1 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature, feature production of I Heart Radio. I'm 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology 3 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today on the show Creatures Versus 4 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: Video Game Bosses, were matching some of the most iconic 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: video game bosses with real life creatures in a no 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: holds barred match of wits, Broun, Brain and slime, which 7 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: members of the Animal Kingdom can travel to the Mushroom 8 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: Kingdom and defeat Bowser. Is Echo the dolphin really up 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: to the task of defeating the final boss? Or could 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: he use some fishy friends and could have mycologists take 11 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: down the batties from the most recent Resident Evil game? 12 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: Discover the more as we answered the angel question. Parasitic 13 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: Pod Got your Tongue? Joining me today is the creator 14 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: of the wildly popular YouTube channel that translates real life 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: animal biology into video game term Patch from tears Zoo. Welcome, Hi, 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: thanks so much for having me. I am very excited 17 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: to have you on for this episode. I think your 18 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: videos are wildly entertaining. They're really cool. I love I 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: don't think it's a secret at this point that I'm 20 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: a nerd kind of in every aspect of my life. 21 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: I love video games, I love animals. I really love 22 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: sort of I don't want to say gamification because I 23 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 1: don't like that word, but taking sort of animal biology 24 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 1: and putting it into terms that people who love video 25 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: games can really understand. Oh, thank you so much. I'm 26 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: really excited to rank some video game bosses versus animals 27 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: VideA so uh first, I mean, we've got to go 28 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: with maybe the most iconic boss of all time. I 29 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: don't want to put any video game bosses on blast here, 30 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: but I think Bowser to makes it right. King Koopa 31 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: Bowser is definitely a big bad that everyone knows. I think, yeah, yeah. 32 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: The Mario games feature Bowser as the main antagonist. He's 33 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: that big, spiky turtle like fellow. He's King of the Kopas, 34 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: which I guess is what those little turtles are. I 35 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: only discovered that into my adult life. I just thought 36 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: they were turtles that you jump on. But yeah, he 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: frequently captures Princess Peach, and his life goals are to 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: defeat Mario, become the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, and 39 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: maybe go on a date with Princess Peach, which seems 40 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: counterintuitive to the whole kidnappy thing. But you know, I agree, 41 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: maybe not the best way to go about it, and 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: I think some of the recent Mario games have kind 43 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: of addressed that. Um but yeah, Pawser definitely a legend, right, 44 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: a legend, just not in the dating sphere, so perhaps not. 45 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: Some of Moser's strengths are that he spits fire pretty good. 46 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: It's a pretty good that's a strong ability for sure. Yeah, 47 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: he's spiky. He got a lot of spikes, which you know, 48 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: we know is a good defense mechanism or a variety 49 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: of animals. Uh, he's got horns and claws and that 50 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: that's good. That definitely helps him out. And he's big 51 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: and strong. Yes, he's got a serious size advantage over 52 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: most of his foes. Yes, Mario, Yeah, Mario is kind 53 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: of a he's a compact Italian plumber. He's a short 54 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: he's a short king. Yeah. Uh, he's you know what 55 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: he does lacks in size, he makes up in I 56 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: guess stomping ability, right, that's his main power. Stomping, Yeah, 57 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: stomping and jumping. Yep, he's breaking next, jumping on people's heads. 58 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: We love a short Italian plumber king who step on 59 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: your neck? So, uh, Bowser's weaknesses is uh, well, there's 60 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: his unrequited, unhealthy infatuation with princesses, which you know, that's 61 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: more of a psychological thing. You know, maybe he could 62 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: get under his skin with some some comments about you know, 63 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: he's uh, he doesn't know how to how to talk 64 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: to women. But other than that, his weakness is I 65 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: think poor agility and flexibility. And he has this spot 66 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: open on his tail that in Super Mario sixty four 67 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: you must grab that tail and spin him around to 68 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: defeat him. Based on these specifications, I think we're looking 69 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: for a sturdy animal or a very agile animal that 70 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: can outmaneuver him um, and something that can attack its 71 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: praise tails, maybe do spin attacks, maybe some brute strength. 72 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, I mean my mind kind 73 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: of goes to the sorts of animals that um are 74 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: the predators of turtles, because Bosser is basically a dragon turtle. 75 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, like, I don't know, birds, Like there's 76 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: some birds that prey on turtles by like carrying them 77 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: up into the air. Yeah. I love that really big 78 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: bird to do that. I love it. I love it 79 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: when birds of prey, just like it's such a it's 80 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: so devious to pick up your prey and you're not 81 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: doing anything to them yet, but you're just taking them 82 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 1: higher and higher to drop down. Exactly, you're letting you're 83 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,679 Speaker 1: abusing the physics of real life. You know, you're letting 84 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 1: gravity do the dirty work for you. Exactly. It's super intelligent. 85 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: It's genius. Uh, you know, works smart, not harder, right, um, 86 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: murder smarter, not harder, precisely. But I don't think we're 87 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: going to find any birds that can quite do that 88 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: to Bowser. Maybe not, maybe not, but you know there 89 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: are animals. So one thing I was looking for is 90 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: strong grip, right, because you need you're gonna need a 91 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: strong grip because once you've got Bowser's tail, it's the 92 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,119 Speaker 1: game's over. Right, You've got his tail he can't get. 93 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: That's one of the things is even though Mario is 94 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: teeny tiny, like he can't turn around, because when Mario 95 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: is attached to his tail, what's he gonna do like 96 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: burn his own tail off? No? Yeah, so are you 97 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: thinking like crocodiles. Crocodiles is a very good one. Like 98 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: if a croc bid a Bowser's tail for sure that 99 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: Bowser would be in a tough, tough spot, pretty hard 100 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: to get the crocodile off of you. At that point, 101 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, So with crocodile, I think you would 102 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: not have to make any modifications. You could just take 103 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: a classic saltwater crocodile pitted against Bowser, and in my opinion, 104 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,239 Speaker 1: the crocodile would win every time. What do you think, 105 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: I think, especially because if Bowser decides to use his 106 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: firebreath attack, the crocodile could just like submerge itself under 107 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: the water. Absolutely, I guess in this hypothetical scenario, the 108 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: croc has to also have water around it, and for 109 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: whatever reason, wading through some swamp or river or something, 110 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: there are water levels and Mario, right, there's lots of water. Yeah, 111 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: definitely water levels. It's definitely water levels. So yeah, let's 112 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit more about crocodiles because this 113 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: is actually one of my picks for who I think 114 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: could defeat Bowser. So, crocodiles are large reptiles found in 115 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: aquatic environments all around the world. Most species of crocodile 116 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: employ a devastating attack against their victims called a death roll, 117 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: which I think would be a particularly effective attack against 118 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: a bowser. So the death roll is the crocodile's way 119 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: of attacking and devouring prey many times its size, such 120 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: as a will the Beast, which is not an easy 121 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: thing to eat. I think even you imagine, like crocodiles 122 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: are pretty big, but imagine trying to get like a 123 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: will the Beast all in your mouth all at once. 124 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: It's impossible. You've never you've never tried to chug a 125 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: will the Beast. I can't say that I have you No. 126 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: I think the closest I've gotten is like trying to 127 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: get a whole in and out burger, like half of 128 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: it in my mouth and one by kind of really 129 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: one by challenging. Awesome. I've done that with like donuts. 130 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: I don't think I've done with a burger. Yeah, it 131 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: doesn't work very good with a burger, But I was 132 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: really trying, like a guy Fieri bye with the burger 133 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: one bite challenge and then may I respect it? Yep. 134 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: The greets are for later. That's a problem for a 135 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 1: future Katie, right That's for future Katie right now. It's 136 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: in and out Katie time. But for a crocodile, that's 137 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: a real problem. Crocodiles don't really chew their food, do they. 138 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: They don't. They don't have the chewing muscles that other carnivores. 