and cracked and then because the insect requires so much water they would instantly lose the water that they were trying to recoup by
00:30:14| drinking so they wouldn't be able to survive if they were caked with this diatomaceous earth so here's a cool thing because we're in the chemical business my family um we would get first
00:30:27| dibs on different industrial chemicals and one of the craziest ones and I can still picture the smell was um it was called lightning or lightning out no it was lightning and it was a insect killer
00:30:40| and insect killers have the most ridiculous long list of chemicals involved like to the point where this was the best insect killer anyone's ever seen you've done like the wasp spray
00:30:54| right or you hit him for like 10 feet away with a little like jinny I love that the reason I bring up lightning oh or whoever it was there was an oil-based one in a water-based one and I think the
00:31:05| oil-based one was really good like it would you would never see bugs in your house again the problem is within 5-10 years the FCC shuts these people down because they're like whoa this is also
00:31:17| not healthy for anyone else we all know y'all got cancer yeah like that's like essentially what they're doing do you know why they um another thing causes cancer is on urinal pucks really not
00:31:32| supposed to eat this what are they called I like para it's called parent paraffin wax it's para it's para something else
00:31:40| anyway urinal block para they made a rule where you couldn't make the blocks out of power anymore add to be non para is the new blocks and if you notice your no blocks break apart much easier the
00:31:54| more brittle it's a different material Herod died chlorobenzene sure there you go so anyway um now I switch to non power and they kind of suck you'll also notice
00:32:04| that everyone switched to Z and eight screens and the like all the knockoffs cuz yeah pregnant with a fragrance and they work great actually work better than the pucks anyway so
00:32:12| almost everyone's moved away they also have the little needlepoint on them the face up towards you so when you pee the splash doesn't go as much the good ones have needles on the bottom so they're
00:32:22| not quite in contact with the urinal there's a little bit of room the liquid to go underneath there's no Elsa no splash because they're impregnated with liquid usually there's a little tabs on
00:32:32| these bad boys tells you when they're ready to be pulled when it's been thirty days when it's time to throw those bad boys in the trash so you get yourself a perfect journal clean system no cancer
00:32:41| okay folks I feel like that's a guy in the biz the engineer who designed that is now like finally someone with rich she hates me just make shad out but but the reason for a parent non power is
00:32:57| because no one's chewing on urinal blocks and getting cancer all the workers who make this stuff and deal with it over there yeah yeah no one who sprays roach spray is probably eating it
00:33:09| or putting it in their food or getting enough contact with it that it can actually cause cancer but the people in these factories are people transporting it they do so that's why we change the
00:33:19| laws for the reasons we do it's like the radium girls why I yeah but what girls the radium girls who are marking the watches with the glow-in-the-dark radium yeah yeah the people with the watches
00:33:31| don't give a shit but the people who were making them they got terrible throat cancer jaw cancer actly exactly not good not good no not good and I've heard what we got into it entirely but I
00:33:42| do know that insect killers are ridiculous in that diatomaceous earth yeah diatomaceous earth sounds like a good one yeah I actually like that one yeah and it's not a super chemical yeah
00:33:57| they run off they end up in your streams and then they end up back in your drinking where at some point yeah actually when there was a flood here during Hurricane harvey I put down just
00:34:07| a line of diatomaceous earth because all the insects were starting to come into the house so they man don't do that would hurt so much and literally if ants are like trying to crawl on top of it
00:34:18| they realize about an inch into the stuff that they're gonna dive really fast because they start rolling around and squirming and then just like ants - yeah any type of
00:34:27| insect because all the insects have a similar type of carapace skin yeah it's actually actually like ants do you want visited the black ants up north no I'm actually wool okay as a kid right after
00:34:49| someone taught me had a magnifying glass ants which is that stuff yeah right we all do that yeah I'm here I noticed I'd be bored on summer days and I like sciency stuff you can find like a colony
00:35:02| where they have this little ant what are those called mountains yeah and he'll are mountain mount hey mmm yeah you can see from which one it is and like who's coming out and coming in it's a little
00:35:13| tiny black ants real no guys right the real little ones those are great then I'm do anything to you no no no they don't like doing anything okay mind their business or consulate work if you
00:35:23| would um like it read it and stun it enough we're like the big one the big red ant they're always on trees and stuff yeah but I think the ants that are up north
00:35:31| that's probably not technically I guess a red ant is different than a fire ant right I don't think they were fire ants I think they could bite you with you wouldn't really feel it there yeah yeah
00:35:42| you could stun it and I would throw it on the anthill and eventually with enough black ants little tiny ones came in contact with this guy who was alive they would run more troops out oh my god
00:35:54| even they would beat him up they would rip them apart or bring him into the hole and I'd never see him again so it was a Miss fascinating thing to me I was like holy shit okay so what you're
00:36:04| talking about is quorum sensing so usually that's like a bacterial type of thing where if there's enough bacteria throwing off the signal that something's attacking them then all the bacteria
00:36:13| throw off this signal what they start attacking it so ants did the same thing is that they throw off this quorum sensing and once there's enough of them to realize
00:36:23| there's something wrong they all start attacking they have a hive mind crazy mind is wild they talk about how they can um move together if they're on a drift in water
00:36:36| yeah that happened during Hurricane harvey to is that they form these like yeah pads of pants and they're just waiting on the river patterns or yeah some lady actually was on the bank like
00:36:47| a curve or one of the rivers and it was dumping ants like floating ants onto our property when the water receded her property was just all ants she was like and they're all fire ants - so when fire
00:37:01| ants bite you a single bite hurts a lot and it makes like a little mosquito type of blunt like bump on you so she was like I got to get the hell out of here cuz these
00:37:11| ants are gonna rip me apart and how do you can't defend against them unless you're like covered in diatomaceous earth someone can die from that right I know it was like an old-fashioned
00:37:19| punishment wasn't it where you'd stick him in the ground to cover him in honey until fire ants came was that just a wives tale or a joke or is that a thing I want to get like facts on that how
00:37:28| many ants there has been people that they're having people that I've died there are wild ass ants in Africa and stuff and like South America like in the jungles that have mandibles like this
00:37:41| that are just serrated it's like knives yeah they have buttons get big oh those are the ones they use for a suture stick I just got goose bumps then check that out yeah the usual so like when they get
00:37:54| a cut those they have there's ants that have the big enough pincers that when they pinch they'd stay there there's no way to really get them on hold yeah the bullet bullet in that yeah all right I
00:38:04| didn't really research that I know that he's right he's right okay no I thought the board ant was the one that felt like a bullet wound don't hate you all lit and bullets fall head bullet I said ball
00:38:17| head well any all it is probably the one with a painful the most painful sting known to man right that's bullet I think so I was saying ball head for whatever reason maybe I'm well well it back then
00:38:38| they used to use them as sutures because you could you could put that ant right up against your wound make it so that closes your wound we get off yeah and then the head would
00:38:46| actually say there so it would be like a little suture and they just use multiple hands it's a pretty buzzed at all it's awesome stuff that's crazy stuff that's wild actually it's bull head a kind of
00:39:00| an eye no bullet is the painful that's out dollars that's a dollars fan I think it's what's called DOL why are you s I'm sure make up words it's fine but f ants are crazy does just like all the others
00:39:18| are all widespread and they're also like forming colonies and you're seen like someone poor they like heat up a metal they get it boiling molten and they have a molten molten funk it they molten pour
00:39:33| it into the ant hive ant colony and they like can cast it and then if they like chip it out and they can see like the how that the colony actually looks in a dude I guess you could do that I mean
00:39:49| clear so you don't see them anymore out I don't see them in like I guess you get buy it on Amazon or something but not gonna say ant farms on panderers key code just type it in right there 5% off
00:40:02| of whatever and farm you're gonna pay yeah I thought our people wearable yeah yes it is wild it isn't that thing anymore is it no I thought with it's because there's a
00:40:14| lifespan problem aurilla like they don't act the way they should or they die on PC let's trap an animal and just watch it and then okay yeah look it says shit anyway yeah right
00:40:30| answer people to my question so ant logic do they have a queen in our own ant farm or ant glance or ant whatever it's called I must write and I mean that's the I don't know if the worker
00:40:42| ants is getting working if there's no Queen do you think they just like don't know there's like you Borgan yeah I think they have no idea it's probably like some they probably send you the
00:40:49| shittiest ants it's probably like one kind of ant that has no Queen and just keep working like we should have done a whole episode on ant farms is that what they're called
00:41:00| I feel like I'm saying the wrong word I don't think you're wrong they can have but but isn't the in farm what it is naturally where's nanquan the one behind the glass
00:41:09| the panes of glass that you can see do people under 15 you know what the hell I'm talking about that's weird I don't know but um ant farm does not sure now there it is yeah
00:41:22| it does okay Louise go buy some what's the price range with ants just asking you a simple question click on shopping okay they do exist well they have cooler ones now that have like a a gel so it's
00:41:39| instead of sand it's now a gel and they can watch and stick through the gel clear weird I wonder why they went gel instead his head I mean it clearly has it with the end but I'm just trying to
00:41:50| think of it safer for the it's for some reason I would say in mourning the main yeah you mean about moving in gel from left or does the answer like wow this is
00:41:59| awesome this is groovy man it doesn't hurt their paws at the end of the day do ants even sleep yes yes they do but not in the sense that we understand sleep it's probably the way dolphin sleep you
00:42:19| know dude often sleep do you know no they only sleep in eight minutes in any sharks like sharks don't sleep they just go into some nocturnal like it's like a hibernation where they're still aware of
00:42:32| things but it's like it's less active than wait am I awake yeah that's what golfing stuff is otherwise they died because they need to get air oxygen so we actually commonly go to the surface
00:42:43| to do this like yeah I said eight minutes every 12 hours that's not a bad life no that's and they're constantly at work at like I was on yeah they're trying to take over the world think
00:42:58| about it I mean how much more productive are they than us I just imagine myself stepping on the whole thing and then the pouring killer [Laughter]
00:43:14| go to sleep now babies yeah it's really funny because like if you think of it if they've been around for millions years more than us right and they're way more productive like they work like 20 hours
00:43:33| a day and they can lift a hundred times their own body weight or whatever the other factor yeah and they're super organized and they're very intelligent and they use the hive mind and the
00:43:43| collective and they still make piles of dirt for a home like they suck you took the wrong path in life ant I mean they're trying their darkness they're they're really good at what they do is
00:43:56| just what did it equate to like what did they get out of it there are no hills around their homes I don't know a queen we're trying to get away from the monarchy here in the United States
00:44:08| that's all I'm telling you so there's a more interesting stuff about like zombie insects is it insects that do that so there's something to play it there's some funky that does this to fungi yeah
