1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know front House stuff Works 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and I put the two 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: of us together. But it's in a room with a 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: two dollar I kea lamp and three dollar I key 6 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: at table and a thousand dollars with the microphones. Yes 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: that's what matters. And Jerry, and you've got yourself stuff 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: you should have and a million dollars worth the Jerry. Yeah, 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: she's just like one day. That's right. You got a 10 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: good intro for this, No do you no? Just talkxicatas. 11 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: This is what I was thinking. Um, I guess if 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: you'd like me to give an intro, it would be 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: something like, Chuck, have you ever experienced summer? I have 14 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: in the South? Summer in the South? For me, Cicada's 15 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: I associate cicada sicot h either one. You know what 16 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: they say, Josh, what you say Cicada? I say Cicada. 17 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: I say Cicada. Yeah it is Cicada. Actually, I have 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: a very quick funny story. I have a friend named 19 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: Andrew who had a friend who tried out as a 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: singer for some Broadway show or something, and she did 21 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,119 Speaker 1: that song, but she did not had never heard the song, 22 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: I think, and she sang, you say potato, I say potato, 23 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: and didn't know. And that was how she auditioned, like 24 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: she just had read it, she guess. So she got 25 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: it wrong or read it or something, and it was, 26 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: you know, potato, potato, tomato, tomato. And I got a 27 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: good laugh out of the people. That's a good story, Yeah, 28 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 1: I thought so. I've always that's a good one. Andrews listening, 29 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: He probably not. Hello, Hey, how's it going? Alright? So 30 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: moving on? Sorry cicadas, Yes, cicada. I think we should 31 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: agree to say cicadas. Well, it is cicada. I was 32 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: just cooving, okay. Um, And if you're talking about cicada 33 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: you have probably a certain type of mind. But there 34 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: are actually, there are a number of species I've seen 35 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: anywhere between two depending on who you ask. There you go, 36 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: um and uh, the one though that that I think 37 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: everybody thinks of when they think cicada, especially when they 38 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: think cicada infestation. As um, the magic acada is the 39 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: species name. Yeah, it's uh, their periodical cicadas. And that's 40 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: what we're going to be concentrating on, right, And those 41 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: are the ones that are all over the news. If 42 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: you're on the Eastern seaboard right now, you've been hearing 43 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: them or hearing about them. Cicada invasion, Cicada invasion. And 44 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: in fact, if you go to uh, magic Cicada, that's 45 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: all I say it. I like magic Acada dot org. 46 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: There's a there's a map there that shows you where 47 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: they are currently hatching. Yeah, they have a lot of 48 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: great resources on that site. Yeah. People get really excited 49 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: because it's such a weird, freaky unique thing. Yeah, it is. 50 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: That happens every or well that's not true. It happens, 51 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: you know, more frequently. But each brood we'll hatch every 52 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: seventeen or thirteen years, right, it happens every year, depending 53 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 1: on the type of brood. Exactly, Um this year. Yes, 54 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: we're in brood too. And there are two two types 55 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: of um broods, or two types of periodic broods. And 56 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: by the way, periodic broods, the ones that emerge after 57 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: thirteen years or seventeen years, are native and indigenous only 58 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: to North America. Oh yeah, yeah, so it's like our 59 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: special thing. Yeah. So if you're talking about Cicada Invasion 60 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: two thus thirteen to a British person or gear and 61 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: be like, I don't know what you're talking about, but 62 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: um oh we should say, chuck, We're going to be 63 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: a part of this in our own way. Yeah, we're 64 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: gonna be on the TV for Science Channel Cicada Invasion 65 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen on Sunday. Right. Yeah, they're doing lots 66 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: of cool programming and they have gotten us to provide 67 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: some little bumpers and moments in between with a cool 68 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: professor that's going to be and he is, and with 69 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: propetor Mike. Yeah, my professor, Mike Route. He is the foremost, 70 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: um utmost and foremost steam expert on um cicadas and 71 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: he's Maryland terrapists that right, I believe. So alright, So yeah, 72 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: it's called Cicadas and Invaders two thousand thirteen. It's on Sunday, 73 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: Science Channel. It goes from eight to eleven PM, but 74 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: we're hosting the nine to eleven PM segment, which includes 75 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: the dramatic climax. Yeah. But so we're gonna be there 76 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: on Science Channel on that day, so go check it out. 77 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: So we know a lot about cicadas, and this is 78 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: why that's right. So um again you said, uh, magic cicada. 