Speaker 1: Creature Feature with Katie gold that's that's staying in. I
Speaker 1: think yeah, my new theme song gonna ditch the old one.
Speaker 1: Gonads man up about bats and bars and crews. Just
Speaker 1: because Katie's right doesn't mean you were always wrong Creature Feature.
Speaker 1: Leaving of that in Welcome to Creature Feature production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. I'm your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden.
Speaker 1: I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the
Speaker 1: show a trio of tiny terrors and at the end
Speaker 1: one humongous horror. And I'll let you decide if all
Speaker 1: the tiny terrors formed a team could a defeat the
Speaker 1: giant monster at the end of the podcast, discover this
Speaker 1: more as we answer the angel question, are snakes forbidden? Spaghetti?
Speaker 1: Joining me today are hosts of the podcast The Dogs Zone,
Speaker 1: as well as One Hot Dog That's all Right, Sean
Speaker 1: Baby and Brockway. Have you guys ever heard of t
Speaker 1: gandhi I? Uh? Is that the toxoplasmosis? Yes? Yes? Oh?
Speaker 1: Is that it's the toxoplasmos size like he said that
Speaker 1: rules the world? Yes, And as we have talked about
Speaker 1: on the show before, t GANDHIAI or toxoplasmosis can infect
Speaker 1: rat brains that makes them unafraid of cats and possibly
Speaker 1: even attracted to cats. So romance typically yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: typically te Gandhi gays cycle goes like this, and it
Speaker 1: infects a rats brain, it drives the rat to seek
Speaker 1: out a cat, It gets eaten by the cat. Then
Speaker 1: Ti Gandhi I reproduces inside the cat's gut, winds up
Speaker 1: in cats poop, and then it infects rats when rats
Speaker 1: drink food or water contaminated by the cat poop. It
Speaker 1: is quite a plan. It is an incredible plan. I
Speaker 1: love it when a plan comes together. It's it's the
Speaker 1: Hannibal of cat parasites, and on a teeny tiny scale,
Speaker 1: because they are actually unicellular protozoans under fifty micrometers small
Speaker 1: and only visible under a microscope. So quite a quite
Speaker 1: an extravagant mcgever situation for such a tiny thing that's
Speaker 1: smarter than me. And I'm like four times that says
Speaker 1: it's own and two species. I forgot to clack myself.
Speaker 1: So researchers found that parts of the rat brain associated
Speaker 1: with sexual behavior activate when the infected rats are exposed
Speaker 1: to cat urine. So this makes rats look for cats,
Speaker 1: hoping for love, and instead they get eaten, and then
Speaker 1: the ti Gandhia can have like a couple's meat cute
Speaker 1: inside of the cat's gut. Do um, rats king shame
Speaker 1: because that's nasty. Yeah, that's a fetish stuff right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean I'm thinking this situation, kink shaming
Speaker 1: probably saves lives. Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Let's kink
Speaker 1: shame these rats, right, I mean, it's they are their
Speaker 1: kink is literally too with some cat pea and get eaten,
Speaker 1: So you need to be ashamed. What would your little
Speaker 1: rat parents say they saw you just heffing cat pee
Speaker 1: and trying to bank a cat? Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: that'd be an awkward funeral, awkward rat funeral, like, hey,
Speaker 1: how did your rat son die? Oh? You know, like
Speaker 1: a pervert. I've been to the human equivalent of that
Speaker 1: too many times. But I'm not here to talk about
Speaker 1: rats getting horny from cat p Weirdly enough, you brought
Speaker 1: it up the show. Don't make it look like we're
Speaker 1: the freaks. Come on, I don't know what. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: you guys come on my podcast and somehow we start
Speaker 1: talking about cat pe and how rats get horny for it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that happened. We will accept responsibility.
Speaker 1: We know the kind of people we are. But yeah,
Speaker 1: well you kind of you know, like it's sort of
Speaker 1: like the Secret. You like, put things out into the
Speaker 1: universe and you get horny rats and cat p back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the most chapter. Yeah, it's not in the Secret.
Speaker 1: I skimmed it, but I think that was what it said.
Speaker 1: But secret, all right, what I love it? Say it again,
Speaker 1: Say it again. It's a secretive name at m my right. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so when you make me repeated, no, but this is
Speaker 1: part of the process. So what Brockway is referring to
Speaker 1: is a nineteen ninety eight I'm going to say, uh,
Speaker 1: sort of direct to video movie of a mouse who
Speaker 1: had magical powers based on flowers and they and they
Speaker 1: didn't that cat and they did have yes, they did
Speaker 1: have relations with a cat in that movie. That's not
Speaker 1: actually true. It's about a fun, magical mouse who saves
Speaker 1: her family with magic. It's a beautiful little movie, highly underrated.
Speaker 1: And what Brockaway was doing was making an allusion to
Speaker 1: that movie in terms of what we were talking about,
Speaker 1: which was the secret and rats and cat urine, which
Speaker 1: was very clever and also ruined my precious childhood memories.
Speaker 1: So a study has recently found that rats are not
Speaker 1: the only victims of T. Gondi I. In fact, hyena
Speaker 1: cubs seemed to be another victim of this tiny, weirdo protozoan.
Speaker 1: Could this explain like Trump supporters, you know, it can
Speaker 1: never make sense of them. Could it be uf cat?
Speaker 1: Did Trump get elected by hyena cubs? It was a
Speaker 1: close election by cat huffs. Definitely they were cat pe huffers,
Speaker 1: no question, Alabama hyena cup got them. It's been like
Speaker 1: what twelve months, six months since the election energy So,
Speaker 1: hyena cubs infected with T. Gandhi I tended to approach
Speaker 1: lions at a much closer distance than the uninfected and
Speaker 1: these behaviors seemed to go away when they got a
Speaker 1: little older, which maybe that the ones who survived and
Speaker 1: didn't get eaten by lions learned that they might get
Speaker 1: eaten by lions. But it's very strange because it seems
Speaker 1: that this T. Condy I may be influencing the behavior
Speaker 1: of something much larger, much more different than a rat,
Speaker 1: a literal hyena cub, which I hate to burst everyone's
Speaker 1: bubble who get all their information about lions and hyenas
Speaker 1: from the Lion King. Lions as assholes they eat hyena babies. Well,
Speaker 1: hyenas is that nature? Nature is an asshole? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean hyenas would potentially eat a lion cub too.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm just saying, like the movie presented
Speaker 1: this very one sided thing of like, oh, hyenas are evil,
Speaker 1: but you know, Simba would be eating some hyena baby
Speaker 1: while the hyenas trying to eat Nala or whatever. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's just like the babies all
Speaker 1: the time there, It's not w'd wake up with that
Speaker 1: word hog and Mercat And he's like, you guys have
Speaker 1: any zebra, which I always thought was like wow, that's yeah, yeah, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: I recognize you guys are probably, you know, pretty related
Speaker 1: to a zebra. You probably interact with zebras like your neighbors,
Speaker 1: probably some zebra. Could I eat him? Can I eat
Speaker 1: and eat your neighbor? Is what he was basically asking
Speaker 1: when he was a child. Yeah. And so it gets
Speaker 1: in a hyena cub, does it affect an older hyena?
