1 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to Creature feature production of I Heart Radio. I'm 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, we're talking 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: about animal romance, from slimy love unicorns to sexy eight 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: legged twerking. We're looking at all the beautiful and bizarre 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: mating habits of all sorts of creatures gastropods, arthropods, birds, 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: and mammals. Discover this more as we answer the age 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: old question, well should you feed your mouse to give 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: him a bigger pair of the old family jewels. Joining 10 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: me today to discuss all things romance are the hosts 11 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: of the podcast True Romance, Devin Leary and Carolina Barlow. Hello, 12 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: how are you? Thank you for having us. It's good 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: to see you, guys. I know your podcast very intimately 14 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: because I edit it. So it's nice to talk to 15 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: you guys, because sometimes you'll sit like, say hi Katie 16 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: in the in the edit and I cut it all 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: out and I'm like, hi, guys, but you can't hear me. 18 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: So you know you're the only one who knows the 19 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: true us with all our likes and literally ease, and 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: this is true sometimes we have to say, Katie, we're 21 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: so sorry, we're you have to cut this out. Please 22 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: you understand, sorry for rambling, Thank you so much. Recordings, 23 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: sometimes we go off about Ryan Adams and we have 24 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: to cut the entire thing. Yeah, sometimes it's a whole 25 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: episode that we have to cut about Ryan Adams. It's true, 26 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: that's absolutely true, and that's the real victories that I 27 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: get to enjoy it. But yeah, today we're going to 28 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: talk about animal romance on your show. You guys like 29 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: to talk about more, I would say more human focused romance, 30 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: your own romantic life and stories. It's almost nine human romance. 31 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: So this is not a topic we've dealt into before, 32 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: which is exciting, right, We're I'm just expanding your horizons 33 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: to non human romance. Yes, I thought the sexiest thing 34 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: to talk about at first would be snails. Notably hot, Yes, 35 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: famously hot, famously hot. It's something about the eyes, tucks, 36 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: I think, Oh, I always forget those are eyeballs. I 37 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: remember the first time I saw a snail killed with salt, 38 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 1: and it haunted me for the rest of the day. No, 39 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: that's a slug, isn't it. I think they can both. 40 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: They can both get hurt. So this is already drama. Okay, 41 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: so we're already in a fight and it's ruining our relationship. Okay, 42 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: she said it was a slug, but I remember it well. 43 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: Slugs and snails are closely related. They're both gastropods. It's 44 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: just snails. They got that shell, yeah, met gala shell. Yeah. 45 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: I think it's it's interesting because a lot of people 46 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: hate slugs but don't mind snails, and it really is 47 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: all about that shell. All about that shell is Megan 48 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: Trainers next song. So land snails are hermaphroditic, meaning that 49 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: they have both male and female gonads that they can 50 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: use interchangeably. So it is very interesting. When they're courting 51 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: each other. They will circle around one another, touching their 52 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: tentacles or ey stocks together, and very very romantic, very 53 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: sensual for many species of land snail. At this point, 54 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: one of the snails will pop a horn out of 55 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: their head like some kind of sexy unicorn, and this 56 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: is called a love dart. That's sweet. I like unicorns. 57 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: I like unicorns. I think that's very generous to the 58 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: snail that you reference the unicorn in relation to them. 59 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it's in every way it's like a unicorn, 60 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: except the body, the size, the having of legs and hoofs, 61 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: the for the mythical aspect, the mythic the ability to ride, 62 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: the lack of sliminess. I mean, other than that, it's 63 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: perfectly like a unicorn. Yeah, totally. So that love dart 64 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: really does look like a unicorn horn coming right out 65 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: of its head. And it's actually typically made out of 66 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: the same material as its shell, which is calcium carbonate. 67 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: So it's this sort of tough, porcelain like material and 68 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,119 Speaker 1: it will thrust that love dart into its mates body, 69 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: which sounds horrifying, but no, it's all done for. It 70 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: sounds like my Wednesday night to We've all done it. 71 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: We've all had love darts in us at some point, 72 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: right eensive shell. Yeah, you're lucky not miss political climate. 73 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: Back in the golden age of love darts, you could 74 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: just you could just dart whenever you wanted to dart. 75 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: But before the core, we were all thrust in love 76 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: darts in each other and it was beautiful and it's 77 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: one of the biggest things I miss about life before. 78 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: So the love dart is actually covered in a mucous 79 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: substance I know you guys thought it couldn't get better, 80 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: but of course it gets better. It's covered in mucus hotter, hotter, hotter, 81 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: and hotter. That causes the receiver of the love dart 82 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: to be more receptive to sperm, preventing the sperm from 83 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 1: being digested inside the recipient's body. So it's basically like circle, circle, 84 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: dot dot. Now you've got a love shot and you 85 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: won't digest my sperm, so hopefully the sperm will fertilize 86 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: your egg. The second part doesn't rhyme, but yes, it's like, 87 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: but if we're gonna do circle circle, if we're talking science, 88 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: we gotta say circle dot Diana rhyme. Yeah, that's like milk, milk, 89 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: lemonade around the corner, fudge is made. That works scientifically, 90 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: that works. Yeah, that's actually what my doctor says. That 91 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: is taught in Harvard evolutionary biology courses. That is what's taught. 92 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: Lest do you think that it's terribly unfair for one 93 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: snail that is getting stabbed with this love dart. It's 94 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: a mutual exchange of love darts. This is an equitable 95 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: snail society. Have you seen what that snail was wearing? Carol, 96 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: you can't say I'm getting political, Carol, my edgy snail humor. 