1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,239 Speaker 1: M how do you everybody? This is Chuck and welcome 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: to this weekend Stuff You Should Know Selects episode. Uh. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: This week, I'm picking how Cockroaches Work from August. You 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: have heard Josh and I debate over the years about cockroaches, 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: the fact that they are one of the few insects 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: that I will stomp and kill with great enthusiasm, whereas 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: I believe Josh is on the record as saying he 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: will not and he will try and relocate them. Crazy 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: talk to me. That cock roach will do nothing but 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: spend the rest of his life trying to get back 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: in your home to poop all over your stuff. So 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: this is a good episode though, How cock Roaches Work. 13 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: Enjoy it right now. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know 14 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: from How Stuff Works dots dot com. Hey, and welcome 15 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and Charles W. Chuck 16 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: Bryant is with me. He's got his glasses on, he's 17 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: got his hair shorn, his fingernails are chewed down to 18 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: the quick. He's ready to go. I was hoping we 19 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: could open the show with Lakukaracha playing in the background. Well, 20 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: oh yeah, we can't. I don't know if we can 21 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: or not. I can't know. There's no way we can't. Well, 22 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: hold on, let's let's humme it. We could probably do that, right, 23 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: that's lane. People just imagine in your heads that you're 24 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: sipping a margharita and some mariachi bands playing lukukaracha right now. 25 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: Not to be confused with tequila no, which is similar. Now. 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: I always confused it too, really well, not want to 27 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: hear him, but like if I think of la kukaracha 28 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: like I often think of peewee dancing on the bar, 29 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: then I'm like, oh, yeah, this tequila right. But you 30 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: know what Luca lookukarat is about. I assumed cockroaches, but 31 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: probably not. No, a cockroach who's lost one of his 32 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: legs and is having a hard time. I just found 33 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: that out today. I did not know that. Look at me. 34 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: I didn't either until like just a few hours ago. Chuck, 35 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: I was once like, you naive to the way of alright, 36 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: so we talked about lakukarata as you'd hoped you feel good. Yeah, 37 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: have you ever seen the X Files episode with the cockroaches? 38 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, it is perfect. It's one of 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: the top five, and it's not even like a part 40 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: of the part of the big, bigger picture. Once it's 41 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: like its own thing. Yeah, they have the name for 42 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: those episodes. I can't remember what it's called. But like 43 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: when it's just about a shape shift or and it 44 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the overarching conspiracy, Yeah, it's 45 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: one of those, and it's just about cockroaches and a 46 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: cockroach infestation that may or may not exist. But at 47 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: one point, like it's getting really like the cockroaches are 48 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: everywhere and like everybody's starting to go a little crazy 49 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: and all that, and they um digitized cockroach like crawling 50 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: across your TV screen like obviously not part of the scene, 51 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: and it looks like it was on your screen, so 52 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: like you're it looks like there's a cockroach in your house. 53 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: It was, it was. It's a good episode. Yeah, I 54 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: was late on the X Files. I didn't watch it 55 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: when it was out, And then when I moved to 56 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: New Jersey they started doing reruns and Justin I was 57 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: living at the time, was like you never watched X Files. 58 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: It was like no, And then it was on every night. 59 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: I watched the crap out of it. That did you 60 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: see the Charles Nelson Riley one where he's like an 61 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 1: art it's Jose Chunks from outer Space. I remember where, Like, 62 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: could Jessie the Body Venture and Alex Trebecker in it? Really, 63 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I must not have seen them all 64 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: because I was catching them on reruns. You didn't see 65 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: like some of the best ones. Go see go watch 66 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: those two. I know you have access to them. All right, Okay, 67 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: done so. Um, we're talking cockroaches here and apparently also 68 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: Jessie the Body Ventura. Um, did you know, Chuck? The 69 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: cockroaches are extremely clean insects. Well always said the same 70 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: thing about vultures. They are personally clean. Apparently they do 71 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: track a lot of germs spread disease. They apparently leave 72 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: a trail of fecal material everywhere they go because it's 73 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: like a bit of bread crumbs for them to follow back. 74 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: They spread bacteria of course in that fecal material. Um, 75 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: there are proteins that set off up to six of 76 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: allergy sufferers allergies. They'll eat garbage and waste, They'll they'll 77 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: crawl on poop that your dog laid down in the 78 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: yard and eat it if your dog doesn't need it first. 79 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: And yet a cockroach itself is very clean because they're 80 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: extremely um intense groomers. First of all, they keep their 81 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: antenna clean because they have a fatty secretion or some 82 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: sort of secretion that if they don't clean it off, 83 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: we'll block their antenna from sensing things. So they constantly 84 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: clean their antenna. But apparent only they also cleaned their 85 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: feet and everything. And I read about a study. It 86 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: was just pretty almost anecdotal. It was so outside of 87 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: the scientific method. But um, they took a swab from 88 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: a guy's hands who hadn't washed his hands for two hours, 89 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: and they took a swab off of the foot or tarsus, 90 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: i should say, of a cockroach who had been walking 91 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: through garbage. And then two hours later they took a 92 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: swab and um, they put it in culture and the 93 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: guy grew way more bacteria than the cockroaches culture did 94 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: I don't care, which means that that man is dirt 95 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: year than a cockroach. They proved it. I would still 96 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 1: smash the cockroach with my flip flop. See, I don't 97 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: believe there's a there's a sect out there, and I 98 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: don't know if it's Hinduism or Jainism. It's one of 99 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: those two where the the monks of this sect um 100 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: carry little brooms hand brooms to kind of brush everything 101 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: off wherever they sit so they don't accidentally kill even 102 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: the tiniest Think that's great, and I kind of agree 103 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: with that. I think everything is a right to life. Now, 104 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: you have been on record on this very show talking 105 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: about killing cockroaches because the way they skitter. No, no, no, 106 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: not cockroaches. I am down with killing mosquitoes and ticks. No, 107 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: you talked about the cockroaches. I don't kill cockroaches. You 108 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: talked very much about how fast they are and how 109 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: they skitter and how that freaks you out. I don't 110 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: kill them. No, I don't kill roaches. I'm telling you, 111 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: like I defy you to find the time stamp. All right, 112 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: somebody please help me. Okay, Um, I will kill the 113 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: crap out of a mosquito, a cockroach, and um I 114 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: will generally shoe a fly. Now, I'll kill flies. I 115 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: generally won't kill a fly because they're not a big problem. 116 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: But you don't have flies around you all the time now, 117 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: But mosquitoes and cockroaches I will kill. And that's about it. Yeah, 118 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: everything else right to life. Cockroaches, you must die. So 119 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: cockroaches are Um, I guess they understand that Chuck wants 120 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: them to die. Many people do. They're very disliked, right, 121 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: which has possibly accounted for them evolving to be really 122 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: difficult to kill. For one, they're nocturnal, so they're hiding 123 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: away from us when we're up because we're diurnal, which 124 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: is the opposite of nocturnal. Yeah. Um, they have sensors, 125 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: little sensors in there. Um, we'll get to that spoiler. 126 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: They run really fast, they do. They reproduce extremely quickly. 127 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: And there's more than four thousand species of cockroach. So 128 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: you would think the whole rule would be infested with cockroaches, 129 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: but not true. It's actually mainly just one species, the 130 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: German cockroach, that is uh accountable for most infestations in 131 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: homes around the world. That's right. That is one of 132 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: the four main species that you might see, the German, 133 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: The American a k. A. Palmetto bug, which are they 134 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: can get big. Oh yeah, man creepy. There's one man 135 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: that like in South America. It's like as big as 136 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: your hand, six inches launch one foot wing diameters. The 137 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: brown banded cocka roach and the Oriental cocka roach um 138 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: are the four that you're likely to come across in 139 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: your life. And the German cockroach an American are the 140 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: ones you're gonna see here in the United States. And 141 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: they have been brought here by you because they get 142 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: that you know, they're not obviously gonna fly from continent. 143 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: In the continent, they hit trides on airplanes and boats 144 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: and getting chipping containers and in your mouth, moving boxes 145 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: and ghosery bags, and they are ubiquitous, and they, like 146 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: all insects, are most insects, they do a service. Most 147 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: of them are going to be out in the woods 148 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: like chewing stuff and pooping it out and being a 149 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: part of the ecosystem. Um. But it's the ones in 150 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: the home that really freaked people out right. And Chuck, 151 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: I think one of the more fascinating things. And by 152 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: the way, Rod just turned out to be pretty fascinating, 153 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: even more than I expect him. I just thought there 154 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: were a few things that were fascinating where you creeped out, 155 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: like reading this or do so it's not like that 156 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: you just hate them, Yeah, I mean there, it's like 157 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: you previously talked about that you deny it's The way 158 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: they move and how fast they are is what creeps 159 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: me out. And like, there's no greater fear than laying 160 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: in bed and seeing one on the ceiling above you, 161 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: just waiting for it to fall into your mouth. Yeah, 162 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: but apparently they are pretty good at not falling off 163 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: of the ceiling. That's true. Um, And they've had a 164 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: long time to practice this kind of stuff. They've been 165 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: around for about three twenty million years, longer than dinosaurs, 166 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: way longer than dinosats they survived that extinction event they did, 167 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: and well, well let's talk about it, tuck. Just how 168 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: much of an extinction event can a cockroach survive? Can 169 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: they survive a nuclear fallout? A nuclear war that would 170 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: kill all humans? Could a cockroach survive as they are 171 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: rumored to? Uh? Maybe that's sadly, it's like, we don't 172 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: know because that hasn't happened. Not sadly, thankfully that hasn't happened. 173 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: But um, the answer is some people say maybe, some 174 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: people say maybe not. Um. What we definitely know is 175 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 1: they probably could not survive the nuclear winter because they 176 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: like warm, moist places, right, and the nuclear winter would 177 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: not be good for cockroaches. Apparently, they're less susceptible the 178 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: radiation poisoning and humans are, but more than most insects. 179 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: So as far as insects goes, they might not be 180 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: the best candidate, right, Uh yeah, so maybe, but probably not. 181 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: I'm kind of on that side that they probably wouldn't 182 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: survive a nuclear war, so we're time at radiation though 183 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: not like the blast obviously that would kill everything, you know. Um, alright, 184 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: so they survived the dinosaurs extinction event. They have been 185 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: around for three million years. They are very hearty little insects. 