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challenge you to create your own

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bug habitat. Raid the recycling bin

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for a jar or a box, and

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fill it with sticks, soil, leaves,

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rocks, and anything else you think

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would make a wild bug feel at home.

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And don't forget to add a welcome mat

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at the entrance so that all the bugs

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know that they're invited.

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And once you complete this mission, there's more!

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more missions and wow in

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the world episodes. And

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videos from your missions, visit

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wondering.com/summer of wow. The

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summer of wow is now. We

1:31

wow on the weekend. We

1:33

wow on the weekend. We

1:35

wow on the weekend. Cause

1:37

this is what we do on the weekend. Talking,

1:40

laughing, me and Reggie.

1:43

Singing, laughing, and then

1:45

we- oh wait no

1:47

I said laughing twice. Whatever! We

1:49

wow on the weekend. We wow on the weekend. We wow

1:51

on the weekend. Hello

2:03

and welcome to We Wow On

2:05

The Weekend. I'm your host, Dennis.

2:09

And that's Reggie, co-host and

2:11

giant pigeon. Hey

2:14

Reggie, wanna play a game real quick? Okay,

2:17

try and guess what I'm thinking

2:19

of. No

2:22

it's not a play. No

2:25

it's not a food. No

2:28

it's not an animal. No

2:32

it's not a person even though people are

2:34

animals too. Reggie,

2:37

don't give up. Okay,

2:39

I'll give you a hint. It's a movie

2:42

that I can't remember the name of. Actually

2:45

wait, no. It might be a TV show or

2:48

a video game. Actually wait,

2:50

no. I think it was a commercial

2:52

for dog food. And the

2:55

dog was so cute, Reggie. It

2:57

was wearing a bow tie and did a little dance.

3:01

Well better not guessing what I'm thinking of

3:03

next time Reggie. Okay, let's

3:05

get into the show and read some reviews.

3:09

I'm reading reviews and

3:11

reading to you these

3:13

awesome reviews. So

3:16

let's read

3:18

reviews. Okay,

3:22

this first review comes

3:24

from username, Uggubugubu-j-u-vuh.

3:30

And the title says, I hub-be-this-have-a-jugub-a-kub-um.

3:37

Yeah I don't know, maybe this uggubugugugub

3:40

person fell on their keyboard while they

3:42

were typing the title. The

3:44

message says, I love Dennis

3:47

so much I give him

3:49

a thousand billion stars. Actually

3:52

I give him a hundred million eight

3:54

thousand eight hundred eighty eight billion stars

3:56

out of 10. So

4:00

actually, 800,000, 9,200,000,000,000 trying to sell

4:02

you quarter million, billion stars.

4:08

Wow! That's so many stars,

4:10

Haga Baga. Yeah, I think

4:12

it might almost be too

4:14

many stars. Now

4:18

you're right, there's no such

4:20

thing. Hooray, stars! Next review-sy,

4:23

this review-sy's from username WOWD by

4:25

WOW in the World. The

4:28

title says, Reggie Rocks. And

4:31

the message says, Reggie, tell

4:33

Dennis that he shouldn't be the

4:35

star. You should be the host. I'm

4:39

talking to Reggie. Listen

4:42

here, WOWD by WOW in the World. Reggie

4:44

and me are co-stars.

4:47

Sure, it's my microphone and

4:50

my mother's basement, but Reggie

4:52

and me are equals. Right,

4:54

Reggie? Stop upstaging

4:57

me, Reggie. That's

4:59

my music. This one is

5:01

from username D.

5:03

exclamation point J exclamation point.

5:06

The title says, give me more

5:08

episodes. And the message

5:10

says, can you please make way

5:12

more episodes right now? Ah,

5:16

right now? That's so soon. Can I

5:18

have a homework extension? Because,

5:20

Reggie, I want to take a vacation.

5:23

Also, how many episodes is way more?

5:26

Like, five? More

5:28

than five? Okay,

5:31

so we need to record all those

5:33

other episodes while we're recording this episode.

5:36

Big fuzz, Reggie. That's the only way to

5:38

fit it all in. Hurry! Okay,

5:40

welcome to We Well on the Weekend. Podcast,

5:42

mother's basement, kids' chat and their gym jams.

5:45

Next episode, I found a box

5:47

down in the basement. Ah, we're

5:49

already behind. Next episode, next episode.