97 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: The snail is not on trial here. I would love 98 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: to see. This is classical, it would be so I 99 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: would I would love to see snail Amanda Knox. Yeah, 100 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: jury has been deliberating for over two days and uh 101 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: some and the jury hasn't even gone back into its 102 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: chambers yet, one of them still lagging behind. What if 103 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: their chambers are just their shells. They're like, we're waiting 104 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: for Steve and they're like, Steve, we need your vote, 105 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: and He's like, you guys, one second, listen. I actually 106 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: completely forgot that snails are slow until Carolina just said that. 107 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: Now I feel like I've missed out on so much 108 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: material that I could have been joking about. I've just 109 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: been thinking about these snails zipping around. I've been writing 110 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: all morning. Caroline has been like doing slow snail material 111 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: for the place. I gotta push it. They wish they 112 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: could hustle, but they can't because they're slow. Like A 113 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: Bug's life is one movie. But if I'm going to 114 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: make an eight mile version that's called the snails Hustle, 115 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: it's very A star is born it's very um hustle 116 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,559 Speaker 1: and flow. I like this a lot, hustle and slow. 117 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: It's good. Hus The next Pixar animated movie about a 118 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: sexy hermaphroditic snail going up and going up in the world. 119 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: So back to the snails stabbing each other lustfully. The 120 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: snails will exchange their love darts stabbing each other. Uh. 121 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: And then once they're done stabbing each other, they will 122 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,719 Speaker 1: push their gonads against each other. They both have penises, 123 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: and they will push their penises into one another, exchangeing sperm. 124 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: And this can last up to six hours, depending on 125 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: the species. So for her must be nice, sorry Lina, 126 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: good for him and her at the same time, both 127 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: good for all of them. I haven't heard the term 128 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: gonads since I think eighth grade. I'll get used to it. 129 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna bring it back. We're bringing it back. 130 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: Stop trying to make go nuts happen. So I do 131 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: want to say that male black widows twerk to avoid 132 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: being eaten. And yeah, so as you may know, there's 133 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: a large size difference between male black widows who are 134 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: tiny and females who are gigantic compared to them. Story 135 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: of My Love life story of me trying to put 136 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: on my ex boyfriend's jeans. Sorry continue, Carolina has just 137 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: got this like little little guy just kind of trying 138 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: to crawl up her shoulder. Oh my god. I once 139 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: hooked up with a guy who was like a lot 140 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: shorter than me, and it was like I was a 141 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: jungle gym and he was like a child. Wow did 142 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: he was awful? He twerked to make sure you didn't 143 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: mistake him for a prey adem yes, because exactly, Oh, 144 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: we are both spiders at the time, right, I mean, 145 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: it's like he's got it. He's gotta let you know. No, 146 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: I'm not a snack. I mean I am a snack, 147 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: but just not in that way. You know, snack another 148 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: term that we used to love. It was good. Caroline 149 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: was really calling me out for like using snack and 150 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,839 Speaker 1: gonad and I feel I love attacked. It's a memory, Lane. 151 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: I I just I mean, I haven't been out in 152 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: public in a year, so it's just exciting to talk 153 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: to two humans right about going ads? Like has uh 154 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: just found out about Urban Dictionary yesterday, so she's having 155 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: She's she's been looking at the etymology of of all 156 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: slang terms and it's a bit tough to have a 157 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: conversation like every other stard just yeah, yo, did you 158 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: know yot is like the past participle of eat? I 159 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,319 Speaker 1: actually did not know that in the Amish on my 160 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: sh slang. Yeah, that has yoked my sheep exactly. Now 161 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: you owe me your daughter's hand in marriage, you see, 162 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: That's what I missed. I feel like that is like 163 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 1: the romantic life I need. Actually a funny story which 164 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: checks out with what Carolina just said is that one time, 165 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: one time we tried to record an intro of our 166 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: podcast True Romance, So I said, how are you doing? Carolina? 167 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: And she goes, do you ever just wish that you 168 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: could live a simpler life like I am like moving 169 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: and I just wish I just had a few items 170 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: that I could be happy with instead of all this 171 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: stuff that means nothing. And I was like, let's do 172 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: another take. I guess I literally said, I actually don't 173 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: know how to respond to that. Carolina is just trying 174 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: to go off the grid. Do you ever just think 175 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: it all means nothing? Do you ever just want to 176 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: like get just a hatchet and flint and go out 177 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 1: and just go out and see what happens in the 178 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: Appalachian Mountains. I mean, yeah, it's appealing. You can't deny 179 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: the glamping appeal. But to bring it back to spider twerking, 180 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: because honestly, I think that people come on here. They've 181 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: come here for the spider twerking to see. It's luscious, 182 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: little little booty go at it. The thing is that 183 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: males are so small that female black widows could easily 184 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: mistake them as prey as they crawl over their web. 185 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: So the females sense vibrations in their web and that's 186 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: how they can tell that they've caught something. But the 187 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: male stands the risk of walking over the web. The 188 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: females like, oh, vibrations, that means a snack, I eat 189 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: it immediately. No sex happens, It's sad, it's a tragedy. 