Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology
Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and I'd like to get creative. Do
Speaker 1: you like to get creative? Well, I think it's time
Speaker 1: to think outside the butt. That's right, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the biggest dare devils when it comes to dairy ears,
Speaker 1: the pop stars of posteriors, the analysts of well, you know,
Speaker 1: how do you survive a trip through a frog? What
Speaker 1: are some unconventional uses for a sea cucumber? And do
Speaker 1: you really need a butt to discover this? More? As
Speaker 1: we answer to the angel question. Are comb Jellies the
Speaker 1: best at improv joining me today to talk about animal
Speaker 1: Heinie's is friend of the pod, host of Secretly incredibly
Speaker 1: fascinating and probably too bolight of a person for this topic,
Speaker 1: Alex Schmitt, Katie, it's great to be here. I'm not
Speaker 1: dupil it at all. I'm very excited to talk about
Speaker 1: what we all have. Everybody grow up, we all have butts.
Speaker 1: Let's just let's just get into them, or do we? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: I have spoken too soon. The edible kigdomes are basing well,
Speaker 1: we will talk about that later, but for now, let's
Speaker 1: talk about some some but daredevils. I think I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that at some point on your secretly incredibly fascinating show,
Speaker 1: which is an amazing show. I've been a guest on
Speaker 1: it before, that you will talk about you know, but
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's a good idea. It is many
Speaker 1: Many of the topics for the episodes are things that
Speaker 1: maybe people don't think about all the time, and perhaps
Speaker 1: humans thinking about each other's butts is common enough that
Speaker 1: I can't but I'll think about it. It might be workable.
Speaker 1: No no pressure there. I do remember that when we
Speaker 1: were talking about we were talking about cows and cattle
Speaker 1: on podcast, and we did talk about cow farts. So
Speaker 1: I think in any topic basically in the world, you
Speaker 1: do have to talk about some stuff regarding regarding the bottom.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it is, it's it's It's almost the
Speaker 1: kind of thing where people are like, oh, I'm in
Speaker 1: mixed company or among children or whatever, I can't talk
Speaker 1: about butts, and then we skip over all this stuff
Speaker 1: that I assume we'll get into in this show. That's
Speaker 1: amazing about butts. It's it's in look it's funny. Butts
Speaker 1: are funny. I will be the first to admit it.
Speaker 1: It's funny. It's okay to laugh during this episode. But
Speaker 1: I think it's also because it's seen as like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's potty humor, or you know, that's that's kind of inappropriate.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff that doesn't get taught to
Speaker 1: kids in school regarding butts, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: evolutionary biology, and I think that there's a lot that
Speaker 1: you miss out on in terms of how fascinating it is.
Speaker 1: Uh So, yes, I am excited to go on this
Speaker 1: journey of checking out literally butts and what happens with those.
Speaker 1: The first darier adventure that I want to go on
Speaker 1: is what it's like to escape a frog. So I
Speaker 1: want to talk about imagine you're inside a frog. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not the most ideal of circumstances, right, you
Speaker 1: want to get out of it. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but you know you're in a frog. You want to
Speaker 1: get out of the frog? Yeah, not not ideal circumstances.
Speaker 1: That's probably in the bottom twenty of days I've had
Speaker 1: being stuck inside a frog. Maybe bot I'm going to
Speaker 1: be that bold yeah, that's I mean, a bold statement,
Speaker 1: but I'll take it. And there's basically you have two choices, right,
Speaker 1: There's there's two ends of the frog, two openings that
Speaker 1: you can take um uh. And some insects will try
Speaker 1: to take the mouth, but one plucky little beetle has
Speaker 1: been discovered to take the rear exit. Now, this is
Speaker 1: called the regan barsha a tenuata, also known as the
Speaker 1: water scavenger beetle. It is a tiny, black, iridescent aquatic beetle.
Speaker 1: It's it's very small. It can fit on the tip
Speaker 1: of your pinkie uh. And they are found in Japan
Speaker 1: in marsh areas and patty fields, and they are often
Speaker 1: eaten by frogs. So one of their predators is the
Speaker 1: dark spotted frog, which they're they're also pretty small. Frogs
Speaker 1: are about two inches or about seventy millimeters. They're they're
Speaker 1: like these little green brown frogs. But when one of
Speaker 1: these frogs eats these beetles, the that's not that's not
Speaker 1: game over for the beetle. He's just getting started. So
Speaker 1: so after being ingested by the frog, the beetle manages
Speaker 1: to escape out of the back hatch. That's right, The butt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is is this like the Beatles main defense
Speaker 1: against this predator is just just I won't I can't
Speaker 1: run away from it. It will definitely eat me, and
Speaker 1: then I will depart instead of getting digested. I think
Speaker 1: number one is trying not to get eaten in the
Speaker 1: first place and try to avoid it. But if they
Speaker 1: do get eaten, they have Plan B, which stands for
Speaker 1: a plan but which means go out the butt. So lucky,
Speaker 1: lucky for all humanity. This phenomenon has been captured on video,
Speaker 1: which I will include in the show notes, and I
Speaker 1: have sent to you Alex for you to view. Basically,
Speaker 1: you see a frog and it eats a beetle a
Speaker 1: little and then you're like, all right, well that's that's
Speaker 1: a common enough story. And then just about like a
Speaker 1: few minutes later and the time is sped up in
Speaker 1: the video, you see the beetle just come out, fully intact,
Speaker 1: out of the out of the butt and walk away. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is I'm trying to remember how that Inside the
Speaker 1: Human Body Magic School Bus episode went, like if they
Speaker 1: went out the butt at the end. This is basically
Speaker 1: that this is this bug is misfrizzled exactly the bug
Speaker 1: is is the magic school bus and it's full of
Speaker 1: full of tiny microscopic sized children. Never did this at
Speaker 1: my old insect that I lived in. So the beetle
Speaker 1: can escape the dark spotted frog's digestive tract in as
Speaker 1: little as six minutes, which is much shorter than the
Speaker 1: sometimes days it takes for a frog to fully digest
Speaker 1: and poop out food. So it's not just kind of
Speaker 1: riding the lazy river down the frog's digestive tract. It
Speaker 1: is taking a fast track exit right out as quickly
Speaker 1: as it can. That's yes, and they can repeat this
Speaker 1: hoodini but routine with other frog species as well, but
Speaker 1: depending on the frog, it can take them up to
Speaker 1: six hours, like depending on how big the frog is.