Speaker 1: Do they grow out? Of it, or is it just
Speaker 1: like uh, generally, if you get it, you're almost certain
Speaker 1: to be eaten and you don't grow out of it.
Speaker 1: Because of that reason, they do grow out of it,
Speaker 1: but it's unclear why. If it has something to do
Speaker 1: with the brain developing and changing such that the toxoplasmosis
Speaker 1: doesn't affect anymore, or if it's purely through learning. So
Speaker 1: maybe somehow learning overrides that inclination to get close to
Speaker 1: a line because they learned, they get their your bitten
Speaker 1: off or something and they get scared. Straight kind of
Speaker 1: thing going on like that. They have kind of every
Speaker 1: problem looks the same sort of thing, like toxoplasmosis gondae uh,
Speaker 1: just kind of looks for a bigger cat, like that's
Speaker 1: its only solution, bring you to a house cat, gonna
Speaker 1: bring you to LINEA. In fact, it's something really big
Speaker 1: this time. Where's the biggest cat? You know? Well, you
Speaker 1: know that's interesting you bring that up because the reason
Speaker 1: that TI Gandhia only reproduces inside cat guts is that
Speaker 1: cats feelines, whether they're a house cat or a lion,
Speaker 1: are the only mammal to have available linoleic acid inside
Speaker 1: their intestines, which is an acid that T. Gandhia needs
Speaker 1: in order to reach maturity and reproduce. So there is
Speaker 1: a very specific reason that they love cat guts. But
Speaker 1: who doesn't love cat guts? You know? Sure? I think
Speaker 1: all biology should get together and decided to eat like
Speaker 1: one thing, Like we all just eat Kelp and then
Speaker 1: we won't have to like infect anyone's brains. I can't.
Speaker 1: We all just live together bacteria, and then they only
Speaker 1: need to infect the one thing to get us. Then
Speaker 1: they just infect the help supply. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: you don't know the succeedge warfare man. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: we can't trust these microbes. I do like the idea
Speaker 1: of every living thing on the planet teaming up against KELP.
Speaker 1: I kind of like that though, Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: It's it's like we thought it would take aliens to
Speaker 1: unite us, not its Kelp. It's weird and slimy. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna betray you guys so fast. I'm gonna go to Kelp,
Speaker 1: like almost immediately. While it was previously thought that only
Speaker 1: rodents such as mice and rats were driven by TI
Speaker 1: Gandhia I to be ingested by cats. It turns out
Speaker 1: that maybe hyena cubs are as well, which really opens
Speaker 1: up a lot of possibilities such as how does this
Speaker 1: alter human behavior? So I know that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of kind of Internet chatter that maybe, you know, the
Speaker 1: crazy cat lady trope is caused by t gandhi I,
Speaker 1: where someone who's a cat hoarder is infected with it
Speaker 1: and it makes them want to get more cats. There's
Speaker 1: really no evidence of that, So there's like, has there
Speaker 1: been researched? Donna have scientists said, like, dude, not gonna
Speaker 1: prove these cat ladies are crazy for a reason you
Speaker 1: found inconclusive results. No one has funded this research's been
Speaker 1: so I think there's been some research on it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's been any studies that have been
Speaker 1: published that are specifically about cat ladies, but I don't
Speaker 1: think whatever has been published has either been preliminary or
Speaker 1: it's just really not pointing towards anything. But there is
Speaker 1: research that shows just a tiny amount of evidence that
Speaker 1: may indicate that people who are infected with toxoplasmosis may
Speaker 1: take more risks such as reckless driving or starting a business. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the entrepreneur parasite. Yeah. Yeah, so the researches, I
Speaker 1: hesitate to bring it up because of the research is
Speaker 1: very threadbare, but it is super funny, So I am
Speaker 1: going to do it. I'm going to bring it up.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we we both did just absolutely wallow in
Speaker 1: catch before we started Dog. As soon as we were done,
Speaker 1: we were just, you know, let's start a business. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean if you like suddenly have like some great
Speaker 1: idea for a business that you want to sink your
Speaker 1: life savings into. Like did you clean a kidty box lately? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All your best ideas happen while you while you're cleaning
Speaker 1: them the litter box. Well, I didn't say they're good ideas, right,
Speaker 1: but I think they could. Well, but that could be
Speaker 1: you're affected with a brain paraside, though. I would be
Speaker 1: lucky if it's just one. I'll take Do Do Do Do.
Speaker 1: African Bush Cracket. I like their theme song. I'm on
Speaker 1: board with them already. I hope they're not terrible. Would
Speaker 1: incorporate PA. I have let me a interesting news for you.
Speaker 1: Here's a picture of one of these fellas. Sweet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the boss, the boss of all crickets. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's big it's kind of spiny. It looks kind
Speaker 1: of like a gar puppet a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: it's got the spikes, or like an extra from Mad
Speaker 1: Max scheme too. Yeah, sort of like a it's got
Speaker 1: like a burnt umber and then sort of a shiny,
Speaker 1: bluish black yeah. Yeah, yeah, classic. Yeah. Yeah. I've been
Speaker 1: playing a lot of outer world's. Definitely looks like some
Speaker 1: some outer worlds like Marauder armor for sure. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the African bush cricket. And normally crickets are
Speaker 1: not something terrifying. They're cute little guys who chirp and
Speaker 1: jump around. But this guy kind of looks like an
Speaker 1: hr Geiger concept for the alien movies. It's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of looks like it's it's a scary I
Speaker 1: bet when he rubs those legs together it plays Metallica.
Speaker 1: Before I go any, I was just doing the sound
Speaker 1: fack for the next thing you were saying, thank you
Speaker 1: is if the cricket was here with us, and then
Speaker 1: Broccoli could be like, wait, I think he's I think
Speaker 1: he's here, But yeah, I do want to mention before
Speaker 1: I start getting angry letters from insect biologists. Cricket biologists
Speaker 1: who are very vocal. They get mad if you insinuate
Speaker 1: anything about crickets that is not true. These are not
Speaker 1: really crickets. They are called bush crickets because they look
Speaker 1: like a giant cricket um, but it's not a real cricket.
