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Speaker 1: just rambled on about nothing for five minutes at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of every show before we got tight and professional bam,

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Speaker 1: tight as a drum. Mosquitoes go, I hate them. Who doesn't,

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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody hates mosquitoes. And I was thinking, well, like,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of I understand, Like mosquitoes need some blood

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Speaker 1: to go procreate, So what's the big deal if they

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Speaker 1: take a little of your blood and go lay some eggs,

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Speaker 1: And it's fine, It's part of the circle of life.

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Speaker 1: And then I remembered how many mosquitoes need your blood,

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Speaker 1: and that how much disease mosquitoes carry their disease vector. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and a pretty good one too. I'm one of those

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Speaker 1: people that, um, they flocked to. Oh yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: My mom used to say it's because I was sweet,

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Speaker 1: But what she really meant was, it's because you're a

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Speaker 1: sweaty monster. It's because you probably admit a lot of

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Speaker 1: no nonnal the hide. I admit a lot of everything. Well,

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Speaker 1: you definitely do no nonal the hide. What I don't

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Speaker 1: Why can I say that non nonal Your eyes just

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Speaker 1: roll back. I mean it's spelled you can pronounce it however,

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Speaker 1: you like n O, n A n A L. But

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Speaker 1: it's a an oil that mosquitoes are bonkers for it.

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Speaker 1: I must have it in spades, chuck is half that

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Speaker 1: none at all bam, and then it's technically non an

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Speaker 1: all the hide. I was just inhabited by a spirit

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Speaker 1: that can really say some words. He's gone, all right. Mosquito, buddy,

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Speaker 1: is Spanish for a little fly or a little gnat

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Speaker 1: or a little nat. Yeah. I think in Europe they

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Speaker 1: called them nat or maybe still calling that, right, I think,

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Speaker 1: so are they not on the mosquito train? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I haven't asked somebody from Europe. Let us know, let

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Speaker 1: us know what you call mosquitoes. That's right. And the

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Speaker 1: use of the word mosquito dates back to about fifteen

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Speaker 1: eighty three in North America, which is weird that they

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Speaker 1: can they can trace the etymology back to that. But

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Speaker 1: I saw no sourcing, no like, oh, well it was

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Speaker 1: Vasco de Gama or something like that who said mosquito.

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Speaker 1: It's a little that let's call him that. No idea

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Speaker 1: where it came from. But I've seen it as honed

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Speaker 1: as fifteen eighty three. Yeah, that sounds made up maybe

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Speaker 1: online etymology dictionary is usually pretty some point. And they

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Speaker 1: said fifteen eighties but had no attribution. Really interesting, Well,

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Speaker 1: they've been around for thirty million years no more. Yes,

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Speaker 1: well I figured at least thirty million. The oldest fossilized

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Speaker 1: blood that's ever been found was found and I think

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Speaker 1: wyoming in a mosquito, know that was forty six million

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Speaker 1: years old? Was that one in amber? And did they

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Speaker 1: extract it's DNA to make dinosaurs? It was in grant

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Speaker 1: it but it was still colored so you could see

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Speaker 1: the blood it was. It's crazy. It's intact like it

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Speaker 1: went and eight and I was like, oh, something killed me.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm fossilized to the blood of tuk Tuk. By

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Speaker 1: the way, you go listen to a fossils episode. That

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Speaker 1: is fascinating stuff. It is a good one, agreed, sir. So. Mosquitoes, um,

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Speaker 1: they like to drink your blood, which we'll get into later,

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Speaker 1: but they do this that makes them, by the way,

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Speaker 1: hematophogic and jerks one of those too. Yeah, It's there's

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Speaker 1: nothing creepier than being on your deck and seeing a

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of blood already there, and you

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Speaker 1: to you it's brand new. You're covered in your neighbor's blood.

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Speaker 1: in that blood, which is why mosquitoes are disease vectors.