139 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: They can't rip and tear. They don't have the grinding 140 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: action that like omnivores like humans have, like we can 141 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: grind exactly. Yeah. I think if anything, the crocodile would 142 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: probably rip off Bowser's tail by doing the whole death 143 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: roll thing. It would really have much other options to 144 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: actually eat Bowser. So much of him is inside that shell, 145 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: which I don't think the crocod would be really able 146 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: to do much to even with its powerful bite. I mean, 147 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: just because it's like a sphere, like imagine trying to 148 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: bite something round like that, he'd have to hollow out 149 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: Bowser from the inside, like get in there and pull 150 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: the flesh chunks out from inside that shell. I suppose 151 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: is that that could definitely work. Pretty grizzly looking life 152 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: videos yeah, yeah, Like Hyena is getting all up in 153 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: like a hip elephant after killing it. David Attenborrow narrating 154 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 1: as you see, like like a hyena just come out 155 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: of a crevice of Bowser's eyehole. I sack it, but yeah. So, 156 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: because the crocodile doesn't chew it's prey to break it 157 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: down into smaller pieces. Whatever it swallows, it has to 158 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: swallow whole. For smaller prey, that's easy enough. It just 159 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: chomps down, crushes it, and gulps it back like an 160 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: in and out burger um. And often for bigger prey, 161 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: the crocodile will actually drown its prey first, because you know, dead, 162 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: drowned prey is easier to deal with than a kicking, 163 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: live prey that's going, hey, wait a minute, I didn't 164 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: sign up for this. So it's jaws are great for gripping, 165 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: bad for chewing. In fact, it's jaw strength has a 166 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: bite force of over sixteen thousand Newton's, which I you know, 167 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 1: that's just a number, right, Like, it's hard to put 168 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: into perspective of what that is. But for comparison, a 169 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: human grip is about three hundred Newton's, so you know 170 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Yeah. It's why when you put your 171 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: hand inside a crocodile mouth, it's usually not going to 172 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: go good for you. It's just not Do not recommend that, 173 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: do not recommend. I did find a video when I 174 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: was researching this that I won't describe too much because 175 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: I don't want people googling it. But it's bad. Don't 176 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: put your hand in a crocodile mouth. People, don't do it. 177 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 1: If you want your hand back, yeah, don't don't put 178 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: it there if you're not offering your hand literally to 179 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: the crocodile to take for keeps. These don't do it. 180 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 1: So it will bite down, clamp down on its prey 181 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: and then do this death roll so where it just spin, spin, spin, 182 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 1: like a video game attack. It's an incredible like because 183 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: they're in the water, they have some buoyancy, some more 184 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: I guess agility than you would think such a large 185 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: reptile would have, and they just spit around like a 186 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: tornado with that limb in their mouth and literally will 187 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: twist it right off of the body of their prey. 188 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: And uh so they are able to then disassemble something 189 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: like a will the Beast or maybe like a bowser 190 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: chunk by chunk, such that they can just eat something 191 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: much larger than itself. It would certainly be a pretty 192 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: gruesome sight to watch. Yeah, I think they could eventually 193 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: take apart at least things that are outside of the 194 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: shell they could probably rip Bowser's limbs off, which is 195 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, his tail, his feet and arms ahead 196 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: those cute little like goth bracelets that he's got, He's 197 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: got a lot of points of contact outside of the shell. 198 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:16,839 Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, that's true. And in fact, the death 199 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: roll hasn't always been used by crocodiles to tear prey 200 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: up into little edible bits. It's actually thought to be 201 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: a defensive combat move that they can also use to 202 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: tear down prey. So there have been observations of crocodiles 203 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: using this move when they're fighting some kind of aggressive 204 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: other animal or other crocodiles. So it's totally totally feasible 205 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: that a crocodile would use this move on Bowser and 206 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 1: a one on one fight. Definitely, I think given its 207 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: home turf of a river swamp, I think a crocodile 208 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: has a would pose a pretty big threat to Bowser 209 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: for sure. Yes, yes, I agree, And but that is 210 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: maybe not the only animal that I think could take 211 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: down Bowser. Now, uh, let's say, isn't there a there's 212 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: a thing that Mario can eat right in the game, 213 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: one of the mushrooms that makes him real big? Yeah? 214 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: There's one that makes him big. There's a few other 215 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: power ups that give him uh the ability to kind 216 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: of fly or um shoot fire himself. But the big 217 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: one is the most iconic for sure. That's like this, 218 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: that's like the Ghost Pepper, the Ghost Pepper mushroom story. 219 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: He just he just shoots it out of his his 220 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: hands are his face, I see not a well. Anyways, 221 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: if you gave a mere cat one of those mushrooms, 222 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: that makes it real big. I think that Bowser would 223 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: be complete toast because if Bowser's point of weakness is 224 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: grabbing an attack the tail, mirror cats are just designed 225 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: to fight dirty uh and grab you by the butt. 226 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: So mere cats are a species of social mongoose found 227 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: in southern Africa. You know, they're to mown from the 228 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: Lion King. Completely accurate depiction. They all have Nathan Lane's voice, 229 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: so they love to eat scorpions when given the opportunity. Uh. Now, 230 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of conjecture that like, mongooses are sorry, 231 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: mere cats are, well, your cats are mongooses. But nevertheless, 232 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: mere cats that they're immune to venom or two poison. 233 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: They have some resistance to venom and poison, which are 234 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: venom and toxins, which is good because they do like 235 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: to eat snakes and scorpions, but they're they're not completely immune. 236 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: They could not survive being stabbed a bunch of times 237 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: by a highly venomous scorpion, and they don't want to 238 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: eat it. You know. It's just it's a bad time 239 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: for for the little mercat that wants to eat a 240 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: highly toxic arthur pods. So instead, what they do is, 241 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: when they want to eat a scorpion, they attack it 242 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: from the butt side. They grab it by the stinger, 243 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: rip off its entire backside, including the stinger. They discard 244 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: the stinger, and then just rub the poor little scorpion 245 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: in the sand until it washes away all the toxins, uh, 246 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: and then they can enjoy this tasty snack. So, in 247 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: my opinion, the fact that meercats learned to do this 248 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: like since their babies means that if you scaled up 249 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: a meercat you gave it one of those dubious magic 250 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: mushrooms and it was fighting size with bowser, it would 251 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: just gruesomely destroy and devour our bowser. Yeah. Definitely, the 252 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: agility that mere cats possesses pretty tough to beat now. 253 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: I mean there's a little bit of uh asterisk next 254 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: to the whole like if you make it bigger because 255 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 1: you run into like the square cube law everything whether 256 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: or not you can retain that agility, right, But it's 257 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: vascular system just sort of uh immediately collapse under the 258 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: weight of its new girth. Would it you know? Yeah? 259 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: And the whole moment of a nerve show of having 260 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: limbs that are way longer snap. Would it not get 261 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: enough oxygen? Yeah, there's a lot of questions when you 262 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: scale things up. We can ignore all of that if 263 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: you need to be just to talk about giant mere cats. 264 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: So in your scenario, are the mere cats because you 265 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: said that there very social animals and that's oftentimes how 266 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: they hunt snakes and everything. So in the scenario, is 267 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: it just one mere cat versus Bowser, a giant meer cat, 268 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: or is it the whole posse of mere cats? If 269 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: I think it's either or right to defeat Bowser, you 270 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: could either have one giant mere cat or an army 271 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: of regular size mere cats because together they're very good 272 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: at teaming, Like they can take on a king cobra 273 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: together as a unit, which is very impressive. Now, they 274 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 1: don't often fight uh cobras, which there's always something a 275 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: little bit suspect to me when you see wildlife footage 276 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: of like mirr cats fighting a cobra, because like, they 277 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: don't usually get into conflict, Like did someone just throw 278 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 1: a cobra at them? And the way to find the 279 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,239 Speaker 1: most dangerous things they possibly can? Yeah, yeah, and like 280 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: sort of staging something for uh for dramatic television effect. Nevertheless, 281 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: they do. They do team up and fight snakes by 282 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: forming a united front as a team because they are 283 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 1: highly social. So I think a team of merecats could 284 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: do it, or one giant meercat uh. And my last 285 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: contender maybe is something you wouldn't necessarily think of, but 286 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: it has pound for pound an incredibly strong grip, one 287 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: of the strongest grips in the world. It is the 288 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: coconut crab. So the coconut crab is a large, large 289 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: terrestrial crustacean found on islands and coasts in the Indian 290 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: Ocean and parts of the Pacific Ocean. They look like 291 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: a weird big crab. They're actually more closely related to 292 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: hermit crabs than actual crabs. Have you heard of carsonization? 