186 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about their bodies. They're creepy, 187 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 1: little crunchy bodies. So um, most of them are between 188 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: two inch half an inch and two inches long. They're 189 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 1: brown or black usually, and that length is minus their 190 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: intended This is just their bodies, you don't. And their 191 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: heads point downward, like, as Tracy Wilson, who wrote this 192 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: article points out, almost as if they're built for ramming. Yeah, 193 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: or just searching for stuff, you know, it's another way 194 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: to look at it. The males are the ones that 195 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: have wings. Females may have wings, but their vestigial wings 196 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: they can't fly with them. Males can fly not very 197 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: well though, which makes them even more horrific when the 198 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 1: palmetto bug a big ones flying at your face because 199 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: you know he has no control exactly. Yeah, man, it's 200 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: sort of like the cicada. Like they're I don't think 201 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: their wind wings were made for flying, but if they 202 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: jump off of something high, they can help them a 203 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: little bit uh to glide perhaps and not like hit 204 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: the ground is hard um short distances basically, and their 205 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: their insects, which means that they have three main body regions, 206 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 1: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. They have an 207 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: exo skeleton that they mold as they grow, and they 208 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: mold a number of times, depending on the cockroach species, 209 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: over the course of a couple of weeks or over 210 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: the course of a couple of years, and their lifespans 211 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: also are um uh in step with that molting schedule. Um. 212 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: But they cockroache will mold several times over its life 213 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: before it becomes an adult. Yes, and when they molt, um, 214 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: it's the same thing as when they're born. They're gonna 215 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: look white and um that's probably kind of creepy looking. 216 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: I've never seen a molted cockroach like a skinless cockroach 217 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: it's like the Lady and Hell Raiser before she fully 218 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: gets all of her skin, right. Uh, and uh, they're 219 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 1: they're pretty uptible two injury and death obviously when but 220 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: when after they've molted before bursicon, which is a hormone, 221 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: makes their exoskeleton hard and dark once again. Then they 222 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: have their little armor um, which is no match for 223 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: a flip flop. Uh. They can regrow lost limbs when 224 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 1: it molts, which is pretty cool, and they can even 225 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: put molting off for a little while in order to 226 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: regrow a lost limb um in their head. Let's go 227 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: over their head. They have eyes and their antenna, which 228 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: we've talked about, which we'll get into more specifically. And 229 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: there Tracy loves saying mouth parts. She writes a lot 230 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: of these articles. Yeah, she she will never just say mouths. Yeah, 231 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: it's not a true mouth apparently, it's yeah, a mouth part. Yeah. 232 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: They do have brains, by the way, and they are. 233 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 1: The brain is in the head. But the brain is 234 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: not like a human or a mammal brain. It's not 235 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 1: doing It's like it's not connected to a big central 236 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: nervous system or anything like that. Right, there is a 237 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: central nervous system that it's not in the head. There's 238 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: a h it's some sort of ganglia um that allows 239 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: the roach to continue living for up to a week 240 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: after it loses its head. Yeah, this is a pretty 241 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: good roach fact. Okay, I think, okay, um. So you 242 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: can cut a roach his head off and it will 243 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: live for a week and do all the normal things 244 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: that a roach does for a week, and then when 245 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: it finally dies, it dies because of thirst. Yeah. Yeah, 246 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: because they they actually breathe. They don't breathe through the 247 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: nose and mouth. They breathe through their sides. There's little 248 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: holes in their side called spiricles and trachea tubes deliver 249 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: the oxygen to the organs and tissues through their sides. 250 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: So there's you know, cut off the head and it 251 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: just dies of thirst. Yeah, which is my new favorite game. 252 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: Actually that's not true, because that's like future serial killer stuff. 253 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: It is like you torture cockroaches, and you torture animals, 254 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: and you torture humans. Once you've moved down to the chipmunks, 255 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: it's probably beyond the point of no return. You're a 256 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: bad person. Jeffrey Dahmer orchard animals. He would lay down 257 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: and Uh, like he would come across the dead deer 258 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: in the forest and like lay down with it and 259 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: spoon with it. It's like a Johnny Depp and Dead Man. 260 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: Did he do that? Did the exact same thing? Well, 261 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: maybe he was a serial killer. I don't think he was. 262 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: He was a killer, but not a serial killer. That 263 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: just shows how messed up Dahmer was that man. Yeah, 264 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: to like that was a connection to him was like 265 00:15:25,360 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: holding this dead animal, all right, like the cockroaches. Um, 266 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: so that's the head. Yeah, let's talk about their eyes. 267 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: Their eyes are compound eyes. Um so they see the 268 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: world in a mosaic like a fly. Like a fly, 269 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: all right, So we talked about their eyes. I actually 270 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: asked Tracy today, I was like, you, you wrote a 271 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: bunch of insect articles. Didn't you ever get sick about 272 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: talking about the head, the abdomen, the thorax, mouthparts, the legs. 273 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: They're all the same for insections, No they're not. They 274 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: all have these they're all the same, but they all 275 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: have different little