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Hello everyone!
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Welcome back to our podcast.
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I am the one and only podcaster, do not look that up, and we're talking about arthropods
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today with our special guest.
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Hi, I'm Ash.
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So, Ash, to start off, we're going to be talking about the OGs themselves, bugs.
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Bugs.
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Bugs.
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So, bugs are an interesting case.
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They're very different from almost any other organism on the planet.
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Yeah?
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Yeah.
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They've got these, they've got neat like antennae on them.
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You know what those do?
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They do things.
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Oh yeah.
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See, what they do is they feel around their environment.
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Kind of like how snakes have those pits near their face that sense like stuff around them.
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Antennae are basically kind of like that.
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They sense vibrations in the air.
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Nice.
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That's cool to know, I guess.
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Yeah.
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So, question.
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Do bugs have an internal skeleton or an external skeleton?
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External.
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Good job.
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You won today's pop quiz of the day.
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Wow, first time winning something in my life.
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It's so good for you.
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Your prize is you get to continue being on the podcast.
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We would have shut you off.
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Shut off all the mics if you didn't get it right, but got it.
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So, external skeletons are actually really, really neat as it's a specific adaptation
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to help protect themselves because an exoskeleton is much harder than like skin.
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I should hope so.
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Yeah, but it doesn't really matter because if I step on them, they're still gonna, not
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that I would because you know bugs are great, but if you were to still step on them, they're
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not gonna do anything.
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We've also got pest bugs.
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Do you have any experiences with pests?
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No, not really.
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Not at all?
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Never lived in like a dingy apartment full of like cockroaches or anything?
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I mean, my grandmother's house had ants.
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Ants?
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Lots of ants.
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Lots of ants.
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And I guess when I lived in Texas, we had flying cockroaches everywhere.
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Oh, that must have been fun.
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Oh, it was great.
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I loved it.
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Every moment.
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The funny thing is that I think I got the luckiest pest infestation at my new house.
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There could have been like so many other things.
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There could have been like termites, ants, there could have been cockroaches.
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I got ladybugs.
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We have a tunnel zone or attic.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So you could say your attic is infested with ladybugs.
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Yeah.
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Which, I mean, like it's not the worst thing at all because they eat other bugs.
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They're carnivorous.
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Yeah.
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You wouldn't ever think about that, like looking at them.
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They look so small and unassuming.
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Good to know.
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Now I know that they'll try and eat everything.
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They'll try to eat everything.
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I'll accept them into my room now, I guess.
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Yeah.
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Same with spiders.
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I don't like it when people like are all against spiders, which we'll just into our next segment
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about arachnids.
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Spiders get too much of a bad rap in my eyes.
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I mean, some of them, yeah.
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But like they're awesome that I just can't stand.
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Well, obviously.
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There's one like the black widow you don't want around.
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And the brown recluse, if you don't get help, can literally melt your skin and flesh.
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There's only if you don't get help for it.
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But overall, 90, not 90%, but there's a large majority of spiders that can't hurt you.
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Like if they bite you, sure it's going to hurt.
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Like daddy long legs.
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Right.
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We get a lot of those at my camp.
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Oh yeah, but they're harmless.
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Did you know that if they were a little bit bigger, where their fangs could pierce flesh,
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they would be the most venomous spider in the world?
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And fun fact, daddy long legs aren't spiders.
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Yeah, because their legs are too thin and they only have one body segment.
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And what do they count as?
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I don't know.
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I think they're their own thing.
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Kind of like worms.
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Worms are kind of their own thing.
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Good to know.
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Good to know.
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And speaking of legs, we got to talk about a son of a piece of all of these.
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God gave them way too many legs.
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This is a joke by the way.
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No reason.
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They have too many.
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Way too many.
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Like it's like someone who was looking at them, like designing them and was like, we've
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got millions of legs left over.
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Who are we going to give them to?
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Let's give them to these things that are unnecessarily long.