293 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: I certainly have considered making a video on the subject. 294 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: Oh you must, I mean it is inevitable. We all 295 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: shall become crabs one day. Carsonization is the term for 296 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 1: where they repeated parallel or convergent evolution of Arthur pods 297 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: into crab form, which apparently is the most desirable of 298 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 1: forms in all of nature, is to be crab. So yeah, 299 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: I've started scuttling just in preparation for the future. Go yeah, 300 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: but yeah, So the coconut crab not really a crab, 301 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 1: more of a hermit crab. It is a crustacean. They're huge. 302 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: The fact that they are so big and live on 303 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: land is a little bit disconcerting. They can weigh up 304 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: to nine pounds or four kims and grow up to 305 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: three ft or one meter in length. So intimidating. I'm intimidated. 306 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to mess with one. No, no, thank you. Yeah, 307 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: So researchers, God bless our natural biology researchers. They collected 308 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: about thirty coconut crab us and measured their pinches with 309 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: They look like these metal tubes that the coconut crabs 310 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: would pinch, and then it would measure the force of 311 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: those big pinches, and they found that they were able 312 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 1: to pinch with the force of over one thousand, seven 313 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: hundred newtons. So again, human grip only three hundred Newton's 314 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: coconut crab the size that it is, can grip at 315 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: almost six times that of a human. And so if 316 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: you scaled a coconut crab up to the size of 317 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: say an average size maybe a little bit short human plumber, 318 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: he could grip with six tons of force. Yeah, I 319 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: think that might be enough to do a number on 320 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: bows of shell. I think so. I think he could 321 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: not only could he grab the tail and toss bowser 322 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: like a limp rag, he could just crack open that 323 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: shell like a little pistachio. So that's like the whole 324 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: reason they're called coconut crabs, right, is because they could 325 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: shatter coconuts with their just the sheer force of their grip. 326 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: You know, I've never even questioned their name, but that 327 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: sounds right to me. I totally made that up, totally wrong, 328 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: I believe sounds right. It sounds right to me as well. 329 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: I believe you. So. One of the researchers marine biologists, 330 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: shin Ichiro Coca, was pinched by one of the test 331 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: subject coconut crabs and said quote, While it was only 332 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: a few minutes, I felt eternal Hell, thank you. I 333 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: would not want to be him, no, no brave souls 334 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: to invite a bunch of coconut crabs over to test 335 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 1: their pinches. Uh. Yeah, so actually I was just in 336 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: Costa Rica and even picking up little little harmy crabs 337 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: on the beach. Yeah. I would get a little nervous 338 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: if I grabbed, like a particularly big one and they 339 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: would try to it. It can hurt, It can hurt bad. 340 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: So imagine one that's two thousand times as big. Thank 341 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,679 Speaker 1: you you had one as well. I had a little 342 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: tiny hermit crab as a kid, even though they don't 343 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 1: really make good pets, but I was a kid. I 344 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: don't know, uh, and it it's favorite thing to do. 345 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 1: Probably it was looking for a different shell than the 346 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: one that I had provided to it. Thought it was lame, 347 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: not the right size, which is a tricky thing. If 348 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: you have a hermit crab pet, you need to provide 349 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: it with many different shells because it gets bigger and 350 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: needs to pick out a new shell. It's gonna be picky. 351 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: So I think, oh, like this one is a good 352 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: size for it, not according to it. So it would 353 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: crawl in my armpit and like pinch really hard in 354 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: there because I think it was like trying out my 355 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: body as a new shell, like testing the structural integrity 356 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: of my armpit. But that hurts, So I can't imagine 357 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: one thousand, seven hundred Newton's of force, which yowser's that. Yeah, 358 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: quite a strong handshake, Yeah, leave a mark for sure. 359 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: You know those competitive business handshakes. Yes, like basically the 360 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: kind of handshake that your girlfriend's dad gives you the 361 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: first time. Give me that kind of thing. Yeah, yes, 362 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: college your sport grabbed your hand device like grip just 363 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: so you know, just so you know the pecking order. 364 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: Don't date a coconut crab because a coconut crab dad 365 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 1: could just crush your hand into a pulverized smoosh. Absolutely alright. 366 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: So our next video game boss is the Vortex Queen 367 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: from Echo the Dolphin. Now this is maybe not as 368 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: well known of a boss, but I I had to 369 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: include it because this is one of the times when 370 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 1: a video game boss is actually defeated by an animal, 371 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: and I want to question the choice of protagonists in 372 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: this video game. So Echo the Dolphin was Sega Genesis 373 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 1: adventure game featuring Echo the Dolphin, who is a dolphin 374 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 1: that jumps real good and is on an adventure to 375 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 1: find it's missing pod of dolphins. So I actually did 376 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: not play this game as a kid because I didn't 377 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: have the Sega Genesis. I've never played it at all, 378 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 1: but I might have to see if I can find 379 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: an emulator for it, because it sounds very unique. It is, 380 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: I read I went down out of fandom wicky hole 381 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: on this one, and it's an interesting plot. I mean 382 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: like when I saw artwork for this game, was like, yes, 383 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: about dolphin who jumps real good, but it's got aliens 384 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: and time travel in it. Oh good, Okay, yeah every 385 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: game needs that. So there are in this game your 386 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 1: pod goes missing, your pot of dolphins. They're all these 387 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: weird weather phenomenons like sudden storms and water spouts, which 388 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: turn out to be the fault of an alien race 389 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: of parasites known as the Vortex. So Echo the Dolphin 390 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: must travel through time to collect powerful orbs to help 391 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: defeat the Vortex Queen and rescue the planet and Echoes 392 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 1: pod of dolphins. So the Vortex Queen is a giant 393 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 1: alien head that lives in the deep sea with anglerfish 394 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: like jaws and huge black eyes. She attacks her enemies 395 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: by using strong suction to pull creatures into her mouth 396 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: and devours them instantly. She can summon vortex jellyfish and 397 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: Vortex drones to attack the player, all the while trying 398 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: to suck you right into her mouth. So you defeat 399 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 1: the Vortex Queen Echo almost first destroy her eyes with 400 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: sonar and then break off her jaw and then break 401 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: her skull. WHOA, that's so violent. Yeah, I mean for 402 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: a fun game about dolphins, it's a pretty violent and 403 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: pretty uh, pretty intense, Like this Vortex Queen. The pixel 404 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: art of it it's bonkers. It's like it does look 405 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: like a terrifying deep sea creature kind of fused with 406 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: like an alien skull, which is definitely not probably what 407 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: the mini thousands of grandmas who picked this game out 408 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,239 Speaker 1: for their kids like thought was going to be. And 409 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: this is about just jump in and swim in and 410 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,719 Speaker 1: killing alien giant heads down deep in the sea, you know, 411 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: standard marine fun times. So the issue I have with this, 412 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: I mean they try to explain away some of the 413 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: things with Echo the dolphins like time travels and picks 414 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: up magic orbs so that he can breathe