1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should Know from House Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh W. 3 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: Chuck Clark. There's Charles Malcolm Bryant, and there's Jerry the 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: whiz Roll. And it sounds like an Aaron Cooper poster 5 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: gone bad. Yeah already. Yeah, we'll have like the swirling 6 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: face like the weird people in Jacob's Ladder. It's funny. 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: We had a office visitor a couple of weeks ago 8 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: and I don't think you were here, and the in fact, 9 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: I know you weren't here because you would have been 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: in here, but there was. There's our great step Brothers, 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: you know the movie Step Brothers. For those of you 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: out here out there, there's a promo of John c 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: Riley and Will Ferrell with as like with an Olan 14 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: Mills type U you know post photograph and Aaron Cooper 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: are our buddy from Kansas who does our great photoshop stuff. 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: Uh made us into I was John c Rally and 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: your Will Ferrell and the guy came in and I 18 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: was looking around and I was like, oh man, these 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: are great, and you know, look at that, you know 20 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: that looks like I don't know, it looks like it 21 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: could be like something like the movie step Brother or something. Said, Oh, 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. I tried to make him 23 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: not feel bad. That was nice of you. That was 24 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: very gracious of you as a host. Yeah, Like he 25 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: didn't quite zone in on all of them were us. 26 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: He should have like clapped loudly beside his ear. Uh man, 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: I had a little scary thing today. What happened? If 28 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: I may, this is kind of part p s A. 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with cricket farming. But um, 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: we're getting our our basement water proofed because for thirteen 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: years it's been leaking water like really bad, so much 32 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: so that we have mold now oh yeah, black mold. Yes, 33 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: And we're also getting mold remediation and done at the 34 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: same time. So needless to say, that's a fun, fun 35 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: way to spend a lot of money. Um, but I 36 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: come home today and my carbon monoxide alarm is going 37 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: off because these yahoo's are using a gas powered concrete 38 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: saw in our basement. No, and it's like full on saying, 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: you know, get out of the house, and my animals 40 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: are in there, so like, and I just happened to 41 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: go home after I went to a coffee shop to 42 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: study because I needed to grab something. But like, I 43 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: literally could have come home to dead animals man and 44 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 1: dead workman. Yeah those guys too. Wow, I'll bet they're 45 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: not the sharpest text in the box. Anyway. It was weird, man, 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: And they were down there. I mean, not only did 47 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: they not have on so much as a dust mask 48 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: for the for the gas, but like concrete dust is 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: really dangerous too. They're like, I don't care. I've got 50 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: Obama care. It was so weird, man, and just it 51 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: freaked me out to the point where Emily she wanted 52 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 1: to like fire the guy. Uh he wasn't even there, 53 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: like the you know, the foreman or the company. Yeah, 54 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: and she wanted to be like, man, if he doesn't 55 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: understand that this is dangerous, And he said, you know, 56 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 1: open up your windows, it'll be clear in fifteen minutes. 57 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: And it took two hours for that alarm to stop 58 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: going on. Oh my gosh, Wow, that is really scary. 59 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: It was really bad, man. I was out on my 60 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: deck basically for the rest of the morning until I 61 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: came in with my dogs and my cat in a crate. Man, 62 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: that's like how some people commit suicide. I know, you know, yeah, 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: and these guys are just doing it grattis for you. Yeah, 64 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: it was, uh yeah, anyway, so I'm slightly shaken. Yeah, 65 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: I'll bet. I'm glad you made it. Man. You look good. 66 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: You look okay, thank you. You look healthy. Your pallor 67 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: isn't gaunt. I think you're You're okay. I just gotta 68 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: calm down here. That the sound of the crickets on 69 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: our miniature cricket farm here for soothing me. At least 70 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: I know they'd put me to sleep. I'm glad we 71 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: set that up. That was pretty good. That was one 72 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: of our better segways. Sadly enough. Thanks. Um. Yeah, we 73 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: are talking crickets, aren't we. Yeah, we covered into mafaji A. 74 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: Meant to look up when, but it was. It seems 75 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: like a long time ago, right, And that's eating bugs 76 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: and insects. But this is focusing specifically on crickets because 77 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: by all accounts, they seem like sort of the our 78 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: best bet at trying to get something like this going 79 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: in America for real. Yeah, they're I mean, they're pretty 80 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: easy to raise. Uh, they don't require much space. You 81 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: can set up your own cricket farm at home. Um. 82 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: And really we should say the point of all this, 83 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: the whole reason anybody would want people to start raising 84 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: crickets at home is because the um, well, the the 85 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: earth is about to collapse and our food supply is 86 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: in in real danger. Right. So I've got some stats 87 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: for you, chuck. So, meat consumption per capita has um 88 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: increased into the developed world. Actually it's doubled in the 89 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: last thirty years, and that's thanks in no small part 90 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: to the rise of the brick countries Brazil, Russia, India, 91 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: and China, who have huge, massive populations. As they entered 92 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: capitalist um the capitalist global economy um, have generally become enriched, 93 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: and the more money they have, the more meat civilization 94 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,479 Speaker 1: tends to consume, at least these