00:44:23| but there are insects that so I heard of one that it would like lying waiting for a bee or wasp to come by and it would like insert itself into its abdomen and then there were like a male and female
00:44:39| version so the female would permanently stay in the abdomen until I give birth and reproduced and it would wait for the male to find the parasite inside of that wasp and then meet with it while it was
00:44:50| inside that crazy how do they meet normally I don't know insects me but they feel like something easier way either way no I'm sorry what I will say is there's the fungi that takes over
00:45:04| ants I think mm-hmm so I'm ball tied them into zombies yeah this is something straight out of like sci-fi um to my knowledge it how did it get in there that it it
00:45:16| Dolf is a sugar or something in the ant we start to ingest and then as it gets into different parts the insides of the ant it grew so it's made of like these stalks of celluloid or um it's a
00:45:30| material that's stiff but it's a very natural forming material and it would branch out in certain parts of the ant that were important to movement so it could branch out and take over like its
00:45:41| arms and then like its head so it would be like it would look like the guy from men and by Edgar mm-hmm sir water sugar water Thanks I'll be taking that he's the
00:45:57| greatest actor of our generation by the way you haven't see men in black pay special attention to Edgar he does really gentle sweeping motions with his arms knock things off the table says
00:46:08| things like I'll be taking that and take things thanks our market a snack for later that is verbatim that is verbatim oh hey here's one of my favorite actress but anyway this fungus does this to
00:46:24| these ants and it literally like fur makes them move and to me that's that's beyond creepy that's like the weirdest thing you do yeah there's a zombification of fish where like
00:46:37| something would get in their brains and then it would change the serotonin levels yeah it would change the serotonin levels to make them more energetic and jump out of the water
00:46:46| because another animal would find it yeah bird a bird would find it and the whole goal of the parasite was that it would only reproduce inside of a bird's intestines oh well bird intestines if
00:47:01| you're gonna make a home that's something I do it it's yeah you're gonna find you gonna grow up you're gonna turn in your 40s you're gonna realize need nice bird intestine home well the only
00:47:11| way to get it folks is to work from the bottom get inside a fish make it jump a little bit make it work a little bit you're gonna intern for a little while eventually you're gonna shoot right to
00:47:20| the top once you get in those bird intestines you find yourself of life you get a little mm-hmm get some babies everyone's fine that's like a goal I actually think
00:47:31| that's Holmby does that make sense yeah I could yeah I could see that he's aspiring for a brand new bird intestine imagine he comes back into the fish brain later at night it's been like
00:47:43| three weeks she's like honey we're still in the fish he's like jumping it's just not working it's been a bad year this quarter there aren't a lot of birds eating fish in
00:47:52| this area and she's like I don't care about any of that you have to show results but I'll leave you and he's like I'm really stressed right now just slap me just slap me a little bit I need a
00:48:02| little more certainty around smack me around okay those they got inside those parasites got issues yes it does so we got one more zombification here of cockroaches the female jewel wasp she'll
00:48:19| actually find a cockroach and infest it she injects the toxin so it paralyzes it and then it goes for the head oh yeah I do know this one yeah slowly consumes the cockroach alive as
00:48:33| it reproduces it's pretty crazy stuff it's a fighty yeah it is is it's creepy it makes your skin crawl a little bit yeah if this is actually happening to human beings which
00:48:45| it actually might be happening we just don't know it's kind of it's a crazy thing it's very yeah sci-fi it doesn't believe like it doesn't seem like it's possible ooh
00:49:03| talk about foods a little bit more so there's on top of like the Marketo million cockroach there's actually in East Africa they have these flies that are all the way all around and they
00:49:18| can't really do anything with them so they catch them and like form them into a patty and then press them together and it's called a conga conga cake they make it like a burger they fry it up they
00:49:32| cook it and then they eat it you serious Clark yeah they're called midges these flies that they catch they literally said that you can coat a pan in oil and this swinging it in the air
00:49:45| and catch it off midges that you can form it into a nice patty and cook it like neither like a burger that sounds like an old wife's tale this is a true thing no they taste like caviar hates
00:49:56| around no no the swinging a pan round making enough for a burger I don't know that you've ever been to East Africa so you can't disprove me well played well played disprove me goes I decided to
00:50:13| don't want this burger but Dan uh Explorer David Livingstone tasted not unlike Livingstone I presume Livingstone Oh different than Livingstone I presume
00:50:27| what's that joke it was going on in cartoons yeah we were seeing Looney Tunes cartoons which were made in the thirties or fifties I don't know but they were references to things going on
00:50:41| within a 5-10 years fan so they're probably referencing things from the guy and the joke was Livingstone I presume I don't even know what that means
00:50:53| I've heard that expression that phrase amelie is the only white guy in africa and they is like oh is it could be the joke because those cartoons are probably racist back then probably either way
00:51:07| I've heard the joke a million times but I never knew what it meant but to this day if someone said Livingstone I presume I'd laugh like haha man good one good one oh you know your cartoons just
00:51:19| that's it's in every cartoons and every trope it's a he was presumed lost that's what happened everyone so if you were findings Hebrew he would be presumed again but living Livingstone where's he
00:51:34| living haha interesting jokes his name's living hmm let's talk about other foods Cassie Mars ooh it's a cheese we actually talked about this on the food episode so it's a it's a delicacy in
00:51:49| other countries that they makes this cheese and it's watery enough for a fly to drop larvae in there and then creep maggots also the maggots make the cheese very liquidy and it's I
00:52:03| would never eat that but that's how they serve it with the maggots inside do you have to wait til it's just going bad to make it yeah it literally is called like rotten cheese that's the CAHSEE Marzia
00:52:16| Sardinian and nature origin but you actually you'll you've probably eaten insects and you don't even know it don't even go parts-per-million in chocolate please let me know no I mean that's
00:52:31| there that is certainly there yeah you're allowed to have a certain parts per million chocolate hot dogs any food product really have any numbers I do not actually but our let's break it down for
00:52:41| in generalities then so for anyone who doesn't know the Food Drug Administration is at the FDA yeah when you're making a food there rules or regulations you can't have X amount of
00:52:53| dirty hands you got to wash your hands after you go bathroom and that's what the workers do with the material itself whether you're making chocolate you're making hot dogs you're making beef there
00:53:04| is actually a parts-per-million they allow for insects it's built into the law sent an average of about 30 insect fragments in 3.5 ounces of peanut butter that's a lot of fragments I don't know
00:53:19| if it's like one one piece that was broken into thirty fragments but that is a lot peanut butter I didn't think it was gonna be that high in number yeah I thought like a 1 per million or so I
00:53:30| thought it was gonna be like a like a unless I can our jar of peanut butter but like in 3 ounces 3 ounces that's nothing that's so we're getting some insects of it yeah but it's probably
00:53:42| good for you probably and it's probably pureed and mixed in so much with everything else that you wouldn't even notice nothing it's like an insect like sticking out of a peanut butter jar
00:53:50| imagine now that's only one fragment awesome that's is its whole length its whole it's illegal you need several dozen of ounces yes to break that up hmm yeah it applies for like your favorite
00:54:06| Hershey's chocolate same idea so there's also another form of insects that they have this resin they secrete which we call slack which is actually used for like wood I think you if usual
00:54:18| slack wood it's kind of like you have sometimes like paint that's an insect thing that's an insect thing yeah so it's part of an insect it actually keeps other insects off of it
00:54:27| because it's made of dead insects they're like whoa we don't want to touch that so it seals the wood never heard this what the lack bug the lack bug is what actually makes the shellac they
00:54:40| squish it and this is like what you get from it or it's a resonant it's secreted by another female Lac book and then they milk it you can milk anything with six legs me Greg it's just yeah Robert De
00:54:55| Niro with six arms is like Goro so this resin you can dissolve an alcohol and that's what you get for a shellac but there's also food great shellac so they push a lack on different bears foods to
00:55:07| keep it looking like the shine and the sheen that you get on foods so that is something that but I don't know that chocolate has it I don't like plus they're shiny and hard did I do like a
00:55:18| shell chocolate like I'm gonna have to double check which ones I'm just curious now I'm like whoa what's shellac in the year what's crack-a-lackin' shellac and I need to
00:55:29| see what they use it on oh no that there's gonna be oh there you go like jelly beans that's a perfect one like the the shininess on the outside of a jelly bean that's made of the lac bug
00:55:43| resin so you're still eating it yeah weird ghost meeting of these we discussed the beginning you can be needed anyway but that's bizarre yeah it's weird that like if it comes in
00:55:57| a different form that you don't understand you're okay with eating and it's the same the chicken nuggets when chicken nuggets are like a paste paste of an animal that looks disgusting and
00:56:05| made of all different parts but you bread it and then cook it it's like oh it's just breaded stuff we don't know what's actually in there let's just eat it
00:56:15| so we didn't really talk about the disgusting diseases that insects carry the number one killer in the world insects are they I don't know do they have six like so that was one of the
00:56:30| weird things is that like mosquitoes and fleas I know fleas have six legs are you sure fleas don't have eight I thought fleas were arachnid related how do they say that in the beginning you did I
00:56:41| might have said that the begin mention them now we're all furiously yeah oh my god this is the best thing I've ever heard in my life yeah oh my god guys so this
00:56:59| isn't a side and I would we do this a lot in the insect deficit in life we always have things going on it's like ah did you turn on red and now you have to go to court like that ticket no a new
00:57:10| buddy when is that date I don't know it's like coming up soon I'll remember before it happens Oh remember your car insurance lapsed and then you had to do things so
00:57:19| now you have to call them to get $180 back that's when you get there you know and all these things happen in real life and you oh you have to cancel that one credit cards and change your other
00:57:29| credit card you have to go to your son's play he's the treaty did you make the tree outfit yet like there's all these little things in life that are like projects
00:57:38| that could take weeks and you have weeks that don't you got to manage them folks okay I had a project I entirely forgot about where I bought my son his Christmas gifts that costs like well
00:57:50| over $100 they should meet two of them by mistake huh no his Amazon is dumb as hell when it showed up to my house I saw two of them and I said I just needed one and one order number she's no it's to
00:58:02| order numbers I said can you just send one back I refused it she was like yeah that's no problem for seven straight days I didn't sign anything it just said both were delivered to my
00:58:13| house and that was that and I was like this so I called Amazon they said they hadn't heard from anyone by all records you have two of these items you're being charged for two I thought this isn't
00:58:25| good this is a good so this week I was like I'm gonna get behind it I'm gonna call the postal service I'm gonna call ups one of the other eight carriers that moved it and
00:58:36| be like listen I returned it I'm a good guy I don't have it clearly well as of two days ago Amazon said they hadn't heard anything of it and I have two of them.the the posts our office says they
00:58:49| returned it they don't know what happened to it was sent back to its carrier and I thought this is one of those things I gotta keep on top of keep on top of wouldn't you know it folks