underwater without 415 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: Because dolphins are mammals, they got to breathe sometimes, so 416 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: they can't unlike maybe some larger cetaceans like a sperm 417 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: whale or a blue whale. They really can't go that 418 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: deep and spin that much time, uh, deep down without 419 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: surfacing to breathe. Um, so Echo really shouldn't be down there. Uh. 420 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 1: They try to explain it away with magic, but that's 421 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: not good enough for me. Also, uh, dolphins. Sonar is 422 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: not a weapon. It is a sensory tool. It uses 423 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: clicks to bounce sound off objects and form a map 424 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: of their surroundings. These clicks don't do anything really to 425 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: harm other animals unless it confuses some other cetacean that 426 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: is also trying to find. As far as weapons go, uh, 427 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: there are much more day sonic blasts in the animal kingdom, 428 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: like even even just like the shriek of a parrot 429 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: I think is potentially almost as loud as like a gunshot, 430 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: and that can definitely mess with your ears if you're 431 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: too close, or the pinch of a mantis peacock mantis 432 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: shrimp is going to be Yeah, not really a sonic weapon, 433 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:26,959 Speaker 1: but it's definitely yeah exactly, but no, yeah, the sonar 434 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: doesn't really do anything. This is very hyped up sort 435 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: of Havanas syndrome masque a situation with that kind of 436 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: dolphin really promising much more of a sonic weapon then, 437 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: and dolphin can really do uh So, in my opinion, 438 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: dolphin is not really the best animal for the job, 439 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: even a magic time traveling dolphin. Of course, dolphins have 440 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: a lot of strength that I should not downplay. Like, 441 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: they're intelligent, they're great at teamwork, very strong abs. Have 442 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: you ever seen the abs of a dolphin? I can't 443 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: say that I have no. I mean, but I guess 444 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: if you're doing all that, yeah, like you're basically just 445 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: doing crunches in order to move. Yeah, it's Jim goals. 446 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: It's up on my Gim goals board. I want to 447 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: have the abs of a dolphin. They are agile and 448 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: in groups of dolphins, they are capable of forming bubble 449 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: nuts and sand nets, which would be very useful for 450 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: trying to defeat an alien queen. Unfortunately, within the context 451 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: of the story, uh echoes, dolphin buddies have been kidnapped 452 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: by the aliens, so right, And so my thinking is 453 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: that Echo is gonna need to get a team together 454 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: and think outside of his dolphin group and find like 455 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: a marine team of creepy ocean critters where you have 456 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: like a cool montage of Echo going around to all 457 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: these different marine animals and they're like, goddamn it, I'm in, 458 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: and then they play some music and they get in 459 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: like a submarine van thing, and yeah, right, So the 460 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: team needs to be able to defeat the Vortex Queen 461 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: in the three stages that the player needs to defeat 462 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: the Vortex Queen has to attack the eyes, the mouth, 463 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: and in the skull. So and to be able to 464 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: deal with all the little means, right, all the little 465 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: Vortex Queen was summoning like jellyfish. So I was thinking, 466 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: if it's got to deal with jellyfish, maybe a marine turtle, 467 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: a sea turtle, pretty good for that. The jellyfish maybe 468 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: clear the way because they eat jellyfish, right exactly, And 469 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: so I mean in order to even get to the 470 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: to the final boss, right, you wouldn't want to be 471 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: swimming through jellyfish and take a whole bunch of stings 472 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 1: and die from poison before you even have the chance. Yeah, exactly, 473 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: So you got you got your turtle squad who clears 474 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: out dominions the perfect and then you need something to 475 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: attack the eyes. I'm thinking for that the Copa pod 476 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: omata Koita elongata. Have you heard of this? No? Is 477 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: this like that's like a really really microscopic station, right, 478 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: it's they can be microscopic, so they can be zooplankton, 479 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: and sometimes they can be larger such that they're visible 480 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: with the naked eye, usually under about an inch still 481 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,719 Speaker 1: very small, Okay, several tiny, real tiny, but coupe pods 482 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: are a class of crustaceans, and like you said, they're 483 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,719 Speaker 1: often really tiny, like zooplankton size. But this one, the 484 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: o elongatta, is little like warm size, like under an 485 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: inch long, little pink um. They're kind of a weird 486 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: y shape. They look like a worm that has two 487 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: little noodle legs. It's actually kind of funny. And they 488 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: are parasites that attach themselves to the eyes of their host, 489 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: feeding on their eye tissue and impairing their vision. That's horrible. 490 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: That would not want to be that thing's victim. It's 491 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: typical host is one of the largest and oldest living sharks, 492 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: the greenland shark. So yeah, you know these like half 493 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: a millennia basically four exactly, Yes, ancient ancients, So they'd 494 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: give like the Vortex Queen a run for her money 495 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, old creatures that lurk in 496 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: the water. I feel like you could also go for 497 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: like a swordfish or a marlin or something. Oh yeah, 498 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: just to poke the eyes out, pokemon the eye if 499 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 1: she needs to do. That's a much more straight Yeah, 500 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: that's a much more straight forward method. I feel like 501 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: it might get the dove chopped on a little quicker 502 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: ifs parasites take a little while to start shop and 503 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: destroy eye tissue. On the other hand, is it as 504 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: fun though, like to slowly you know, like plant those 505 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: months in advance, Like you could have a spy montage 506 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,840 Speaker 1: of these little copa pods getting in there. Uh, you 507 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: definitely could. You're a little bit you're a little less 508 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 1: devious than I am. I think you're just like, we 509 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: go in, we scoop its eyes out with a swordfish, 510 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: we go out. Yeah. So there are some theories actually 511 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: that the copa pod in the greenland shark actually have 512 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 1: a mutualistic relationship rather than a parasitic one. Oh, so 513 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 1: you think it would betray the team. It's possible the 514 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: copa pod actually emits a or at least the theory. 515 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly how much of this has proven um, 516 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 1: but they may emit a slight level of bioluminescence, and 517 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: so the idea is, well, the greenland shark doesn't really 518 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: use its eyes much to hunt in the first place, 519 00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: so it could use this bioluminescence of these copa pods 520 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: to draw fish closer to it and then ambush, using 521 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: its sense of smell to ambush these fish and eat them. 522 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: That's a theory. It's quite a trade off. I don't 523 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: know if I could make that deal, have your have 524 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: your weird living eyeball tassels in exchange for slightly easier meals. 525 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe maybe I do it. That's a 526 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 1: tough call. I guess I wasn't using like you said, yeah, 527 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,319 Speaker 1: like they use their sense of smell. Uh, it does 528 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 1: feel like it'd be like kind of annoying, Like it 529 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,879 Speaker 1: always feels like you have something in your eye because 530 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 1: you do exactly. I always get eyelashes in my eye. 531 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,439 Speaker 1: So I can't imagine a crustacean hanging on. I hate 532 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,960 Speaker 1: eyeball stuff. I hate looking at things like I can't 533 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 1: I have a glasses prescription, and people like, well, why 534 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: don't you wear contacts? It's like no, never, let's touch 535 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: your eye every time you want to take you out. Yeah, no, no, no, 536 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: those little petrie discs that you put on their waiting 537 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 1: for some kind of voracious bacteria to grow, and there no, 538 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 1: thank you. So either with a swordfish poking the eyeball 539 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: out or the copa pods slowly but surely devouring the 540 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: vortex Queen's vision. Let's say we've taken out her eyes, 541 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,359 Speaker 1: next stage is taking out her mouth. Now, Echo does 542 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:27,439 Speaker 1: this by I guess, dismantling her jaw with sonar, which 543 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: we've established is not really how sonar works. You're really 544 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: really strong, yeah, last of sonic energy to break a bone, Yeah, yeah, 545 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 1: that's job bone that. It would be such a strong 546 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,280 Speaker 1: blast of sonic energy, I think it would destroy Echo 547 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,399 Speaker 1: in the process. It would just explode, right if it's 548 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: being emitted from echoes like face I assume, or like 549 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,000 Speaker 1: it's a little bits. Yeah, they used they used the 550 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 1: mel in their head as like an echo chamber to 551 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 1: help with the acoustics of these clicks. They would explode 552 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,359 Speaker 1: its head. Yes, I do think it would take some 553 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,280 Speaker 1: area of effect damage there, a little bit of friendly fire. 554 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: So instead of echo exploding his head with this mystery sonar, 555 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,480 Speaker 1: I think we need a parasitic tongue is a pod 556 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: One of my favorite parasites. Oh I don't like where 557 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 1: you're going with this. Oh no, the simoo exegua. It's 558 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: also called a parasitic tongue louse. We've actually talked about 559 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 1: this little lady on the show before. Have you heard 560 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:39,399 Speaker 1: of this beautiful, beautiful tongue parasite I have, and is 561 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,719 Speaker 1: probably one of the most gut wrenching things to ever 562 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 1: think about. This is the creature that essentially replaces the 563 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: tongue of its uh it's victim. Yes, exactly exactly. So 564 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,359 Speaker 1: I feel like at this point I'm feeling really bad 565 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 1: for this pot like it can keep, it can keep 566 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,880 Speaker 1: my friends. I'm not willing these extreme measures. The torture 567 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: this thing it's subjecting her to like and then it's 568 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 1: slowly devours her eyes and then it replaces their tongue. 