79 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: I like magic acada for that, but um, the seventeen 80 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: year brewed species is what's coming out along the eastern seaboard. Um. 81 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: And they're going to be eventually black with orange veined 82 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: wings and red eyes. Yeah, generally they have red eyes, although, um, 83 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: you can occasionally spot a very rare blue eyed or 84 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: silver eyed. Um, but you cannot get money for those. 85 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: Did you hear about that rumor? In two thousand and four, 86 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: I think there was a rumor that Johns Hopkins was 87 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 1: paying money for blue eyed cicadas if you could find them, 88 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: and they were like, no, no, stop bringing those. It's 89 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: neat and it's rare, but we're not offering money up 90 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: for this, but thank you. We'll take them for free, 91 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: those suckers. But generally they're a little Steve A. Simon 92 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,679 Speaker 1: looking red eye things, you know. And and we should 93 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 1: also say, here's what the big deal is. This is 94 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: why it's called like invaders in the invasion in Cicada 95 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: apple apocalypse. I just made that one up two thousand 96 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,679 Speaker 1: thirteen from people who don't live here. Um, this happens 97 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: with the brood like every seventeen years, and broods are 98 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: incredibly well synchronized, and there are billions of these things, 99 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: and because they're synchronized, billions of cicadas are going to 100 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: all emerge from the ground pretty much at once in 101 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: an air. Yeah. In fact, Professor Ralph himself was quoted 102 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: in a thing I read today said, Um, there's a boatload. 103 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: There could be a billion per square mile, dude, right, 104 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: not a billion overall, like a billion in your like 105 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: you and your neighbors backyards. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, I 106 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: think it's more like one and a half million per 107 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: acre at its peak. So you and three other neighbors 108 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: you got one and a half million. So rap was wrong. No, 109 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: he said a square mile. Okay, square mom, Yeah, no 110 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: he's not. I don't think he's wrong about anything that 111 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: has the cads. Um. Yeah, we haven't met him yet. 112 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: We're leaving in a couple of days. Actually, in the 113 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: real time, we have high hopes. Yeah, of course, So 114 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: I guess you want to talk about what these guys 115 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: look like. Guys and gals look like alright, aside from 116 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: the orange veins, that's right. Um, they are in the 117 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: order him up tera, which anything has piercing and sucking 118 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: mouthparts is in that order, right, And um, you got 119 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: a wingspan between two and a half centimeters to fifteen 120 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: And have you seen the big ones, man, they're huge, 121 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: like palm in your hand. Big. Yeah. The ones in 122 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,239 Speaker 1: the tropics are are up to like six inches long 123 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: their body, not their wingspan. That's crazy. Um, they are 124 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: bad flyers. I guess I'm gonna just guess here and 125 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: say because they're not around long, they're not a lot 126 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: of experience. They're probably kind of heavy, yea, you know, 127 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: they're not very aerodynamic heavy for their wings. And um, 128 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: I think you just kicked up point one of what 129 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: makes cicada's the affable, lovable member of the insect goose 130 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: balls that they are. They have two sets of wings 131 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: one two pairs of wings, and they can't fly very well. 132 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: So that's no, that's one. Yeah, they have the outer 133 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: wings are glassy and transparent, and they're longer and they 134 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: covered the shorter opaque wings, and um, they look formidable 135 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: when you look at the wings are all vany and 136 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: like they look sturdy. Yeah they're not. They're not. They're 137 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: not for the icadus. Here's the other funny thing. They 138 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: have three pairs of legs, but they're not good jumpers 139 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: even though they try to. Yeah, all their legs are 140 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: about the same length, so they're kind of clumsy. They 141 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: can't fly very well. They can't jump very well, that's 142 