days. Right. So that 95 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: doesn't seem bad in and of itself until you look 96 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: into what kind of resources it takes to actually raise meat. 97 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: So you're ready for this one, I don't know. I'm 98 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: afraid to produce one pound of meat that's a half 99 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: a kilo basically of meat beef. Sorry, yeah, um, it 100 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: requires about four hundred gallons of water. I've heard stuff 101 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: like that before, which is like absolutely nuts, even when 102 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 1: you consider that Not only are you watering the cow, 103 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: you're also watering, you know that the crops that you 104 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: feed to the cow, So there's double water consumption. But 105 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: one of the problem, one of the reasons cattle beef 106 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: requires so much um water is because you only consume 107 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: of the cow. So the water is going to sustain 108 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 1: parts of the cow you're not even eating, right, So 109 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: there's a lot of wasted water, even if your water 110 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: delivery system is efficient, right, that's just water. Fifty one 111 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: of the greenhouse gases that are admitted on planet Earth 112 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: come from animal agriculture and um. One third of the 113 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: world's adequate or high quality crop land has been lost 114 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: to erosion or pollution in the last forty years. And 115 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: then that's a huge problem, whether we are all vegetarians 116 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: or not, because we're talking crop land, but we use 117 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: way more crop land to feed our livestock than we 118 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: do to feed ourselves. Right, Something like fifty six million 119 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: acres of land are used to grow crops in the 120 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: United States to feed animals. Four million are used to 121 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: grow crops for human consumption. So there's a lot, a 122 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: lot of resources that are used up just from meat 123 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: based diets, right, A lot of people say, well, just 124 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: go to plant based diets, and other people say you 125 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: can't get enough protein from plant based diets, which apparently 126 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: is not true from from what I'm seeing. Um, other 127 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: people are saying, fine, you want some protein, I got 128 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: something for you, and it's crickets. Yeah, I'm kind of 129 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: a I'm not surprised, but it goes to show you 130 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: the population boom. If meat consumption is increased that much 131 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: in the face of probably more vegetarianism and v aganism 132 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: then ever before too. You know, well, that's kind of heartening, 133 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: like if if there does seem to be if I 134 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: guess if if societies follow, Yeah, like we should. I mean, 135 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: we've been dancing around doing episodes on vegetarianism and veganism 136 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: for a while, so we should probably tackle that at 137 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: some point. I'm kind of curious about the history because 138 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: it seems like in the like probably since the onset 139 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: of America until uh and then I'm just I'm talking 140 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: off the top of my head here, but until probably 141 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: the nineties, it seems like everybody was just like meat, meat, meat, meat, meat. Well, 142 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: there's a I mean, it's definitely associated with wealth, right, 143 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: if you can afford to eat a nice steak kind 144 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: of indicates you have a certain amount of status in 145 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: your society, right, well, like the fifties, it seems like 146 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: they would eat steak for lunch, right And I can't 147 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: imagine like a steak for lunch. That seems so indulgent. Yeah, 148 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: I think it is, you know, yeah, like, yeah, just 149 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: give me, give me the twenty ounce ribby for lunch. 150 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: It's just I don't know, I can't imagine that. But 151 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: in three martinis. I don't argue with that part. That 152 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: is pretty indulgent. Three martinis in a twenty ounce by 153 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: four lunch. I mean that was don Draper, you know. Yeah, 154 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: I never saw that show. I know, I never saw it. 155 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: It's it's available. Where is it out there? Really? I 156 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: thought they erased it all. Yeah they did. They said 157 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: that's it, it's done. Didn't he go become a lumberjack 158 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: in at the end? No he did? Okay, oh that's 159 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: texting uh oh man. And then we talked about the 160 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: ending of that show. Greg, I actually never saw the 161 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: end of that one. You just told me about it. Yeah, 162 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: I think you stild it to yourself just to watch 163 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: the finale. Um. So this dude Kevin, Uh, how would 164 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: you pronounce that b B A C H, which is fine, 165 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,599 Speaker 1: that's clearly Bach and h U b R. You just 166 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: don't often see two h's side by side. So anyway, 167 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,599 Speaker 1: Kevin Bakuba Uh is a dude that is kind of championing, 168 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: not kind of very much championing this movement. In two 169 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: thousand seven, he went to Thailand and tasted crickets deep 170 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: fried crickets and Uh, he's from California, and he was like, Hey, 171 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: this is really good. He's been far out. They've been 172 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: doing this UM in Thailand since the late nineties. The 173 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: king established a big growing program for crickets and cricket 174 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: farms UM education in schools, like you know, this is 175 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: a good way to get protein in your diet. And 176 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: he said, I think this is the direction of America 177 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: should go. And I'm going to get in on the 178 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: the money side of it. Yeah, like the farming of it. 179 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: Apparently it's a twenty million dollar industry already. Not bad. No, 180 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: it isn't UM. And we should say that Bach cuber 181 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: Was is one of several um people who are into this, uh. 182 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: The idea of cricket farming, commercial cricket farming UM, and 183 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: he's definitely one of the o G s for sure. 184 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: His business was the first to get approval to sell 