WEBVTT - Short Stuff: Roly Poly...Bugs?

0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.360
<v Speaker 1>Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and

0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.840
<v Speaker 1>there's Chuck and Jerri's here too, and it's short Stuff

0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:10.640
<v Speaker 1>Cute Cute Little Bug edition.

0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.640
<v Speaker 2>That's right, we're talking about pill bugs or potato bugs

0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.400
<v Speaker 2>or wood lice what or for our English friends, chicky pigs,

0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.360
<v Speaker 2>penny sows or cheesy bugs.

0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.919
<v Speaker 1>I have no idea what we're talking about, Chuck, we're.

0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.880
<v Speaker 2>Talking about here in the American South, at least police.

0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.160
<v Speaker 1>Oh, roly police.

0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:31.200
<v Speaker 2>Is that what you call them?

0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.960
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what I've always called them. It's funny. I

0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.479
<v Speaker 1>was trying to look up a map of their range

0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.159
<v Speaker 1>in the United States, and all I could find was

0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.320
<v Speaker 1>dialect maps of what people called them around the United States.

0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.159
<v Speaker 1>So I have no idea what their actual range is,

0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.040
<v Speaker 1>but I can tell you in the South everybody calls

0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:46.920
<v Speaker 1>them roly polies.

0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.800
<v Speaker 2>Well, if they call them something, that probably means they

0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.080
<v Speaker 2>have them, right, Yeah.

0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.840
<v Speaker 1>For sure, I mean we have them. I've seen them before.

0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.320
<v Speaker 2>With that kind of shows you the range I got.

0:00:58.160 --> 0:00:59.120
<v Speaker 2>If it's named.

0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.720
<v Speaker 1>Boy Chuck, I think I'm getting dumber by the month.

0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.480
<v Speaker 2>But you never know. They might be like, Hey, they

0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.160
<v Speaker 2>don't exist in Washington State, but we still call them grungers.

0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we like to say the word chigi picks.

0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:16.200
<v Speaker 2>But we're talking about the little round uh well not

0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.320
<v Speaker 2>round round if they're threatened, we'll get to that. But

0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.800
<v Speaker 2>the little thing that you probably think is an insect

0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.319
<v Speaker 2>that looks like a little uh prawn or an armadillo

0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:29.240
<v Speaker 2>with legs. And in fact, the scientific name is Armadillium

0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:37.400
<v Speaker 2>arma no arma dilidium bulgary. Very nice, geez uh.

0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.360
<v Speaker 1>That's shortened it to chigi picks.

0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and that's a roly bully.

0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And actually, strangely enough, even though, like I said,

0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.480
<v Speaker 1>I've seen them with my own two eyes in Georgia.

0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.800
<v Speaker 1>They are from the Mediterranean initially, but they spread all

0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.600
<v Speaker 1>over the world. You can find them all over the

0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:59.720
<v Speaker 1>place because they were basically carried over through the plant trade.

0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.720
<v Speaker 1>International plant trade.

0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.440
<v Speaker 2>That's right. You want some plants, they're going to come

0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.320
<v Speaker 2>with some well, they're going to come with insects. But

0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.840
<v Speaker 2>I keep saying insect they're not insects. Should we go

0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.160
<v Speaker 2>ahead and spoil what these things are?

0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, totally. It's one of the facts of the short stuff.

0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:15.440
<v Speaker 2>You take it.

0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.600
<v Speaker 1>Oh, thank you. So they're not insects, chuck, they're not mammals,

0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.119
<v Speaker 1>they're not birds, they're crustaceans.

0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:25.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mentioned shrimp.

0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.520
<v Speaker 1>Cousins to crabs and lobsters and shrimp.

0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's right. And there are twelve species in the

0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.800
<v Speaker 2>United States alone, it says northern and central parts of

0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.200
<v Speaker 2>the country. But maybe they don't dwell in like the

0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.200
<v Speaker 2>deep deserts. Who knows, but I know I see them

0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.800
<v Speaker 2>all over the place here. They're the only crustacean that

0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:49.680
<v Speaker 2>has adapted to live entirely on land, and they breathe

0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.600
<v Speaker 2>through gills, which is remarkable.

0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.359
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So the fact that they have adapted to live

0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.959
<v Speaker 1>on land, the only crustaceans that did. That's another fact

0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.120
<v Speaker 1>of the podcast. Just amazing stuff, right, But technically it's

0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.160
<v Speaker 1>a sub fact of the fact that their crustaceans. I guess.

0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.200
<v Speaker 1>Another fact of the podcast, though, is there's a word

0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.560
<v Speaker 1>for them turning into roly Polyi's a tight little ball,

0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:19.680
<v Speaker 1>which uh, which well, I guess marine biologists have have

0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:25.760
<v Speaker 1>determined was an evolutionary response to predators or to keep

0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.400
<v Speaker 1>their gills moist. They curl up into low ball, hence

0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.280
<v Speaker 1>the name roly poly. But there's a term for that,

0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.680
<v Speaker 1>and I think you should tell everybody what that is?

