In this episode, we talk about the California government forcing a man to live with a 550lb black bear, and whether or not genetic engineering is the next big thing in the animal kingdom. Plus, we discuss the potential for genetic engineering in pets and other animals.
00:16:43.820They, yeah, they, they find a spot that is like hibernation, but they still go out a lot.
00:16:48.260But I'd be very worried about blocking off the entrance to my basement that doesn't go through my living room.
00:16:54.420If I had a, a very large 550 pound bear coming in there regularly.
00:16:59.240I guess they do, they'll break car windows.
00:17:01.880That's, that's why they tell you if you're camping in California, just never leave food in your car.
00:17:06.740But hold on, Simone, this isn't the only case of this happening in the U.S.
00:17:09.760So I want to tell you about another case that happens regularly, which is perhaps even crazier, given what we've gone through with the family.
00:17:21.980There have been numerous cases across the U.S. where homeowners discovered large bat colonies in their attics or homes and found themselves unable to evict them due to federal or state protections.
00:17:35.700Dude, you just don't tell anyone and you gas them all.
00:20:22.680I mean, it's so well that, like, some just choose to swim and walk instead, or just walk and walk.
00:20:27.760Yeah, whether you're talking about birds, which have totally walking varieties, or flying insects, which have totally walking varieties, but you do not get this in bats.
00:20:36.680The mystery, if you're wondering the mystery on why this is the case, the reason why is because bats, unlike every other species that has evolved flight, use their legs heavily in the flying process.
00:20:51.980Is this why they fly in such an embarrassing fashion?
00:22:12.840Well, you set up the extra running machine for Octavian next to you, and he spent all day, like, because we have a kid at home with us, working from home now.
00:22:21.300Not working from, they don't, they don't work yet.
00:22:48.580And he was explaining merch to me today.
00:22:50.300He's like, Dad, like, you've got to make the merch, and then you go to your fans, and you say, I got the merch, and then you give them the merch, and they give you money.
00:23:01.200And I was like, I came in, you've got to invent the merch, then.
00:23:31.040I bet even our haters are going to love those.
00:23:32.840But anyway, this guy has this one island in, like, future Earth where a bunch of bats became terrestrial.
00:23:40.100One of the most famous, like, creatures, he has this giant, really scary-looking predatory bat species he invented that's, like, a land-dwelling in, like, five years ago.
00:24:40.740It was one of the most complete skeletons we have of a T-Rex.
00:24:42.560It has little markers across its lower jawbone that we can match to an avian disease, so we know it was killed by single-cell parasites.
00:24:52.440And in avians, what that does is it causes so much pain that they can't eat anymore, and they eventually starve.
00:24:57.060And so T-Rexes were killed by small parasites, and the video I was on was going into how common large parasites were in dinosaurs, like giant ticks, giant fleas, giant internal worms.
00:25:11.420And one of the reasons is, and this is one of those things that I think a lot of people don't know, and it's actually interesting to talk about if you're talking about comparative biology, is dinosaurs just do not have very good immune systems, and there were not good immune systems back then.
00:25:25.900So, like, you would just get- we've even found, like, parasites in the nests of dinosaurs, like fleas.
00:25:30.940So they just grow up and then worms on them, fleas on them, everything like that.
00:25:36.200And it was because they, one, didn't have, like, dexterous arms for, like, picking off parasites, like, in the way that birds can do it easily through pruning, or humans and apes can do it through, like, grooming each other.
00:25:50.360And that's something that people who don't know a lot about biology, like, I actually, I- what- what biological system do birds have that is significantly better than biological systems that mammals have?
00:26:22.620Their- their respiratory and circulatory system are- are significantly better than mammalian ones.
00:26:27.980They're just, like, you know, like, you- you branch off and you look at comparative biology, and it's really interesting, because on some branches, you'll just be, like, oh, they're, like, millennium ahead of us in evolution in regards to-
00:26:38.980So, to understand why this is the case.
00:26:41.580So, in humans, when you breathe into your lungs-
00:27:24.160And, well, there's other ones that, like, for example, amphibians have a totally nerfed heart, like, circulatory.
00:27:28.700So, wait, but how does- is it- is it more than, like, heart valves, in the sense that, you know, they're sort of, like, one-way chambers and, like, blood vessels with birds?
00:27:37.500Because, I mean, you see bird noses, and they just have little holes.
00:27:40.480It's not like, I- oh, this is the bird's exhaust valve, and this is the bird's intake valve.
00:27:46.800Simone, it's been decades since I learned this.
00:27:50.040I have not gone over this recently, so I don't remember.