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Speaker 1: That's right. So they're going to find you and attack

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Speaker 1: you by using UM. And I like how this article

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Speaker 1: puts it. It sounds more like a military aircraft than

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Speaker 1: an insect because all these sensors, they have chemical sensors.

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Speaker 1: They can sniff out that carbon dioxide and lactic acid

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Speaker 1: up to a hundred feet away. Yes, and if you're breathing,

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Speaker 1: you're giving that junk out. Well, yeah, U xhale c

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Speaker 1: O two and mosquitoes hone in on that. They actually

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Speaker 1: two and say, oh, well, there's a bunch of CEO

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Speaker 1: out of. There's a blood meal waiting to happen, exactly.

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Speaker 1: And so they trek CEO two. They trek not analde hyde.

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Speaker 1: I got it um and other stuff too. It comes

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Speaker 1: out of you, lactic acid in your sweat. They track

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Speaker 1: or taste things, or see things or hear things. Mosquitoes

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Speaker 1: sense CEO two and other volatile compounds that humans and

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Speaker 1: other warm blooded animals emit. Yeah, they actually have visual

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Speaker 1: sensors as well. So, um, if you're in the green

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Speaker 1: contrasts heavily with the background, you're gonna stand out. You

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Speaker 1: want to wear camouflage clothing at all times, all all

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Speaker 1: the time, even when you're not in the woods, just

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Speaker 1: to show off to others. And that movement if you

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Speaker 1: if you're moving around, if you're doing a dance out

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Speaker 1: get attacked because you can be sweaty too. If you're

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Speaker 1: at if you're a member of the Polyphonic Spree at

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Speaker 1: a show in the woods, you're getting bit by a mosquito.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Uh And what else? Heat sensors, This one

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Speaker 1: the predator. Yes, they are basically like the predator. So

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Speaker 1: you want to talk about body Parts. Yeah, Tommy, I

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Speaker 1: mean we kind of have to, you know. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry it was Joey was an airplane, right, Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was Joey. I saw that about half of that the

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Speaker 1: other night for the first time, and forever it's I

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Speaker 1: could watch it every week. It's so classic. And Emily

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Speaker 1: fan of the Absurdist. That's the shame. It's a good

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Speaker 1: movie still. Yeah, Like I haven't seen their plane two

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Speaker 1: him forever, but I'm quite sure it's still pretty good. Joey,

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Speaker 1: you ever been to a Turkish prison? It's so wrong.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't even make that joke today, you know. It's like,

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Speaker 1: write a pedophile joke into your new comedy. And she

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Speaker 1: quickly that kid's like, why don't we just take that out?

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Speaker 1: It sound funny. You're coming out of ruper at Everett. Um, alright,

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Speaker 1: so body parts, Um, you have your head and that's

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Speaker 1: where all these lovely sensors are that we talked about

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Speaker 1: the chemical, visual and heat sensors, and the biting apparatus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which the probiscus, depending on whether it's a male or female.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's longstanding. What you would think is a

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Speaker 1: myth of some sort that it's just females that um

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Speaker 1: bite female mosquios. It's absolutely true. The men are just

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Speaker 1: like little hippies eating flower nectar. They don't bite. They

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Speaker 1: don't they're not even equipped to bite. Nope, they're incapable

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Speaker 1: of biting you. So if you're ever bitten or stung

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it by a mosquito, that's

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Speaker 1: a lady. It is a lady, although she's not acting

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Speaker 1: like the bride, that's right. Uh. You're also going to

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Speaker 1: find two compound eyes, um, some antennae, and then the

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Speaker 1: mouth parts which we just mentioned the probiscus mouth and

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Speaker 1: part for the lady. Just call it a mouth mouthparts

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Speaker 1: And then the palp us is another mouth part, another

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Speaker 1: disturbing word, thorax. That's the body segment where the wings

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Speaker 1: a thorax. That's an insect, buddy, that's right. They actually

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Speaker 1: have a heart, little compound heart in that thorax. And

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Speaker 1: then they have their abdomen, which is where they store

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Speaker 1: the digestive organs and that's where the poops from. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's where the blood is to I imagine, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: where their blood meals stored blood meals really gross it is.