190 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: So the male twerks rhythmically to create a very specific 191 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: vibration that the female black widow recognizes as a male. 192 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: So instead of like, oh, this is food, it's like, 193 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: oh no, this is the way a boy. Oh boy, 194 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: um only maybe food, So it's and then that way 195 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: the male can communicate to the female that hey, I'm 196 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm here for sex, not not necessarily to be food 197 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 1: for you, and she will respond with some tuerking of 198 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: her own. I just love that. It's sort of this, 199 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: like you know this this dancer that that's like, hey, 200 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: don't eat me, I want a blank you It's it's yeah. 201 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: I mean it reminds me a lot of my two 202 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: instincts in life, which is to fall in love but 203 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: also to have a meal. And I feel like sometimes 204 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: those are at odds with each other. Sometimes you are hungry. 205 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm on a date and I know I shouldn't 206 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: eat too much if we're going to hook up after, 207 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: but a girl's gotta eat, and both senses, you know, 208 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: and both meanings of the term. I feel like you'd 209 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: love to be a spider, and I'm not. I don't 210 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 1: mean this as an insult at all. I just so rude. 211 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: I just think that you'd like the spider lifestyle. Black 212 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,199 Speaker 1: shiter black widows and other spiders do sometimes engage in 213 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: sexual cannibalism. It's not true that It's not true they 214 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: always do it. Like North American black widows often allow 215 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: their mate to leave alive. But sometimes you know, you're 216 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: just hungry and he's right there, and he's small he's 217 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: the size he's easily fits in your mouth. And you know, 218 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: I mean, we are saying so much right now, and 219 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: I think I am going to speak about my godmother, 220 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: Samantha from the show Sex in the City, who said 221 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: I'm a tri sexual. I'll try anything once, and I 222 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: think cannibalism is fine. I'm willing to go out there. 223 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: That's my take. That's my one issue I have, and 224 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: then I have a question, go for it. I'm ready. 225 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: Number one. I am terribly afraid of all bugs and 226 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: phobic of all bugs except for spiders. I can't explain why, 227 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: but if I see a spider, I don't get distressed 228 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: at all. If I see like a beetle, I am 229 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: so disgusted that I actually gag like I have had 230 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: gag reflex at the side of a bug. I don't 231 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: know why. And I have at times seen a bug 232 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: in a room, closed the door and just don't go 233 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: in that room for a long time. Um, so that's 234 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: any problem in my life. I just shouted out. One 235 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: time I called my mom because I had closed a 236 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: beetle in a room, and I was like, what do 237 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: I do? And she was like, I don't know, so 238 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I guess I'll just go to 239 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: bed and leave it there. Um. Now that's how I 240 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: do deal with like emails I don't want to respond to. 241 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:57,119 Speaker 1: I just shut my computer and then yeah, it disappears. 242 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: It will die here. Yeah, right. Second of all, I 243 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: feel for this male spider because I imagine his life 244 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: is much like my boyfriend's life, which is that I 245 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: have created such an intricate web of emotional turmoil that 246 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: if he steps in the wrong way on any territory, 247 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: whether it's talking about it doesn't matter what it is, 248 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: that he's always one vibration away from triggering my insanely 249 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: sensitive emotional state and me being like, wait, you don't 250 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: think I'm a hard worker. You don't think I'm independent, 251 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: Like you don't think I'm doing a good job, but 252 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: like I'm trying, and like I know that, like I 253 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's like I'm doing the best I can. 254 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: I know you're better than me, and it's like whatever. 255 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: So that's his experience, and so I sympathize with this 256 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: spider similar experience. We have to walk on eggshells literally 257 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: I mean not literally, I guess actually, but figuratively, yes, 258 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 1: I mean it's it is that is very similar spider. 259 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: This is the kind of This is the story for 260 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: a lot of spider species. Often the female is big 261 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: and hungry and the male is tiny and and very 262 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: probably taste very good, and so the males are always 263 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: delicately stepping on their web like hey, hey, hey, I'm 264 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: I'm here, you know, for sex not to get eaten. 265 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: And she's always like one bad from like biting his 266 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: head off, which you know. I feel bad for spiders 267 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: because they have a bad rap. And I even every 268 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 1: time I see when I think that, I think, oh 269 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: my god, if anyone else were here, they would kill you. 270 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: But I feel for you, and I know that you're 271 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: partly here to help me maintain my house, and so 272 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: I want to let you live, so I always try 273 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: to take them outside. I really am like a good person. 274 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: And is another example of how like different from other people. 275 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: I'm a peacemaker. You're a hero when you really think 276 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: about it, you are a hero. You know. I love spider. 277 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: I don't even have to think about it for that long. No, no, no, 278 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: it's just it's your instinct is to nurture spiders, which 279 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: thank you, I guess I have like a Jesus complex. Yeah, 280 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: your spider Jesus, is the black widow actually really poisonous? 281 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, you don't want to get bitten by 282 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: a black widow. It probably won't kill you. I think 283 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: there's this perception that, um, well, it's not it's not poisonous. 284 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: This is annoying. I hate to be a pendant here. No, 285 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: I love it. But it's actually venomous because venom is 286 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: like injected into you, like a bite is venomous. Poison 287 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: is something you eat and get sick. So um, and 288 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: then toxic just refers to both and Carolina I know 289 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: toxic Carolina's personality. I can talk on top. But a 290 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: black widows bite is venomous and it doesn't generally kill people. 291 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: I mean, in very rare cases it can, and it's 292 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: for like children it's more dangerous, but mostly it results 293 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: in just a big welt or potentially like you know, 294 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: some light necrosis, not I don't know, like you should 295 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 1: go to the doctor, if you should go to the dog. 296 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,719 Speaker 1: I'm saying it's bad and you should go to the doctor. 