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Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology

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Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and I'd like to get creative. Do

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Speaker 1: you like to get creative? Well, I think it's time

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Speaker 1: to think outside the butt. That's right, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the biggest dare devils when it comes to dairy ears,

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Speaker 1: the pop stars of posteriors, the analysts of well, you know,

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Speaker 1: how do you survive a trip through a frog? What

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Speaker 1: are some unconventional uses for a sea cucumber? And do

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Speaker 1: you really need a butt to discover this? More? As

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Speaker 1: we answer to the angel question. Are comb Jellies the

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Speaker 1: best at improv joining me today to talk about animal

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Speaker 1: Heinie's is friend of the pod, host of Secretly incredibly

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Speaker 1: fascinating and probably too bolight of a person for this topic,

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Speaker 1: Alex Schmitt, Katie, it's great to be here. I'm not

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Speaker 1: dupil it at all. I'm very excited to talk about

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Speaker 1: what we all have. Everybody grow up, we all have butts.

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Speaker 1: Let's just let's just get into them, or do we? Oh? No,

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Speaker 1: I have spoken too soon. The edible kigdomes are basing well,

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Speaker 1: we will talk about that later, but for now, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about some some but daredevils. I think I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: that at some point on your secretly incredibly fascinating show,

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Speaker 1: which is an amazing show. I've been a guest on

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Speaker 1: it before, that you will talk about you know, but

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Speaker 1: that's you know, that's a good idea. It is many

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Speaker 1: Many of the topics for the episodes are things that

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Speaker 1: maybe people don't think about all the time, and perhaps

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Speaker 1: humans thinking about each other's butts is common enough that

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Speaker 1: I can't but I'll think about it. It might be workable.

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Speaker 1: No no pressure there. I do remember that when we

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Speaker 1: were talking about we were talking about cows and cattle

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Speaker 1: on podcast, and we did talk about cow farts. So

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Speaker 1: I think in any topic basically in the world, you

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Speaker 1: do have to talk about some stuff regarding regarding the bottom.

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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it is, it's it's It's almost the

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Speaker 1: kind of thing where people are like, oh, I'm in

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Speaker 1: about butts, and then we skip over all this stuff

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Speaker 1: that I assume we'll get into in this show. That's

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Speaker 1: amazing about butts. It's it's in look it's funny. Butts

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Speaker 1: are funny. I will be the first to admit it.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. It's okay to laugh during this episode. But

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Speaker 1: I think it's also because it's seen as like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's potty humor, or you know, that's that's kind of inappropriate.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff that doesn't get taught to

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Speaker 1: evolutionary biology, and I think that there's a lot that

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Speaker 1: Uh So, yes, I am excited to go on this

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Speaker 1: journey of checking out literally butts and what happens with those.

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Speaker 1: The first darier adventure that I want to go on

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Speaker 1: is what it's like to escape a frog. So I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about imagine you're inside a frog. It's

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Speaker 1: not it's not the most ideal of circumstances, right, you

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Speaker 1: but you know you're in a frog. You want to

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Speaker 1: That's probably in the bottom twenty of days I've had

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Speaker 1: being stuck inside a frog. Maybe bot I'm going to

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Speaker 1: There's there's two ends of the frog, two openings that

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Speaker 1: been discovered to take the rear exit. Now, this is

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Speaker 1: called the regan barsha a tenuata, also known as the

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Speaker 1: water scavenger beetle. It is a tiny, black, iridescent aquatic beetle.

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Speaker 1: dark spotted frog, which they're they're also pretty small. Frogs

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Speaker 1: This is I'm trying to remember how that Inside the

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Speaker 1: Human Body Magic School Bus episode went, like if they

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Speaker 1: my old insect that I lived in. So the beetle

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Speaker 1: and poop out food. So it's not just kind of

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Speaker 1: I think like this is probably how the beetle mob operates.

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Speaker 1: It's like that, but for tickling, Like there's a there's

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Speaker 1: love like a keypad where the code is tickling, because

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Speaker 1: who do sometimes eat with their butts occasionally. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: not not. This is just such a fundamental flipping of

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Speaker 1: But no, they're just getting out of the butt or

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Speaker 1: brinks who have They look like they have a little

422
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: bunny tail and little bunny ears and their ears are

423
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: actually like sensory organs, and their tails are they're branching lungs.