adaptations that make them different. I was like, 276 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: how did you not get tired of it? She said, 277 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: she was fascinated the whole time. She said, san x 278 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: that's trable. Nit, that's tracy of stuff you miss in 279 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: history class, by the way, plug plug. Um. So we 280 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: talked about the antenna. They are movable and they are 281 00:16:54,520 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: known as antennal flagella, and uh, they're actually tiny, tiny 282 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: little hair covered segments and like it's it's thicker where 283 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: it attaches at the head, and it gets thinner and 284 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: thinner and thinner until it's just like a human hair 285 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: almost at the end. And these things since, um, they 286 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: smell sort of right, Yeah, they basically I guess, uh 287 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: sense pheromones. Yeah, the there you have it. They sense pheromones, 288 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: they pick up odors. I think they they're pretty finally 289 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: attuned to the environment. Yeah, but that's like really how 290 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: they're getting around, right, Like, even though they have eyes, 291 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: isn't the antenna really the secret? I believe? So okay, um, chuck, 292 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: you want to talk about mouthparts? Yes, Um, they are 293 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: a lot different than mammals, as Tracy points out, Um, 294 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: but they do have parts that sort of are akin 295 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: to how mammals mouths work. For instance, there's a laborum 296 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: and labium and they form the lips right uh, mandibles, 297 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: there's two of those and they cut and grind things 298 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,439 Speaker 1: like your teeth might, which is very important because roaches 299 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 1: eat literally anything. Yeah, and sometimes that's like wood and 300 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 1: other stuff like they shouldn't be able to eat, but 301 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: they can. It's right, go ahead, thanks to the mandibles 302 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: and some other things that we'll get to. And then 303 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: they have to stop. And then there's a couple of 304 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: maxilla and they basically manipulate the food chewing. Yeah, like 305 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: a squirrel, yeah, squirrels arms or hands, yeah, or a 306 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: dung beetle. Yeah. The thorax, which is one of the 307 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: body parts that one of the three pieces of the 308 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: body um and that has the three pairs of legs 309 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: and the wings, and the legs are so named after 310 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: the part of the thorax that they're attached to. Right, 311 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: So you get the pro, the mezzo, and the meta. 312 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:55,160 Speaker 1: So the pro is closest to the head. Mezzo middle Yeah, 313 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: the pro or like the brakes apparently and the yeah, 314 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: the pro Yeah, that's the just do stopping. Yeah. The 315 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: middle ones can make the roach go forward or backward. 316 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: And then so that's the mesothoracic legs. Then the metathoracic legs. 317 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: The ones in the rear are the ones that propel 318 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: the roach forward. And here's another good roach fact. Do 319 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: you take this one? Man, is awesome. Uh. They can 320 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: move about fifty body links in a second, which is 321 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: up to three miles an hour. Sounds very slow to us, 322 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: but think about this in roach terms. That's right. If 323 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: that were a human being, Uh, that would mean we 324 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: would be running two hundred miles an hour. Yeah, that's 325 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: why they look so fast. It's because they are. They 326 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: are fast. Now, like to us, three miles an hour 327 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: is not that much but very slow walk. That equals 328 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: two hundred miles an hour in reality for us. Yeah, 329 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: and part two of that roach fact, which I think 330 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: is just horrifying. When a roach runs really really fast, 331 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: sometimes it it gets air and just is basically running 332 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: on its back legs only, but the front the other 333 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: legs are still moving. So that's just like my worst nightmare. 334 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: They're then after you, exactly, man. So they the three 335 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: pairs are all built the exact same. They all have 336 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: the same parts, but they are different lengths. They function 337 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 1: slightly differently. Um, but they all moved the same way. 338 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: It just depends on, you know, what the roach wants 339 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: to do. Like we said, the pro thorastic legs active breaks. 340 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: The mesothorastic um can move it forward or back, and 341 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: then the meta push it forward and they apparently move 342 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: like poco sticks and then back and forth too, and 343 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 1: they work in conjunction to allow the roach to kind 344 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: of walk over just about anything. So um, when the 345 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 1: the pro and meta thoracic legs on one side are moving, 346 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: the mesothoractic leg the middle one on the other side 347 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: is moving, so that's how they move, which apparently it's 348 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: like a four by four yea uh. She also points 349 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: out that there are um the parts of the leg 350 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: you can sort of approximate as if it were a human. 351 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: They have a trick canter that's like our knees uh. 352 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: Femur and tibia um resemble arthai and shins, and then 353 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: they have the tarsus which is the ankle and foot 354 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: right and the tarsus is hooked in a roach, which 355 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: allows it to walk on the ceiling over your head 356 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: most frightening thing ever, and on walls. And when a 357 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,959 Speaker 1: roaches on the ground, it runs very quickly, but when 358 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: it's on a ceiling it moves much more methodically because 359 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't want to follow them. Upside down. If three 360 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: miles an hour equals two an hour to us, Yeah, 361 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: imagine what a ten ft drop equals to a poor 362 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 1: little roach. Well, not enough, because it lands, flips itself over, 363 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: and then runs away again. But it's humiliated, that's true. Uh, 364 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: twenty seven times per second. These legs can move back 365 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: and forth. So these are fast little boogers, which is 366 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,239 Speaker 1: why you previously talked about hating them