January 9, 2024 • 18 mins
How will the buzz about small insects change as time goes by?
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(00:00):
Welcome to the Fuzz, where weenvision the ideas we'll all be buzzing about
in the future. The buzz future, in the future, in the future,
(00:26):
in the future. Well, thethings we talk about on this podcast
might seem impossible or even slightly insane. So did springtails, walking leaves,
and assassin bugs, and yet newspecies of these little fellas have all popped
(00:51):
up in recent years. That's right. On today's episode, we're talking about
bugs. What will bugs be likein the future, Chad tell the listeners,
I think it's important if we definewhat a bug is first and foremost.
We have to set a baseline sothat everybody understands. I mean,
yeah, it's a good question.Are we talking about listening devices? Could?
(01:15):
I mean, it could be anything. Strictly speaking, a bug is
an insect in the group Hemiptera.It must have piercing mouth parts. Piercing
mouth parts, that's what defines abug technically, so cicadas an example of
those. Spiders not an example ofthose not technically a bug. I mean
(01:38):
spiders. Spiders could be you know, pretty scary. I'm not gonna lie,
Yeah, I don't. I don'tlove the spider. I wouldn't want
a spider on me. Some peoplewould. That's not me. Yeah,
like the wet bandit guy and homealone. When that transla falls on the
face he screwed, that would beme. I'd be like just a high
pitch scream. M hmm, yeahfor sure, just like just like Harry
(02:01):
or Marv. Yeah, Harry washis name. I called him a wet
bandit because it's you know, theywere bandits. They were bandits most often
though. Bugs to most people justmean creepy crawley. Creatures refers to,
you know, things with at leastsix legs, insects, spiders, centipedes,
(02:22):
ants, what have you. Ithink we categorize all those things together
as bugs. I'd even throw inthere, you're flying creatures. I'd probably
even throw a like bees or waspor something in with bugs too. What
about you? Tick might be oneof those you don't want that you don't
want to mess with the ticks thesedays. Lantern fly? Have you seen
(02:43):
the lantern fly? Oh? Yeah, they're crazy looking. Yeah, and
they're huge, they look uh huhyeaheah. But I think that we're discovering
new bugs all the time, right, Yeah, Surprisingly they're all over the
place. It's not like, youknow, I thought in my mind we've
kind of had the same bugs circulatingaround for a long time. Not the
(03:05):
case. According to a twenty twelveNBC News article said this an annual inventory
of newly discovered species lists more thannineteen thousand new species, and half of
them were insects. And that's noteven counting spiders. That's insane. Yeah,
It's like when they say we discovereda new species of anything, You're
(03:27):
like, how do we not alreadyhave that covered on this planet? How
are we still discovering things? Don'tyou think? It feels like we should
know and this day and age,we should know all that the Earth has
to offer, But we don't.Right now. It's just new stuff being
discovered every day. New things arepopping up, and we're talking about thousands,
yeah, new insects, and youknow, some of these are like
different variations of things. But stillthere's all sorts of bugs we don't even
(03:53):
know about. But that's a littlebit of backstory on the bugs and just
a tiny taste of what's happening withWhat is the future hold for bugs?
It's the question on everybody's mind.Yeah, so why don't you hit us,
Why don't you hit us with thetime machine? Oh yeah, let's
step on in do the time machine. So what I have here in front
(04:25):
of me is a local news reportI brought back from one hundred and fifty
years in the future. I can'tcrumple it because it's on this holographic paper
if you will, Oh yeah,keep that. That's worth a lot of
money. Yeah yeah. Anyway,I'm gonna read this to you because I
(04:45):
thought this was an interesting piece Ifound when I was doing a little research
on bugs in the future. Thearticle here. Much has been written in
recent years about the vast and rapidevolution of insects. You've no doubt heard
about the hundreds of thousands of newinsects discoveries by scientists last year alone,
and had probably even seen some ofthese strange, tiny creatures buzzing around your
(05:09):
home. But nothing could have preparedanyone for the event that took place last
Saturday in Valhalla Canyon. A pairof hikers attempting a questionable photoop found all
it takes is a small slip ofthe heel for the entire world to change.