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Speaker 1: That was from what the flea episode, ticks and fleas

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Speaker 1: and yeah, anything that needs a blood meal, no, thank you. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Species of mosquitoes all over the world in about thirteen

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Speaker 1: genera right here in the US. And Chuck, there's actually three,

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Speaker 1: the Big three is what they call them. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: what I call them, the bigg Jordan's Magic Johnson, Larry Bird.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't include Lebron in that list, not yet, I

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Speaker 1: think already. He just surpassed like Jordan and two other

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Speaker 1: some more championships before he's on that list. Jordan half,

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Speaker 1: he went like seven or six. Yeah, I hear that.

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Speaker 1: yeah he does. Jordan doesn't. No, Jordan's time is up,

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Speaker 1: he's finished. Um, sorry, Michael Jordan. We still think very

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Speaker 1: highly of you. He's gonna have someone he's gonna put

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Speaker 1: air Jordan's. It had the air Jordan's logo. But in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina blue, We're like, pretty sure that's Michael Jordan's airplane.

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Speaker 1: And it was nice. That's awesome. I wouldn't saw him

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Speaker 1: play baseball. When he played minor league baseball. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was pretty neat. He wasn't very good. No, he

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Speaker 1: went over four, but um, it was just neat. You know.

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Speaker 1: Sure to see Jordan's absolutely went over to Birmingham, Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's we played for them. Were the feeder

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Speaker 1: team for the White Sox. Uh yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 1: It shows how hard baseball is. You know, he's like

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest athletes of all time and he

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Speaker 1: cont a curveball. Yeah. Um, all right, I was talking

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Speaker 1: talking about basketball players, But now I was talking about

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Speaker 1: the big three species of mosquitoes that afflict the US.

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Speaker 1: All right, so break it down for me. What are

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Speaker 1: they aidis floodwater mosquitoes, right, yeah, and um, those include

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Speaker 1: the yellow fever mosquito, which basically does what it says

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Speaker 1: And the Asian tiger mosquito, which I think is probably

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Speaker 1: my favorite mosquito. It's just because of how it looks.

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Speaker 1: Uh really they just look compact and striped and just

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Speaker 1: like little sleek meant for business. Yes. Um. The second

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Speaker 1: one is all the n O n O felis and

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Speaker 1: they breed in permanent fresh water. And uh, the malaria

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Speaker 1: mosquito is a member of that one, so that's not

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Speaker 1: drugs in the West. Agreed, it's like share the wealth. Yeah,

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00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: a million people a year from malaria, that's really sad.

421
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: It is. Um yellow fever is another big problem. We

422
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: don't have it here in the U. S Or Europe anymore,

423
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: but it is still all over the place in South

424
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 1: America and Africa. And it's sort of symptomatic like malaria,

425
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: worse except worse but um nausea, vomiting, jaundice, and it

426
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: can also kill you. Yes, they can't treat. They treat

427
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: the symptoms, but there is no like cure, right, yeah,

428
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: the only and there's no cure and the only prevention

429
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: really is to prevent mosquitoes from biting you, which is

430
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: a tall order. I imagine in parts of South America. Yeah. Yeah,

431
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: then there's encephalitis and the most famous of the encephalitis

432
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: that's spread viral and scephalitis that's spread by mosquitoes. West

433
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: Nile virus. Yeah, I thought this is interesting. It said

434
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: several types include Western Equine, Eastern Equine, West Nile, and St. Louis. Yeah,

435
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: just sort of stood out as odd to me. Uh,

436
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 1: you will get a high fever, stiff neck, headache, confusion, laziness, sleepiness. Um,

437
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: I might have West actually, And now that I think

438
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: about it, um, And we'll talk a little more about West.