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Don't give them to slugs.
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It's not like they needed them.
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Let's not give snakes legs.
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Let's just give them to these things.
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And some people find them terrifying.
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I find them pretty cool.
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I don't like them.
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Honestly, Arthropods are general just really cool.
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They're my favorite kind of animal, I guess I should say.
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They got of mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians and bugs and stuff.
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Those are my favorites because of the very wide range they can come in.
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Like when you think of things like Arthropods and stuff, you can think of like a small pill
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bug or a giant gullet bird eating spider.
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Like there's such a huge range that just makes them so interesting to learn about.
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That's true.
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Then we've also got crustaceans, which I think got way too good of a rap for what they are.
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They're just water bugs, basically.
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Crabs.
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Crabs, lobsters, crawfish.
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They're all like delicacies in certain parts of the world.
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Like here in Maine, they are like lobsters like are a big thing.
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But why do you think that people love to eat things like lobster and crab and crawfish
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and shrimp, but are repulsed at the idea of eating something like scorpion or cricket?
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I don't know.
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I don't like seafood personally, so I don't eat it either way.
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But people just think it tastes good for no reason.
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Because they've heard people say, oh, it tastes really good.
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And that kind of like tricked through my ninja thinking, oh yeah, it must be really good.
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Right.
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Honestly, I don't want to like see too much either, but lobster in some cases can be really
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good.
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Like while I was in Maryland, which is the last place I think of for lobster, I think
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of crab when I go there.
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But I had this, me and my dad got this lobster tail.
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You put it on a sandwich.
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It's actually really good.
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That's like the one time I've ever enjoyed eating lobster.
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And the only time I really enjoyed seafood in a sense was probably at one point when
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I ended up having like crab rinds made with actual crab.
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The crab rinds are so good.
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I can't remember where we got them.
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It was so good.
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Oh my God.
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And bringing you back, like some crustaceans look weird as hell.
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Have you ever seen a Japanese spider crab?
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I think I have.
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Those things are crazy.
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They look like aliens almost.
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Like I don't even know how to describe them other than like crabs with really, really
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long legs.
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It's insane.
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And it's also like, think of, when I think of things like arthropods, my first, my first,
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the first thing that comes to my mind is dangerous.
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Would that go in your mind too?
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Which makes sense since a very, like the vast majority of them, when we think of them are
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like venomous or poisonous.
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Think like bullet ants, spiders, scorpions, which is a little unfair when things like
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ants are amazing creatures that do crazy things.
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So you know how like there's a colony of ants that has millions of ants?
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Some species of ants combine colonies together to form a super colony, which is billions
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of ants in it.
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Like their own mini globe almost of ants.
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And that's why if ants would like really big, they could take over the earth.
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Oh yeah.
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If every ant right now grew by a scale of like 50.
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Right.
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So even if they all grew to the size of like a small dog and were able to survive, then
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yeah, easily.
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Because the reason they're all so small is because of oxygen in the air and specific
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things that ways that their bodies adapt in.
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Kind of like if one of us was to shrink down to their size, we would freeze to death because
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of the way our body regulates heat.
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And the same thing with ants, ants, if they were to get this big, they would overheat
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extremely quickly because their bodies are more on intaking heat because of how small
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they are.
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Makes sense.
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And I think one of my favorite bugs has to be the moth.
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Oh, they're so cool.
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Very cool.
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It's not like when they like when their larvae eat their clothing.
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It's not always a great thing, but I find them very cute and fuzzy and way better than
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butterflies in my opinion.
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Butterflies?
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Butterflies scare me.
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I can't tell you why.
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I don't even know.
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But like they scare me for absolutely no reason.
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But moths, like I love them.
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See that reminds me of like the SpongeBob clip where they find a caterpillar and then it
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grows up to be a butterfly and they look at it and it's just a close up of the butterfly
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and they're just like terrified.
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Yeah.
