1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature Feature production of I Heart Radio Creature 2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: feature It's Creature Creakle Times, a holiday special look about 3 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: our foe friends. Today will meet the real life rude 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: dogs who glow underneath you be Light, Imagination Station, Yetty 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: Crabs and more join us as well. Learn It's More 6 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: and love. Die Heart is a Christmas movie. Yes, I 7 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: know me to work his Nature's John McClay Creature Feature 8 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: the holiday special, but we will not missing the all time, 9 00:00:51,159 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: I promise, damn miss and happy holidays everyone at me, 10 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: Katie Golden, your host a many parasites. On this holiday special, 11 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: we will explore three holiday classics Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, 12 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: Diehard in the Santa Claus and recast the leading roles 13 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: as even more incredible real life animals Cream Good Creature. 14 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: Joining me today is writer producer friend of the show, 15 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: Friend of all the animals except maybe swarms of creepy bugs, 16 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: Joel Money. Hi, Katie, how are you doing great? Welcome back. 17 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I'm excited to be here. Thanks for 18 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: having me. I've missed you so much, so much. The 19 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: animal facts have still been coming though, keeping on top 20 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: of everything, getting warming up on the birds. You know, 21 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: I feel like they are beautiful. Obviously that's been proven, 22 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: and you know, maybe they don't all want to kill me. 23 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: It's just the ravens. We have slowly, slowly been working 24 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: on Joel on her distrust of birds to really have 25 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: her accept birds, as you know, are inevitable overlords. You 26 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: know they will they will take over the planet once 27 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: humans have had our time in the sun. We don't 28 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: want to have, like, in any kind of animosity with 29 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: our overlord. So I'm trying to get into like a good, friendly, 30 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: accepting space. You don't want to burn any bridges, even 31 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: though I don't think birds really need bridges, but you don't. 32 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: You still don't want to burn them. You know what 33 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: if the birds burn the bridges to take control over 34 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: right right there, bridges, the birds are like if only 35 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: you had rings. I think that's probably how it's gonna 36 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: go down when the the inevitable bird revelution incomes. But 37 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: this episode is actually not about the bird revolution but 38 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: about the holiday times. Happy creature, Happy creature Kringle times 39 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: is what I like to say, our our nondenominational holidays 40 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: celebrating all things winter, animals, and magical. And last year 41 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: on the show, we used our creature Kringle Time Special 42 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: to build a better Santa out of animal dna. We 43 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: called him hydro casocrotal clause, who is not sound like 44 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: a child friendly Santa, hear me out. It is a 45 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: hybrid of immortal Hydras, which is a Niderian, which is 46 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: this little sea creature that's related to jellyfish. Also a 47 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: hybrid of the cats acotalist north ropi, which is the 48 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: largest flying dinosaur ever to exist, which was the size 49 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: of a small airplane. Oh lord, yes, Also it's got 50 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: some crow dna because, as we know, crows have excellent 51 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: memories and can remember everyone who's wronged them. Yes, they 52 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: hold grudges. They hold grudges. Researchers have found that if 53 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: you wrong a crow, uh, they will remember and pass 54 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: it down for generations. So that way, don't do that. 55 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: That way Santa knows who's naughty and nice and remembers forever. 56 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: Uh So yeah, basically a giant, flying, immortal bird dinosaur 57 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: who knows if you've been naughty or nice, which is 58 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: basically Santa. Right, it sounds cute, thank you. Well, this 59 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: year we are actually going to talk about some classic 60 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: holiday films and recast the leading roles as animals who 61 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 1: I think may actually be better than the original actors 62 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: who were in these films. Oh my god, I love 63 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: this idea. So we are gonna be talking Rudolph the 64 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: Red Nose Reindeer. We're gonna be talking about die Hard, 65 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: which is apparently Christmas movie. A lot of people say 66 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: it's Christmas Movies movie, and I will fight anybody who 67 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: says differently. I'm not going to fight you on this. 68 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not scared. I'm not scared. I 69 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: just agree. I'm so glad. No. But and then we 70 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 1: will talk about the Santa Claus, the classic Tim Allen 71 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: movie where it is sort of a body horror where 72 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: Tim Allan turns into Santa. Uh. Never thought of the 73 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: Santa Claus as a body horror kind of. Yeah, it 74 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: horrified me as like I could, and so I categorize it, 75 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,119 Speaker 1: you know, up with Cronenberg's The fly S horror movie. 76 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: No way, I would read like a five page essay 77 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: on how the Santa Claus is a body board. Well, 78 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: if you look at my blog spot now. So yeah, 79 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: So let's in part one. We're going to talk about 80 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: Rudolph the Red Nails Reindeer. So that classic, classic story, 81 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: classic stop motion, slightly disturbing movie. It's always funny to 82 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: me whenever there are these articles that are like, did 83 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: you know that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is actually 84 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: a disturbing movie because it has some conflict in it 85 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: and stuff, And it's like, yeah, all kids movies have 86 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: weird things in it. The lion King, the dad dies, 87 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: bamby mom dies like so many right off street baby 88 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: who discovers the body in the middle of the forest. 89 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: It's awful. We are back the classic Steven Spielberg movie, 90 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: like crazy old dudes who stock children and force him 91 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: to join the circus children. My god, I'd forgotten that movie. 92 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: But you're totally right. It's so oh my gosh. First 93 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: of all, listen and I think you're too far our track, 94 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: but we're back to one of my favorite childhood movies. 95 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: It's not a great movie, but it is a moment 96 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: when Steven Spielberg is so obsessed with dinosaurs. He makes 97 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: two movies in the same year, About and a Sour 98 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: features Jurassic Park pretty heavily in the background of We're back, 99 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: and it's just and it uses a lot of the 100 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: same dinosaurs from Dressy Parks. Tops and a t Rex 101 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: are like the main feature dinosaurs, and then even the 102 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: last raptor too. It's just it's like neard to be 103 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: in that mindset of like, how would we deliver drastic 104 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: parks to kids? When Jasson Park essentially became a kids movie, 105 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: At least in my household, we were like massively consuming it. 106 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: But it but it was scary. There was some listen, 107 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: We're back genuinely will horrify your child. This is all 108 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: to say that Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer politics of 109 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: the movie aside, Like yeah, it's not all kids movies 110 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: are disturbing. Oh, speaking of Christmas dinosaurs, I got some 111 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: wrapping paper that has Santa dinosaurs on it and I'm 112 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: trying to make a minora that's like a Stegosaurus Manora, 113 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: a Stegga minoras. So I don't know why. I don't 114 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: know why, but I love Holidays are going to be 115 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: dinosaur themed and we need crafts and enjoy right now? 116 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: Can we needna yes to put it all together more 117 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: than ever before. We need dinosaurs. But we're actually going 118 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: to talk about some animals that are stranger than dinosaurs. 119 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,119 Speaker 1: So Rootolph the red nose reindeer, famous because his nose 120 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: is glowing, and last Holidays, I think we talked about how, 121 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: you know, Rudolph, in order for his nose actually glow, 122 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: he would actually have to have some kind of bioluminescence, 123 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: maybe some bacteria living in his nose that produced bioluminescence 124 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: or some kind of chemical reaction in his nose. But 125 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: it's unusual for mammals to actually glow like it. You 126 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: see it in insects, in fish, and but like to 127 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: actually have a mammal that glows quite unusual. And yet 128 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: we're discovering more and more that mammals can biofluoresce. So yes, 129 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: what's the difference between bioluminescent and bio fluoresce? Very good question. Bioluminescence, 130 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: you actually create your own light through a chemical reaction, 131 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: either using your own chemicals that you produce in like 132 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: an organelle or your body, or by using bacteria that 133 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: is living symbiotically inside of you, and then that bacteria 134 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: has it produces a chemical reaction that will produce light. 