Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff
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Speaker 1: Julie Tuglas. Julie had your weekend go It was great.
Speaker 1: It was great. I handled lots of pretend dinosaur poop.
Speaker 1: Where did you do this? Um? This was at the
Speaker 1: fern Bank Museum here in Atlanta, and they have an
Speaker 1: exhibit called the Scoop on Poop and they had a
Speaker 1: special little thing for kids. I mean, I think it
Speaker 1: was for kids. I was totally hanging out doing it,
Speaker 1: but um sing out of the way. Yeah. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: that's that's my Plato fake poop. Um. But they did this.
Speaker 1: It was really great. My daughter loved it too. Um.
Speaker 1: They rolled up just a bunch of different like uh, plants,
Speaker 1: materials or bones or um both into different pieces of Plato.
Speaker 1: And then you'd have to discover, you know, was it
Speaker 1: a carnival or was Astonis wore an omnivore or nerbivore?
Speaker 1: And kids love this. You're right, you know that they're
Speaker 1: all crowding these tables because even if you just call
Speaker 1: it pretend poop and it's squishy, they will pick it
Speaker 1: up and and have at it. Kids love poop. It's
Speaker 1: it's a known fact. And uh. And you can learn
Speaker 1: a lot from an animal species. It's uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty established fact. You can learn about an
Speaker 1: animal's diet. You can learn about what kind of parasites
Speaker 1: it might have had, if it had you know, worms
Speaker 1: and stuff. I mean, if you've if you, if you
Speaker 1: have a child, if you have a pet, you've probably
Speaker 1: encountered a little of this um where you you get
Speaker 1: to haven't get an intimant glance into what's going on
Speaker 1: inside your animal based or inside your child, based on
Speaker 1: what's coming out of said organism. Who is sometimes an animal? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. You will know if corn was for dinner,
Speaker 1: You're like, whoa. You know, if you've changed your your
Speaker 1: pet cat's food and then you go to scoop the
Speaker 1: litter box, you can sometimes tell WHOA. There was a
Speaker 1: shift and died here because the nature of the clumps
Speaker 1: has changed. Yep. And that's what that's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about today, the nature of the clumps and the
Speaker 1: merits of schatology here. Um. It's something called copper lights
Speaker 1: actually copper lights, Yeah, which are basically stones that were
Speaker 1: once poops. Yep, it's a scientific name for for fossilized
Speaker 1: m escrement. And uh, pieces are droppings, however you want
Speaker 1: to call it. And we're gon we're going big here.
Speaker 1: We're talking about humans, we're talking about animals, wily mammoths. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're not just talking about owl pellets. Yeah. So first
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna talk to just a little bit about fossilization,
Speaker 1: just a little grounding here. Uh. Fossilization takes place in
Speaker 1: various ways. There's freezing, there's compression, there's entrapment in amber,
Speaker 1: you know, with like a little bugs that are trapped
Speaker 1: in amber. And then there is um per mentalization, which
Speaker 1: is the big one. This is the one that factors
Speaker 1: into any kind of like dinosaur fossils that you see
Speaker 1: in a museum. It's easy to fall into the trap
Speaker 1: of thinking of fossils is merely a bone thing, you know,
Speaker 1: or yeah, or in some cases tissue, because certainly bones
Speaker 1: will fossilize, but so little soft tissues. So can hair,
Speaker 1: so can u feathers, and indeed, so can poop. So
Speaker 1: what happens during fossilization specifically during per mineralization UM. What
Speaker 1: we see is is a hardening of the minerals that
Speaker 1: have entered the small pores and cavities of a dead organism.
Speaker 1: UH and and to a large extent, what it takes
Speaker 1: place is kind of like a mold UH is created
Speaker 1: and then it is UH that the contents of that
Speaker 1: molds them then become stone. UM. For this to happen, though,
Speaker 1: you need rapid burial of the animal, and this is
Speaker 1: there are a number of things that have to take
Speaker 1: place for something to to fossilize. And that's why we
Speaker 1: have holes in the fossil record and and why we
Speaker 1: don't depend solely on fossils for understanding what happened in
Speaker 1: the past, because not everything fossilized and the more organized.
