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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from how Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. Guess who's with me? Michael Douglas.

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Speaker 1: No Bryant even better than Michael Douglas, Less intense, a

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Speaker 1: little more laid back. Are you doing, Chuck, Well, we're

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Speaker 1: a pair of writers here at how stuff works dot Com.

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Speaker 1: We got some stuff to share with you. Have you

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Speaker 1: heard him into fag? I have and try every part

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Speaker 1: of the world except Europe, Canada and the United States.

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Speaker 1: That's so weird to me that that we we see

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Speaker 1: things so differently, right, I wouldn't need a bug. I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I've actually considered it. I've read your article and I

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Speaker 1: was thinking this would be an awesome, cool dinner party

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Speaker 1: to have, yeah, like have some normal food but also

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Speaker 1: have like fried cricket something like that. And the more

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Speaker 1: I thought about more, I was like, there's no way

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Speaker 1: I'm ever going to do this. Yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 1: almost ordered some uh for the article just too because

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Speaker 1: I could basically and I didn't. The story great one. Um,

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Speaker 1: so let's get into this, shall we. Let's let's talk

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Speaker 1: about this. You said Europe, America and Canada the only places.

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Speaker 1: So in Mexico, I didn't notice anyone eating bugs in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: It's big there, Okay, So I imagine that, Uh the

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Speaker 1: the there's regional differences based on the or is anyone

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Speaker 1: You eat locally? And uh it's one reason people eat

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Speaker 1: they're nutritious, and they prepare them to where you know,

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Speaker 1: they enjoy the taste. Well, I know, yeah, bugs are

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Insects are definitely plentiful. But I would imagine

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Speaker 1: I can eat like a side of eefan is sitting.

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Speaker 1: How many how many, like you know, caterpillars would it

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Speaker 1: as beefy by the way, for factor fiction listeners. All right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many caterpillars would take the filling

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Speaker 1: But as you said, they are plentiful, so they are

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Speaker 1: well before we get into the whole modern uh into mafaji.

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Speaker 1: Is that how you pronounced it. Um, we should talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about the history, because they did this

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Speaker 1: all throughout the Bible. The Greeks and Romans ate beatle

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Speaker 1: Bible there's some food that's off limits. Plenty of bugs

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Speaker 1: are are perfectly fine to eat, locus especially. I saw

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Speaker 1: recurring over and over again when I read the Bible

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Speaker 1: like rabbit, rabbit, uh, pelicans. Interestingly, I think, yeah, rabbits.

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Speaker 1: should say this is all Old Testament stuff, which I

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Speaker 1: funny you should mention arrant hair because there's a little

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Speaker 1: the Food Defect Action Levels, Levels of natural or unavoidable

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Speaker 1: four hundred or more insect fragments per fifty grams. Which

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Speaker 1: per subsample. And they didn't say the size of the substances. Yeah. Wow, Well,

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Speaker 1: that was great. Do you have any more gross out

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Speaker 1: the benefits of eating insects. Yeah. Also, I think that's

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Speaker 1: difference between eating rodent excrecia and eating bugs as far

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Speaker 1: to equate the two. No, of course not so so

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Speaker 1: they're really good for you. Yeah, go ahead. Uh well,

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Speaker 1: insect do you go for? One word? Caterpillar? Yeah, yes, caterpillar.

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