WEBVTT - Do toads cause warts? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.600 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know? 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.920 From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.880 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.480 one Mr Charles W. Luscious Bryant, we call him Chuckers. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.720 He calls me to come to his head and this 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.840 is stuff you should know. Welcome. How's it going, Chuck, dude? 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.440 That may be the best intro ever. Thank you. It's 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.200 the fact that I'm not wearing pants right now. I 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.479 think I feel very free and easy, compass head and 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:37.159 a little sweaty. Actually okay, then, so, Chuck, have you 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.839 ever had warts? Did you have warts when your kid um? 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:44.159 I have had two incidences of warts. Currently, I have 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.840 a wart on my uh, sort of near my knee 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:50.120 and it's been there a long time and it's not 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.239 one of those real gnarly ones. It sticks up, you know, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.800 out into the universe. It's like pretty small and not 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.760 a big deal. And then I had planners wards when 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.000 I was like fifteen. Have you ever had those? No? 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.760 I have? These are the war dude, It's awful. Did 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.959 they hurt really, really painful. Yeah, they grow up into 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.200 your foot instead of out. And I think I caught 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.080 it from my brother because he had it and when 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.280 he was at Georgia Tech. Brother was dirty, dirty, dirty Scott. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.720 And uh it was the handsome one that Christina Ricci likes. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.360 Oh yeah, like a male model, that guy. Um, it 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.240 was great growing up in a shadow too, because he's 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.240 like way smarter than me and slam and trim. It's 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.240 great anyway. Uh and happy birthday by the way to 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.440 my brother. Oh, happy birthday, Scott, and uh Molly Edmonds, 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.039 Happy birthday, Molly Fellow writer that aside, I had planners 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.200 words and it's really really painful, and I had them 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.560 burned off and that was painful. Yeah, with the frozen 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.200 liquid nitrogen. Yes, I have been through that experience too. Yeah. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.520 I had warts on like my fingers on my elbows 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.160 here there when I was a kid. Yeah, every once 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.000 in a while, like they just kind of pop up, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.120 and my mom would be like, let's go to the 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.760 I guess the dermatologists and quit picking up frogs. Yeah, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.080 we told that, not quite. I had a pretty good story. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:14.240 But yes, I have heard that toads specifically, cause wards 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.440 I've heard that as well, that's not true, but it's 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.200 not let's start. Let's well, so wow, wow, every bit 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.080 is segue just fell away like you just you just 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.560 got rid of an entire page of this article with that. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.920 Well that's because we don't plan this stuff out. What 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.880 do you want to talk about? Australia? Okay, alright, So 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.560 Australia has a pretty big problem right now, right, probably 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.200 more than one. But this this one we're talking about 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.200 is well, yeah, they're in the grip of like a 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.079 horrible drought still aren't aren't they? And it's hitting their 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:52.200 bread basket to basket. Um, yeah, what they have? This 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.760 one problem is with the giant Kane toad Buffo marinus. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.200 And I love that buffo. It sounds like a giant 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.120 Kane toad name right, So these things get to be 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.320 like two pounds, which is pretty substantial for a toad. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.959 That would scare me. Well back in n um the 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.320 the the Australian government imported a hundred and one uh 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.160 giant kane toads from Hawaii. I love that it was 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.320 one on one. Yeah, It's like they gathered a hundred 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.280 and then there must have been like one lucky frog day. Yeah, 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.800 they're like, you come to come on, let's go to Australia, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.560 kid um. So yeah, they imported him to Queensland from Hawaii. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.639 And actually these things are indigenous to Central and South America, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.040 but apparently they can live in Hawaii to right. Um. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.600 And they they the reason they imported him was to 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.120 fight this um giant cane beetle. No, not giant cane beetle, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.920 just to play an old cane beetle. Uh. And apparently 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.120 giant kane toads like to eat cane beetles, makes sense. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.280 So the Australia had a big infestation in their crop 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.080 lands with these cane beetles, so they imported the giant 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.680 kane toads, and the giant kane toads did absolutely nothing 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.800 to eradicate the cane beetle. Right. I think a lot 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.160 of times when you introduce a species and non native 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.840 species to an area thinking it will accomplish some feet, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.960 it usually ends up backfiring. Yeah. Oh definitely, kind of 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.440 like kudzoo here in the South. Yeah, but that one 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.839 wasn't that. That was a gift actually from our Japanese friends, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.520 thanks for that. In the thirties. Well, they keep in 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.640 order control over there, but here in the South, it 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.120 just it grows like kudzo. Right. Yeah, And for those 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.680 friends of ours who are listening that have never been 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.840 to the southeastern United States, this stuff can take over 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.800 a hundred and fifty foot tall oak and kill it 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.920 of swallow it hole. It looks like it does never 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.840 seen it looks a lot like but it also has 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.440 this kind of creepy quality, like I'm killing this tree. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.040 Check it out. And you can't do anything to kill 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.800 this stuff, and it's out of control. So I guess 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:54.279 what we're trying to say is please help us, send help. Um. So, anyway, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.520 the giant kane to did nothing to eradicate the cane beetle. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:02.000 And even worse, they apparently are olific lovers because since 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.440 that hundred and one original cane toads turned into the billions, 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.600 there are billions of cane toads in Australia now literally 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.560 overran the entire country. Yeah, in continent. Here's the most 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:21.320 unsettling part. They are slowly hopping toward civilization Perth and 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.560 then Sydney, And I mean, isn't that just a creepy thought. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.440 Billions of toads like slowly coming your way? Have you 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:31.200 ever seen the documentary? No, there was an awesome documentary 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.560 it's really old um called Cane Toads and Unnatural History 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.040 by a documentary named Mark Lewis, and it's kind of 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.200 one of these classic documentaries. Yes, we're like Grey Gardens 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.080 just taken on like this cult following Yes, which is 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.279 our producer Jerry's favorite movie of all time, Greg Gardens. Yeah, really, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.960 you didn't know that. We've had like this conversation eight times. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.119 I don't remember that. I just watched that this past weekend, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.880 though for the first time I've never seen it either. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.960 It was unsettling, I thought a bit long. And I'm 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.599 looking forward to the HBO movie starting one Miss Drew 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.440 Barrymore and one Miss Jessica Lain right right, And this 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.120 is so like such a segue. But well, let me 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:13.000 say this, since we're not a tangent, this is highly tangential. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.200 And this is a tangent on a tangent. One of 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.560 my friends named bo kelly Um actually apparently had a 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.800 ring that he lent to the people who made this 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.760 HBO remake and the guy whoever the characters that plays 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.160 as the piano for the women a lot. He wears 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.159 the ring in most of these scenes. That is weird, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.400 isn't it weird? I just found that out yesterday and 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.479 I don't know how it pertains to anything, but there 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.320 you go. Okay, So back to giant kane to billions 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.120 of them is where we left off, and they are 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.760 moving towards the big city, right and uh, the problem 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.200 is they have no natural predators right right, which is 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:53.200 and even worse, the the predators that are around Australia 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.640 haven't figured out that they shouldn't mess with these kane 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.360 toes because what happens is the giant kane toes are 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:04.880 highly toxic um. They emit a cocktail of four keene 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.720 toxins um from the warts on their back, which are 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.360 actually glands. Right, that's right, that's we should say that again. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.000 The warts on a frog are glands. War but that's 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.760 where you get the impression that toad can give you wards. Yeah. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.480 So anyway, so things like crocodiles, dingoes, all sorts of 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:28.080 other animals are being killed by picking up these giant 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.960 kane todes. You get scared, secrete this toxin, and then 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.440 all of a sudden, some alligator's belly up. And I'm 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.760 sure a two pound cane toad looks like a nice 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.600 meal for I don't think so. Yeah, we're I'm not 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.760 aware of their toxins. I need one, I cook it first, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:46.840 but sure. Um So, anyway, as big a problem as 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:51.200 these cane toads are posing, uh the Australians right now, um, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.080 one thing they're not going to do is cause wards. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.440 There was our segue that you ruined earlier, but now 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.400 it's it's all good, right, Am I for given? Yeah? Okay, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.400 So toads absolutely do not cause warts. We can say 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:13.640 that with factual Yeah. And you know how we know that? Um? Science? Science? Sure, 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.960 well what science has told us is that, um, since 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.880 toads don't actually have warts, they have glands, and we 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:27.120 know that actually it's the human Pavlova virus that causes 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.080 warts HPV, better known as hpp uh. And since toads 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:36.440 don't secrete HPV, toads can't give you wards. There you go. Yeah, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.400 so that's it. Should we just pack it up? No? 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.040 Should we talk about HPV. Let's talk about HPV, which 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.120 may ring a bell for people because there was a 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.200 there's been a huge push but it was really prominent 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.360 in two thousand and six and two thousand seven to 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:53.920 get mandatory inoculations for young girls against HPV. Yeah, I 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.960 mean it's it's a lot of people are affected by HPV. Um. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.840 They estimate twenty million people in the US alone are 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.080 effected with some form of HPV. And there are about 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.040 one hundred different types of HPV, right, and some of 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.440 them are worse than others, Like the HPV inoculation that 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:13.640 that um that the government was the state governments are 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:19.320 pushing forth inoculates against the strain that gives you cervical cancer, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.200 which is the biggest threat HPV poses a person. There's 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.640 slightly lesser ones like genital awards, which won't kill you, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.559 but it's not pleasant and good luck finding a partner 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.840 for that one. Yeah, I mean those two words together 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.880 don't make people feel good in general. That's why I 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.640 was glad you said your reward was near your knee. Yeah. Um, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.080 so yeah, it can cause general awards, and of course 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.440 HPV can also cause good old fashioned regular awards, but 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.960 that can I say a little aside about that push 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.920 for HPV inoculations and this interesting Yeah, I think so. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.800 Thanks for the voted confidence UM. But basically in two 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.080 thousand and six seven that huge push to get UM 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.360 girls inoculated as part of like the mom's rubella, if 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.480 you want to go to school, you have to get 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.880 an HPV inoculation. UM. At the forefront of this push 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.520 was a group called Women in Government Yes, and they 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:22.319 are this huge assemblage of female elected officials, which is fine, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.040 and they took up the cause. So far, so good, right, UM. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.640 The problem is it was revealed that a large proportion 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:35.960 of WHIGS funding was coming from Merk Mark's the pharmaceutical company, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.880 and they are the only ones who have an FDA 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:45.600 approved HPV inoculation on the market. So if all fifty 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.920 states started passing mandatory HPV inoculation legislation, then Mark stands 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.240 again quite a bit because there's no competition for that 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.160 kind of set things back a little bit. But as 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.760 of I think the two thousand eight there are forty 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:03.000 one different state legislation natures that had bills on the floor, 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.400 if not already passed, mandating that girls have to get 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.040 HPV inoculations, and nineteen states have already enacted them. Good 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.840 enough there, so the same thing that can give you 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.079 cervical cancer can also give you wards. Right. Most people 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.760 can walk around with HPV and not even know it, 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.440 may not even have common wards. Right, but if you 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.200 do get common wars, what's what's going on there? Chuck? Well, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.160 I mean usually their words are going to be on 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.360 your hands and fingers. Um. And aside from the way 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.960 it looks, because words kind of have a negative connotation physically, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.560 but aside from the aesthetics of it, there's really no 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.720 threat that they pose. They're not cancerus, which is weird 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.800 because all cancers is uncontrolled growth and all award is 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.840 is uncontrolled cellular growth. It is weird. But they eventually 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.199 stopped growing. I guess a tumor never stops growing until 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.319 it's dealt with. And worts can absolutely spread from one 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.840 person to another, even through shared objects. Yeah, you don't 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.360 have to go like if you had a word on 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.960 your cheek. I don't have to go and lick your 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.440 your wart right now to get it. All you have 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.319 to do is come in contact with your dirty older 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:09.120 brother and bam, you got warts. Yeah. I totally caught 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.680 it from him. It's weird. You can even get it 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.720 off of sharing a bath toel with somebody with warts, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:18.280 it's a it's a hardy virus. Yeah. Um. So the 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:22.120 other problem is is although warts do eventually stopped growing, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.960 when they die, they slough off and which spreads. So like, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.319 if you ever have warts like a warda on your finger, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.280 you can probably look forward to getting warts on other 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.720 fingers nearby or very close by. This life cycle, it's um, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.760 it's not never ending. Eventually your body will produce the 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.920 anybody's needed to work off the warts. But sometimes you 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.520 have to wait longer, longer times than others. But they 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.600 will eventually go away, which is good to know. So 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:49.839 what do you What do you do if you want 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.120 to get rid of your warts? You don't feel like 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.280 waiting around for your body to catch up and get 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.439 rid of them? Right, Well, you can take some nail clippers, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:00.600 I'm just kidding about. What you can do is what 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.600 we were talking about earlier. You can freeze them off. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.280 It's called croywd therapy and that's when they use the 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.760 liquid nitrogen. And there are also some over the counter 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:14.360 home remedies that have sell sellocyclics how you pronounce it, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:19.120 sellocyclic acid as the active ingredient. And both of these 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.480 methods basically will create a blister around the area of 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.240 the ward, and then that will be shed once the 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.400 blister falls off. So the blister falls off, and basically 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.800 what you're doing is you're making your skin react in 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.760 such a way that it covers up the war so 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.920 it can't spread. And then when the blister falls off, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.120 because it goes underneath the war and over the ward 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.760 and along the sides, basically encapsulates it. Then your blister 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.600 eventually goes away, but it takes the wart with it. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.120 That's kind of gross. It is gross, and it's really 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.920 simple and basic works and it's it's kind of elegant 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.560 and it's simplicity, and I know, uh, if if it's 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.880 really bad, you can opt for laser surgery, UM and 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.520 prescription treatments. If if you have genital warts, you might 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.000 want to go that right. Well, no, if you if 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.840 your common warts don't work very well, if you have 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.679 general awards, they're gonna give you prescription medicine. But if 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.680 your common warts aren't responding to like cryotherapy or anything, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.240 that may give you the prescription for genital awards. Because 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.480 hardcore stuff, I imagine a laser they do for everything nowadays. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:17.960 I love that. Just hit it, just hit it with 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.280 blaser over the best. Right. There's also something called a 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.600 blister beetle, and it lives up to its name. Right. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.800 So they figured out how to extract a certain toxin 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.840 from the blister beetle, which causes a blister reaction in 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.720 human skin, and basically it does the same thing is, um, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.840 you know whatever. What was the first thing you said 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.880 that creates a blister that cryotherapy? Yeah? Yeah, so it's 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.520 the same thing, except it's it's natural because it's a 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.400 beetle extracture. And some people are into that, like Spanish fly, 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:52.480 which is not good forwards or anything. So check let's see. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.240 Uh oh, did you want to mention that one? That 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.160 one old wives tale what to do if you have warts? Yeah, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.400 I've never heard this actually, so good on you. Um. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.880 Apparently burying a cat at midnight is one of the 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.440 wives tales that you could And does that mean bearing 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.640 a live cat? I check that out and no, it's 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.800 a dead cat. Okay, so bearing a dead cat at 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.680 midnight we'll get rid of your warts. Obviously this isn't 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.800 true bearing a live cat well, I mean it's like, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.920 I don't know, yeah, this won't really work, right, But 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.280 I mean, where would you find a dead cat as well? 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.120 I mean that's yeah, I guess you could. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.640 The whole thing is just not true. This is kind 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.000 of unsettling, And that's one of the old wives. That's 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.200 like a billion frogs approaching its civilization unsettling, like how 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.800 do you get a dead cat? You should watch that documentary. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.560 It's I totally will it's really gonna go watch it 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.480 after this because I don't feel like working any longer today. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.520 So I guess that's about it. Oh. Even though, even 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.440 though uh, toads won't give you warts, you probably shouldn't 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.720 pick them up anyway, because toads like the pe all 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.400 over your hand, which might not hurt you, but it's 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.360 kind of gross. So you should probably just leave the 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.280 toads alone unless they're hallucinogenic, and then you can lick 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.480 them do your heart's content. Yeah, I think every time 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.240 I've picked up a frog or a toad, it's pete 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.680 in my hand. Really, you're not gonna c o a 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.920 on the hallucinogenic toad endorsement. No. I like frogs and stuffing. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.240 They're kind of cool, Okay, have it. I won't lick 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.600 them though, Oh you want? Okay, all right, so that's it. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.240 Go forth and tell everyone actually punch someone in the 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.000 neck the next time they tell you toads can give 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.000 you words unless it's your mother, and then you should 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.640 show more respect than that. Absolutely. So you want to 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.920 do a little pluggy plug, Sure, let's do it. Okay, Um, 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.520 shall we plug the audio spoken word we've been doing 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.400 We've been doing it like that first and then the blog. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.000 So let's just do the blog and then do the 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.960 book word. Switch it up a little bit, pal, And 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.160 you're blowing my mind. By now, most of you probably 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.320 know we have a blog, a weblog on our internet 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.720 site how Stuffworks dot com. You can find it on 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.440 the right side of the home page and it's called 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.960 Stuff you Should Know. And Josh and I post and 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.000 we talked about cool things, and we've been interacting with 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.800 the fans and it's been a good experience and I 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.879 hope it continues to grow. We've got some great fans, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.320 don't we. We do really smart people. And it's one 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.360 of the few blogs I've seen so far where the 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.080 comments don't take a a bad turn and people don't 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.200 start fighting with each other. And we've only had one 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:21.040 right that Nazi referenced. Oh he has some crack. So 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.399 it's all very above board and we're real pleased about that. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.919 Good nicely, don't Chucks. And now you want me to 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.480 do the spoken word thing. So if you don't know 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:33.480 by now, Chuck and I and Jerry produced our first 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.000 spoken word album, uh. And it is called The Stuff 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.159 You Should Know super Stuff Guide to the Economy, and 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:45.400 it is jam packed with information about the economy, all 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.000 sorts of bells and whistles. There's chickens, there's um cows, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.040 there's grocery stores. We go to New York, we go 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:57.320 to China. Yeah, it's it's amazing. It's amazing. Um yeah, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.679 I like it, Chuck, I have to say I like it. Yea. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.439 I was terrified that it was going to be awful. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.320 Um and it came out really well, I think. And 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.320 it's up. It's up for sale on iTunes for three 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.359 dollars and cents, just type of super stuffed into the 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.879 iTunes store search bar and that that should be the 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.800 first thing that comes up and you want to download it. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.399 That's cool with us. Um, yeah, it is cool. The 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.440 more people who downloaded, the more likely it's going to 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.400 be that we'll be able to do another one, which 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.800 we're hoping to do very soon, so keeping out for 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.480 that too. And um, I guess that's it right. Well, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.560 we got a little uh listen to all right, listener 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.920 mail Okay, Chuck, what you got, buddy? I have two 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.439 quick emails, uh, And I'm just gonna call this funny fans, Okay, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.080 And let me add real quick that for those of 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.680 you who email in, I respond to your emails, and 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.639 if you have not gotten an answer from me, and 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.280 it's been more than a couple of weeks, and that 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.520 means it has gone into a junk mail uh situation. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.080 And I apologize. I don't know why that happens. That 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.639 it's my junk male settings, but I'm not ignoring you. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.439 So if you feel like sending it again, please do 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.880 when I'll get back nice. Having said that, Uh, this 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:13.440 was a great one from Alex in Germany. Hey, guys, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.040 I'm a student from Germany and I really enjoy your podcast. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.760 Last year I went to college in California and listening 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.520 to explain stuff makes me very nostalgic on top of 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:27.040 much smarter. On numerous occasions. However, you have mentioned the Germans. Germans, 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.640 I have nothing to complain about historic facts, but as 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.920 an avid learner of the English language, I feel made 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.720 fun of. It's true that I am obese, I wear 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.560 later hosen, and I have a huge mustache, but my 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:43.240 pronunciation of th h is flawless. Greetings from Zamzeland, Alex 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.000 Gym So. Alex had a very good sense of humor 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.800 about that. Yeah, and we should probably say that's a 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.040 reference to what snatch? Right? Oh? Is it? Are you serious? 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.240 You haven't known what I was doing the whole time. Now, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.400 I had no idea. How have you not seen Snatch? Yeah, 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.000 it's been a while, you know. Jason Statham, Uh, yeah, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.080 his his character. He says that he goes, yes, it's 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.920 a German's and I do a terrible impression of it. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.560 But that's what I'm doing, So I'm learning. Yeah, I 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.400 feel mis understood, all right. And this is our other 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.920 funny fan are very strange friend, our oddball crack pot 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.080 friend from Seattle. And this isn't even his real name, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.080 so I can say it. Martin s van Nostrin a 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.879 k A king buck, a fart? Is this hijaka looka 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.600 yeah nice and he he is awesome. And this guy 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.040 writes is quite a bit, and he's made songs for 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.240 us and I checked out his website, which she didn't 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.440 want us to plug, so I won't. Can we talk 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.840 about that? Can we mention this song? Um? I think 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:42.960 we can mention the song? He He made a song 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.240 fourteen seconds long a time on his album right, it's 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:50.040 called He's called Stuff you Should Know. And it's awesome. Yeah, 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.520 it's awesome. And this guy is just one of the 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.600 great strange folks that have been in contact with him. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.440 We love oddballs because we're out balls, so he writes 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.080 in this is just one of his emails. I really 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.440 do prefer stuff from your pod rather than the rest. 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.080 Maybe it's your sterling personality or maybe it's your aluminum wit. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.760 No offense to the other pods, but they seem to 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.760 be the entertainment equivalent of rice cakes. You know, they're 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.440 good for you, but they're too dang dry. Thanks for 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.160 the excellent show. That's that is all I listened to. Now, 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.400 well that and Mongolian throat singing, which is a real thing. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.600 But yeah, you can do like two different tones at once. 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.040 Pretty cool. They can keep up with good work and 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.480 don't be ashamed of your rainbow suspenders. If you could 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.199 do me one favor, and we usually don't do this, 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:33.280 so please don't write in and ask us to say 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.560