297 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: But they do kind of get a bad rap. They're 298 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: also very shy. They don't like to bite people so 299 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: often it's like you accidentally corner one, like it's in 300 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: your shoe or glove. Again, don't worry about this happening 301 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: too much. But if it does happen, do go to 302 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: the doctor. Anyways. Yeah, I think that's pretty awesome that, 303 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: like I love I just love torking spiders. Uh. And 304 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: my favorite spiders actually are jumping spiders, which our whole 305 00:19:55,560 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: family of spiders that are both adorable. They're really beautiful spiders, 306 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: and they all almost all of them have some kind 307 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: of elaborate dance. Uh. This time I'm going to talk 308 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: about the cosmo phases Umbrattica, which is a tropical jumping 309 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 1: spider that likes to wave around naturally occurring glow sticks 310 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: and dance like it's in a rave. So was canceled. Yeah, 311 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: this is like this is like Spider Coachella, Spider Burning 312 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: Man all combined. Yeah. Probably, unfortunately, I mean it it 313 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: is very flashy. They are a little itty bitty spider 314 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: found in the tropics of Southeast Asia. Males have its Yes, 315 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: let's let's call it etsy bitsy. Let's say that it is. 316 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: The size is about itsy bitsy. The reason I say 317 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: itty bitty and not as specific size as I couldn't 318 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: find a specific size. I'm gonna say it's smaller than 319 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 1: a fingernail though. So. The males have colorful, bright peacock 320 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: blue and iridescent green stripes. Females are a pretty but 321 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: kind of less flashy green color males. Males are the 322 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: ones that like to show off. We all cheah, yeah, yeah, men, 323 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: you're on notice you hear that. Yeah, we called you 324 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: out man. We'd go to sixty nine comments on the podcast. 325 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: I liked the podcast a lot better before it became 326 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: radically feminist. Oh god, that's what they always say about. 327 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: But yeah, these male jumping spiders, Uh. In addition to 328 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: being very pretty like little peacocks, also have another trick 329 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: up their sleep, which is that they can reflect UV light, 330 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: making them glow to other spiders who can see UV lights. 331 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: So we can't necessarily see it unless we reflect UV 332 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: light off of them, but the other spiders see them 333 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 1: and it looks like they're glowing. And they have these 334 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: little things called pet palps, which are those little arms, 335 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: you know, in front of their mouths that they can 336 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: move like. I think they're cute. Uh, they're just there. 337 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: I'm actually doing it right now. I know the users 338 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: can't see, but it's for Caroline, and but it's adorable. 339 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: It's very cute. I look like a little spider. I'm 340 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: moving just my little fingers in front of my mouth 341 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: and that's that's what it looks like. But those little 342 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: petal palps actually glow you v lights, so they can 343 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 1: like do a little rape like and like move them 344 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 1: around rhythmically, and that attracts the females. So yeah, it's 345 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: and they also are drummers. They like to drum sound 346 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: and familiar ladies. Who sounds like every boy named Logan actually, 347 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: so I was pretty close to joining a band, but then, 348 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: um yeah, I just kind of like got distracted by 349 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: my dad's dream that he's making me live for him, 350 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: so you know, see him. Brettica does not have a 351 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: non scientific name yet. It doesn't have like a nickname, 352 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: and I would like it to be Logan. I would. Yeah. 353 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 1: Even though every species has its own mating ritual, when 354 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 1: it comes to sex itself, it's all pretty much the same, right. 355 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: The male inserts his mating apparatus into the female's mating 356 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: apparatus and deposits his sperm. Well, listeners of the show 357 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: not it's not nearly this simple. There are many different 358 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: ways sex can occur, including the way neo trogla bark 359 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: lies do it. Neo Trogla are little flea sized insects 360 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 1: that live in Brazil and feed on bat poop and caves. 361 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: They're already living a pretty great life, but wait until 362 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: you hear about their sex lives. Neo Trogla females have 363 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: something called a gynosome, a long penis like organ that 364 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: they use in mating. They insert their gnosome into the 365 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: male's reproductive cavity and while suck up a seminal fluid 366 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,239 Speaker 1: and sperm like it's a straw. Gives a whole new 367 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: meaning to that milkshake song. When we turn work talking 368 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: about some very anorous avians, there's just no end to 369 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,479 Speaker 1: what a bird will do to find a mate. Birds 370 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,239 Speaker 1: of paradise are perhaps the most showy examples. There are 371 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: at least forty two species of birds of paradise, each 372 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 1: more flamboyant and festive than the next. To cover them all, 373 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: i'd need a hundred hours of podcast, so we'll just 374 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: visit a few with some of the most enticing antics. 375 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: So I do want to talk about birds. Now, I 376 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 1: do love birds. Uh. They are sexy, they are hot, 377 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: they are they have swagger, and they know how to seduce. 378 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: I think they are one of the better lovers of 379 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 1: the animal kingdom and one of the most incredible birds 380 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: in terms of just showmanship are birds of paradise. So 381 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: I want to talk talk about just a few of those. 382 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: So first is the twelve wired birds of Paradise that 383 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: are found throughout forests in Indonesia, New Guinea and solid 384 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: Waddy Island. And they're about the size of a kitten. 385 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm trying to, like a small kitten, I'm 386 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 1: trying to size things relatively again, because I couldn't I 387 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: couldn't like find an exact measurement of it. And I 388 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: also feel like it's more visceral, Like now you're holding 389 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: this bird like a little kid, like a little kitty, 390 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: like a little kid, like a little kit Yeah, against 391 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: your boosum, just cuddling it. So females have black heads, 392 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: red eyes, and rusty, reddish brown bodies. They're just kind 393 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: of normal looking birds. But males, I mean, this is 394 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: the case with a lot of bird species, not all, 395 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: but many the females just kind of look like whatever. 