00:27:52.900But the point I was going to make is the one system that humans have that is generally, or I'd say mammals more broadly have, that is, like, way ahead of birds, usually, not all birds, but most, is our immune system.
00:28:04.340We have, like, just super awesome immune systems.
00:28:07.040And when you think about it, it's actually kind of wild.
00:28:09.320There are few diseases that humans get.
00:28:12.280Now, there were more in an ancestral time, which we've talked about with, like, the funguses, the eight people's faces, and stuff like that, that you don't just, like, get better from.
00:28:19.700And that was not a thing historically, right?
00:28:22.140Like, that we have an ability to develop an immunity to almost any disease.
00:28:28.920Well, I mean, on a macro level, there are plenty of diseases that have taken out significant portions of the human population, even relatively recently with the great flu after World War I.
00:28:40.720Yeah, you occasionally get these, but you have these in other species.
00:28:46.560Did you know that right now, does it just, like, the random fact episode at this point?
00:28:51.760Did you know right now that Tasmanian devils are nearing extinction?
00:28:55.800Because in other episodes, I've talked about canine venereal transmissible cancer, which is a transmissible cancer in canines.
00:29:02.960The only other mammals that have transmissible cancers, one is a hamster, it's a domesticated thing, and we can ignore it because it's so rare.
00:29:10.000But the other is Tasmanian devils, and they have two forms in them, and they might be going extinct due to these, and they arrived only fairly recently.
00:29:18.200They're only, like, 20 and 40 years old each.
00:29:22.900And what's really weird is there's been some recent research into the ancestral bones of Tasmanian devils, and we're now seeing that they may have had outbreaks of transmissible cancers in the past.
00:29:48.980Any random facts if we're making this a random fact episode?
00:29:52.280Because I don't want to bore you with a bunch of stuff about this one story.
00:29:54.780I mean, I find this story interesting.
00:29:55.980Well, no, I mean, just so we wrap this up, because we don't have to go further.
00:29:59.480I just, I just, where are we, is it just to be continued with this guy?
00:30:05.220Is the next headline, man, found dead in basement, eaten by bear?
00:30:08.900Like, what, where are we going with this?
00:30:11.540Well, you've seen this for a long time.
00:30:13.300There have been a lot of instances of road departments, departments of transportation stuff, suing people for fixing potholes.
00:30:19.340And we're sort of entering a timeline where government services are no longer doing their jobs, because they're just too saddled, bureaucratic.
00:30:29.040I forget Pizza Hut had that famous campaign where it fixed potholes, but maybe it got permits for that.
00:30:34.720It probably got permits for that, yeah.
00:30:36.080And said, like, oh, we have government contractors, and somebody in the government was probably getting paid off.
00:30:40.420But, yeah, as an individual, if you fix a pothole, you can be fined for that.
00:30:44.240Because, you know, you're not doing it officially.
00:31:26.380Maybe this is what Asmongold has been on about so much, where he's like, the key thing is to just start arresting policemen when they don't actually stop bad things from happening.
00:31:34.540And, I mean, then, I guess, if we were to remove whatever it is you're referring to, I've never heard of it before, indemnable immunity, then.
00:31:44.920Well, there was a case recently where there was a, I want to say it was a shooting that was happening.
00:31:49.200And a woman saw police hiding behind something, not doing anything.
00:31:52.940And she ran to grab one of their guns, and they stopped her because she wanted to try to stop the shooter.
00:31:59.720She tried to take a gun off a policeman?
00:32:21.000I'll go take down this active shooter.
00:32:23.760AI can't find this incident, so maybe I'm misremembering something.
00:32:27.720It thinks the incident that I am misremembering is the Yule Vade school shooting, where during the incident, police officers had women yelling at them to do something.
00:32:39.380So maybe that's what I'm misremembering.
00:33:29.160You know, that, that's a bear shooting gun.
00:33:31.200You're going to use your Beretta over under shotgun.
00:33:33.500That, I mean, oh God, like the first kill for that gun.
00:33:36.620Simone, you at least should have somebody with a backup with an AR because you need to, you need to be able to pump out a lot fairly quickly if the bear is not killed on the first shot.
00:35:00.100And, and fantasize about somebody coming to try to break into my fort or trap.
00:35:07.360And all of the things that I would trigger on them, which we haven't done a video on this.
00:35:12.060We'll do it next Christmas because I wanted to do this over Christmas, but we weren't filming over Christmas.
00:35:15.240Is how Home Alone and the reason why it became so popular in the United States, I think it's because it appealed to the greater Appalachian cultural value system of the Jack Tales.
00:35:23.800Where you have the young, you know, not, not overly masculine trickster.