185 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: crickets as food in the United States. We got FDA 186 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: approval because the cricket industry actually is kind of old. 187 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: Well it's not too old, but I saw anywhere between 188 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: fifty and seventy years old in the US UM. And 189 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: they're raised to say feed fish for commercial fish farming, 190 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: or to grind up as a protein supplement for um 191 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: livestock feed. So people have been raising crickets for a while, 192 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: or to feed to like reptiles, um to sell them 193 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: to pet stores. So there there was an established infrastructure 194 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: of cricket farming UM. But the making the transition from 195 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: selling it to feed to cows or fish or snakes 196 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: to selling it to people to eat directly, that's that 197 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: was a big step, and bok Huber was the first 198 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: one to take it in the US UM. I should 199 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: just say the reason I point out he's just one 200 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: of many is because this How Stuff Works article is 201 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: basically like here's my report on Kevin bok Huber's ted 202 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: ted talk. You know, yeah, I think just he he 203 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: definitely deserves you know, credit because he's leading the charge, 204 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: but so are other people as well. Yeah, he's wo 205 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: went throughout this thing though. Yeah. Um. And you know, 206 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: if you listen to the Intamafaji episode episode no, it's 207 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 1: it's episode. UM. We pointed out then and it bears 208 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: repeating that America is new to this, but I think 209 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: it was. Canada and the United States and in Western 210 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: Europe are literally the only places on Earth that don't 211 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: consume insects as a regular part of their diet these days. 212 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: So I saw so this article kind of says the 213 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: standard of the world regularly consumes insects as part of 214 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: their diet. I saw that there's a a Food and 215 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: Agriculture organization, the u N Organization reports said something it 216 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: was more like about a third of the populations rather 217 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 1: than eight percent, maybe like thirty which is still significant. 218 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: It is um and in in the West specifically, the 219 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: idea of eating bugs is not It's not commonplace, right, 220 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 1: And I actually saw a pretty good explanation for why. Um, 221 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: Like thirteen of the fourteen large livestock animals that are 222 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: domesticated are found in Eurasia and made their way over 223 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: to the America's and those things those animals provide not 224 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: just meat, but also things like milk, um, clothing, everything. Basically, 225 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 1: So since since these what you would call Western countries 226 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: had access to these domesticated animal most they never needed 227 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: bugs as a food source. And then secondly, since they 228 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 1: were raising domesticated animals, by definition, they had um a 229 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: sedentary um agricultural lifestyle, which meant that their exposure to 230 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: bugs was bugs as pests. So not only were bugs 231 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: not edible, they were something you that were just undesirable 232 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: on their face. So that led to the it closed 233 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: the door on bugs being eaten by Westerners, and so 234 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: that that came to be filled by a sense of disgust, 235 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: which is a basic human emotion, but it's the only 236 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: one that's culturally bound, which means you learn what is 237 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: disgusting from your from your cultural group, for sure, but 238 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: that also means you can unlearn it too. Well, this 239 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: big cricket has anything to do with it. Uh, why 240 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: don't we take a quick break and gonna come back 241 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: and talked about a UN report that kind of changed 242 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: a lot of things about four years ago? Change, all right, 243 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: So I promised you a UN report. Uh, there was 244 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: a big kind of sea change. I don't know about 245 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: sea change. It was the beginning beginning of the sea change. Uh. 246 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: They issued a report called Edible Insects Colon Future Prospects 247 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: for Food and Feed Security, and it was basically just 248 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: championing um intoma fagy and all the benefits that surround it, 249 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: like how nutrient dense crickets and other insects are, the 250 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: fact that it's um socially sustainable, UM economically viable and friendly, 251 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: environmentally friendly, and it kind of, you know, kind of 252 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: paints it as like, hey, this this is the future, 253 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: or it could be part of the future at least 254 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: of getting protein into you know, Americans, right. And the 255 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: report itself didn't focus exclusively on crickets, but crickets feature 256 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: prominently in the report to the it was about. It 257 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: was about bugs in general and eating bugs in general UM, 258 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: and it was it made a pretty big splash. I 259 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: remember when it came out like that. It really hit 260 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: the news cycle pretty hard. But it also caught the 261 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: attention of that box cuber guy who said, all right, 262 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I think I'm gonna get into this because 263 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: he had already been exposed to eating crickets in Thailand. 