5:52

You should have found a dish, anything

5:54

else you wish. Ah, next episode,

5:57

pancakes are for eating. It's

6:00

too many episodes at once!

6:08

What are we gonna do? Alright,

6:13

it was just a question, not a demand. Sorry

6:16

D period! J! We

6:19

can only make one episode at a time,

6:22

but it was a good idea! Thanks

6:24

for all your reviews, devoted

6:26

listeners! I want more! More,

6:29

I say! Alright,

6:31

please, please, I say!

6:34

If you leave me a comment on Apple

6:36

Podcasts or Spotify, I just might rate it

6:39

on We Wo on the weekend! Five

6:41

stars or more, please! You

6:44

can give more than five stars, Reggie,

6:46

you just draw them in! Yeah,

6:49

look, I drew in extra stars!

6:53

On a completely unrelated note, do you

6:55

know how to remove marker from a

6:57

phone screen? No? Okay,

7:00

moving on, next

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up is a little segment I like

7:04

to call Inside Tinkercast Studios!

7:08

Inside Tinkercast Studios! This

7:11

is the part where we revisit an

7:13

episode of one of my favorite Tinkercast

7:15

shows! And today,

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we're gonna listen to... Let's

7:19

see... Let's see... Uh... Reggie!

7:23

Be patient! I'm picking one!

7:25

Sheesh, Louise! I pick... This

7:28

one! It's

7:30

Wo in the World, Season

7:32

2, Episode 20, called Your

7:34

Krabby P is Scaring Me! Ah,

7:36

Reggie! This one sounds scary! And

7:40

gross! Oh, it's

7:42

not scary? I

7:44

notice you're not saying that it's not gross!

7:47

Hmm, fine,

7:49

we can listen. I'll just cover

7:51

my ears with moist towelettes during the icky

7:53

parts. Okay, here we

7:56

go! And...

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Hey! We

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Wow will be right back. Grownups, this

8:02

message is for you. Mindy

8:06

here from Wow in the World, and as

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you may know, my buddy Guy Roz and

8:10

I are always looking for wows in our

8:12

world. And this summer, we want to hear

8:14

yours. Maybe it

8:16

was a vacation you went on in

8:19

the past, or a summer experience you're

8:21

having right now. Need a little

8:23

inspiration? Let's hear a favorite summer

8:25

memory from a real life tinkerer

8:28

from Wow HQ. Roll

8:30

the clip, Reg. Woo hoo. Hi,

8:36

thanks for calling Wow in the World.

8:38

When you hear the beep, record your

8:41

Summer of Wow moment. Hi,

8:43

my name is Steph Sosa, and I serve

8:46

as line producer for Tinkercats. One

8:48

of my favorite summer memories is growing up every

8:50

summer, my sisters and I would go out in

8:52

the backyard and we would just play for hours.

8:54

My mother would come out, and she would make us

8:56

some tea, and because we're from Texas, it was sweet

8:58

tea and it was delicious. And we would

9:01

just run around and play, and my neighbors

9:03

marry in August. They would come over and

9:05

we would just chat for hours. We'd play

9:07

imagination, we'd make up stories, and it was

9:09

just this real magical time every summer. If

9:14

you have a wow summer memory to

9:16

share with us, call us at 1-888-7-WOW-WOW.

9:21

That's 1-888-7-WOW-WOW. You

9:26

might just hear your Summer of Wow

9:28

moment right here on Wow in the

9:31

World this summer. That's

9:36

it, now back to the show. Hi,

9:40

in the world. Okay,

9:44

hey, Brandy, can you hand me the fill valve? Hey,

9:47

fill valve. And

9:49

now I'm gonna need the washer. There

9:53

we go. And now

9:55

the valve cap. Oh,

9:59

here it is. There

10:01

we go. And, um, oh, I

10:03

need the float arm. Do we

10:05

have a float? Thank you, Reg. Float

10:08

arm. And last

10:10

but not least, the

10:12

flapper. There.

10:16

That should do it. Okay,

10:18

Reg. You want to do the honors? Oh,

10:22

that's right. You don't

10:24

have hands. That's

10:26

okay. I'm here. I'll do it. By the

10:28

way, you know that you can use your

10:30

wing to put the seat down when you're

10:32

finished using it. Oh,

10:36

look at that. We did it, Reg. The

10:39

world's teeniest, tiniest working

10:41

toilet, a thrown fit

10:43

for all. Dairas!