Speaker 1: You know, some organisms we have loads of fossils off
Speaker 1: because they say lived in the mud and so when
Speaker 1: they died, they were quickly covered right in the anaerobic
Speaker 1: bacteria really helped right in that process. Other situations, you know,
Speaker 1: if an animal dies and something eats it, no fossil.
Speaker 1: If something if an animal dies and it's just left
Speaker 1: to just slowly just being worn away by erosion, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's not gonna happen. Likewise, top notch predators
Speaker 1: are harder to find fossils off in many cases because
Speaker 1: there are fewer of them there. As we've discussed before,
Speaker 1: they are the creature standing at the top of a
Speaker 1: pyramid of bones, and so the the ecosystem can only
Speaker 1: um support a fixed number of them. You have to
Speaker 1: take all of these factors into place when contemplating um
Speaker 1: our fossil legacy. So trace fossils like fecal matter, for instance, UM,
Speaker 1: it's really important to make sure that when it happens,
Speaker 1: that the dew happens, so to speak, that it's in
Speaker 1: the right environment for preservation. UM. So it makes the
Speaker 1: drop site really crucial the creation of young fossils. So UM,
Speaker 1: for instance, you've got young fossils which are usually just
Speaker 1: really dry bits of organic matter and aerobic bacteria. Of course,
Speaker 1: the bacteria that requires oxygen quickly breaks down wet organic matter. UM.
Speaker 1: So you would want to find, for instance, your fecal
Speaker 1: matter in a cave that's really dry. This is very helpful, right,
Speaker 1: And that's just what happened in the most recent example
Speaker 1: of of corporate lates in the the news UM the
Speaker 1: journal Science reported a discovery in an Oregon cave of
Speaker 1: human DNA more than fourteen thousand years old, and the
Speaker 1: DNA was distracted from distracting. The DNA was extracted from
Speaker 1: copper lights. This was Paisley Caves, Paisley Caves in Oregon,
Speaker 1: and this represents the oldest human remains found in the
Speaker 1: Western hemisphere. Like, this is pretty big deal here. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: An analysis of the sample suggests that the cave dwellers
Speaker 1: were omnivores who ate lots of roots and seeds and
Speaker 1: nuts and um. By the way, carnivors stand a better
Speaker 1: chance of having their fecal matter fossilized into stone because
Speaker 1: they consume bones in their diet, which are already mineralized.
Speaker 1: So that's less work for the bacteria to do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they with a very high calcium phosphate content. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's it's great that they were able to find. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, actually these these bits of fickle matter, uh,
Speaker 1: just as a historical record, but also giving us a
Speaker 1: bit different understanding of life there, um and what we
Speaker 1: thought was going on with humans fourteen thousand years ago.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about that. But luckily
Speaker 1: they were pooping in a cave, which really helped because
Speaker 1: the stuff dried out really quickly and was just in
Speaker 1: the cave. So, I mean, we we encountered a similar
Speaker 1: thing with giant slots. In some of the cases, these
Speaker 1: giant slots, they had these underground gins and they would
Speaker 1: just poop absolutely everywhere. So they have these massive quantities
Speaker 1: of of fossilized the giant sloth scat, which is kind
Speaker 1: of great, right, um, especially if you're a schatologist. I mean,
Speaker 1: can you imagine coming across that. Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 1: gold mine. Yeah, could it be? Um, But you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't entirely uncommon. They defined human copper lights. Um.
Speaker 1: There are over one thousand human copper lights that have
Speaker 1: been collected from Heine's Cave in southwest Texas. UM in
Speaker 1: these churchs they think were deposited by ancient people over
Speaker 1: the course of about eight thousand years. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: there are a number of just really fascinating fines with
Speaker 1: animals UM In various various fossilized animal scats that have
Speaker 1: turned up over the years. We've looked at some from
Speaker 1: Tarantosaurus Rex sixty five million years old, UM, and these
Speaker 1: were kind of big too. Slicking at the stats on
Speaker 1: one of these seventy point six by six point four
Speaker 1: by five point two inches, and it weighed over fifteen
Speaker 1: point five pounds, So that's pretty uh, it's pretty lofty
Speaker 1: scat U And and again you can you get into
Speaker 1: looking at these and you can, and in fact, with
Speaker 1: the t rex is fosilized doing they were able to
Speaker 1: look in and they noted worm tracks. Uh, they indicated
Speaker 1: that the beasts were affected by worms and other intestinal parasites.