135 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: That's bioluminescence. Biofluorescence requires the presence of UV light. So 136 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: biofluorescence is when you can absorb UV light and re 137 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: emit it to be visible light. So like you shine 138 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: a black light on something and then it re emits 139 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: as a glowing Usually it's something like glowing blue or green. 140 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: It can be other colors as well. It's actually absorbing 141 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: in that UV light and re emitting it into a 142 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: glowing light that we can actually see with our human 143 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: eyes although we can't see UV light. So these are 144 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: the black light posters of Neat. Yes, I love that absolutely. 145 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: And we've learned a couple of weeks ago that Platypus 146 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: is floras under UV light. Yes, we just talked about 147 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: that on the show. Oh my goodness, so cute. Yes, 148 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: so they will bio florus. However, there's an update because 149 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: they are finding more and more mammals in Australia that 150 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: are glowing under UV light. It would be Australia. It 151 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: would be like, of course Australia, have you why didn't 152 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: occur to us before? Now to try throwing animals in 153 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: Australia rave to see if they glow under black light, 154 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: because of course they do. Animals were working their tricks 155 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 1: to make sure we never did this. Really a disturbance 156 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: in the underground party, just just this wombat going like 157 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: I don't see you on the list. So Tasmanian devils 158 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: are the newest mammal who have been discovered who also biofluoresce. 159 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this picture. It is so cool. Yes, 160 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: it looks like the universe is in its ear. I 161 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: want to go inside the ice cavern planet of its ear. 162 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: It's so pretty. Yes, because most of its fur actually 163 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: doesn't glow, so it's like this dark fur. It's sort 164 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: of a brownish black button in the dark. You can't 165 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: really see it, but there are spots that actually glow blue. 166 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: So around its snout or the skin around its eyes, 167 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: their inner ear skin, all of these parts absorb and 168 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: re emit UV light as this eerie blue lights. So 169 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: it looks like you turned off the lights and then 170 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: the Tasmanian devil. Remember those like glow in the dark 171 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: stars you put on your ceilings. The Tasmanian devil just 172 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: has that, but it's on its face, on its snout 173 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: and in its ears and around its eyes. It's beautiful. 174 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: The Tasmanian devil. Beautiful is not usually an adjective describe them. 175 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: They are bushy, there hang out. They're kind of cute 176 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: in an ugly way, right, they're cute, Yes, definitely, but 177 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:14,559 Speaker 1: when they glow my got etherious little alien bears space bears, 178 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: space bear so cute. They are actually a marsupial. So 179 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: what's interesting is platypuses are a monotream. They are not marsupials. 180 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: But both monotreams and marsupials are kind of weird because 181 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: they're they're both mammals, but they're sort of branches off 182 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: of mammals that they're evolutionary path probably diverged from other 183 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: mammals like a long time ago in evolutionary history. So 184 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: that's why monotreams are so strange. In their reproduction, they 185 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: lay eggs, they don't have nipples. They just kind of 186 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: leak milk out of their chests, and marsupials have a right. 187 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: It's such a funny. It was just leaking, you know, 188 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 1: just leaking a little bit of milk out of there. 189 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: But and then marsupials have a whole range reproductive system 190 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: themselves where they have a pouch where these really tiny 191 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: almost fetal babies when they when they're born, they have 192 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: to crawl up and into the pouch. And they also 193 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: have some very weird business going on with the reproductive organs. 194 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: They all branch off into multiple kind of a maze 195 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: like things. Anyways, this is all to say that there there, 196 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: they are mammals, but they are strange mammals. So it's 197 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: really interesting to see that both monotreams and marsupials seem 198 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: to have this tendency to biofluoresce. Tasman and devils are 199 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: not the only ones who biofluoresce. Basically, what researchers are 200 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: doing right now, it's just shining black light on every 201 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: animal specimen. They have to see if it was make 202 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 1: your moment in history to shine everything like, oh my gosh, 203 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: and they think, like I really would like it. It's 204 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: butteretflies lit up under bioluminescence. I know there are some 205 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,599 Speaker 1: that like a little they do. Actually, there are butterflies 206 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: like they would be gorgeous. Actually, scorpions also biofluorus, but 207 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: there are there are butterflies that do biofluoress under UVY light. 208 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: I think butterflies can actually see uv light. Butterflies are 209 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: just fairies, yes, exactly exactly, but so are scorpions, so 210 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: you know, like you can't judge, I don't they don't fly, 211 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: that's true. I don't think there should be that deadly. 212 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: Scorpions aren't deadly, just to be fair. And some butterflies 213 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: are toxic if you eat them, so you know, do 214 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: not eat butterflies, don't eat them, don't do it in general, 215 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: don't need any anything you just find that's flying around. 216 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: But yeah, So the other biofluorescent mammals that they have 217 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: discovered ore wombats and bilbies, which are sort of a 218 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: weird mouse like marsupial. These are both more supi in Australia. 219 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: So the bilbie's ears and tails kind of glow, and 220 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: the wombats sort of have glowing patches of fur around 221 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: their eyes and around. It's a little less clear to 222 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: me like what parts of the wombats glow, but it 223 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: seems to be there. For it looks like a Coca 224 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: Cola polar bear went to a rave and got some 225 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: like lime green highlights and then got eyeliner that matched, 226 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: and was like, let's do this, let's do this, let's 227 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: whole crew. They are so cute. This little Bilbie was like, 228 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: it's like a little rapidly a little bunny here. Yeah, 229 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: but that glow, I just feel like everything is just 230 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: glowing and cute and I want to love it. But 231 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: it's a wild animal, so no, yeah, yeah, probably don't like, 232 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: don't take these animals to a rave. Actually, it reminds 233 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: me very much of cyberpunk TV vibes, you know, very much. 234 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: I could see these pets with the luxurious folks hanging 235 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: out in the corporate district exactly exactly like you know. 236 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: I started playing the game. It keeps crashing, so haven't 237 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: really gone very far. Yeah, I'm an hour in. I 238 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: tried to drive a car. It's not working. Just no, 239 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: I had a lot of glitches. Yeah, it looks like 240 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: it came out to three. I'm gonna wait for the patches. Yeah. 241 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: I enjoyed building my character. It was a lot of fun, 242 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: yum on other things until this suck. It's fit. What 243 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: a journey. I feel like very much the character creation 244 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: and cyberpunk vibes with these glowing animals. Just yeah, it's 245 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: a it's a whole look, it's a whole vibe. It's 246 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: like future futuristic Rudolph. So this is so funny. I 247 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: have to share this. Dr Sarah Monks, who is a 248 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: senior researcher at the School of Natural Sciences at the 249 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: University of Tasmania, has this quote when she's talking about 250 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: how they're now like shining all this UV light on 251 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: various specimens to see if they glow. She says, quote, 252 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: you mean, all these years we've been farting around with 253 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: ordinary spotlights and we should have been using UV. I 254 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: love it. I love I love that. Like I think 255 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: it's very humanizing to realize that researchers are reacting the 256 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: same way we are, where it's like, wait, these guys glow. 257 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: Oh my god, we got it. We gotta start shut 258 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: like you gotta test all of them, must have Yes, yes, 259 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 1: they're testing as many more supials and Australian mammals as 260 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: they can to see who glows under UV light. And 261 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: it's not just because it's cool. They also want to 262 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: find out if there is a pattern with nocturnal animals, 263 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: like say, maybe some of them blow and some of 264 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: them don't. They're finding that in general, carnivorous ones don't glow, 265 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense, because if you're trying 266 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: to sneak up on your prey and you're glowing, yeah, 267 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: you don't want to see the scene. However, so it's 268 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: interesting because as we know, like Tasmanian devils are carnivorous, 269 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: but they do glow. And my theory on this is 270 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,239 Speaker 1: that it's because Tasmanian devils are more often than not 271 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: actually scavengers, so they do hunt occasionally, but their preferences 272 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: to scavenge, so it's not as much of an issue 273 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: for them to have to sneak up on prey as 274 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 1: it is for them to just find and intimidate others 275 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: as they go and scavenge. For me, So that's that's 276 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: my theory, and if it turns out to be right, 277 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: I demand an award in the form of a and 278 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: making the shape of a Tasmanian devil, a glowing, a 279 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: glow in the dark Tasmanian devil, thank you. So that 280 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: is option number one to recast as Rudolph, and I 281 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: do have to go and mention another option because it 282 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: is I can't even begin to explain, well, I can 283 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: because I have to. It's happening now on the podcast. 