264 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: And then that when that UN report came out, he 265 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: I think um began his start up here in the 266 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: States of his commercial cricket farm start up. Yeah. It's 267 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: funny they have put in this article that it was 268 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: the most popular document in the history of the u N. 269 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't see that anywhere. I think that 270 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: was he said that at his ted report. Yeah yeah, 271 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,719 Speaker 1: but um yeah, they definitely made a splash. I'll give 272 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: him that for sure. Yeah, he spoke at a ted 273 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: X Youngstown, Ohio, because that's where he's base, that's where 274 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: his company is, and I guess he he just made 275 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: up his own ted X probably. All right, So let's 276 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: talk about crickets. Um. Well, all insects in particular are 277 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: very rich in protein. Like we've talked about. They have 278 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: a lot of healthy fats, a lot of zinc, a 279 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: lot of iron, a lot of calcium. Uh. And there's 280 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: something called I guess efficient animals. Um, well, yeah, I 281 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: mean this is when vegetarians and vegans are like, these 282 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: kind of terms make their skin crawl. I'm sure. But 283 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: the kind of efficiency you get out of raising, in killing, 284 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: and eating an animal is on a spectrum. And you 285 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: know from cows, like you talked about, it's probably the worst. 286 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: I wouldn't guess, don't you think? Right? Right? The animal 287 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: itself is efficient at converting food that you feed it 288 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: into stuff that you can get from it. Yeah, So, 289 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: like you said, not a lot of the cow is 290 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: used to eat. No, it's like of a cow is 291 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: is edible and digestible. And I think the chicken is 292 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: about the most efficient animal protein right now, stuff like crickets. 293 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: So there's two different things here, right. So you've got 294 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: um efficiency in nutrient conversion, which is say, like if 295 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: you eat an apple, you can convert you know x 296 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: amount of the energy available in the apple into you know, 297 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: energy for yourself metabolism, right right, Yeah? That but poop 298 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: is waste, so that stuff wouldn't count toward efficiency. It 299 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: would actually subtract from your efficiency and lower your efficiency. 300 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: If you ate an apple and used every bit of 301 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: it and it produced zero poop, you would have efficiently 302 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: converted that app all into useful energy. Right. It would 303 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,239 Speaker 1: be to be a magic apple and you wouldn't need 304 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: a poop shoot, um, but instead you do. Because there 305 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: is no such thing as percent efficiency in any animal, right, 306 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: But some are better than others, like you were saying, 307 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,479 Speaker 1: and with a cricket, it's something like, um, they're like 308 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: twelve times more efficient at converting food into usable energy 309 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,959 Speaker 1: or stored in this case stored protein. Right, So for 310 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: every kilogram of live cricket weight, which is a pretty 311 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: substantial amount of crickets, but but kilogram to kilogram or 312 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: pound a pound, it just takes one point seven kilograms 313 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: of feed to produce one kilogram of live crickets. Not 314 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: bad for a cow. It takes ten kilograms of feed 315 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: to produce one kilogram of beef, very inefficient by comparison. 316 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 1: So if you take the fact that it doesn't take 317 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: much feed to produce a biomass of crickets, and that 318 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: crickets are edible and digestible compared to the cows edible 319 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: and digestible, then you really have a if you're just 320 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: going pound to pound or kilogram to kilogram, and much 321 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: more nutrient dense, much more efficient, and then therefore much less, 322 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: much less wasteful um animal that you could eat. Yeah, 323 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 1: a lot of that has to do with the fact 324 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: that crickets are cold blooded, so they're very much more 325 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: efficient at converting that feed into protein. And um, crickets 326 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: aren't even the most efficient insect, you know, No, huh, 327 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: I'm not sure which one is. Actually, I think meal 328 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: worms are pretty efficient. You just said that because you're 329 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: eating a meal worm. Right, Well, I have a meal 330 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: worm farm. I was gonna ask you to buy in 331 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: on huh all right in my pocket. See is that 332 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: a meal worm farm in your pocket? It is I 333 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: pocket mulch uh. So, like we mentioned Mr bach Uba 334 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: is um. If he's not German, he should be Kevin 335 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: back Ruber. I think he's a He's Irish German. Maybe 336 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 1: it's spelled k v in though, so we're just inserting 337 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: vowels for me, right, like d n C E. What's that? 338 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 1: It's this band? Okay, probably the young person's band, I believe, so, 339 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,199 Speaker 1: no wonder, I don't know, but he has one of 340 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: I think they're about and this has probably changed even 341 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: since this has written about twenty five or so cricket 342 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: startup farms here in the United States. Yeah, I couldn't 343 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: find the current number. Yeah, let's just say at least 344 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: twenty five, although all but they go under pretty quick, 345 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: you think, so. I could see I could see losing 346 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 1: your shirt on cricket farming right now, it's so it's 347 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: just so early, and and the market is so not there, 348 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: and the stuff that producing is so expensive. Well, and 349 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: their output right now is still really small. Um, in 350 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: the in the early years here. But you know, the 351 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: dream for for him and all these cricket farmers is 352 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: that that one day it will it will. I don't 353 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: think they have designs that will ever be like in 354 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: some parts of the world where it's on every menu 355 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: and every restaurant, but they would certainly like to see 356 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: cricket snacks in grocery stores and um menu offerings and 357 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: some some of the more wacky hipster restaurants at least. Yeah. 358 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: Did you do you watch Shirt Tank? Oh? You know, 359 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: I do? Okay, So did you see the one with 360 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: Rose Wang and Laura Dasario. I've seen them all, Okay. 361 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: So you saw the one with Chirps their snack, their 362 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: cricket based stack product, Chirps. I want to try it. 363 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: I do too. Um. I'm not like, I'm not an 364 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: adventurous eater, as you know, but I