00:58:58| good things happen to good people Amazon just sent me an email saying they received an item that was returned the most obvious I being issued a full refund
00:59:07| on sometimes I can't and that's one of those things that would wait on me for a full month that's going here I am I can talk freely about insects again I'm happy and you have two of them and free
00:59:19| or you actually send that back I really returned the one back oh wow I was gonna flip shit if it didn't get returned refunded you a Hot Wheels car on federal there's such a good guy I never knew it
00:59:32| but what I do know is that mosquitoes and fleas are both insects yeah six legs of these baby gets back yeah and so fleas carried the Black Plague and plague the black plague the plague
00:59:50| what's the name of that one oh I think we have to did know it from last episode you're gonna have to look at that one and last episode guys last episode was it it was most certainly was she said a
01:00:02| name of it she did did you know I don't know the name of it no one knows the name of the Black Plague except biologists microbiologists yeah that's like a double-oh-seven bond James Bond
01:00:19| biologist microbiologist at the darkest way banach plague no I was going with like the scientific version yeah the actual uh yeah yeah like the bacteria I think it is bacteria
01:00:35| I didn't think it was actually your singing - stop your sin Ian pets this we all know yeah I am plagued pink yep yep that all plans that so yeah so
01:00:48| mosquitoes are actually the deadliest insect known to man because it kills more than anything else in the planet anyhow heart attacks car accident more alcoholism your mother yes even
01:01:05| infections you're right it's weird it is weird that the things that I hate the most kill the most people yeah I'm justified who I don't think there's anyone well maybe someone who studies
01:01:19| mosquitoes like an entomologist might like mosquitoes more than humans but they're probably fighting my god when I was like 14 or 18 I wrote a thing that said the world will be better without
01:01:32| these three things and it was wind mosquitoes and there was a third thing every what it was but to this day I still think about the mosquitoes part I'm like why did I say that that's kind
01:01:42| of rude what purpose do they have on this earth huh yeah I I guess they feed some fish and some birds excuse is that is that their whole purpose on the earth yeah I guess so
01:01:59| but they kill millions and millions of people luckily we still have wind because that would kill almost everybody if there was a zero why was the same five one that made the one that made the
01:02:13| most sense to me nowadays of mosquitoes and so we talk about fire ants we didn't really talk about like other poisonous things there are yeah there's like soap silkworm moths which are low no Meah
01:02:32| they poisons yes so there's a very brightly colored one that makes over it I don't know that it actually makes silk maybe this is still yeah might be a silkworm the moth might be the deadly
01:02:46| venomous version which one do you have see that guy but literally root might be go they there's like swarms of them so down here in Texas they are everywhere when when they actually come I haven't
01:03:02| seen them for the past few years but they always just any lights things yeah they used to like cover your different plants in your car and they say not to touch them because they have little I
01:03:11| think they're called like herbs yeah they're little barbs I can't say it cuz I'm drunk articulating hairs guess I said so they actually get their barbs here that stick
01:03:24| into your body and they have a little venom and poison to them so they say now don't touch the brightly colored caterpillars because they're actually deadly which is really off-putting for
01:03:35| other types of caterpillars I'm pretty sure they hate the other kind that damn well anomia ah yeah you're me Google and you know I see the light yeah end of the tunnel I found the coolest caterpillar
01:03:54| at one time at calluna mall so I'll talk about the difference so we talked about flies we didn't really talk about gadflies Arbat flies with that so botflies actually burrow into living
01:04:10| flesh in order to reproduce so if you ever looked on YouTube and search for a botfly or gadfly you will see people a teaser zone but no not dead not dead bodies living people
01:04:22| yeah they will you can see them pulling these botflies out of their skin botfly it is it is really disturbing to think because they're big they're they're like bigger than a pimple it's like it looks
01:04:43| like a pimple to start and then it's like when they finally finish pulling it out it's like like a pistachio or something marble sized like it's big it's really disgusting like marble
01:04:53| Kennard uh-huh marble and granite who sells that I don't know go to Nick at marble and granite store a generic or long yeah now for long so that was like the events and names after
01:05:09| the podcast yeah yeah anyway so that that's one of the plagues right and they're like seven plagues that biblical yeah so there's there's what the there's like a bacteria that hits the water
01:05:21| which causes the fish to die which makes the frogs go up into water supplies makes flies which is the not these flies but ready flies in general and then at some point there's locusts and we didn't
01:05:37| talk about locusts at all we talked about crickets locusts you ever see the swarms although they look like every channel they look like a hoe boom yeah because there's so many of them yep from
01:05:50| a previous episode also is a sand or wind and sand storm isn't that a katabatic process oh did you just listen to this episode uh-huh I just listened to it like a week ago
01:06:01| and that's why I know what you're talking pulled that out of the air it was also your facts that you're harping on yeah I gotta say it's right over regardless cuz it makes me sad to tell
01:06:11| it you know I am saying you're right I think the locusts are friggin nuts yeah it's crazy that they could you know if there was like an imbalance of them and they were sweeping the country we were
01:06:26| always an imbalance yeah we there would be a huge problem if they were just devouring crops I don't know that I have any statistics on how much they can eat neither do I but I'm gonna do some you
01:06:38| Google you know I'm gonna Google and we're gonna come up with a number that's down people a locust can eat his weight and plant each day so a swarm could eat in 1875 the largest local swarm in
01:06:58| history was recorded over the Midwest it took up one hundred ninety eight thousand square miles but a reference California covers 163 thousand square miles those larger than California is
01:07:15| that what you just said much much larger in 1875 the swarm was estimated to contain several trillion locusts and probably weighed several million tons they can eat so what happens with the
01:07:31| locust swarm is they they form storms that form up with bigger swarms and they form up with bigger swarms so you have all one big swarm and there their entire appetite senses and everything go
01:07:46| towards fresh grass so they smell wherever the freshest newest Laura is now but usually upwind they're going downwind no downwind downwind so they're going across the wind huh they know
01:08:01| which way they're gonna go and dude it's just wild like you can eat millions of them and not put a dent in their numbers there's no way to stop them you have to wait until they naturally die out or
01:08:14| what do they believe me now many thing wrong no they they have like a there's like a two-week lifespan or some stuff like that I've no idea all I know is they're crazy or insects off also what's
01:08:30| the animal that lies dormant underground for like 17 years adult lifespan of a locust is four to six weeks okay how's that was like two weeks I think so either way um that is cicadas
01:08:44| which are they are like every seven years see there is a seven years the kid I think there's a twelve year sort of 13 and 17 year locust to them so I guess they're in the same category dude that
01:08:58| sounds like a bad deal if there's ever a year where all of those things combined is that that might be the end time I have no idea Bruns all I know is on planet earth they went on cicadas or
01:09:11| locusts or someone that did a 17 year plan and they all just come out like at once and climb up the nearest tree and I just put in like the damn dude all I'm saying is for you to sleep
01:09:26| for 17 years and then wake up and be alive for four weeks that's the insane thing I've ever heard in my life like there's something about insects
01:09:40| that's very I don't get it it's unsettling it's weird it's different they look different they look like aliens more than I would think of an alien like if I made up an alien it
01:09:55| wouldn't be as weird as an insect Rick and Morty show that in Texas that leaders or I feel like those has to exist that has to do this somewhere it does and I can't remember it was
01:10:11| Futurama didn't do it there's someone else who did on insects is like our overlords or something I feel like a family guy but a family after I made some jokes about it probably make sense
01:10:22| damn it there's one fact I want to go back to but I don't remember what it was and I'll remember and after the podcast it's okay I'll forgive myself I don't know that I have notes I don't
01:10:36| here's where I want to end it then we cover a lot of insects up I think we missed a lot of stuff but I think insect is the most generic thing ever you could probably do eight podcasts on insects if
01:10:46| you really wanted to if they're like nuisances that we have to deal with everyday kind of huh they're very alien they're very weird to us a very we feel like they don't belong and some of us
01:10:58| naturally hate them yeah except for honey bees which are essential to making sure that flowering plants continue to exist shout out to honey bee good job and we'd
01:11:10| love your honey why are they dying come on tell me or are they not dying I just read studies those are not dying it depends on which variety of honey but you're talking about but there are
01:11:19| pesticides that are targeting the honeybee by accident so like Europe recently banned all of those pesticides so that the honeybee can proliferate and continue to survive and pollinate a man
01:11:32| drop the proliferate without even slowing down yes whoo I knew I had some comment I felt it deep down below so yeah insects they suck but they're also necessary and awesome except when I see
01:11:49| DX with that fleas the other way yeah mosquitos on wind you're right what moves or weather but if there was no wind the locusts would have a very difficult time moving their swarms mmm
01:12:03| they would insects are so weird so fun so alien so unlike us so I hate them they reproduce differently they breathe differently they live differently they come together in different lifespans
01:12:21| they feast differently they eat differently they they don't have consciousness I know this for a fact because I stepped on a bunch of them and I'm a really good fly killer by the way
01:12:32| like I'm probably top 10% in the world oh yeah good that fine yeah I'm really good at kidding guys don't ask why spanish fly actually that's something else sorry and
01:12:41| what i want to say is if they're older than us though aren't we the freaks the weirdoes and they say cockroaches are gonna outlive a nuclear blast so we won't so aren't we the weirdos kind of
01:12:57| really think about it they're more natural aren't they I don't know we're the aliens we're the freaks all right we'd wrote a six-foot-tall we step on them we build
01:13:08| things called stoves they crawl around in them there's like this is like a home and I'm like turn on my light screaming at five years old but there's a road to the school that's oh and then we make
01:13:20| insecticides they kill them and the insecticides are poisonous it's cancerous to us what's going on here the humans are such freaks and like nobody you're a cockroach no no
01:13:34| it's flat the bottom line is we can step on all of them right yeah it kind of is but there's a hive mind and a quorum sensing and they can take over i I think that they could take over our homes if
01:13:52| they were smart enough to realize it I heard a fact that said there's more on insect weight than human weight on the earth oh this is dusts of years ago so if I'm right say a prayer for me if I'm
01:14:06| wrong I'm claiming all responsibility no not mine what you got am i right I just have a ratio of insects to humans 200 million to one doesn't say about weight ratio do you
01:14:19| think not two million to one Oh likely after you give him one more second I will give you a second oh this this article is full universe tail up numbers your tarnish humanity so approximately
01:14:43| how much Humanity is outweighed by all those critters so they did a rough estimate and the answer is that they keep talking in this article and are stretching it out wrassles is we're
01:14:58| gonna say The Globe and Mail is a piece of shit website is what we're gonna say and I'm just gonna say yes I seventy times that of its human population the weight of the world's insect population
01:15:13| is about 70 times of its human population I'm gonna set a gaps as how many times so The Globe and Mail is a fantastic website that gives us the information that's just on you if you
