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Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and

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Speaker 1: there's Chuck and Jerri's here too, and it's short Stuff

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Speaker 1: Cute Cute Little Bug edition.

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Speaker 2: That's right, we're talking about pill bugs or potato bugs

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Speaker 2: or wood lice what or for our English friends, chicky pigs,

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Speaker 2: penny sows or cheesy bugs.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what we're talking about, Chuck, we're.

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Speaker 2: Talking about here in the American South, at least police.

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Speaker 1: Oh, roly police.

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Speaker 2: Is that what you call them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I've always called them. It's funny. I

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Speaker 1: was trying to look up a map of their range

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Speaker 1: in the United States, and all I could find was

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Speaker 1: dialect maps of what people called them around the United States.

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Speaker 1: So I have no idea what their actual range is,

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Speaker 1: but I can tell you in the South everybody calls

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Speaker 1: them roly polies.

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Speaker 2: Well, if they call them something, that probably means they

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Speaker 2: have them, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For sure, I mean we have them. I've seen them before.

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Speaker 2: With that kind of shows you the range I got.

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Speaker 2: If it's named.

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Speaker 1: Boy Chuck, I think I'm getting dumber by the month.

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Speaker 2: But you never know. They might be like, Hey, they

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Speaker 2: don't exist in Washington State, but we still call them grungers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we like to say the word chigi picks.

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Speaker 2: But we're talking about the little round uh well not

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Speaker 2: round round if they're threatened, we'll get to that. But

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Speaker 2: the little thing that you probably think is an insect

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Speaker 2: that looks like a little uh prawn or an armadillo

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Speaker 2: with legs. And in fact, the scientific name is Armadillium

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Speaker 2: arma no arma dilidium bulgary. Very nice, geez uh.

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Speaker 1: That's shortened it to chigi picks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a roly bully.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And actually, strangely enough, even though, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I've seen them with my own two eyes in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: They are from the Mediterranean initially, but they spread all

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Speaker 1: over the world. You can find them all over the

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Speaker 1: place because they were basically carried over through the plant trade.

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Speaker 1: International plant trade.

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Speaker 2: That's right. You want some plants, they're going to come

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Speaker 2: with some well, they're going to come with insects. But

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Speaker 2: I keep saying insect they're not insects. Should we go

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Speaker 2: ahead and spoil what these things are?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. It's one of the facts of the short stuff.

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Speaker 2: You take it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. So they're not insects, chuck, they're not mammals,

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Speaker 1: they're not birds, they're crustaceans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mentioned shrimp.

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Speaker 1: Cousins to crabs and lobsters and shrimp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And there are twelve species in the

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Speaker 2: United States alone, it says northern and central parts of

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Speaker 2: the country. But maybe they don't dwell in like the

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Speaker 2: deep deserts. Who knows, but I know I see them

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Speaker 2: all over the place here. They're the only crustacean that

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Speaker 2: has adapted to live entirely on land, and they breathe

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Speaker 2: through gills, which is remarkable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So the fact that they have adapted to live

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Speaker 1: on land, the only crustaceans that did. That's another fact

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Speaker 1: of the podcast. Just amazing stuff, right, But technically it's

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Speaker 1: a sub fact of the fact that their crustaceans. I guess.

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Speaker 1: Another fact of the podcast, though, is there's a word

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Speaker 1: for them turning into roly Polyi's a tight little ball,

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Speaker 1: which uh, which well, I guess marine biologists have have

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Speaker 1: determined was an evolutionary response to predators or to keep

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Speaker 1: their gills moist. They curl up into low ball, hence

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Speaker 1: the name roly poly. But there's a term for that,

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Speaker 1: and I think you should tell everybody what that is?

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Speaker 2: Hmm, all right, it is conglobation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I had I said it, I would have

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Speaker 1: said conglobulation, but that's not correct. It's the better way

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you love adding things.

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Speaker 1: Conglobation, fancying up a word.

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Speaker 2: That's Josh Clark, the Josh Clark way for sure. So

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of remarkable things here. We're gonna check

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Speaker 2: off a couple of them and then take a ke.

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Speaker 2: But one of them is they do not urinate. They

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Speaker 2: have a very high tolerance for ammonia, so they don't urinate.