Speaker 1: But still they typically survived the ordeal and Um researchers
Speaker 1: wanted to see how they do this and in order
Speaker 1: to discover what they are actually doing inside of the frog.
Speaker 1: They do what researchers often to which is be incredibly
Speaker 1: mean to bugs. So since they suspected that the water
Speaker 1: scavendre beetles use their legs to crawl out of the frog,
Speaker 1: they didn't experiment where they immobilize the beetles legs with wax,
Speaker 1: and voila, the beetles that had their little legs immobilized
Speaker 1: with wax did get digested by the frog. So it
Speaker 1: turns out it is they are actually physically crawling through
Speaker 1: the frog to get out. And it's also funny because
Speaker 1: I think like this is probably how the beetle mob operates.
Speaker 1: Like they put your little beetle legs in in wax
Speaker 1: like or instrument and then just TOSSI and the frog
Speaker 1: right the frog is that weird part of the Hudson
Speaker 1: River or New Jersey. Yeah, yeah, So the theory is
Speaker 1: that they climb their way through the digestive tract and
Speaker 1: then tickle the sphincter until it opens. So if you
Speaker 1: don't know, the sphincter is this sort of like scrunchy
Speaker 1: like muscle that resides right at the butt, and that
Speaker 1: is how you sort of control the butt opening or closing,
Speaker 1: which you know, it's like yeah, yeah, it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the for this beetle, it's the
Speaker 1: little revolving door of of butts, well, not revolving. I
Speaker 1: don't think it goes back in. Actually, it's never mind
Speaker 1: about that. It's like it's you know those like action
Speaker 1: movie doors in a facility where you have to put
Speaker 1: somebody's hands on a thinking and then it reads the hand.
Speaker 1: It's like that, but for tickling, Like there's a there's
Speaker 1: a pad next to the door, and if you tickle
Speaker 1: it right, you can exit the facility. There's a little
Speaker 1: keypad and and well a little eyeball scanner has to
Speaker 1: go through to exit the frog. Exactly. I love I
Speaker 1: love like a keypad where the code is tickling, because
Speaker 1: then you have to know the code is like couchichi,
Speaker 1: COUCHI or whatever whatever tickle noise is your choice as
Speaker 1: the facility right code accepted. Ha ha ha he he
Speaker 1: he he yes, I think that. Um. The reason it
Speaker 1: probably works is that probably that triggers the frog's pooping reflex,
Speaker 1: like oh I got a poop, but no, the poop
Speaker 1: is a beetle escaping and then it tumbles out and
Speaker 1: I imagine does a very tiny it goes all it
Speaker 1: goes along way. I'm I'm just because I'm so thrilled
Speaker 1: to learn that this is an active decision and maneuver
Speaker 1: by the bug. Because because this just let it poop,
Speaker 1: you back out could totally be a passive, lazy maneuver
Speaker 1: by by insect. Right, but this is that like six
Speaker 1: minutes just sprinting out of that Like the frog must
Speaker 1: immediately know the mistake it's made, right, Like if my
Speaker 1: food started sprinting inside of me, I'd be pretty sure
Speaker 1: something's wrong fast. That beetle is not sitting well. In fact,
Speaker 1: I don't believe it it's sitting at all. Right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean my first thought about this is like, wait,
Speaker 1: why don't all beetles do this, because it seems like
Speaker 1: a cheek coat to get out of a frog? You
Speaker 1: just sprint out of the frog. Yeah. And while there's
Speaker 1: more research that's needed on this topic, it seems that
Speaker 1: the main thing, the main reason most beetles don't do this,
Speaker 1: is that frog gets have very strong digestive acids so
Speaker 1: that they can digest through hard exoskeletons that bugs have.
Speaker 1: So normally you just get acidified and dissolved pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: so you're not going to be able to survive inside
Speaker 1: of a frog. But these beetles, the water scavenger beetles
Speaker 1: that we've been talking about, seemed to have some extra
Speaker 1: resistance to the powerful digestive acids in the frog's guts
Speaker 1: that allow them to keep moving unscathed. And so why
Speaker 1: or how they're able to do this, I believe is
Speaker 1: still being researched. But I just love that how many
Speaker 1: avenues of research has opened up by like one observation of, oh, oh, this,
Speaker 1: this beetle just escaped out of the frog's butt, because
Speaker 1: when researchers, they were curious because it seemed like a
Speaker 1: lot of these beetles lived around the same areas that
Speaker 1: frogs were, and so they figured they must have some
Speaker 1: kind of defense technique when faced with the frogs. They
Speaker 1: were just completely surprised to find out exactly what that was. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That I also, I gotta say, just because of the topic,
Speaker 1: the few times you said digestive acids, I really heard
Speaker 1: it as digestive asses. I really heard that the frogs
Speaker 1: have powerful digestive asses, and I believed it. But but
Speaker 1: apparently not powerful enough to defeat these bugs. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a couple of animals later on
Speaker 1: who do sometimes eat with their butts occasionally. Okay, so
Speaker 1: not not. This is just such a fundamental flipping of
Speaker 1: what I understand nature to be, right, Like there's that
Speaker 1: super basic drawing you see when you're learning what the
Speaker 1: food train is, where a smaller fish gets eaten by
Speaker 1: a bigger fish, by a bigger fish by bigger fish,
Speaker 1: like like once something eats you, that's supposed to be
Speaker 1: game over. That's supposed to be like like the clock
Speaker 1: has wrought out this course on the board, it's done.