because they were 367 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: so fast. I really I don't I'm gonna find it. Okay, 368 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: I'll bet I didn't say i'd kill him. I've long 369 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: advocated for road to his rights. All right, So now 370 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: we're the abdomen um. They do have a heart. It 371 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: is a too black instructure and does move blood along, 372 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: but it does not carry um oxygen around, so A 373 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: the blood is not red, and B they move oxygen 374 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: and blood around in other ways through basically empty spaces 375 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: called hemo hemo coles. Yeah, it's pretty much the absence 376 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: of a fact there. Yeah. Well it's a the a 377 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: word to carries blood around to the organs. But yeah, 378 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 1: she says, the blood just travels through these spaces essentially, 379 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: and then rather than having to worry about like a 380 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,959 Speaker 1: spare tire or something like that. I like a fat belly, right, 381 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: They have a actual fat body, and it's just this 382 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: little area where they store all the fat in their body. 383 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: Very smart. I have that same place. It's between my 384 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: chin and my waist. Yeah. I guess they do have 385 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: to worry about a spare tire, but it's a very 386 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: specific one. Yeah, that's true, you know. Okay, So let's 387 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: talk about digestion. Um. The the digestive system is in 388 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: the abdomen, and it's really not super unlike it's just 389 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 1: like a simplified version of our own or any mammals 390 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: digestive system. But like you said, they can eat things 391 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: like in digestings like wood and cellulose, so they do 392 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: need some help from specialized parts, one of which is 393 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 1: called a crop. Right, that's um. It basically holds the 394 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: food while apart behind it um a toothy section in 395 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: the digestive so that it is gross and it's equal 396 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: to like a an octopus having a beak, crushing beak. 397 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: They're squishy, they're not supposed to have a hard beak 398 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: in the middle. It's crazy. Yeah, it's called a probe 399 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: and triculus on the roach and that just pulverizes the 400 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: stuff like wood or whatever it's tough to digest, and 401 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: then and then it pushes it back. This this pulverized 402 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: part to the gastric cassilla, which houses enzymes, microbes, things 403 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: that break it down even further. And all this is 404 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: just the preliminary stuff. This is like what we do 405 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: in our mouth. Um. All this is going through this 406 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: process in a roach before it even gets to the 407 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: part where it starts to digest. This this is sort 408 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: of gross, like the digestion when was we haven't said 409 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: the word bolus yet, Well, we just did. Uh. And 410 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: then the searcy that we talked about earlier. These are 411 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: the uh. It sort of looks like short little antenna 412 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: sticking out from the butt area on each side. And 413 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: this is what allows the roach to not get Like 414 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: whenever you go to get that flip flop and you 415 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: rare back and go to hit the roach and as 416 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: you're coming it, it just like it could darts out 417 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: of the way. You're like, how did it know? How 418 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: did it know? It's because the searcy they pick up 419 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: on air flow and they can actually feel and since 420 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: that shoe coming, so if you're if you're unto killing 421 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: roaches like me, you have to be swift and and stealthy, 422 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 1: come at it hard and with vigor and with a 423 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: I guess a paddle that has holes in it down air? Hey? 424 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: Maybe so drag you might be honest something there. Oh no, 425 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: you invented sharknado. So the roach paddle? Um? So, I guess, 426 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 1: so that's a roach. That's the roach's body. Let's talk 427 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:46,479 Speaker 1: about reproduction, because they do reproduce depending on the species. Um. 428 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: I believe the German roach uh can produce something in 429 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: the order of like eighty thou offspring? Is that correct? No? 430 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: Way more than that. The German produces. The German cockroach 431 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: and it's offspring will eventually produce about three hundred thousand 432 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: per year. So a mother and her her kids, yeah, 433 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: like that, the family tree from that one cockroach will 434 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: eventually number three hundred thousand in a year. Right, But 435 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: think about this, Then one of those kids and then 436 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 1: her offspring will be another three hundred thousand. Now I 437 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: think that counts. I think that's the whole Okay, Well, 438 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: then one of those three hundred thousand, we'll have more 439 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: kids and another three hundred thousands. It goes exponentially kicks 440 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: in somewhere. Exponentiality kicks in at some point. Yeah, an 441 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: American cockroaches only produce about eight hundred babies a year. 442 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: So I got something from Believe It or Not. The 443 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 1: orcan website has a lot of really good scientific information 444 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: that uh did you go and look at it? Uh? 445 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: And they talked about female courtship. Um, they begin courtship, 446 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: it says, by raising their wings and exposing their internal 447 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: membranes and expanding their genital chamber. Hey, boys, check out 448 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: my internal membrane exactly. My genital chamber is wide open 449 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: and ready. I'm gonna release a pheromone. Hey man, this 450 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: is science. This is science. They released the pheromones to 451 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: attract males, and um, that's the calling position. And then 452 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: the males that that pick up on these pheromones approached 453 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: the female, they flap their wings a little bit to say, hey, 454 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: I like what you got cooking there, and then mating commences. 