01:15:29| like bugs fuck you you're weird you're weird all you entomologist like I I don't I don't like looking at him I don't like kissing them I like give it a little kiss you goodnight I don't like
01:15:42| think you're touching them I don't like hugging them I like bringing them in I own put them up I like bugs if I see them on the ground guess what I'm gonna do them especially
01:15:52| in my own don't cry like a baby and cry afterwards but we know what we do like what do we like you folks we like you we like you a lot thanks for tuning in thanks for enjoying
01:16:10| insects I have a good one sec insects sex
00:00:20| exactly our best friends and if a nuclear war happens they're the only ones that is going to be left that's right folks today we're talking about insects
00:00:36| so I'm Dan and I'm Nick folks we're old friends dissecting one topic at a time people technology media we've got it all covered each discussion here is a deep dive in or unique perspective taboo or
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00:01:03| content and is for entertainment purposes only so join us have a good time open up your earholes [Music] so we're gonna talk about insects
00:01:30| tonight Knicks favorite topic of all of them is incest open sex sorry I mean sex yes that's what I love yes oh I'll bet in sex here I guess you
00:01:44| love trophallaxis the most ooh what process is that I didn't come across that problem you didn't you've never done this before mmm no it's you know when ants greet
00:01:57| each other they're trying to figure out who each other is yeah so they they're also hungry so they they just swap spit and then regurgitate a little bit of food all right right now each other's
00:02:09| mouths and then they they figure out who each other is through their food selects phrases we just did a process of microbiology is that based on that process I mean the gut flora of an ant
00:02:23| worker ant is gonna be different than a queen ant and that's based on I mean that's the only thing that we change the taste of the food to determine who you are
00:02:32| right well the answer unique because they're a a widespread be they're like super organisms they live in hierarchies and they have unique defined roles so while you're talking about an ant the
00:02:45| brain structure of an ant is different based on the job that it does that crazy it's the same base organisms but because this at worker ant versus a queen versus whatever I don't know if the other roles
00:02:57| are but worker queen and the other one it's just like man and woman they carry out the dead right and they've got the job I'm pretty sure yeah take care of the young I think you'll manage the eggs
00:03:09| maybe there's probably like digger ants we're making these up now folks servers types of ants cigarettes that's incredible you Hannah called hexapod invertebrates I assume because they have
00:03:23| six legs and during vertebrates that's what makes an infected insect so an insect is not a spider did you come across that at all a spider is not an insect really it might be I didn't do a
00:03:37| whole much and I just well hexapod think about it though it wouldn't make sense nice I mentioned in our text previous this episode that we would talk about that I
00:03:52| thought maybe you would have taken the onus so scorpions mites ticks our part of the arachnid family erect ins are not insects frak knit uh-huh see what bitch that's half my research Oh anyway
00:04:08| yeah it's based on the number of legs actually insects and arachnids tonight will erect a 10-8 hope the differences yeah well the people in will sloshed around or our intelligence and see what
00:04:23| comes out yeah we're gonna see how this episode fleshes out what I find interesting about insects the most oh yeah ready for this mm-hmm ate their guts you well it is interesting most
00:04:39| people do hate insects yeah I actually in my core of my person I hate insects I I have a borderline fear of them like I don't have a fear of them because I will step on them maybe
00:04:52| even with my bare foot it depends on honzik uh-huh situation yeah but something about them makes me it builds up this weird in a must kill Wow and I don't know how to explain that like so
00:05:05| you've been so like a feeling of ants crawling in their skin like everyone knows that feeling right yeah that doesn't bother you as much like beetles crawling on my skin no I would get me
00:05:16| that's interesting so they have a name for that it's called formication formication is actually the derivative of Latin it means ant is forma so they have really yeah and one of the first I
00:05:30| guess acids that man used was actually formic acid which they would grind up and bodies to make the acid from really mm-hmm and mush actually makes a pretty strong
00:05:45| acid I didn't come across that in my research yeah tonight so if you have creepy crawlies under your in like if you're in withdrawal or some other form of actually maybe having an
00:05:56| insect on you can feel it because it's called formication crawling scan weird is the e that feeling is interesting because it's too small it's weird that we notice it when it's that small of a
00:06:12| feeling is that building to our own sense is kind of like we're attuned to it yeah they also greater than we should be they defined for mutation is also like the like wind blowing on like a
00:06:24| hair follicle or like the Electra like their phones when they vibrate that's a form of formication cuz it like I can have the phantom media like that actually oh yeah false
00:06:34| popularity nothing happened no my phone vibrate now it's like no people like me mentioned it I'm getting retweets and likes people yeah any of them all my phone was blowing up
00:06:53| by the way I don't know what to know I do know what visit me that's me yeah once it's an account we share oh I do try to pop that up as much as possible I pop that up I mean prop that up because
00:07:06| I do all the work good ok that's alright that's alright it's good what works alright it's not interacted but it's ok we wanted to move into before all these things started popping up on my desktop
00:07:23| yeah was hell I don't know I talk about the flies or flies & insects I do actually had them dated 300 million years ago the beetle became very populous hmm as a creature from there
00:07:46| fly around 250 million years ago and then moth and may be caterpillar 150 million years ago it's not actually that old from where I figured as I said in the intro the
00:08:00| oldest known insect was around 400 to some kind of beagle but not like the current they'd be those we have now the oldest insect fossil is the Devonian Rodney Kadapa yeah yeah yeah that's him
00:08:17| Wow Rodney a gaba you're thirsty I don't know what that is but it's fine good good for him I did it disappear you that sucks because I had that page open
00:08:29| but okay well we have even less information than we had a few minutes ago folks it's one of those flying things it's a it's a classic thing if you're watching an intro to any cartoon
00:08:39| dinosaur thing and select thing that flies around and then like an iguana like gets it it's like almost like a dragon final good things yeah I know you're talking about yeah yeah that's
00:08:51| the oldest insect who knew that those cartoons were historically accurate actually accurate yeah I like it also one of the weird things about since we're in like the Jurassic period is
00:09:04| that shirt for every occasion yeah I'm wearing a shirt and nice jeans again this is literally two episodes in a row or I'm wearing nice jeans and an outside coat like where I go yeah the restaurant
00:09:15| luckily he stole that from someone much much a long long ago and what you're long ago probably weighed this is probably much it's probably way dated look at this point but that's alright
00:09:28| I'm gonna take it it was free mm-hmm so uh Kiera I don't know if this is accurate I believe someone said that the oxygen levels in the Jurassic period were much higher and they jumped yeah I
00:09:41| think up right yeah I hope you're wrong mm-hmm I think they're up because which is why the size of the dinosaurs grew sure I'm with a dungeon well makes it easier for them I guess
00:09:52| him yeah that would I have everything could grow bigger because there's more healing to ATP and all this other stuff going on it's the biology thing I'll fill you in later
00:10:02| yeah yeah here's the first insect that when you talk about I think yeah so the whole thing about her increased oxygen so a lot of insects don't have lungs so there's no actually I don't think I
00:10:18| don't know that's a definable thing that they don't have lungs I don't know if any of them have lungs trachea should die if I should've but saliva that's for damn
00:10:29| sure so part of the the size of the insect is directly proportional to its volume because oxygen is actually penetrating this like exoskeleton of the insect and
00:10:43| allowing it to absorb oxygen so when you increase the oxygen amount like in the Jurassic period bugs can become larger because oxygen can permeate further in right otherwise
00:10:55| there's a there's probably law for its surface area versus amount of you can take in through your whatever be mmm yeah so that's the creepiest as fucking hell because if there's ever an
00:11:06| increased amount of oxygen the largest insect known a man can get even larger which i think is a goliath beetle is that the largest right now biggest insect titan beetle titan the beetle
00:11:24| Damon so cause it's as big as your hand that's pretty big it's pretty big there are other ones that were like like three feet across but they're they don't live anymore yeah
00:11:38| okay they're like a massive virgin trilobites I thought were oceans well in fact I guess yeah I just that's one patron so I guess that's what and those kind of ocean two dwelling
00:11:51| creatures when they took the land became insects is that the type of evolutionary pathway we're looking at maybe yeah it does seem like they were once right water creatures and then they became
00:12:03| yeah land creatures or flying creature nation took to the air which is interesting enough yeah I wonder what the like we did really good research I'd want to know what percentage of insects
00:12:14| are flying versus crawling it's like that's a good question right hmm I don't even know I don't even know thing what's crazy is that insects are one of the few creatures that live in abundance
00:12:29| wherever you live like it's not like it's like oh well I guess you get more of them out in the country but they still persist in cities yeah and hi metropolis metropolis metropolis the
00:12:41| tropi there's a word a metropolitan city thank you that's awesome oh you don't know it that's pretty cool I went on a date tonight yeah he's busy I was a dude I
00:12:54| guess you probably remember this cuz it's a childhood thing up where I used to live where you currently live when there are beetle infestations they used to put those things on the lawn they put
00:13:05| that bag and those are um what kind of beutel's they have a name Japanese Japanese beetles I think so I think some Japanese beetles yeah they're little like gold they have like the shell on
00:13:19| them very hard exoskeleton yeah and they're really annoying they they eat the hell out of some crops yep they they be chomping some leaves if we were to use our scientific terms here
00:13:32| one of the more satisfying feelings in the world is hitting those with the yellow wiffle bat oh yeah you go around the beetle bag and why I guess that was a sex related thing they they smell the
00:13:45| pheromones yeah is that a pheromone trap yeah I think I believe how many men would fall into that trap if they were like a hot girl turns a corner
00:13:54| I would I would run into it okay and there'd be some beetle with the trap down a well she's like come down here I'm I need help but I'm naked and you're just like I'm like oh I got a favor I
00:14:07| have to do it this is probably a trap but if it isn't yeah you got that like you never know I could just see you look down the well and she's just like spread-eagle and you're just like well
00:14:19| yes no and it says trap you never know they could've just broke that on the wall by accident god I do it was there a cartoon series that had feel like this is like a Rick and Morty thing with like
00:14:35| a giant insect croc Roach that would shake his head they yeah there is a Rick and Morty they do a lot of insect we'd aliens and some of them are higher level than we are I guess and the dog
00:14:47| with the hey I feel like the insect would be beside the well being like no no don't do it dude don't do it but a guy would do it anyway what I was talking about Morty with oh that's funny
00:15:00| the one that tries to trick Rick and be giving away how he makes the portal gun it's how one of the seasons opens it's actually a really funny one of my favorite episodes it's like Rick we're
00:15:11| inside your mind right now it's voiced by someone really famous what I'm not going to in fact it's probably the dude who um he's the writer and all the shows it's like a crime detective show its
00:15:26| reach and Hannah damn it no I know but I know what I'm talking about I just I need one more key word to break through raamaiah what's it groms alone light Sam key her
00:15:36| nun China thing a lot picture that was a guy's name he does um he's a writer and he works with a female cop who's like good investigating crimes and he saw it's the