284 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: But this is it's a bioluminescent sea unicorn. Yes, very magical. 285 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: So pyrosomes are called unicorns of the sea, not because 286 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: their horses or anything like that, but because they are 287 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: such a weird animal that biologists are like, it's as 288 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: weird as a unicorn. They are the their tubes, I 289 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,479 Speaker 1: guess is the most essential way I can describe. Okay, 290 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: do you remember those like jelly like liquid filled tubes. 291 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: They have like glitter and like maybe a little star. 292 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: Squeeze them and they will slippery. It looks like that, 293 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: but it's an animal. Yeah, they were like these inverted 294 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: like tubes and then you would like try to hold 295 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: it and then they would like slide out of your hand. 296 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: Because yeah, but yeah, that's they are. That's kind of 297 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: what they look like. They look like they're made out 298 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: of plastic or maybe like silk stockings. They can be tiny, 299 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: like the size of a little routini or macaroni in 300 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: your palm, or they can be pool noodle size, or 301 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 1: they can be bigger than an elephant's trunk. They can 302 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: be gigantic, and they are often translucent or transparent. Sometimes 303 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 1: they're a little bit more opaque. They come in blues 304 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: and greens and pinks, and they are actually sort of 305 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,959 Speaker 1: the borg of the sea because when you're looking at 306 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: one of these things, one of these tubes, it is 307 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: not one animal. It is hundreds or maybe thousands of animals. 308 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: It's secretly swarms. This is a start. I'm yeah, Joel 309 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: does not like it, doesn't like a swarm. I'm hoping 310 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: this is one that it's sort of an introduction to 311 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: swarms that maybe will ease you into the topic. It's 312 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: less visually freaky. Yes, yes, so far. Even though it's 313 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: visually very weird, I still feel like I'm looking at 314 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: a computer rendering or something and not an actual thing. 315 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: It's so weird. I'm hoping it's comforting that they actually 316 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: don't separate. They don't like come apart. They're basically all 317 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: permanently holding hands together. Oh my god, it's so cute. 318 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: Except they're covered in a sort of gelatinous sleeve like 319 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: a sausage. Okay, so le's cute. It's like a sausage. 320 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:29,919 Speaker 1: That's a community. I don't want my sausage. It takes 321 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: a village to raise a sausage. As they say, oh, 322 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: this is mentally confounding. Yes, so A pyrosome is not 323 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,719 Speaker 1: just one big worm or tube sock or whatever, but 324 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: a bunch of individual zooid. So Zooids are animals that 325 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: come together to form a single unit. Pyrosomes are called 326 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: colonial tunic. It's which sounds like some kind of ancient 327 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: war general old but it's not. It's a colony of tunicates. 328 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: So a tunic, it is hard to describe to not 329 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: very helpful, however, I will try. So. A tunicate is 330 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: a very strange animal, sort of a subphylum. There's a 331 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: bunch of different species of them. They are all just 332 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: so weird. Some of them start out life as kind 333 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: of being these little tadpole like animals that swim around, 334 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: and then they will settle on a rock and then 335 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 1: become immobile and grow into this sort of tube balloon 336 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: thing and these are called c squirts. And yeah, so 337 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 1: they'll actually lose a bunch of their brain matter and 338 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 1: converted into other parts and go from being a swimming animal, uh, 339 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: to just being something that looks like a plant but 340 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: is actually alive but is immobile. It's very they're very weird. 341 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: They're very weird. To just describe what happened to me 342 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: doing quarantine matter. I transferred it to everything mostly just 343 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: trying and stay alive. Must lets resemble human and more 344 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: Paladays we have all become sessile. It is it is 345 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: a fact of quarantine. I got. I have these peppermint 346 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: chocolate covered pretzels that I've just been filter feeding, just 347 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: letting them fall into my mouth like a sea squirt. 348 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: So unlike sea squirts, parasomes are mobile. They are free floating, 349 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: and they are actually made up of a bunch of 350 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: tuniquet smaller individuals, pretty small like sort of plankton size, 351 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: who joined together to create one giant creature. So they 352 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: like to live in the open ocean, typically in warmer seas. 353 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 1: They're not usually like deep deep sea, but they can 354 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: be found, uh sort of in deeper deeper seas. The 355 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: largest colonies can be up to sixty feet long, which 356 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: is eighteen meters and made up of thousands of individuals. Yeah, 357 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: so pretty incredible. And like I said, they are attached 358 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: to each other through a gelatinous casing, which is also 359 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: called a gelatinous tunic, which is fun. Like, this color 360 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: is nice. It looks like it'd be a comfortable material, right, 361 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 1: It's sort of like an underwater renaissance. Fair like have 362 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: you seen my gelatinous tunic? I was singu aus song. 363 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: So they basically work as a unit and each zooid. 364 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: So each of the individuals that make up this giant 365 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: sea sausage will suck in water from the outside of 366 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: the sausage and filter it through to the inside. And 367 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: as it filters this water, it catches all of the 368 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: little particles of edible material in the water, like basically 369 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: sea ocean snow, a little bits of organic matter, and 370 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: then that's how it feeds. Yeah, so just like I 371 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: keep calling it a sausage, but it's very delicate looking, 372 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: so it looks sort of like a ghost stalking. It's 373 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,959 Speaker 1: very thin and and flowy, like it's made out of silk. 374 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: Do we know how tight their bonds are because it 375 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 1: looks like if I just leave my hand in it 376 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: all flute. Yes they are. Well, they wouldn't like separate, 377 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: but you can tear it pretty easily. So like they 378 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: don't they don't separate on their own, like a flock 379 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: of birds where if you try to run out of 380 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 1: flock of birds that like part for you, it won't 381 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: do that, but it will tear apart so they're actually 382 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: notoriously difficult to collect for research because of how delicate 383 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: they are and how easy it is to tear them, 384 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: and so some researchers have actually developed robots that have 385 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: extremely soft hands, like these are really soft handed robots 386 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: that they use to collect the parasomes. So yeah, yeah, 387 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: it is they are extremely delicate. So in terms of movement, 388 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: smaller colonies can actually somewhat move on their own, Like 389 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: each of the zoids have cilia, which are the tiny hairs, 390 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: and they move so that they filter the water, but 391 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: that also creates a water flow that propels them forward. 392 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: Larger colonies, I think it's just more like you can 393 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: kind of tell because of how big they are, it 394 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: becomes harder to sort of move it just through this 395 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: propulsion of each of the individuals because it becomes so 396 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: so long and sort of like uh, floppy. But they 397 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: do move mostly with the help of ocean currents, so 398 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: just kind of you know, going with the flow, picking 399 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: up little bits of seed to try to where they can, 400 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: and just you know, just really easy, easy going chill. 