would totally try 365 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: fried crickets and things that doesn't gross me out for 366 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: some reason. No, I I and I would try it 367 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 1: as well, and do you I don't know if you 368 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: remember not. But when we did that uh locust thing 369 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: for Science Channel, it's like the second time has come 370 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 1: up this month. Weirdly enough. Um, they made fried locusts 371 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: and I refused to eat them. And it wasn't because 372 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: I was grossed out. It was because I was sure 373 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: that I was going to have some sort of weird 374 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: allergic reaction to them, and I would have had, yeah, 375 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: and I would have had to have been, like, you know, 376 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: life flighted somewhere to a hospital and would have missed 377 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: my flight home. Um. That that is the only reason 378 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: I didn't eat them. It had nothing to do with disgust. 379 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: But in that u N report they address allergies and 380 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 1: they said that it's actually exceedingly rare that somebody has 381 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: an allergic reaction to an arthropod um or to an insect. 382 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: I should say, um, But the reason why I thought 383 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: so was because, yeah, I had had um, I like 384 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: a shrimp blow up once and I just was not 385 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: about to roll the dice on that, not for what 386 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: Science Channel was paying. Well, I think it's very funny 387 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: that you, uh, I remember your shrimp. You're shrimp years 388 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: in that you had an allergic reaction to shrimp, but 389 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: you wanted to eat shrimp so bad you started to 390 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: eat shrimp a little bit just to see if you 391 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: could eat shrimp. Yeah. Shrimp chips, yeah, which use real 392 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: shrimp powder. It's like I think Japanese or Korean or 393 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: Chinese delicacy. But now you can eat shrimp, right. Yeah, 394 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: I did immunotherapy and now I'm fine. I can eat 395 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: shrimp all day long. I love that you were so 396 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,239 Speaker 1: dedicated to Yeah. I love shrimp. Man, good shrimp, like 397 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: season with old Bay, just simple stuff. Oh man, so good. Uh, 398 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: this is a great time to bring up one of 399 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 1: my big pet peeves. I know that cooking with shrimp 400 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: heads and tails on increases the flavor quite a bit. Yeah, 401 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: which is why they do it. Um. But it's one 402 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 1: thing if you get an appetizer with like the uh, 403 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 1: like a prawn with a head left on or something. 404 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: But if you like I get pasta dishes sometimes, oh 405 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: that have like heads and tails on them. If there's 406 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: a fork involved, you don't want to have to put 407 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: your fork down and take the head and tail off. No, 408 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: like you literally have to dig them out of the pasta, 409 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: take the head and tail off and then put them 410 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 1: back in your food, right, which is just I don't 411 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: get why restaurants do that, Like maybe cook it in 412 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: there and then take it off for us. So I 413 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: ran across the reason probably why. All right, let's hear it. 414 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: There's something called keton which makes up the exoskeleton of 415 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: m of bugs, but it also makes up the shells 416 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: of crustaceans as well. UM and kiton. Supposedly, if you 417 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: don't have an allergic reaction to it, Kiton is apparently 418 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: good for it's it's said to be good for weight loss, UM, 419 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 1: digestion aids in digestion allegedly UM and I think it 420 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,719 Speaker 1: has something to do with your blood pressure too. And 421 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: in other countries, non non non Western countries, I think 422 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: they prescribed kitan quite a bit as like a dietary supplement. UM. 423 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,120 Speaker 1: And I saw one study that said, yeah, it had 424 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: a little bit of an effect, a little more than placebo, 425 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: but not clinically significant. But it was just one study, 426 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 1: So I'm I'm curious if if kitton actually does have 427 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: an effect, but it's possible. They're saying you should eat 428 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: the whole thing. Well, that's the shell. What I mean, 429 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 1: it's I don't know. They could also just be a fat, 430 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: lazy chef, you know. Well, I mean I'll eat a 431 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: soft shell crab so the cows come home. But I'm 432 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: not eating a shrimp tail. Yeah it sounds gross. Well, 433 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: it's just not like, uh, they don't soften up enough, 434 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: you know. But if you think about it, though, if 435 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: you're eating a fried cricket or something, you're eating the 436 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: whole thing shell and all antenna. Well yeah, but I 437 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: think that in the in the soft shell crab zone, 438 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: So you eat the shell of the soft shell crab. Yeah, 439 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do, That's what it is. 440 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: I don't know that i've ever had soft shell him. Oh, 441 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: my friend, is that like a blue crab. No. I 442 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: think it's a special kind of crab that has parents 443 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: must love it very much. I might be wrong. I 444 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: think it's a special kind of crab and then you 445 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: prepare it with the shell. But I think the shell 446 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: is soft to begin with, though. I don't think it's 447 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: just from cooking. But like spider Roll is one of 448 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: my favorite sushi rolls, that's a soft shell crab. Okay, yeah, 449 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: I thought that was crab like spelled with the K 450 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 1: like fake crab. No, No, that like the little legs 451 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 1: are coming out at the end and everything. That's what 452 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: they call it a spider roll because it looks like 453 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 1: a little spider legs. And I'll try that and then uh, 454 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: like a soft shell crab sandwiches, I mean open the 455 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: bun and there's just like this crab staring at you. Yeah, going, 456 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: how's it going. You're gonna eat me in a second, 457 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: aren't you. Oh, I'm getting hungry now, and you want 458 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: to take a break real quick, well quickly before we 459 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: just should mention that they did get a deal on 460 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: Shark Tank with Mark Cuban. Right, we're contractually obligated to 461 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: munch and Mark Cuban, that's right. We get our kickback coming. 