Speaker 1: UM also discovered bones, so you get a better idea
Speaker 1: of what they were they were eating. Again, it's just
Speaker 1: this is the end product of the creature's digestive processes.
Speaker 1: So it really lets you know how the animals working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they even uh coppylights can give you an idea
Speaker 1: of what sort of creatures were around at that time.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about this, uh, this one poop that scientists found.
Speaker 1: It was near Chesapeake Bay, and they took um. They
Speaker 1: took the sample and they made a silicon rubber mold
Speaker 1: of it, and they found the tooth marks indicate that
Speaker 1: the biter was most likely a relative to you know,
Speaker 1: what we think of as a tire shark today and
Speaker 1: then they they looked at it and they said, oh,
Speaker 1: it's really phosphate rich. Uh. It seems like the fecal
Speaker 1: matter came from a creature that fed on bony prey.
Speaker 1: And then they looked at the size of it and
Speaker 1: they said, Okay, we think that this was possibly some
Speaker 1: sort of crocodilian creature dwelling there. And um, the fact
Speaker 1: that it has these bite marks indicate to us, and
Speaker 1: the way that they that the bite marks are positioned
Speaker 1: indicate that possibly this prehistoric tiger shark actually bit into
Speaker 1: the digestive uh system or that part of the crocodile
Speaker 1: digestive system and pierced the fecal matter that way. Wow.
Speaker 1: So I mean, just from the fecal matter here, we're
Speaker 1: able to piece together this awesome battle between prehistoric tiger
Speaker 1: shark and prehistoric crocodile monster. Right, because it's not uncommon
Speaker 1: actually to find that that animals will will consume other
Speaker 1: animals fecal matter. And I believe that they've seen bite
Speaker 1: marks and other samples before. But the way that this
Speaker 1: is positioned, it was it was not just that this
Speaker 1: tiger shark took a little morsel and went, oh, I
Speaker 1: wonder if I should eat this. It was that it
Speaker 1: was actually inside the belly of the crocodile the time,
Speaker 1: and our listeners have dogs, they know it goes now
Speaker 1: the interest I am reminded the komodo dragon does not
Speaker 1: fall into that category because I remember the they'll eat
Speaker 1: just about anything, uh Phil Bronson's toe as well, Sharon Stone.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're still married, but that they
Speaker 1: went to go look at that behind behind the scenes
Speaker 1: thing at the zoo. And yeah, but but I remember
Speaker 1: when I was writing about them, that they the the
Speaker 1: young komodo dragons, uh, will totally adults, will totally eat them,
Speaker 1: but they will coat themselves in fecal matter, and then
Speaker 1: that they'll they'll make themselves a less desirable as a um.
Speaker 1: All right, so we have to talk about mammoth poos,
Speaker 1: of course, but before we do, should we take a break.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't take a break, and then we will come
Speaker 1: back and discuss the leavings of the willing Mamma. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back, um. You know we u when we were
Speaker 1: talking to Nilo grass Tyson, Um, you asked him about,
Speaker 1: you know, should we bring the wily mammoth back? And
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. Uh, there's a lot of cool research
Speaker 1: in the possibility of cloning a wooly mammoth of you know,
Speaker 1: finding a surrogate elephant to give birth to it and
Speaker 1: all this. But uh, let's talk about resurrecting their poos. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: it turns out that that these guys on occasion would
Speaker 1: consume other creatures poos and in fact, a wily mammoth
Speaker 1: discovered in northern Yakoosha, Russia eight feces shortly before it died.
Speaker 1: We ah that researchers discovered and uh, it was really
Speaker 1: well preserved actually for the for them to look at this,
Speaker 1: and they found traces of willows, daisies, sorrel such as rushes,
Speaker 1: sweet grass, sinka, fools, and other plants indicative of an
Speaker 1: open grassy landscape. That is just a lovely sounding bit
Speaker 1: of fecal matter. I mean, it's just it's very floral sounding, right.
Speaker 1: But they also found this fungus Sporo miella, which is
Speaker 1: known to know to grow on depositive feces, So that's
Speaker 1: how they know there is a bit of feces in there.