When Milton Earle twenty six posed atthe edge of the rock formation known
(05:32):
as Mount Formica, he lost hisfooting and fell backwards. His companion,
Veronica Smithwood twenty four, who wastaking the photo, describes the events that
followed as happening in slow motion.In an instant, his face went from
smiling to this look of pure terror, like someone flipped a switch. Smith
(05:57):
Wood said. Then he floated therefor a minut before he was just gone,
as the realization quickly set in thatEarle's life would end in that moment,
falling nearly one hundred feet to thejagged rocks below, Smithwood tried to
scream, but no air could reachher lungs. Instead, she lunged forward,
(06:18):
reaching out her hands in a futilegesture, and seeing Earle in a
freefall, his terrified eyes locking onhers. Then something remarkable happened. A
loud hum, unlike anything Smithwood hadever heard, filled the air, and
(06:39):
a horde of black dots darkened thesky. They came flying toward Earl,
moving at a speed beyond all comprehension. The horde slid below Earl just before
he reached the ground, catching theman almost as if he had fallen onto
an invisible cloud. What happened nextwas no less head scratching. The horde
(07:03):
of insects lifted Earl up into theair, elevating him back up to the
rock from which he had fallen.They then dispersed, setting Earl down in
front of Smithwood unharmed, before flyingoff as quickly and loudly as they had
flown in. Smithwood and Earl stoodstaring at each other with mouse agape for
(07:28):
what seemed like an eternity, theireyes asking each other in stun silence,
did that just happen? Satellite verificationwould later prove it had. A man's
life was saved by insects acting bothconsciously and seemingly in goodwill, leaving humanity
and science to wonder if our relationshipwith bugs is about to change forever?
(08:01):
Wow, what do you make ofthat? Patrick? There is a lot
to unpack there, I mean,isn't there The news story or the article
really paints a very clear picture ofwhat happened to this couple. Yeah,
I mean, and you know,at first, you're like, is that
can we trust these people? Arethey crazy? But at the end it
seems like we're verified. These bugsseemingly worked together. Yeah, in a
(08:26):
collective save a humans. Yeah,to save a human being's life. Yeah,
for whatever reason, he is importantto history. They say, maybe
this is the first of many.Maybe maybe the bugs are reaching out.
Opens up just a lot of questions. At first, when I started reading
this, I thought the bugs weregoing to kill him. Yeah, you
(08:48):
immediately think because they're bugs, andwe're trained to think bugs are bad.
Yeah, they're going for him,But no, they're saviors in this case.
Yeah. There's there's a lot thereand I I man, it makes
you hopeful, doesn't it, justreading that that there could be bugs out
there who looking out for us.Yeah, and we don't even know about
(09:11):
them, but it might come tothat when you need them, and they'll
be there. I like the ValhallaCanyon wherever that is. I want to
go there. Where is that atin the future. It sounds interesting,
you know, whenever we do thefuture of canyons, Yeah, which is
probably coming soon. Yeah, we'rerunning out of other futures, so canyons
(09:33):
are up next. Canyons are Yeah, they're on the docket. That's really
good. I like that a lotand something that I didn't expect from the
future. Yeah. Wow, younever know what the future is going to
hold. What can you tell meabout the future of bugs that I don't
know? Yeah, first, youknow, we always have to step into
the time machine. Ask a timetraveler from twenty twenty four and they'll probably
(10:05):
tell you that bugs are often equatedwith pests and the Earth's lowliest of living
creatures. They're despised by and oftencrushed below the feet of those who are
at the top of the food chain, namely us humans. But in the
not too far off distant future,the way in which we as human beings
view bugs might surprise you. That'sbecause bugs have literally become the food chain
(10:26):
for the top of the food chain. This isn't a novel idea by any
means. According to the National Libraryof Medicine, historical evidence shows that insects
have been used as a food source, a term known as entomophagy. This
is because insects or bugs have incrediblyhigh nutritional value. But you didn't come
to the future for a history lesson, and you certainly didn't want the science
(10:48):
behind the future of bugs. Instead, we've dipped our toes into the most
trendy product marketing in what many historiansare calling the eras of the inn to
the historians. You know they don'thave great naming structures. In a time
when many have forgotten cattle, fishand poultry, there are products lining store
shelves with those critters we once foundcreepy and detestable. Such ass need a
(11:13):
jolt of energy before lorf pick upa can of beetlejuice. Just like the
mysterious otherworldly bio exorcist we all knowand love, you too, can summon
the powers and get on with yoursolar cycle with an after life type of
confidence. Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice. Want to impress the most cynical person
(11:33):
you know, even your lifelong partner. Get the newest innovation from Buggies Cicada
Farm. One bite of these geneticallyaltered mutes and you'll be channeling their inateability
to make mesmerizing, droning sounds thatare undetectable to human ears. The catch
people will be enamored with every wordyou speak. Get them while supplies last
(11:54):
tired of being hungry. The centuriesof feeling completely plump and full of food
is akin to folklore, bugs arenot enough to give humans that same gluttonous
sensation until now feed your voracious sidewith brain flies. You'll swallow a small
handful of these once believed harbingers ofdisease and suffering and find yourself immediately satisfied
(12:16):
for months. The best part,it's not an illusion. These bugs carry
so much nutrition that our human bodiesneed all that time to process it.
