Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff
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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas, and
Speaker 1: we are still in the thick of the Atlanta summer.
Speaker 1: The heat is awful, the the air just you feel
Speaker 1: it like just thick against your skin. It's like like
Speaker 1: wading through pudding. Then and it just numbs your brain.
Speaker 1: You forget who you are. And and all around us
Speaker 1: there's this cacophony. Yeah, just this, this chorus of just
Speaker 1: insane insect noises, and you can almost feel it on
Speaker 1: your skin, like like the sound we're hearing right now
Speaker 1: in the background. Get can't possibly do it justice because
Speaker 1: you because you you you almost feel it. And and
Speaker 1: it's it has this this kind of rise and fall,
Speaker 1: this uh crescendo rises up all around you, and then
Speaker 1: it kind of murmurs it down again, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing. It's it's amazing. And it's also a
Speaker 1: signal that your summer overlords have a right. And it's
Speaker 1: it's not just us here in Georgia, this is all
Speaker 1: over the world. So for all your listeners, you probably
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about, are most of you, because
Speaker 1: you know, they're everywhere. It's the greatest insect infestation in
Speaker 1: the world. Cicadas the best insect, the greatest, biggest, uh,
Speaker 1: most craziest. Yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty crazy, it's and
Speaker 1: and just amazing to behold these guys. Cicadas or cicadas
Speaker 1: if you're rather Yeah, you'll hear me go between both,
Speaker 1: because it's a weird little language thing for me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: cicada's right now. But yeah, and they're obviously they've been
Speaker 1: on our mind because, as you said, um, they sort
Speaker 1: of usher in the hottest point of summer, at least
Speaker 1: here in Georgia, and you become very aware of this
Speaker 1: sound permeating the air all around you. Yeah. Currently we're
Speaker 1: dealing with what is called brood thirteen, because there are
Speaker 1: different broods of cicadas. Uh, and though they are numerous species.
Speaker 1: For starters, they're like three thousand or more different species.
Speaker 1: I suppose we should describe what they look like, just
Speaker 1: in case people are not really familiar. Yeah. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: are kind of monstrous looking or beautiful looking, depending on
Speaker 1: your opinion. Well, I think both are apt. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: based when when humans start really seeing them. They're they're
Speaker 1: emerging as this little nymph, this little uh ground based
Speaker 1: creature that looks kind of like if you've ever seen
Speaker 1: the Miyazaki film uh Nasica Valley the Wind, those big
Speaker 1: giant insects that are in that with a glowing red eyes,
Speaker 1: they kind of look like that. They look they're kind
Speaker 1: of they're really kind of awesome like that, because suddenly
Speaker 1: they're everywhere crawling up the sides of trees and they're
Speaker 1: milky white. So yeah, yeah, and uh and they really
Speaker 1: look alien like there is I mean, most insects do
Speaker 1: have kind of an alien look to them, but these
Speaker 1: guys really look awesome. And they crawl up to a
Speaker 1: certain height and then they begin to mold, right, and
Speaker 1: so they so they begin their life underground, so that's
Speaker 1: why they got that kind of milky white body. And
Speaker 1: like you said, they make their way to the trees
Speaker 1: and then they begin to molt and low and behold
Speaker 1: these beautiful wings just unfurl. Yeah, and they inflate them
Speaker 1: and uh and and once they're ready to go that
Speaker 1: they take off. They don't always get to take off
Speaker 1: sometimes there are some some flaws in the emergence ritual
Speaker 1: if you will, especially like if there's like pesticide in
Speaker 1: the area, that'll mess with it and they just end
Speaker 1: up being half emerged and something comes and eats them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, once they have those wings, then they're able
Speaker 1: to fly around make just fabulous noises and uh, and
Speaker 1: they make different noises. The males are making mating noises,
Speaker 1: but then they're all making they all will make noise
Speaker 1: if their approached by a predator, right right, So um,
Speaker 1: and that's something we'll get to in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's important about the certain sort of calls that
Speaker 1: they make because they're actually pretty specific. I know it
Speaker 1: sounds when you're hearing them, it just sounds like one
Speaker 1: big chorus, but there's actually a very distinct noise is
Speaker 1: emanating from that chorus. Yeah, and these guys don't sting,
Speaker 1: they don't bite, no, no, and they're not going to
Speaker 1: hurt you. They're not going to ruin anything in your yard. Um.