Speaker 1: They are actually Katie Did's. So you know, I'm one
Speaker 1: of those people who just find calling spiders bugs, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, yeah, like we have there's
Speaker 1: like these stages of bug interest where like I'm not
Speaker 1: as pedantic about it. So if they want to be
Speaker 1: calling these Katie Did's, that's fine. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 1: a cricket. Yeah it's look, you know, it looks like
Speaker 1: a giant cricket. How can you fault someone for seeing
Speaker 1: this giant cricket with spikes and then thinking like, oh, actually,
Speaker 1: I think that's a Katie Did you know, like I'd
Speaker 1: beat out of my eye socket. Is that is Katie
Speaker 1: short for Katie Did? It is? Actually yeah, I was
Speaker 1: named after after Katie Did because Baby I was so
Speaker 1: loud and annoying. So I guess we can get like
Speaker 1: a personal reaction from you. If someone was to call
Speaker 1: you cricket, would you be like, oh, hail no, or
Speaker 1: would you be like, you know, that's fine. Uh, I've
Speaker 1: never had it happen, and weirdly, this is the first
Speaker 1: time it's happened, and it's filled me with just uncontrollable rage. Okay,
Speaker 1: so maybe the right be These hypothetical bug nerds you
Speaker 1: may have are right, and all we had to do
Speaker 1: is just try to understand them exactly. Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: mean I actually was. When I was a kid, my
Speaker 1: my parents called me Katie. Did's your nickname? Thank you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are you right about that? You had no right
Speaker 1: to be right about that? You know, you can't believe
Speaker 1: you pulled it all. I ate a lot of cat turds,
Speaker 1: and that gave me, like the the risk taking ability
Speaker 1: to just make wild guesses about people's name origins reson
Speaker 1: resonating with the hive mind inside us. All. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: definitely not saying on the show that if you eat
Speaker 1: cat turns you'll get better at comedy. Wink wink, wink wink,
Speaker 1: you will join the hive mind. And again, yes, it
Speaker 1: gives you that edge you need. So armored African bush
Speaker 1: crickets look like they're wearing alien armor. They grow up
Speaker 1: to be about two inches long, which is sick two
Speaker 1: inches Yeah. Yeah, it's a meaty it's a meaty thinging.
Speaker 1: So it's like um, like a cocktail weener with legs, yeah,
Speaker 1: medium size captured like a snack ca yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a snack of captured. And they have a lot
Speaker 1: of spikes, a lot of spikes like I like I
Speaker 1: explained earlier. But if that's not enough, they have extremely
Speaker 1: strong mandibles that are having a force to chew through carrion,
Speaker 1: baby birds, and even each other when they decided to
Speaker 1: be cannibals. Oh man, if I came across that thing
Speaker 1: eating a baby bird, I would just I on even
Speaker 1: think I would kill it. I would just run. I
Speaker 1: would be sure that was going to mutate into something
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, grow some wings. That is pre horror monster
Speaker 1: right there. That's when you're like, well, well what is
Speaker 1: that thing? Let me get a closer look. There's something
Speaker 1: about insects eating birds which does happen like praying mantis
Speaker 1: is will sometimes rumming birds. There's something about it that
Speaker 1: makes me deeply comfortable. It's true. It's a it's just
Speaker 1: a gross thing, and I hate it. It feels like
Speaker 1: something like a bird is out of your league. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're an insect. Yeah, they'll have a tree lined
Speaker 1: up with crickets. A shrike will just take them, stick
Speaker 1: them on spikes and just leaving their phone to look at.
Speaker 1: It's not even a yeah. I mean shrikes they do
Speaker 1: kind of uh, they kind of deserve it. But you know,
Speaker 1: hummingbirds don't. They don't impale anyone. They could too, they
Speaker 1: got the beak for it, but they don't, that's true.
Speaker 1: Knock their feet all over the place to get the
Speaker 1: whole place gets sticky, the whole outside, the hole outside sticky.
Speaker 1: You're working really hard to play a play a insect
Speaker 1: devil's advocate over there. That's I always feel like that's
Speaker 1: the role I take. I don't know why a bug
Speaker 1: lawyer trader sean baby bug lawyer. That was the plot
Speaker 1: of B movie. Wasn't it that the be wanted to
Speaker 1: be a lawyer? It sounds familiar, but I don't think
Speaker 1: I've seen never said I did. I watched the movie.
Speaker 1: I have an episode on B movie debunking B movie,
Speaker 1: So I forgot what it's called, probably Scott the movie
Speaker 1: in the title, but now it was as a bug
Speaker 1: an animal enthusiasts. Do you find that pushing you to
Speaker 1: watch terrible movies because they align with your interests? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've definitely watched more than one terrible movie to kind
Speaker 1: of address some of the misinformation about about insects in general.
Speaker 1: B Movie was one of them. So was Ants with
Speaker 1: the Z That was bad. Uh. I watched Boss Baby
Speaker 1: because I thought I was going to do an episode
Speaker 1: that involved Boss Baby. I don't want to explain it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I have a lot of questions, but sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine, no follow up questions. I meant like, if
Speaker 1: you saw a movie about, like, say, like a wolf
Speaker 1: killing people, are you more likely to watch that than
Speaker 1: a movie about a guy killing people? Uh, even though
Speaker 1: it looks stupid. You're like, oh, because, like, because my
Speaker 1: interest in animals compels me to watch more animal content.
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of depends. Maybe, I think, like
Speaker 1: I definitely have a high higher tolerance for animals who
Speaker 1: are bad actors than humans who are bad actors. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like, I get it, except shrikes. Although speaking of
Speaker 1: animal actors, that dog from the Thing was one of
Speaker 1: the best actors in that movie. Like, I'm not it's
Speaker 1: not a bit this isn't a bit. The way that
Speaker 1: dogs like stared in the beginning was so chilling, and
Speaker 1: that head spider was real good too. This is a bit.
Speaker 1: I don't actually think that the head spider was a
Speaker 1: good actor. I think he was pretty good. The head
Speaker 1: spider was really giving me like a lot of like uh,
Speaker 1: Laurence Olivier, Okay, it was a little too for you.