455 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: It says when a male cockroach backs into a female 456 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: cockroach and deposits sperm so little, a little like you know, 457 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 1: it's from the rear to the rear. You know what 458 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: I'm saying, let's go back to reproduction. Yeah, we used 459 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,479 Speaker 1: to be really good at stuff like this. And by 460 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: the way, wasps, well, actually this is just a side note. 461 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: Wasps will actually sting cockroaches and lay eggs inside of 462 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: a cockroach. Like baby Wasps can be borne out of 463 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: a cockroach body. Right, They incubate in the roach and 464 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 1: I guess probably eat it alive from the inside out. 465 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 1: There's a movie. I'm just gonna start saying that about everything. 466 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: So there's a couple of ways that a mother roach, 467 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: once her eggs are fertilized, can produce offspring um and 468 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: a couple of them involves something with one of the 469 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: worst words ever in my opinion, the oothica. Oh th 470 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: h e c a. Yeah, the otha. You've never been 471 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: to outhca. It's nice. I prefer oothica UPSTATEA. So that's 472 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: basically just like an egg sac that the eggs develop in, 473 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: and it can either be inside the mom which makes 474 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: her oh vove of a Paris ovovie of a Paris. Seriously, 475 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: that's the word porous Paris, or it can be on 476 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: the outside of her, which makes her over Paris. And 477 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: if it's over Paris, then she can just kind of 478 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: like abandon the sack, cover it up with some newspaper 479 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: or something like that. Sometimes say good luck or some 480 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: of them. It depends on the species carry that around 481 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: with them and then actually care for the young after 482 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: they're born like a good mom should. And then there's viviparis, 483 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: which is basically like eggs developing in fluid like in 484 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: a human in and in ovovivi Paris and ovivi Paris. 485 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: I'm sorry viviparis. Yeah you confused yet imagine following along 486 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: with just your ears. I'm looking at words. So it helps, Um, 487 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: the eggs are born or the young come out live. Yeah, 488 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: they actually give birth to little baby cockroaches. So, like 489 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: we said, the German cockroach can produce three hundred thousand offspring. 490 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: The German cockroach and her offspring can produce three thousand 491 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: cockroaches in a year. Um, and the Americans it's not many. 492 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: And we talked about nymphs. Apparently the nymph when it's 493 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: born is fleck of dust size maybe very very small. Um. 494 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: And there's a bunch of them, don't forget. Yeah, so uh, 495 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: and they're white, they're waiting to molt. They're very um. 496 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: Easy to kill. Yes, and if you're a common centipede, 497 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: you love to eat these things. Imagine seeing that on 498 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: a microscopic level, centipede eating baby cockroaches. There's a movie 499 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: for you. Um. Also, here's another good roach fact is 500 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: some mothers that care for their offspring after birth. Some 501 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: of them just you know, either dump the utica or 502 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: they just have the babies and leave, but some actually 503 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: raise their little babies, and scientists believe that they the 504 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: offspring actually recognized the mother. Yeah, I don't understand why 505 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 1: that's so hard to believe. Well, because it's an insect. Man, 506 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: it just seems like a very mammalion. They're not even ammalion. 507 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: Just like it doesn't seem like something from the insect 508 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: world like gives them a heart that I previously didn't believe. 509 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: I know, I know up with cockroaches, I don't know. 510 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: It just puts a face on them that I never 511 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: really considered as I smashed them, because you can't see 512 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: their face. That's right, um, And cockroaches, if you want 513 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: to make them a little more um humanlike a little 514 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: more personable, getting that the little hat and a cane 515 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: their social Oh yeah, they're they're not they're they're related 516 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: to termites, it turns out. And actually, I've read a 517 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: fascinating fact. I read one of the best magazine articles 518 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: I've ever read in my life, and I've read a 519 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: lot of magazine articles in the most recent issue I 520 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: believe it was of Harper's and it's about ten Ways 521 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 1: to Satisfy your Man. No, it's early. It's an article 522 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: about the early mycologists who discovered westerners, i should say, 523 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: who discovered making air quotes like magic mushrooms, and in 524 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: between that time and the time they became outlawed, and 525 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: then what happened after they became outlawed, and how they 526 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: are all these outlaw like fungal experts who all had 527 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: like PhDs and doctorates, but we're also like, might as 528 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: well have just been bikers growing these huge crops of mushrooms. Um, 529 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: and there's a murder involved in all that. But there's 530 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: this it's an awesome article. Check it out. But um, 531 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: there's this one fact in there that there's a type 532 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: of fungus that has evolved to mimic termite eggs so 533 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 1: perfectly that it can fool the termite into thinking it's 534 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: her own eggs and termites um salivate on their eggs, 535 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: they keep them moist constantly. Um, and this fungus needs 536 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: to be kept moist, so it'll be kept moist by 537 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 1: a termite that thinks this fungus is one of her eggs. 538 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: Does that fungus then later on kill the termite? Probably? Okay, 539 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: because that would be I believe that's irony, even though 540 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: we've been told we misused that bird. Thanks for the ride, lady, um, Wow, 541 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: we should do one of termites. Okay? Well I say 542 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: that because apparently road eggs need to be kept moist 543 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: as well. Yes they do. I don't know do they 544 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: regurgitate on them to do so? Them? Well, another way 545 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: they're related to termites are they like to hang out together. 