Just don't gorge on them unless youwant them to consume your brain. Some
(12:37):
great products. It all makes sensethough, a future where bugs are the
top product the food chain, youknow, beat is out right. I
can see that. You know,at the beginning of the episode we talked
about all these new bugs we're findingeach year. We could also see a
future where the bugs are multiplying soquickly that we don't know what to do.
Well, here's a solution. Eatthem, Eat those little buggers and
(13:01):
creative products. Creative food products somethingwe're really good at. Not just our
country, I would say, inour world. We know how to make
almost anything taste good yeah, andmake it sound good too, yeah,
and mass produce it obviously. Ilove anything with a beetlejuice reference in there.
I hope they have a commercial wherethey're like beetlejuice. Beetle juice,
(13:22):
beetlejuice. Oh, I for surethink that's happening. So that one,
you know, pops to me.But I tell you what really is the
brain flies, which really got me. I was like, man, you
pop just a few of these andyou're full for a long period of time.
Probably good for your diet, it'sgood for substance where you're not using
a lot of resources. Obviously,the twist at the end where be careful
(13:45):
how much you eat was a littlescary. That was a kind of like
the fast morning you get at theend of the commercial. Yeah, yeah,
morning. Eating too many brain fliescan kill you. Yeah, there's
always a little bit of a catch, just like the boogie cicada farm sounds.
It was great that this gives youalmost this like ability to mesmerize people,
you know, by eating these bugs. Weird kind of cool, almost
(14:07):
like a superpower, but could beused for evil too, you know.
You think about that and influencing otherpeople and if everybody's doing it. I
was just gonna ask the question ofwhat if you know you're eating them,
I'm eating them, and we're likemesmerizing each other. Yeah, we're just
like enammered with each other the wholetime, like we're just like nobody ever,
nobody ever fights. They're just likeyeah, like yeah, yeah.
(14:31):
I mean maybe it makes the worlda more peaceful place. Maybe it is.
Maybe everybody's just like cool, it'slike, yeah, eating the cicadas,
Yeah, yeah, pretty good.I love buggy cicadas, farm cicadas.
Those are so A cicada is athick, meaty bug. They're so
gross looking from today's eyes, right, yeah, And one hundred years from
now, people would be like,oh, ye, cows, disgusting,
(14:54):
Oh that meat chickens, that's disgusting, and they pop a cicada in their
mouth and wash it down some beetlejuice. Yeah. I think that's totally where
we're headed. I can see itmakes sense. I'm surprised you didn't ask
me about LORF. LORF was kindof at the beginning, so I lost
you know, lorf. They don'tcall it work anymore in the future,
(15:16):
shad, because you know, workis a thing of the past, Okay,
So it's work life balance that sortof took hold, and it's life
and work all wrapped up in one. So it's your day, right,
It's lorf. That's a good ideabecause work could use a rebrand. It
needs a rebrand. Pretty negative,pretty negative in most people's eyes. You
(15:39):
say lorf, it feels softer.It's a little easier on the ears.
The F is softer than the K. M oh, this is like life,
but it's lorf. Are you havinga great lorf? I am,
thank you. It's not quite life, it's not quite work. It's something
in the middle, which is whatwe all need. And it's like,
if you're you know, not feelinggood, you might also loarfha. You
(16:03):
could all over your brain flies.I'm gonna wharf oh man, he loft
all over himself. That yeah.So between all of those, I think
there's some really good things happening.Bugs are saving us in two ways.