Speaker 1: So so these uh, these armored crickets are are pretty
Speaker 1: serious business. Munching on baby birds, chewing on dead bodies,
Speaker 1: kind of extreme. But they go a step further. They
Speaker 1: if I mean, like, if you are wild enough to
Speaker 1: want to try to attack one of these things, first,
Speaker 1: they will do stridulation, which is a very loud, buzzing
Speaker 1: noise which should be enough to get you to back off.
Speaker 1: But if that's not enough, you will be greeted with
Speaker 1: a stream of toxic blood that the armored African bush
Speaker 1: cricket squirts from its exoskeletal pores. Hell, yeah, alright, I'm
Speaker 1: back on its side. That he would just like drain
Speaker 1: himself of his own blood though, right, we have a
Speaker 1: tactic to defeat him. You stick and move long enough
Speaker 1: and he's just completely drained himself. Well, but you're getting
Speaker 1: squirted in the eyes and mouth with disgusting, toxic blood.
Speaker 1: Not if you're rolling, if you're doing a lot of
Speaker 1: good rolls. Yeah, you'd have to, you'd have to do
Speaker 1: a lot of roles. I think. Yeah, you've got dark
Speaker 1: souls combat, you gotta just some are sault around him.
Speaker 1: Keep some are saulting. Just Alley, you squirting all this blood.
Speaker 1: You're watching his health bar go down, Like that's how
Speaker 1: to get that Perry. So this is called auto hemorrhage.
Speaker 1: And actually technically the blood of an insect is called
Speaker 1: hemo lymph, So it is squirting toxic hamal lymph out
Speaker 1: of its exoskeletal pores. And how many of these does names?
Speaker 1: And I'm still I'm still planning, right, Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: How much blood? How much? How much hamal lymph is
Speaker 1: we're in an African bush cricket like pragmatically? How many
Speaker 1: squorts does this guy have in in before? How many pumps?
Speaker 1: Well are we measuring in metric or imperial? Just like cricket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pumped six times. Does he have any left in him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say confidently, he's got six pumps yeah, simp cricket.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. Yeah. Uh do you qualify that
Speaker 1: as and your expert opinion? Was that a good question
Speaker 1: or a bad question? In my expert opinion, um, as
Speaker 1: an expert on how much blood is inside an African
Speaker 1: bush cricket, very good question that I'm able to expertly
Speaker 1: answer because I definitely definitely know how much blood is
Speaker 1: inside an African bush cricket. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: I know definitely. If you had four paper towels folded
Speaker 1: over themselves and you like smashed one of these things,
Speaker 1: you need some more paper towels. That well, it depends
Speaker 1: on the and Brawny gets one of these up right
Speaker 1: up and just one ply, you know, one square. That's
Speaker 1: what podcast read, brawny paper towels. That is the quality
Speaker 1: engineering of brawny paper towels. How you land sponsorships? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you squash an African bush cricket and that slop
Speaker 1: is getting all over your dining room table, just one square, Brawnie.
Speaker 1: I wonder why Brawnie hasn't sponsored me yet, Viva boy
Speaker 1: and I will not stand for this. Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: we are are podcast is sponsored by the Secret of
Speaker 1: nim sex wipes and so great secret of nim dude
Speaker 1: wipes fleshable dude wipes, they're not fleshable. How many dude
Speaker 1: wipes do you think you need after you get sprayed
Speaker 1: by some toxic hemolymph by one of these fellers. Six? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a six sex white cricket. It's a six white
Speaker 1: crickets wipe, six wipe cricket. That's how they measure crickets
Speaker 1: African bush crickets. How many wipes? That's a six wiper
Speaker 1: right there? See that that's a six whip or big
Speaker 1: big game cricket hunting. But you know, if a toxic
Speaker 1: chemola streaming out at you from an angry, spiky, stridulating
Speaker 1: bush cricket is not enough to get you to go away,
Speaker 1: they will vomit at you as sort of a fine
Speaker 1: like a little chef's kiss cherry on top. Parting gift
Speaker 1: is that, No, I think he's eating some unidentifiable sort
Speaker 1: of square of yellow lemon sorbet. He's like, sure, sure,
Speaker 1: that's lemon sorbet, I'm sure it's not like some kind
Speaker 1: of animal eyeball thing. Alright, that's a good segue to
Speaker 1: the next one. That's a good segue to something not really,
Speaker 1: but we do have to move on. Baby spiders eat snakes?
Speaker 1: Do you guess? Did you know that it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah? I wouldn't have bet on that one.
Speaker 1: It had to be a really small snake in a
Speaker 1: really big spider. But in the underground flights, which I
Speaker 1: certainly don't attend, I would not have laid my money.
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think would win?
Speaker 1: A snake like a actual you know, snake snake, a um,
Speaker 1: garter snake. Yeah, like a garter snake. Let's go with
Speaker 1: let's go okay, all right, keep you know, keep it,
Speaker 1: keep it, keep it in your pants. Let's go with
Speaker 1: a scarlet snake, uh, and a black or brown widow,
Speaker 1: Like who do you think? Who do you think is
Speaker 1: coming out of that snake? Getting any weapons? Got like
Speaker 1: little claws or anything we're gonna attach to. Nake gets
Speaker 1: a gun but can't hold it because the trigger with
Speaker 1: this little tail. Snake gets a snake gets no gun. No,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said anything. I feel like it's just
Speaker 1: that I had a ringer in this Like how do
Speaker 1: they how do they fight? Like the snake has to
Speaker 1: land a bite, but it's against a thing that it
Speaker 1: can't hit, Whereas the spider has a chance to win,
Speaker 1: but the snake. I think the snake leaves before any
Speaker 1: bites get landed. The spider's hit box is very small,
Speaker 1: very little bit unfair. Yeah, snakes are also just armored,
Speaker 1: like that's what they are. Well, god, I say the snake,
Speaker 1: even though you have clearly said that's not the case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're setting up better. We both say snakes.
Speaker 1: Snake wins. Every time snake wins, You fool, dumb stupid fools,
Speaker 1: My money, my life savings, my god, how dumb you
Speaker 1: are and how smart I am? Damn it. No, in fact,
Speaker 1: the spider often wins in that circumstance. So a recent
Speaker 1: paper was published in the Aerican Journal of our Acknology
Speaker 1: called Spiders Versus Snakes Part six basically, honestly, honestly, not
Speaker 1: that much of an exaggeration. New observation have shown that
Speaker 1: spiders tend to have a much more colorful diet than
Speaker 1: researchers have previous previously thought. Uh, and that includes snakes.
