Robotic Cockroaches

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So giant cyborg cockroaches. Did you have that on your
Bengo card this morning?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was not there were such things.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
They may become the future search and rescue heroes. So
scientists are turning I swear this is a real story.
They're turning cockroaches and beetles into cyborgs by attaching tiny
circuit boards that control their movements. Now, the only reason
I bring this up is because I think it's interesting.

(00:30):
It's very noble what they're trying to do. But they're
one day saying they can help in disaster zones, you know, earthquakes,
finding survivors, delivering medicine where human rescuers can't go. And
I love this part you got. I don't know, is
it Peta? No, it's not Pete. It can't be Peta.
But they're like some worry about the ethics. We're talking

(00:52):
about cockroaches and beetles, by the way, which are really low.
They're low on the food chains.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
But but they're they're alive. Yes, why can't we do
the same thing. We've got drones that you can hold
in the palm of your hand. Why do we need
to strap stuff to living things? We could do this
mechanically and be a lot more dependable, couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
We Yeah, but are you talking about things that can
take flight like with regard, Well, what if they have
to crawl in order to get through just little teeny
crevice and you can't really fly anything through that.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm just worried that, you know, you would have to
basically take over their brain with a little brain, and
insect has to manipulate their body to make them go
where you wanted to go. It just seems to me
it would be simpler to do it with little, you know,
miniaturized drones. We already got robotics they insert into your bloodstream. Yeah,
so it just it seems weird that we would take
a living something and do this.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, they're saying that attaching these tiny circuit boards, scientists
can control their movements using electrical pulses while taking advantage
of their natural agility. The goal is to deploy them
in disaster zones like earthquake sites. They could locate survivors,
even deliver life saving supplies. Then it says it reads

(02:11):
I should say. Researchers say the insects aren't harmed and
believe this technology could save many lives and how are
they not harmed.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I don't get that at all.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
If you're doing that, I feel like you're probably here's
the thing. You can't have one of them going that
harmed me. I mean, they're not gonna be able to
tell you, right.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
So then, yeah, the whole thing of manipulating your body,
I mean, because we've got this going on with humans too,
where they are now implanting and you're able to use
microchips to get people's fingers to move if they've had
a stroke or something like that, which is a wonderful thing,
it really is, but it's also kind of scary. I mean,
we're on the verge of becoming the borg, and that's

(02:48):
a little worrisome. I'm glad we're helping people, but at
the same time, I hope we know when to put
the brakes on.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Then they go on to say they're creating bio hybrid
robots using organisms like jellyfish and fung guy for various purposes,
sparking debates about the ethics and regulation of this emerging technology.
Kind Of to your point, it's a little bit controversial, yeah,
because some people are going, wait a minute, you shouldn't

(03:15):
be doing That's something living And to your point, can
you create something that small and you know the answers, yes,
like a cockroach or you know, a beatles, something that
small that could get into these little spaces and it's robotic.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah. I mean, FBI, CIA even show them on television
drama in cis as usual, little drones where they need
to do surveillance on a hostage situation inside of a
house or something, and you launch it from the palm
of your hand. It's just a little insect and it
flies up to the house. So we have those now.
That is so I don't see where using actual insects is.

(03:51):
It just seems like we would be in more control
and less controversial using nothing but the robotics.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Great point, and I one hundred percent agree if they
were able. What clearly you're using something that's already designed
and then you're so, would it be if you're using
the little whatever it would be that you would attach
to them that then turn them to where they have
to do whatever it is you are programming it to do.

(04:18):
How expensive are those little things? Wouldn't it be cheaper
to just go ahead and use the full fledged version
of whatever you're trying to emulate? There, but the robotic version, yes,
kind of like to your point.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
See again, and this is not about the technology. It's
about people and the fact that I don't trust humanity.
We do all the wrong things with all the right
stuff too often. Now, how long until some mister Burns
type character is sitting in his nuclear facility going, if
we can control the crockroaches, we can control the felons,
and we start, you know, somebody decides, let's implant the

(04:53):
robotics into the back of a convicted felon to make
them walk straight through society and be good citizens. It's
just that kind of stuff worries me because the technology
is there, it's moving quickly. Too many people are unaware
of what it is, how it exists. And by the
time we notice, hey, we're being turned into something other
than the human beings we're supposed to be, it's too

(05:15):
late to turn back.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
So then let me gun and flip it. Then, So,
if you're in prison, you have a life sentence and
this technology emerges and you they say to you, we
will release you, but you have to have this implanted,
which will help you stay on the straight and narrow,
but we can cut you loose you can start breathing
free air. You don't have to worry about Bubba giving
it to you. And you know when you go, you