396 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 1: They didn't try very hard, but the males are. They 397 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: have been up since like six am getting their outfit together. 398 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 1: So males are black with red eyes and bright highlighter 399 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: yellow feathers along his flanks and long black wire like 400 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: feathers that stick out from his butt. And I'm assuming 401 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: there's like twelve of these wire feathers because it's name 402 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: the twelve Wired Bird of Paradise. So you know, I 403 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: think it looks a little cyber goth, kind of half 404 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: dresses goth, but then you also have like neon highlights, 405 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: and I mean cybergroth feels like a late nineties early 406 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: Odds look, right, was it? I can't be that old. 407 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: I know people were doing it when I was in 408 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: high school. Yeah, I mean that was like two thousands, right, Yeah, yeah, 409 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: you made me feel like early odds. It makes me 410 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: feel like I'm a settler. I'm the old last from 411 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 1: the settlers, and in one way or another, in one 412 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: way or another, but yeah, sure. But males really try 413 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 1: to impress the females, and they do it by shoving 414 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: their butts in their faces in what is called a 415 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: wire wipe display, which sounds very central, very sexy. They've 416 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: bent over to show off their yellow highlights to the 417 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: female and then they swish their wire filments in the 418 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: female's face, like tickling her face with their weird like 419 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: butt eyelashes. Now that's where I'm talking about. Yeah, this 420 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: is how guys. Take note again, this is how you 421 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: talk to women. You push their butts in their faces 422 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 1: and you tickle our noses with your just be clear. Yeah, 423 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: and if the female is interested, she is super into it. 424 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: She will like put her head into those butt wires 425 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: like she loves it. It's like a nice I don't know, 426 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: she's enjoying the face tickling. It's a fetish guys, and 427 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: we can't kin shame here. Especially I wouldn't know or 428 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 1: if anything, I'm going to welcome it into my um. 429 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: I think this is cool because I hate when people 430 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: play games, and I just feel like they're not playing games. 431 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: They're texting back right away, they're but wiring right away, 432 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: They're enjoying the face tickle right away. There's no maybe 433 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 1: there's no one word response, there's no you know whatever 434 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: it is, restraining order. All this stuff that guys do 435 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: to like confuse me and I'm just like, can you 436 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: just clear? Yeah? Birds of Paradise? They do. It is 437 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: very direct. It's hey, would you like this? Would you 438 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: like look at my eardescent? But do you like it? 439 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: And the female is either yes or no? And then 440 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: if the female's yes, he's like, great, let's let's mate 441 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: like right here and right now, and she's like, great, 442 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: I love it. And there's another bird of paradise that 443 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: has really sort of the gentleman's version of the butt wires. 444 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: This is the Wilson's bird of Paradise. It's found in Indoness. 445 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: Also about the size of a small cuton, so cute. 446 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: It's got a bright red cape, bright blue head, green mouth, 447 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: iridescent green belly, blue feet, and violet tail. Feathers that 448 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: curl into the shape of a cartoonish snidily whiplash curly mustache. 449 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: It's like their butt's got a little curly handlebar mustache. 450 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: And it's and who doesn't love a mustache? Yeah, but 451 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: is like a hipster. And then the back is more 452 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: of an artist look right, like a vampire cost player too, 453 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: like a carpenter, like a handsome carpenter. It is really 454 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: you know who that was Jesus was a handsome that 455 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: he was handsome and a carpenter. So like Jesus, they 456 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: clear away a stage on the forest floor. That's I 457 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: guess that's not like Jesus. But who's to say. We 458 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: don't know everything about Jesus. We only have one book 459 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: about him. We only have one book about him. There's 460 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: no documentary. Right, I'm gonna say Jesus hates leaves and 461 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: like to clear away the forest floor in order to 462 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: show off their mating dance. In fact, like these birds 463 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: of Paradise that clear off the forest floor in order 464 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: to show off their mating dance. They are so anal 465 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: about it that like if you throw interesting look, you know, 466 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: I'm not saying. I'm not implying anything other than that 467 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: they are very persnicketty. They do have a mustache on 468 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: their butt, but that doesn't mean anything necessarily. But David 469 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: Attenborough was trying to get a video of one of 470 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: these birds of Paradise, and in order to get the 471 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: bird to come out of hiding, he threw some leaves 472 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: in its staging ground and the bird, like in exasperation, 473 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: was like oh my god, and came out and like 474 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: cleared away the lead was like he was like, now 475 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: I had to do Forest of Management. Yeah, this is 476 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: the president suggested exactly. So now we know Addenburrow was 477 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: a total phony and everything was okay, catfish. This is 478 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: like when I found out The Hills was scripted. That 479 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: was a rough day for all of us. David Attenborough 480 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,719 Speaker 1: famous jerk to birds. So yeah, but then once they 481 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: get out there, this Wilson's Word of Paradise will dance 482 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: like a robot. They'll show off their great green mouth, 483 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: great Jesus bright green mouths, which I was going to 484 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: assume that that was some like term. Yeah, I was like, sure, 485 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: great brain mouth, Yeah, no it is. It's a it's 486 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: actually very smart that I say that, very very distinguished 487 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: words distinguished. Yes, there's another bird of Paradise called the 488 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: six plumed Bird of Paradise, which is found in New Guinea. 