424
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: It's really cute. Wow, Okay, this is this is a

425
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: new cartoon that can be made like sea bugs Bunny,

426
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: Sea bugs Bunny, Yeah saying saying what's up Doc? And

427
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: then just getting eaten by a shark em fund with

428
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: a spear gun. But it blows up in his own

429
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: face somehow. I don't how a spear would blow up,

430
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: but he'd find a way. If the pearl fish looks

431
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: nothing like a pearl, can you guess why they're called

432
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: pearl fish? It's likely because the person who discovered them

433
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 1: found them in an oyster or other bivalve and thought, hey,

434
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: who does this fish think? It is a pearl. When

435
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: we return, we're going to get back to the important

436
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: business of talking about butts, namely, how many of them

437
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: should you have? Having a butt is one of the

438
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: most important parts of our development. When we start out

439
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: as blast assists and then embryos, we developed but first

440
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,959
Speaker 1: we're deuterous domes. As we developed from a cluster of cells,

441
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: the first opening, called the blast o pour becomes the anus.

442
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: This is a fun fact we share with all other chordates,

443
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: which are animals with a nerve cord, as well as

444
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: with the chinoderms, which includes star fish, sea urchins, etcetera,

445
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: and a handful of little worm like animals. The opposite

446
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: is true of protostomes, who's blasted for that first opening

447
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: becomes the mouth first. This is the case for arthropods

448
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: and mollusks, for example, bugs and snails, and it is

449
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: also true for worms, nematodes, tart grades, flatworms, and a

450
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: whole bunch of other small, strange, squirmy creatures. But hey,

451
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: what happens when you don't have a butt at all? So, Alex,

452
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: on average, how many boots do you think most animals have?

453
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: I really came into this thinking one, just one? Yeah, No, no,

454
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: you're you're right, it's not a trick question. That is

455
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: also off of what you were just saying. I am

456
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: finding myself surprised that, like you know, when you're told

457
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: evolution is real, and it's like, but some people don't

458
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: want to be descended from monkeys, and I'm like, I'm

459
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: so wise to be cool with that. I'm really cool

460
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: with being decended from bunkies. Somehow, I'm much less cool

461
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: with mainly growing from my own butt. I want to

462
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: be grown from my brain or or like a cool

463
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: finger or something something elevated. What's your coolest finger? What's

464
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: your favorite one? I mean classic pointer, right hand, that's

465
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: probably that's probably that's the leader. Yeah, that's the red Ranger,

466
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the head of the team,

467
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: the liddle one, the middle one. Dude, dude. Anyways, Yeah, No,

468
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: it is humbling to realize that we grow, but first,

469
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: isn't it. It's like, okay, yeah, we start out as

470
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: basically we look like a little like a tiny little

471
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: sock with one opening and that one opening is the butt. Uh,

472
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: and then we will form the mouth part later Okay, yeah,

473
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: like a really gross client bottle. Mm hmm. Do people

474
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: know what that is. Anyway, I have no idea what

475
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: you're talking about. It's a mathematical salad that is all

476
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: one thing, but it has an opening at the top. Anyway,

477
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: That's probably the least relatable thing I've ever said. So, so,

478
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: you know, most animals do have a butt because it

479
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: serves a very good purpose, which is, you know, to

480
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: get the waist out. You you put food in one

481
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: end and it comes out the other end. Or even

482
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: if you're a c cucumber like you put into put

483
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: food in the mouth in or the butt end and

484
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: it comes out the butt end. So you know, it's

485
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: it's good to have at least two holes. But sometimes

486
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: you don't. And there is an animal that has zero butts,

487
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: and you're actually much more well acquainted with this animal

488
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: than you probably think you would be. So the Demodex folliculorum,

489
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: which sounds like an alien creature, but you probably have

490
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: them in your circle of friends right now. Um. In fact,

491
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: there's probably quite a few living on you right now. Uh.

492
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: Demodex folliculorum is a microscopic might that lives in your

493
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: eyelashes and hair follicles on your face. Yay, you got

494
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: friends everywhere you go. You got friends wherever you go.