462 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: I would try chirps for sure. If the Trips people 463 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,199 Speaker 1: are out there listening and you want to send us 464 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: some chirps, I will try them up, all right, So 465 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: let's take that break, Okay, So chuck, we said, um, 466 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: I think I said that one of the things that's 467 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: holding this industry back right now is that the it's 468 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: so expensive the products they're making. Um, there's something called 469 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: cricket flour, which is ground up cricket meal basically a 470 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: protein powder made from crickets, right, and it's it's anywhere 471 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: from like thirty five to fifty dollars a pound for it. 472 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: It's very expensive, a lot of money. But it's really 473 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: ironic because crickets require so much less um space and 474 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: food and water, um and electricity. It's apparently the the 475 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: labor force that is the most expensive thing of any 476 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: commercial cricket farm because there it's just hard to find 477 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: people who can do that, even though it's not exactly hard, 478 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: it's just there's a lot of trial and error going on. 479 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: So from what I saw, is the labor force that's 480 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: that's eating up most of them the revenue or profits 481 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: from cricket farming well, planning all those tiny people, those 482 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: three people, right, it's not easy. But there are startups 483 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: also that are that are trying to sell like home 484 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: cricket kits too, because that's part of the whole idea 485 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: where if you're gonna get people to supplement their diet, 486 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 1: well just let them grow them at home too. So 487 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: should we talk a little bit about this the farming. Yeah, 488 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: so crickets live about seven weeks. Um. I mean that 489 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: right there shows you a big difference between that and 490 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: like the beef industry. Uh So during that seven week 491 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: life cycle, they they have three different environments that they 492 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: reside in and they basically live and hang out on 493 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: what they call cricket high rises, which are little egg cartons. Yeah, 494 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: I saw that. The um they have tried all sorts 495 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: of different material and they keep going back to egg 496 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: cartons for some reason. Crickets just love hanging out on 497 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: egg cartons. Well, who doesn't, uh. And what they eat 498 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: is because I was kind of wondering that they eat 499 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: grain based feed, organic grain based feed, um, fruits and vegetables. 500 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: And they some of them will reach that breeding stage, 501 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,719 Speaker 1: some won't, and if they do, they're gonna lay a 502 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: lot of eggs, like you know, several thousand eggs a 503 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: mommy cricket will lay in her lifetime. Yeah, so many 504 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: eggs in fact that they they typically just throw most 505 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: of them out, like they'll keep some to grow a 506 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: new generation from. But there's just so many that are 507 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: just tossed out because they don't have the capacity yet 508 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: to grow them. Um. So that you know there, I 509 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: think bok Hubert put it like he could be drowning 510 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: in eggs. If he's not careful drowning in cricket eggs. 511 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: He probably wakes up every night sweating. He probably really 512 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: does wake up every night from the cricket chirping. Oh, 513 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: I never really thought about that. That must be nice. Actually, yeah, 514 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: it can be. So they like hot human environments, or 515 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: at least warm, depending on your definition of hot. Hot 516 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: to me eight to ninety five degrees fahrenheit with about 517 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: a forty humidity level, and the whole process from soup 518 00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: to nuts or from eggs to chirps is about fifty 519 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: six yeah. Um yeah. And if you you can do 520 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: this yourself at home, you just need basically two terrariums. 521 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: You need to put them near heat because that is substantial. 522 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,239 Speaker 1: Eight to nine degrees is hot, waight, hotter than you're 523 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: gonna keep your house. So you do need like a 524 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: heat lamp of some sort, and you need water a 525 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: source of water to Those are the two most important 526 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: things with raising crickets. And the reason you have two 527 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: terrariums is because in the one where you have like 528 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: the thirty h initial crickets, say, um, you're gonna put 529 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: a dish of soil, and that's where they're going to 530 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 1: lay their eggs. You want to check the soil every 531 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: day for eggs. And when you find eggs, you take 532 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: that little soiled dish out and put it in the 533 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: other terrarium. And then that's where the eggs are gonna 534 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: grow and hatch. And um, when the crickets hatch, they're 535 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: fully formed. There's no larval stage, right, they don't go 536 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: from like a maggot into a cricket. They're fully formed. 537 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: They're just much smaller, right, And according to Aris Stottle, 538 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: it's about around here or maybe within the next week 539 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: or so, that they're the most delicious. Aristotle. Yeah, Aristotle 540 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: wrote in his Historia an Amalium. Actually he was writing 541 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: about cicadas that um, they're better when uh there before 542 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: their last mold. So I guess I wouldn't apply to crickets, No, 543 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: I would, because they did they they do more. He 544 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: also said that females taste best after copulation because they 545 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 1: are full of eggs after Aristotle has copulated, right or 546 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: after instead of a cigarette, just seed a pregnant female cicada. 