Speaker 1: But no, they're just getting out of the butt or
Speaker 1: using the butt to start the process. Amazing, this is great.
Speaker 1: I mean, much like the digestive tract itself. I believe
Speaker 1: that this episode has a lot of twists and turns
Speaker 1: when it comes to how one would imagine a butt
Speaker 1: is how it can or should be used. So yes,
Speaker 1: oh boy, do I have stories to tell you. Not
Speaker 1: all beetles use the back door for escaping a frog.
Speaker 1: Some of the more dignified insects in the world like
Speaker 1: to use the grand front entrance. The bombardier beetle doesn't
Speaker 1: really like being a guest inside shave frog, so if
Speaker 1: eaten by Mr Kermit, the bombar deer beetle will force
Speaker 1: the frog to throw him back up by releasing a
Speaker 1: stream of toxic boiling chemicals. And where does the bombardier
Speaker 1: beetles shoot its shot for um it's but of course
Speaker 1: it always comes back to the butt when we return.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the most interesting uses for
Speaker 1: a sea cucumber. Did you know that ce cucumbers are brainless?
Speaker 1: I'm not insulting them. They literally have no brain. Instead,
Speaker 1: they have a bundle of nerves near its mouth, and
Speaker 1: nerves that run down through its digestive system. It also
Speaker 1: has a variety of nerve endings on its skin that
Speaker 1: seemed to help it respond to touch and light. But
Speaker 1: as we'll soon find out, the lack of a real
Speaker 1: brain maybe a merciful stroke of luck for the sea cucumber. So, Alex,
Speaker 1: are you ready to talk about se cucumbers and what
Speaker 1: a tragic life they sometimes lead? Katie, I am as
Speaker 1: ready as I think I will ever be. I have
Speaker 1: a I have a general phobia of the animals that
Speaker 1: are like creepy crawley and on the sea bottom, like
Speaker 1: anemones and stuff. And then also jellyfish get lumped in
Speaker 1: it even though they float. But yeah, these these really
Speaker 1: spook me. I'm totally ready to talk about them, but
Speaker 1: I feel their brainlessness and the and their whole deal
Speaker 1: is another reason people should find them freaky. Don't like it, well,
Speaker 1: I think by the end of this you'll feel some
Speaker 1: some sympathy for them. Um. First of all, like what
Speaker 1: I mean, they have butts, so they're not that different
Speaker 1: from me. But like we're talking about before, sea cucumbers
Speaker 1: occasionally use their butts as a second mouth, so they
Speaker 1: will often scoop in sediment and the like sandy sediment
Speaker 1: goes in through their mouth and then they poop it
Speaker 1: out as clean sand because they are extracting all of
Speaker 1: the nutrients from the sediment and fish poop, etcetera. But
Speaker 1: they will sometimes use their butt to to scoop stuff up.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's really interesting. But that's not why we're
Speaker 1: talking about the c cucumber today. The reason is because
Speaker 1: of an interesting little fish called a pearl fish, and
Speaker 1: pearl fish like to play the ultimate game of hide
Speaker 1: and go seek. So pearl fish are a family of
Speaker 1: little eel like fish found in tropical ocean waters. They're
Speaker 1: often either dark brown, black, or translucent. They like to
Speaker 1: make their homes and the crevices found on other animals bodies,
Speaker 1: so they like to be inside bivalves like clams, Uh,
Speaker 1: they sometimes find their way inside of a starfish. Just
Speaker 1: get right in there, um, right in that hole in
Speaker 1: that starfish. Or sometimes they are found in sea squirts.
Speaker 1: Sea squirts are tuniquets, who are They look sort of
Speaker 1: just like these colorful tubes. So typically this is a
Speaker 1: commencelistic relationship. So it means that the pearl fish is
Speaker 1: the only one who benefits. But it is not harming
Speaker 1: the animal that it is living inside, So it's not parasitic. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not mutualistic. They're offering no benefit to their host,
Speaker 1: but only they are benefiting from this relationship. But sometimes
Speaker 1: the pearl fish likes to play dirty and des and
Speaker 1: decides to take up residents inside of a c cucumbers.
Speaker 1: But so the c cucumber is a relatively simple animal.
Speaker 1: They are kindoderms related to starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars,
Speaker 1: et cetera. They're basically a tube. They're just a tube anel,
Speaker 1: they have a mouth, they have an anus, and they
Speaker 1: have a few internal organs such as go nuts for reproduction.
Speaker 1: And so pearl fish will see the c cucumbers but
Speaker 1: and think, hey, that looks like a nice place to live.
Speaker 1: Have you ever just been on the market. You know,
Speaker 1: rental apartmitmentals are just so uf And honestly, if I'm
Speaker 1: on like you know, looking for a rental, what with
Speaker 1: the cost of living and everything, if someone was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can get a great deal on a c cucumber,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe I'll do it. Does it come with WiFi?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do it. Look, if it comes up on
Speaker 1: the Zello map, you're gonna at least like click right.
Speaker 1: You might close the tab right away. You might say no, thanks,
Speaker 1: but you gotta check it out. I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to consider it. I mean, have you seen the prices
Speaker 1: of rentals in l A. I'm going to consider it
Speaker 1: pretty bad. Yeah. I also, I had never heard of
Speaker 1: a pearl fish, and I have pictures of it here
Speaker 1: that you've nicely said. But also the name. You would
Speaker 1: think it's some sort of undersea princess, like a pearl fish,
Speaker 1: and then it's doing this like impossibly to my human morals,
Speaker 1: disgusting behavior, amazing, really great, right right, You'd think, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful fish, and it's like, Nope, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: live in side up, but ho this fish. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like Bart Simpson's first girlfriend who's love Joy's daughter.
Speaker 1: But it's secretly evil. Right, it's like that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: It's great. I love that is that. I love that.