Speaker 1: What I think is astounding about this is that you
Speaker 1: also get a hint of that diet. As you say,
Speaker 1: it sounded somewhat lovely. I mean, you've got sorel and
Speaker 1: daisies and willows. Um, but yes, you've got the fecal
Speaker 1: matter as well. And it's believed that they actually did
Speaker 1: this for a reason. Um, sometimes they wanted to populate
Speaker 1: their guts with appropriate digestive bacteria. It's sort of made
Speaker 1: me think back to when we talked about fecal transplants.
Speaker 1: People who are suffering from C. Diff. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: there healthy digestive factories wiped out, and so they replace
Speaker 1: it with a fecal transplant from someone else, presumably a
Speaker 1: family member, someone they knew. Um, but this could be
Speaker 1: a similar thing that these wooly mammoth were doing. Now,
Speaker 1: one of the articles who were looking at laid out this, uh,
Speaker 1: this interesting theory of kind of not quite an apocalypse
Speaker 1: caused by wooly man eth dung, but but kind of
Speaker 1: a complication of global warming meets lily mammoth dung. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, so okay. Normally, um, it doesn't take long
Speaker 1: for dung to fossilize, right, We're talking like what within
Speaker 1: a couple hundred years, A couple hundred years, which sounds
Speaker 1: like a long time, but the geological scale is and
Speaker 1: a big deal, right. But it's a totally different story
Speaker 1: for the frozen tundra where you have generations of lily
Speaker 1: mammoths that roamed those that area for thousands and or
Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of years and they deposited. Of course
Speaker 1: they're mammoth do And so the idea here is that
Speaker 1: with global warming that dormant microbes in the dung heaps
Speaker 1: could begin to wake up because they just pooped everywhere
Speaker 1: and then it froze. Yes, it's a carpet of poop basically.
Speaker 1: So so this is when stuff starts thawing out, so
Speaker 1: too will fall out the mammoth dung, and then it's
Speaker 1: gonna release methane. It's gonna particularly have have microbes in it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's sort of we're opening a
Speaker 1: Pandora's box made out of yeah. And that again, this
Speaker 1: is what is really fascinating about this sort of scatological
Speaker 1: look into nature and what's happening here. I know some
Speaker 1: of you are thinking, hey, uh, poop is great and all,
Speaker 1: but what about vomit? Can we talk about vomit? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: we can talk about vomit. There is such thing as
Speaker 1: a fossilized vomit, and it is called a regurgit alike,
Speaker 1: which sounds beautiful, right it does mineralized vomitous yep. Peter
Speaker 1: Doyle of the University of Greenwich described a conglomeration of
Speaker 1: bellamonite skeleton is believed to have been coughed up by
Speaker 1: a marine reptile called it wass. The saurus is the
Speaker 1: scary looking I like to think of as a fright dolphin.
Speaker 1: It's that prehistoric dolphin. It looks really kind of crazy
Speaker 1: and scary and nightmarish. That's the I. Thesaurus and the
Speaker 1: bellamites are, or were, an ancient type of squid that
Speaker 1: actually had an internal skeleton, which was really interesting. Um
Speaker 1: so that's what this thing was eating and occasionally vomiting
Speaker 1: up way back when we talked about animals that would
Speaker 1: turn their like some sharks will turn their stomach out
Speaker 1: like a like an inside out socked so um or
Speaker 1: even see cucumbers too, right, Yeah, yeah, So I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if it was a similar thing where it was you know,
Speaker 1: it eats something it can't agree with, so it's just yeah,
Speaker 1: just ejecting it possibly, but yeah, it reached that up
Speaker 1: about a hundred and sixty million years ago. And it
Speaker 1: turns out that this kind of stuff, these copper lights,
Speaker 1: this uh regurgital light is hot stuff in the eBay market.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you were searching for this yesterday. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this and think about it too. It would
Speaker 1: make sense because some of these will will coalesce into
Speaker 1: these beautiful patterns. Um. Just sort of like you know,
Speaker 1: petrified wood or anything that's been fossilized or been sort
Speaker 1: of baked by nature for a long time. Um. And
Speaker 1: one piece of jewelry relieves uh, struck my fancy the
Speaker 1: wrist watch. Yeah, it's dinosaur dung watch from a maker
Speaker 1: called Artia. Okay, it's a Swiss made time piece. It's flawless,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. I'm not kidding. It features a polished copper
Speaker 1: light face sourced from a herbivorous dinosaurs dung which was
Speaker 1: dropped a hundred million years ago, and it has a
Speaker 1: bronze casing that's that's chosen to match quote the warm
Speaker 1: and matchless tints of dinosaur dume. It's it's really hard
Speaker 1: to imagine, but if you go to the blog post
Speaker 1: that accompanies this, uh, this podcast, I'll include some links
Speaker 1: and maybe I can find something doing bad as well.