10:46

Wait until it gets a diaper load of this.

10:49

Coming! Hippolyte!

10:53

Mindy, I heard a bunch of loud clanging and

10:55

flushing over here, and I just wanted to

10:57

make sure that you weren't trapped in your

10:59

bathroom again. Oh, yeah. That was just

11:01

the sound of me literally flushing out

11:03

an idea that came to me in

11:06

the middle of the night. Oh, yeah?

11:08

Well, what's the idea? Well, the idea

11:10

was to make the world's teeniest, tiniest

11:12

working toilet. Well,

11:14

that seems like time well spent. I

11:17

know! Want to see it? As long

11:19

as you don't try to get me

11:21

to use it. What? No! This tiny

11:24

toilet invention isn't intended for

11:26

human use. So then, what

11:29

is it for? Well, the answer

11:31

to that question is off the

11:33

coast of Georgia. The country or

11:35

the state? Oh, the state. I

11:38

only follow my curiosity so far.

11:41

That's still kind of far to go to for

11:43

an answer to a simple question, don't you think?

11:46

Try it! Oh, no. Oh, no. Mivi,

11:48

I- Hey, Grudge. You're not too busy.

11:50

We need you to take us to

11:52

some murky, muddy, marshy waters off the

11:54

coast of Georgia. Why

11:56

does everyone keep asking me that? Georgia!

12:00

The Peach State! Oh no, no, no,

12:02

no, no, I've got a long list

12:04

of things I plan to do today.

12:07

Fermenting some mung beans, yarn bombing the

12:09

neighborhood fire hydrants, and then I've got

12:11

rehearsal with my barbershop quartet. Your

12:13

barbershop quartet will be here when you get back. Now

12:16

here, I need you to hold on to my adventure

12:18

toolbox. And my

12:20

adventure journal. India, I- And

12:22

this gallon of frosting. No, I'll

12:24

have a lot of frosting. In case

12:26

we get hungry. Uhhh. And

12:29

last but not least, this

12:31

one of a kind, world's

12:34

teeniest, tiniest working

12:37

toilet. Okay, now

12:39

I want you to be very careful not

12:41

to drop it. It's

12:43

ceramic. Mindy, I don't have enough

12:46

hands for all this stuff. Oh,

12:48

whoa, whoa, it's so cute. It

12:50

has an itsy bitsy toilet

12:52

seat and a tiny toilet

12:55

paper roll and everything. The bowl part

12:57

is modeled after my own head. Uhhh.

13:01

Oh, come on, Guy-Roz. Let's follow Reggie up tight

13:03

so we can take off. Wait, why are we

13:05

going to Georgia again? To find the

13:07

answer to your burning question. Which was

13:10

what again? What is

13:12

this teeny tiny toilet for? Oh,

13:14

right, but do we really need

13:17

to- Come on, Guy-Roz. What

13:20

are you getting us into, Mindy?

13:22

Just some of Georgia's finest murky

13:24

water. Now hold on

13:26

tight, because here we- Whee!

13:40

Nice splash landing, Red. If

13:42

I knew we were going for a

13:45

splash landing, I would have worn my

13:47

tweed bathing suit. I'm soaked. Okay,

13:49

Ross, do me a favor and grab

13:52

our inflatable flotation devices out of

13:54

my adventure toolbox over there. Okay,

13:56

uh- Right there! You

13:58

got it! Why are there always- cats in

14:00

this toolbox. Huh. Okay,

14:03

I think I got them. Hey, hey, these

14:05

look just like the ones on airplanes. What?

14:07

Yeah, that's them. How did you

14:09

get? Just pull them out and

14:12

they'll inflate automatically. Uh, okay. Wow.

14:16

Ah, much better. Okay,

14:19

now relax. Relax?

14:22

Where are we, Mindy? What is this?

14:24

Hey, Roz, we're in Georgia. How many

14:26

times do I have? I don't know.

14:28

We're in Georgia, but what is this

14:30

murky water we're floating in? Ah,

14:33

mosquitoes. Get

14:35

away from me. Get away from me.

14:37

Oh, well these murky waters just

14:39

happen to be a marshy estuary,

14:41

Guy Roz. Ah, of course, an

14:43

estuary, a body of water where

14:45

the river meets the sea. You

14:47

are so bright, your mother

14:49

should call you. Oh, my.