Speaker 1: This is how we are the describing the pearl fish
Speaker 1: is Reverend love Joy's daughter who's secretly evil. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's true. It really is true. So and Bart is
Speaker 1: not being harmed necessarily, but he's not benefiting. He's getting
Speaker 1: he's getting accused of stealing from the connection collection plate
Speaker 1: and everything. Well, well we're going to talk about whether
Speaker 1: the sea cucumbers fair okay with his relationship. Pearl fish
Speaker 1: will see the sea cucumbers anus and go right in there.
Speaker 1: They will wriggle their way into the sea cucumbers, but
Speaker 1: both taking refuge inside their intestinal tract. And also they
Speaker 1: will eat the cucumbers gonads. So when in Rome, I
Speaker 1: guess eat Rome's reproductive organs is the pearl fishes philosophy.
Speaker 1: Fact that they do do nibble on the gonads does
Speaker 1: make the pearl fish a parasite of the c cucumber
Speaker 1: because they are doing doing a harm to the c
Speaker 1: cucumber by eating those conuts. That's a that's a no, no,
Speaker 1: that's a bit of a no, No, this is a
Speaker 1: slight digression, but I just put out a secretly incredibly
Speaker 1: fascinating all about concrete. So I've been reading about the
Speaker 1: actual main drain for the water system in ancient Rome,
Speaker 1: and it was called the Kloaca maxima. I believe that's
Speaker 1: where we get the word cloaca an I love it. Clock,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think, means like one hole. And
Speaker 1: that's why in birds and reptiles the cloe it's called
Speaker 1: the cloak of because it is the one hole that
Speaker 1: does it all. They poop out of the key, out
Speaker 1: of it, and they reproduce out of it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that that would make sense, but it does. It doesn't
Speaker 1: make me think like when in Rome have a giant
Speaker 1: birds butt hole handle your your public infrastructure. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it is puzzling why pearl fish would do this because
Speaker 1: the inside of the sea cucumber is actually quite toxic,
Speaker 1: which is a way for them to ward off predators
Speaker 1: and uninvited butt guests. But the pearl fish copes with
Speaker 1: this toxic environment with an extra thick layer of mucus
Speaker 1: on their skin that protects them. So they're just these
Speaker 1: little regularly mucous colored eels that like to live in
Speaker 1: a butt, really attractive creature. A lot to speak highly
Speaker 1: of them. I mean, it's it's always that thing. Nature
Speaker 1: is just going to do what it does, and we
Speaker 1: find it gross, and we find it reprehensible that they're
Speaker 1: being Reverend love Joy's daughter. But it's just the way
Speaker 1: it is. And and I don't know, maybe maybe where
Speaker 1: I live there, like you a bunch of drywall and concrete.
Speaker 1: Where's their body not? Gross? Ye? They're so not covered
Speaker 1: in snot? That's gross? Yeah, I mean, what are we
Speaker 1: to judge a creature that is covered in snot and
Speaker 1: lives inside of a butt? Can we really say? Like,
Speaker 1: who's the real Who's the real? Snot covered eel like
Speaker 1: fish living inside of a butt? The pearl fish or us?
Speaker 1: So usually there's only one pearl fish per se cucumber,
Speaker 1: but occasionally groups as large as fifteen will be found
Speaker 1: in one unfortunate sea cucumber. It maybe due to some
Speaker 1: kind of threat forcing them all to shelter, shelter in
Speaker 1: place inside of a sea cucumber. It had better be.
Speaker 1: It better be a threat. If I'm a c cucumber
Speaker 1: and all fifteen of you're in here, there'd better be
Speaker 1: a house on fire, you know what I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: that's okay. Another theory is that they are congregating to mate,
Speaker 1: so get rude. I think that's a little rude, you know,
Speaker 1: coming in uninvited and then also having like a swinger party.
Speaker 1: It seems rude to me. And then you're like certain,
Speaker 1: you're like put your keys in the bowl and please
Speaker 1: help yourself to see cucumber gonds. So the poor c
Speaker 1: cucumber is left with little defense against the pearl fish.
Speaker 1: They can't actually like shut their butts, like close the
Speaker 1: door on these pearl fish because they actually breathe through
Speaker 1: their anus. So it's you know, they've got to let
Speaker 1: the pearl fish come in at some point, you know. Fortunately, again,
Speaker 1: c cucumbers don't really have a brain, so I would
Speaker 1: say it probably doesn't have much of a experience of like,
Speaker 1: oh no, there's a fish in my butt. True. True. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's basically it's it's basically an Airbnb. The people have
Speaker 1: figured out they can do this stuff with B and
Speaker 1: B and Airbnb takes on all like all the all
Speaker 1: the reviews on the page have like really subtle euphemisms
Speaker 1: for an orgy, and then other people looking at it,
Speaker 1: just figure it out. It's one of these I guess
Speaker 1: I would imagine I haven't done that. Ah man, it's
Speaker 1: just there. It's so nature is so creatively perverse. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: not only are we going to have these fish live
Speaker 1: inside of c cucumber butts and happily feast upon their gonuds,
Speaker 1: but then hey, why not have a fish orgy in here?
Speaker 1: Look like we've already passed the moral rubicon when it
Speaker 1: comes to like being inside. But I feel it's almost
Speaker 1: it'd be weirder to me if the fish were just
Speaker 1: not doing anything interesting inside of it, just like knitting,
Speaker 1: doing some like cross stitching inside, you know, reading Little
Speaker 1: Home on the Prairie inside of your your c cucumber.