569 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 1: This is psychological intimidation. The aliens are just going to 570 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 1: pack up and leave Earth. It's like, well, you've got 571 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:25,800 Speaker 1: tongue parasites down here, never mind keep stinking dolphins. Jesus. Yeah, 572 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 1: so uh see, eggs or exigua have so much trouble 573 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 1: with that name. The tongue mouse, uh will enter the 574 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: gills of a fish and swam up to its tongue 575 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,680 Speaker 1: and cut off the blood supply to the tongue while 576 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 1: sucking on that sweet sweet fish blood tongue for its 577 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: own self. And once it has consumed enough of the 578 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:56,799 Speaker 1: fish's blood, it will attach itself to the stub of 579 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 1: the tongue because as it sucks the blood from the tongue, 580 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,880 Speaker 1: tongue atrophies and withers and falls off, which is fun, 581 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 1: fun visual. And these little isopods, I mean imagine like 582 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 1: a pale, white, giant version of one of those little 583 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: roly polly's. That's what they look like. Kind of horrible. 584 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: And when you open up one of these fishes mouth 585 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: that has this is infected with this parasite, you just 586 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 1: see like this little parasite face staring out like the 587 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:36,719 Speaker 1: little alien tongue in aliens like oh how yeah, sou 588 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,880 Speaker 1: She will live there, feeding off of the fish's blood, 589 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 1: and sometimes the fish is mucus. She's not picky and 590 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: acts as the fish is replacement tongue, because the fish 591 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,919 Speaker 1: literally has no choice. If it's gonna eat, it's got 592 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: to use this isopod as its tongue. And once she 593 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:59,359 Speaker 1: is ready to release her brood pouch, she abandons fish 594 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,719 Speaker 1: and the fish actually dies without this parasite because it 595 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: now has zero tongue. You know, so you're saying is 596 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 1: actually better than nothing, it's better than that does kind 597 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,399 Speaker 1: of help. It's pour victim out at least a little bit. 598 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,360 Speaker 1: It's better not to get it in the first place. 599 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,920 Speaker 1: But you're screwed once it leaves the host, and it 600 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 1: will inevitably leave you to lay its eggs, which you know, 601 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,440 Speaker 1: it's just kind of it's kind of cruel to like 602 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,000 Speaker 1: take someone's tongue and be like, I'm your tongue now, 603 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: and then when you finally get used to it, it's like, 604 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: well see it, it's like, but you're my tongue, not anymore. 605 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm not. By the reason I keep saying, she is, 606 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: Actually it is the female pod that does this, and 607 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,239 Speaker 1: it's got a really interesting life cycle. So they all 608 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 1: start out as males and enter into the fish gills 609 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,160 Speaker 1: where they'll feed off blood supply near the gills. But 610 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: if a second uh see x segua enters into the gills, 611 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: the first one transforms from being male into being female, 612 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,920 Speaker 1: and uh, they mate, and then the male you know, 613 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,640 Speaker 1: just I think, leaves and then the newly transformed female 614 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,759 Speaker 1: goes up and bites on the tongue and does that 615 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 1: cool magic trick with the fish tongue that I'm talking about. 616 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 1: So real, interesting little creature, absolutely horrifying to anything in 617 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:36,359 Speaker 1: the ocean that has a tongue. So yeah, that would 618 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: be my plans for the Vortex Queen's tongue. Uh. And 619 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,480 Speaker 1: then all you need to do if she's not freaked 620 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,879 Speaker 1: out enough that she just leaves Earth, because it's so 621 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,080 Speaker 1: horribly messed up, much more messed up than anything she 622 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: could come up with as this like alien Queen, you 623 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: do need to attack her school And this is maybe 624 00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:59,080 Speaker 1: my favorite one, which I can't I can't wait to 625 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:04,520 Speaker 1: hear how you're gonna Well, look, so the Vortex Queen 626 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,040 Speaker 1: is a deep sea creature. She's adapted to the crushing 627 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,800 Speaker 1: depths of the ocean floor. So she can't have a solid, 628 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:17,400 Speaker 1: hard skull filled with gooey brain like humans do, because 629 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,800 Speaker 1: it would collapse from the massive pressure of the bottom 630 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 1: of the ocean to equalize. So if we went down, yeah, 631 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,440 Speaker 1: we went down to the bottom of the ocean, are 632 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,840 Speaker 1: heads would collapse a little bit. Yeah, they'd be squished. 633 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,279 Speaker 1: It might not look like it wouldn't look like your 634 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,520 Speaker 1: whole face got squished in, but your skull would definitely 635 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,840 Speaker 1: crack and start letting in water to equalize the pressure, 636 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: which is bad for your brain. Yeah, this kills the person. 637 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:51,320 Speaker 1: Kills the person. Uh. So to survive the crushing depths 638 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,400 Speaker 1: of the ocean floor, animals who have evolved down there 639 00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:00,319 Speaker 1: actually often have gaps in their skull uh to help 640 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,480 Speaker 1: equalize that pressure. So to illustrate this using like balls, 641 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,240 Speaker 1: like if you took a ping pong ball and somehow 642 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 1: shoved it down in the bottom of the ocean, it 643 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,080 Speaker 1: would collapse because the huge p s I force of 644 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,759 Speaker 1: all of that stacks and stacks of water would be 645 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,640 Speaker 1: trying to equalize the pressure from inside the ball, which 646 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 1: is filled with air which is less dense, and so 647 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,280 Speaker 1: it crushes the ping pong ball that's like your human skull. 648 00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,120 Speaker 1: Maybe not quite because our Unless you're total air head, 649 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,240 Speaker 1: literally filled with air, it would have such a dramatic effect. 650 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,279 Speaker 1: But if you drop a whiffle ball, which has a 651 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 1: bunch of holes in it, down to the bottom of 652 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,279 Speaker 1: the ocean, it's not going to collapse because inside the 653 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,440 Speaker 1: whiffle ball is just more water, and so the density 654 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,160 Speaker 1: of water is equal to the density of other waters, 655 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,400 Speaker 1: so there's no pressure to have to equalize, so whiffleball doesn't. 656 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,239 Speaker 1: So if you have the actual material itself doesn't get 657 00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,880 Speaker 1: impacted like the plastic of a whiffleball. Yeah, just to 658 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 1: hens on the material. So if you have a porous 659 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:07,000 Speaker 1: material like styrofoam, that actually gets crushed because all of 660 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,640 Speaker 1: the air inside the styrofoam gets squeezed, and so you 661 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,440 Speaker 1: can actually take a styrofoam cup, put it down in 662 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,520 Speaker 1: the bottom of the ocean, it comes back a little 663 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:20,200 Speaker 1: tiny minicup. Okay, all right. So the material has to 664 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,400 Speaker 1: be like super solid, rigid, no pockets of air inside. 665 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,560 Speaker 1: Plastic that does not have air pockets, and I think 666 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,360 Speaker 1: it's sturdy enough to survive the bottom of the ocean. 667 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: Bones sometimes may not be because bone is more porous, 668 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,920 Speaker 1: so that might get more pressure. And in fact, with 669 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,480 Speaker 1: these deep sea animals, they often have cartilage instead of 670 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,319 Speaker 1: hard bone, so that they can move around and the 671 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,680 Speaker 1: pressure may kind of bend their bones a little bit 672 00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,520 Speaker 1: and push inwards, but they're not as brittle as a 673 00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,920 Speaker 1: sort of calcified bone, so that they're just much more 674 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:01,359 Speaker 1: durable to that underwater pressure. So what I'm saying is 675 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:07,440 Speaker 1: the vortex Queen's skull has to be made at least 676 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,960 Speaker 1: partially out of cartilage, and it's got to have gaps 677 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,640 Speaker 1: in it. And so that means that these like ramming 678 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,680 Speaker 1: attacks that you do in the echo the dolphin game 679 00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,040 Speaker 1: to like crush her skull, I don't think would be 680 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,759 Speaker 1: very effective because it's like, dude, I'm already getting you know, 681 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,880 Speaker 1: all of these these this pressure from the deep sea water, 682 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:31,319 Speaker 1: Like you can't punch my skull in basically, uh, with 683 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:35,920 Speaker 1: your your puny dolphin powers. Instead, I think we need 684 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,640 Speaker 1: to use a hag fish is ability to bore a 685 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:44,480 Speaker 1: hole into the soft tissue of the vortex queen skull 686 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,320 Speaker 1: and eat it from the inside out. So hag fish 687 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,920 Speaker 1: that hag fish, well, they don't specifically look for brains 688 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:59,239 Speaker 1: and typically they're looking for uh, dead or dying animals. 