14:51

No, ha, ha, ha. Ah,

14:54

that joke gets funnier every time you

14:56

interrupt it. Oh, why are we floating

14:59

in this estuary and why can't I

15:01

see my feet? This water

15:03

is disgusting. Shh, what?

15:05

They'll hear you. Oh,

15:08

the crabs live here. I'm

15:10

standing in crab water? Well,

15:12

not just crabs. We're talking

15:14

oysters, shrimp, all kinds of

15:16

fish. I think I

15:18

can feel them nipping at my toes,

15:20

Mindy. Oh, that means they'll hike

15:22

you. Guy, are you

15:25

sure? Yes, of course I'm not

15:27

sure, Guy Roz. Now lift your foot out of

15:29

the water and let's see what's clamped onto it.

15:32

Ah, oh, the tiny

15:35

bug crab. Hey

15:37

there, little fellers. Get them off me,

15:39

Mindy. I'm pretty

15:41

sure I won't have to, Guy

15:43

Roz. What? Why? Well, because they're

15:45

about to become lunch. Mindy,

15:47

if you were hungry for crabs, we could

15:49

have just gone to that little crab shack

15:51

up the... Whoa.

15:56

Not our lunch, Guy Roz. What?

16:00

Who's... whoa! She

16:02

is what we came here for. The

16:05

famous blue crab. She is going to eat

16:08

these little mud crabs pinching

16:10

onto my feet? She

16:12

can eat my feet too? No. But,

16:16

she is about half the size of your foot. And

16:19

these little mud crabs are only about the size of my thumb. Wait,

16:22

wait. How do

16:24

you know she's a sheep? Oh,

16:26

so see the red one? Oh, so

16:28

see the red tips and the pincers of

16:30

her big blue strength claws? Yes. Well,

16:34

that's how you know she's a sheep. And

16:36

the blue claws are how you know it's a blue crab?

16:38

Exactoritos, Gyroz! And

16:40

can you guess how to tell if a

16:42

blue crab is a he? By its blue

16:45

elbow patches? What? No! Male

16:48

crabs are known for their crazy dance moves. Oh, I

16:50

think I read about this one. Don't

16:53

they do these wild leg waving dance moves

16:56

to send signals to the females? Yeah, kind

16:58

of like what you're doing now. I'm not

17:00

dancing or sending signals, Mindy. I'm

17:03

treading water with feet full of mud crabs. But

17:07

speaking of signals, Gyroz.

17:09

Yes? There

17:11

is another way that blue crabs send signals.

17:13

And it has nothing to do with dancing.

17:17

But it has everything to do with why we're here.

17:20

So there is a reason we're floating in

17:23

this marshy estuary in the middle of nowhere.

17:26

Hey, you were the one who asked me

17:28

what my teeny tiny toilet was for, remember? That

17:30

seemed like so long ago. Well,

17:33

grab that crab and let's swim to shore. I'll

17:35

explain everything when we get there.

17:38

Grab that wha-ah, Mindy, I think

17:40

it grabbed me! Come on, Gyroz!

17:42

Swim fast and don't let her

17:44

go! She's swimming faster, Mindy. She's pulling

17:46

me. I'm just along for the run!

17:50

Swim fast and don't let her go!

18:00

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh,

18:04

get the damn trombone here.

18:06

Oh, no. Yay!

18:10

Oh, you look rough. Whatever

18:13

we're in here for, Mindy, this

18:16

better be good. Ah, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

18:18

We've got to stop for a second. Because

18:21

I'm chilly and I need a blanket. No,

18:24

Reggie, I want my

18:26

Fizzy one from upstairs.

18:29

Don't you dare touch that play

18:31

button. Ah,

18:40

that's so much better. Of

18:42

course I got one for you. There

18:44

you go. Should we finish the

18:46

episode now? Okay, great. Here

18:49

we go. Okay,

18:53

Guy Roz, now we need you to pull

18:55

that teeny tiny toilet out of my adventure

18:57

toolbox, okay? You

18:59

know, Mindy, you could have just done your

19:02

business here in the water. I

19:04

mean, judging by the smell out here,

19:06

that's what everything else does. It's not

19:09

for me, Guy Roz. It's for Krabby

19:11

Abby over here. You dragged

19:14

me all the way

19:16

out here so you could put a

19:18

crab on the toilet? I wanted to

19:20

know what it was for and now

19:22

I'm about to show you. From now

19:25

on, before I ask you a

19:27

question, I need to brace myself

19:29

for the answer. The answer? You

19:32

mean the adventure. Ah. Now

19:34

pull that crab out of your... Wait,

19:37

is she pinching onto your buns?