547 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: Try this baby, right, It'll knock your socks off, I 548 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 1: bet Aristotle, pillow talk with something else or just be 549 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: like uh yeah, and he just keeps going on and 550 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: on about cicadas. Um, so harvesting. Uh, I mean, there's 551 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: no way around it. At some point, like any live 552 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: thing that you're raising, you're gonna have to kill it. 553 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 1: And instead of um, like what we see on factory 554 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: farms with cows and pigs, what you do on a 555 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 1: cricket farm is you cool them down and then freeze them. 556 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: And so what happens is they they get cold, they 557 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: start to get a little chili, their temperature drops, and 558 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: they go into what's called a dia pause um, sort 559 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,720 Speaker 1: of a hibernation like state. And then pretty much after 560 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: that they go it is sure as chilian here and 561 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,760 Speaker 1: then they're gone and frozen. Yeah, apparently they eventually free solid. 562 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: So they spent about twenty four hours in the freezer 563 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: and then they're ready to be sold either ground in 564 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: to say like a powder or baked into a fried snack, 565 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 1: or sold to somebody else. But that's that. And I 566 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: was like, do they wake up then if you if 567 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,879 Speaker 1: you heat them up in a pan, But apparently after 568 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,479 Speaker 1: twenty four hours and they're frozen solid, they're they're dead, 569 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,800 Speaker 1: but to them it's just like going to sleep forever. 570 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: Yeah what Um? I kind of wonder when I was 571 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: reading this, I was like, how do veacons and vegetarians 572 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: feel about eating in sex. Supposedly it does not count 573 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: as vegetarian. Well, it depends on who you ask. Um. 574 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: I didn't get any like there is no official rule book. Um, 575 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: there's not. I don't think so. But basically, I just 576 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: went to a bunch of vegan and vegetarian websites and 577 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: looked to see what people said and it it kind 578 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: of ranged from well, sure, allied insects and this is 579 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,839 Speaker 1: a much better way to to get protein in your 580 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: body than animals, um, to where other people said, no, 581 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: it's a living thing, not going to eat it. I 582 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: get all the protein I need from plants. If you're 583 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,919 Speaker 1: eating something a live animal, then you're not a vegan 584 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 1: or a vegetarian. Yeah. I saw crickets referred to as 585 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: many livestock all one word. I mean they are a 586 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: live there, a living animal. So I guess it's a 587 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: personal choice. That sounds like yeah, just like you know 588 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 1: vegetarians eat fish sometimes too. Uh, well, that'd be a pesctarian, right, 589 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: I guess. But I've met plenty of vegetarians. They're like, 590 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 1: I'm a vegetarian and I eat fish, leave me alone. 591 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 1: And that's an ego. Technically you're a pescutarian and then 592 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: you get punched in the face. Right. Uh. So eating 593 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:17,320 Speaker 1: crickets um, Some people say sort of nutty. Some people 594 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: say it's a little sweet, like sweet corn. I'm I 595 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:22,879 Speaker 1: would like to know for myself. I wish we could 596 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: have gotten her hand on some chirps beforehand, but maybe 597 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: we can follow up in the future. We need a 598 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,799 Speaker 1: big bowl of chirps right here, like yeah, like we 599 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: did with soilon. Yeah, with a soilon, soilon, we'll do 600 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 1: a follow up soilon. Um. So there's this lady, Daniella Martin, 601 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 1: and she has a travel show and a well it's 602 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: an insect cooking and travel show called Girl Meets Bug. 603 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 1: Very cute. Um and we should say the chirps. Ladies 604 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: called crickets the gateway bug also that was kind of funny, 605 00:36:55,520 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: uh and puny. And Daniella says that she started eating 606 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,280 Speaker 1: crickets and kind of became fascinated with insects in general 607 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:09,080 Speaker 1: when she was in Mexico and Yucatan, and it kind 608 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 1: of became, I don't think, obsessed, but just super interested 609 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 1: in this as a as her protein of choice, and said, 610 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 1: you know, I started cooking him up with the little 611 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:23,760 Speaker 1: a little butter, little onion, little salt, and like with anything, 612 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,279 Speaker 1: if you put it in a pan with some butter 613 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 1: and onion and salt, maybe a little garlic, it's probably 614 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: gonna taste pretty darn good. Yeah. You could cook almost 615 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,919 Speaker 1: anything with butter, salt and onions and you're fine. Yeah, 616 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 1: even when you hear stories of these creepy cannibal people, 617 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 1: think you should cook it in butter with a little 618 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 1: salt and onion and garlic. Yeah, I think that one 619 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: guy who advertised on like Craigslist cannibal he yeah, he's 620 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,200 Speaker 1: saw tatd with yeah onion, you're right, huh, Yes, I 621 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 1: think it was. I would say what he ate penis 622 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 1: that he did, and that was a very disturbing case. 623 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 1: Sure so, um, she says, Uh, Crisping him in the 624 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,800 Speaker 1: oven is another besides you know, grinding them in the powder, 625 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: cooking them up like broiling him in the oven. Don't 626 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,759 Speaker 1: overcook it. Olive oil with garlic, salt, throw them in 627 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,759 Speaker 1: about two fifty about fifteen minutes and a little sea 628 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: salt on top maybe, and you're gonna have a crunchy, delicious, 629 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 1: nutrient rich snack. Yeah. And you want to clean them 630 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: off too if you're cooking them from raw, I mean 631 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,600 Speaker 1: they're they're bugs. Uh, that's it's something you want to do. 632 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,720 Speaker 1: What do you do just like wash them in the calendar? 