00:15:47| best commuters no no no by writing he's like it's a it's like one of those comedy things yeah you know what I'm talking about know exactly what I'm talking about I
00:15:56| need a keyword whoa he's from dune I think is he dude I'm older damn it now I'm gonna google it MacGyver oh god damn it you just in one of our other episodes where I I'm bad
00:16:12| with celebrity names folks I really apologize listen whatever up other episodes where I was literally talking about on like Iran's name well I'll talk about my Beatles story please fuck about
00:16:28| your Beatles so I look this up like in the summers all the Beatles would go into this variable rap Oh Nathan Fillion say Nathan Fillion yeah I think it's Nathan Fillion who does the
00:16:38| voice you should've just said maybe doing it was his name I couldn't remember it was castle and Nathan Fillion huh and if I got those two it would have said he's the beetle who says
00:16:50| Rick we're actually inside your brain and he's like oh really and he's like I uploaded a virus and you just you just demolishes the beetle but the beetle people I never
00:17:01| feel bad for when anyone kills them that's true like beetles there's such animosity there do you think it's like a genetic thing that they over time or 100 seconds
00:17:11| there's no other reason why I feel this way well they're the only thing that really gets in your house cuz they're small enough to crawl through cracks and stuff like you get little your way I
00:17:19| think mice are cute he might say my house oh I have a math story it's an insect but you can say it as long as he eats an insect at the end so to my stories an insect day we used to all
00:17:42| have to eat dinner as a family all five of us in my immediate family like 5:30 every day after school work and we get home family dinner family time we all have our own seat you know and I mean
00:17:54| and there was a fan above us and it would just go in the summer and then not the winner makes sense it would always tick over technically that's just we're in the
00:18:07| city it wasn't a very expensive house like that's just like where this went on for like five years seven years I'm 10 years who knows when we were moving out of the house we were cleaning things we
00:18:21| popcorned all the ceilings that was the end look at the time we painted the wallpaper a different color we did a lot and when we were dusting or fixing the ceiling and we
00:18:33| realized that a mouse had died in our ceiling and the little rotor tail was hanging down just far enough that the fan would hit it every time it went by I thought that was like rot and fall off
00:18:46| listen got my god I have no idea I can't explain this all I know is that we found a dead mouse up there and its tail was long enough to hit the fan and make a ticking sound so what's this years or
00:19:00| just for one year this is like years I would think it would fall off but who knows I would I I can't explain it but that was over our dinners number two now story um I saw a mouse at
00:19:14| work one day and I was standing on it was like four feet away and we would get mice and you know everyone likes in a warehouse eight cardboard for chrissake and I was looking at it and I said to
00:19:25| one of the other guys at work and I pulling it to the mouse and I said I'm gonna step on it so it sitting there minding its own business I lifted my leg like real big like I was like a big shot
00:19:39| and I went to stomp on it and it freaked out to the point where it didn't know which direction to go and my foot came down on it and I could feel it under my foot and I guess still alive or is it
00:19:53| just yeah but it was still alive twitching still there or something was happening cuz I didn't put all my weight on it I just put some weight on it so I gritted my teeth and made a face like
00:20:05| this and just had to kill it and I had to keep squishing it with my foot it was like good cry it was a saddest thing ever into things and it take away there I'm a really sensitive man ladies oh
00:20:16| yeah very much and too I am fast enough the Ilham house fast enough mr. thing I don't forget about nothing you didn't I'm done until slowly well it confused it I think but um yeah so my reaction
00:20:33| time is incredible I can actually step on a mouse with my own foot and kill it when it's not moving I mean it moved just not far or fast enough did you have to do your tracking imperfectly you're
00:20:49| really good at killing mice Nick I am impressed and if I was a woman in mice if I was a woman says extra deep wound anyway so you were going with a beetle story before I interrupted with my story
00:21:08| yeah it's the last of the place stories if we should have took a mice for there that's the episode that's what like a visceral thing when you see that bag of beetle so you have no remorse towards it
00:21:17| and like the bags used to fill up like you used to be like even bigger than baseball yeah they'd be like a sack of beetles well turns out you can eat those things not from the bag but
00:21:30| people do people do from around the world so even like things like cockroaches or sea crickets I love crickets Zilla pee yeah yeah they just kind of like Tassimo oil fry them
00:21:45| up a little snack a little con chocolate covered crickets that's a thing yeah they are like mealworms mm I guess that's an insect that's in the middle who knows those things we
00:22:03| don't care about but it's it's weird because like in art and the our country the United States like it's not a very common thing never there's only like two or three restaurants that actually serve
00:22:14| insects and they're owned by the same person so it's like the one guy in the web yeah I did weird makes sense yeah and there's like insects holy crap so outliers
00:22:29| yeah we're outliers here we have a weird aversion good for them that's exactly what I think I think we're like we don't need that we can eat a cow which is a much bigger animal and costs more money
00:22:41| if if we were dirt poor we'd be like cricket got it that's really cleaner it's weird but anyhow my picture I'm like obviously it bugs the dirtiest friggin thing I
00:22:51| hate them but I don't know that's true I don't yeah I don't know that it's true because the maybe they are I don't know I just a throwback to one of our previous guests Susanna
00:23:00| she would probably say that the bacteria that are on a cricket are wildly different than the bacteria that are on a cow so if you have a wittekop out and you someone else's yeah cop-out that's
00:23:12| totally her cop-out and that would be a no mmm yeah so I don't know that a cow is a healthier thing to eat then a cricket it's just easier because it's more more used to it I guess if you're
00:23:25| gonna be an upper echelon type of now person now the big more protein in it obviously yeah so the less I guess what equal weight crickets an equal weight cow it's exactly it so the
00:23:38| sustainability of a cricket is like probably like a factor of two or three easier like for the amount of protein you get from a cricket and that's like whole protein it's like you don't get
00:23:48| partial proteins it's the the completeness of the protein is is equivalent to a cow meat so if you were to grow crickets instead of cows you could
00:23:59| probably do two or three times as much protein in the same amount of land and using the same amount of water yeah well I think there's there's the problem you run into is a skin problem skin well
00:24:15| whatever you want to call it the outside the not protein parts of the cricket we'd start adding up in factors of two or three more than the cow well because you can't cut up a cricket to pieces
00:24:26| well actually process is our process there is a process for cricket laughing but the middle yeah they actually do take crickets I think they they take them alive because when you're you have
00:24:39| a live cricket it has excrement inside of it and I think they do the same thing from real worms too they take the crickets and then they boil them rapidly and that causes them to excrete all the
00:24:49| waste and then they Elliott they shit those pans yeah and then they toss them in a grinder and make flour out of them so you can have cricket flour which is equivalent to like wheat
00:25:00| flour which I'm okay with eating it doesn't sound nice I'm gonna do it online against it I'm just not into it that's early so it's strictly cultural I don't know yeah I don't how about um The
00:25:17| Lion King when um Timon and Pumbaa take a sip oh they have the giant slug Hey and you have to eat it's not slug it's like a worm and a beetle and uh it's insects they all have six legs I can't
00:25:30| like that's the grossest part of the effort this shit the move it is cuz it again it's very visceral and then like when he bites it like the juices of the whatever one go to the back of it and
00:25:41| then he's a kid yeah I think swallows one he makes a face he's like slimy yet satisfying yes exactly yeah I would never eat a live insect I don't think would you mmm point
00:25:58| by thousand bucks I mean that's even like if you if you're drinking a coke and a fly gets in there or like a bee like you like you get that thing out of your mouth as soon as you can yeah well
00:26:11| that's that's different I said for $5,000 for $5,000 what would I eat Oh what I eat yeah we do something eat a bug hey to cricket I think a cricket that I'd be okay but
00:26:21| like a fly fly would probably be alright to a bit of beetle so small beetle I could probably eat that boot cockroach I could not do yeah the worst one now weird yeah I don't but so like
00:26:37| cockroaches are one of the worst because they get in everywhere and then they just they survive we were from Northeast Philly and in my particular block was it the downswing
00:26:48| elevation wise huh and then it would go back up and they said it was a it used to be a creek or a river at the time mm-hmm not sure if it's true just but it would make sense to physically from the
00:26:58| layout of the land come back on large street look it up folks okay stalk my ex life I dare you to sew my insert here is that when it gets dry roaches look for water because they need
00:27:13| water more so than food so they will go to the lowest flying point to look for water and drink it at what they do so if your house is moist and the outside is dry and arid that come in your house and
00:27:25| warm on top of freezing cold right mm-hmm and if it gets warm enough they can fly is that why that happens I've never seen a flying one and I heard they do or
00:27:35| there is in different species I don't know which one's fly or not I just know that the hotter it gets the more likely they are to fly I think that species flourish
00:27:47| is more in like Florida you know I mean like that's gross I'm really I've never I don't think I've ever seen a flying cockroach I would shit someone else's pants on myself I have it down in Texas
00:27:58| I have they've when they fly towards you you just fuck no just so he get that thing away from me about but in Northeast Philly we had um mice occasionally and uh cockroaches and they
00:28:14| would crawl behind your like stove and crap like you would find them under things yeah it would come out like they're nocturnal too they don't look like it as they come out like we had
00:28:26| carpet in the basement like they would come out and you would see them and my mom or dad would like step on it step on it and like as a five-year-old I was like no and I still remember if you step
00:28:38| on you can see like white stuff come out their heads and stuff yeah see my son he now he he recognizes spiders so every insect he sees you a spider spider he'll walk up to it and go spider spider point
00:28:49| at it and then the next thing he does is he slams his foot right down on it that's like bad has a certain like me it wasn't about squashing things as a kid I was like nope hmm so that also leads
00:29:03| into so the cockroaches are there because of the water one of the defenses against cockroaches is called diatomaceous earth against all insects actually because their carapace once it
00:29:15| gets this diatomaceous earth in it it starts to like crack it and cause these like it essentially cuts and it come out causes them to lose water really quickly when they dry out diatomaceous earth
00:29:27| it's actually I think like old sea creatures like shellfish that have dried and formed rock and then when you pull this rock out of the earth it falls apart very easily into this white powder
00:29:39| it's very brittle crumbly mmm-hmm yeah so the poured it at your you sprinkle it around it's completely food safe too they actually add it as like a anti-caking agent and certain foods
00:29:53| so diatomaceous or insect some health picks it up and it gets into its system and then yep it gets all over their body if they if they get it like say if you were an insect and you got on your hands
00:30:03| like your hands would start to be all like check chapped and cracked and then because the insect requires so much water they would instantly lose the water that they were trying to recoup by
00:30:14| drinking so they wouldn't be able to survive if they were caked with this diatomaceous earth so here's a cool thing because we're in the chemical business my family um we would get first
00:30:27| dibs on different industrial chemicals and one of the craziest ones and I can still picture the smell was um it was called lightning or lightning out no it was lightning and it was a insect killer