546 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: They like to live in groups where they differ as 547 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: termites actually have sort of like bees, to have very 548 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,959 Speaker 1: specific roles in their colonies and a social structure that's 549 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: very organized. Cockroaches ain't like that. They ain't like that, 550 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: but they still like to hang out with one another. 551 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 1: And um, they actually make decisions like collectively together on 552 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: where they want to roost, you know, which is an 553 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 1: emergent system, right, I think? So? Is that what that's called. Yeah, 554 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: they've done studies where they found, um, like big large 555 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: numbers of cockroaches, if they don't have enough space, actually 556 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: divide up evenly, Yeah, into like the small this number 557 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: of spaces. They can go like, well, there's two hundred 558 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: of us, so let's divide up into three groups and 559 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: go to three different places and you go, you guys 560 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: go there, We'll go there, and we'll go here, right, 561 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 1: and there's always one dude cockroach out. It's like, what 562 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: about me? It would be a Pixar movie. Yeah, that's 563 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: a good one. Um. They're they're also social and that 564 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: they follow one another, although not necessarily a leader, but 565 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,319 Speaker 1: I guess whoever they think has the best idea. That's 566 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: a collective conscious. Yes. And there was a group of 567 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: scientists that created something called in Spot and it is 568 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: a robotic cockroach and they coated it with cockroach pheromones 569 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: and introduced it to a colony of roaches that accepted it, 570 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: and then they started to mess with the roaches. Of course, 571 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: they had um in spot lead them out into daylight 572 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: so that they abandoned their nocturnality. Um, they would wander 573 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: out in the open following this thing. He got him 574 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: to move um and he brought them fire. Oh really, man, 575 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: I was like, this is getting good. That reminds me 576 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,360 Speaker 1: of the I know I talked about Errol Morris at nausea. 577 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,759 Speaker 1: But fast, cheap and out of control is uh. The 578 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: robot scientists makes robots that mimic cockroaches, another small bugs 579 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: that's really neat. And he said, one potential application one 580 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: day is to have like to imagine like thousands of 581 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 1: these that clean things, like these robot bugs that you own. Well, 582 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 1: you just like hit a button and like two hundred 583 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: of them dust your television and then go back to 584 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,399 Speaker 1: their little places. Pretty neat. It's like scrubbing bubbles, yeah, 585 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: or like the X Files when it when across the TV. Yeah, 586 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: everys wasn't cleaning anything though. What's scrubbing bubbles? It's like 587 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: a type of cleaner it is. Yeah, all right, is 588 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 1: that a plug? I don't think so. Okay, it was 589 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: just a free association, all right. So let's get to 590 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: let's say you're like me and not like Josh, and 591 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: you don't want roaches in your home. I don't want 592 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 1: roaches in my home. It's just when I see a roach, 593 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,440 Speaker 1: I will I will gingerly pick it up with a 594 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,840 Speaker 1: paper towel and toss it outside. I'm sure that doesn't 595 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: injured at all. It doesn't, okay, No, no, I don't 596 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 1: squeeze it at all. I just very gently like, al right, 597 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,240 Speaker 1: what happens if that roach like gets free and crawls 598 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: up your arm? Up your Okay, but I hopefully I'm 599 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: doing it outside, all right, I just want to see 600 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: where it stops. I'm trying to get a feel out 601 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: your position fully. Um yeah, if if it's injured, if 602 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: I accidentally injure it, I'll go ahead and kill it. Okay, 603 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 1: Well that's really you're quite the humanitarian or insectarian insectaria. 604 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: So let's say you don't want roaches in your house, 605 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: which is pretty much everybody. They say, the first thing 606 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: to do is try and seal it off. Good luck 607 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: with that, because roaches can fit into cracks that are 608 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: as small as one six of an inch one point 609 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,760 Speaker 1: five millimeters. And just show me a house that doesn't 610 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: have or at least maybe some new houses, you might 611 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 1: have some luck. But if you live in an old 612 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 1: house like me, there's there's always cracks like animals can 613 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: get through these cracks. So if you realize you've got 614 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,439 Speaker 1: a bunch of cracks, seal them up as best you can. Yeah. 615 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,440 Speaker 1: But if that's still not doing the trick. Um, they 616 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 1: say that you want to go with a bait trap, yeah, 617 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,800 Speaker 1: rather than a spray, because you when you use a 618 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: bait trap, you become like a pioneer tracker. Um. You 619 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,600 Speaker 1: can put the trap somewhere and if it's not attracting roaches, 620 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,239 Speaker 1: even though you know you have roaches, Um, then you 621 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 1: need to move your trap. And when you move your 622 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 1: trap and start of tracking roaches, then you can tell 623 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,840 Speaker 1: where they're coming from. Then you can seal up those cracks. 624 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,919 Speaker 1: That's right. You you come to know the roaches using 625 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,800 Speaker 1: the traps with a spray, it's just like you're just 626 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,360 Speaker 1: spraying blindly. Can we do one in fleas or just ticks? 627 00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,520 Speaker 1: Just ticks? We need to do fleas too because I 628 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 1: have bad please. Um. They say, don't use like, don't 629 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,320 Speaker 1: waste your money on those sound devices. They say that 630 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 1: don't work that emit like some like sound that only 631 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,319 Speaker 1: a roach can hear. Um. You want to keep your 632 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: house clean, Yeah, keep your house clean anyway, Tracy, Uh, 633 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,080 Speaker 1: if you've ever seen The Simpsons where margin Homer lose 634 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,720 Speaker 1: the kids and have to go take a parenting class. 