I would say, yeah, physicallyand in some case physically even on the
(16:26):
food side, but physically sweeping insuper human physically, yeah, physically.
Emotionally, I'm impressed that we bothtraveled to futures and nobody ended up in
an evil bug future. That's tooeasy. Well, there's probably so many
futures we could have ended up there. I just I think the fact that
(16:47):
we didn't go there is impressive steppinginto the time machine. You never know
what you're gonna get. We don'tget to pick the futures that we go
to. Maybe we didn't go farenough, you know, we went to
the we went just enough into thefuture where the bugs are giving and helping.
We didn't go far enough where thebugs are terrorizing and destroying. Yeah,
(17:10):
I see, that's the natural progression. Like they came, they started
to help us, to save us, and then they were overpowering us in
life, like they were just toomany. And then we started eating them.
They got angry. They got angrybecause we're just decimating their lives.
We've kind of found out they're consciousSENTI then we're eating them. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, and then there'sa war, all out war. One
(17:33):
day, somebody was like, aren'tthose bugs kind of too nice? Should
we eat them? Yeah? Atfirst it's like everything else. You know,
people are like enamored with Oh thatis so amazing. That's a great
story. These bugs, they're savingus. And then there people are like
turning on them instantly. It happenedso quick. Do you see what the
cicadas did the other day. It'sall over the top, isn't it.
(17:56):
Yeah, it's like they're trying tolet's eat them. They're probably really thinking
about killing us, so we shouldkill them first. Yeah. How are
we going to do it? Idon't know, but I was thinking,
let's eat them. Bet they're crunchyas hell. Oh my god. That
solves two problems. One you're weirdthing about them killing us even though they're
(18:19):
helping us, and two we're allout of food. It's perfect. Yeah.
Yeah, well, hopefully it doesn'tcome to apocalyptic in nature. Yeah.
Let's keep it friendly, keep itfriendly with the bugs people. Yeah.
Well, that's all for this episodeof The Fuzz. Tune in next
(18:40):
time for more of tomorrow's Buzz TodayToday
Welcome to the Fuzz, where weenvision the ideas we'll all be buzzing about
in the future. The buzz future, in the future, in the future,
(00:26):
in the future. Well, thethings we talk about on this podcast
might seem impossible or even slightly insane. So did springtails, walking leaves,
and assassin bugs, and yet newspecies of these little fellas have all popped
(00:51):
up in recent years. That's right. On today's episode, we're talking about
bugs. What will bugs be likein the future, Chad tell the listeners,
I think it's important if we definewhat a bug is first and foremost.
We have to set a baseline sothat everybody understands. I mean,
yeah, it's a good question.Are we talking about listening devices? Could?
(01:15):
I mean, it could be anything. Strictly speaking, a bug is
an insect in the group Hemiptera.It must have piercing mouth parts. Piercing
mouth parts, that's what defines abug technically, so cicadas an example of
those. Spiders not an example ofthose not technically a bug. I mean
(01:38):
spiders. Spiders could be you know, pretty scary. I'm not gonna lie,
Yeah, I don't. I don'tlove the spider. I wouldn't want
a spider on me. Some peoplewould. That's not me. Yeah,
like the wet bandit guy and homealone. When that transla falls on the
face he screwed, that would beme. I'd be like just a high
pitch scream. M hmm, yeahfor sure, just like just like Harry
(02:01):
or Marv. Yeah, Harry washis name. I called him a wet
bandit because it's you know, theywere bandits. They were bandits most often
though. Bugs to most people justmean creepy crawley. Creatures refers to,
you know, things with at leastsix legs, insects, spiders, centipedes,
(02:22):
ants, what have you. Ithink we categorize all those things together
as bugs. I'd even throw inthere, you're flying creatures. I'd probably
even throw a like bees or waspor something in with bugs too. What
about you? Tick might be oneof those you don't want that you don't
want to mess with the ticks thesedays. Lantern fly? Have you seen
(02:43):
the lantern fly? Oh? Yeah, they're crazy looking. Yeah, and
they're huge, they look uh huhyeaheah. But I think that we're discovering
new bugs all the time, right, Yeah, Surprisingly they're all over the
place. It's not like, youknow, I thought in my mind we've
kind of had the same bugs circulatingaround for a long time. Not the
(03:05):
case. According to a twenty twelveNBC News article said this an annual inventory
of newly discovered species lists more thannineteen thousand new species, and half of
them were insects. And that's noteven counting spiders. That's insane. Yeah,
It's like when they say we discovereda new species of anything, You're
(03:27):
like, how do we not alreadyhave that covered on this planet? How
are we still discovering things? Don'tyou think? It feels like we should
know and this day and age,we should know all that the Earth has
to offer, But we don't.Right now. It's just new stuff being
discovered every day. New things arepopping up, and we're talking about thousands,
yeah, new insects, and youknow, some of these are like
different variations of things. But stillthere's all sorts of bugs we don't even
(03:53):
know about. But that's a littlebit of backstory on the bugs and just
a tiny taste of what's happening withWhat is the future hold for bugs?