00:30:40| and insect killers have the most ridiculous long list of chemicals involved like to the point where this was the best insect killer anyone's ever seen you've done like the wasp spray
00:30:54| right or you hit him for like 10 feet away with a little like jinny I love that the reason I bring up lightning oh or whoever it was there was an oil-based one in a water-based one and I think the
00:31:05| oil-based one was really good like it would you would never see bugs in your house again the problem is within 5-10 years the FCC shuts these people down because they're like whoa this is also
00:31:17| not healthy for anyone else we all know y'all got cancer yeah like that's like essentially what they're doing do you know why they um another thing causes cancer is on urinal pucks really not
00:31:32| supposed to eat this what are they called I like para it's called parent paraffin wax it's para it's para something else
00:31:40| anyway urinal block para they made a rule where you couldn't make the blocks out of power anymore add to be non para is the new blocks and if you notice your no blocks break apart much easier the
00:31:54| more brittle it's a different material Herod died chlorobenzene sure there you go so anyway um now I switch to non power and they kind of suck you'll also notice
00:32:04| that everyone switched to Z and eight screens and the like all the knockoffs cuz yeah pregnant with a fragrance and they work great actually work better than the pucks anyway so
00:32:12| almost everyone's moved away they also have the little needlepoint on them the face up towards you so when you pee the splash doesn't go as much the good ones have needles on the bottom so they're
00:32:22| not quite in contact with the urinal there's a little bit of room the liquid to go underneath there's no Elsa no splash because they're impregnated with liquid usually there's a little tabs on
00:32:32| these bad boys tells you when they're ready to be pulled when it's been thirty days when it's time to throw those bad boys in the trash so you get yourself a perfect journal clean system no cancer
00:32:41| okay folks I feel like that's a guy in the biz the engineer who designed that is now like finally someone with rich she hates me just make shad out but but the reason for a parent non power is
00:32:57| because no one's chewing on urinal blocks and getting cancer all the workers who make this stuff and deal with it over there yeah yeah no one who sprays roach spray is probably eating it
00:33:09| or putting it in their food or getting enough contact with it that it can actually cause cancer but the people in these factories are people transporting it they do so that's why we change the
00:33:19| laws for the reasons we do it's like the radium girls why I yeah but what girls the radium girls who are marking the watches with the glow-in-the-dark radium yeah yeah the people with the watches
00:33:31| don't give a shit but the people who were making them they got terrible throat cancer jaw cancer actly exactly not good not good no not good and I've heard what we got into it entirely but I
00:33:42| do know that insect killers are ridiculous in that diatomaceous earth yeah diatomaceous earth sounds like a good one yeah I actually like that one yeah and it's not a super chemical yeah
00:33:57| they run off they end up in your streams and then they end up back in your drinking where at some point yeah actually when there was a flood here during Hurricane harvey I put down just
00:34:07| a line of diatomaceous earth because all the insects were starting to come into the house so they man don't do that would hurt so much and literally if ants are like trying to crawl on top of it
00:34:18| they realize about an inch into the stuff that they're gonna dive really fast because they start rolling around and squirming and then just like ants - yeah any type of
00:34:27| insect because all the insects have a similar type of carapace skin yeah it's actually actually like ants do you want visited the black ants up north no I'm actually wool okay as a kid right after
00:34:49| someone taught me had a magnifying glass ants which is that stuff yeah right we all do that yeah I'm here I noticed I'd be bored on summer days and I like sciency stuff you can find like a colony
00:35:02| where they have this little ant what are those called mountains yeah and he'll are mountain mount hey mmm yeah you can see from which one it is and like who's coming out and coming in it's a little
00:35:13| tiny black ants real no guys right the real little ones those are great then I'm do anything to you no no no they don't like doing anything okay mind their business or consulate work if you
00:35:23| would um like it read it and stun it enough we're like the big one the big red ant they're always on trees and stuff yeah but I think the ants that are up north
00:35:31| that's probably not technically I guess a red ant is different than a fire ant right I don't think they were fire ants I think they could bite you with you wouldn't really feel it there yeah yeah
00:35:42| you could stun it and I would throw it on the anthill and eventually with enough black ants little tiny ones came in contact with this guy who was alive they would run more troops out oh my god
00:35:54| even they would beat him up they would rip them apart or bring him into the hole and I'd never see him again so it was a Miss fascinating thing to me I was like holy shit okay so what you're
00:36:04| talking about is quorum sensing so usually that's like a bacterial type of thing where if there's enough bacteria throwing off the signal that something's attacking them then all the bacteria
00:36:13| throw off this signal what they start attacking it so ants did the same thing is that they throw off this quorum sensing and once there's enough of them to realize
00:36:23| there's something wrong they all start attacking they have a hive mind crazy mind is wild they talk about how they can um move together if they're on a drift in water
00:36:36| yeah that happened during Hurricane harvey to is that they form these like yeah pads of pants and they're just waiting on the river patterns or yeah some lady actually was on the bank like
00:36:47| a curve or one of the rivers and it was dumping ants like floating ants onto our property when the water receded her property was just all ants she was like and they're all fire ants - so when fire
00:37:01| ants bite you a single bite hurts a lot and it makes like a little mosquito type of blunt like bump on you so she was like I got to get the hell out of here cuz these
00:37:11| ants are gonna rip me apart and how do you can't defend against them unless you're like covered in diatomaceous earth someone can die from that right I know it was like an old-fashioned
00:37:19| punishment wasn't it where you'd stick him in the ground to cover him in honey until fire ants came was that just a wives tale or a joke or is that a thing I want to get like facts on that how
00:37:28| many ants there has been people that they're having people that I've died there are wild ass ants in Africa and stuff and like South America like in the jungles that have mandibles like this
00:37:41| that are just serrated it's like knives yeah they have buttons get big oh those are the ones they use for a suture stick I just got goose bumps then check that out yeah the usual so like when they get
00:37:54| a cut those they have there's ants that have the big enough pincers that when they pinch they'd stay there there's no way to really get them on hold yeah the bullet bullet in that yeah all right I
00:38:04| didn't really research that I know that he's right he's right okay no I thought the board ant was the one that felt like a bullet wound don't hate you all lit and bullets fall head bullet I said ball
00:38:17| head well any all it is probably the one with a painful the most painful sting known to man right that's bullet I think so I was saying ball head for whatever reason maybe I'm well well it back then
00:38:38| they used to use them as sutures because you could you could put that ant right up against your wound make it so that closes your wound we get off yeah and then the head would
00:38:46| actually say there so it would be like a little suture and they just use multiple hands it's a pretty buzzed at all it's awesome stuff that's crazy stuff that's wild actually it's bull head a kind of
00:39:00| an eye no bullet is the painful that's out dollars that's a dollars fan I think it's what's called DOL why are you s I'm sure make up words it's fine but f ants are crazy does just like all the others
00:39:18| are all widespread and they're also like forming colonies and you're seen like someone poor they like heat up a metal they get it boiling molten and they have a molten molten funk it they molten pour
00:39:33| it into the ant hive ant colony and they like can cast it and then if they like chip it out and they can see like the how that the colony actually looks in a dude I guess you could do that I mean
00:39:49| clear so you don't see them anymore out I don't see them in like I guess you get buy it on Amazon or something but not gonna say ant farms on panderers key code just type it in right there 5% off
00:40:02| of whatever and farm you're gonna pay yeah I thought our people wearable yeah yes it is wild it isn't that thing anymore is it no I thought with it's because there's a
00:40:14| lifespan problem aurilla like they don't act the way they should or they die on PC let's trap an animal and just watch it and then okay yeah look it says shit anyway yeah right
00:40:30| answer people to my question so ant logic do they have a queen in our own ant farm or ant glance or ant whatever it's called I must write and I mean that's the I don't know if the worker
00:40:42| ants is getting working if there's no Queen do you think they just like don't know there's like you Borgan yeah I think they have no idea it's probably like some they probably send you the
00:40:49| shittiest ants it's probably like one kind of ant that has no Queen and just keep working like we should have done a whole episode on ant farms is that what they're called
00:41:00| I feel like I'm saying the wrong word I don't think you're wrong they can have but but isn't the in farm what it is naturally where's nanquan the one behind the glass
00:41:09| the panes of glass that you can see do people under 15 you know what the hell I'm talking about that's weird I don't know but um ant farm does not sure now there it is yeah
00:41:22| it does okay Louise go buy some what's the price range with ants just asking you a simple question click on shopping okay they do exist well they have cooler ones now that have like a a gel so it's
00:41:39| instead of sand it's now a gel and they can watch and stick through the gel clear weird I wonder why they went gel instead his head I mean it clearly has it with the end but I'm just trying to
00:41:50| think of it safer for the it's for some reason I would say in mourning the main yeah you mean about moving in gel from left or does the answer like wow this is
00:41:59| awesome this is groovy man it doesn't hurt their paws at the end of the day do ants even sleep yes yes they do but not in the sense that we understand sleep it's probably the way dolphin sleep you
00:42:19| know dude often sleep do you know no they only sleep in eight minutes in any sharks like sharks don't sleep they just go into some nocturnal like it's like a hibernation where they're still aware of
00:42:32| things but it's like it's less active than wait am I awake yeah that's what golfing stuff is otherwise they died because they need to get air oxygen so we actually commonly go to the surface
00:42:43| to do this like yeah I said eight minutes every 12 hours that's not a bad life no that's and they're constantly at work at like I was on yeah they're trying to take over the world think
00:42:58| about it I mean how much more productive are they than us I just imagine myself stepping on the whole thing and then the pouring killer [Laughter]
00:43:14| go to sleep now babies yeah it's really funny because like if you think of it if they've been around for millions years more than us right and they're way more productive like they work like 20 hours
00:43:33| a day and they can lift a hundred times their own body weight or whatever the other factor yeah and they're super organized and they're very intelligent and they use the hive mind and the
00:43:43| collective and they still make piles of dirt for a home like they suck you took the wrong path in life ant I mean they're trying their darkness they're they're really good at what they do is
00:43:56| just what did it equate to like what did they get out of it there are no hills around their homes I don't know a queen we're trying to get away from the monarchy here in the United States
00:44:08| that's all I'm telling you so there's a more interesting stuff about like zombie insects is it insects that do that so there's something to play it there's some funky that does this to fungi yeah
00:44:23| but there are insects that so I heard of one that it would like lying waiting for a bee or wasp to come by and it would like insert itself into its abdomen and then there were like a male and female
00:44:39| version so the female would permanently stay in the abdomen until I give birth and reproduced and it would wait for the male to find the parasite inside of that wasp and then meet with it while it was
00:44:50| inside that crazy how do they meet normally I don't know insects me but they feel like something easier way either way no I'm sorry what I will say is there's the fungi that takes over