Speaker 1: So this includes small snakes like blind snakes, which you
Speaker 1: know it's that's understandable. They're they're like tight snakes. They
Speaker 1: kind of look like earthworms. Sometimes they're so small, so
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, that's yeah, okay, that's technically baby
Speaker 1: snakes again, kind of a little bit unfair. Uh. Spiders
Speaker 1: also eat things like earthworms, velvet worms, which is very
Speaker 1: sad because I love velvet worms. They're adorable, bristle worms, gastropods, crustaceans, bats,
Speaker 1: small rodents, and small amphibians. Checking the like the stool
Speaker 1: of these spiders, or they like watching them take out
Speaker 1: a bat, watching them take them out. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good job. Yeah, yeah, you tell your boss like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm late to work. You know, I was watching a
Speaker 1: spider killer bat. It took him forty seven days to
Speaker 1: do it. That'd be cool if your job was just
Speaker 1: watching spiders kill stuff. That spider's got the size advantage
Speaker 1: on that snake, I would say it does. But click
Speaker 1: on click on that link, because they're definitely I don't read.
Speaker 1: I don't have to read a lot of cat turns.
Speaker 1: Who reads on the internet anymore. You just look at
Speaker 1: the image and you make an assumption. There's a whole
Speaker 1: gallery of spiders just challenging. Yeah, that second. That second
Speaker 1: photo is like, that's the fight I was picturing, and
Speaker 1: that is not the result I was picturing. So yes, listen,
Speaker 1: that spider basically never has to eat like it again,
Speaker 1: like that that's a hoarder. That's a hoarding spider. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well gonna bunk her up. It's a costco run. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: that's a that is like that is the giant bucket
Speaker 1: of cheese puffs of the spider kingdom. I'll never get
Speaker 1: through this, and then like to wait till like, holy god, damn,
Speaker 1: I got through that just one binge watching of I
Speaker 1: think you should leave and it's gone. Yeah. So thirty
Speaker 1: species of spiders have been found to eat snakes. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like we've mentioned, it is sometimes truly astonishing, like a
Speaker 1: brown widow eating a scarlet snake many times her size.
Speaker 1: So scarlet snake is kind of looks a lot like
Speaker 1: a corn snake, same size basically, So that's just and
Speaker 1: and you know, black widows and brown widows are kind
Speaker 1: of scary for a spider, but they're still very small,
Speaker 1: so it can eat something up to thirty times her
Speaker 1: own body weight, and she does this by ensnaring the
Speaker 1: snake in her extremely viscous and sticky web, and as
Speaker 1: it gets stuck in that, she starts encasing it in
Speaker 1: more threads and then bites it multiple times with her
Speaker 1: potent neurotoxin. And once the snake is down for the count,
Speaker 1: the brown widow or black widow will actually hoist her
Speaker 1: prey up off the ground to eat, like she's holding
Speaker 1: up a big old fish. But then she can just
Speaker 1: kind of eat it at her leisure lounge it and
Speaker 1: snack over. It's like a hammock and a snack. I know.
Speaker 1: It's like a bed you can eat. They make like
Speaker 1: a couch. How to cheese puffs perfect, It's like if
Speaker 1: you could sleep on a giant hot dog. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: ye all right. Tarantula's also eat snakes, and they will
Speaker 1: also the ones that have a toxic bite will use
Speaker 1: their neurotoxin to immobilize the sneak long enough to eat it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes these spiders literally suck all its juices out, like
Speaker 1: it's a go gurt. Just holds on one end and
Speaker 1: just kind of sucks all sucks it out. Just Keg
Speaker 1: stands that snake. Keg stands a snake, describing like the
Speaker 1: eating habits of spiders is very much convincing of someone
Speaker 1: that there is no God, I think, like and it's
Speaker 1: I think the kind of person who could design a
Speaker 1: spider and the way it captures its prey and eats
Speaker 1: its prey is just a monster. Yeah, but what if
Speaker 1: God is just all right? That would make a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, I mean, just got the size wrong.
Speaker 1: They were meant to be like bigger than humans and
Speaker 1: rule the world. Yeah. Yeah, maybe heaven is for spiders
Speaker 1: and this is sort of their purgatory, right, their trials
Speaker 1: they have to kind of contend with, and those religious
Speaker 1: makes a lot more sense through the lens of like
Speaker 1: spider eyes. Yeah, exactly right. How does how does God
Speaker 1: see everything at once? Just got a billion spider eyes?
Speaker 1: Spider eyes spider eyes. Tarantulas have been found to kill
Speaker 1: even pit vipers, so truly truly kind of a spider
Speaker 1: David and Goliath situations here. Can't help but feel proud
Speaker 1: of the spiders. I like at the at the very
Speaker 1: end of this gallery, the scientists threw one to the
Speaker 1: snake and showed the snake eating spider just just like
Speaker 1: twenty nine images of snakes getting owned by spiders, and
Speaker 1: then the very last one is a really just quack
Speaker 1: eating grin on the snake, just like, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: picture of the research you're eating cat turns straight out
Speaker 1: of the litter box a lot. I've got an idea
Speaker 1: for a business. Spy is eating snakes emporium. Come on down,
Speaker 1: a hundred percent deals on a hundred percent spiders eating snakes.
Speaker 1: It's just come to me. So we talk about the
Speaker 1: little things, the little little the little guys in life
Speaker 1: that you may underestimate turn out to be terrifying. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna switch it up and this time talking
Speaker 1: about something that's big and scary. You know, no surprises,
Speaker 1: no surprises. You know. Sometimes it's like I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times on the show and like I'm going
Speaker 1: to blow your mind, Like you wouldn't think this would
Speaker 1: be scary, but it is. This time, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: play it straight with you guys. This is a big
Speaker 1: old bear and it's terrifying. Sweet I look at a
Speaker 1: big bear. Yeah, but it is all right. So you know,
Speaker 1: bears are big, right, modern day bears they're big. They
Speaker 1: absolutely can kill you. I think when I was on
Speaker 1: your podcast, we talked about that pole where some people
Speaker 1: thought they could fight a bear. She's absolutely not your
Speaker 1: people on this planet. I think that they can beat
Speaker 1: anything on this point. Yeah, they think they can beat
Speaker 1: a bear. That's not true. I don't think anyone stands
Speaker 1: a chance against Uh. I mean, if we're talking about
Speaker 1: like a sun bear, like a little bear. Maybe, if
Speaker 1: we're talking about, you know, grizzly bear. I believe it
Speaker 1: was specifically grizzly. It was Grizzly in the Grizzly Bear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no way, no, you're due. But we didn't always have
Speaker 1: it this good, you know, with only certain death coming
Speaker 1: from a grizzly bear. Uh. There used to be a
Speaker 1: gigantic just completely nuts. I can't begin to describe. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess I can here it is. It was called
Speaker 1: a giant short faced bear, and it was the largest
Speaker 1: carniver is mammalian apex predator to ever roam North America.