Speaker 1: But that would be that would almost be creepier. That
Speaker 1: would be more disconcerting, right, Like they used the butt
Speaker 1: to listen to public radio. Okay, well that's weird. Now
Speaker 1: I'm creeped out. We have a caller from a c
Speaker 1: cucumbers but who would like to complain about the cursing? Yeah, caller,
Speaker 1: what's your name? Well, Carl, Emily, we got robbed. Who
Speaker 1: else is here? Aaron Erin's here? Uh, it's like a
Speaker 1: clown car. It really is like a clown car, just
Speaker 1: and it's funny. The reason that we know so many
Speaker 1: pearl fish can fit ins out of cucumber is someone
Speaker 1: caught a c cucumber and a bunch of pearl fish
Speaker 1: came out of it, which has to be shocking. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like if you're handling and dealing with c cucumbers,
Speaker 1: you're used to at least a little bit of weird,
Speaker 1: but to have that much weird, Like I feel like
Speaker 1: if it was one fish coming out of the c
Speaker 1: cucumber normal day, you're like, all right, sure fifteen, that
Speaker 1: would make me question my reality, right, Like there's a
Speaker 1: it's like those YouTube videos where they teach you to
Speaker 1: pull scarves out of your mouth like a magician. It's
Speaker 1: like who who is doing the right? And then they
Speaker 1: go and they go back in the c cucumber as
Speaker 1: the finale, and the c cucumber turns into a rabbit
Speaker 1: or a sea hair God, the joke was right there
Speaker 1: and I missed it, which is actually a type of
Speaker 1: sea slug that has little They have these rhiniforms which
Speaker 1: are they look like bunny ears, but they are not
Speaker 1: there sensory organs we talked about on the show earlier.
Speaker 1: There's a on other episodes. But yeah, see hair. There
Speaker 1: you go and see bunny. Those are cute if you
Speaker 1: want to have a good day, If you want to
Speaker 1: have a good day, here's my advice. Google sea bunny.
Speaker 1: It's very cute. It's a little are tiny new to
Speaker 1: brinks who have They look like they have a little
Speaker 1: bunny tail and little bunny ears and their ears are
Speaker 1: actually like sensory organs, and their tails are they're branching lungs.
Speaker 1: It's really cute. Wow, Okay, this is this is a
Speaker 1: new cartoon that can be made like sea bugs Bunny,
Speaker 1: Sea bugs Bunny, Yeah saying saying what's up Doc? And
Speaker 1: then just getting eaten by a shark em fund with
Speaker 1: a spear gun. But it blows up in his own
Speaker 1: face somehow. I don't how a spear would blow up,
Speaker 1: but he'd find a way. If the pearl fish looks
Speaker 1: nothing like a pearl, can you guess why they're called
Speaker 1: pearl fish? It's likely because the person who discovered them
Speaker 1: found them in an oyster or other bivalve and thought, hey,
Speaker 1: who does this fish think? It is a pearl. When
Speaker 1: we return, we're going to get back to the important
Speaker 1: business of talking about butts, namely, how many of them
Speaker 1: should you have? Having a butt is one of the
Speaker 1: most important parts of our development. When we start out
Speaker 1: as blast assists and then embryos, we developed but first
Speaker 1: we're deuterous domes. As we developed from a cluster of cells,
Speaker 1: the first opening, called the blast o pour becomes the anus.
Speaker 1: This is a fun fact we share with all other chordates,
Speaker 1: which are animals with a nerve cord, as well as
Speaker 1: with the chinoderms, which includes star fish, sea urchins, etcetera,
Speaker 1: and a handful of little worm like animals. The opposite
Speaker 1: is true of protostomes, who's blasted for that first opening
Speaker 1: becomes the mouth first. This is the case for arthropods
Speaker 1: and mollusks, for example, bugs and snails, and it is
Speaker 1: also true for worms, nematodes, tart grades, flatworms, and a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of other small, strange, squirmy creatures. But hey,
Speaker 1: what happens when you don't have a butt at all? So, Alex,
Speaker 1: on average, how many boots do you think most animals have?
Speaker 1: I really came into this thinking one, just one? Yeah, No, no,
Speaker 1: you're you're right, it's not a trick question. That is
Speaker 1: also off of what you were just saying. I am
Speaker 1: finding myself surprised that, like you know, when you're told
Speaker 1: evolution is real, and it's like, but some people don't
Speaker 1: want to be descended from monkeys, and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: so wise to be cool with that. I'm really cool
Speaker 1: with being decended from bunkies. Somehow, I'm much less cool
Speaker 1: with mainly growing from my own butt. I want to
Speaker 1: be grown from my brain or or like a cool
Speaker 1: finger or something something elevated. What's your coolest finger? What's
Speaker 1: your favorite one? I mean classic pointer, right hand, that's
Speaker 1: probably that's probably that's the leader. Yeah, that's the red Ranger,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the head of the team,
Speaker 1: the liddle one, the middle one. Dude, dude. Anyways, Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it is humbling to realize that we grow, but first,
Speaker 1: isn't it. It's like, okay, yeah, we start out as
Speaker 1: basically we look like a little like a tiny little
Speaker 1: sock with one opening and that one opening is the butt. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then we will form the mouth part later Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a really gross client bottle. Mm hmm. Do people
Speaker 1: know what that is. Anyway, I have no idea what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. It's a mathematical salad that is all
Speaker 1: one thing, but it has an opening at the top. Anyway,
Speaker 1: That's probably the least relatable thing I've ever said. So, so,
Speaker 1: you know, most animals do have a butt because it
Speaker 1: serves a very good purpose, which is, you know, to
Speaker 1: get the waist out. You you put food in one
Speaker 1: end and it comes out the other end. Or even
Speaker 1: if you're a c cucumber like you put into put
Speaker 1: food in the mouth in or the butt end and
Speaker 1: it comes out the butt end. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's good to have at least two holes. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't. And there is an animal that has zero butts,
Speaker 1: and you're actually much more well acquainted with this animal
Speaker 1: than you probably think you would be. So the Demodex folliculorum,
Speaker 1: which sounds like an alien creature, but you probably have
Speaker 1: them in your circle of friends right now. Um. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's probably quite a few living on you right now. Uh.
Speaker 1: Demodex folliculorum is a microscopic might that lives in your
Speaker 1: eyelashes and hair follicles on your face. Yay, you got
Speaker 1: friends everywhere you go. You got friends wherever you go.