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: the point to. So they have those big goofy red eyes, 143 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: and then they have three compound eyes and three tiny 144 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: little eyes and uh in between on the top of 145 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: their head called ossily and they of course watch for 146 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: the birds and other predators that lurk above. Right, So 147 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: they have the really great peripheral vision from the compound 148 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: eyes on the side and then great I guess airborne 149 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: vision worms eye vision, that's right. And a couple of 150 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: little bristle like antenna behind the little um asila assily eyes. 151 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: I guess that would be repetitive to say or redundant 152 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: say assily eyes, because that's what they are, but you 153 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Then they have those mouthparts that 154 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: we mentioned, and they are in a sheath, a beak 155 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: like sheath called labium, which they just tuck there between 156 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 1: their legs unless they need to use it, which is 157 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: what they do in there. They eat that um that 158 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: sheath flabium holds four little um stickers called stylet's their 159 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: their needle like, and they jam it into the plant 160 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: or like the leaf and they just suck it up 161 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: like a straw. That and reproduction is that's the point 162 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: of the cicada's life. Yeah, well that's what they did. 163 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: Reproduction in those really the point, you know what I'm saying. 164 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: They like to they like to do it. They're like 165 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: recipute and uh boy, people can be like that's a 166 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: random thing to say. Weeks later you'll understand. So they're 167 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: famous though for uh, not only for their weird seventeen 168 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: year or thirteen year emergence, but they're loud, loud singing, 169 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: and before we go on to describe it, we might 170 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: as well just hear it, don't you think so? A 171 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: brief little audio bit here from Jerry. This is the 172 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: Kada singing. Jerry's gonna make a cicada call. That was 173 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: really good, Jerry, Uh and really good, Mr Cicada. And 174 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: I say mr. Because it's only the men that are singing. 175 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: The males. Why do they sing? Well, two reasons, to 176 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: attract females to mate and to scare off birds. Because 177 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: it is so freaking loud. It will scare off birds. So, um, 178 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: this it is extraordinarily loud. The cicada call the males 179 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: mating songs, especially when they get together. And I've seen, yeah, 180 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: I've seen that. Doctor Mike said that it was recorded 181 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: at like ninety four decibels, which is like a standing 182 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: next to a lawnmower. But basically, but if this is 183 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: this is a sound made by an insect, and it's everywhere. 184 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: It fills the air for someone who hasn't experienced to 185 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: like a chorus of male cicadas all singing together, it's everywhere. 186 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: It's really loud. And in fact, you said lawnmower. The 187 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: females can actually be attracted to lawnmars and weed eaters. 188 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah, that's crazy. And just to give 189 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: you an idea, between eighty and ninety decibles is when 190 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: the threat of hearing loss begins. Um, and like you said, 191 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: lawn mowars, and about one twenty as a rock concert, 192 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: about one forty as a jet engine. And these things 193 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: are a little tiny insects. But remember that. And again 194 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: Dr Mike said, uh, ninety four was what he'd seen recorded. 195 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: But I have also read up to a hundred and 196 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: twenty decibles. Yeah, that's really really loud. Yeah, And apparently 197 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: you can get so high that humans can't hear them. 198 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: But if your dog is going berserker, you're in like 199 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: North Carolina or Maryland or something, that might be why. 200 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: And yeah, the smaller species make higher pitched ones. I guess, 201 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: So how are they doing this? Oh? Well, um, they 202 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: have Actually a lot of people think that it's a chirp, 203 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: maybe like a cricket rubs its legs together. You would 204 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: be wrong. We should say that cicadas are closer to 205 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: aphids than crickets, right, um. And they're also not using 206 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: any vocal cords because they lack those. What they do 207 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: have are these little membranes on the sides of their abdomens. 208 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: And these membranes are they're called timbles, and they're connected 209 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: to um well, I guess they're inside by a little muscle, right, 210 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: And when the muscle contracts, the timble bends increased forms 211 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: in it, and then when the muscle relaxes, the timble 212 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: goes back to taught again and that makes a clicking sound. 