439
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: Now when we talk about mosquito repellents, there's a couple

440
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: more that mosquitoes are well known for spreading dan gay

441
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: fever spread by my favorite the Asian tiger mosquito that

442
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: produces everything from viral flu to hemorrhagic fever. Apparently it

443
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: was it just mainly stuck around East Asia and then

444
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: in it made its first appearance in the United States,

445
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: introducing ding gay fever in the US. And the worms too.

446
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: They spread worms, specifically types of worms that like to

447
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: root into your eye and make you blind. Wow. Yeah,

448
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: they're they're diseased actors. HIV is not spread by mosquitoes.

449
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: Everybody knows this by now, but um, don't you remember

450
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 1: being a kid though and being like, oh god, yeah,

451
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: I remember growing up in that generation thinking wait a minute.

452
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: And I didn't even see it on the news or

453
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: as a concern, Like I remember having my own original

454
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: thought of hold on a minute, if you can get

455
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,719
Speaker 1: HIV through blood and mosquitoes, or that's not my blood,

456
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: and it's like a little needle, I know. I was.

457
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: Actually it was like someone's gonna get this and things

458
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: are gonna change. But luckily, thankfully, they found out that uh,

459
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: the virus cannot survive in a mosquito. No, apparently it's

460
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: really it has a lot of trouble surviving outside of

461
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: its human host. It just doesn't live very long. Yeah,

462
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: we really need to do an HIV I know, it's

463
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: been long. Promise we will. We will do that very soon. So, Chuck,

464
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: we talked about all this stuff. Mosquitoes can spread and UM,

465
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: a lot of these things like UM yellow fever, uh

466
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: in West Nile virus. They're they're difficult to treat and

467
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: the best thing you can do is to prevent mosquitoes

468
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: from biting you. And actually I mentioned what was it

469
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: Dengey fever that made its appearance in the United States

470
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: in I don't know if you remember this or whatever,

471
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: there was a panic all of a sudden in New

472
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: York State. I think something like five or six people.

473
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: Um seven people died in just over a month from

474
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: September to October of and they died of an in

475
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: viral encephalitis, right, And the health officials were like, what

476
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: is going on? And they couldn't find anything in common

477
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: with these people. They there was no normal um epidemiological marks, right,

478
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: They just couldn't figure out where it's coming from. And

479
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: then they finally identified it as West Nile virus that

480
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: was being carried by mosquitoes, and everybody freaked out. Part

481
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: of the problem with this was that at the time,

482
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people were suddenly questioning what we were

483
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: using as mosquito repellent, which is also called deep That

484
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: was the primary mosquito repellent that was in use and

485
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,719
Speaker 1: still is today. And at the time people were just

486
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: starting to question because there are a lot of studies

487
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: about whether deet was safe, specifically for pregnant ladies and

488
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: um kids. Yeah, do you want to read the word

489
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: that is deep? Sure? All right, go ahead, and and

490
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: di ethel m tulum medea to lua Mede's almost had it, man,

491
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: try it again, and and di ethel m to luamde. Yeah,

492
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly right, my friend. Which is Deep somehow,

493
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: that's what it's abbreviated, asked, Yeah, d E E T.

494
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: And it was created by the U. S. D a H.

495
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: The Department of Agriculture in ninety six, of course for

496
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: the Army's a military thing, like so many things created

497
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: and and um. Eventually it made its way over to

498
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: consumers in the nineteen fifties. And like you said, over

499
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: the years it's been sort of uh maligned and embraced,

500
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: um like a roller coaster, you know. But in the

501
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: in the height of this West Nile panic, it was

502
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: also like the it was the height of or the

503
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: bottom of faith. Indeed, as a safe thing, a safe product.

504
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: That was Deep's lowest day. Yes, it's the dark day.