19:40

Well, scientifically speaking, it's called a gluteus maximus.

19:43

Just pull her pinchers off your crab cakes

19:45

and help me get her onto this tiny

19:47

toilet. Ah. Come on!

19:49

Why are we putting a crab on the

19:52

toilet, Mindy? For science,

19:54

Guy Roz. For science.

19:56

Okay, so here is the deal. I

19:58

just read this study that was... conducted by

20:00

these scientists at the Georgia Institute

20:02

of Technology? Oh yeah, Georgia Tech.

20:04

And I found it so fascinating

20:06

that I just had to see

20:09

or smell it for myself. Smell

20:11

it? Well, what was the

20:13

study about? Oh, so it was

20:15

about blue crab pee. They found

20:17

that crabs have blue pee? No,

20:20

blue crab pee. Blue

20:22

crab pee. Interesting, because

20:24

mine is usually yellow.

20:26

No, blue crab pee!

20:30

I feel like you're just saying the

20:32

same thing over and over and over

20:34

again. Did you accidentally drink some of

20:36

this murky water, Mindy? No,

20:38

it's pee from a blue

20:41

crab, not a crab's pee that is

20:43

blue. Never mind. The

20:45

color of its pee is not what's

20:47

important here. It's what's inside that

20:49

counts. You mean like the chemicals

20:51

in the blue crab's pee? Yes!

20:54

Winner winner crab like dinner guy,

20:56

Roz! But now I need to

20:58

know what color is a blue

21:00

crab's pee? Well, when I first read

21:03

this study, I kind of wanted to know the

21:05

same thing. Because I called Mark Weisberg, one of

21:07

the head scientists on the study. You called

21:09

a scientist and asked him what

21:12

color a blue crab's pee is? Guy

21:14

Roz, there is no such thing as a

21:16

dumb question. Well, I guess that is what

21:18

they say. So what did he tell you?

21:20

He told me that it was a fantastic

21:23

question and that a blue crab's pee is

21:25

basically the same color of ours when we've

21:27

had a lot of water to drink.

21:29

So we're talking a pale

21:31

yellow, like a cream or

21:34

a flaxen or maybe daffodil?

21:36

Straw. What? He said that blue

21:38

crab pee is the same color

21:40

as straw. Huh. Good to know.

21:42

Oh, look, Mindy, she's sitting on

21:45

your tiny toilets. The blue crab is

21:47

on your toilet. Oh, look

21:49

at that! She looks so cute

21:51

on there. Come on, Crabby Abby.

21:54

Time to go potty! What

21:57

is happening? So while we wait for her

21:59

to pee... on the potty here, I'll tell

22:01

you about those chemicals in our pee. Oh,

22:03

oh yeah, well what did the researchers

22:06

discover about them? First of all, they found

22:08

more than 600 chemicals

22:10

in the blue crab's pee, or

22:12

urine if you want to be

22:14

scientific. I do. And 600 chemicals

22:17

is really not that big of a deal when you

22:19

consider that we humans have over

22:21

3000 chemicals

22:23

in our pee. Wow, I never really

22:25

counted. But what is a big deal

22:27

is that two of these chemicals

22:30

send invisible danger signals to the

22:32

blue crab's prey. Like

22:34

the tiny mud crabs it wants

22:37

to eat? You know it. Well,

22:39

how do these chemicals actually work? First,

22:41

we should start with the chemical's

22:43

names, which are trigonyline and homorin.

22:46

Trigonyline and homorin. Now I know

22:48

what you're thinking. Hmm, those names

22:51

sound like delicious pasta dishes. I

22:53

was actually not thinking about that,

22:55

but you know Mindy, trigonyline just

22:57

so happens to be a chemical

23:00

molecule that's also found in coffee

23:02

beans. And it's part of what

23:04

makes coffee smell. So you can

23:06

smell the trigonyline in your

23:08

coffee? Well, not specifically, but...