213 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: And if you do that a bunch of times, what 214 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: you have is the cicada song. Yeah, and they don't 215 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: know why it's so loud or how it's so loud. Um, 216 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: I did read something. I'm not sure if it's verified 217 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: that there are like, uh pockets in the abdomen that 218 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,079 Speaker 1: make it louder or something. But still such a small insect. 219 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like I said, it can be big, 220 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: but that's still an insect, right. And this sound, like 221 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: you said, it messes with birds. Um. It can scare 222 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: them off, but it can also even the ones that 223 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: aren't scared off. It prevents birds from hunting and packs 224 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: because they can't communicate with one another because it's so loud. 225 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: So it's also a defense mechanism. It's a mating call, 226 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: and apparently certain species make a certain sound to prevent 227 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: I guess interspecial mixing. Well, they want to be with 228 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: their own kind, you know, right, because they don't have 229 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: too many shots at this And they're doing all this 230 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 1: um up in the trees, right. Yeah. And it's usually 231 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 1: during the heat of the day when the when this 232 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: music is going on. You say music, I say chainsaw. Uh. 233 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: Oh does it bother you? I think it's so soothing. 234 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: Have you ever been among the invasion? Yeah? It it 235 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: to me it's not soothing because it's so loud and 236 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: so continuous that it's sort of like drives me mad. 237 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: Actually it's neat though. It's cool because you know it's 238 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: gonna end and it crests and it falls, and it 239 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: crests and it falls, you know, so like you know 240 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: it's gonna I just think it's really neat. It is neat. Um. 241 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: So it is so loud though. They even have a 242 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: protection protective measure for themselves. Um. Males and females have 243 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: these mirror like membranes, a pair of them called timpana, 244 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: and they're sort of like their ears, and basically there's 245 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: a short tendon connected and when they're shouting out with 246 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: their call, they will retract the tendon and it basically 247 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: just sort of creases and closes their ears so they 248 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: don't have to hear. Right, it's like shuts it. Yeah, 249 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: it's like a little they're like one of the mechanical function. 250 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Um, alright, so let's talk about the mating 251 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: and the you know, the egging and the ovipositive thing. 252 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: So this is this is like pretty much the whole 253 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: reason a cicada comes to life. This is why they 254 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: invade is to mate and reproduce. Right. So, once the 255 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: males have attracted some females over like, they'll they search 256 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: for one another. They do some terrible jumping and some 257 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: bad flying and hey mama, they'll finally come up upon 258 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: one another and be like, I like you, I like you, 259 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: And then they go off. And after they mate, the 260 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: female um carves some notches into the stoma of plants 261 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: and yeah, and then uses her ovipositor, which is an 262 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: egg laying appendage, and um deposits up to six eggs 263 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: in one little session. And then um the eggs start 264 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: to hatch and they actually fall down out of the 265 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: tree as larva, these little nymphs. Yeah, okay, so their 266 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: nymphs then and they so they go through the larval 267 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: stage in the tree and then fall down out as nymphs. 268 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: And then they burrow. Yeah, they immediately root underground as 269 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,119 Speaker 1: a protective measure, and then they start growing and repeatedly 270 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: shutting their skin over seventeen years seventeen years, So think 271 00:15:55,120 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: about this. A the average cicada lives seven in teen years. 