Speaker 1: If anything, you'll get some nicks in the tree branches
Speaker 1: from the females when they're laying their eggs. But but no,
Speaker 1: they're they're not gonna hurt you. The only thing I
Speaker 1: did see though, is Sir Richard Attenborough had a little
Speaker 1: clip that I saw and he was hanging out with
Speaker 1: the cicada and um he was making yeah, he was,
Speaker 1: of course, and he was trying to woo it, and
Speaker 1: he was making little clicks of the finger like that,
Speaker 1: and it was coming toward him. It hopped down on
Speaker 1: him and began to think it needed to mate with him.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So if you were to do that,
Speaker 1: you should be prepared for for some sort of mating
Speaker 1: ritual to happen on your arm, and perhaps even like
Speaker 1: the little probiosist to start pecking away at your arm. Wow, man,
Speaker 1: Edinburgh is the best, really, I mean yeah, I loved
Speaker 1: it when he in the episode of Life and Mammals
Speaker 1: where he had some hedgehogs come into it in his backyard.
Speaker 1: But now he's actively wooing cicada's in But I assume
Speaker 1: this is Life of Insects. I can't remember where the
Speaker 1: clip was from, probably, but but yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: he just sexes up everything. It's that voice, it's that approach,
Speaker 1: it's the wooing. Oh yeah. But we should probably talk
Speaker 1: about these these guys, um where we can find them
Speaker 1: in the in the United States, mostly in the southeastern
Speaker 1: United States, in Australia all over. In fact, there are
Speaker 1: two hundred species alone in Australia. Oh wow, Yeah, those
Speaker 1: guys always get some good, good credits. Yeah, and again
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about what they look like.
Speaker 1: But again you've got green bodied ones, black bodied ones,
Speaker 1: brown and so on and so forth, and in various sizes.
Speaker 1: To the really amazing form of cicadas. There of course,
Speaker 1: the periodical cicadas and uh, and we're about to discuss
Speaker 1: those in a little more detail. You only find those
Speaker 1: in eastern North America. So sorry Australia, but but we've
Speaker 1: got the goods on the on the really awesome bugs
Speaker 1: this time, you know. Yeah, in the periodical we should
Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit of the difference between
Speaker 1: a periodical cicada and the annual cicada. Yes, annuals of
Speaker 1: course come out every year, or members of the different
Speaker 1: brute of that particular species will come out every year.
Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, well, it's guys, these guys from
Speaker 1: this particular species. I see those guys all the time.
Speaker 1: But then there are other uh cicadas, these uh, these periodicals,
Speaker 1: and they will stay underground for tremendous periods of time,
Speaker 1: especially when you think of insect because so many insects
Speaker 1: where live such short lives from the insect world is
Speaker 1: so hostiles and short lived. It's just staggering that you
Speaker 1: have cicadas, periodical cicadas with thirteen year life cycles, seventeen
Speaker 1: year life cycles. Um. There are seven species, uh of
Speaker 1: periodical cicadas, and there four with thirteen year life cycles
Speaker 1: and three with seventeen year life cycles. And we are
Speaker 1: in the thirteen years, so these guys would have hung
Speaker 1: out in Georgia at least May three to June. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's I mean, it's just really amazing too to
Speaker 1: think it's it's this presence that just vanishes for a
Speaker 1: decade or more, you know. And eighteen years underground, thirteen
Speaker 1: years underground and um, and then the annuals are what
Speaker 1: we're hearing right now because it's July, July in August,
Speaker 1: excuse me, it's August now and uh, and that's what
Speaker 1: we're hearing up in the trees. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: And we really want to talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about those seventeen years, thirteen years, one or two years underground,
Speaker 1: depending on the species. Yeah, it's it's really interesting because
Speaker 1: they come it's like this brief not even the whole summer,
Speaker 1: you know, just a very brief, you know, high time
Speaker 1: of mating in the trees and making lots of noise
Speaker 1: and uh, giving cats and dogs things to play with.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, there's a whole prequel to the cicada
Speaker 1: life we see underground and the last thirteen or seventeen
Speaker 1: years for the periodicals um generally it's a lot of
Speaker 1: root drinking. So it's not exactly is it's it's not
Speaker 1: nearly as exciting as the tree mating. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: These these little guys they hatch up on the trees
Speaker 1: right out of their egg, and then they make their
Speaker 1: way down and they brow under the ground, and they
Speaker 1: survive underground by sucking xylem, which is sap from tree
Speaker 1: roots um, as you mentioned, and through the appropriousis, which
Speaker 1: is like a feeding tube. And again yet you mentioned too.