It's the question on everybody's mind.Yeah, so why don't you hit us,
Why don't you hit us with thetime machine? Oh yeah, let's
step on in do the time machine. So what I have here in front
(04:25):
of me is a local news reportI brought back from one hundred and fifty
years in the future. I can'tcrumple it because it's on this holographic paper
if you will, Oh yeah,keep that. That's worth a lot of
money. Yeah yeah. Anyway,I'm gonna read this to you because I
(04:45):
thought this was an interesting piece Ifound when I was doing a little research
on bugs in the future. Thearticle here. Much has been written in
recent years about the vast and rapidevolution of insects. You've no doubt heard
about the hundreds of thousands of newinsects discoveries by scientists last year alone,
and had probably even seen some ofthese strange, tiny creatures buzzing around your
(05:09):
home. But nothing could have preparedanyone for the event that took place last
Saturday in Valhalla Canyon. A pairof hikers attempting a questionable photoop found all
it takes is a small slip ofthe heel for the entire world to change.
When Milton Earle twenty six posed atthe edge of the rock formation known
(05:32):
as Mount Formica, he lost hisfooting and fell backwards. His companion,
Veronica Smithwood twenty four, who wastaking the photo, describes the events that
followed as happening in slow motion.In an instant, his face went from
smiling to this look of pure terror, like someone flipped a switch. Smith
(05:57):
Wood said. Then he floated therefor a minut before he was just gone,
as the realization quickly set in thatEarle's life would end in that moment,
falling nearly one hundred feet to thejagged rocks below, Smithwood tried to
scream, but no air could reachher lungs. Instead, she lunged forward,
(06:18):
reaching out her hands in a futilegesture, and seeing Earle in a
freefall, his terrified eyes locking onhers. Then something remarkable happened. A
loud hum, unlike anything Smithwood hadever heard, filled the air, and
(06:39):
a horde of black dots darkened thesky. They came flying toward Earl,
moving at a speed beyond all comprehension. The horde slid below Earl just before
he reached the ground, catching theman almost as if he had fallen onto
an invisible cloud. What happened nextwas no less head scratching. The horde
(07:03):
of insects lifted Earl up into theair, elevating him back up to the
rock from which he had fallen.They then dispersed, setting Earl down in
front of Smithwood unharmed, before flyingoff as quickly and loudly as they had
flown in. Smithwood and Earl stoodstaring at each other with mouse agape for
(07:28):
what seemed like an eternity, theireyes asking each other in stun silence,
did that just happen? Satellite verificationwould later prove it had. A man's
life was saved by insects acting bothconsciously and seemingly in goodwill, leaving humanity
and science to wonder if our relationshipwith bugs is about to change forever?
(08:01):
Wow, what do you make ofthat? Patrick? There is a lot
to unpack there, I mean,isn't there The news story or the article
really paints a very clear picture ofwhat happened to this couple. Yeah,
I mean, and you know,at first, you're like, is that
can we trust these people? Arethey crazy? But at the end it
seems like we're verified. These bugsseemingly worked together. Yeah, in a
(08:26):
collective save a humans. Yeah,to save a human being's life. Yeah,
for whatever reason, he is importantto history. They say, maybe
this is the first of many.Maybe maybe the bugs are reaching out.