689 00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,879 Speaker 1: But by the time I'm this poor vortex queen has 690 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,439 Speaker 1: had her mouth and eyeballs taken care of. I think 691 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,279 Speaker 1: the hag fish would step in. That makes sense. It's 692 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,080 Speaker 1: in pretty rough shape at that at that point. Hag 693 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: fish have a horrifying name that matches their horrifying little bodies. 694 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:20,719 Speaker 1: They're pink, slimy, squirmy, eel like primitive fish with no 695 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,360 Speaker 1: vertebral column and no jaw. They can grow around twenty 696 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:30,279 Speaker 1: or fifty cimeters long, which, ah, it's too much for me. 697 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,960 Speaker 1: When I'm thinking about just holding one of these, like 698 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,799 Speaker 1: pink slime wort, they look like worms. Uh, it's very uncomfortable. 699 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:43,040 Speaker 1: They're not worms. They are very primitive fish. So since 700 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:44,759 Speaker 1: they don't have jaws, they don't you know, no no, 701 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,400 Speaker 1: no eat, you know, like a regular fish. They have 702 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,360 Speaker 1: two plates covered in rows and rows of pointeek teeth, 703 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,960 Speaker 1: and they use these plates to grab and wrasp flesh 704 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:03,719 Speaker 1: off of carrion or they're sickly and dying victims. Uh. 705 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,279 Speaker 1: And when they've grabbed a nice piece of flesh and 706 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,520 Speaker 1: kind of gotten it sort of secured between these plates 707 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:14,319 Speaker 1: of teeth. They'll often wiggle around and not like not 708 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,840 Speaker 1: themselves around and rip big chunks off of their target. 709 00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,440 Speaker 1: So a group of hagfish. Have you ever wondered, like 710 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:26,400 Speaker 1: what happens when a huge whale dies in the ocean? 711 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,080 Speaker 1: Like where does its body go? Sometimes it washes up 712 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,719 Speaker 1: on the beach, But we don't have just constant littering 713 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,840 Speaker 1: dead whale bodies everywhere, so it has to go somewhere 714 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,319 Speaker 1: right right, and it goes. You get a good mix 715 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,920 Speaker 1: of hagfish and crabs and stuff. I I kind of 716 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,239 Speaker 1: always assume there's a bunch of crabs. Crabs love a big, 717 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:53,760 Speaker 1: big cetacean body. They they'll they love a big whale body. 718 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,600 Speaker 1: That's that's like, that's like t g I Fridays for crabs. Um. 719 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,720 Speaker 1: So absolutely. The crabs are wonderful scavengers, great at breaking 720 00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:08,520 Speaker 1: down decomposing bodies in the ocean. But hag fish are 721 00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:13,520 Speaker 1: the unsung heroes of waste disposal. They love a dead body. 722 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:17,320 Speaker 1: They will get all in there. You can see sometimes 723 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,520 Speaker 1: these ghostly corpses of a large whale and then just 724 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,360 Speaker 1: these hag fish darting in and out of the body 725 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,000 Speaker 1: as they kind of like tear out these holes and 726 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,240 Speaker 1: then go inside to the softer bits of the whale. 727 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:35,600 Speaker 1: So uh and they're very slimy. Hagfish slime is this 728 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,839 Speaker 1: really thick? It's almost like egg white texture. It's so 729 00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,680 Speaker 1: thick and gooey, and in fact, it's so full of proteins. 730 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:49,160 Speaker 1: Like some people, I mean have suggested we could use 731 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,600 Speaker 1: that as like an alternative to egg white protein, which 732 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:58,040 Speaker 1: you know, okay, yeah, just like for breakfast, just you know, 733 00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,279 Speaker 1: like good morning, I gotta gotta milk tasty a hagfish. Yeah, 734 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,000 Speaker 1: I gotta milk the hagfish for its slime to make 735 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:09,840 Speaker 1: an omelet. You know, maybe it's more eco friendly. I 736 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,400 Speaker 1: don't know. Um that maybe our future where you just 737 00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:19,040 Speaker 1: milk a hagfish for your breakfast. Uh So, I think 738 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,919 Speaker 1: I must look forward to what a bright future. Look. 739 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,439 Speaker 1: Maybe it's delicious, you just can't judge. Uh So, Yeah, 740 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,360 Speaker 1: I think that if you just set a bunch of 741 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:35,960 Speaker 1: hagfish on this poor this poor vortex coin, she's she's 742 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:43,760 Speaker 1: doomed in a horrifying way. Wow wow. Yeah, but it 743 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,520 Speaker 1: seems like it would do it. I mean, I guess 744 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,319 Speaker 1: there's probably be plenty of crabs also following, and yes, 745 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,960 Speaker 1: all sorts of other bottom feeder parasites would be a 746 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,560 Speaker 1: party down there, pour into whatever hole. This hagfish kind 747 00:49:55,560 --> 00:50:00,520 Speaker 1: of like scrobe blites, like an anglerfish, sort of using 748 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:07,879 Speaker 1: his Laura's for Laura as a strobe, like yeah, by 749 00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:19,200 Speaker 1: luminescent rave, let's go. Do you remember when that new 750 00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,560 Speaker 1: Resident Evil game like Resident Evil Villages came out our 751 00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:32,680 Speaker 1: village and that giant vampire lady uh, lady dimitriuscu uh 752 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,279 Speaker 1: just kind of took the internet by storm. Yes, I 753 00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,200 Speaker 1: remember Twitter blowing up about that. I'm for sure bite 754 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,880 Speaker 1: a day. People love a giant, tall vampire queen. I 755 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,880 Speaker 1: guess apparently there's a lot of simping going on on Twitter. 756 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,040 Speaker 1: For sure. A lot of people had crushes on her. 757 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,520 Speaker 1: I guess it was like because she could crush them 758 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:02,319 Speaker 1: and that, you know, that does it for people sometimes. Yep, 759 00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,280 Speaker 1: that's the thing. That's the thing, A big, giant, deadly 760 00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:11,000 Speaker 1: vampire queen like the size of a giraffe. That. I mean, Look, 761 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,919 Speaker 1: I'm not here to shame people for their preferences. That's 762 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,319 Speaker 1: beyond me. But if that's if, that's the thing. But 763 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,239 Speaker 1: you know, whether or not you want to take her 764 00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,480 Speaker 1: out on a date, she definitely wants to kill and 765 00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,840 Speaker 1: eat you. So she is a boss in the Resident 766 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:33,600 Speaker 1: Evil game. Ah wow, that's definitely gonna get picked up 767 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:38,919 Speaker 1: on the audio. But whatever, okay. So um uh So, 768 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,920 Speaker 1: if you haven't played the Resident Evil games, which maybe 769 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,839 Speaker 1: some of us haven't, including me, I wasn't very good 770 00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,000 Speaker 1: at trying to hide the fact I haven't played this 771 00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:54,840 Speaker 1: game as being like justin I played like the GameCube 772 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,320 Speaker 1: back there is some version. I didn't play it, but 773 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,520 Speaker 1: I watched my brother play it back when I was 774 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,560 Speaker 1: a kid, and there was like a scene where one 775 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,360 Speaker 1: of the zombies was like slowly going up the stairs 776 00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,560 Speaker 1: and you saw it from the zombies perspective, so you 777 00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,520 Speaker 1: knew it was coming. I was like scared to use 778 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:17,080 Speaker 1: the stairs for a week afterwards. So spooky. Uh. And 779 00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,719 Speaker 1: I think I've got some rain and thunder going on, 780 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:25,040 Speaker 1: so perfect ambiance for this section, guys. Uh So, in 781 00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:29,480 Speaker 1: this Resident Evil game, the giant Vampire Lady, I think 782 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:35,479 Speaker 1: it's demes Demetrius Dimitri Scouth looks like a very tall, 783 00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:41,640 Speaker 1: well dressed woman and uh she was infected with a 784 00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,960 Speaker 1: fictional parasite called the Cado parasite. So I'm gonna be 785 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,520 Speaker 1: trying to be really clear here because the video game 786 00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,920 Speaker 1: the Resident Evil games deal with a lot of fictional 787 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,680 Speaker 1: like molds and parasites and kind of foe biology terms, 788 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,279 Speaker 1: and I'll try to clearly label that these are the 789 00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,919 Speaker 1: fictional ones. But I'm going to talk about some real 790 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,200 Speaker 1: molds and fungus and parasites that I think could counteract 791 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:11,560 Speaker 1: these video game ones. So the the ca Do parasite 792 00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:15,520 Speaker 1: somehow mutated her into a giant lady who needs to 793 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,720 Speaker 1: drink blood to survive. There's some sort of sciency schmi 794 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,839 Speaker 1: and c explanation in the game. Doesn't really make sense, um, 795 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,960 Speaker 1: but I love it. I'm not criticizing it. I love 796 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,680 Speaker 1: it when video games are like yeah, and then here's 797 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:33,160 Speaker 1: this fungus that makes everyone vampires, like right on, uh. 798 00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:38,359 Speaker 1: And then her minions are three lovely ladies who were 799 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:43,879 Speaker 1: also uh surgically implanted with the cad parasite. Again fake, 800 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,600 Speaker 1: this is all. This is all fictional parasites which somehow 801 00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,839 Speaker 1: merged their DNA with a swarm of blowflies so they 802 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,239 Speaker 1: can like separate into swarms of blowflies and then coalesced 803 00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:02,160 Speaker 1: back into ladies, which you know, it's pretty cool. It's 804 00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:07,000 Speaker 1: a cool it's cool powers I like, definitely useful. Yeah, um, 805 00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,200 Speaker 1: especially if you got if you're there's like some doggy 806 00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,880 Speaker 1: dudo in your house, it's like, don't worry, we'll get it. Boom, 807 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,120 Speaker 1: it's gone. Yeah, they can make short work of that 808 00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:21,439 Speaker 1: for sure. So the Resident Evil series in general often 809 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,640 Speaker 1: combines folklore like vampires and werewolves with a sort of 810 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,680 Speaker 1: fake biology, like the cause of some freaky powers or 811 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,600 Speaker 1: mutations UH is caused by something known as the mold, 812 00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:39,000 Speaker 1: which is a fictional fungus that can somehow store genetic 813 00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:45,040 Speaker 1: information and cause specific hallucinations as well as mutations to 814 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:51,320 Speaker 1: create horrible monsters. So this isn't really biologically feasible. But 815 00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:57,680 Speaker 1: let's fight the weird fantasy fungus with weird real life fungus. 