Speaker 1: You just you just hear a really loud trimmor sound
Speaker 1: as I start removing all of my hair in a panic,
Speaker 1: like it's like really close to the bike. No, no,
Speaker 1: not do that. Well, they are teeny tiny and they
Speaker 1: can't be seen with the naked eye. Um, when you
Speaker 1: look at them under a microscope, they look like weird
Speaker 1: stubby worms with arms. I'm sorry to say. They're not
Speaker 1: the happiest looking microscopic animal. I'm sorry, um, but you know,
Speaker 1: they are mostly harmless, despite their somewhat alarming look and
Speaker 1: the probably unwelcome knowledge that they are on your face.
Speaker 1: Most likely they feed on sebum, which is an oily
Speaker 1: substance produced in your pores, as well as dead skin cells,
Speaker 1: so they they're mostly harmless. They're not like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not like suck in your blood or anything. They're
Speaker 1: just kind of munching on your sebum. And typically if
Speaker 1: you have an uninhibited immune system, they will cause no
Speaker 1: problems and their numbers are kept in check, but very rarely,
Speaker 1: if you have an immune issue or skin irritation issues,
Speaker 1: they could cause some some skin issues like a rash
Speaker 1: or or skin irritation, so you know, but in most cases,
Speaker 1: and like like the vast vast majority of cases, you
Speaker 1: won't even know that they're on you and they really
Speaker 1: cause no problems. They better keep it that way. Perhaps
Speaker 1: it's like maybe knowledge in this particular instance is not power,
Speaker 1: because knowing they're on your faces, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: like it takes a little getting used to. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to uh to you know, make this known. But hey,
Speaker 1: if I have to suffer, you do too. So when
Speaker 1: this is good, because I want to put all my
Speaker 1: parasites on notice, Like we're recording this, we're broadcasting it.
Speaker 1: You're all, you're all taking a warning right now I'm watching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just learned one of your names. I can probably
Speaker 1: learn the other ones. I won't remember them, but I'll
Speaker 1: write them down and like a little file right out,
Speaker 1: a teeny tiny eviction notice and like stable it to
Speaker 1: your face. Uh they yeah. I mean it's like it's
Speaker 1: a question are they parasites or are they commencelistic because
Speaker 1: they I think that they do technically qualify as parasites
Speaker 1: because they can occasionally cause skin issues, But I think
Speaker 1: in most people it might be considered commence realistic because
Speaker 1: they don't really hurt us, so but they don't benefit
Speaker 1: us either. Um, so they actually spend their whole lives
Speaker 1: on your face. And their life cycle is quite short.
Speaker 1: They live about two weeks. And if you're thinking and
Speaker 1: all of this, like, wait a minute, I don't want
Speaker 1: a bunch of little guys on my face and all
Speaker 1: my eyelashes pooping on me. Well you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry because they don't poop because they can't because they
Speaker 1: do not have a butt. Man to week, I I
Speaker 1: don't want to retake my threat every two weeks. This
Speaker 1: is a real pain. Oh man, forget it. But so no, no,
Speaker 1: but they just if they have no but they just
Speaker 1: die of not being able to poop. Is that is
Speaker 1: that kind of thing? I guess you need a butt
Speaker 1: if you want to live more than like a second time. Yes,
Speaker 1: they only live about two weeks, so their lifespan is
Speaker 1: so short that, yeah, they don't really need the butt.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure whether it's the not having the
Speaker 1: butt that eventually kills them or if it's just like
Speaker 1: old age. I'm sure not having the butt certainly doesn't
Speaker 1: help with their longevity, but they are able to mate
Speaker 1: before they die. And so that's all that matters to
Speaker 1: nature is if you can pass on your weird buttless
Speaker 1: jeans to your offspring. Nature has no standards, no standards.
Speaker 1: Their standard is whether you can do it, and you
Speaker 1: do it, hey, well we'll let you, will let you
Speaker 1: not have a butt if you can do it, if
Speaker 1: you can manage. So they're like, there's another message I
Speaker 1: may broadcast to nature. I started as a butt. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm very on top of checking that box. Don't need
Speaker 1: to keep having me re up my license or whatever
Speaker 1: I started from the bottom. Yeah, that's it's a rags
Speaker 1: to richest story from Yeah, but not these not these
Speaker 1: little little fellas. So, yeah, their lifespan is basically they
Speaker 1: are born on your face, They eat, they reproduce, lay eggs,
Speaker 1: and then die without the need to poop. Uh. And
Speaker 1: unfortunately that doesn't mean we don't get their waste matter
Speaker 1: on our faces because when they die, the poop has
Speaker 1: nowhere to go but our face. So you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe it's some comfort that they're not like pooping out
Speaker 1: of their butts. Is that comforting? Or is just like
Speaker 1: little little bean bags full poop that eventually just like
Speaker 1: explode poop on your face. Worse, if you might keep
Speaker 1: pooping on my face, I'm going to throw you in
Speaker 1: a frog as the mob does. Okay, that's the threat.
Speaker 1: We're broadcasting the threat right now. I don't like it
Speaker 1: if you're weirded out by this or like kind of
Speaker 1: freaking out that there's a bunch of things crawling all
Speaker 1: over your face. First of all, I apologize. Second of all,
Speaker 1: they're so tiny. They literally are small, like they fit
Speaker 1: inside of like the caverns of your your follicles, your
Speaker 1: hair follicles. So they they like a few of them
Speaker 1: can be on a single hair follicle, and that you
Speaker 1: there's you can't see them. You can't see them. They're
Speaker 1: the little John Cena's of your face. There's no seeing
Speaker 1: them without a microscope. And so you really don't have
Speaker 1: to work, like you don't have to worry, like if
Speaker 1: you're trying to someone's trying to kiss you and they're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what's that on your face? It's a bunch,
Speaker 1: you know. They're just they're tiny. I mean, we're we're
Speaker 1: covered in various organisms like bacteria and so on that
Speaker 1: that are all in inside and outside of us. And
Speaker 1: it just so happens that these are animal, little tiny
Speaker 1: animals that live on us. Is that I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm being less, I'm being less and less helpful. Actually No,
Speaker 1: And I love how you always start the show with
Speaker 1: being host of many parasites, because it's just normalizing this
Speaker 1: thing that we should all be fine with. I've been
Speaker 1: joking before about the threats. It's it's whatever they could do,
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. I can't stop it, and it's
Speaker 1: probably helping me somehow in the long run. Live and
Speaker 1: let live, even if it's a butt list two week lifespan.