489 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: And he at first just doesn't seem that impressive. He's 490 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: just sort of a jet black, like a crow or 491 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: a raven. He's got some fancy filaments on his head, 492 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 1: like some fancy head donggles, which are kind of cool, 493 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 1: I guess, and he's got these piercing blue eyes. So 494 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: it's like he's kind of neat, but he's like not 495 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: that flashy. It's like, okay, you're a bird of paradise. 496 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: You you don't really look like it. But once he 497 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: clears away his dance platform, he um will call to 498 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: summon females, and then he pops out a cape of 499 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: feathers that runs all the way around his neck and 500 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: turns himself into an umbrella. Like it's literally normal looking 501 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: burden then umbrella, and he starts walking around dancing and 502 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: then reveals this like brightly colored yellow neon yellow and 503 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: green iridescent feathers on his throat that are so shiny 504 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: and iridescent they kind of look like sequence, and he's 505 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: flapping those. There's something so I think charming about how 506 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: hard they try. I feel like if a guy full 507 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,479 Speaker 1: on turned into an umbrella just for me, he's at 508 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: he's at least worth a callback. It very much sounds 509 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: like a cool, nuanced Lady Gaga VMA's performance, which I'm 510 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: obviously all four. So I love big romantic gestures. I 511 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: never get them, and I'm really looking for that for 512 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: my next partner. I love um umbrellas. I love a 513 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: guy holding an umbrella for me. Another romantic gesture. Obama 514 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: does it for Michelle and his daughters, and you know, 515 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: that's a very like if he's if he is the umbrella, 516 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: that's even more romantic because he's like, I will shield 517 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: you from the rain, but I'm the umbrella, so I'm 518 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: getting wet, but I don't care. Like when a guy 519 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: I think an old movie is like a guy would 520 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: throw his coat down over a puddle so a woman 521 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: could walk across it. And obviously that's very unnecessary, but 522 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: still waste of alorus. It actually seems she could. She 523 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: could step over the puddle. That's the thing that gets me, 524 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: Like she could probably, like if it's only takes a coat, 525 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: you know, to traverse the puddle, Like she could step 526 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,800 Speaker 1: over it or just find a place where there's not 527 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: a puddle. And it's just the like the rush to like, hey, 528 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna just like, oh, let's walk near this puddle 529 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: so I can just start throwing my clothing into it 530 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: getting somebody And I hate it. That sounds crazy, but 531 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: I love it that sounds romantic. The next time I 532 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 1: come across a puddle, I'm just going to stare at 533 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 1: my boyfriend until he does something right. Yeah, exactly, And 534 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,800 Speaker 1: if it's not disrobing and throwing all of his belongings 535 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,439 Speaker 1: into the puddle, then it should be him laying down 536 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: into that puddle and letting you walk across on top 537 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: of him. Correct personally, like, I'm not going to judge 538 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: your relationship, but that's what I would want. I demand 539 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 1: nothing less than he laid down on the puddle and 540 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: let me walk across his face exactly. One way that 541 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: birds show affection is by kissing. Most parent species like 542 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: a little bit of mouth to mouth love resuscitation, if 543 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And what better way to 544 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: cap off a kiss them with some good old fashioned regurgitation. 545 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: That's right. Parents love to show their love by regurgitating 546 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: food into each other's mouths. Sharing is carrying, and a 547 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 1: good amount of regurgitated food informs the female that the 548 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: male could provide for her and her chicks a nothing 549 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: hotter than a dad bought and some dad vomb. When 550 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: we return, we're going to talk a little bit about 551 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: rodent sperm. Everyone's favorite topic. Rodent sperm. It's serious business. 552 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: Sperm is one of the most diverse types of cells 553 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: in nature, and studying different types of sperm can tell 554 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 1: us a lot about biodiversity. Sperm isn't always as simple 555 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 1: as a little balloon attached to a tail, and there 556 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: are surprisingly innovative or weirdly defunct sperm floating out there, 557 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: especially with as divers a group of animals as rodents. So, guys, 558 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: I wanted to do like a brief interlude about rodent sperm. 559 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: Are you on board? Obviously, Devin, I just talking about 560 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: that before this podcast. Okay, I hope it's not like 561 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 1: too boring then, because like you guys have already talked, 562 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: we've already gone over like rodent sperm. But it's actually 563 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: so fine. There's nothing really related to rodent sperm that 564 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: we don't know about. But I'm really sorry. I kind 565 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: of I wanted to keep it fresh, but I should 566 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 1: have known better than you. Should have found a more 567 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,320 Speaker 1: niche topic like this than the well trodden path of 568 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: rodent sperm. It's all over the news, well naked mule 569 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 1: rats have mutants sperm um uh. One of my favorite 570 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: science writers, Ed Young, who writes for National Geographic. He 571 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: I just love that he's like unapologetically like here's here's 572 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: just the weirdest, like mutant naked mule rat sperm that 573 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: you'll ever it's disgusting. I love it, you know, you 574 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: guys kind of know what naked muleratt is there, the 575 00:36:54,920 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 1: little like penile looking him possible yet looking looking underground rodents. 