23:10

But you would if you

23:12

were a tiny mud crab,

23:14

and that smell would be

23:16

the scent of fear. Wow,

23:19

so how does it work? Okay,

23:21

when a blue crab eats, its

23:23

body breaks down the food. Kind

23:26

of like how ours does during the

23:28

digestion process. You know, the time between

23:30

when we eat our food and when

23:32

what's left and not used by our

23:35

bodies comes out the other end. Yeah,

23:37

yeah, I got you. And so during

23:39

that time, those two chemicals, trigonyline

23:41

and homorin, are made? Yep, and

23:43

when the blue crab goes to

23:46

pee, those two chemicals

23:48

tell the mud crabs what the

23:50

blue crab had to eat. And

23:52

the warning signals become especially strong

23:55

if the blue crab's last meal

23:57

was mud crab. The smell... of

24:00

fear. Yep, and if

24:02

those mud crabs smell other mud crabs

24:05

and the blue crabs pee, well, let's

24:08

just say they know they better. Usain

24:10

Bolt. Ah, interesting. A full alarm pee

24:13

siren. Uh huh. Hey, by the way,

24:15

do you think she's pee'd yet, Mindy?

24:17

She's not gonna go check the toilet

24:19

while she's on it, Gyroz. Well, I

24:22

haven't heard anything yet, have you? Nah,

24:25

you smell any pee yet? You

24:27

mean, do I smell any fear

24:29

yet? No. Well, maybe

24:31

you should bring one of those mud crabs

24:34

up here to sniff out the situation. Well,

24:36

what's the thing, Mindy? What's the

24:38

thing? Crabs don't actually have noses,

24:41

so how are they supposed to

24:43

smell anything, much less fear and

24:45

death and urine? Oh, well,

24:47

Dr. Weisberg also mentioned

24:49

that these crabs are

24:52

basically walking noses. Ah,

24:54

well, that makes sense, Mindy,

24:56

because although crabs don't have

24:59

actual noses, they are able

25:01

to detect smell or certain

25:03

chemicals with their antennas or

25:05

mouths. Yeah, or even their

25:07

legs. Fascinating, isn't it? Totally.

25:10

So how do these scientists find all

25:12

of this out? Well, I can tell you.

25:14

Yes. But I'd rather show

25:16

you. Uh. If Krabby Abby over here will

25:18

ever go to the bathroom in this tiny

25:21

toilet. Maybe we should offer her a

25:23

treat. I mean, that always seems to

25:25

work for you. Oh, good idea, Guy

25:27

Roz. Okay, Abby. If you use this

25:29

potty, I've got some kelp

25:31

with your name on it. Kelp? That's

25:34

your idea of a treat? Hey, Kelp

25:37

is the kale of the sea, Mindy.

25:39

She's clearly not interested. Here, let me

25:42

try. Hi, Abby.

25:45

For a little pee pee in

25:47

this potty here, I'll let you

25:50

take a dip in this tub

25:52

of melted butter. We're

25:54

in the middle of nowhere, Mindy. Where

25:56

did you get a tub of melted butter? I had

25:58

it in my pee. Hey Roz, crab legs

26:01

always taste better in melted butter, so

26:03

I brought it along in case of

26:05

emergency. You're gonna eat crabby, Abby?

26:08

I said in case of emergency!

26:10

Uh... But she doesn't know

26:12

that, so I'm gonna use this melted butter to

26:15

scare the pee out of her. Ugh... Hmm,

26:17

nothing yet? Mm-mm. Here,

26:20

let me sing her a song, and maybe that'll

26:23

help her to, you know, get things flowing. Uh...

26:26

Let it go, let it

26:28

go, don't hold it in anymore,

26:30

let it go, let it go...

26:35

Shut the bathroom, Doc!

26:38

Huh? Ugh, we can't sing the

26:40

pee out of her, Guy Roz!

26:43

Maybe we should squeeze it out

26:45

of her. What? Yeah, hand

26:47

me my adventure toolbox. Oh,

26:49

no, I will not sit here while

26:52

you squeeze the pee out of a

26:54

crab, Mindy. Oh, yeah? Well, I will

26:56

not sit here while you sing the

26:58

pee out of a crab, Guy Roz.