505
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: So um. One of the reasons that people were suspicious

506
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: of Deep is that it's a plasticizer, which means it

507
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: can melt plastic. Yea, that's one thing. So that's enough

508
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: for me, So spray that on your skin, um, and

509
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: then there was a study of UH in two thousand

510
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: two of about nine pregnant women in Thailand, and it

511
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: investigated their bloodstream for DEEP. And the thing is with Deep,

512
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: when you put it on your skin, most of the

513
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: time you're it's absorbed at a rate that your liver

514
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: can break it down, and when you finally pee it out,

515
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: it's been completely metabolized and it's safe if I guess right,

516
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: that's what they say. Well, this study in Thailand showed,

517
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: it showed something different, and it scared everybody. Yeah, it

518
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: showed that, Um, they actually found the chemical in the

519
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: umbilical cord of eight percent of the women, so that

520
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:32,239
Speaker 1: across the placental barrier, and that freaked people out so understandably, right,

521
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: that spread like wildfire. Everybody was freaked out about Deep.

522
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: And then simultaneously there there were long standing reports of

523
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: children having seizures from using Deep. Is that true? I

524
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: can't quite tell. What I get is if you use

525
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: Deep in normal concentrations on your skin, which they say

526
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: it used to be, But then they found that anything

527
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: over fifty is really about the same, right, Yeah, it's

528
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: diminished return. So you want to just use fifty or

529
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: no more than fifty and when they figured that out,

530
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: they just dropped it down to thirty. They rounded down

531
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: for some reason. Um, but apparently, if you use it

532
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: in a normal concentration on your skin, um you're okay. Allegedly,

533
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: and a bunch of different groups have come out and said, deets, okay,

534
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: as long as you follow the label and you're using

535
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: a normal concentration. If you get in your mouth, for example,

536
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: though then all of a sudden, the concentrations are hundreds

537
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 1: of times higher than if it's on your skin. So

538
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: these kids licking their arms and stuff. Supposedly that was

539
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: the common link to the seizures and kids, but apparently

540
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: it was never demonstrated to everyone's satisfaction. And some people

541
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: are like, well, seizures are way more common in children

542
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: than in an adults, so maybe it's just a coincidence

543
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: that these kids also had bugs bray on at the

544
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: time they have their seizure. I don't I try not

545
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: to use the no And you are one of enough

546
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 1: people that there's a pretty decent market for alternatives, a

547
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: deep for mosquito repellents that have been developed over the years.

548
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: That's what I usually do. What do you use? Oh?

549
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: I mean back in the day, use the the old

550
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: skin so soft, which, yeah, I don't know, maybe it

551
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: worked a little bit. Well, you know what's funny is

552
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: like this whole deep scare people started asking questions about

553
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, how does it work? And apparently

554
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: scientists were they had to say, like, we're not. I'm

555
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: sure we think that it confuses the the um it

556
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: masks the c O two that's omitted by humans. Interesting,

557
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: So that's what they think. They've also found that since

558
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: DEED is really effective at doing that, they found other

559
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: compounds too that do similar things that that fit a

560
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: CEO two receptor or a non all in all receptor.

561
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: And um, so the mosquitoes confused and doesn't know where

562
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: to bite or sting or whatever. Um. I think uh,

563
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: Emily made a little homemade concoction once. I think out

564
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: of that lemon eucalyptus oil that you mentioned in your

565
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: own article. Yes, that's that's one lemon eucalyptus oil. Um,

566
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: there's soybean oil. Yeah, that's supposed to work pretty good, right. Supposedly,

567
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: a two percent concentration of soybean oil prevents mosquitoes from

568
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: biting between one and a half and seven hours. That's

569
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: pretty great. And this is soybean oil. This is the

570
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: same stuff you can like eat in your food, so

571
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: it's very safe. What about citranilla oil, because Jerry came

572
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: in here bragging about all her citranilla oil plants that

573
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: she has surrounded her lavish gardens. Jerry was wrong. So

574
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: the citranilla oil apparently does kind of work, but it

575
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: works way better if you extract the active ingredients gerenniol.