Speaker 1: But I will be back in two weeks to threaten
Speaker 1: them again. But market thank you the new generation. Yes,
Speaker 1: uh well, if you're not a fan of the no
Speaker 1: but lifestyle, maybe I can interest you in a lot
Speaker 1: of butts, like a plentiful butts, a bounty of butts.
Speaker 1: Just imagine that pitch on QBC or whatever late at night,
Speaker 1: like I mean, I'm I'm sleepy. I guess I guess
Speaker 1: I'll hear this out for the working person who doesn't
Speaker 1: have time for only one but for easy payments, that
Speaker 1: sounds fine, one payment per but okay, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know how many nine and nine. Well, so this story
Speaker 1: is complicated because when I do my research for the show,
Speaker 1: I try really hard to find like original O G
Speaker 1: papers to back up what I'm saying, so that I've
Speaker 1: am not contributing to fake button news. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: one I have not been able to track down the
Speaker 1: original paper, So please take this with a caveat that
Speaker 1: I am still kind of looking into this so um,
Speaker 1: you know, just a little grain of salt, grain of
Speaker 1: butt salt and um. But I have seen some rumors
Speaker 1: that there is a species of marine flatworm called the
Speaker 1: gold speckled flatworm or thy Sando's own nigro pal pep
Speaker 1: bilo some mount We'll go with gold speckled flat worm.
Speaker 1: And they're quite beautiful. They are a marine flower. They
Speaker 1: look like a flat, velvety black pancake with gold speccles
Speaker 1: and a white fringe. So really beautiful. They only it's
Speaker 1: sort of like if a clown fish had an alternate jersey.
Speaker 1: It's great, right they look, Yeah, they look they look
Speaker 1: like a piece of underwater fashion, just a floating you
Speaker 1: know how. Uh. And doctor Strange his cape is like
Speaker 1: sentient and flies around and helps him out. This looks
Speaker 1: like a sentient magical cape. Uh yeah, so they they're
Speaker 1: they're they're very mysterious and beautiful. They it's like it's
Speaker 1: like the starry sky, a starry night on on a
Speaker 1: sentient cape. But they're only about three inches big, so
Speaker 1: about eight centimeters a long. Some little guys. So according
Speaker 1: to a few articles I've read, and again I couldn't
Speaker 1: find like the original studies or the original descriptions in
Speaker 1: like a journal. So I'm uh worried that this isn't true.
Speaker 1: But I mean I haven't seen anyone like debunk this either.
Speaker 1: So and I think I saw it in like the BBC,
Speaker 1: So it's not like I didn't read this in um,
Speaker 1: like the New York Post or like World News, the
Speaker 1: Amazing bat Boy and Butts but butts, so some reputable
Speaker 1: news sources. But again it's like sometimes uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just like to double check make sure, um I do.
Speaker 1: I wish it was the New York Post, like the
Speaker 1: Gossip section, specifically like gold speckled flatworm coming out of
Speaker 1: one oak, you know, with with a new person on
Speaker 1: its arm. What's going on there? You know, caught with
Speaker 1: multiple butts at once. They apparently have multiple anuses or
Speaker 1: some sort of multiple anal openings on their backs, which
Speaker 1: is impressive given that actually some species of flatworms don't
Speaker 1: even have a single anus. They just like they have
Speaker 1: a mouth, so they eat through their mouth and then
Speaker 1: they poop through their mouth. So it's you know, just
Speaker 1: like one one hole does it all? Uh um? But yeah,
Speaker 1: so so I the fact that like it, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to rese like why do they have multiple butts and
Speaker 1: and how and what's going on? Like I'm still struggling
Speaker 1: to find research on this. So this is my call
Speaker 1: to any flat worm specialist who may have knowledge of
Speaker 1: multiple butts and how this could possibly happen to get
Speaker 1: in touch with me so that maybe we could together
Speaker 1: solve the mystery of the mini butts as as a
Speaker 1: science community solved this mysteries. Please you should you should
Speaker 1: put up the weirdest at least understandable bat signal in
Speaker 1: the sky, like like what is that picture? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: flat worm and a bunch of butts. You're just waiting
Speaker 1: to got a roof with a trench coat like s Gordon,
Speaker 1: like somebody's gonna come. I put it up just doing
Speaker 1: it deep throat style where I'm like in a parking
Speaker 1: garage sliding a briefcase and it's like just just a
Speaker 1: picture of a butt and a question mark. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I will look, I'll keep you up to date if
Speaker 1: I find anything more about the story about the story
Speaker 1: of the mini butts, the mystery Nancy Drew and the
Speaker 1: mystery of the mini butts. I mean, look, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think this will be a thing I need
Speaker 1: to consider. But of all the things we've discussed, I
Speaker 1: would consider the multibut situation. I don't know. Maybe it
Speaker 1: makes poopin easier and stuff, right, Like maybe that's maybe
Speaker 1: that's like the the advantage, right, like you can process
Speaker 1: more waste or something. I really why this is so
Speaker 1: interesting to me is, as far as I know, there
Speaker 1: aren't really there aren't cases of multiple butts because it
Speaker 1: just doesn't offer that many benefits, Like you just have
Speaker 1: one system, you push it out that system, and hey,
Speaker 1: you're done, and so like, if this is actually true,
Speaker 1: it would be really interesting from you know, an evolutionary perspective,
Speaker 1: which is why like part of me is like scared
Speaker 1: that it's not true, because this would be like the
Speaker 1: Unicorn of butts, and I need to know, I need
Speaker 1: some verification. But there is one that I was able
Speaker 1: to verify that it's still super interesting when it comes
Speaker 1: to butts, and that is the comb jelly. The comb
Speaker 1: jelly has the best of both worlds. They only sprout
Speaker 1: a butt when they need it. So Alex, I remember,
Speaker 1: I think we're talking earlier and you were mentioning that
Speaker 1: you have a slight um a slight aversion to like
Speaker 1: jellyfish and so on. But I think comb jellies you
Speaker 1: might like because they are just like little like light
Speaker 1: up balloons. They um are a phylum of colorful, translucent
Speaker 1: blue like marine animals. They are not actually related to
Speaker 1: jellyfish that closely. Even though they look sort of jellyfish like,
Speaker 1: they don't really have like tentacles like jellyfish do. They
Speaker 1: have these like iridescent strobe effects on their sides uh
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're bioluminescent even because like as they're silia,
Speaker 1: which are these like little tiny mobile hairs on their
Speaker 1: sides like move and allows them to move through the
Speaker 1: water that causes light to refract, so it looks like
Speaker 1: they have these like uh light this light show going
Speaker 1: off their their back of like lights just kind of
Speaker 1: shining and going in sort of a wave effect all
Speaker 1: around their sides. It's really beautiful. And in addition to
Speaker 1: being pretty, when they've got a poop, they just open
Speaker 1: up a brand new butt hole every time. Oh so
Speaker 1: it's just like it's just like I could use a
Speaker 1: butthole here, right, that's pretty, that's pretty exciting. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. It's like, you know, new day new.