635 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 1: That's what this paragraph reminds me of about you. Lop 636 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,880 Speaker 1: up after every meal exactly, clean and seal all of 637 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,360 Speaker 1: your food, or cover and seal it. Wipe down counters 638 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,760 Speaker 1: and tables after eating. Sweeper mop your floor after cooking. 639 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,239 Speaker 1: Eat only in your dining area. I guess if you 640 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: eat over your sink, run the water afterwards to clean 641 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: out any crumbs that may have dropped out of your mouth. Yeah. Um, 642 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,480 Speaker 1: and as a last resort, you could use poisons, but 643 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,839 Speaker 1: I would never recommend that putting poisons in your household. Um. 644 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,480 Speaker 1: You can always call your friendly neighborhood exterminator and they'll 645 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,800 Speaker 1: take care of it for you, sure you know, Or 646 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,879 Speaker 1: you can call an in spot and he can lead 647 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 1: all the concerts. Is out like the pie piper. There 648 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 1: are a few natural things though, Yeah, some things have 649 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:22,799 Speaker 1: been shown to work. Nepa talec tone. It's in two 650 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 1: forms of catting up, so if you have a cat, 651 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,359 Speaker 1: you might just kill two birds with one stone. Here. 652 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,400 Speaker 1: Um A sineole sine ala um also known as eucalyptole, 653 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,720 Speaker 1: and that is in bay leaf and then ossage orange 654 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,239 Speaker 1: oil and they don't know what in that is the 655 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: magic potion, but apparently that works. So if you're into 656 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: natural you could try some of those things. Just put 657 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: bay leaves and cat and up all over the place. 658 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: See what happens in orange oil, and you'll never have 659 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,960 Speaker 1: a roach again. Or you can just clean up your house. 660 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,200 Speaker 1: I don't see many roaches. It's good. I mean, I'm 661 00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,320 Speaker 1: surprised with the amount of moisture and how all my 662 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: house is. How like the fact that I eat all 663 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: over my house and spill things everywhere, you know, garbage 664 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 1: laying around, it's like gum stick to your FLOORI yeah, 665 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,279 Speaker 1: but I don't see roaches much. When I do, I 666 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,120 Speaker 1: have my friend in the foot flop I'm sure you do, 667 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 1: and coming soon the roach paddle. Yeah, I see. I 668 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 1: don't feel as bad because, especially after I saw those 669 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: reproductive figures, I'm not putting a dent in the roach population. Yeah, 670 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:26,839 Speaker 1: I can tell you the ones that you're killing. Care 671 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I'm sorry to tell. With 672 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:34,120 Speaker 1: their brains since smashed on the bottom of your man. Well, 673 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about cockroaches, you can 674 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,600 Speaker 1: type that word into the search bar how stuff works 675 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 1: dot com, and it'll bring up this fine article. And 676 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: I said, a search bar, which means it's time for 677 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:58,839 Speaker 1: message break. This is from an Englishman who went up 678 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,399 Speaker 1: a hill and came down a mount. That's not true 679 00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 1: self experimenter though when I was a kid. Guy's about 680 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,799 Speaker 1: eighteen actually, And notice that when you get water up 681 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,279 Speaker 1: your nose, the effect is all consuming. Can't seem to 682 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: think about anything, feel anything, or do anything except think 683 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,240 Speaker 1: about that water that you just sniffed up your footer. 684 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 1: He's English. At a similar thought about what happens to you, 685 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,440 Speaker 1: both psychologically and physically, when you get soap in your eye, 686 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:31,320 Speaker 1: Because that stinging sensation and the resulting fevered knuckling of 687 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,040 Speaker 1: the optic cavity for is for a short time, the 688 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,000 Speaker 1: only thing in the universe. So while it's slaying in 689 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 1: the bathtub with the reflected sunlight sparkling through the red 690 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,400 Speaker 1: tint of my closed eyes, contemplating this phenomena, I decided 691 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,200 Speaker 1: to run my own experiment. I want to know which 692 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,080 Speaker 1: of these all powerful sensations would eclipse the other. So 693 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,480 Speaker 1: I got a nice big chunk of soap on one 694 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:57,600 Speaker 1: finger and simultaneously rubbed it vigorously into my eye and 695 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:03,640 Speaker 1: ducked under the water, sniffing in deeply. The result was, 696 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,040 Speaker 1: as you can imagine, quite horrific. I must have looked 697 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 1: like I was being fatally electrocuted. I thrashed and rubbed 698 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: and coughed and cried. My final conclusion, are you dying 699 00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:18,640 Speaker 1: to know what happened? Was that unbelievably both experiences behaved 700 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,360 Speaker 1: in some sort of quantum mechanical way where I was 701 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 1: all consumed by two separate, all consuming events at the 702 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:29,040 Speaker 1: same time. So basically it sucked really bad. If you 703 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,920 Speaker 1: share this information with the world. However, no one else 704 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,839 Speaker 1: will ever have to suffer this hitherto undocumented facet of reality, right, 705 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,160 Speaker 1: because they're going through that kind regards James Holmes, not 706 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,840 Speaker 1: the maniac version. Did he say that? Erneth he the 707 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:49,520 Speaker 1: signature that was parenthetical? Yeah, from Manchester, England. So James, 708 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,480 Speaker 1: I don't know why you do such a thing, sir, 709 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 1: but I raised a pint to you, okay and thanks? Yeah. Um, 710 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,120 Speaker 1: isn't there like a whole movement like M plus one 711 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,439 Speaker 1: or any equals one, the an equals one movement. It's 712 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,560 Speaker 1: like self experimentation, and is the study population, and so 713 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: if an equals one, there's just one person yourself. Yeah. 714 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 1: I don't know about sniffing water and putting soup in 715 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:19,960 Speaker 1: your eyes. But he was a kid. He was only eighteen, right, James, Right, yeah, James, 716 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 1: not the maniac version. Thanks James. If you, uh, anyone 717 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: else out there have a cool self experiment that you've done, 718 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 1: we want to hear about that all the time. Cockrade 719 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,000 Speaker 1: story too. Sure, let us know. I agreed. Um. 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