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So I guess you're on the same level of intelligence as SpongeBob and Banner.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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I didn't say we don't take slander here.
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Well, I say that's fair.
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What's your favorite bug or arthropod?
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Um, I'm not really sure.
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We'll get to like think about it.
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Like which ones do you like?
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Be any one of them.
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Does caterpillars count?
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Yeah, they count.
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Then caterpillars.
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They're nice.
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I always loved going into like a backyard.
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I found a Luna moth caterpillar in Kansas one time.
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Oh man, I was so sad when it died.
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And now I regularly feed larva and bugs to my lizard.
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But we're not talking about reptiles right now.
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That'll be for a later episode.
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So if you want to see me talk about lizard and stuff, stick around for a later date.
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Yeah.
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But thank you guys for listening to us rant about arthropods.
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This has been the one and only podcaster again.
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Don't look that up with our special guest, Ash.
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Thank you guys for joining me on the podcast.
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Of course.
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Anytime.
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It was great.
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Oh, I bet it.
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I bet it was.
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But it was.
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All right.
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See you guys and I'll see you guys next time.
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Hello everyone!
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Welcome back to our podcast.
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I am the one and only podcaster, do not look that up, and we're talking about arthropods
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today with our special guest.
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Hi, I'm Ash.
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So, Ash, to start off, we're going to be talking about the OGs themselves, bugs.
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Bugs.
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Bugs.
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So, bugs are an interesting case.
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They're very different from almost any other organism on the planet.
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Yeah.
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They've got these, they've got neat like antennae on them.
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You know what those do?
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They do things.
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Oh yeah.
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See, what they do is they feel around their environment.
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Kind of like how snakes have those pits near their face that sense like stuff around them.
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Antennae are basically kind of like that.
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They sense vibrations in the air.
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Nice.
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That's cool to know, I guess.
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So, question.
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Do bugs have an internal skeleton or an external skeleton?
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External.
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Good job.
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You won today's pop quiz of the day.
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Wow, first time winning something in my life.
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It's so good for you.
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Your prize is you get to continue being on the podcast.
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We would have shut you off.
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Shut off all the mics if you didn't get it right, but got it.
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So, external skeletons are actually really, really neat as it's a specific adaptation
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to help protect themselves because an exoskeleton is much harder than like skin.
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I should hope so.
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that I would because you know bugs are great, but if you were to still step on them, they're
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not gonna do anything.
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We've also got pest bugs.
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Do you have any experiences with pests?
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No, not really.
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Not at all?
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Never lived in like a dingy apartment full of like cockroaches or anything?
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I mean, my grandmother's house had ants.
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Ants?
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Lots of ants.
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Lots of ants.
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And I guess when I lived in Texas, we had flying cockroaches everywhere.
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Oh, that must have been fun.
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Oh, it was great.
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I loved it.
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Every moment.
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The funny thing is that I think I got the luckiest pest infestation at my new house.
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There could have been like so many other things.
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There could have been like termites, ants, there could have been cockroaches.
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I got ladybugs.
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We have a tunnel zone or attic.
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So you could say your attic is infested with ladybugs.
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They're carnivorous.
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You wouldn't ever think about that, like looking at them.
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They look so small and unassuming.
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Now I know that they'll try and eat everything.
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They'll try to eat everything.
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I'll accept them into my room now, I guess.
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Same with spiders.
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I don't like it when people like are all against spiders, which we'll just into our next segment
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about arachnids.
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Spiders get too much of a bad rap in my eyes.
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I mean, some of them, yeah.
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There's one like the black widow you don't want around.
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Like if they bite you, sure it's going to hurt.
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Like daddy long legs.
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We get a lot of those at my camp.
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they would be the most venomous spider in the world?
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And fun fact, daddy long legs aren't spiders.
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Kind of like worms.
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Worms are kind of their own thing.
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Good to know.
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God gave them way too many legs.