Speaker 1: These are called nymphs, And oddly enough, like a year
Speaker 1: after year they live underground and somehow and they still
Speaker 1: don't know why this is or how this is, they
Speaker 1: detect that this is the year that they need to emerge,
Speaker 1: and that it's the temperature has risen to degree that
Speaker 1: it should that would be good for them to go
Speaker 1: ahead and and emerge from the earth. And that's when,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned before, they just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: start making their way slumbering toward the top of the
Speaker 1: tree where they then molt um. And this is really
Speaker 1: cool too. After they meet, and we'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about mating two and the mating rituals. The
Speaker 1: females lay their eggs and they use something called an avipositor,
Speaker 1: which just sounds like it should have a trade mar
Speaker 1: it's it's the it's it's in species like wasps and bees,
Speaker 1: it is of course the stinger, but in these guys
Speaker 1: it has only one purpose, and that's to lay some eggs.
Speaker 1: The original purpose. Yeah, it's kind of like a samurai sword,
Speaker 1: just making these deep cuts into the branches and then
Speaker 1: they deposit about between four hundred and six hundred eggs.
Speaker 1: And that's that's like the main crux of this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Seventeen years underground just to emerge mate and then you know,
Speaker 1: lay your eggs and die away. Well, that's that's a
Speaker 1: genetic mission, you know, to mate, put out these these
Speaker 1: young in the in the tree and make sure that
Speaker 1: they that the brood can continue, you know. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you had brought up an interesting question the other day
Speaker 1: when we were just kind of talking about this over
Speaker 1: the water cooler. But you know, what, what do if
Speaker 1: they could talk to us? You know what might they
Speaker 1: consider themselves? Like they've lived seventeen years underground in this
Speaker 1: one form and then they become changelings and they inferl
Speaker 1: those wings and those are the adults, and that's what
Speaker 1: we recognize them. Yeah, we recognize the adults as a
Speaker 1: cicada because well, for one thing, that's what we see.
Speaker 1: It is the adult form. It's the form that actually
Speaker 1: mates and reproduces. But for the for the vast majority
Speaker 1: of their lifespan, they are nymphs. So I mean, in
Speaker 1: a way, it's like which is the species, which is
Speaker 1: the which is the form? You know? Yeah, yeah, which
Speaker 1: is you know, it's just one of those interesting questions,
Speaker 1: like if they were looking at all the literature online
Speaker 1: and they were like, hey, that's not me. Really, that's
Speaker 1: me for two weeks and then I die. Yeah. It's
Speaker 1: it's like if somebody was was like, I can't believe
Speaker 1: everyone's published all these pictures in me on spring break.
Speaker 1: That's just me on spring break. The rest of the time,
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a contract lawyer, but I don't under
Speaker 1: seen any pictures of me. And you know in a
Speaker 1: tide going through contracts with red ink. No, you focus
Speaker 1: on me in Miami Beach. Yeah, in a in a
Speaker 1: banana hammock, which that's fine, if you want to wear
Speaker 1: a bananhammock, that's fine. But anyway, Yes, that is their
Speaker 1: mission and uh and which brings us again to the
Speaker 1: whole mating process and the reason why that call, that
Speaker 1: that um siren like call, at least to the other
Speaker 1: female psicotas, is so strong and so loud, sometimes up
Speaker 1: to a hundred and ten decibles. And just to give
Speaker 1: everybody an idea of what that sounds like, your lawnmower
Speaker 1: is ninety deciples. A car horn is a hundred ten decibles.