633 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 1: I guess so yeah. Um, but I think like if 634 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 1: they're already prepared, you're probably okay. Um. Because one of 635 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 1: the big things that that that like bok Hubert did 636 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,359 Speaker 1: by getting f day approval, like now you can't just 637 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: raise crickets on just anything, like they have to be 638 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:58,080 Speaker 1: fed food that is okay for humans. The two um, 639 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: which is something that the cricket farming industry is running 640 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,839 Speaker 1: up against because one of the big things proponents are 641 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,560 Speaker 1: saying is like, man, you could raise crickets if you 642 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: had large scale cricket farms, you could raise crickets on 643 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 1: food waste. And if you if you if you do that, 644 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,800 Speaker 1: not only are you like raising your crickets, you're also 645 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: getting rid of food waste. You're composting basically, right, composting, 646 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,160 Speaker 1: that's the way you say it. Um. But apparently AFTERDA 647 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: he's like, now you can't feed things food waste your 648 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: nut job. You're gonna eat it eventually, so there's big 649 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,360 Speaker 1: rules against it. But that I think they're trying to 650 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,839 Speaker 1: chip away at that as well. Yeah. I remember being 651 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,440 Speaker 1: alarmed when I briefly worked in the chicken industry when 652 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,719 Speaker 1: I found out that a lot of chicken feed is 653 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,520 Speaker 1: made from chickens. Yeah not not okay, Yeah, it's just 654 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,880 Speaker 1: it's not right. So I saw in I think Popular Science, 655 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: they had a little nutrition facts thing for crickets. It's 656 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,720 Speaker 1: so cute. They said, for a hundred grams of crickets, 657 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,480 Speaker 1: you're can add about a hundred and twenty hundred and 658 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 1: twenty one calories um. You've got about five and a 659 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,440 Speaker 1: half grams of carbs, twelve point nine grams of protein 660 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:18,960 Speaker 1: that is substantial um, seventy five point eight milligrams of calcium, 661 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,839 Speaker 1: and nine and a half milligrams of iron. That's also 662 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,840 Speaker 1: pretty substantial. Just from a hundred grams. I think they 663 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: estimate that's about twenty to twenty two crickets um, like 664 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: a handful and a half. Nice. That is, that's pretty good. 665 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,240 Speaker 1: And and the idea that if you are just raising 666 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:41,200 Speaker 1: cricket yourself. You can feed them your own kitchen waist 667 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: and then eat the cricket yourself. There's also, right right, 668 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:52,240 Speaker 1: there's also um very low barriers to entry into cricket farming. 669 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,840 Speaker 1: So if you're um, if you're not a wealthy person 670 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,040 Speaker 1: and you need to make some extra money, you could 671 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,839 Speaker 1: conceivably raise cricket yourself and then sell them at market too. 672 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:09,239 Speaker 1: It's like podcasting, exactly exactly. I think that's it. I 673 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,400 Speaker 1: got nothing else. All right, Well, let's cricket farming. Everybody 674 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,600 Speaker 1: go make it happen. And in the meantime, you can 675 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,759 Speaker 1: look at this article on how stuff works dot com. 676 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: And since I said that it's time for a listener mail, 677 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,399 Speaker 1: I'm going to call this Kevin Spacey's accent, explained. Oh 678 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,440 Speaker 1: and before I read this, there is a House of 679 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:35,239 Speaker 1: Cards spoiler alert to that. Hey, guys, just listen to 680 00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,959 Speaker 1: the episode on accents. I'm happy you brought up Kevin 681 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 1: Spacey's accent from House of Cards because I have a theory. 682 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 1: Spacey plays a character Frank Underwood, grew up poor in Gaffney, 683 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 1: South Carolina, but then went on to the Citadel and 684 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,360 Speaker 1: Charleston and created a persona that eventually lands him president. 685 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,520 Speaker 1: His accent does not sound like a bad attempt at 686 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,839 Speaker 1: the r less old money Charleston accent, but I think 687 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,720 Speaker 1: it fits the character instead of a twang are full 688 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:05,320 Speaker 1: accent that he'd have from Gaffney. Spacey's playing Frank Underwood, 689 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,839 Speaker 1: who was playing someone with noble Southern roots, and that's 690 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 1: why it sounds fake. Am I giving Kevin Spacey too 691 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,760 Speaker 1: much credit? Possibly? But being from Greenville, South Carolina, enjoyed 692 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,759 Speaker 1: dissecting his Carolina accent, And actually I don't have much 693 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,160 Speaker 1: of an accent myself, except with words like a lawyer 694 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:27,080 Speaker 1: and oil. Jerry just left because my brother, who's ten 695 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,440 Speaker 1: years older, trained it out of me when I was 696 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,839 Speaker 1: very young. He said he didn't want people to underestimate 697 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 1: my intelligence because of our accent. He would correct me 698 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,879 Speaker 1: every time I would say things like turn the light 699 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,800 Speaker 1: zone instead of turned the lights on, or naked instead 700 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:46,320 Speaker 1: of naked. If you're saying naked, length to dry bamboo 701 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,800 Speaker 1: and say again again. I sort of wish I sounded 702 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 1: more like the rest of my family. But what a 703 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 1: considerate thing for my big brother could have done when 704 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:58,400 Speaker 1: he was a teenager and that is from Mary Jean Murphy. 705 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,759 Speaker 1: That was pretty great. Mary Jean, Your brother is a 706 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,279 Speaker 1: little social engineer, isn't he? I like that, Um, and 707 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,520 Speaker 1: thank you also for the spoiler about Kevin Spacey becoming 708 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,839 Speaker 1: president on House of Cards. If you want to get 709 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,880 Speaker 1: in touch with us like she did, you can tweet 710 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,239 Speaker 1: to us. So that's y SK podcast. I'm also at 711 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: josh um Clark. You can hang out with us on 712 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash Stuff you Should Know. You can 713 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,279 Speaker 1: hang out with Chuck at Facebook dot com, slash Charles W. 714 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,000 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. 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