495
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: You just you just hear a really loud trimmor sound

496
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: as I start removing all of my hair in a panic,

497
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: like it's like really close to the bike. No, no,

498
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: not do that. Well, they are teeny tiny and they

499
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: can't be seen with the naked eye. Um, when you

500
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: look at them under a microscope, they look like weird

501
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: stubby worms with arms. I'm sorry to say. They're not

502
00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: the happiest looking microscopic animal. I'm sorry, um, but you know,

503
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: they are mostly harmless, despite their somewhat alarming look and

504
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: the probably unwelcome knowledge that they are on your face.

505
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: Most likely they feed on sebum, which is an oily

506
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: substance produced in your pores, as well as dead skin cells,

507
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: so they they're mostly harmless. They're not like, you know,

508
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: they're not like suck in your blood or anything. They're

509
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: just kind of munching on your sebum. And typically if

510
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: you have an uninhibited immune system, they will cause no

511
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: problems and their numbers are kept in check, but very rarely,

512
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: if you have an immune issue or skin irritation issues,

513
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: they could cause some some skin issues like a rash

514
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: or or skin irritation, so you know, but in most cases,

515
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: and like like the vast vast majority of cases, you

516
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: won't even know that they're on you and they really

517
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: cause no problems. They better keep it that way. Perhaps

518
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: it's like maybe knowledge in this particular instance is not power,

519
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: because knowing they're on your faces, you know, it's it's

520
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: like it takes a little getting used to. I'm sorry

521
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: to uh to you know, make this known. But hey,

522
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: if I have to suffer, you do too. So when

523
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: this is good, because I want to put all my

524
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: parasites on notice, Like we're recording this, we're broadcasting it.

525
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: You're all, you're all taking a warning right now I'm watching. Yeah,

526
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 1: I just learned one of your names. I can probably

527
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: learn the other ones. I won't remember them, but I'll

528
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: write them down and like a little file right out,

529
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: a teeny tiny eviction notice and like stable it to

530
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: your face. Uh they yeah. I mean it's like it's

531
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: a question are they parasites or are they commencelistic because

532
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: they I think that they do technically qualify as parasites

533
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: because they can occasionally cause skin issues, But I think

534
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: in most people it might be considered commence realistic because

535
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: they don't really hurt us, so but they don't benefit

536
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: us either. Um, so they actually spend their whole lives

537
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: on your face. And their life cycle is quite short.

538
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: They live about two weeks. And if you're thinking and

539
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: all of this, like, wait a minute, I don't want

540
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: a bunch of little guys on my face and all

541
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: my eyelashes pooping on me. Well you don't have to

542
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: worry because they don't poop because they can't because they

543
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: do not have a butt. Man to week, I I

544
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: don't want to retake my threat every two weeks. This

545
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: is a real pain. Oh man, forget it. But so no, no,

546
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: but they just if they have no but they just

547
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: die of not being able to poop. Is that is

548
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: that kind of thing? I guess you need a butt

549
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: if you want to live more than like a second time. Yes,

550
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: they only live about two weeks, so their lifespan is

551
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: so short that, yeah, they don't really need the butt.

552
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure whether it's the not having the

553
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: butt that eventually kills them or if it's just like

554
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: old age. I'm sure not having the butt certainly doesn't

555
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: help with their longevity, but they are able to mate

556
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: before they die. And so that's all that matters to

557
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: nature is if you can pass on your weird buttless

558
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: jeans to your offspring. Nature has no standards, no standards.

559
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: Their standard is whether you can do it, and you

560
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: do it, hey, well we'll let you, will let you

561
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: not have a butt if you can do it, if

562
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: you can manage. So they're like, there's another message I

563
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: may broadcast to nature. I started as a butt. Okay,

564
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 1: I'm very on top of checking that box. Don't need

565
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: to keep having me re up my license or whatever

566
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: I started from the bottom. Yeah, that's it's a rags

567
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: to richest story from Yeah, but not these not these

568
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: little little fellas. So, yeah, their lifespan is basically they

569
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: are born on your face, They eat, they reproduce, lay eggs,

570
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: and then die without the need to poop. Uh. And

571
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: unfortunately that doesn't mean we don't get their waste matter

572
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: on our faces because when they die, the poop has

573
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:24,919
Speaker 1: nowhere to go but our face. So you know, I mean,

574
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: maybe it's some comfort that they're not like pooping out

575
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: of their butts. Is that comforting? Or is just like

576
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: little little bean bags full poop that eventually just like

577
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: explode poop on your face. Worse, if you might keep

578
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: pooping on my face, I'm going to throw you in

579
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: a frog as the mob does. Okay, that's the threat.