0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.440
<v Speaker 2>Hmm, all right, it is conglobation.

0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Now I had I said it, I would have

0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.800
<v Speaker 1>said conglobulation, but that's not correct. It's the better way

0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.280
<v Speaker 1>to say it, but it's just not right.

0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you love adding things.

0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.160
<v Speaker 1>Conglobation, fancying up a word.

0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.280
<v Speaker 2>That's Josh Clark, the Josh Clark way for sure. So

0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.720
<v Speaker 2>there's a lot of remarkable things here. We're gonna check

0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.240
<v Speaker 2>off a couple of them and then take a ke.

0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.280
<v Speaker 2>But one of them is they do not urinate. They

0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.080
<v Speaker 2>have a very high tolerance for ammonia, so they don't urinate.

0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:11.560
<v Speaker 2>They excreete waste through the shells. They eat all kinds

0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.280
<v Speaker 2>of things in the garden, but one thing that they

0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.240
<v Speaker 2>eat is their own poopoo, which is a practice called

0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:27.039
<v Speaker 2>self car profigy caprofhagy. Self caprofagy, didn't I Yeah, they're

0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:27.599
<v Speaker 2>poop eaters.

0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they eat their own poop. And it's like, yeah,

0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.279
<v Speaker 1>it's gross, but it also makes sense because you don't

0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.400
<v Speaker 1>necessarily get all the nutrients out of your pea, so

0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.360
<v Speaker 1>if you eat your poop, you have another shot at

0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.840
<v Speaker 1>extracting more of the nutrients that were left over.

0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.039
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like you missed something. Try again.

0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:46.840
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's a piece of shrimp in there.

0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:53.880
<v Speaker 2>Ironically, they can drink from their mouth or they can

0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.679
<v Speaker 2>drink from their hind And they have a little tube

0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.920
<v Speaker 2>shaped structure in the back and so it doesn't matter

0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.640
<v Speaker 2>if the parties in the front ear in their ear.

0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.080
<v Speaker 2>They can still get their drink on.

0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.400
<v Speaker 1>That's funny. Did jo I came up with is that

0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.000
<v Speaker 1>they could use them both at the same time and

0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.720
<v Speaker 1>share a milkshake with themselves.

0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:08.960
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's even better.

0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:10.440
<v Speaker 1>Well I think they're equally good.

0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.480
<v Speaker 2>Well I just thought of mine. It's not as good.

0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.360
<v Speaker 1>Well, mine's written down so technical years is better because

0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:16.120
<v Speaker 1>it's off the cup.

0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.560
<v Speaker 2>Well, you just made yours up to You just wrote

0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.240
<v Speaker 2>it down, true, dad, unless did you work shop it

0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.200
<v Speaker 2>over a couple of days.

0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you've me so tired of hearing that joke.

0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.960
<v Speaker 2>You're like, which one you mean? Shut up?

0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.479
<v Speaker 1>Should I say milkshake or shit?

0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:35.320
<v Speaker 2>Right? How about one more factoid and then we'll take

0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:35.800
<v Speaker 2>a break.

0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.720
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Yeah, they're crustaceans, but they also have a marsupial

0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.000
<v Speaker 1>pouch essentially.

0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, those mamas carry their little eggs around for two

0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.080
<v Speaker 2>to three months in their marsupium they hatch, and then

0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.640
<v Speaker 2>sometimes even those little young'ins will go back in that

0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.880
<v Speaker 2>pouch and say, Mama, I still want to stick around

0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.520
<v Speaker 2>for a little while until I'm ready.

0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.680
<v Speaker 1>Hey, mama, like Elvis. Uh Okay, now it's time for

0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.960
<v Speaker 1>a break, because the facts are coming so fast and

0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.760
<v Speaker 1>hard that I'm crying tears out of my eyes right now.

0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:29.360
<v Speaker 2>Joy, all right, we'll be right back. All right, We're

0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:35.360
<v Speaker 2>back with some more amazing facts. These little guys are arthropods,

0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.000
<v Speaker 2>so they're gonna molt. And if you ever see a

0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.760
<v Speaker 2>little cheesy wog what do they call them in England, cheesy.

0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.520
<v Speaker 1>Wig, chiggy pigs.

0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:48.400
<v Speaker 2>Chicky pigs, chugs, cheesy bug. And if you find one

0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.120
<v Speaker 2>that's like, hey, that thing looks funny, looks like it's

0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.320
<v Speaker 2>got half a shell, it's because their shells are in

0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.599
<v Speaker 2>two pieces. There's a front and the back. They drop

0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.400
<v Speaker 2>that back when first, so you may see one missing

0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.360
<v Speaker 2>its back, and you just got to be just leave

0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:00.680
<v Speaker 2>that little little fellow alone.

0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:06.039
<v Speaker 1>Yeah he's porky pigan it, yeah, exactly. There's some other

0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.520
<v Speaker 1>things you should know about him. Another reason to leave

0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.320
<v Speaker 1>them alone, and even to invite them into your garden.