(05:38):
go into the showers or whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Is it your soup? Yeah, I get you.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
You're gonna just stare at it or pick it up.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
They put those on ropes.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now, you know, I had no idea that droopy was
in prison. Almost went droopy right there.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
If the prisoner is given that choice, that option, and
A is a a human being makes that decision, I'm
okay with it.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
You dripped your soup. That was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
That was pretty good. Now, that was not my favorite.
My favorite was hucklebar him. Okay, he was my dog.
Yeah yeah, I wasn't a droopy dog. But if you
want to do droopy, I'll be Huckleberry. You know what,
I'm happy.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
I love how you would always say that, and he
would have the saddest look on his face. I'm happy. Yeah, Aaron,
are you there?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah? Hey, hey hey, the uh the remote control bugs.
It's just like Fifth Element, remember the movie.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, Bruce Willis, yes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Where they used the cockroaches to spy on the It
was like it was like the president that was using
the cockroach to spy on one of the mother bad guys.
I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that was what God, how
old is that movie? Twenty years?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah? But before that, even before that, and Zach, google
yourself over there, there was a movie with Gene Simmons
of Kiss who was a master and he had little
robotic insects that he was using to commit all his
crimes as well. Oh you remember that, you No, we
got to.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Watch it because you know, the bugs are gonna get us,
bro I mean, they're all you know, they're gonna make
these bugs and they're gonna get loose, and they're not
gonna be able to control them, and then people are
gonna hack into them, and then you know, and then hey,
maybe we'll be all right because maybe the remote control
bugs will be able to tell the people that have

(07:38):
eaten bugs. So if you just don't eat bugs, maybe
the bugs won't kill us.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh well, wasn't that a song by Miami Sala Machine.
The bugs are gone, I get you, bugs are gone,
I get grupt to get you.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, thanks, robotic bugs. Let's make robotic bugs that go
in and kill the real bugs. You want to make
robotic cockroaches. Let's get why do we have cockroaches? We
don't need them. Why do here's something else we keep
Franklin County is always in the top ten list around
the country with the bedbug problem. Yes, why do we
need bed bugs? Why are we trying to kill them?

(08:15):
Just sterilize them and turn them loose on each other
so they can no longer produce. That would make more sense.
You know, robotic bedbugs that go out and have sex
with other bedbugs. It sterilizes them or whatever they have
to do. I don't know how it works. They go
to a little bedbug motel or something. But still, again,
you know, if you're gonna do this benefit humanity, not

(08:35):
rescuing people, let's do something good with it, Amen, Chuck.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
The movie that you're talking about is Runway with What
right away? Or run Runway at the top billing is
Tom said the star?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yes, magnu Yes, what what year is that?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Zach nineteen eighty four and lost in his run It
lost two million dollars and it has really bad.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
And it was it was a thoroughly entertaining movie when
I didn't have to pay for it because it was
on HBO. Yeah, so I watched it several times.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, you paid in a roundabout way, but just not
per movie.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I told Tom Selly the other day on a Facebook
video in an old nineteen seventy seven I think it
was a Safeguard soap commercial with no mustache.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
He looks bizarre. He looks like an alien without a mustache.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Very long face.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, he's gotta You're right, he's gotta have the mustache.
It's just one of those things. Yeah, you just gotta have.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Except now the mustache he has now it's I don't know,
it's kind of a Steve Harvey Groucho Marx electrical duct
tape mustache. It just doesn't look normal anymore.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'll go with you on that. And he's old now,
he's pretty old, right, yes, And he's doing the reverse.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Mortgage thing hilarious because he's been Frank Reagan in Blue
blood And the guy who plays his father in Blue
Bloods is actually younger than him, I believe in real life.
I think he's yeah, oh yeah, there is nine. And
the guy who plays Frank Reagan's dad in Blue Bloods
I think is like two years younger than him or
something along those lines.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
By the way that Ferrari in Magnum is my even
though it's old. That's my favorite Ferrari body type. Forget
about all these new ones that are like four hundred
and fifty thousand for the no, no give me. I
think it's the three oh eight GTB or something like
that GTB I ZQ twelve something, and that's my favorite
Ferrari of all time. That's the one that I would buy.

(10:24):
If you and I talked about the lottery coming up
on Friday, because nobody hit it last night.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
The second Higgins is my favorite Higgins body type, so
that works well too. The Gal yes, the remake of Magnum,
wh he is very cute.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, But anyway, where I was going is had
I if I were to hit that, yes, the lottery, Yes,
and when the whatever it would be the cash out
three hundred and eighty million or I swear I would
go after that particular Ferrari, not the one necessarily from
the series, but that type, if you will, and I
might actually go after the There were probably multiple ones

(10:58):
they used in that, but I'd like to actually that's
the one that I would like to have. Do you
think that I mean with the I call it the
target top where that piece is missing in the middle,
and his head was because he's what six.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Four was an awesome car. I'd just be scared I'd
buy it and then couldn't fit in it. That would worry.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
You would fit in. If Tom Seala can fit in,
you can fit in it.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I know. Well I'm bigger around than.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
He is, a little bit, I mean, but you know,
I think you still would be fine in that.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I'd probably spend all my winnings on like the last
big body style Cadillac and have boots go out and
redo it for me and turn it back into it
like a you could cruise around in a nineteen seventy
nine Fleetwood or something.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
And then you could you could pull as you're getting
ready to pull away, kind of look back into the
you know how he does a little.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Eyebrow like radio right. Nobody saw your eyebrows, but you
did saw it was kind of freaky because I liked
it