580
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: We're broadcasting the threat right now. I don't like it

581
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: if you're weirded out by this or like kind of

582
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: freaking out that there's a bunch of things crawling all

583
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: over your face. First of all, I apologize. Second of all,

584
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:03,959
Speaker 1: they're so tiny. They literally are small, like they fit

585
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: inside of like the caverns of your your follicles, your

586
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: hair follicles. So they they like a few of them

587
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: can be on a single hair follicle, and that you

588
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: there's you can't see them. You can't see them. They're

589
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: the little John Cena's of your face. There's no seeing

590
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: them without a microscope. And so you really don't have

591
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: to work, like you don't have to worry, like if

592
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: you're trying to someone's trying to kiss you and they're like,

593
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: oh my god, what's that on your face? It's a bunch,

594
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: you know. They're just they're tiny. I mean, we're we're

595
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: covered in various organisms like bacteria and so on that

596
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: that are all in inside and outside of us. And

597
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: it just so happens that these are animal, little tiny

598
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: animals that live on us. Is that I feel like

599
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: I'm being less, I'm being less and less helpful. Actually No,

600
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: And I love how you always start the show with

601
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: being host of many parasites, because it's just normalizing this

602
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: thing that we should all be fine with. I've been

603
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: joking before about the threats. It's it's whatever they could do,

604
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. I can't stop it, and it's

605
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: probably helping me somehow in the long run. Live and

606
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: let live, even if it's a butt list two week lifespan.

607
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: But I will be back in two weeks to threaten

608
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: them again. But market thank you the new generation. Yes,

609
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: uh well, if you're not a fan of the no

610
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: but lifestyle, maybe I can interest you in a lot

611
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: of butts, like a plentiful butts, a bounty of butts.

612
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: Just imagine that pitch on QBC or whatever late at night,

613
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 1: like I mean, I'm I'm sleepy. I guess I guess

614
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: I'll hear this out for the working person who doesn't

615
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: have time for only one but for easy payments, that

616
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: sounds fine, one payment per but okay, yeah, I don't

617
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: know how many nine and nine. Well, so this story

618
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: is complicated because when I do my research for the show,

619
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: I try really hard to find like original O G

620
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,760
Speaker 1: papers to back up what I'm saying, so that I've

621
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: am not contributing to fake button news. Uh, this is

622
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: one I have not been able to track down the

623
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: original paper, So please take this with a caveat that

624
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: I am still kind of looking into this so um,

625
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 1: you know, just a little grain of salt, grain of

626
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: butt salt and um. But I have seen some rumors

627
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: that there is a species of marine flatworm called the

628
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: gold speckled flatworm or thy Sando's own nigro pal pep

629
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: bilo some mount We'll go with gold speckled flat worm.

630
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: And they're quite beautiful. They are a marine flower. They

631
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: look like a flat, velvety black pancake with gold speccles

632
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: and a white fringe. So really beautiful. They only it's

633
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: sort of like if a clown fish had an alternate jersey.

634
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: It's great, right they look, Yeah, they look they look

635
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: like a piece of underwater fashion, just a floating you

636
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: know how. Uh. And doctor Strange his cape is like

637
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: sentient and flies around and helps him out. This looks

638
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: like a sentient magical cape. Uh yeah, so they they're

639
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: they're they're very mysterious and beautiful. They it's like it's

640
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: like the starry sky, a starry night on on a

641
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: sentient cape. But they're only about three inches big, so

642
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: about eight centimeters a long. Some little guys. So according

643
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 1: to a few articles I've read, and again I couldn't

644
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: find like the original studies or the original descriptions in

645
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: like a journal. So I'm uh worried that this isn't true.

646
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: But I mean I haven't seen anyone like debunk this either.