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Speaker 2: They excreete waste through the shells. They eat all kinds

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Speaker 2: of things in the garden, but one thing that they

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Speaker 2: eat is their own poopoo, which is a practice called

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Speaker 2: self car profigy caprofhagy. Self caprofagy, didn't I Yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: poop eaters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they eat their own poop. And it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gross, but it also makes sense because you don't

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Speaker 1: if you eat your poop, you have another shot at

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Speaker 1: extracting more of the nutrients that were left over.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you missed something. Try again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a piece of shrimp in there.

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Speaker 2: Ironically, they can drink from their mouth or they can

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Speaker 2: drink from their hind And they have a little tube

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Speaker 2: shaped structure in the back and so it doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: if the parties in the front ear in their ear.

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Speaker 2: They can still get their drink on.

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Speaker 1: That's funny. Did jo I came up with is that

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Speaker 1: they could use them both at the same time and

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Speaker 1: share a milkshake with themselves.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's even better.

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Speaker 1: Well I think they're equally good.

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Speaker 2: Well I just thought of mine. It's not as good.

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Speaker 1: Well, mine's written down so technical years is better because

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Speaker 1: it's off the cup.

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Speaker 2: Well, you just made yours up to You just wrote

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Speaker 2: it down, true, dad, unless did you work shop it

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Speaker 2: over a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've me so tired of hearing that joke.

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Speaker 2: You're like, which one you mean? Shut up?

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Speaker 1: Should I say milkshake or shit?

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Speaker 2: Right? How about one more factoid and then we'll take

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, they're crustaceans, but they also have a marsupial

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those mamas carry their little eggs around for two

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Speaker 2: to three months in their marsupium they hatch, and then

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Speaker 2: sometimes even those little young'ins will go back in that

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Speaker 1: Hey, mama, like Elvis. Uh Okay, now it's time for

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Speaker 2: Joy, all right, we'll be right back. All right, We're

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Speaker 2: back with some more amazing facts. These little guys are arthropods,

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Speaker 2: so they're gonna molt. And if you ever see a

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Speaker 2: little cheesy wog what do they call them in England, cheesy.

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Speaker 1: Wig, chiggy pigs.

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Speaker 2: Chicky pigs, chugs, cheesy bug. And if you find one

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Speaker 1: Yeah he's porky pigan it, yeah, exactly. There's some other

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Speaker 1: things you should know about him. Another reason to leave

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Speaker 1: As you'll see, they don't sting, they don't bite, they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're champions of your composting efforts because they get

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Speaker 2: in there. They have what's called a detritivorous diet. Is

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Speaker 1: Well, I would say detritativit forest diet.

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Speaker 2: That it means that they basically take anything that's from

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Speaker 2: a decomposting plant or if there's a dead animal or

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Speaker 2: other poop. They can absorb all those nutrients, poop it

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Speaker 2: pretty amazing. But to me, one of the most amazing

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Speaker 2: facts is that they're into heavy metal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like big time.

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Speaker 2: Like Crocus, Sabbath, Dio, Docin Maiden, White Lion. Ohoo, God,

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Speaker 2: what if we just named metal bands for the next

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Speaker 1: Quite right? Oh man, bang your head.

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Speaker 2: That's hair metal.

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Speaker 1: It's still metal, all right. It's their most metal of

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Speaker 1: hair metal. I would say, quite right, it is, at

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Speaker 1: least some of their songs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like quite right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're great.

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Speaker 2: That's good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Uh what about Testament, the other Christian metal band.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I knew about them. Yeah, there's Testament

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they were Christian. They talked a lot

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Speaker 2: Did they rock hard for Jesus?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Do they rock super hard? They were like the

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Speaker 2: So they love heavy metal. They love all those bands

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So, like you mentioned, they're great for your garden.

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Speaker 2: They may I mean that the damage that they might

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Speaker 2: not the kind of land crustacean that's just gonna eat

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Speaker 1: Right, there are no land crabs.

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Speaker 2: No, not on land crab at all.

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Speaker 1: You got anything else about roly polies?

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Speaker 2: No, this is a short and sweet.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that we did a pretty good psa

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Speaker 1: to everybody. Know, leave the roly polies alone and short

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