Speaker 1: Now think of like thousands of these guys and gals.
Speaker 1: Actually not the alex of theyn saying all in chorus.
Speaker 1: It can be deafening, as I'm sure some people know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think in a really positive way, Like I
Speaker 1: used to my family used to live out in the
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere in eastern western Tennessee, and I mean
Speaker 1: the forest would just buzz with these guys. It was
Speaker 1: just I mean, the cicadis. We're also interesting in a
Speaker 1: number of other ways too, because you could go and
Speaker 1: pick the little ship shells that they leave behind molt
Speaker 1: because the molting is it's kind of like it's similar
Speaker 1: to what crabs go through. It's it's it's it's not
Speaker 1: like a cocoon process, you know. It's like they leave
Speaker 1: this outer shell that looks just like them, or it
Speaker 1: looks just looks just like the nymph form. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like their little sarcophagus. And you can pluck it off
Speaker 1: the side of the tree. You can, and you can
Speaker 1: sort of stick it on your shirt. You can have
Speaker 1: it crawl over the head of a g I Joe
Speaker 1: man Um, you know, all sorts of thing that example. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's just one of the many fun things you
Speaker 1: can do it. But yeah, it's like they leave all
Speaker 1: these grotesque litle toys for you to chase your sister with.
Speaker 1: So I always enjoyed that aspect of it. And then
Speaker 1: of course cats and dogs have a big time with
Speaker 1: the adult version. Yeah, I saw a photo of a
Speaker 1: Japanese artist who and I think that she was maybe
Speaker 1: a pop singer or something, um, who had adorned her
Speaker 1: head with them, and it was actually really cool. Again,
Speaker 1: the adults are the notes with the shell. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was the shell, but it was
Speaker 1: like a very buerk move, which I admired. It pretty cool, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean we're talking about shells and you're
Speaker 1: talking about um. What we're able to see, it really
Speaker 1: doesn't represent how many are actually out there, because within
Speaker 1: one anchor you could have one point five million of
Speaker 1: these little things hanging out again, and that's that's why
Speaker 1: you've got such a loud cry there. UM. And again
Speaker 1: you've got the mating sound, which is really important because
Speaker 1: that call, which is specific to this, to the picular species, right, UM,
Speaker 1: will attract the female. And you know they're all competing
Speaker 1: for that female's attention. And I think it's fascinating that
Speaker 1: each one is different, and each one was like, hey
Speaker 1: come over here, hey ladies, um. And they'll actually all
Speaker 1: sing again in chorus, but they'll also fly together. And
Speaker 1: sometimes it's thought that the reason why they become so
Speaker 1: loud to is just to scare off would be predators
Speaker 1: like birds, who might find it so deafening that they
Speaker 1: don't really want to hang around them. Yeah, Like, if
Speaker 1: you pick one up in your hand, it's gonna start
Speaker 1: doing a lot of or more of a cat starts
Speaker 1: playing with one, they're gonna do a lot of loud buzzing.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of, hey, stay away from me kind
Speaker 1: of a deal. But that's the limit really of their
Speaker 1: defensive capabilities. That and just flying away of course, which
Speaker 1: they'll try and do as well. Yeah, but in a
Speaker 1: mo ment after this break, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: something called predator satiation, which is this probably one of
Speaker 1: the coolest sort of like warfare warfare moves you could
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Speaker 1: we're back. Okay, So again this concept predator satiation, which
Speaker 1: is which is more like a defense move not an offense.
Speaker 1: It kind of makes me think of the whole like
Speaker 1: if somebody. Um, it's kind of like turning the other cheek,
Speaker 1: you know, well, it's kind of to me. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: eat all of my friends here and then don't eat me.