401 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 1: They would really get along with Crush the turtle from Nemo, 402 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: just living life, taking right here, seeing what happens. Do 403 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 1: they also live a very long time? Like you know 404 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: what there is? That's a good question. I mean, I 405 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: think it kind of depends on a few factors, like 406 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: how big they end up growing. You know, they're because 407 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: they're so fragile, I don't think they end up living 408 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: that long. But it's like, in theory they could probably 409 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: live for a while because they're made up of all 410 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: these individuals, but I think in in reality, because they're 411 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: so so fragile, they actually don't don't live that long. 412 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: So maybe like a few years at most. But that's 413 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: a good question. I'm not they seem like one of 414 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: the more mysterious animals that I'm not sure how much 415 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: is known about. I mean, that's fair if they shred 416 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: when you touch them, hard to figure out how long 417 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: they live because this one just died. Crap, okay to 418 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: start again, start in top. But the reason that they 419 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: are a candidate for Rudolph is that they are bioluminescent, 420 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: and they can be some of the brightest bioluminescent animals 421 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: in the sea. So each zooid that makes up the 422 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 1: pyrosome colony can haynes light organs that are chock full 423 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: of bioluminescent bacteria. So these organs are triggered to light 424 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: up either by touch or by the presence of other light. 425 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: So basically what this means is that you can have 426 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 1: these waves of light that happened on a pyrosome because 427 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: one of the little individuals is triggered to shine its 428 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: light after its neighbor shines its lights. So you get 429 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: these waves of light. It's an underwater light show, Disney, 430 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: where are you at make the movie. It can also 431 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: be triggered by the presence of another pyrosome nearby, so 432 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: if a pyrosome is lighting up, another one will light up. 433 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: It's just like a bunch of raving little c tubes 434 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: made up of a bunch of little individuals. It's it's 435 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: really really fascinating. This animal wave sounds amazing. Would very 436 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: much like to participate. It's actually really difficult. I had 437 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: a lot of trouble finding videos of it. I would 438 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: assume it is sorry exact, just sent us a message 439 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: saying beautiful at night, nasty during the day, which is, 440 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: to be fair a lot true of a lot of partiers, 441 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: Like you know, you're beautiful at night and then you 442 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: wake up and your your hair is covered and covered 443 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: in vomit and stuff. Anyways, not speaking from experience, um 444 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: Zack Sar audio engineer, hilarious. So they will glow in white, green, 445 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: or blue, but they can actually sometimes glow red and pink. 446 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: So very good, very good on brand for Rudolph. So 447 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: I feel like if there is an underwater Santa, He's 448 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: definitely gonna want one of these parasomes to light up 449 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: his sub submer sleigh, I just clause and c sounds 450 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: good to me. It sounds yeah. But like I was saying, 451 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: it is it is hard to find videos of these. 452 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: I found a few, so I will definitely provide those 453 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: in the show notes. But I guess it's just tricky. 454 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: It's both tricky to find them and then happen to 455 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: have a video camera that can capture their light show, 456 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: and then it's also hard to collect them as samples, 457 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: you know, trying to get get these on video. But yeah, 458 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: there there are just a few of them, and I 459 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: will share them. I've sent them to YouTube, Joel for 460 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: you to enjoy. But it is they are just they 461 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: look like I don't know, like glow sticks, but big 462 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: big tubes, big pool noodle glow sticks. It's again, it's 463 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: hard to think that. I really feel like this is 464 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: a deep fake. I'm not I trust scientists, so I 465 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: know it's not, but it just looks unreal. Yeah, there's 466 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: one more candidate for Rudolph, although it may not get 467 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: along with the other reindeer. Mega mouth sharks, despite being 468 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: twice as long as a bus and having giant, fierce 469 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: looking mouths, are actually filter feeders that eat tiny plankton 470 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: by sucking them in and catching them in bristles near 471 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: their gill slets. Interestingly, they have a bright white band 472 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: above their upper lip, like a glowing mustache. It was 473 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: thought this might be bioluminescence, but more recent research suggests 474 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: it acts like a reflective band. Denticles, tiny sharp protrusions 475 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: on the band help reflect light given off by other 476 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 1: bioluminescent animals. The function of this glowing mustache is still 477 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: a mystery. It may either attract plankton or serve as 478 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: an identifier for them to recognize other Meccha mouth sharks, 479 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: or maybe they like to jog at night and want 480 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: to be safe from cars. When we return, we're going 481 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: to reboot another holiday movie classic using an adorable flatworm 482 00:31:51,560 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: in a hairy crustacean. There are many animals who can 483 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: survive extreme conditions. Tarte grades can survive total desiccation, radiation, 484 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: and the vacuum of space. Wood frogs can survive being frozen. 485 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: But there's one adorable little critter who could survive any 486 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: action or slasher movie you throw at it. So now 487 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about die Hard. The classic Christmas 488 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: tale of John McClain fighting Swedish terrorists was that. That's 489 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: the plot, right, yeah, yeah, that's it. Okay, good. Yeah, 490 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: And he's like in an office building and he's is 491 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: he he's like trying to save his fiance or it's 492 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 1: his wife. Okay, but they're on the rocks. Yes, they've 493 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: been fighting, and he's overworked cop, he's no time to 494 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: do he he works with an outside cops try to 495 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: figure things out. Once I think is it Russian? I 496 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: think it's Russian terrorists Swedish? Check this, it's Snape right, 497 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: Snapes in there, Yes with a wild accent because it's 498 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: Alan Rickman. Yes, yes, Alan Rickman is there with crazy accent. 499 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: How did it heckuars Jappy's own business by terrorist over 500 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: hi rise? Oh, it doesn't say their ethnicity or nationality. 501 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: I should say the Swedish government has censored that on Wikipedia. 502 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: I know. Wait, German, German, German terrorists. Sure, Hans Gruber, 503 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: of course he's German together. I'm sorry Sweden by the way, 504 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: for he's coming. He's a terrorists. Not take some money. 505 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: John McCain, life, it's been rough. John McClain. McCain, Oh 506 00:33:52,920 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: my god. John McClain is on the ks with his wife. 507 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: So along with his police buddy, they tried to infiltrate 508 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: the building using back alleyates and stuff. The fun thing 509 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: about this is this was a new building. I want 510 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,479 Speaker 1: to say it was owned by Sony at the time, 511 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: so this production had to get special permission from Sony 512 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: to use the building. It was still under construction. That's 513 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: why they could film and all of the floors and 514 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 1: all of the sets and in the um shafts where 515 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: the elevators were going to go, and so a lot 516 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,879 Speaker 1: of the scenes were written like on set because they 517 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: were like what's around, Oh, we have this dumpster and 518 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: like where they dump all they done go next? Um, 519 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,880 Speaker 1: it was halter skelter, but it worked. Chovin Bruce Willis 520 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 1: into every nook and cranny and like being like now crawl, 521 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: damn it, crawl and it deals with all like the 522 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: perfect like there is definitely a lot of debate about 523 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: whether this is a Christmas movie, right. The reason I 524 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 1: think it is because it deals with all of the 525 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 1: holiday like themes of a family movie. So if you 526 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: have holiday family movies are like are we going to 527 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: make it? We're really stressed out. What's the reason for 528 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,719 Speaker 1: the season? Um, a lot of interpersonal drama, growth the 529 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: human beings, Like it's always about like family and how 530 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: this season inspires the best of us and damn it, 531 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: that night it is inspired the best in John McLean. 