27:00

Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah! Let

27:04

it go, let it go, don't hold

27:06

it in anymore... Boo! Boo! Stop

27:09

booing my song, Mindy! I'm not booing

27:11

your song, Guy Roz! I'm trying to

27:14

scare the pee out of her,

27:16

ghost style. Boo! Let it

27:18

go, let it go, let it go,

27:20

let it go,

27:23

let it go, let it go... Is

27:28

that what I think it is, Mindy? Guy

27:30

Roz! She's peeing

27:32

in the potty! Yeah,

27:39

you hear it? Oh,

27:45

pee pee in the potty! Pee

27:49

pee in the potty! Ah,

27:57

she flushed it. We needed that pee.

28:00

P to re-enact the experiment. Don't

28:02

worry, Guy-Roz. This tiny toilet's not

28:04

connected to any pipes! Phew! So

28:06

the P is still right where she left

28:08

it. Now close the lid and let's get this

28:11

pee-pee potty back to the lab so I can

28:13

show you how this experiment was done. Anything

28:16

for science, Mindy. Regie! Yay!

28:21

Wow, hey, Reg. That was quick.

28:23

Now, Regie, please fly carefully. I'm

28:25

holding a toilet full of crab

28:27

urine. We'll explain

28:29

later, Reg. Okay, let's hop

28:31

on here. Here.

28:34

We... Um,

28:43

hey, Guy-Roz. Is all of Krabby Yappy's

28:45

pee still in that potty? Uh, yeah, I

28:48

think so. A little bit splashed out when

28:50

we hit that turbulence, but I think we're pretty

28:52

good. Okay, well, we better get it back

28:54

to the lab so I can demonstrate what

28:57

those researchers at Georgia Tech did in their

28:59

experiment. Come on, let's go! My

29:04

crabs are all over my feet! Ah,

29:06

well, maybe you shouldn't run, Guy-Roz. Besides,

29:08

you're gonna spill it! Alright, guys. Wock!

29:11

Wock! Slow and steady. Wock!

29:16

Wock! Ugh!

29:19

Whew! Okay, back at the

29:21

lab. So, where do we begin, Mindy?

29:24

Well, first, I need you to take those

29:26

mud crabs and put them in your fish

29:28

tank over there. Oh, but they'll pinch me.

29:30

Come on! Ow! Ahh!

29:35

Ahh! Now what? Drop the

29:37

crabs in the tank. Okay. You're

29:39

doing great. The crabs are in

29:41

the tank. Now, once the

29:43

mud crabs get situated, I'm going to

29:45

throw in this shrimp. What?

29:48

Where did you get a live shrimp? My

29:50

pocket! Now drop them in. Okay.

29:54

Well, good luck in there, little buddy.

29:57

So, what's the purpose of the shrimp?

30:00

Oh, mud crabs love shrimp

30:02

and nothing will stop them from trying

30:04

to eat it, except for the

30:07

smell of a blue crab

30:09

predator in their midst. Oh

30:12

wow, look at them going after that

30:14

shrimp. They might as well be holding

30:16

knives and wearing bibs. Now I

30:18

want you to dump that tiny toilet

30:21

of blue crab pee into the

30:23

tank and closely walk what

30:25

happens. Hey,

30:29

easy does it. It's coming!

30:34

Now watch what happens. They

30:36

froze, dead in their tracks,

30:38

a total duck in cover,

30:40

almost like they're trying to

30:42

go undetected. Yep, they're smelling

30:45

those two chemicals in the

30:47

blue crab pee, trigonelline and

30:49

homorin. So those researchers were

30:52

right, blue crab urine does

30:54

contain secret signals that warn

30:57

their prey. Pretty cool, huh?

30:59

They work almost like disaster

31:02

warning alarms. Silent warning

31:04

alarms. Exactaritos. So think of

31:06

it like this. To

31:08

us humans, trigonelline would be like

31:10

a blaring car alarm. And

31:13

homorin would be like a bright flashing light.

31:16

Both good friends but both trying to warn

31:18

you about coming danger so that you can

31:20

stay safe. Gives these mud

31:22

crabs a good head start if they want to swim

31:24

for their lives. Yeah, but if

31:27

our food could run away every

31:29

time it smelled us coming, we'd

31:31

starve. So is there anything the

31:33

blue crab can do to stop

31:35

these secret pee signals? Nope. Well,

31:38

can't they hold it until after they eat

31:40

their mud crab dinner? Nope. Can't

31:42

hold it. I can barely hold it.