Opens up just a lot of questions. At first, when I started reading
this, I thought the bugs weregoing to kill him. Yeah, you
(08:48):
immediately think because they're bugs, andwe're trained to think bugs are bad.
Yeah, they're going for him,But no, they're saviors in this case.
Yeah. There's there's a lot thereand I I man, it makes
you hopeful, doesn't it, justreading that that there could be bugs out
there who looking out for us.Yeah, and we don't even know about
(09:11):
them, but it might come tothat when you need them, and they'll
be there. I like the ValhallaCanyon wherever that is. I want to
go there. Where is that atin the future. It sounds interesting,
you know, whenever we do thefuture of canyons, Yeah, which is
probably coming soon. Yeah, we'rerunning out of other futures, so canyons
(09:33):
are up next. Canyons are Yeah, they're on the docket. That's really
good. I like that a lotand something that I didn't expect from the
future. Yeah. Wow, younever know what the future is going to
hold. What can you tell meabout the future of bugs that I don't
know? Yeah, first, youknow, we always have to step into
the time machine. Ask a timetraveler from twenty twenty four and they'll probably
(10:05):
tell you that bugs are often equatedwith pests and the Earth's lowliest of living
creatures. They're despised by and oftencrushed below the feet of those who are
at the top of the food chain, namely us humans. But in the
not too far off distant future,the way in which we as human beings
view bugs might surprise you. That'sbecause bugs have literally become the food chain
(10:26):
for the top of the food chain. This isn't a novel idea by any
means. According to the National Libraryof Medicine, historical evidence shows that insects
have been used as a food source, a term known as entomophagy. This
is because insects or bugs have incrediblyhigh nutritional value. But you didn't come
to the future for a history lesson, and you certainly didn't want the science
(10:48):
behind the future of bugs. Instead, we've dipped our toes into the most
trendy product marketing in what many historiansare calling the eras of the inn to
the historians. You know they don'thave great naming structures. In a time
when many have forgotten cattle, fishand poultry, there are products lining store
shelves with those critters we once foundcreepy and detestable. Such ass need a
(11:13):
jolt of energy before lorf pick upa can of beetlejuice. Just like the
mysterious otherworldly bio exorcist we all knowand love, you too, can summon
the powers and get on with yoursolar cycle with an after life type of
confidence. Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice. Want to impress the most cynical person
(11:33):
you know, even your lifelong partner. Get the newest innovation from Buggies Cicada
Farm. One bite of these geneticallyaltered mutes and you'll be channeling their inateability
to make mesmerizing, droning sounds thatare undetectable to human ears. The catch
people will be enamored with every wordyou speak. Get them while supplies last
(11:54):
tired of being hungry. The centuriesof feeling completely plump and full of food
is akin to folklore, bugs arenot enough to give humans that same gluttonous
sensation until now feed your voracious sidewith brain flies. You'll swallow a small
handful of these once believed harbingers ofdisease and suffering and find yourself immediately satisfied
(12:16):
for months. The best part,it's not an illusion. These bugs carry
so much nutrition that our human bodiesneed all that time to process it.
Just don't gorge on them unless youwant them to consume your brain. Some
(12:37):
great products. It all makes sensethough, a future where bugs are the
top product the food chain, youknow, beat is out right. I
can see that. You know,at the beginning of the episode we talked
about all these new bugs we're findingeach year. We could also see a
future where the bugs are multiplying soquickly that we don't know what to do.
Well, here's a solution. Eatthem, Eat those little buggers and
(13:01):
creative products. Creative food products somethingwe're really good at. Not just our
country, I would say, inour world. We know how to make
almost anything taste good yeah, andmake it sound good too, yeah,
and mass produce it obviously. Ilove anything with a beetlejuice reference in there.
I hope they have a commercial wherethey're like beetlejuice. Beetle juice,
(13:22):
beetlejuice. Oh, I for surethink that's happening. So that one,
you know, pops to me.But I tell you what really is the
brain flies, which really got me. I was like, man, you
pop just a few of these andyou're full for a long period of time.
Probably good for your diet, it'sgood for substance where you're not using
a lot of resources. Obviously,the twist at the end where be careful
(13:45):
how much you eat was a littlescary. That was a kind of like
the fast morning you get at theend of the commercial. Yeah, yeah,
morning. Eating too many brain fliescan kill you. Yeah, there's
always a little bit of a catch, just like the boogie cicada farm sounds.