Speaker 1: Let me just give you a buffet of us, and
Speaker 1: then which will ensure that the other you know, nino
Speaker 1: of us live because there are only certain amount of
Speaker 1: predators that are going to eat the cicadas, right and
Speaker 1: so if you survive, you know, a hundred thousand and
Speaker 1: they all get stuffed, then hey, they don't. They're not
Speaker 1: really interested in the cicadas anymore. It's a brilliant. They
Speaker 1: might as well just go and put out a website
Speaker 1: with free recipes, because they say, like, come on, eat us,
Speaker 1: We're delicious. You can't possibly eat all of us. There's
Speaker 1: so many of us. Dude, they again, we're we're great.
Speaker 1: And indeed I hear they are delicious. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: heard this. Um. They are supposed to be protein rich.
Speaker 1: They are supposed well, I know they are protein rich.
Speaker 1: Actually they're they're per pound um on par with red meat.
Speaker 1: Actually in terms of protein. They're supposed to taste like almonds,
Speaker 1: and the males because they have a hollow abdomen, they
Speaker 1: are reported to taste crunchy like popcorn. And we should
Speaker 1: talk about the abdomen because it's really important in creating
Speaker 1: the deafening sound. Yeah. Um, the organs that produce a
Speaker 1: sound are called timbles, and there are a pair of
Speaker 1: ribbed membranes at the base of the abdomen. And when
Speaker 1: a contract that, you get the internal timble muscles, causing
Speaker 1: timbles to buckle in word, and then it produces a
Speaker 1: pulsive sound. And then by relaxing these muscles, the timbles
Speaker 1: pop back to their original position. And then in some
Speaker 1: scada species, the pulsive sound is produced as each rib buckles.
Speaker 1: Cool is that? I mean it's basically like your body
Speaker 1: is an instrument. I can't do that. I would love
Speaker 1: to do that well in a way like we kind
Speaker 1: of use our bodies as an instrument the whole, like
Speaker 1: you know, seeing from your diaphragm kind of thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's we're using a lot of internal space if we're
Speaker 1: seeing properly. Yeah. But if I could pop, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of ribs and make a cool sound, you know,
Speaker 1: to to for my uh would be mates to start
Speaker 1: dancing towards me. That that would be an amazing skill,
Speaker 1: and it would it would be I'm picturing just a
Speaker 1: very kind of slightly grotesque, um like solo music career
Speaker 1: where you're like, you're like doing your your music. What's
Speaker 1: your your character name? Oh, acoustic girl, Acoustic girl. You're
Speaker 1: doing acoustic girl. And then instead of like a um
Speaker 1: solo in the middle of it, there's like a rib popping.
Speaker 1: I love it, right, And I'd be glamouring my audience.
Speaker 1: And I've been watching them too much True Blood of
Speaker 1: course with the glamouring reference. But you know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very cool stuff. Um, but yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's the really neat thing about these creatures. And again
Speaker 1: this this happens to be the year of eating cicadas,
Speaker 1: or at least it seems. There's stuff all over the
Speaker 1: web of what people have been trying to do in
Speaker 1: terms of eating cicadas, including a guy in Missouri and
Speaker 1: this is from Huffington Post. Uh, he's got Sparky's Homemade
Speaker 1: ice cream and Columbia, Missouri, and he sold out the
Speaker 1: only batch made by the way of the insect filled
Speaker 1: dessert within hours of its June one debut. Well, on
Speaker 1: one hand, you can just say, oh, it's the novelty.
Speaker 1: And ice cream is going through that thing with foodies
Speaker 1: where let's make every possible version of ice cream possible,
Speaker 1: every weird flavor that is imaginable. So foodies are gonna
Speaker 1: go nuts for It's like it's made from cicadasing it
Speaker 1: on and you know, even if it doesn't taste aff good,
Speaker 1: but um, but then maybe it is. You know. It's
Speaker 1: like we were. It's like, also, Kata's there here, there's
Speaker 1: something in us. It's like, we should eat these things.