532 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: You know he took out and it was writing and 533 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: like he dressed on the dead dead German terrorists as 534 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: a Santa. Right, so Christmas movie obviously being But the 535 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: title of the movie is die Hard, and that is 536 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,919 Speaker 1: because it's very hard to kill John McClane. He's very 537 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: widely very hardy. So we're gonna talk about animals that 538 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 1: are extremely difficult to kill, maybe even better at not 539 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 1: dying than John mcclin. So our first potential cast member 540 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 1: is planarians. Oh my god, planarians are a flat worm 541 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: that are surprisingly and they can definitely walk over a 542 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: floor covered in sharp glass, get all cut off, even 543 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 1: get decapitated, and be totally fine. So I will explain. So, 544 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,839 Speaker 1: like I said, they are a species of flatworm, they 545 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,719 Speaker 1: are actually sorry, they are a group of flatworms. There 546 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 1: are all sorts of different species that live all over 547 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,160 Speaker 1: the world. They can live in salt water, freshwater, or 548 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 1: in moist terrestrial environments, so they are a cosmopolitan species. Yes, 549 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: very much like John McClain like. They can survive many 550 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 1: different situations, even like office building Alan Rickman, holding you 551 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,280 Speaker 1: up for money and trying to save your estranged wife. 552 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: So they are in appearance typically pretty flat. I guess 553 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: that's obvious because they're type of flat worm kind of 554 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: a brownish color, and they have this like weird little 555 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 1: shovel shaped head. And the most interesting part is that 556 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: they have eye spots facing upwards on the top of 557 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,800 Speaker 1: their heads, and they look cross side and really silly 558 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 1: like little cartoon characters. Are not there's are spots that 559 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,719 Speaker 1: look like eyes, yes, so they're eye spots are made 560 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: out of photoreceptive cells. And even though it looks like 561 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,839 Speaker 1: basically cartoon eyes where they have the whites of their 562 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: eyes and the pupils like drawn in like a Looney 563 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,799 Speaker 1: Tunes character. It's actually because the dark part of their 564 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: eye is made out of pigment cells that absorb light, 565 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:41,200 Speaker 1: and then the white part is uh um photoreceptive neurons 566 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 1: that will take the information about the light to the brain. 567 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 1: So it's not it's not a pupil and the white 568 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 1: of the eye. It's just it's happens to look like 569 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 1: a cross side cartoon just because that's how that's how 570 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: the neurons versus the the pigmented spots look like. But yeah, 571 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,759 Speaker 1: it looks like they're cross eyed and goofy and it's 572 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,800 Speaker 1: really funny. And it's basically they can tell the difference 573 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 1: between light and dark and that's about it. So like me, 574 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:17,879 Speaker 1: as I get this kind of day, maybe planarians are 575 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 1: incredible not just because they look like amazing little cartoon goofballs. 576 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,319 Speaker 1: They are super bad ass, really hard to kill. They 577 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 1: can survive being decapitated and can just casually grow a 578 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 1: new body or a new head and become multiple individuals. 579 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:40,720 Speaker 1: Imagine a die hard where every time John McClean gets injured, 580 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 1: he just grows another John McClean, like and then Alan Rickman. 581 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 1: It's like I just thought, I we killed John mccleans. Like, 582 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,279 Speaker 1: now you've got to John mcclean's to deal with an 583 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:57,240 Speaker 1: army of John mcclean's by the surrounding conquer. The amount 584 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 1: of abuse that Planarians can take and survive, even grow 585 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,840 Speaker 1: into new individuals is truly incredible. You can split a 586 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 1: Planari in down the middle, you can julian a Planari, 587 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,760 Speaker 1: and you can dice it. You can chop it pretty finely, 588 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 1: and in most cases, as long as you have a 589 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 1: big enough chunk of Planarian, it will grow into a 590 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: new Planarian, or just it'll grow the parts that it's missing. 591 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 1: So if you cut the body from the head, it'll 592 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,440 Speaker 1: grow a new body. If you cut the body, the 593 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,399 Speaker 1: body will grow a new head. You can even bisect 594 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,439 Speaker 1: it partially, which sounds horrifor like this is like now planarians, 595 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 1: saw you cut it partially in half. Those split heads 596 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 1: will regrow and now it'll have two heads. That is 597 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: some real body words stuff. Right, have to use this 598 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 1: animal as the inspiration for the next great body horror movie, 599 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 1: because at one point, don't they just beg for death? 600 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,840 Speaker 1: They're like, this is untenable. You know, like how planes 601 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: have the black box and you're like, why don't you 602 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: make the whole plane out of the black box. It's like, 603 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 1: why don't we make all animals out of planarians? Yes, 604 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,839 Speaker 1: keep all of the puppies. See just I don't even 605 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,120 Speaker 1: want to go there with puppies. No matter what you do, 606 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,319 Speaker 1: the puppy just keeps growing back into more puppies. It's like, 607 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: eventually there are too many horrifying like a three headed puppy. 608 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: It's fine. I like that. I guess the reason that 609 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 1: they can do this is that the wound site on 610 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,160 Speaker 1: the planarian, when you slice and dice, it can actually 611 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,920 Speaker 1: act like the cells there will act as stem cells 612 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,680 Speaker 1: and differentiate to form the missing chunk of body, whether 613 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 1: it's a head or tail or middle. So with embryos, 614 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 1: as they're developing, they have stem cells. They have cells 615 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: that can differentiate into different parts. It's how you can 616 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,040 Speaker 1: basically start with like, you know, two cells, and then 617 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 1: like start to break into more and more cells, and 618 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: those cells go on to form the brain, the eyes, 619 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 1: the head, the feet, the toe is the I don't know, teeth, whatever, 620 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: all the parts. I think I named all the parts 621 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,080 Speaker 1: of a human the bones connected to the hip bones 622 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,399 Speaker 1: connected to the butt bone anyways. So yeah, and there's 623 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,520 Speaker 1: also some really weird science fiction things that happen with 624 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: these guys, like researchers can induce doubleheadedness in planarians by 625 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:28,200 Speaker 1: exposing the wounded planarian to electrical fields or two chemicals 626 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:33,960 Speaker 1: that affect gene expressions. So yeah, weird stuff. Weird stuff. 627 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:38,319 Speaker 1: To start cross breeding clanarians, start with Jagons. I know 628 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,400 Speaker 1: they don't really exist, but I would like a canon 629 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 1: Jagon and defeat it. It's our new overlord now. But 630 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,239 Speaker 1: you know, if we take Bruce Willis right and cross 631 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: them with some Planarian DNA, we can do like die 632 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:56,120 Speaker 1: Hard three, Die Hardest. Yes, you know, like that scene 633 00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 1: with him walking through glass. He would just be skipping 634 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: through it, like and each time, like a toe gets 635 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,880 Speaker 1: cut off, like just a whole new Bruce Willis bros. 636 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,680 Speaker 1: It's just starts off really tiny though, because it grew 637 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: out of a pinky tes Bruce Willis and John mcclin. 638 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:17,319 Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach a terrace lasson. Oh my gosh, I'm 639 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,319 Speaker 1: seeing the vision of John McLean's at the end, because 640 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,840 Speaker 1: each like, who are all of these John mccleans like, 641 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,799 Speaker 1: we all love you. And then you know somebody who's 642 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,200 Speaker 1: always cleaning the house and she lives the perfect leg right, 643 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,120 Speaker 1: his cop buddies like, my god, there's too many John mccleans. 644 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,439 Speaker 1: And then his wife was like, no, don't you see, 645 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,759 Speaker 1: there's just enough John mccleans to fill the hole in 646 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:45,920 Speaker 1: my heart. It's a true love story. It's just like 647 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,000 Speaker 1: various sized John mcclin's working around the house like a 648 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,200 Speaker 1: little short one and like a little apron make near 649 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,080 Speaker 1: breakfast like food, and they work multiple jobs. Now he 650 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:03,360 Speaker 1: has all the time in the world for me. Excellent, excellent, worthy, 651 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,560 Speaker 1: thank you. I think a better ending to die Hard, right, 652 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,880 Speaker 1: because like it's definitely improved upon the original material. Right. 653 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,560 Speaker 1: Because if you think that you will resolve all your 654 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:16,320 Speaker 1: marital problems just through a mutually shared traumatic experience, no, 655 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,120 Speaker 1: you will not healthy. That's a temporary right. You will 656 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 1: solve your marital problems if you regenerate into a bunch 657 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,320 Speaker 1: of us that are able to be on mass. A 658 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 1: better you because you can spend more time at home 659 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,880 Speaker 1: with your wife, financially, more time to give to the 660 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,319 Speaker 1: reasons you know she you were having trouble the first 661 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,759 Speaker 1: place right. It's like I gotta go to work, but 662 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,040 Speaker 1: my foot, which is now a whole new John McClain 663 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 1: can stay home with you. You cant the to work 664 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:54,640 Speaker 1: boo ter Luck me, it's got a mouth on it. 665 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,600 Speaker 1: So our next John McClain can. It is the Yetti crab, 666 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,960 Speaker 1: also known as the Hoff crabs, which will be very clear. 