It was great that this gives youalmost this like ability to mesmerize people,
you know, by eating these bugs. Weird kind of cool, almost
(14:07):
like a superpower, but could beused for evil too, you know.
You think about that and influencing otherpeople and if everybody's doing it. I
was just gonna ask the question ofwhat if you know you're eating them,
I'm eating them, and we're likemesmerizing each other. Yeah, we're just
like enammered with each other the wholetime, like we're just like nobody ever,
nobody ever fights. They're just likeyeah, like yeah, yeah.
(14:31):
I mean maybe it makes the worlda more peaceful place. Maybe it is.
Maybe everybody's just like cool, it'slike, yeah, eating the cicadas,
Yeah, yeah, pretty good.I love buggy cicadas, farm cicadas.
Those are so A cicada is athick, meaty bug. They're so
gross looking from today's eyes, right, yeah, And one hundred years from
now, people would be like,oh, ye, cows, disgusting,
(14:54):
Oh that meat chickens, that's disgusting, and they pop a cicada in their
mouth and wash it down some beetlejuice. Yeah. I think that's totally where
we're headed. I can see itmakes sense. I'm surprised you didn't ask
me about LORF. LORF was kindof at the beginning, so I lost
you know, lorf. They don'tcall it work anymore in the future,
(15:16):
shad, because you know, workis a thing of the past, Okay,
So it's work life balance that sortof took hold, and it's life
and work all wrapped up in one. So it's your day, right,
It's lorf. That's a good ideabecause work could use a rebrand. It
needs a rebrand. Pretty negative,pretty negative in most people's eyes. You
(15:39):
say lorf, it feels softer.It's a little easier on the ears.
The F is softer than the K. M oh, this is like life,
but it's lorf. Are you havinga great lorf? I am,
thank you. It's not quite life, it's not quite work. It's something
in the middle, which is whatwe all need. And it's like,
if you're you know, not feelinggood, you might also loarfha. You
(16:03):
could all over your brain flies.I'm gonna wharf oh man, he loft
all over himself. That yeah.So between all of those, I think
there's some really good things happening.Bugs are saving us in two ways.
I would say, yeah, physicallyand in some case physically even on the
(16:26):
food side, but physically sweeping insuper human physically, yeah, physically.
Emotionally, I'm impressed that we bothtraveled to futures and nobody ended up in
an evil bug future. That's tooeasy. Well, there's probably so many
futures we could have ended up there. I just I think the fact that
(16:47):
we didn't go there is impressive steppinginto the time machine. You never know
what you're gonna get. We don'tget to pick the futures that we go
to. Maybe we didn't go farenough, you know, we went to
the we went just enough into thefuture where the bugs are giving and helping.
We didn't go far enough where thebugs are terrorizing and destroying. Yeah,
(17:10):
I see, that's the natural progression. Like they came, they started
to help us, to save us, and then they were overpowering us in
life, like they were just toomany. And then we started eating them.
They got angry. They got angrybecause we're just decimating their lives.
We've kind of found out they're consciousSENTI then we're eating them. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, and then there'sa war, all out war. One
(17:33):
day, somebody was like, aren'tthose bugs kind of too nice? Should
we eat them? Yeah? Atfirst it's like everything else. You know,
people are like enamored with Oh thatis so amazing. That's a great
story. These bugs, they're savingus. And then there people are like
turning on them instantly. It happenedso quick. Do you see what the
cicadas did the other day. It'sall over the top, isn't it.
(17:56):
Yeah, it's like they're trying tolet's eat them. They're probably really thinking
about killing us, so we shouldkill them first. Yeah. How are
we going to do it? Idon't know, but I was thinking,
let's eat them. Bet they're crunchyas hell. Oh my god. That
solves two problems. One you're weirdthing about them killing us even though they're
(18:19):
helping us, and two we're allout of food. It's perfect. Yeah.
Yeah, well, hopefully it doesn'tcome to apocalyptic in nature. Yeah.
Let's keep it friendly, keep itfriendly with the bugs people. Yeah.
Well, that's all for this episodeof The Fuzz. Tune in next
(18:40):
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