Speaker 1: That is a lot of qualifications. Yeah, he's the largest
Speaker 1: killer eighteen to thirty five in the women's division. P.
Speaker 1: Ninety two. If you look at like a giant monster
Speaker 1: bear and you're like, I'm gonna call it a short
Speaker 1: faced bear, like you're you're digging on that bear, right,
Speaker 1: You're just you're sticking it to him a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: all right, so I can simplify it a bit. It
Speaker 1: is one of the largest carnivorous mammalians in the world,
Speaker 1: and certainly the largest carnivore, uh carnivorous mammalian to ever
Speaker 1: be in North America. But it's it's it's it's long dead, right,
Speaker 1: Like I don't have to buy a bunker now, well, no,
Speaker 1: but we did. It's not one of those things. Was like,
Speaker 1: it died a long time ago. Humans never had to
Speaker 1: deal with us. Our ancestors had to tangle with this
Speaker 1: guy because it only went x dinked around eleven thousand
Speaker 1: years ago, and humans were in North America at least
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand years ago. So we absolutely probably we're hunted
Speaker 1: by these just absolutely nightmare massive eating machines. I would
Speaker 1: have betrayed my own kind so fast inside of with
Speaker 1: that bear. You would have gone bear. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: would have gone team bear so quick. Dressed like a
Speaker 1: beautiful bear woman, you who out with like a little
Speaker 1: bow tie in here, because you know that's how that's
Speaker 1: how you do it. Like you you dressed as a bear,
Speaker 1: but you got like a little little pink bow behind
Speaker 1: one of your ears works every time. Yeah, I'm on
Speaker 1: that guy's side. Just the image, and I'm one of
Speaker 1: those guys sitting behind with the bear. I'm I'm on
Speaker 1: that team. Yeah, team of traders right there. I do
Speaker 1: like I like this idea of this job interview you're
Speaker 1: having with this big bear where it's like our teld
Speaker 1: me about your qualifications and it's kind of salivating and measuring.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm real and I don't have any love
Speaker 1: from my fellow humans. I could get you. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like three kids, three kids a day. Probably I'd say
Speaker 1: I go, I go great with mustard eat me, and
Speaker 1: then I would go a jump kick and that would
Speaker 1: be my last decision. Jack knife in there. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: D have You'd have a few sort of prehistoric legends
Speaker 1: about you for everyone else. Tell everyone else in your
Speaker 1: claim gets eaten. Yeah. Uh so, let's let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about this bear. It weighed over one short
Speaker 1: ton about two thousand reference to his face. Uh, are
Speaker 1: you trying to dis this bear? Yeah? I feel like
Speaker 1: the name of the bear is trying to diss the bear,
Speaker 1: Like whoever named the first Well, it's called a short
Speaker 1: faced barry guys, because it's it's face. It's got kind
Speaker 1: of a shorter muggle than modern day bear. But that's
Speaker 1: not the most remarkable thing this bear. I would have
Speaker 1: called it the enormous monster bear. I like that when
Speaker 1: you guys would have been getting eaten by this bear back,
Speaker 1: you know, fourteen thousand years ago, and like it's got
Speaker 1: your leg like in its mouth, bent at an impossible angle,
Speaker 1: and you're like, like, your face is short, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I could I have to do a lot of chew
Speaker 1: in their buddy. Come on, stop it half your size
Speaker 1: with faces twice as long. Are you kidding? I was
Speaker 1: born those way. You guys are seriously not funny. Their
Speaker 1: entire torso in its mouth. Yeah, so standing on its
Speaker 1: hind legs, it reached up to twelve feet tall or
Speaker 1: three point seven meters. When you look at these human
Speaker 1: beings beside it. These are all adult men. Uh, they
Speaker 1: get up about to the bears like thigh. I like that.
Speaker 1: It's it's Paul is the size of all four of
Speaker 1: their heads put together. That's a forehead. Paul. I could
Speaker 1: just swipe off four heads at one. Yeah, I could
Speaker 1: just like kind of grab four human heads and take
Speaker 1: out a bunch of barbershop quartet just one fan. Have
Speaker 1: you ever thought I'd get eaten by it? So if
Speaker 1: you could do, like, if you could do spectacular dunks,
Speaker 1: like if you can like put your elbow in the
Speaker 1: rim like Vince Carter style, then you could when this
Speaker 1: bear is reared up, jump up and like jam an
Speaker 1: apple into his mouth or something. But I'm saying it
Speaker 1: would take a spectacular like super dunker. He's got to
Speaker 1: respect that movie. He's got faced guy in the face
Speaker 1: while he's reared up. Yeah, yeah, you'd have to. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how. Yeah, I think you have to
Speaker 1: have one of the tallest basketball players in the world
Speaker 1: with some of the best dunks to like dunka dunca
Speaker 1: one of these giant, short faced bears in the mouth. Right,
Speaker 1: maybe Tony Chock could kick him in the face. Like
Speaker 1: you need to like do some sort of an acrobatic move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you just have handsprings to get speed going.
Speaker 1: If you want to three guys Jackie Chan on each
Speaker 1: other's shoulders, that's right, Jackie Chan could like run up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Jackie Chan. Yeah, that's the only human actually
Speaker 1: who could survive. This would be Jackie Chan little known fact,
Speaker 1: little Loan. That's why their face is short, Ancient Jackie
Speaker 1: Chan's that was striped in well, Jackie Chan has been
Speaker 1: alive for you know, it's pretty since yeah, fourteen thousand years.
Speaker 1: So thats so, so when it's like standing on its
Speaker 1: hind legs, it is just ridiculously enormous. So you might
Speaker 1: think like, okay, but that's not fair because these bears
Speaker 1: are really bipedal. They walk on all fours most of
Speaker 1: the time. Probably even when it's walking on all fours,
Speaker 1: it's still six ft tall, it's still one point eight
Speaker 1: meters tall. So when this bear is just like standing
Speaker 1: bear style, it's still as tall as like a tall man.