647
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: So and I think I saw it in like the BBC,

648
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: So it's not like I didn't read this in um,

649
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: like the New York Post or like World News, the

650
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: Amazing bat Boy and Butts but butts, so some reputable

651
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: news sources. But again it's like sometimes uh, you know,

652
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: I just like to double check make sure, um I do.

653
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: I wish it was the New York Post, like the

654
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: Gossip section, specifically like gold speckled flatworm coming out of

655
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: one oak, you know, with with a new person on

656
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: its arm. What's going on there? You know, caught with

657
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: multiple butts at once. They apparently have multiple anuses or

658
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: some sort of multiple anal openings on their backs, which

659
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: is impressive given that actually some species of flatworms don't

660
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: even have a single anus. They just like they have

661
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: a mouth, so they eat through their mouth and then

662
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: they poop through their mouth. So it's you know, just

663
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: like one one hole does it all? Uh um? But yeah,

664
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: so so I the fact that like it, I'm trying

665
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: to rese like why do they have multiple butts and

666
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: and how and what's going on? Like I'm still struggling

667
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 1: to find research on this. So this is my call

668
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: to any flat worm specialist who may have knowledge of

669
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: multiple butts and how this could possibly happen to get

670
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: in touch with me so that maybe we could together

671
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: solve the mystery of the mini butts as as a

672
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: science community solved this mysteries. Please you should you should

673
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: put up the weirdest at least understandable bat signal in

674
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: the sky, like like what is that picture? Oh my god,

675
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: flat worm and a bunch of butts. You're just waiting

676
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: to got a roof with a trench coat like s Gordon,

677
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: like somebody's gonna come. I put it up just doing

678
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: it deep throat style where I'm like in a parking

679
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: garage sliding a briefcase and it's like just just a

680
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: picture of a butt and a question mark. But yeah,

681
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: I will look, I'll keep you up to date if

682
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: I find anything more about the story about the story

683
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: of the mini butts, the mystery Nancy Drew and the

684
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: mystery of the mini butts. I mean, look, I don't

685
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: I don't think this will be a thing I need

686
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: to consider. But of all the things we've discussed, I

687
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: would consider the multibut situation. I don't know. Maybe it

688
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: makes poopin easier and stuff, right, Like maybe that's maybe

689
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: that's like the the advantage, right, like you can process

690
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: more waste or something. I really why this is so

691
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: interesting to me is, as far as I know, there

692
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: aren't really there aren't cases of multiple butts because it

693
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: just doesn't offer that many benefits, Like you just have

694
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: one system, you push it out that system, and hey,

695
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: you're done, and so like, if this is actually true,

696
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: it would be really interesting from you know, an evolutionary perspective,

697
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: which is why like part of me is like scared

698
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: that it's not true, because this would be like the

699
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: Unicorn of butts, and I need to know, I need

700
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:25,240
Speaker 1: some verification. But there is one that I was able

701
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: to verify that it's still super interesting when it comes

702
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: to butts, and that is the comb jelly. The comb

703
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: jelly has the best of both worlds. They only sprout

704
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: a butt when they need it. So Alex, I remember,

705
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: I think we're talking earlier and you were mentioning that

706
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: you have a slight um a slight aversion to like

707
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: jellyfish and so on. But I think comb jellies you

708
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: might like because they are just like little like light

709
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:59,720
Speaker 1: up balloons. They um are a phylum of colorful, translucent

710
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: blue like marine animals. They are not actually related to

711
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: jellyfish that closely. Even though they look sort of jellyfish like,

712
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: they don't really have like tentacles like jellyfish do. They

713
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: have these like iridescent strobe effects on their sides uh

714
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're bioluminescent even because like as they're silia,

715
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: which are these like little tiny mobile hairs on their

716
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: sides like move and allows them to move through the

717
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: water that causes light to refract, so it looks like

718
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: they have these like uh light this light show going

719
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: off their their back of like lights just kind of

720
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: shining and going in sort of a wave effect all

721
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: around their sides. It's really beautiful. And in addition to

722
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: being pretty, when they've got a poop, they just open

723
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: up a brand new butt hole every time. Oh so

724
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: it's just like it's just like I could use a

725
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: butthole here, right, that's pretty, that's pretty exciting. Yeah. Yeah,

726
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: I like that. It's like, you know, new day new.