0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:16.160
<v Speaker 1>As you'll see, they don't sting, they don't bite, they

0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.960
<v Speaker 1>don't carry diseases, and not only do they not mess

0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.960
<v Speaker 1>up your plants, they actually help your garden grow even

0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:29.240
<v Speaker 1>better because these guys are soil maniacs.

0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they're champions of your composting efforts because they get

0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:40.040
<v Speaker 2>in there. They have what's called a detritivorous diet. Is

0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:40.920
<v Speaker 2>that how you'd say it.

0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.280
<v Speaker 1>Well, I would say detritativit forest diet.

0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.840
<v Speaker 2>That it means that they basically take anything that's from

0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.840
<v Speaker 2>a decomposting plant or if there's a dead animal or

0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.680
<v Speaker 2>other poop. They can absorb all those nutrients, poop it

0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.640
<v Speaker 2>out themselves, and they're just little composting machines, which is

0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:05.239
<v Speaker 2>pretty amazing. But to me, one of the most amazing

0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.600
<v Speaker 2>facts is that they're into heavy metal.

0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like big time.

0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:21.080
<v Speaker 2>Like Crocus, Sabbath, Dio, Docin Maiden, White Lion. Ohoo, God,

0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.760
<v Speaker 2>what if we just named metal bands for the next

0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:23.520
<v Speaker 2>six minutes?

0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:28.440
<v Speaker 1>Quite right? Oh man, bang your head.

0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:29.800
<v Speaker 2>That's hair metal.

0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.240
<v Speaker 1>It's still metal, all right. It's their most metal of

0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.200
<v Speaker 1>hair metal. I would say, quite right, it is, at

0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.720
<v Speaker 1>least some of their songs.

0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I like quite right.

0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:38.840
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're great.

0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:40.040
<v Speaker 2>That's good stuff.

0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:46.160
<v Speaker 1>Uh what about Testament, the other Christian metal band.

0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.920
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I knew about them. Yeah, there's Testament

0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:50.880
<v Speaker 2>that sounds familiar, though.

0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure they were Christian. They talked a lot

0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:54.720
<v Speaker 1>about Christianity.

0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:56.600
<v Speaker 2>Did they rock hard for Jesus?

0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.040
<v Speaker 1>Oh? Do they rock super hard? They were like the

0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:00.960
<v Speaker 1>kind where you could be like, not at all religious,

0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.320
<v Speaker 1>but I still like Testament. Yeah, kind of like My

0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.920
<v Speaker 1>Boys and Striper Queen's Reke. They were weird, but they

0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.520
<v Speaker 1>were still metal all right.

0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.760
<v Speaker 2>So they love heavy metal. They love all those bands

0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.320
<v Speaker 2>except for White Lion. But what we really mean is

0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.160
<v Speaker 2>they are They have a very unique ability to eat

0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.680
<v Speaker 2>zinc and lead and copper and any other kind of

0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.640
<v Speaker 2>like awful heavy metal that might be out in the

0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.160
<v Speaker 2>wild and crystallize it in their bodies and thrive in

0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.319
<v Speaker 2>these heavily polluted awful areas. They crystallize it in their

0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.720
<v Speaker 2>guts and can remediate it essentially.

0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.080
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, if you crystallize something, you're essentially encasing it in

0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.199
<v Speaker 1>glass and it becomes inert as far as I can tell,

0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.280
<v Speaker 1>So I don't know if they poop it out afterward

0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:53.360
<v Speaker 1>and it's inert because it's been encased. But how whatever

0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.960
<v Speaker 1>they're doing, they're they're they're Yeah, they're remediating. Essentially super

0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.520
<v Speaker 1>fun sights of heavy met if you just got a

0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.520
<v Speaker 1>handful of them and said I'll see you in fifty years.

0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, absolutely. So, like you mentioned, they're great for your garden.

0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.000
<v Speaker 2>They may I mean that the damage that they might

0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.360
<v Speaker 2>be do is pretty minimal. They might try and drink

0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.720
<v Speaker 2>and get moisture from your plants and things, but they're

0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:22.560
<v Speaker 2>not the kind of land crustacean that's just gonna eat

0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.199
<v Speaker 2>through all of your garden vegetables.

0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.520
<v Speaker 1>Right, there are no land crabs.

0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.480
<v Speaker 2>No, not on land crab at all.

0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.840
<v Speaker 1>You got anything else about roly polies?

0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:32.560
<v Speaker 2>No, this is a short and sweet.

0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.720
<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm glad that we did a pretty good psa

0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.319
<v Speaker 1>to everybody. Know, leave the roly polies alone and short

0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:45.280
<v Speaker 1>stuff is out. Stuff you should know is a production

0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:46.120
<v Speaker 1>of iHeartRadio.

0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.840
<v Speaker 2>For more podcasts my heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:57.479
<v Speaker 2>Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.