272 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: If it's a periodic seventeen years cicada, it's average lifespan 273 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: is seventeen years underground and then two months above ground 274 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: and then they die, Yeah, like four to six weeks generally, 275 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: So like they spend almost all their life as young 276 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: immature cicadas getting ready to be adults for two months 277 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: or less so they can reproduce ones and then nuts. 278 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: It is nuts. It's pretty neat. Though. If you don't 279 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: have cicadas and you're like, what's going on, it means 280 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: you probably don't have a lot of deciduous trees where 281 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, they like fruit trees to yeah. Um, 282 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: so don't get bummed out. Dis go visit your neighbor 283 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: if they have some you've gotten yoaks uh. And the 284 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: question why are they under there for so long? There 285 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: are a bunch of theories. I can't wait to talk 286 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: to the professor Mike though in a couple of days. 287 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: But the leading theory I've heard is that it's like 288 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: in evolutionary rhythm that they developed to not get eaten 289 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: avoid predators. Now, that is why there are billions of 290 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: these things in a square mile or two, and it's 291 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: because they have relatively few predators underground. There's a type 292 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: of fungus that that can attack them, and it can 293 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: be transferred from generation to generation. There are beetle larva 294 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: that will eat them, but for the most part they're 295 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: out of the grasp of like their their main predators, 296 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: like birds or whatever. So they do manage to survive, 297 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: but then so many of them come up and die 298 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: like very quickly that actually something called predators satiation comes about, 299 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: which means that like the birds just fly off because 300 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: they're so full they can't eat anymore. And it still 301 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: doesn't significantly impact the number of cicadas. Yeah, there's still 302 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: enough afterward to mate and keep the species alive. And yeah, 303 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: like you're tired of eating us yet, I'm so full 304 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: of cicadas, Like, fine, now we'll mate. Yeah, let's get 305 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: it on. The birds are full, apparently a lot of 306 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: more born cripple, yeah, especially thanks to long chemicals. Yeah, 307 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: and uh, have you ever there's a time lapse on 308 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: YouTube of one coming out. It's uh exoskeleton. It's pretty 309 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: pretty awesome. So we should say when they when they 310 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,479 Speaker 1: emerge from their burrows on their chimneys, little mud chimneys. Right, 311 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: they're adults, but they're called tenoral adults. They're not quite 312 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: to the adult stage yet. What happens is they have 313 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 1: to mold. They're exoskeleton, which you'll find like attached to 314 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: a tree or something like that. Yeah, which are you know, 315 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: it's cool and crazy. Oh, it's super cool. Yeah. And 316 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: then once they mold, then that's the last time they're 317 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: going to Then they're full fledged adults. And then they 318 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: have like four to six weeks. Yeah maybe, like that's 319 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 1: if you successfully make it through bird season and get 320 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: the mate. Like a lot of these guys die, like 321 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: you know, within days or weeks. And they dig themselves 322 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: out too, with little little shovels on their it's almost 323 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: like shovels on their legs and they just dig up 324 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, we're here, yep, look out for 325 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: that birdom already dead or oh shoot, I'm crippled or man, 326 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: I can't fly seventeen years and I can't fly and 327 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: here comes a bird. And apparently one of the one 328 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: of the things that will kill a cicada is incomplete molting, 329 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: Like they'll just get stuck and die. That's gonna be 330 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: a bad way to go, Yeah, I guess. I mean, 331 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: since there's billions of them, there's all manner of like 332 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: awful things and most of them, so we should say 333 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: cicadas are known for just huge infestations, invasions, whatever you 334 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: want to call it, on a thirteen year seventeen year cycle. 335 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: And there's so many of them all at once because 336 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: there's so many of them a but also because they're 337 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: like in synchronicity. And they think the reason why they 338 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: all emerge usually at night, all at once is because 339 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 1: they're all following the same que and they're pretty sure 340 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 1: it has to do with ground temperature. Yeah, they think 341 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: that because evolutionary um rhythm, well they and I think 342 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,479 Speaker 1: it's probably tied together like that rhythm is based on 343 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: the temperature changes, and then there would have to be 344 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: some sort of rhythm because the temperature is gonna hit. 345 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: I think when the temperature averages starts to every sixty 346 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: four degrees fahrenheight in the ground, that's when you're gonna 347 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 1: start to see cicada's emerging. But that's gonna happen seventeen 348 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: times or sixteen times before that seventeenth year, so there 349 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: does have to be some other pattern that they're following 