816 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:05,080 Speaker 1: So I think this whole castle of weird fungal uh 817 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:10,160 Speaker 1: Lady vampires could have been taken out by a smart mycologists. 818 00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,560 Speaker 1: So my cologist is someone who studies fungus, and there 819 00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,880 Speaker 1: are let's fight. Let's fight fungus with fungus. What do 820 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,520 Speaker 1: you say? Okay, sure, I can't say I'm super well 821 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:25,560 Speaker 1: versed in mycology. I mean, I relied a lot on 822 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:31,480 Speaker 1: you know, my collogey monthly for this research. Excellent, I 823 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,920 Speaker 1: respect it. Most of what I know about fungus is 824 00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:39,560 Speaker 1: like pretty much just the Court accepts fungus, which is yes, 825 00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,080 Speaker 1: the kind that controls insect brains, Yes, and the and 826 00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,200 Speaker 1: the basis for the video game The Last of Us Yes, 827 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,000 Speaker 1: because in that gamer or fungal as well, that is 828 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:54,920 Speaker 1: one of my favorite of the parasitic fungus. Uh. It's 829 00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:59,400 Speaker 1: so Actually, those kinds of fungus that will eat insects 830 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:05,960 Speaker 1: and be parasites on an insect are called intomo pathogenic fungus. 831 00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:11,200 Speaker 1: Is intomo Let me try that one more time. Intemo 832 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:16,759 Speaker 1: pathogenic fungus. There you go, like entomology meaning insect and 833 00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:22,760 Speaker 1: pathogenic exactly. The Court accepts are one of many species 834 00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,840 Speaker 1: of fungus that kills and eats insects by attaching to 835 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,759 Speaker 1: the insects body is spores uh, and then germinating and 836 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:37,680 Speaker 1: colonizing under the insects cuticle, which is that exoskeletal structure 837 00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:45,120 Speaker 1: that functions as their skin. So often these intomo pathogenic 838 00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:49,600 Speaker 1: fungi will use enzymes to bore holes into the insects 839 00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:55,360 Speaker 1: body and then grow throughout the body. Cavity chemical warfare. 840 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:59,200 Speaker 1: Now exactly how we're going to beat the chemicals? Sweet 841 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:05,280 Speaker 1: all right, bring us home entomopathogenic, let's get there. Sometimes 842 00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,840 Speaker 1: you will see like insects barely managing to crawl around 843 00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,480 Speaker 1: where half of them have been eaten by some kind 844 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,440 Speaker 1: of fungus. Usually it'll be like a white or gray 845 00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:20,640 Speaker 1: fuzzy mold. It's so creepy. So, like you mentioned, corticepts 846 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,760 Speaker 1: can infect ant brains and cause them to climb up 847 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,400 Speaker 1: tree branches, like dig into the branch with their mannibles 848 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,240 Speaker 1: to get a nice secure hold before they die in 849 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,720 Speaker 1: spectacular fashion as a fruiting body of the fungus just 850 00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,360 Speaker 1: explodes from their head. So we've got a lot of 851 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:42,840 Speaker 1: really interesting species of intomopathogenic fungi, but we want one 852 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,160 Speaker 1: that will be really bad for blowflies, right, because we've 853 00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:51,120 Speaker 1: got these two her minions, the lady demitriuscus minions turn 854 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,800 Speaker 1: into a swarm of blowflies, which is hard to stab 855 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:57,440 Speaker 1: with a knife. It's hard to find, so it presents 856 00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,919 Speaker 1: a unique weakness you can exploit that interesting. I would 857 00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,440 Speaker 1: have not thought about using kind of turning it's it's 858 00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:09,560 Speaker 1: special ability against itself. Yes, we exactly so. Uh. The 859 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:17,320 Speaker 1: there's this species of antimo pathogenic fungi called Bavaria best siena, 860 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,800 Speaker 1: which is a beautiful name. I feel like it like 861 00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:25,920 Speaker 1: sounds sounds like one of these names from resident evil 862 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:30,920 Speaker 1: to me, like lady dimitriscu. And it's like the Bavaria 863 00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:37,000 Speaker 1: best siana fungus. Uh coming in to a right, I mean, 864 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,360 Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe that's how they got their names. Right. 865 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,840 Speaker 1: If you look up the demitrisu fungus, maybe that's a thing. 866 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:48,120 Speaker 1: Who knows. Uh. So this fungus, with its beautiful name, 867 00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:52,960 Speaker 1: is very dangerous to blow flies. It is so efficient 868 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:56,560 Speaker 1: at killing blow flies and other species of flies and pests. 869 00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:01,760 Speaker 1: It is often used as a biological pest decide so 870 00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:06,280 Speaker 1: it grows throughout the insect, leaving behind a hollowed out 871 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:11,200 Speaker 1: carcass covered in white mold, which often collects and spills 872 00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:15,080 Speaker 1: out at the joints if not completely overwhelming the carcass 873 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:19,480 Speaker 1: of the insects. So I have included a picture of 874 00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:24,120 Speaker 1: a blowfly that looks like it's just covered in white fluff. 875 00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,240 Speaker 1: I see it looks like it like it's covered in 876 00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,160 Speaker 1: snow or something just went it like tumbled down a 877 00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:38,600 Speaker 1: mountain right like in a cartoon, exactly exactly. But no, 878 00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:43,200 Speaker 1: that is white mold that has completely subsumed and devoured 879 00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:46,600 Speaker 1: this poor little blowfly. I think this fungus would make 880 00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:51,600 Speaker 1: quick work of the minions, and so onto killing lady 881 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:59,880 Speaker 1: DIMITRISKI herself. Uh. So I looked up on another fan 882 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,040 Speaker 1: wicky thing because I have not played these games. I'm 883 01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:06,320 Speaker 1: a fake nerd um, I just don't. I haven't played 884 01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,800 Speaker 1: a game either. I simply do not have a PS 885 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,960 Speaker 1: five or whatever you would need for these games. PS 886 01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:13,840 Speaker 1: five is pretty hard to come by, so I don't 887 01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:21,800 Speaker 1: blame you. So uh. The fictional Cado parasite is a 888 01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:29,120 Speaker 1: parasitic nematode spliced with this mysterious powerful mold that causes 889 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:34,240 Speaker 1: all these human mutations in the resident evil world. So, 890 01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:40,320 Speaker 1: while the game version of the parasitic parasitic nematode isn't 891 01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,200 Speaker 1: necessarily that accurate in terms of like, you can't really 892 01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:48,600 Speaker 1: just splice its DNA with mold, I don't. It's two 893 01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:56,880 Speaker 1: different kingdoms, guys, different Yeah, but there are real life 894 01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:02,200 Speaker 1: parasitic nematodes and of worse, there are real life predators 895 01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:06,520 Speaker 1: of Nema toads, and some of those predators are mushrooms. 896 01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:12,680 Speaker 1: It all comes back to mushrooms. So in the Resident 897 01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:17,680 Speaker 1: Evil Game, to defeat the big bad Lady Demese Demitrius, 898 01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:23,440 Speaker 1: I cannot pronounce them. Uh is it Demitrius? Is it French? 899 01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,320 Speaker 1: It seems like it would be French, but I have 900 01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,760 Speaker 1: never studied French. Time not going to attempt it. I 901 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,720 Speaker 1: mean it takes place in Eastern Europe, but I don't know. 902 01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,160 Speaker 1: I did take Russian, but it doesn't look like a 903 01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:41,080 Speaker 1: Russian name to me. It doesn't. There's not enough conflicting 904 01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:46,640 Speaker 1: consonants in it. So uh you. But to defeat her 905 01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,880 Speaker 1: you need a specific dagger imbued with monster killing toxins 906 01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,640 Speaker 1: that are never specified. But hey, if you lose this 907 01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:58,120 Speaker 1: dagger or butter fingers and drop it, then you're screwed. Um, 908 01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:01,600 Speaker 1: Except maybe you could just go out and forage for 909 01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:06,720 Speaker 1: some nice oyster mushrooms. So, oyster mushrooms make a nice 910 01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:12,200 Speaker 1: meal for humans, but they like to feed on nematodes, 911 01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:15,000 Speaker 1: so it seems a little weird for something like a 912 01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:20,760 Speaker 1: fungus to be a carnivore. But they absolutely can be so. Uh. 913 01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:26,880 Speaker 1: They will use droplets of toxins that paralyze the nematode, 914 01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:31,440 Speaker 1: then slowly digest them using the hyphe which are these 915 01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,960 Speaker 1: branching filaments that take in nutrients for the fungus. So 916 01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,720 Speaker 1: they're kind of like plant roots. They're not so fungus 917 01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,000 Speaker 1: fungi are not plants. They don't have the same kinds 918 01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:44,640 Speaker 1: of structure as that plants do, but these hyphe do 919 01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,320 Speaker 1: function a little bit like roots because they will suck 920 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:51,720 Speaker 1: in nutrients for the fungus. Yeah, how does it find 921 01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:56,520 Speaker 1: these nematodes? You can live in the They live in 922 01:02:56,560 --> 01:03:00,600 Speaker 1: the soil where these mushrooms are so okay, So they're 923 01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:06,360 Speaker 1: just so ubiquitous that exactly. But if that doesn't sound 924 01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,800 Speaker 1: powerful enough, like if you throw some oyster mushrooms at 925 01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:12,720 Speaker 1: or make or eat some, like you don't think that's 926 01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:16,200 Speaker 1: gonna work. Uh. There's a lot of different mushrooms that 927 01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,720 Speaker 1: are in line to kill nemat toads, and they have 928 01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,960 Speaker 1: some really dastardly methods of doing so. Sometimes they will 929 01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:29,280 Speaker 1: have booby trapped fungal spores that will develop spikes and 930 01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:33,440 Speaker 1: lodge themselves in the throats of nematodes, killing them and 931 01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:38,920 Speaker 1: devouring them as they germinate. So the nematotal eat this 932 01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,120 Speaker 1: a little spore if they think it's delicious, and then 933 01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:44,800 Speaker 1: it just like starts to like grow out these hypha 934 01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:50,600 Speaker 1: into the nematod's throat and just devours it completely. There's 935 01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:55,280 Speaker 1: also you could gift a lady Dimitrius schou with a 936 01:03:55,480 --> 01:04:00,600 Speaker 1: necklace of giant our throw bought Tyrus. So our throw 937 01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:06,120 Speaker 1: Botyrus is uh perfect for killing a vampiric nematode mutant 938 01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:12,040 Speaker 1: with a sense of fashion because our throw but Tyrus 939 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:17,640 Speaker 1: uses fungal spores shaped like necklaces that ensnare nematodes and 940 01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,720 Speaker 1: shoots spikes into the nematodes body as it grows into 941 01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:25,680 Speaker 1: it and devours them. So you've got options, is what 942 01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:31,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Wow. Yeah, so we have chemical warfare, we 943 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:36,640 Speaker 1: have these booby traps, we have so many these These 944 01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:39,720 Speaker 1: fungus are definitely equipped to do some damage for sure. Yeah, 945 01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,439 Speaker 1: in the game, you have this mysterious mold that gives 946 01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:45,080 Speaker 1: them all these powers. It's like, well, guys, there's like 947 01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:48,000 Speaker 1: more than one species of mold out there. There are 948 01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:52,320 Speaker 1: many fungi um they're ready to party, so, you know, 949 01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:58,000 Speaker 1: mutually assured fungus destruction that could definitely take out some 950 01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:02,960 Speaker 1: of these vampire queens. I don't know, what do you think? 951 01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:07,439 Speaker 1: Do you think these animals could indeed defeat these video 952 01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:10,680 Speaker 1: game bosses or which of these bosses do you think 953 01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:14,280 Speaker 1: would actually come out on top. Bowser is definitely, like 954 01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,680 Speaker 1: I would say, fairly evenly mashed with the crocodile. Yeah, 955 01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:22,000 Speaker 1: he's got a chance. He's so spicy. Yeah, there's a 956 01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:23,760 Speaker 1: lot of ways Bossle can deal damage. But I think 957 01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:26,760 Speaker 1: if the crocodile is playing his cards right, um, it 958 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:31,080 Speaker 1: could certainly get a good strike on Bowser's weak point 959 01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:34,520 Speaker 1: or one of its limbs. Yeah, but it's a fair Yeah, 960 01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:41,720 Speaker 1: it is Bowler's bigger. Yeah, but nobody's situation potentially not 961 01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:47,840 Speaker 1: um for the deep Sea Vortex boss Vortex Queen, is 962 01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:50,880 Speaker 1: that what we're called? Um? That thing is just in 963 01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:54,280 Speaker 1: for a world of hurt. If what you're doing is 964 01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:56,960 Speaker 1: is going to come to pass, If these parasites actually 965 01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:01,960 Speaker 1: can do what you said to the alien creature, I 966 01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,440 Speaker 1: would not want to be that. I think it has 967 01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:05,960 Speaker 1: no chance. I feel like it would just be psyched 968 01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:10,480 Speaker 1: out after the first attack. Yeah, if I was, if 969 01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:12,520 Speaker 1: I was the vortex queen, I'd be like, I'll find 970 01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:17,880 Speaker 1: another planet. It's fine, you can keep her. Keep parasites 971 01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:23,200 Speaker 1: to yourself, dolphins and your weird eyeball parasites exactly. Um. 972 01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:30,560 Speaker 1: As for vampire lady, I think if you can get 973 01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:35,600 Speaker 1: the fungus to be the vampire, and you certainly got 974 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:42,880 Speaker 1: got a shot, right yeah. Um, but considering they're not motile, ah, 975 01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:45,320 Speaker 1: I think you need a good mess of delivering me 976 01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:49,840 Speaker 1: fungal based toxins, and and you got to put them 977 01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:52,120 Speaker 1: in a salad, you know, a nice salad and be 978 01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:57,600 Speaker 1: like here sad. I know you drink blood primarily, but 979 01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:02,439 Speaker 1: you know it's good to get some fiber. Very true, 980 01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:05,880 Speaker 1: very true. I would not curious to see how that 981 01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:09,960 Speaker 1: affects their digestive tract. These verifires, do failfires need fiber? 982 01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,360 Speaker 1: I don't know. I wouldn't want to have no fiber 983 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,040 Speaker 1: in my diet. So yeah, and blood sounds like it 984 01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,600 Speaker 1: doesn't have much, so I don't think so. No, it 985 01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:22,360 Speaker 1: would be tough. Well, I think that's gonna do it. 986 01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:27,160 Speaker 1: For video game bosses, I think, honestly, they're going to 987 01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:30,920 Speaker 1: have a tough, tough time against these animals. But before 988 01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:34,480 Speaker 1: we go, I do want to reveal the answer to 989 01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:40,400 Speaker 1: last week's guess Who's talking Mystery animals sound game. So 990 01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,880 Speaker 1: every week I play a mystery animal sound at the 991 01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:46,560 Speaker 1: end of the episode and you all try to guess 992 01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:51,000 Speaker 1: what is making that sound. Um, And so the hint 993 01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:54,720 Speaker 1: for last week was that this may sound like a 994 01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:58,960 Speaker 1: machine gun, but unless you're an insect, the only thing 995 01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,520 Speaker 1: you'll really have to worry about is getting smacked in 996 01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:09,000 Speaker 1: the face by its enormous beautiful tail. To me, that 997 01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:13,240 Speaker 1: sounds like a like a blaster from like a video game. Like, 998 01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:20,040 Speaker 1: what do you think is making that sound? I think 999 01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:22,040 Speaker 1: it's got to be some sort of like mocking bird 1000 01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,720 Speaker 1: or maybe a parrot, some sort of really really good 1001 01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:30,120 Speaker 1: mimic of sounds my experience tend to be birds. Well, 1002 01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,760 Speaker 1: that is a great guess because the answer is that 1003 01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:36,080 Speaker 1: this is the mating call of a brown sickle bill, 1004 01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:40,040 Speaker 1: which is a beautiful bird of paradise found in New Guinea. 1005 01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,160 Speaker 1: Females have a rusty red head and a black body, 1006 01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,360 Speaker 1: whereas males have bright blue spots on their backs and 1007 01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:51,280 Speaker 1: white underbellies and super long ornamental tails. That are gorgeous 1008 01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:55,080 Speaker 1: and they are just such a fancy looking bird to 1009 01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:59,320 Speaker 1: be making like machine gun noises. I find the difference 1010 01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,599 Speaker 1: in their overall appearance OF's like, oh, it's a beautiful 1011 01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:07,560 Speaker 1: bird of paradise, and then just like interesting, it's just 1012 01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,840 Speaker 1: out of nowhere, like how did they think of that 1013 01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:15,680 Speaker 1: sound to rig Congratulations to the first three listeners to 1014 01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:20,799 Speaker 1: give correctly, Abby, m Ana l A, and Jesse a Ska. 1015 01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,240 Speaker 1: Great job you guys. I feel like you guys are 1016 01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:25,479 Speaker 1: better at this game than I would be if I 1017 01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,920 Speaker 1: was playing on the other end. So really, great job 1018 01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:33,639 Speaker 1: you guys. I have such smart listeners. Now onto our 1019 01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:38,439 Speaker 1: next mystery animal sound for next week. The hint is 1020 01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:42,160 Speaker 1: that it sounds like a collaboration between a biologist, a 1021 01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:51,120 Speaker 1: heavy metal band, and a hairdresser. So do you have 1022 01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:56,000 Speaker 1: any guesses for what this mystery animal is? I mean, 1023 01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,080 Speaker 1: I want to say it's a bird again. It sounds like, 1024 01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:01,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, a parrot. It's like a really angry parrot. 1025 01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,599 Speaker 1: My grandma had a parrot and it was always making 1026 01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:06,920 Speaker 1: super weird loud noises. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm gonna go 1027 01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,680 Speaker 1: with some sort of parrot or some kind of angry parrot. Well, 1028 01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:13,400 Speaker 1: the answer will be revealed next week if you tune 1029 01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:18,599 Speaker 1: in today Creature Feature. That's how I get you, all right, 1030 01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:23,519 Speaker 1: I'll be there, I gotta know. Well, thank you so 1031 01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:27,040 Speaker 1: much for joining me today, Patch so welcome, thanks for 1032 01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:32,000 Speaker 1: having me. The tears Zoo YouTube channel is absolutely amazing, 1033 01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:37,160 Speaker 1: really wonderful, um way to learn about some evolutionary biology 1034 01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:40,479 Speaker 1: and feel like you're playing a video game. I'm so 1035 01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,639 Speaker 1: glad you like it. 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