00:45:04| ants I think mm-hmm so I'm ball tied them into zombies yeah this is something straight out of like sci-fi um to my knowledge it how did it get in there that it it
00:45:16| Dolf is a sugar or something in the ant we start to ingest and then as it gets into different parts the insides of the ant it grew so it's made of like these stalks of celluloid or um it's a
00:45:30| material that's stiff but it's a very natural forming material and it would branch out in certain parts of the ant that were important to movement so it could branch out and take over like its
00:45:41| arms and then like its head so it would be like it would look like the guy from men and by Edgar mm-hmm sir water sugar water Thanks I'll be taking that he's the
00:45:57| greatest actor of our generation by the way you haven't see men in black pay special attention to Edgar he does really gentle sweeping motions with his arms knock things off the table says
00:46:08| things like I'll be taking that and take things thanks our market a snack for later that is verbatim that is verbatim oh hey here's one of my favorite actress but anyway this fungus does this to
00:46:24| these ants and it literally like fur makes them move and to me that's that's beyond creepy that's like the weirdest thing you do yeah there's a zombification of fish where like
00:46:37| something would get in their brains and then it would change the serotonin levels yeah it would change the serotonin levels to make them more energetic and jump out of the water
00:46:46| because another animal would find it yeah bird a bird would find it and the whole goal of the parasite was that it would only reproduce inside of a bird's intestines oh well bird intestines if
00:47:01| you're gonna make a home that's something I do it it's yeah you're gonna find you gonna grow up you're gonna turn in your 40s you're gonna realize need nice bird intestine home well the only
00:47:11| way to get it folks is to work from the bottom get inside a fish make it jump a little bit make it work a little bit you're gonna intern for a little while eventually you're gonna shoot right to
00:47:20| the top once you get in those bird intestines you find yourself of life you get a little mm-hmm get some babies everyone's fine that's like a goal I actually think
00:47:31| that's Holmby does that make sense yeah I could yeah I could see that he's aspiring for a brand new bird intestine imagine he comes back into the fish brain later at night it's been like
00:47:43| three weeks she's like honey we're still in the fish he's like jumping it's just not working it's been a bad year this quarter there aren't a lot of birds eating fish in
00:47:52| this area and she's like I don't care about any of that you have to show results but I'll leave you and he's like I'm really stressed right now just slap me just slap me a little bit I need a
00:48:02| little more certainty around smack me around okay those they got inside those parasites got issues yes it does so we got one more zombification here of cockroaches the female jewel wasp she'll
00:48:19| actually find a cockroach and infest it she injects the toxin so it paralyzes it and then it goes for the head oh yeah I do know this one yeah slowly consumes the cockroach alive as
00:48:33| it reproduces it's pretty crazy stuff it's a fighty yeah it is is it's creepy it makes your skin crawl a little bit yeah if this is actually happening to human beings which
00:48:45| it actually might be happening we just don't know it's kind of it's a crazy thing it's very yeah sci-fi it doesn't believe like it doesn't seem like it's possible ooh
00:49:03| talk about foods a little bit more so there's on top of like the Marketo million cockroach there's actually in East Africa they have these flies that are all the way all around and they
00:49:18| can't really do anything with them so they catch them and like form them into a patty and then press them together and it's called a conga conga cake they make it like a burger they fry it up they
00:49:32| cook it and then they eat it you serious Clark yeah they're called midges these flies that they catch they literally said that you can coat a pan in oil and this swinging it in the air
00:49:45| and catch it off midges that you can form it into a nice patty and cook it like neither like a burger that sounds like an old wife's tale this is a true thing no they taste like caviar hates
00:49:56| around no no the swinging a pan round making enough for a burger I don't know that you've ever been to East Africa so you can't disprove me well played well played disprove me goes I decided to
00:50:13| don't want this burger but Dan uh Explorer David Livingstone tasted not unlike Livingstone I presume Livingstone Oh different than Livingstone I presume
00:50:27| what's that joke it was going on in cartoons yeah we were seeing Looney Tunes cartoons which were made in the thirties or fifties I don't know but they were references to things going on
00:50:41| within a 5-10 years fan so they're probably referencing things from the guy and the joke was Livingstone I presume I don't even know what that means
00:50:53| I've heard that expression that phrase amelie is the only white guy in africa and they is like oh is it could be the joke because those cartoons are probably racist back then probably either way
00:51:07| I've heard the joke a million times but I never knew what it meant but to this day if someone said Livingstone I presume I'd laugh like haha man good one good one oh you know your cartoons just
00:51:19| that's it's in every cartoons and every trope it's a he was presumed lost that's what happened everyone so if you were findings Hebrew he would be presumed again but living Livingstone where's he
00:51:34| living haha interesting jokes his name's living hmm let's talk about other foods Cassie Mars ooh it's a cheese we actually talked about this on the food episode so it's a it's a delicacy in
00:51:49| other countries that they makes this cheese and it's watery enough for a fly to drop larvae in there and then creep maggots also the maggots make the cheese very liquidy and it's I
00:52:03| would never eat that but that's how they serve it with the maggots inside do you have to wait til it's just going bad to make it yeah it literally is called like rotten cheese that's the CAHSEE Marzia
00:52:16| Sardinian and nature origin but you actually you'll you've probably eaten insects and you don't even know it don't even go parts-per-million in chocolate please let me know no I mean that's
00:52:31| there that is certainly there yeah you're allowed to have a certain parts per million chocolate hot dogs any food product really have any numbers I do not actually but our let's break it down for
00:52:41| in generalities then so for anyone who doesn't know the Food Drug Administration is at the FDA yeah when you're making a food there rules or regulations you can't have X amount of
00:52:53| dirty hands you got to wash your hands after you go bathroom and that's what the workers do with the material itself whether you're making chocolate you're making hot dogs you're making beef there
00:53:04| is actually a parts-per-million they allow for insects it's built into the law sent an average of about 30 insect fragments in 3.5 ounces of peanut butter that's a lot of fragments I don't know
00:53:19| if it's like one one piece that was broken into thirty fragments but that is a lot peanut butter I didn't think it was gonna be that high in number yeah I thought like a 1 per million or so I
00:53:30| thought it was gonna be like a like a unless I can our jar of peanut butter but like in 3 ounces 3 ounces that's nothing that's so we're getting some insects of it yeah but it's probably
00:53:42| good for you probably and it's probably pureed and mixed in so much with everything else that you wouldn't even notice nothing it's like an insect like sticking out of a peanut butter jar
00:53:50| imagine now that's only one fragment awesome that's is its whole length its whole it's illegal you need several dozen of ounces yes to break that up hmm yeah it applies for like your favorite
00:54:06| Hershey's chocolate same idea so there's also another form of insects that they have this resin they secrete which we call slack which is actually used for like wood I think you if usual
00:54:18| slack wood it's kind of like you have sometimes like paint that's an insect thing that's an insect thing yeah so it's part of an insect it actually keeps other insects off of it
00:54:27| because it's made of dead insects they're like whoa we don't want to touch that so it seals the wood never heard this what the lack bug the lack bug is what actually makes the shellac they
00:54:40| squish it and this is like what you get from it or it's a resonant it's secreted by another female Lac book and then they milk it you can milk anything with six legs me Greg it's just yeah Robert De
00:54:55| Niro with six arms is like Goro so this resin you can dissolve an alcohol and that's what you get for a shellac but there's also food great shellac so they push a lack on different bears foods to
00:55:07| keep it looking like the shine and the sheen that you get on foods so that is something that but I don't know that chocolate has it I don't like plus they're shiny and hard did I do like a
00:55:18| shell chocolate like I'm gonna have to double check which ones I'm just curious now I'm like whoa what's shellac in the year what's crack-a-lackin' shellac and I need to
00:55:29| see what they use it on oh no that there's gonna be oh there you go like jelly beans that's a perfect one like the the shininess on the outside of a jelly bean that's made of the lac bug
00:55:43| resin so you're still eating it yeah weird ghost meeting of these we discussed the beginning you can be needed anyway but that's bizarre yeah it's weird that like if it comes in
00:55:57| a different form that you don't understand you're okay with eating and it's the same the chicken nuggets when chicken nuggets are like a paste paste of an animal that looks disgusting and
00:56:05| made of all different parts but you bread it and then cook it it's like oh it's just breaded stuff we don't know what's actually in there let's just eat it
00:56:15| so we didn't really talk about the disgusting diseases that insects carry the number one killer in the world insects are they I don't know do they have six like so that was one of the
00:56:30| weird things is that like mosquitoes and fleas I know fleas have six legs are you sure fleas don't have eight I thought fleas were arachnid related how do they say that in the beginning you did I
00:56:41| might have said that the begin mention them now we're all furiously yeah oh my god this is the best thing I've ever heard in my life yeah oh my god guys so this
00:56:59| isn't a side and I would we do this a lot in the insect deficit in life we always have things going on it's like ah did you turn on red and now you have to go to court like that ticket no a new
00:57:10| buddy when is that date I don't know it's like coming up soon I'll remember before it happens Oh remember your car insurance lapsed and then you had to do things so
00:57:19| now you have to call them to get $180 back that's when you get there you know and all these things happen in real life and you oh you have to cancel that one credit cards and change your other
00:57:29| credit card you have to go to your son's play he's the treaty did you make the tree outfit yet like there's all these little things in life that are like projects
00:57:38| that could take weeks and you have weeks that don't you got to manage them folks okay I had a project I entirely forgot about where I bought my son his Christmas gifts that costs like well
00:57:50| over $100 they should meet two of them by mistake huh no his Amazon is dumb as hell when it showed up to my house I saw two of them and I said I just needed one and one order number she's no it's to
00:58:02| order numbers I said can you just send one back I refused it she was like yeah that's no problem for seven straight days I didn't sign anything it just said both were delivered to my
00:58:13| house and that was that and I was like this so I called Amazon they said they hadn't heard from anyone by all records you have two of these items you're being charged for two I thought this isn't
00:58:25| good this is a good so this week I was like I'm gonna get behind it I'm gonna call the postal service I'm gonna call ups one of the other eight carriers that moved it and
00:58:36| be like listen I returned it I'm a good guy I don't have it clearly well as of two days ago Amazon said they hadn't heard anything of it and I have two of them.the the posts our office says they
00:58:49| returned it they don't know what happened to it was sent back to its carrier and I thought this is one of those things I gotta keep on top of keep on top of wouldn't you know it folks
00:58:58| good things happen to good people Amazon just sent me an email saying they received an item that was returned the most obvious I being issued a full refund
00:59:07| on sometimes I can't and that's one of those things that would wait on me for a full month that's going here I am I can talk freely about insects again I'm happy and you have two of them and free
00:59:19| or you actually send that back I really returned the one back oh wow I was gonna flip shit if it didn't get returned refunded you a Hot Wheels car on federal there's such a good guy I never knew it