Speaker 1: Get a quick glance at it. But these thinks, some
Speaker 1: of these things are really beautiful. I mean they just
Speaker 1: look like beautiful stones with a lot of like cool
Speaker 1: um earthy tones and even some like non earthy kind
Speaker 1: of bright vibrant colors sort of marble through it. Well,
Speaker 1: I love this. There was a PBC article about this,
Speaker 1: um I believe it's called Telling the Time with a
Speaker 1: wristful of dinosaur poo. And the maker of it is
Speaker 1: so excited by this, and he says like you're literally
Speaker 1: time traveling with this. Yeah, I know, um with this
Speaker 1: with this watch, and you know he's trying to sell it,
Speaker 1: and you know why he's trying to sell it because
Speaker 1: it's twelve dollars. You've got to come up with a
Speaker 1: good story. But if you if you want to be
Speaker 1: the I mean, rist watches are are are cool again, right,
Speaker 1: No one actually needs them because you getting fun, but
Speaker 1: people like wearing them and and if you really want
Speaker 1: to set yourself apart, if you really want to be cool, uh,
Speaker 1: this is the watch again. It is And I failed
Speaker 1: to mention that the strap is made from American cane
Speaker 1: toad skin. Well good, because you want something, um, something similar.
Speaker 1: They had to they could have to complete the DNA
Speaker 1: sequence of the used frogs. They had to complete the
Speaker 1: wrist watch. So turn to your amphibians. Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of beautiful, right, it is. It is. It's a beautiful watch.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Copper lights, dung watches, yea, regurgital lights,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. It's a it's this is a
Speaker 1: fun one. Yeah, and uh and certainly um. I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if anybody out there has any of this jewelry, because
Speaker 1: you can also get like ear rings from copper lights,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty fancy stuff. I mean if I saw
Speaker 1: it on on Etsy or wherever, I wouldn't think for
Speaker 1: a second, Oh, that kind of looks like you're hanging
Speaker 1: dinosaur turrets from your ears. No, it looks fabulous. And
Speaker 1: my question is can you can polish a donis nicely done?
Speaker 1: My question is if any of these have shown up
Speaker 1: on regretsy yet, because I would love to see that
Speaker 1: at least the description of it. Cool. Well, let's um,
Speaker 1: let's call over speaking of technology made out of done,
Speaker 1: Let's call over our robot Arnold. He doesn't any feelings.
Speaker 1: He he doesn't care what I call him, but he
Speaker 1: does have some mail. Here, let's see. Here's one from
Speaker 1: Eric Eric Writeson and says he's talking about horror. We
Speaker 1: received a lot of comments on our Science of Horror
Speaker 1: episodes it I've never liked films like The Shining, however
Speaker 1: my sister still loves them. When I was about eleven
Speaker 1: and we had showtime and they were showing The Shining
Speaker 1: on TV, our parents were going out and UH explicitly
Speaker 1: told us not to watch the movie. So of course
Speaker 1: my sister nine at the time, had to see it. However,
Speaker 1: it was too scary for her, so she got up,
Speaker 1: so she got me up to protect her. To this day,
Speaker 1: that movie treats me out. A few years ago, I
Speaker 1: was walking between two high hedges at night in the winter.
Speaker 1: It was very cold and the hedges were covered in
Speaker 1: sparkling snow. It brought back memories of the movie so
Speaker 1: so powerful it took a great force of will to
Speaker 1: present myself prevent myself from running. So I do enjoy
Speaker 1: I do enjoy psychological throwers like hard Candy though. Thanks
Speaker 1: again for the podcast. Eric Hard Candy was very intense movie.