667 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,960 Speaker 1: So I think we actually discussed these briefly during our 668 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,680 Speaker 1: crab episode, our crab episode where we talked about how 669 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,120 Speaker 1: the nature of things is to evolve into crabs, which 670 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: is called carsonization. It is such a fat in nature. 671 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,040 Speaker 1: They've actually come up with a word for it, and 672 00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,840 Speaker 1: it's that crustaceans and sometimes Arthur POD's just like to 673 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: turn into crab shapes because crab is best according to evolution, 674 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,239 Speaker 1: all right, And YETI crabs are another example of this 675 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:37,120 Speaker 1: because they're actually not crabs. They're squat lobsters who have 676 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:43,320 Speaker 1: evolved to start having that squat crab shape. So but 677 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:49,239 Speaker 1: more remarkably, they are super hairy, so they are they 678 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,680 Speaker 1: are covered in silky blonde bristles that look like for 679 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,080 Speaker 1: That's also why they are nicknamed the Hoff crabs because 680 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 1: of David Hasselhoff's hairy ches in Baywatch, naughty scientists. I 681 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,880 Speaker 1: thought it was hot like the planet in Star Wars, 682 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 1: that that would be nice too. I guess that would 683 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,440 Speaker 1: fit a little bit. In fact, fit even more than 684 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,440 Speaker 1: you may think, because they can survive in extreme conditions. 685 00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:22,440 Speaker 1: So they live in the depths of frigidly cold southern 686 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,359 Speaker 1: oceans and congregate around boiling hot thermal vents that reach 687 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:31,320 Speaker 1: temperatures up to seven and fifty degrees fahrenheit, which is 688 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:36,480 Speaker 1: four hundred degrees celsius. So they are between freezing water 689 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,760 Speaker 1: and boiling water, and you know they are somehow able 690 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 1: to find the water that won't kill them. So you know, 691 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,319 Speaker 1: their hair senses it. That's where all these fighter sensors are. 692 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,600 Speaker 1: Their hair actually does help them filter these weeks, these 693 00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,160 Speaker 1: toxic minerals that can come up from these events. So 694 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,080 Speaker 1: these events have these very they're very rich with minerals, 695 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,640 Speaker 1: which is good for some life, right, like a lot 696 00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,799 Speaker 1: of bacteria that feeds on these vents. It's very good 697 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,200 Speaker 1: for But for a lot of animals, those heavy minerals 698 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,680 Speaker 1: are actually quite bad for them. The yet eat crabs 699 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,880 Speaker 1: fur or those bristles are actually covered in this helpful 700 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,880 Speaker 1: bacteria that will filter out the toxic minerals, allowing the 701 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,000 Speaker 1: crab to feed and breathe without getting in those those 702 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:31,080 Speaker 1: minerals from the vents, and the crabs themselves actually do 703 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,919 Speaker 1: like to eat bacteria around the vents, and it's theorized 704 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,960 Speaker 1: that they probably also eat other small animals that live 705 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,960 Speaker 1: around the vents. They look carnivorous, they look like they 706 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:46,920 Speaker 1: could hunt. Yeah, I think they're very intimidating, but also beautiful. 707 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,880 Speaker 1: Like I would like a YETI crab for co comfortable. 708 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,439 Speaker 1: That would be it would be a look, It would 709 00:46:54,520 --> 00:47:00,399 Speaker 1: look great, it would look great, thank you. So they 710 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:05,120 Speaker 1: live at crushing depths, so like two thousand, three hundred 711 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,400 Speaker 1: feet under the sea, which is seven dred just absolute 712 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,480 Speaker 1: crushing depths, so they can withstand all of that pressure 713 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,600 Speaker 1: and managed to stay out of the freezing cold and 714 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:20,200 Speaker 1: out of the boiling hot by crawling in between these 715 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:24,839 Speaker 1: thermal events. So it's just like John McClean in die 716 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,719 Speaker 1: Hard has to crawl in the vent to get through 717 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,080 Speaker 1: the building. These crabs are just very carefully crawling between 718 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,640 Speaker 1: freezing to death and being boiled alive and becoming boiled 719 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:40,279 Speaker 1: lobster or becoming cold lobster rolls. It's it's very, very 720 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,800 Speaker 1: tricky situation. I feel like these guys understand the struggle 721 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,719 Speaker 1: with John McClean, like they get it. They absolutely had 722 00:47:47,800 --> 00:48:01,600 Speaker 1: struggled to survive exactly. They're also crabby. The yetti has 723 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,839 Speaker 1: been encrypted with multiple sightings throughout human history in the Himalayas. 724 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,120 Speaker 1: Is there any truth to the legend. Recent research has 725 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,560 Speaker 1: analyzed all the evidence of a yetti, from hair samples 726 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:17,720 Speaker 1: to footprints, and has come to an interesting conclusion. Bears, 727 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,560 Speaker 1: it's bears. It was bears the whole time. You guys, 728 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,600 Speaker 1: brown bears live in the region, and their hair sample 729 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,799 Speaker 1: and footprints match those of the yetis so, how could 730 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,680 Speaker 1: people mistake a brown bear for a yetti? Well, I 731 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,319 Speaker 1: have a theory. Brown bears can stand on their hind legs, 732 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,800 Speaker 1: and sure, I don't think people would mistake it for 733 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,279 Speaker 1: a yetti just yet. But if it's a brown bear 734 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,120 Speaker 1: with a rare white or light coat color variation, which 735 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,160 Speaker 1: can happen in brown bears, black bears, and grizzly bears, 736 00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:50,000 Speaker 1: it may look just spectacular enough on its hind legs 737 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,440 Speaker 1: to seem like a mystical yetti and it would be 738 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,640 Speaker 1: rare enough to be a cryptic siting. But hey, maybe 739 00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,839 Speaker 1: yetis do exist and that big bellied white hair an't 740 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,920 Speaker 1: a mystical being. Has been a yetty this whole time? 741 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,040 Speaker 1: Or a bear? I don't know either way, you better 742 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,480 Speaker 1: be nice and not naughty for Santa Yetti Bear. When 743 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,279 Speaker 1: we return, we're going to discuss the body horror movie 744 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 1: The Santa Claus starring Tim Allen and animals who would 745 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:27,480 Speaker 1: be way better as the leading role. Many animals go 746 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:32,320 Speaker 1: through incredible transformations. Insects go through metamorphosis from a larva 747 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:36,399 Speaker 1: to a butterfly, beetle or wasps. Some animals transformed during 748 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,600 Speaker 1: the winter to better suit their environment, and some animals transform, 749 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,480 Speaker 1: like Tim Allen, to take on the mantle of a 750 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:47,920 Speaker 1: deceased leader. So now we are going to talk about 751 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,799 Speaker 1: the classic holiday horror movie, The Santa Clause, in which 752 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:56,839 Speaker 1: a man accidentally man slaughters Santa, who lands on his roof. 753 00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:02,480 Speaker 1: He startles Santa, Santa falls, dies, and incredible. Can I 754 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,200 Speaker 1: just say this movie is brave? I don't think I've 755 00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,600 Speaker 1: heard of any other movie that starts in the first 756 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:14,000 Speaker 1: ten minutes with murdering Santa Claus and it's doesn't he 757 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,120 Speaker 1: It's been a minute since I've seen the Santa Claus. 758 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,680 Speaker 1: But doesn't he slip off the roof? Yes? Yes, okay, 759 00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,439 Speaker 1: so not a man slaughter, you know, that's an act 760 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,600 Speaker 1: of God. He just slipped right off the roof. I 761 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,440 Speaker 1: saw a murderous glint and Tim Allen's I'll say that, 762 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:38,120 Speaker 1: don't we all to me as a child is closed 763 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,200 Speaker 1: a gap, which he was like, no one lives forever. 764 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,640 Speaker 1: I don't believe the Santa Claus a fifteen sixty three. 765 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,960 Speaker 1: It's also bringing me presents. I saw this movie and 766 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,760 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, he just morphs into a new person, 767 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,719 Speaker 1: right right, got it. It's like a Highlander situation sort 768 00:50:55,760 --> 00:51:01,120 Speaker 1: of right, only be one Yeah, so yeah in the movie. 769 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:06,319 Speaker 1: Then Tim Allen, after quote unquote accidentally killing Santa, puts 770 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,960 Speaker 1: on his coat delivers presence. But that's not the end 771 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,160 Speaker 1: of the movie. It turns out by putting on the clothes, 772 00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,800 Speaker 1: he has activated some kind of like Santa transformation sequence, 773 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,880 Speaker 1: sort of like that Ray Bradbury story where this pliontologist 774 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:24,200 Speaker 1: as symbols. Do you remember that, where like this paleontologist 775 00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,960 Speaker 1: assembols some bones of some alien creature and then she 776 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,680 Speaker 1: starts transforming into an alien creature. Did not read this, Yeah, 777 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,560 Speaker 1: but yeah that. I mean, like they're all sorts of 778 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,479 Speaker 1: weird transformation things, and this one is, you know, he's 779 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,880 Speaker 1: turning into Santa so he gets the Santa belly and 780 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,879 Speaker 1: he gets like a white Santa beard. He starts going 781 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,640 Speaker 1: ho ho ho, and like, you know, because you know, 782 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,160 Speaker 1: giving giving stuff away. So it's been a it's been 783 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 1: a minute since I've seen that. Uh, And so we're 784 00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,320 Speaker 1: going to talk about some incredible animal transformations that I 785 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,560 Speaker 1: think rivals that of the anti clause. So I would 786 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,919 Speaker 1: be remiss if I did not at least mention one 787 00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:09,080 Speaker 1: fun wintertime animal that goes through the yearly process of 788 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,759 Speaker 1: turning into a little snow version of that animal. I mean, 789 00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,400 Speaker 1: everyone knows about the Arctic fox and Arctic bunnies that 790 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:21,120 Speaker 1: go through their incredible transformation and from like being brown 791 00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:26,200 Speaker 1: and gray to being little puffballs of snow where they 792 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,560 Speaker 1: have these beautiful snow white coats. But there are also 793 00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:33,879 Speaker 1: birds that do the same thing. So what rock Ptarmigans 794 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:38,960 Speaker 1: are ground dwelling birds who go from a sleek, modeled 795 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:43,000 Speaker 1: brown coloration, which is I think really stunningly beautiful too, 796 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:48,279 Speaker 1: fluffy white balls of feathery snowy feathers, not feathery snow 797 00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,600 Speaker 1: in the winter. They look like little snowballs with beaks 798 00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:58,480 Speaker 1: and a face. O. God, I'm the last person to 799 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:03,680 Speaker 1: judge birds on beauty, but this wintry coloring it's giving 800 00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,439 Speaker 1: me like fall fashion EASTA. Yes, yes, it goes from 801 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,640 Speaker 1: sort of this like summer fashion to a winter fashion. 