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This is a joke by the way.
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No reason.
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They have too many.
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Way too many.
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Like it's like someone who was looking at them, like designing them and was like, we've
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got millions of legs left over.
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Who are we going to give them to?
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Let's give them to these things that are unnecessarily long.
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Don't give them to slugs.
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It's not like they needed them.
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Let's not give snakes legs.
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Let's just give them to these things.
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I find them pretty cool.
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I don't like them.
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They're my favorite kind of animal, I guess I should say.
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They got of mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians and bugs and stuff.
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Those are my favorites because of the very wide range they can come in.
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Like when you think of things like Arthropods and stuff, you can think of like a small pill
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bug or a giant gullet bird eating spider.
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Like there's such a huge range that just makes them so interesting to learn about.
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That's true.
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They're just water bugs, basically.
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Crabs, lobsters, crawfish.
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Like here in Maine, they are like lobsters like are a big thing.
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and shrimp, but are repulsed at the idea of eating something like scorpion or cricket?
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of crab when I go there.
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You put it on a sandwich.
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It's actually really good.
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That's like the one time I've ever enjoyed eating lobster.
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I ended up having like crab rinds made with actual crab.
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The crab rinds are so good.
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I can't remember where we got them.
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Have you ever seen a Japanese spider crab?
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I think I have.
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Those things are crazy.
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They look like aliens almost.
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Like I don't even know how to describe them other than like crabs with really, really
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long legs.
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It's insane.
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the first thing that comes to my mind is dangerous.
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Would that go in your mind too?
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Which makes sense since a very, like the vast majority of them, when we think of them are
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like venomous or poisonous.
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Think like bullet ants, spiders, scorpions, which is a little unfair when things like
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ants are amazing creatures that do crazy things.
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So you know how like there's a colony of ants that has millions of ants?
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Some species of ants combine colonies together to form a super colony, which is billions
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of ants in it.
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Like their own mini globe almost of ants.
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If every ant right now grew by a scale of like 50.
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So even if they all grew to the size of like a small dog and were able to survive, then
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things that ways that their bodies adapt in.
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of the way our body regulates heat.
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extremely quickly because their bodies are more on intaking heat because of how small
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they are.
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And I think one of my favorite bugs has to be the moth.
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Oh, they're so cool.
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Very cool.
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It's not like when they like when their larvae eat their clothing.
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It's not always a great thing, but I find them very cute and fuzzy and way better than
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butterflies in my opinion.
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Butterflies?
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Butterflies scare me.
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I can't tell you why.
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I don't even know.
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But like they scare me for absolutely no reason.
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But moths, like I love them.
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See that reminds me of like the SpongeBob clip where they find a caterpillar and then it
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grows up to be a butterfly and they look at it and it's just a close up of the butterfly
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and they're just like terrified.
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So I guess you're on the same level of intelligence as SpongeBob and Banner.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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I didn't say we don't take slander here.
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Well, I say that's fair.
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What's your favorite bug or arthropod?
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Um, I'm not really sure.
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We'll get to like think about it.
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Like which ones do you like?
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Be any one of them.
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Does caterpillars count?
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Yeah, they count.
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Then caterpillars.
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They're nice.
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I always loved going into like a backyard.
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I found a Luna moth caterpillar in Kansas one time.
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Oh man, I was so sad when it died.
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And now I regularly feed larva and bugs to my lizard.
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But we're not talking about reptiles right now.
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That'll be for a later episode.
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So if you want to see me talk about lizard and stuff, stick around for a later date.
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Yeah.
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But thank you guys for listening to us rant about arthropods.
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This has been the one and only podcaster again.
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Don't look that up with our special guest, Ash.
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Thank you guys for joining me on the podcast.
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Of course.
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Anytime.
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It was great.
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Oh, I bet it.
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I bet it was.
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But it was.
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All right.
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See you guys and I'll see you guys next time.
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Bye.