Speaker 1: It was intense, Yeah, very very well done, but yeah,
Speaker 1: intense of viewing experience and the shining I agree. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's you can you can make criticism, certainly on the
Speaker 1: fact that Jack Nicholson barely plays a human being in
Speaker 1: the film, and and and and a lot of the
Speaker 1: humanity of that character is lost in the transition from
Speaker 1: the film. And that's something King always Stephen King, the
Speaker 1: original author, always grabbed about with that film. But I
Speaker 1: can see that because that's very central to his writing
Speaker 1: in his character. Yeah, but every but the look of
Speaker 1: the film, in Kubrick's treatment of the Haunted House in
Speaker 1: that film, just I mean, it still stands up to
Speaker 1: be play today. It's like two thousand and one. It's
Speaker 1: the two thousand and one of haunted houses. So um, certainly,
Speaker 1: if you've never seen it, um, I recommend it, but
Speaker 1: be prepared for some shocks. Like even if you think
Speaker 1: you're prepared, like you, it's it's in the same category
Speaker 1: with two thousand one and that you've seen. If you've
Speaker 1: seen sci fi movies today and you think you've seen
Speaker 1: it all, and then you go back and watch two
Speaker 1: thousand one. It will show you something that you haven't
Speaker 1: seen before. Likewise, if you've seen a lot of modern
Speaker 1: horror films, I don't care how disturbing or or or
Speaker 1: whatever they happen to be, go back and watch the
Speaker 1: Shining and it will give you something to creep you
Speaker 1: out well, because Kubrick is a master of creating that
Speaker 1: environment that is so isolating. Yeah, and I mean, look
Speaker 1: at those films back back. Um, there's so many, at
Speaker 1: least in terms of how he sets the mood using
Speaker 1: sound and the void, that it really does strike you
Speaker 1: at some sort of primal level. Oh and then we
Speaker 1: also heard just another quick one related to horror and things.
Speaker 1: It's frightenness. Carrie with a K wrote in and said, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: maybe you're too young to remember, but King, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: didn't start the clown phobia. The original Poulter guys had
Speaker 1: a scary clown. That's what started it out for me,
Speaker 1: my brother, and my husband. King's clown was scarier, but
Speaker 1: our fears beginnings were from Poulter. Guys. Do you remember this?
Speaker 1: I kind of I don't know if I'm getting my
Speaker 1: clown imagery mixed up, but I sort of remember the
Speaker 1: scene where the kids in bed and the tree branches
Speaker 1: keep tapping against the window, and that there's there's a
Speaker 1: creepy clown clown that's sitting on a chair. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's um. This was a film that I saw
Speaker 1: way too young, Like for some reason, we had a
Speaker 1: VHS copy of it, Like I think my aunt had
Speaker 1: taped it off HBO boy back in the day, you know,
Speaker 1: back when they had that really awesome electronic intro and
Speaker 1: the crazy like flying into the HBO logo and it
Speaker 1: might have been partially scrambled or or black and white,
Speaker 1: black and white, I don't remember which, but that really
Speaker 1: screwed me up for a while. I didn't actually watch
Speaker 1: Polter Guys in its entirety until a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, it's got so many it's frightening. And
Speaker 1: the second one is very disturbing as well to me.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the one that u hr g gre designed.
Speaker 1: One creature effect in that I think where the guy's
Speaker 1: vomit turns into a monster and crawls off. Oh I
Speaker 1: don't remember that part. I just the the creature characters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: horrifect So yeah, those that's those are some films that
Speaker 1: for the most part, still stand up today in terms
Speaker 1: of their creepy visuals. So so there you have it. Um. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: if you want to share something with us, be it
Speaker 1: related to older episodes like The Horror or or cutting
Speaker 1: edge episodes like Dinosaur Poop and Dinosaur Vomit, let us know.
Speaker 1: We'd love to hear what you have to say about
Speaker 1: what have you learned from examining the leavings of other creatures?
Speaker 1: Are you one of those people that can look at
Speaker 1: some droppings on the ground and tell me exactly what
Speaker 1: kind of animal it is and and how far away
Speaker 1: they are and what they had for dinner. Um, I'd
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