802 00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,520 Speaker 1: And yes, also they have like these fluffy little ug 803 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:20,279 Speaker 1: boots situation going on. It's wild how differently they look like. 804 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,320 Speaker 1: One sort of like almost like a turkey, and the 805 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:28,279 Speaker 1: other one's like a dove. It's much like bigger. Yes, yes, 806 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,560 Speaker 1: they actually they look a bit turkey like because they 807 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,560 Speaker 1: are a ground dwelling bird for the most parts, so 808 00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,759 Speaker 1: they have that sort of more rotund squat body. They're 809 00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,440 Speaker 1: actually a type of grouse and their feet are so 810 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:46,440 Speaker 1: fluffy covered in feathers. In fact, it's Latin name the 811 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,719 Speaker 1: pussy's or lapu sees. I don't know, maybe I think 812 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:56,319 Speaker 1: it's lap you see is not laps but it's Latin names. 813 00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:01,000 Speaker 1: La puces means hair foot because it's are fluffy and 814 00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,879 Speaker 1: covered in feathers and look like bunny feet, so these 815 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,960 Speaker 1: extra foot feathers keep their little feets he's warm and 816 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,279 Speaker 1: also allow them to walk over the snow like they're 817 00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:15,400 Speaker 1: wearing snowshoes by increasing the surface area. So like snow 818 00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,120 Speaker 1: shoes will increase the surface area of your foot and 819 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,880 Speaker 1: displace that weight so that your foot doesn't go right 820 00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,080 Speaker 1: through the snow. It's the same thing with these feathery 821 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,399 Speaker 1: little snow shoes, so that they can step step step 822 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,120 Speaker 1: over snow and not fall fall under the snow. And 823 00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,920 Speaker 1: that of course, the reason their feathers turn white is 824 00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,919 Speaker 1: to camouflage with the snow, and females are all white 825 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,160 Speaker 1: except for some black feathers around their tails. And males 826 00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: actually still have this bright red eyeliner around their eyes 827 00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:50,120 Speaker 1: which is present all year long. It's beautiful eyeliner because 828 00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,239 Speaker 1: they always have to look they always have to look good, 829 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:57,239 Speaker 1: like a lot of birds. Well as we know with 830 00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,520 Speaker 1: birds like males are always trying to look their best, 831 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,879 Speaker 1: and it is to look it is a really nice 832 00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,120 Speaker 1: I would say it's it looks like it's both in 833 00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:09,080 Speaker 1: eyeliner eyeshadow and like eyelash combination of just bright red, 834 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,799 Speaker 1: which is very good. The red false's on a red 835 00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,880 Speaker 1: eyeshadow is bold, but I really respect the choice. It 836 00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:20,359 Speaker 1: looks great. He's ready for any like Paris fashion walk. Yes, 837 00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:24,200 Speaker 1: I'm inspired. And with that that stark white white coat, 838 00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,120 Speaker 1: it's very it's it's a bold move. But when I 839 00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:33,080 Speaker 1: I to respect. They like to live in little snow 840 00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,360 Speaker 1: caves as well. And snow caves are these hollow bunkers 841 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,680 Speaker 1: of snow that often form around rocks and trees, and 842 00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,080 Speaker 1: actually when you're walking out in the snow, it's something 843 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:43,920 Speaker 1: you sometimes have to be careful for, Like if you 844 00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,520 Speaker 1: walk around a tree, you can actually fall down because 845 00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,880 Speaker 1: like the snow will form this kind of like this 846 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,360 Speaker 1: little hollow cave when there's like roots or something that 847 00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,680 Speaker 1: prevents the snow from piling up under it or or 848 00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,279 Speaker 1: in between rocks. So they will get in these little 849 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,800 Speaker 1: snow caves and it will help them keep warm. And 850 00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,240 Speaker 1: it's really cute when they poke their little heads above 851 00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,320 Speaker 1: the snow. It's just just like little It looks like 852 00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:11,520 Speaker 1: it's a groundhog, but it's a bird. No, my good news. 853 00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,040 Speaker 1: This is the first bird. I'm ready to go on 854 00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,719 Speaker 1: record and say that I love we did it so 855 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:27,360 Speaker 1: so sweet. It's a creature Kringle Times miracle, Yes, beautiful birds, wonderful, 856 00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,080 Speaker 1: and I think it's a much I think it's a 857 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:35,120 Speaker 1: less horrifying transformation than in the Santa Claus. Yes, this 858 00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:40,040 Speaker 1: is a fashion transformation, whereas Santa Claus, as we've already mentioned, 859 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,560 Speaker 1: is pure body horror. It's also I don't know if 860 00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,800 Speaker 1: this has ever explained in the Santa Clause, but like, 861 00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,359 Speaker 1: does he go back to his normal body when it's 862 00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,480 Speaker 1: not Christmas time or does it? Yeah? And then next 863 00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,359 Speaker 1: year he gets big again. Okay, don't even Santa Claus too, 864 00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:01,080 Speaker 1: there is a sequel. It is amazing. H he cannot 865 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:05,759 Speaker 1: shake being Santa Claus. So just like all of us then, really, yes, yes, 866 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,279 Speaker 1: once winter comes, we all bulked back up to our 867 00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:17,200 Speaker 1: our hair um hair, hair turns white from stress. Start 868 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,600 Speaker 1: giving me all of our money. It's true, we all, 869 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:25,080 Speaker 1: we all really do become Santa Clauses around around the holidays. 870 00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,680 Speaker 1: So in terms of I think what's interesting to me 871 00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,920 Speaker 1: is that, in terms of actually following the plot of 872 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,840 Speaker 1: the movie, the animal that is most like the Santa 873 00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:41,200 Speaker 1: Claus are bees. So we are actually going to talk 874 00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,920 Speaker 1: about bees in depth in a very special New Year's 875 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,160 Speaker 1: episode about bees. I'm really excited. I think you guys 876 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,520 Speaker 1: are gonna love it. It's got Jamie and Caitlin of 877 00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:54,600 Speaker 1: the Bechdel Cast on it. It's all about bees and 878 00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,920 Speaker 1: we review a very special movie which you may have 879 00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:04,400 Speaker 1: guessed what it is. Maybe like a movie that actually 880 00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:11,200 Speaker 1: requires analysis, Yes, because it's so Banana's wilds so important. 881 00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,160 Speaker 1: I was also on another podcast, I think it's out now, 882 00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,720 Speaker 1: the frame Rate podcast with Abe Epperson and Michael Swain, 883 00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,960 Speaker 1: and I also talked about B movie there, but I 884 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,120 Speaker 1: needed to do it on this podcast to to really 885 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:26,560 Speaker 1: get deep into the B biologies. So it's a it's 886 00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:28,760 Speaker 1: a good it's a good check it out. It's coming 887 00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:34,000 Speaker 1: out uh soon, so yeah, but we will talk in 888 00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:38,120 Speaker 1: depth about bees. However, this is I think an important 889 00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,000 Speaker 1: point to bring up when we are talking about the 890 00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:44,360 Speaker 1: Santa clause because bees basically follow the Santa Claus movie rules. 891 00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:48,520 Speaker 1: So most B Larva will grow up to be worker bees. 892 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:52,320 Speaker 1: Worker bees are female bees. They're all sisters, and they 893 00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:54,960 Speaker 1: do all of the normal tasks around the hive, from 894 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:59,000 Speaker 1: collecting pollen to you know, defending the hive everything. This 895 00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:02,120 Speaker 1: sounds like heaven and just the workforce of women's sisters 896 00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:09,520 Speaker 1: united the hive, but a few select larva will actually 897 00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:15,400 Speaker 1: grow up to be queen bees. And this when when 898 00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,520 Speaker 1: a new queen must rise. And this is usually following 899 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,040 Speaker 1: the death of the old queen or the old queen 900 00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:26,520 Speaker 1: becoming too old to become a good egg layer, which 901 00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:30,080 Speaker 1: is kind of you know, kind of sucks just retiring 902 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,400 Speaker 1: for gold. She's going to fly down to Miami. But 903 00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,560 Speaker 1: it all depends on how it shakes out, how the politics. 