Speaker 1: But so basically it's like if that T one thousand
Speaker 1: and the Terminator movies was also just kind of casually
Speaker 1: doing bodily functions as it as it remorphs and stuff. Great,
Speaker 1: right exactly, No, precisely. Basically, their digestive organ will fill
Speaker 1: up and then when the waste of cruise it is
Speaker 1: expelled through a new anal pore that just pops open.
Speaker 1: So this is life. Yeah, that is the life. You know,
Speaker 1: no need to no need to worry about like hygiene
Speaker 1: and stuff, just new but just get a new butt
Speaker 1: every time, just like these I'm imagining these jellies is
Speaker 1: like a couple at dinner and it's like we haven't
Speaker 1: done a new butt in a long time. Do you
Speaker 1: want a but this weekend? Yeah? I feel like we're
Speaker 1: we're in a rut of the same butt and a
Speaker 1: butt rut. We need a new butt. So this is
Speaker 1: the first transient anus ever discovered, which, yeah, hey, congratulations scientists.
Speaker 1: It's a it's an auspicious discovery because because so much
Speaker 1: of science it's like, oh, I have I have plumbed
Speaker 1: the depths of the sea or the wonders of the stars,
Speaker 1: And this one is you get to write the phrase
Speaker 1: transientanus over and over again in the journal that I have.
Speaker 1: I have discovered a new kind of bear, like that
Speaker 1: was back with science, like you know, of hundred years ago,
Speaker 1: when we still hadn't like discovered all the species or
Speaker 1: and or killed them all, and now like we're out like, well,
Speaker 1: I've found a type of transient butth hole. It's a
Speaker 1: phantom butt hole. It must have been like legitimately hard
Speaker 1: to discover or spot because it comes and goes right.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, that's cool. They found one of these guys
Speaker 1: and they created a butt hole, and then they realized
Speaker 1: the boat hole has gone. They're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Nancy Drew and the mystery of the missing butt hole,
Speaker 1: or maybe I should use Encyclopedia Brown. I don't know
Speaker 1: either way. The town police like, do step hit on
Speaker 1: that case, Like, no, you are too young. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: we we are. We'll have the real police look for it.
Speaker 1: You don't have a degree and but biology, I don't
Speaker 1: think so, little missy. We'll take it from here. And
Speaker 1: then the FBI steps in the Federal Butt Inspectors and
Speaker 1: they're like, no, will take it from here. Every member
Speaker 1: of the Federal but Inspectors bought one of the T
Speaker 1: shirts at the beach and did not know it was
Speaker 1: a legally binding contract to work for it. And then
Speaker 1: the CIA steps in, the the the Colon Investigation A
Speaker 1: and see and they're like, no, we'll take it from here,
Speaker 1: and so on until you run out of butt puns
Speaker 1: with acronyms. So yeah, I mean I think it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it appears that the rules to having a butt
Speaker 1: are much more flexible than one would think. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's like you just think of a butt as being
Speaker 1: so fixed, and like, especially this this flat worm that
Speaker 1: has many many butts. There's got that means allegedly legally,
Speaker 1: I'm multa say, allegedly has not been proven in a
Speaker 1: court of law. How many butts the flatworm has they
Speaker 1: have many butts and even more lawyers. We gotta be careful,
Speaker 1: we gotta look out. I thought you knew butts, but
Speaker 1: you didn't know but and but now you do. Now
Speaker 1: you know a little more about the wonderful world of buts.
Speaker 1: And thank you so much for for coming with me
Speaker 1: on this. On this journey, you discover more about butts
Speaker 1: the science. But you know, I think you know. I
Speaker 1: think it's educational. I really know it, Katie. It's always
Speaker 1: a treat, and this this was like really fundamentally amazing.
Speaker 1: I'd really be like, I just didn't think it was
Speaker 1: that much for right, Like I thought it would be
Speaker 1: funny looking butts or something there was, but there was
Speaker 1: so much like fundamental systems of nature and of existing
Speaker 1: as an animal that can be different, really exciting. Yeah, no, exactly. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot to be discovered if you let
Speaker 1: go of your hang up of not talking about butts.
Speaker 1: So tell the people where they can find you, and
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