00:59:32| but what I do know is that mosquitoes and fleas are both insects yeah six legs of these baby gets back yeah and so fleas carried the Black Plague and plague the black plague the plague
00:59:50| what's the name of that one oh I think we have to did know it from last episode you're gonna have to look at that one and last episode guys last episode was it it was most certainly was she said a
01:00:02| name of it she did did you know I don't know the name of it no one knows the name of the Black Plague except biologists microbiologists yeah that's like a double-oh-seven bond James Bond
01:00:19| biologist microbiologist at the darkest way banach plague no I was going with like the scientific version yeah the actual uh yeah yeah like the bacteria I think it is bacteria
01:00:35| I didn't think it was actually your singing - stop your sin Ian pets this we all know yeah I am plagued pink yep yep that all plans that so yeah so
01:00:48| mosquitoes are actually the deadliest insect known to man because it kills more than anything else in the planet anyhow heart attacks car accident more alcoholism your mother yes even
01:01:05| infections you're right it's weird it is weird that the things that I hate the most kill the most people yeah I'm justified who I don't think there's anyone well maybe someone who studies
01:01:19| mosquitoes like an entomologist might like mosquitoes more than humans but they're probably fighting my god when I was like 14 or 18 I wrote a thing that said the world will be better without
01:01:32| these three things and it was wind mosquitoes and there was a third thing every what it was but to this day I still think about the mosquitoes part I'm like why did I say that that's kind
01:01:42| of rude what purpose do they have on this earth huh yeah I I guess they feed some fish and some birds excuse is that is that their whole purpose on the earth yeah I guess so
01:01:59| but they kill millions and millions of people luckily we still have wind because that would kill almost everybody if there was a zero why was the same five one that made the one that made the
01:02:13| most sense to me nowadays of mosquitoes and so we talk about fire ants we didn't really talk about like other poisonous things there are yeah there's like soap silkworm moths which are low no Meah
01:02:32| they poisons yes so there's a very brightly colored one that makes over it I don't know that it actually makes silk maybe this is still yeah might be a silkworm the moth might be the deadly
01:02:46| venomous version which one do you have see that guy but literally root might be go they there's like swarms of them so down here in Texas they are everywhere when when they actually come I haven't
01:03:02| seen them for the past few years but they always just any lights things yeah they used to like cover your different plants in your car and they say not to touch them because they have little I
01:03:11| think they're called like herbs yeah they're little barbs I can't say it cuz I'm drunk articulating hairs guess I said so they actually get their barbs here that stick
01:03:24| into your body and they have a little venom and poison to them so they say now don't touch the brightly colored caterpillars because they're actually deadly which is really off-putting for
01:03:35| other types of caterpillars I'm pretty sure they hate the other kind that damn well anomia ah yeah you're me Google and you know I see the light yeah end of the tunnel I found the coolest caterpillar
01:03:54| at one time at calluna mall so I'll talk about the difference so we talked about flies we didn't really talk about gadflies Arbat flies with that so botflies actually burrow into living
01:04:10| flesh in order to reproduce so if you ever looked on YouTube and search for a botfly or gadfly you will see people a teaser zone but no not dead not dead bodies living people
01:04:22| yeah they will you can see them pulling these botflies out of their skin botfly it is it is really disturbing to think because they're big they're they're like bigger than a pimple it's like it looks
01:04:43| like a pimple to start and then it's like when they finally finish pulling it out it's like like a pistachio or something marble sized like it's big it's really disgusting like marble
01:04:53| Kennard uh-huh marble and granite who sells that I don't know go to Nick at marble and granite store a generic or long yeah now for long so that was like the events and names after
01:05:09| the podcast yeah yeah anyway so that that's one of the plagues right and they're like seven plagues that biblical yeah so there's there's what the there's like a bacteria that hits the water
01:05:21| which causes the fish to die which makes the frogs go up into water supplies makes flies which is the not these flies but ready flies in general and then at some point there's locusts and we didn't
01:05:37| talk about locusts at all we talked about crickets locusts you ever see the swarms although they look like every channel they look like a hoe boom yeah because there's so many of them yep from
01:05:50| a previous episode also is a sand or wind and sand storm isn't that a katabatic process oh did you just listen to this episode uh-huh I just listened to it like a week ago
01:06:01| and that's why I know what you're talking pulled that out of the air it was also your facts that you're harping on yeah I gotta say it's right over regardless cuz it makes me sad to tell
01:06:11| it you know I am saying you're right I think the locusts are friggin nuts yeah it's crazy that they could you know if there was like an imbalance of them and they were sweeping the country we were
01:06:26| always an imbalance yeah we there would be a huge problem if they were just devouring crops I don't know that I have any statistics on how much they can eat neither do I but I'm gonna do some you
01:06:38| Google you know I'm gonna Google and we're gonna come up with a number that's down people a locust can eat his weight and plant each day so a swarm could eat in 1875 the largest local swarm in
01:06:58| history was recorded over the Midwest it took up one hundred ninety eight thousand square miles but a reference California covers 163 thousand square miles those larger than California is
01:07:15| that what you just said much much larger in 1875 the swarm was estimated to contain several trillion locusts and probably weighed several million tons they can eat so what happens with the
01:07:31| locust swarm is they they form storms that form up with bigger swarms and they form up with bigger swarms so you have all one big swarm and there their entire appetite senses and everything go
01:07:46| towards fresh grass so they smell wherever the freshest newest Laura is now but usually upwind they're going downwind no downwind downwind so they're going across the wind huh they know
01:08:01| which way they're gonna go and dude it's just wild like you can eat millions of them and not put a dent in their numbers there's no way to stop them you have to wait until they naturally die out or
01:08:14| what do they believe me now many thing wrong no they they have like a there's like a two-week lifespan or some stuff like that I've no idea all I know is they're crazy or insects off also what's
01:08:30| the animal that lies dormant underground for like 17 years adult lifespan of a locust is four to six weeks okay how's that was like two weeks I think so either way um that is cicadas
01:08:44| which are they are like every seven years see there is a seven years the kid I think there's a twelve year sort of 13 and 17 year locust to them so I guess they're in the same category dude that
01:08:58| sounds like a bad deal if there's ever a year where all of those things combined is that that might be the end time I have no idea Bruns all I know is on planet earth they went on cicadas or
01:09:11| locusts or someone that did a 17 year plan and they all just come out like at once and climb up the nearest tree and I just put in like the damn dude all I'm saying is for you to sleep
01:09:26| for 17 years and then wake up and be alive for four weeks that's the insane thing I've ever heard in my life like there's something about insects
01:09:40| that's very I don't get it it's unsettling it's weird it's different they look different they look like aliens more than I would think of an alien like if I made up an alien it
01:09:55| wouldn't be as weird as an insect Rick and Morty show that in Texas that leaders or I feel like those has to exist that has to do this somewhere it does and I can't remember it was
01:10:11| Futurama didn't do it there's someone else who did on insects is like our overlords or something I feel like a family guy but a family after I made some jokes about it probably make sense
01:10:22| damn it there's one fact I want to go back to but I don't remember what it was and I'll remember and after the podcast it's okay I'll forgive myself I don't know that I have notes I don't
01:10:36| here's where I want to end it then we cover a lot of insects up I think we missed a lot of stuff but I think insect is the most generic thing ever you could probably do eight podcasts on insects if
01:10:46| you really wanted to if they're like nuisances that we have to deal with everyday kind of huh they're very alien they're very weird to us a very we feel like they don't belong and some of us
01:10:58| naturally hate them yeah except for honey bees which are essential to making sure that flowering plants continue to exist shout out to honey bee good job and we'd
01:11:10| love your honey why are they dying come on tell me or are they not dying I just read studies those are not dying it depends on which variety of honey but you're talking about but there are
01:11:19| pesticides that are targeting the honeybee by accident so like Europe recently banned all of those pesticides so that the honeybee can proliferate and continue to survive and pollinate a man
01:11:32| drop the proliferate without even slowing down yes whoo I knew I had some comment I felt it deep down below so yeah insects they suck but they're also necessary and awesome except when I see
01:11:49| DX with that fleas the other way yeah mosquitos on wind you're right what moves or weather but if there was no wind the locusts would have a very difficult time moving their swarms mmm
01:12:03| they would insects are so weird so fun so alien so unlike us so I hate them they reproduce differently they breathe differently they live differently they come together in different lifespans
01:12:21| they feast differently they eat differently they they don't have consciousness I know this for a fact because I stepped on a bunch of them and I'm a really good fly killer by the way
01:12:32| like I'm probably top 10% in the world oh yeah good that fine yeah I'm really good at kidding guys don't ask why spanish fly actually that's something else sorry and
01:12:41| what i want to say is if they're older than us though aren't we the freaks the weirdoes and they say cockroaches are gonna outlive a nuclear blast so we won't so aren't we the weirdos kind of
01:12:57| really think about it they're more natural aren't they I don't know we're the aliens we're the freaks all right we'd wrote a six-foot-tall we step on them we build
01:13:08| things called stoves they crawl around in them there's like this is like a home and I'm like turn on my light screaming at five years old but there's a road to the school that's oh and then we make
01:13:20| insecticides they kill them and the insecticides are poisonous it's cancerous to us what's going on here the humans are such freaks and like nobody you're a cockroach no no
01:13:34| it's flat the bottom line is we can step on all of them right yeah it kind of is but there's a hive mind and a quorum sensing and they can take over i I think that they could take over our homes if
01:13:52| they were smart enough to realize it I heard a fact that said there's more on insect weight than human weight on the earth oh this is dusts of years ago so if I'm right say a prayer for me if I'm
01:14:06| wrong I'm claiming all responsibility no not mine what you got am i right I just have a ratio of insects to humans 200 million to one doesn't say about weight ratio do you
01:14:19| think not two million to one Oh likely after you give him one more second I will give you a second oh this this article is full universe tail up numbers your tarnish humanity so approximately
01:14:43| how much Humanity is outweighed by all those critters so they did a rough estimate and the answer is that they keep talking in this article and are stretching it out wrassles is we're
01:14:58| gonna say The Globe and Mail is a piece of shit website is what we're gonna say and I'm just gonna say yes I seventy times that of its human population the weight of the world's insect population
01:15:13| is about 70 times of its human population I'm gonna set a gaps as how many times so The Globe and Mail is a fantastic website that gives us the information that's just on you if you
01:15:29| like bugs fuck you you're weird you're weird all you entomologist like I I don't I don't like looking at him I don't like kissing them I like give it a little kiss you goodnight I don't like
01:15:42| think you're touching them I don't like hugging them I like bringing them in I own put them up I like bugs if I see them on the ground guess what I'm gonna do them especially
01:15:52| in my own don't cry like a baby and cry afterwards but we know what we do like what do we like you folks we like you we like you a lot thanks for tuning in thanks for enjoying
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