Speaker 1: They're everywhere and they're high in protein. Like well, at
Speaker 1: some level we recognize that. Well, it's not unusual in
Speaker 1: the Moysia or Latin America to have us a street
Speaker 1: food either. Oh yeah, definitely, I mean, oh yeah, we've
Speaker 1: talked before about eating bugs, in fact, in the Evolution
Speaker 1: of Food Intro podcasts that we did recently. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: high in protein, they're out there. We really should be
Speaker 1: eating more of them. I'm disappointed that you said that
Speaker 1: we couldn't eat them during this podcast. Well, I told
Speaker 1: you I'm a vegetarian. Yeah, but it's a vegetarian like
Speaker 1: I said, you're gonna eat insects now, and I teld
Speaker 1: you that's why do not drive a motorcycle, because I
Speaker 1: don't want to get any nats might the average person
Speaker 1: every night, true fact, um, they you'll accidentally consume six
Speaker 1: spiders per night. Why are you doing to all of
Speaker 1: us out there? We don't want to know that we've
Speaker 1: been eating bugs. Okay, that's not that's not a real figure.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, another interesting thing about these these broods,
Speaker 1: like why the whole let's go disappear for thirteen seventeen years.
Speaker 1: It's it's very much like laying low. It's like the
Speaker 1: guy who steals a bunch of money from the mob
Speaker 1: and goes to live on the beach in South America
Speaker 1: for a decade before he dares sort of become a
Speaker 1: little more active. The idea is that these guys have enemies.
Speaker 1: But if you dis if your species has a habit
Speaker 1: of disappearing for nearly two decades, it prevents there from
Speaker 1: being as many specialized cicada killers. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: some predators out there who specialized in eating cicada. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: so they haven't, you know, completely dodged it, but but
Speaker 1: it it keeps there from being an explosion of cicada predators. Uh.
Speaker 1: But incidentally, the way they do that, but it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of amusing the way they do that though. They
Speaker 1: end up having this this large just glut of cicadas,
Speaker 1: so everything becomes a cicada predator while the emergency is
Speaker 1: going on. So yeah, yeah, but I like that idea
Speaker 1: of like this witness relocation program to confuse the squirrels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: schirls are like, what what thirteen years? I didn't you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't think you were going to come out in
Speaker 1: thirteen years at school has already did in thirteen years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like squirrels would not be able to to depend on
Speaker 1: these huge emergencies for their survival. You just have to
Speaker 1: be a treat when it happens. So there you go,
Speaker 1: a treat for squirrels, a treat for humans sometimes. And
Speaker 1: if you want, if you want more information about the
Speaker 1: different broods, I highly recommend you check out some of these. Uh.
Speaker 1: There there's some really cool cicada websites over Cicada Mania
Speaker 1: that s I C A d A m A n
Speaker 1: i A dot com is a really good starting point
Speaker 1: for a lot of this. And they have like these
Speaker 1: neat charts where they show like the different seventeen year broods,
Speaker 1: and you know where they are in terms of of
Speaker 1: of their emergence. Like, uh, I was looking at it
Speaker 1: in particular, I think it's a brood eleven. It's a
Speaker 1: seventeen year brood and it emerged. The emerged in ninety
Speaker 1: seven and Connecticut. Then they emerge again in nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: four and they have an emerged center because they weren't extinct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it is sad um. I saw that on the
Speaker 1: chart and I was like, oh uh. And if you
Speaker 1: want to check out that that clip of Sir Richard
Speaker 1: at Borough wooing cicada, you can also go to Cicada
Speaker 1: Invasion dot blogspot dot com. They've got a couple of
Speaker 1: different clips that are really funny and interesting. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: definitely linked to all this stuff on the blog post
Speaker 1: companies this episode. So get out there, listen to some cicadas,
Speaker 1: eat some cicadas if you will, and if you if
Speaker 1: you have tried any recipes for these or have some
Speaker 1: of that ice cream, contact is let us know how
Speaker 1: it taste. We'd love to hear about it. You can
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Speaker 1: we've covered. Let us know what other topics you want
Speaker 1: us to hit. Um we're all years And if you're
Speaker 1: like me and you feel like cicadas are sort of
Speaker 1: like our harbingers of summer doom uh signaling the hottest
Speaker 1: part of the lazy days of summer and angst to follow,
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