350 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: so they don't emerge sooner, right, But it's just one dude. 351 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: They were at the front. This's like you know, Ralph 352 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: the old man. Alright, guys, it's been seventeen years. Let's 353 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,400 Speaker 1: do it. Let's do this thing. Uh and you mentioned 354 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 1: the temperature change, but that that makes sense because uh, 355 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: they they hatch you know, from a southerly south southerly 356 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: to northernly northerly or northernly. Uh southerly northerly. Yeah, let's 357 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: hears up the coast. Okay, Yeah, like you'll see him 358 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: in Georgia first, and then North Carolina and then Virginia 359 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: and then d C and then all the way up 360 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: the Hudson Valley of New York apparently. So if you 361 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: were in Philadelphia or DC or New York City even 362 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: you might see some cicadas this year. Yeah, there's a 363 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 1: mathematical formula for predicting wind. You'll see cicadas in your 364 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: neck of the woods. So you go to weather underground 365 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: dot com and you find out you go on their 366 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: almanac and look at April and you figure out what 367 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: the average April temperature was in Celsius right back down. 368 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: And then here's the mathematical formula E, which is the 369 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: emerging state in May. Number E equals parentheses nineteen point 370 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: six five minus t, which is that average April temperature 371 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: and celsus divided by zero point five one three six. 372 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: That number will give you the date that the cicadas 373 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: are going to emerge around your area. And apparently it's 374 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: tried and true. Or you can go to magic Magic 375 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: Cicada dot org and click on the map. If you're 376 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 1: not in a math and you like pictures, or if 377 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: you like both, do both. Yeah, that's true. Um, I 378 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: don't think I have anything else. I would definitely go 379 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: look up that time lapse on YouTube. It's pretty cool. 380 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: I've got more, all right, Well, you know how I 381 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: said that they're this kind of the stumbly bumbly lovable, 382 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: affable creatures of the insect world. So not only can 383 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: they not fly very well, they can't jump very well. 384 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: They genuinely lack defenses. Aside from their call, they can't 385 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: do anything well. They don't buy it or sting people, 386 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: even though they look scary. They don't carry disease. They 387 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: prey on trees, only their herbivores, if you can call 388 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: an insect that. But even if a tree um flags 389 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: is what it called it like, becomes weakened from too 390 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: many cicadas feeding on it trees still bounce back, so 391 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: they kill nothing while they're alive. Sure, you don't need 392 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 1: to be afraid of them. They look intimidating. But if 393 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: they land on you, like hold them in your hand. Well, 394 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: even still, even if you hold them in the hand, 395 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: a male will make a defensive buzzing. That's kind of scary, 396 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 1: and you can scary. It's all. It's all show, it's 397 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: all talked. They're not gonna buy you, they're not gonna 398 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: sting you. Um, they're really sweet little little boogers, and 399 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: I welcome them. That's yeah. If also you welcome them 400 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: into your belly or you want to. There's a lot 401 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: of cicada recipes out there. I have a bad feeling 402 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: we're gonna be asked to eat some of this stuff. 403 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: Is that right? It's possible. I guess everyone's gonna have 404 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: to tune in on Sunday, May twenty to find out. 405 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm not as adventurous as you are when it comes 406 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,239 Speaker 1: to eating things. Speaking a cookie, I would try it. 407 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: I don't think they do that. I think it's more 408 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: like you know, no, no, you mean made cicada cookies. 409 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: And she said tastes like cookie. Well, but I think 410 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: the traditional way is to like eat them like you 411 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: would crickets, like to put them in a pan with 412 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: some salt. I know. I saw some like serious in 413 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: depth recipes. Yeah, I mean, sure you could grind up 414 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: cicadas and put them in lasagna or your pizza or whatever. 415 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: I didn't see ground up. I saw blanched tenoral adults. Yeah, 416 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: so you want to get them before like there. Really 417 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: she said it was fine, but she didn't grind him up. 418 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: She just put like a whole cicada in the cookie. 