576 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,839 Speaker 1: They live in colonies. They have a queen and they 577 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,840 Speaker 1: sort of like live in a colony structure like ants 578 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:15,840 Speaker 1: or bees. Um. And they don't feel pain in their skin, 579 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: which their skin sort of looks like a foreskin, not 580 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 1: not sort of exactly looks like a foreskin very much. Um. 581 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,240 Speaker 1: And they have, in addition to all their other fine qualities, 582 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: they have weird mutant garbage sperm that's almost shaping you know. 583 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: Like remember the Simps. I love since Simpson's callbacks. They're 584 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: always so funny. Do you remember thought you were going 585 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: to say the Sims And I was like, yeah, do 586 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:46,279 Speaker 1: you have an hour? Because I love killing Sims. It's 587 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: so naughty, but I love it. You mean putting walls 588 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: around them and then setting a fire, Yeah, making them 589 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: pee themselves. It's so naughty and bad. I love it. 590 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I love the Simpsons. It was I 591 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 1: think a funny show, but I think that I think 592 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: so too. Okay, okay, guys aren't crazy with these statements. 593 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 1: I would be careful, like you guys are making some 594 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,160 Speaker 1: bold statements. Okay, but there's this scene where it's like 595 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: shows Homer's sperm and how like messed up they are 596 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,239 Speaker 1: from the nuclear plant and they're all just walking into 597 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,320 Speaker 1: each other and like have like two like three heads 598 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: and stuff. That's naked mule rat sperm. They have, Like 599 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 1: some of the sperm like has like two heads. Some 600 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 1: of the sperm has like weird cone shaped heads and like, 601 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,520 Speaker 1: um the tail, you know how like the sperm it's 602 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,160 Speaker 1: like the head and then the tail, and the head 603 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 1: contains the DNA and the tail propels it forward. And 604 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 1: the tails are like really skinny, and they don't have 605 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 1: this extra sheath that most mammalian sperm has, so like 606 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,840 Speaker 1: it's very weak and so it like barely moves forward. 607 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 1: In fact, only one to fi of their sperm can 608 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 1: actually swim. It's the owest of any mammal sperm. It's 609 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: I'm calling it out. I'm calling out naked mole rat 610 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,360 Speaker 1: sperm is being the worst. I'm sorry I have to 611 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,520 Speaker 1: say this about naked mole rats, and that's I'm an 612 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,360 Speaker 1: animal lover. I think about animals all the time. I 613 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: like looking at pictures of animals. I really do, just 614 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 1: like get so much peace from them, and I feel 615 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: like there's a butt coming. There is. But when I 616 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 1: first saw a picture of a naked moulerat my initial 617 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 1: thought was biology has failed them. No no, no, no, 618 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 1: no no. And then when you described it as penal, 619 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 1: I imagined, well, what if that's penis what penises look like? 620 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,800 Speaker 1: And again the major thought I had was no, no, no, no, no. 621 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:47,320 Speaker 1: Penises don't have little teeth. Um. I mean, I've definitely 622 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 1: seen one, so I'm gonna have some tough conversations. Anyways, 623 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,880 Speaker 1: They're a weird, mutant looking animal and their sperm is 624 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,760 Speaker 1: weird and mutated, but it ends up all being fine 625 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: because in their colonies, the queens are the only ones 626 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,480 Speaker 1: who made and the so there's the queen and the 627 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,120 Speaker 1: concert and they're the only breeding pair in the whole colony, 628 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:15,279 Speaker 1: so there's no competition, and it's just this mostly not 629 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: that crowd. I mean, have you seen her. She's stunning 630 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:26,839 Speaker 1: and huge and engorged with babies. Ah, that is an 631 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,880 Speaker 1: incentive for birth. I think that this is another flaw 632 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,800 Speaker 1: of the Disney channel added to the list under a 633 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:40,360 Speaker 1: Nazi founder. Okay, they made Rufus the Naked molerad and kimpossible. 634 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: Seems so cute, like a cute little pink guy, right, 635 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,800 Speaker 1: and then you google it and you see that's not 636 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,600 Speaker 1: at all what they look like. It's like Instagram and 637 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:54,680 Speaker 1: then a screenshot from a video. It's just not raistic. 638 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 1: Their sperm doesn't need to compete because there's just no 639 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,359 Speaker 1: other males that they have to compete with. Then when 640 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,759 Speaker 1: you compare that to mice, like the deer mice are 641 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: very promiscuous, cute little mice, which I I like most 642 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,320 Speaker 1: of the time. Sperm is like every sperm for itself, 643 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: but like in this case, there's way too much competition 644 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,600 Speaker 1: with other mice here, Like there's so much sperm going on, 645 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,640 Speaker 1: too much drama. We got a team up, we gotta form, 646 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,080 Speaker 1: you know, a rowing team. And I feel like again 647 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: another movie idea, like a rowing team of sperm that 648 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,360 Speaker 1: is like they're kind of the underdog. There's already one 649 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: in development. Damn, God, damn every time, all right, every time, 650 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,680 Speaker 1: I know every time, I'm like the story every day, 651 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 1: the story of the little like hookworm that tries to in. 652 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:43,160 Speaker 1: It's like no already, yeah, a large bit of more Amazon, 653 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,280 Speaker 1: got it, damn it? I guess how much? For thirty 654 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,600 Speaker 1: million dollars? Oh is this going to be in the 655 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,719 Speaker 1: new Lord of the Rings because they did say they're 656 00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: adding sex to it, which I'm excited for. It's going 657 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,919 Speaker 1: to be a spinoff or a shoot off. I can't 658 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,320 Speaker 1: wait to see what they do about like tree in 659 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,640 Speaker 1: those big walking trees and they just like I guess, 660 00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,080 Speaker 1: are gonna bone. I mean, there is such a thing 661 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 1: as too much sex in fantasy worlds, and I think 662 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,800 Speaker 1: we all have to look to a Game of Thrones 663 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,200 Speaker 1: to see that. Yeah. Yeah, I only saw Lord of 664 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,440 Speaker 1: the Rings when my brother tricked me and said we 665 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: were going to see Harry Potter and instead we saw 666 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,959 Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings, and so I don't remember anything 667 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,239 Speaker 1: because I was crying and complaining the whole time. Nice. 668 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,000 Speaker 1: So I went to The Lord of the Rings intentionally 669 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 1: because you know, that's you can imagine what I was 670 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: like in middle school, I'm sure, and I had like 671 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,880 Speaker 1: a belt that had like beads and like shiny sequence 672 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,040 Speaker 1: on and in my little dumb middle school or head, 673 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,719 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna wear this belt, and