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Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to Stuff from the Science Lab from how

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Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com. Hey guys, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is Alison adam Elk, the science editor how stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. And this is Robert Lamb, science rider

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Speaker 1: how stuff Works dot Com. And today we're going to

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Speaker 1: be trading some amazing infestation stories. Have you had any

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Speaker 1: infestations at your house before? I wouldn't necessarily call them infestations,

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Speaker 1: but sure we've had various vermin and pess invader home. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like what, Well, I did live in New York for

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Speaker 1: a while, so I've dealt with my fair shirt. No,

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Speaker 1: I've never had rats. What's New York? It's it's everywhere

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Speaker 1: right well, of course, but especially on garbage night, the

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Speaker 1: night that you know, people set out there. You'd have

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Speaker 1: to you'd be walking across the sidewalk, you know, on

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Speaker 1: and the rats would come out there, you know, crawl

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Speaker 1: garbage that was by the curb on the sidewalk. It's delightful.

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Speaker 1: It was terrible. It was quite terrible. What about you

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Speaker 1: infestation stories? Well, rats, this is kind of this brings

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Speaker 1: up an interesting story. I grew up. I spent a

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Speaker 1: I was used to squirrels, right And then, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: a few years back, moved down to Atlanta, and uh,

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Speaker 1: I was. I had to drop off my my girlfriend

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Speaker 1: uh and this was like downtown Atlanta, and I pulled

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Speaker 1: It's kind of halfway stuck between this play you know,

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Speaker 1: near a Marta track, which for your non Atlanteans is

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Speaker 1: the public transportation down here. And uh, I I heard

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Speaker 1: something rummaging around over and I'm like, oh, squirrels. So

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Speaker 1: I go over to look at the squirrels. And why

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Speaker 1: would you do that? Well, because I was new to

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Speaker 1: the squirrels are up to. And what do I see

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Speaker 1: So that was that was kind of a traumatic welcome

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Speaker 1: of rats, but we have had some squirrels in the attic,

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Speaker 1: which we dealt with with some sort of pepper sprinkles. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know, a friend of mine UM actually thought she

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Speaker 1: had an infestation of flying squirrels in her attic, which

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Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty hilarious. Um, but it turned

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Speaker 1: I think she just could tolerate the idea of flying

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Speaker 1: going to talk about some more historic gnarly infestations. Um. Well,

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Speaker 1: some pretty severe examples that make our dealings with squirrels,

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Speaker 1: martyr rats, and flying squirrels UM seem rather one day.

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Speaker 1: the first one. Yes, caterpillars in northern libraria. This just yeah,

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Speaker 1: So humans have built a lot of civilization from would

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Speaker 1: And this isn't a new behavior. In fact, the termites

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Speaker 1: It's affecting more than your house. It's affecting you know,

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Speaker 1: the you know, the mathematician who's like you can't breathe

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Speaker 1: course know now as the killer be. So ended up

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Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing made a lot of killer bees.

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Speaker 1: a new species, the thread crab, the crimson crab over

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Speaker 1: And then I realized that I'm pretty much already infested,

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Speaker 1: You know, everyone, we have a bodily infestation on our hands.

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Speaker 1: And what is it? Bacteria? Yeah, so that's good. Well

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Speaker 1: many bacteria are we talking in this infestation? Well, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of microbiologists got together and announced that a regular

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Speaker 1: like I would. I would hate to have geckos outnumbering

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