31:45

Well, what about peeing in designated spots

31:47

like underwater bathroom stalls far and away

31:49

from their lunch? Guy Roz, when

31:52

you're a crab, the entire underwater

31:54

world is your toilet. Well,

31:56

then how are blue crabs not

31:58

starving to death? I mean,

32:00

I'm sure some do. But

32:02

the smart and savvy

32:05

blue crabs know that

32:07

pee floats downstream. Aha!

32:11

So they swim upstream to

32:13

hunt their unsuspecting prey. You

32:16

got it. Wow. But I'm

32:18

still wondering, why did

32:20

these researchers at Georgia Tech want

32:22

to learn about the bathroom habits

32:25

of blue crabs? Well, so in

32:27

a crab-eat-crab world, or really any

32:29

predator-prey situation, pee chemistry

32:31

like this can really

32:34

affect the balance of whole entire

32:36

ecosystems. Oh yeah? Well, how so?

32:38

So you've heard of the food

32:41

chain, right? Oh yeah, it's basically

32:43

the order in which different living

32:46

things eat each other. Yeah, so

32:48

starting with plants and ending with

32:50

animals. For example, a grasshopper

32:52

eats grass. Yeah. And

32:55

then a frog eats the

32:57

grasshopper. Okay. And a

32:59

snake eats the frog. Go on.

33:02

And an eagle eats the snake.

33:04

Oh, okay, I got it. And

33:07

in this case, mud crabs eat

33:09

the oysters, and the blue crabs

33:11

eat the mud crabs. But nature

33:13

has given mud crabs the

33:16

superpower to basically eavesdrop on

33:18

their predators' pee, right? Yep.

33:20

And when the pee starts

33:22

to flow downstream, it acts

33:24

as a silent alarm, warning

33:26

the mud crabs to get out

33:28

of dodge. And when they do,

33:30

they stop looking for their

33:33

own food, which in most

33:35

cases would be oysters. Yep.

33:37

And crazy as it sounds,

33:39

these secret silent pee signals

33:41

might actually be nature's way

33:44

of protecting oyster populations. So

33:46

essentially what you're saying, Mindy,

33:49

is that this blue crab

33:51

pee works as a natural

33:53

repellent to keep mud crabs

33:55

from eating all the oysters.

33:57

That's exactly what I'm saying.

34:00

Without the blue crab pee, mud

34:02

crabs might see these waters as

34:04

an all-you-can-eat oyster buffet. And this

34:06

must be especially big news to

34:09

oyster farmers who are trying

34:11

to preserve or save large

34:13

oyster populations. Oh yeah. Speaking

34:15

of which, ask me how these

34:17

researchers are hoping to use this

34:20

new information. Okay, how are these

34:22

researchers hoping to use this new

34:24

information? Well, I'm so glad you

34:26

asked, Skyroz. Now that they know what

34:28

these chemicals are and how powerful they

34:31

can be to the entire underwater ecosystem,

34:33

the hope is that scientists can

34:35

recreate this blue crab pee and

34:37

then use it to help save

34:39

other oyster habitats or at least

34:41

control their predators who are on

34:43

a mission to eat them. Fake

34:45

blue crab pee to scare off

34:47

the crabs and keep them from

34:49

eating all their oyster livestock? That's

34:51

brilliant! Yeah, and believe it or

34:53

not, this is really nothing new.

34:55

I mean, some farmers on land have

34:58

been doing this for a long time,

35:00

using fake pee to do things

35:02

like scare away coyotes and wild foxes.

35:04

You know, this reminds me,

35:07

Mindy. You can actually buy

35:09

certain kinds of animal pee

35:11

on the internet. What? Oh,

35:14

Skyroz! I just got an idea!

35:17

Uh, no. Do you think that

35:19

maybe I could sell

35:21

my pee? Nope. Oh, come on.

35:23

It's not like the worst idea I've ever- Let

35:25

it go. Oh, no. Let it go.

35:28

They're on. Don't hold it in anymore. Let

35:32

it go. Skyroz, we don't

35:34

have the copyright for that song. Ewwww!

35:41

Ewwww! Ewwww! Ewwww! That was

35:43

so gross! Fudge!

35:46

It's not funny! I feel like a

35:48

crab just tinkled in my ears. Also,

35:51

I kind of really need to go to the bathroom now. Oh,

35:54

good idea. Better wrap this up quick! Thanks

35:57

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36:27

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