Speaker 1: It's pretty ridiculous. Yeah, no joke. Uh. And it also, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: guess what could run up to forty miles per hour
Speaker 1: seventy kilometers per hour, so it's great. So that's like
Speaker 1: a five second dash. Yeah that's fast. Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: that's world record fast. Imagine driving your car forty miles
Speaker 1: per hour, like you know, and then there's just a
Speaker 1: bear just trotting alongside it, and it's the size of
Speaker 1: your car. That's kind of the situation. Yeah, yeah, does
Speaker 1: that mean they like if they ran full speed into
Speaker 1: a tree though, like I mean they die right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'd wrap around that tree, saying tree, I think you'd
Speaker 1: take out the tree. You'd probably take out the tree.
Speaker 1: You want to do some roadrunner stout traps, You want
Speaker 1: to paint a tunnel on a on a rock, that
Speaker 1: type of thing. That's how you take out this bear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking how we take out the bear because I
Speaker 1: got a good plan. Let me hear it. The bear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you you immediately flip, all right, you go team bear
Speaker 1: and you just you feed him kid. You feed him
Speaker 1: so many kids. You feed him the best kids. Like
Speaker 1: this guy cannot believe the quality of children that you
Speaker 1: believe that you bring it for, like until until he's
Speaker 1: just he's so fat with kids and he loves he
Speaker 1: loves us. He trusted implicitly. Then you poison the last kid.
Speaker 1: Oh how you do it? Yeah? I had kill a
Speaker 1: bear with only seventy kids. That's a that's a really
Speaker 1: h that's a great plan to have on record. Just
Speaker 1: poison a bunch of kids, feed the bear one of
Speaker 1: the other kids. Yeah, sorry, you only said what poison
Speaker 1: one kid. I'm sorry, right, and you don't you don't
Speaker 1: like you just bring him to the bear? You know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to kill them? Nothing wrong with me,
Speaker 1: he's the murder right. This is like a trolley problem,
Speaker 1: Like are you actually murdering the children if you just
Speaker 1: bring him to a bear that will most certainly eat
Speaker 1: them immediately? Just like people? Yeah, this is that. The
Speaker 1: trolley problem is like do you divert the trolley from
Speaker 1: one side the train tracks? Or do you just feed
Speaker 1: a bunch of people to a giant bear? You feed
Speaker 1: a bunch of people, do a giant bear? Exactly? That's
Speaker 1: what That's the clear moral choice. That's when philosophers still
Speaker 1: talk about it because there's no clear right answer. I
Speaker 1: think when I talk about big things, it's kind of
Speaker 1: hard to get like perspective because it's just like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's just like a big thing. Uh. Comparing Let's compare
Speaker 1: it to like modern day current bears, because the largest
Speaker 1: living bears are Kodiak bears and polar bears of Alaska
Speaker 1: and the Arctic. Uh. Kodiak bears way up to only
Speaker 1: a little over half of the giant short faced bear
Speaker 1: and polar bears are still much smaller than the giant
Speaker 1: short faced bears. Five hundred pounds smaller than the giant
Speaker 1: short faced bears and polar bears. Standing on their hind legs,
Speaker 1: uh kind of reach a maximum of only around three
Speaker 1: ms or nine ft tall, So they are still three
Speaker 1: feet shorter than a giant short faced bear. So they
Speaker 1: would look like a cute little bear compared to this guy.
Speaker 1: This is the shock of bears. It is. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of maybe when you know nature was sort of
Speaker 1: sorting things out fourteen thousand years ago, they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we'll put this guy in. It's kind of scary, and
Speaker 1: it was just too scary. It was too scary to
Speaker 1: stick stick around. Is that what happened that humans hunted
Speaker 1: did because they were like so scared of it? Or
Speaker 1: is it just too hard to eat when you're that big,
Speaker 1: because that dude must eat like eight der a day.
Speaker 1: I've seen theories that rain from humans potentially sometimes hunting them,
Speaker 1: I guess in groups. I don't know how that worked,
Speaker 1: but kids gotta gotta feed of kids just just put
Speaker 1: like a tie a child onto a stick and then
Speaker 1: hold it up to the bear. Well, from understanding the
Speaker 1: extension of the mammoth properly, like their basic evolutionary goal
Speaker 1: was to be so big nothing could hurt them. But
Speaker 1: humans would get together in big groups and like rodeo,
Speaker 1: murder him. And they, of course could murder a mammoth
Speaker 1: in like a couple of hours, whereas a mammoth took
Speaker 1: like eighteen months to gest date or whatever it took.
Speaker 1: So obviously you do that bath long enough and there's
Speaker 1: no more mammoths. Maybe that's the deal with this bear
Speaker 1: because of it, one of these bears is pregnant for
Speaker 1: like a good year and a half two years and
Speaker 1: then during gestation probably shorter than an shorter than a mammoth,
Speaker 1: because elephants have a really long gest station, and I
Speaker 1: think bears have a much shorter gestation. So it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily only size that the termons the length of gestation.
Speaker 1: It's just the elephants, uh to have a pretty long one.
Speaker 1: Putting myself in the mind of someone who lives near
Speaker 1: this bear, and there's if they have the same hibernation
Speaker 1: pattern his bear, I'm like, Okay, I'm waiting until it's
Speaker 1: cold and then I'm gonna sneak into that bear's cave
Speaker 1: and for sure murdering it. Like that's all I think
Speaker 1: about all day long. People will be like, shut up
Speaker 1: about the bear. I'm like, no, no, no no, buddy, We're
Speaker 1: gonna get this bear as soon as winter comes. I'd
Speaker 1: obsess over it. And I feel like I'm not alone.
Speaker 1: Your ancestors are the ones that did this. Your bear
Speaker 1: obsessed to ancestors. You've got that gene. You can just
Speaker 1: feel it right now. Let's see that. It's either we
Speaker 1: do this now while let's just sleep, or he eats
Speaker 1: a whole family later when he wakes up. Man, we
Speaker 1: gotta we it's we gotta collect some berries. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're drawn up plants. Bear plants. They planned for the bear.
Speaker 1: We gotta fortifier berries. Yeah, it's There's also the theory
Speaker 1: that these bears were killed off because of the ice
Speaker 1: age and they just couldn't hack it, which, you know,
Speaker 1: sort of funny to me that these big old jocks
Speaker 1: just couldn't stand a little bit of cold. Yeah, too
Speaker 1: cold for you, giant bear. Maybe your face was longer,
Speaker 1: you could handle it. But now now the global warmings
Speaker 1: here and we're warming back up, they get to come back.