727
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: But so basically it's like if that T one thousand

728
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: and the Terminator movies was also just kind of casually

729
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: doing bodily functions as it as it remorphs and stuff. Great,

730
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: right exactly, No, precisely. Basically, their digestive organ will fill

731
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: up and then when the waste of cruise it is

732
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: expelled through a new anal pore that just pops open.

733
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: So this is life. Yeah, that is the life. You know,

734
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: no need to no need to worry about like hygiene

735
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: and stuff, just new but just get a new butt

736
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: every time, just like these I'm imagining these jellies is

737
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: like a couple at dinner and it's like we haven't

738
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: done a new butt in a long time. Do you

739
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: want a but this weekend? Yeah? I feel like we're

740
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: we're in a rut of the same butt and a

741
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: butt rut. We need a new butt. So this is

742
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: the first transient anus ever discovered, which, yeah, hey, congratulations scientists.

743
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: It's a it's an auspicious discovery because because so much

744
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: of science it's like, oh, I have I have plumbed

745
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: the depths of the sea or the wonders of the stars,

746
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: And this one is you get to write the phrase

747
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: transientanus over and over again in the journal that I have.

748
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: I have discovered a new kind of bear, like that

749
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: was back with science, like you know, of hundred years ago,

750
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: when we still hadn't like discovered all the species or

751
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 1: and or killed them all, and now like we're out like, well,

752
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 1: I've found a type of transient butth hole. It's a

753
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: phantom butt hole. It must have been like legitimately hard

754
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,919
Speaker 1: to discover or spot because it comes and goes right.

755
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: That's amazing, that's cool. They found one of these guys

756
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: and they created a butt hole, and then they realized

757
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: the boat hole has gone. They're like, wait a minute,

758
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: Nancy Drew and the mystery of the missing butt hole,

759
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 1: or maybe I should use Encyclopedia Brown. I don't know

760
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: either way. The town police like, do step hit on

761
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,720
Speaker 1: that case, Like, no, you are too young. I'm sorry,

762
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: we we are. We'll have the real police look for it.

763
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: You don't have a degree and but biology, I don't

764
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: think so, little missy. We'll take it from here. And

765
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: then the FBI steps in the Federal Butt Inspectors and

766
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: they're like, no, will take it from here. Every member

767
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: of the Federal but Inspectors bought one of the T

768
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: shirts at the beach and did not know it was

769
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: a legally binding contract to work for it. And then

770
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: the CIA steps in, the the the Colon Investigation A

771
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: and see and they're like, no, we'll take it from here,

772
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: and so on until you run out of butt puns

773
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: with acronyms. So yeah, I mean I think it's uh,

774
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: it's it appears that the rules to having a butt

775
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: are much more flexible than one would think. Yeah, that's

776
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: that's like you just think of a butt as being

777
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: so fixed, and like, especially this this flat worm that

778
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: has many many butts. There's got that means allegedly legally,

779
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm multa say, allegedly has not been proven in a

780
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: court of law. How many butts the flatworm has they

781
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: have many butts and even more lawyers. We gotta be careful,

782
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: we gotta look out. I thought you knew butts, but

783
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: you didn't know but and but now you do. Now

784
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: you know a little more about the wonderful world of buts.

785
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: And thank you so much for for coming with me

786
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: on this. On this journey, you discover more about butts

787
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: the science. But you know, I think you know. I

788
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 1: think it's educational. I really know it, Katie. It's always

789
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: a treat, and this this was like really fundamentally amazing.

790
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: I'd really be like, I just didn't think it was

791
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: that much for right, Like I thought it would be

792
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: funny looking butts or something there was, but there was

793
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: so much like fundamental systems of nature and of existing

794
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: as an animal that can be different, really exciting. Yeah, no, exactly. Uh,

795
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot to be discovered if you let

796
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Speaker 1: go of your hang up of not talking about butts.

797
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Speaker 1: So tell the people where they can find you, and

798
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Speaker 1: hopefully not inside of se cucumber. But now it's book

799
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Speaker 1: this weekend. They got it. So I'll be here now

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