one 674 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,919 Speaker 1: of the creators of Lord of the Rings is gonna 675 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 1: be in the audience looking first someone who has the 676 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,520 Speaker 1: fashion sense to be in the next Lord of the Rings, 677 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,000 Speaker 1: and they're gonna look at this and they're gonna be like, Wow, 678 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,160 Speaker 1: that's a very elvish looking belt. I'm gonna cat us 679 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 1: this stupid little girl in the next Slur of the 680 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,719 Speaker 1: Rings as an elf. You know what's wrong with Hollywood 681 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: is that they don't do stuff like that when they 682 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,440 Speaker 1: have it in their power. No, Peter, just my cool belt, 683 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,799 Speaker 1: Peter Jackson. You have this in your power. You can 684 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,919 Speaker 1: make dreams come true, and yet you choose not to. Yeah, 685 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,919 Speaker 1: all I can say is big, big loss on their part, 686 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:25,080 Speaker 1: But whatever, it's too bad. The last fact of the 687 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:29,320 Speaker 1: day before we we go is that my study yogurt 688 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,799 Speaker 1: have bigger balls, like their balls get bigger. What kind 689 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:41,640 Speaker 1: of yogurt probiotic yogurt? I think it's Chobani. Non coincidentally, 690 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:46,319 Speaker 1: we are sponsored this week by Cho Chobani for big 691 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 1: balls for go nets. It's gonna be a bunch of 692 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,440 Speaker 1: guys listening to this, just like furiously reaching for yogurt 693 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:57,279 Speaker 1: and like like dunking their face in it, trying to 694 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,680 Speaker 1: get Jim gets those those big balls. But searchers were 695 00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,919 Speaker 1: not explicitly trying to find out if yogurt would cause 696 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,480 Speaker 1: mice balls to get bigger. They're trying to see, like 697 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,440 Speaker 1: how it affected rates of cancer and rates of obesity. 698 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,879 Speaker 1: But they did find out that more yogurt creates big, 699 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: juicy mouth balls, also silky shiny first. So you know, guys, 700 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,040 Speaker 1: if you want silky hair and I guess big balls, 701 00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: you heard it here. First, eat a lot of yogurt, 702 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,520 Speaker 1: Eat a lot of yogurt, and watch movies with your 703 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:34,359 Speaker 1: girlfrid do it. You gotta watch at least one Meg 704 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,719 Speaker 1: Ryan movie a week. Science says, So, I mean, this 705 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 1: has only been proven in mice, but there are some, guys, 706 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:46,960 Speaker 1: some preliminary studies that do show that eating yogurt may 707 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:52,600 Speaker 1: help with sperm quality in human men. This is like 708 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: when I used to drink soy milk in middle school 709 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,239 Speaker 1: because I read that soy milk has estrogen that makes 710 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:02,240 Speaker 1: your boobs big. Yeah, that's like why I'm still drinking 711 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:07,920 Speaker 1: storm up. Well, guys, thank you so much for joining 712 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,480 Speaker 1: me today. I think this is a real katie. This 713 00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:15,759 Speaker 1: is a really romantic, sweet episode. I think sexy. I 714 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:20,080 Speaker 1: think it makes us seem all very alluring. Yes, it's 715 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,400 Speaker 1: like you know, that's what you want in a podcast, 716 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,440 Speaker 1: to leave the listeners with them. Wow. I gosh, they 717 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,640 Speaker 1: sound very appealing to me, and I never thought of that. 718 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,120 Speaker 1: I hope listeners out there are thinking, I thought I 719 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,439 Speaker 1: tried everything, but looks like I didn't. I'm gonna try 720 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,000 Speaker 1: some my butt in her face and tickle her nose. 721 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,040 Speaker 1: I have to say thank you, Katie for all the 722 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,000 Speaker 1: work you do. I True Romance and if you want 723 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,400 Speaker 1: to listen to True Romance, it's on I Heart Radio, 724 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 1: I Heart Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Katie, 725 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,640 Speaker 1: thank you for this science lesson. And I hope that 726 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,919 Speaker 1: when they make the reboot of Lord of the Rings 727 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,799 Speaker 1: that you wear your belt and go to the theater 728 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,120 Speaker 1: if we're allowed to go to theaters by then. And 729 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,239 Speaker 1: I hope someone's there. I hope Lego Loss is there 730 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:09,759 Speaker 1: and he sees you in it and he says, let's 731 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,800 Speaker 1: crack on, and then you guys go do the bellish 732 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:20,280 Speaker 1: smashing in it. I hope Orlando Bloom is Austin Powers 733 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,640 Speaker 1: by the time you see and he's like in it, 734 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:29,120 Speaker 1: smashing more characters, more characters. I want I want there 735 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,880 Speaker 1: to be the Rowing Team of Sperm. I want the 736 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,320 Speaker 1: Wink of Us Twins of Sperm to be in the 737 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:40,880 Speaker 1: next These are all ideas. These are all ideals, free ideas. 738 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 1: Just what are you listening? Not not to this podcast? Yeah? 739 00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,800 Speaker 1: But thank you? Yeah, definitely check out True Romance. You 740 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,920 Speaker 1: guys will not believe what gets left on the cutting 741 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:59,480 Speaker 1: room floor incriminating evidence. Let's just say I have had 742 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,280 Speaker 1: to call the police numbers of times, a number of times. 743 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,640 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. If 744 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,800 Speaker 1: you're enjoying the show, please leave a writing review. Press 745 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,680 Speaker 1: all the stars. Even if your name is we'd gocoust 746 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,400 Speaker 1: six nine, I still want to hear what you have 747 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:21,120 Speaker 1: to say more than anyone. Thanks to the Space Classics 748 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,520 Speaker 1: for their super awesome song. X Alumina. Creature features a 749 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,440 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts like the 750 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,960 Speaker 1: one you just heard, visit the I Heart Radio app 751 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,759 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or Hey guess what? Where have you listen 752 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,000 Speaker 1: to your favorite shows? Wherever? That might be through a 753 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,560 Speaker 1: shell on a beach, whatever it is. Um You can 754 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,360 Speaker 1: find us at Creature Feature Pod on Instagram at Creature 755 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,920 Speaker 1: feat Pod. That's f e a T, not f ET. 756 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,720 Speaker 1: That is something very different. On Twitter and as always, 757 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,120 Speaker 1: I am Katie Golden on Twitter if you want to 758 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,520 Speaker 1: check out my Katie thoughts. And I am also at 759 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,000 Speaker 1: Pro Bird Rights where I fight for the rights of 760 00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:01,120 Speaker 1: birds to you know, rule over a with an iron wing, 761 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,040 Speaker 1: iron wings. Yes see you next Wednesday.