419 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: I don't know how she made them like that. Maybe 420 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: broke them up. Interesting because I didn't get the impression 421 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 1: that it was like, yeah, she's just when she was 422 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: just kind of like, yeah, I mean, there's nothing really, 423 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: so I would imagine that they were broken up in 424 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: some way. I don't think, or maybe it's like the 425 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: eminem cookies. You just stick it in the top when 426 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: it's right. I saw those two, you know, Yeah, it's 427 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: just a little disgusting treat in the middle. So I 428 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 1: should probably wait for them to die of natural causes, 429 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 1: maybe an incomplete mold to grab some of those in 430 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: and bake them there you go, or kids grab grab 431 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: some exoskeletons because they look neat and they look just 432 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: like the like, you know, the shell of the cicada. 433 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: So but you know, bring one of those to school 434 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 1: and build on your friend. Yeah. And if you get 435 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: into this and you find it very thrilling, there's a 436 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: lot of citizens science projects around where um that has 437 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: to do with counting cicadas, measuring cicadas, UM, trying to 438 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: do cicada calls. I just made that last one up, 439 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 1: but you could do that and if you want him. 440 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: There's a culture surrounding this exact it's interesting to go 441 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: online and look it up. Uh. If you want to 442 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: know more about cicadas. First of all, you can watch 443 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: are special Cicators and Invaders two thousand thirteen on Science 444 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: Channel on Sunday. Cicators like you're British and Invaders UM 445 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: on Sunday from eight to eleven pm. And we're gonna 446 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: be on nine to olympm on Science Ye. Uh. And 447 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: since I just said that, it's time for message break, right, 448 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: that's right, and then listen to mail. Uh And now 449 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: it's time for listening. Yeah, I'm gonna call this uh 450 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: truth Serum in Columbia. Remember we did that show on 451 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: truth Storm. Yes, all right, this is from CALAROI zerbos 452 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: and listeners. Since two thousand eight is a great name, 453 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: didn't it. Yeah, guys, you recently aired a podcast on 454 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: the existence of a truth serum and mentioned the use 455 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: of scopelamine. You also referenced the Vice TV article in 456 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 1: which they claimed drug trapp or kers use it and 457 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: shout out device. By the way, Yeah, we're gonna be 458 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: doing some bloggings for them soon. Good programming. Um, well, guys, 459 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: I just want you to know I lived in Columbia 460 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: for twelve years, loved every minute of it, and I've 461 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: known several people who have been victims of scopelamine attacks. However, 462 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: it is not drug traffickers who use this, but rather 463 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: it's just fans of fieves and criminals. Drug traffickers actually 464 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: do not need to attack random people to pull income. 465 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: It's the petty thieves who do. Um all occurred in 466 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: the middle of the day in good neighborhoods of Bogata 467 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: by well dressed, middle aged attackers. It's most commonly dusted 468 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: onto a piece of paper, which is then handed to 469 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: the victim by the culprit under the guise of asking 470 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: for directions within ten and fifteen minutes. If you're out 471 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: wide awake, compliant and unaware, but unable to remember what 472 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: happened afterwards, you were also quite ill, and more often 473 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: than not you end up in the hospital with your 474 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,360 Speaker 1: stomach plot. Usually your bank account and valuables are emptied 475 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: in your apartment. In one case, a friend of mine 476 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: had his Empire apartment emptied of everything. Oh my god, 477 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: and he was just sitting there the whole time. Basically, 478 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: I guess so, man. Anyway, it's pretty frightening and at 479 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: times lethal. Most Columbians therefore will not accept anything handed 480 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 1: them on the street and in clubs, well, no one 481 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 1: ever puts their drink down, if you know what I mean. 482 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: Thanks again with the excellent show. And that is again 483 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 1: Calorie Servos, And that is frightening. Yeah. I bet when 484 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 1: Columbians go to Vegas they're just like overwhelmed, you know, 485 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: like on every sta corner, guys are handing trying to 486 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: hand Oh yeah, yeah, I'll bet they freak out. Yeah, seriously, Uh, 487 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: tell me the name again, Calorie Zervos. Thank you very much, 488 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: Calorie Zervos. 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