904 00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:43,080 Speaker 1: As with most royal successions so asassinations, creating the new 905 00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:47,040 Speaker 1: queen is triggered by the workers detecting a lack of 906 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:51,720 Speaker 1: the queen's pheromone, which she normally distributes around the hive, 907 00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:55,200 Speaker 1: so she if she dies or becomes less active, that 908 00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:59,600 Speaker 1: queen pheromone will start to degrade and then the worker 909 00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:04,000 Speaker 1: bees will be triggered to start feeding some larva mass 910 01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,640 Speaker 1: quantities of royal jelly. Royal jelly is a specialized honey 911 01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:13,640 Speaker 1: that is nutrient nutrient rich and triggers the larva to 912 01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:17,640 Speaker 1: start the process of developing into a queen bee instead 913 01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:21,480 Speaker 1: of a worker bee. And actually I think all worker 914 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,560 Speaker 1: bees are fed a little bit of royal jelly as lava, 915 01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,240 Speaker 1: but just for the first couple of days. But queen 916 01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,440 Speaker 1: bees are just fed a diet exclusively of royal jelly, 917 01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:35,680 Speaker 1: premium babies, premium babies, and they will actually have a 918 01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:40,000 Speaker 1: different body than a normal worker so their body is elongated, 919 01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:44,200 Speaker 1: much larger than a worker bee. They will have like 920 01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,920 Speaker 1: I said, they have that queen pheromone which causes the 921 01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,720 Speaker 1: bees to act differently, and they will breed and mate 922 01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,560 Speaker 1: on like the worker bees, so that that queen pheromone 923 01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:55,320 Speaker 1: actually suppresses mating in all of the worker bees, and 924 01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:59,240 Speaker 1: so she will be the only one to breed and produce. 925 01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:03,000 Speaker 1: She can produce thousands of eggs a day. When you 926 01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,160 Speaker 1: have like a situation where you have an old queen 927 01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:10,200 Speaker 1: and a new queen, sometimes it's fine, like the new 928 01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,600 Speaker 1: queen will just work alongside the old queen. But sometimes 929 01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:17,080 Speaker 1: either the workers or the new queen will kill the 930 01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,680 Speaker 1: old queen. You know, we can't have two queens. That's 931 01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,720 Speaker 1: confusing messages to people. We gotta make sure we're all 932 01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:27,200 Speaker 1: aligned behind end. Yeah. In fact, like a newly hatched queen, 933 01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:30,320 Speaker 1: if there are any other queens that are developing, she 934 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,560 Speaker 1: will go around and stab them all with her stinger 935 01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,840 Speaker 1: before they can hatch and become rivals with her. So 936 01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,120 Speaker 1: I had no idea. There's so much bloody regicide happening 937 01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:45,360 Speaker 1: inside the hives. So imagine if in the Santa clause, 938 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,720 Speaker 1: if no the elves, the elves have to smell some 939 01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:53,640 Speaker 1: kind of rich Santa cologne every day, and if they don't, 940 01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,440 Speaker 1: they start raising a new Santa by feeding it exclusively 941 01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:01,280 Speaker 1: like Santa cookies, and then one that Santa grows up, 942 01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,760 Speaker 1: it will kill the old Santa and in any other 943 01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:08,720 Speaker 1: developing Santa's and then become the new Santa. And start 944 01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:12,439 Speaker 1: sinks to me that the Santa Claus is a horror movie, 945 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,240 Speaker 1: and now you have improved upon the original horror concept 946 01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:21,040 Speaker 1: of that movie. Horrifying thing, because then essentially they're getting 947 01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:25,240 Speaker 1: a baby and just mediot Christmas cookies only for its 948 01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,480 Speaker 1: whole life, so that when it grows up it's like 949 01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:32,360 Speaker 1: huge and thinks it's Santa. Well that's basically what happens 950 01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,880 Speaker 1: with bees as I'm sure any any entomologist would agree 951 01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:40,280 Speaker 1: with me. Oh my goodness. Yeah, but those Santa Claus 952 01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,760 Speaker 1: movies are messed up because like in the Mrs Claus, 953 01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:47,480 Speaker 1: one doesn't he like kidnap a woman and essentially just 954 01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,560 Speaker 1: I don't remember the Mrs Laws one. In all these movies, 955 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,920 Speaker 1: it's like there's new rules to being Santa that the 956 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,760 Speaker 1: Tim Allen character finds out, and oh, in order for 957 01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,200 Speaker 1: you to remain being Santa, you have to find a 958 01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,440 Speaker 1: Mrs Claus And it's like Mrs Clause because it's a 959 01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:05,480 Speaker 1: clause of some magical legal documents. She has to go 960 01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:09,480 Speaker 1: find a wife and use his Santa magic to make 961 01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:12,800 Speaker 1: her fall in love with him. You creepy. Yeah, I 962 01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:14,919 Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I think it's more like he's 963 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,919 Speaker 1: using his magic to woo her, not to like mind 964 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,480 Speaker 1: control her, but you know, like I don't know what 965 01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,560 Speaker 1: to watch. Yeah, like an omniscient Santa that knows everything 966 01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,360 Speaker 1: about you and is using that to like date you. 967 01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,439 Speaker 1: I don't know, man, We're like he's made to listen, 968 01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:35,440 Speaker 1: he knows who's not nice, and he goes on like 969 01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:40,040 Speaker 1: one date with her and then basically lays it out 970 01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,040 Speaker 1: on all on the table. Where's he? And all the 971 01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,760 Speaker 1: elves are like, I gotta marry you to keep being 972 01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:47,840 Speaker 1: Santa for Christmas to happen, And of course she's gonna 973 01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,280 Speaker 1: say yes, you know, It's like the worst kind of 974 01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:54,240 Speaker 1: public proposal, never proposed to someone that you have not 975 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,560 Speaker 1: talked about it with, Like, make sure they're okay with 976 01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:01,400 Speaker 1: a public proposal, otherwise you just hi jacking, right, right, 977 01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:05,160 Speaker 1: emotional hijack exactly like you you propose to someone in 978 01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,200 Speaker 1: front of a big crowd, the pressures on to say 979 01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,520 Speaker 1: yes because then otherwise they don't want to embarrass you. 980 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:11,760 Speaker 1: But then privately later they're probably gonna be like, dude, 981 01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:16,040 Speaker 1: what what No? Actually no, and now your heartbroken and 982 01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:19,640 Speaker 1: looking like a fool. But imagine that, except it's not 983 01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:21,920 Speaker 1: just a crowd of elves staring at you, but it's 984 01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,680 Speaker 1: like Christmas on the line. That is so unfair. So again, 985 01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,720 Speaker 1: unhappy children will be your fault, lady. Or maybe this 986 01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:34,240 Speaker 1: is uh an analogy for what women go through every year. 987 01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:39,120 Speaker 1: Make our Christmas special. Dammit, they're just tired and they 988 01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,600 Speaker 1: want to rest. Yeah. I feel like the Santa Claus 989 01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:44,439 Speaker 1: too needs to be remade into a horror movie, sort 990 01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,360 Speaker 1: of like The Invisible Man, where it's married to Santa 991 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:53,240 Speaker 1: and he's just super creepy and I would watch that anyways. 992 01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:57,040 Speaker 1: That's why bees is Santa Kiwi d listen you have 993 01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:02,440 Speaker 1: made our favorite holiday movies even better, enhanced them, enhanced 994 01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:09,520 Speaker 1: them with natural biology. Yeah, I will make Christmas scientifically accurate, 995 01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,480 Speaker 1: even if it pains you, even if it breaks the 996 01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:14,800 Speaker 1: childlike wonder in your heart. But I don't think it will. 997 01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,760 Speaker 1: I think that nature is so wonderful and magical it 998 01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:22,200 Speaker 1: actually enhances the magic of it. Listen, you want your 999 01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:27,640 Speaker 1: fuzzy birds with surf feet to sleep across the snow. 1000 01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:32,800 Speaker 1: That's magic. That's magical, so cute, so wonderful. Are are 1001 01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:38,080 Speaker 1: glowing tubes? Are John McClain worms with googly eyes? It's 1002 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:42,400 Speaker 1: all incredible. This has been a wonderful creature Kringle Times. Joel, 1003 01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,760 Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me. I have missed 1004 01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,960 Speaker 1: you so much, so this is a wonderful, wonderful Kringle 1005 01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,960 Speaker 1: Time reunion and we will have you back of course 1006 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:55,960 Speaker 1: in the new year. Have you all on the show again, pleasure. 1007 01:05:56,120 --> 01:06:00,680 Speaker 1: I to miss you a ton. I love everything holidays spiritued. 1008 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,400 Speaker 1: I do not skype to one holiday. I will celebrate 1009 01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,800 Speaker 1: them all. We need a much choice, and you know 1010 01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,360 Speaker 1: when we do animals and movies, that's my favorite things. 1011 01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,840 Speaker 1: So thanks for having me back in Yeah, I'll definitely 1012 01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:15,160 Speaker 1: be back in here. Yes, yes, excellent. And where can 1013 01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:18,360 Speaker 1: people find you? Oh, well, you guys already you know 1014 01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:21,160 Speaker 1: I'm all over the internet at twelve one. That's j 1015 01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:23,720 Speaker 1: O E l l E M l N I q 1016 01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,920 Speaker 1: u E. And you do you write amazing articles. I 1017 01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:31,760 Speaker 1: love your TV show reviews. And you can find us 1018 01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,720 Speaker 1: on the internet at Creature feature Pot on Instagram at 1019 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,240 Speaker 1: Creature feet Pot on Twitter. That's f e A T, 1020 01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,640 Speaker 1: not f e E T. That is some are in 1021 01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:43,440 Speaker 1: different And yeah, thank you guys so much for listening. 1022 01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:46,280 Speaker 1: I really appreciate each and every one of you. 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