Speaker 1: That's how that works right. Probably one of these got
Speaker 1: frozen in the black eyes and it's gonna thaw because
Speaker 1: global warming. Bear's gonna pop out. It's gonna be alive somehow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna clone it. We're gonna bringe. You know, why
Speaker 1: why didn't Jurassic Park have more big giant mammals from
Speaker 1: back in the day? Should have been should have been
Speaker 1: the sequel? Yeah, the giantastic the giant like New Zealand
Speaker 1: Australian eagle thing. Yeah, the moa been called for Assic Park. Guys,
Speaker 1: I don't think you heard me. I said fur as
Speaker 1: sic Park, but you said we're not allowed to glick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna click you on your own podet. Nobody knows
Speaker 1: what clicking is on this podcast. It's well, they're going
Speaker 1: to look it up. Well, I don't know, Phil, It's
Speaker 1: as Katie Golden might put it. Jiminy Glick was a
Speaker 1: character played by Martin Short years ago on his own
Speaker 1: talk show called Jiminy Glick. And he would interview uh
Speaker 1: celebrities and and he would sometimes go to it and
Speaker 1: then he would talk like this, and then he would
Speaker 1: talk like this when he found something delightful, right, and
Speaker 1: what Sean Brockway do on their podcast is they use
Speaker 1: that as a way to intimidate the guest when the
Speaker 1: guest makes kind of a dumb joke, for a silly joke,
Speaker 1: you know, it's my way of letting someone know that
Speaker 1: the thing they did was cute, but I don't know
Speaker 1: how to engage with cute, So it's my defense mechanism.
Speaker 1: It's a way of sort of bringing the conversation to
Speaker 1: a screeching halt. Obviously, it's not for everybody, and Katie
Speaker 1: has is carrying around a lot of hostilities from a
Speaker 1: time my glicked turk, but I think it's perfectly accurate,
Speaker 1: and that's what I love about it. Yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: so now everybody knows. You can definitely catch more glicks
Speaker 1: on Sean and Brockway's podcast. The Dog as the Zone.
Speaker 1: That's how you pronounce it, right, Yes, that is proper pronunciation.
Speaker 1: I wish more people would do it. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's that's where you'll find all the glickable moments. The
Speaker 1: Dog Zone. Nine thousands, you gotta you gotta add the
Speaker 1: nine thousand. There's probably nine thousand. Yeah, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we're yeah, well we're kind of at the end of
Speaker 1: the episode. So it's time for plugs anyways. But before
Speaker 1: we do go, what do you guys think if you know,
Speaker 1: giant bear versus say we teamed up the T Gandhi
Speaker 1: I snaking spiders and the you know, armored African bush crickets,
Speaker 1: and you've got an army of those guys versus giant
Speaker 1: bear ins If we got T. GANDHIA on our side,
Speaker 1: then I think we could do it. We infect him
Speaker 1: with it, and then he just really wants to go.
Speaker 1: He'll find a bigger cat. I mean, we don't know,
Speaker 1: he'll find a terribly stupid bear. Business just be ruined
Speaker 1: and just completely throw his life away. You guys, listen.
Speaker 1: It's a shirt that's also pants, says Big Johnson on it. Yeah, guys,
Speaker 1: it really need you to buy one of these. I
Speaker 1: got everything put into this. It's an energy drink, but
Speaker 1: it's also marrow wuana. We're listening all right now. I'm
Speaker 1: back home, Team Bear. I hope the bear wins. I
Speaker 1: if I'm picking the cause of my death, I'd rather
Speaker 1: fight this bear than just a dystopian dark future or
Speaker 1: a bunch of crickets squirting acid blood at me. I
Speaker 1: do wonder if we reframe climate change and global warming
Speaker 1: as a giant bear is coming to like our araces off.
Speaker 1: You just call it bear weather. There will be a
Speaker 1: giant bear that thaws. Yeah, there's at least seven or
Speaker 1: these waiting to thaw. Approach and bear weather. It's almost
Speaker 1: bare leather, you guys. We have to tackle this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's almost bare times. The thaw in the Arctic is
Speaker 1: getting to the point where under the perma frost, we're
Speaker 1: going to find some of these bears and they're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, come back the well rested, super hungry. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're hungry, hungry bears. They're the size of like three
Speaker 1: three dudes and uh probably actually more like five dudes,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna start eating eating children that they're Brockway
Speaker 1: and Sean is helpfully supplying to the bear. Just me,
Speaker 1: just okay, nobody else still out on my team, me
Speaker 1: against the world. All right, Well, you know im, but
Speaker 1: I'm clearly going to betray you whoever is bringing the
Speaker 1: free market, of whoever is bringing the bear the most children,
Speaker 1: and that's what Well, no, I agree, I think t
Speaker 1: Gandhia I probably probably would beat the bear just on
Speaker 1: its own because they would be too busy halfing cat
Speaker 1: cap p to do anything, you know, really heard self esteem? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so funny, so funny. My face is like this and
Speaker 1: I can't help it. I can't help with sniff capy
Speaker 1: bear and sell. Well what better way to promote your podcast,
Speaker 1: which is all about bear and cells than that? So?
Speaker 1: So where can people find you? Guys? Oh, we are
Speaker 1: available hot Dog. Yeah, and our podcast is The Dogs
Speaker 1: h and um, yeah, I guess that's it. You have
Speaker 1: a podcast, and you have a publication, an online publication
Speaker 1: that has numerous interesting articles and and ways to divert
Speaker 1: your attention in for hours on end. Yeah we run.
Speaker 1: We run free ones every week if you just want
Speaker 1: to go check them out the freeloader. But yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: we do. We do have pay content that is just
Speaker 1: far superior. Yeah, so goods what you get for not
Speaker 1: we're not paying the piper. We're just so funny every
Speaker 1: day is the point? Not today? But well but this
Speaker 1: is mainly yeah, that's yeah, yeah, it's I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: this is not a humor podcast. It's just it's about
Speaker 1: big bears, and that's very serious. It's not nothing to
Speaker 1: laugh about, nothing to joke about about barren cells. It's
Speaker 1: about barren cells. You can contact me well. You can
Speaker 1: find me on the internet at Creature feature Pod on
Speaker 1: Instagram at Creature feet Pod on Twitter. That's f e
Speaker 1: T not the eats very different. If you want to
Speaker 1: send me in questions concerns about giant bears. If you
Speaker 1: are a giant bear and you'd like to make an
Speaker 1: alliance with me and not Broadway, you can send an
Speaker 1: email at Creature feature Pot at gmail dot com. I'm
Speaker 1: on the internet too, at Katie Golden. Uh, just typing
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