576
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: So if you've got the the citranilla torches, uh, then

577
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: that's doing a better job than just having the plant

578
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: around her. I would guess if anything, that's probably attracting

579
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: them through the heat. Oh, attracting them, I would guess.

580
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: But see, I think the smoke helps get rid of them.

581
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: So there's two things you can do with mosquitoes, right.

582
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: You can protect yourself by masking yourself like the from

583
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: this the volatile compounds that you're emitting, right, and then

584
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 1: you can also distract and bait them. And they they

585
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: somebody did a study in two thousand thirteen at u

586
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 1: C Riverside. They analyzed half a million compounds that had

587
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: a structure that fit mosquito ceo two receptors, and they

588
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: found a hundred and thirty eight that we're safe fish,

589
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: and they zoned in on two of them. One is

590
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 1: ethel Pyra eight, which has a fruity smell that humans

591
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: find pleasant and testing it's safe for use in foods

592
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: and um. It apparently masks the skin as well as

593
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: deep does. And then there's also cyclopentanone, which has a

594
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: minty smell that attracts mosquitoes that you could use for

595
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: like a trap. Did you put like in the back

596
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: of your yard right? I will say this the you know,

597
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 1: they make a lot of things like mosquito traps, um

598
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: bug zappers, which do not work. Uh. If you have

599
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: a bug zapper, all you're doing is killing a lot

600
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: of like really cool insects, you know, like moths and things. Um.

601
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: Those things that you hook up to like a tank

602
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: and roll out into your yard. I don't think those

603
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: are supposed to work very well. It's like propane. I

604
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. I've seen it before, though, Okay,

605
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: I don't think it's propane. UM. I'll have to look

606
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: into that, but I've heard they don't work. Do you

607
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: remember that, UM, Like years back, it was kind of

608
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: a trend among UM radio stations. They said that they

609
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: were playing a low frequency sound that mosquitoes that humans

610
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,479
Speaker 1: couldn't hear, but repelled mosquito that why, just to listen

611
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: to their stations. I don't know if it was actually

612
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: transmitted or if it was just a hoax. It sounds

613
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: like a hoax to me. So you said you had

614
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,479
Speaker 1: something about mosquitoes and whether we actually need them or not, right, Yeah,

615
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: but real quickly. They also make um mosquito proof clothing

616
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 1: where this this they're iron suits, you know, but chemicals

617
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: are actually in in the fabric itself to ward off mosquitoes.

618
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: I remember I wrote something about that at one point,

619
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: and I just remember thinking, I'm never gonna buy something

620
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,479
Speaker 1: like this and wash them with my regular clothes. Maybe

621
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: I'm an alarmist. Supposedly there's um there's a chemical that

622
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: is just to be used on your clothing, not your skin.

623
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 1: Why is because it's a deadly, deadly poisoned neurotoxin to humans. Yeah,

624
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: that is we should actually say the name of that permethrin. Yeah,

625
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: that is for clothing only. And um, if I see

626
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: something like that, I'm just not gonna use it, Like,

627
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: don't get any on your skin, but you can put

628
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: it on your T shirt just fine, and don't look

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Speaker 1: There there's actual mosquito fish and an other fish feed

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Speaker 1: in ecology and ecological stuff. Let's let's do it. Let's

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Speaker 1: It's the like fly larva more. Anyway, I don't care. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd say that's worthy of an experiment. Let's get rid

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Speaker 1: saying that. Uh well, if you want to know more

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Speaker 1: I am going to call this one. What what is this?

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Speaker 1: Oh my, I'm gonna call this I I see dead people.

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Speaker 1: Um guys, I've been listening to your awesome show for

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Speaker 1: who's the New England Patriot that's in for murdering now

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Speaker 1: Jeez um, Charles Dutton, did he got somebody? Yeah, he

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