Cicada Piss and The Case of Life

Ever had a moment that made you realize just how gloriously imperfect we all are? That's right where we begin this laugh-out-loud episode, where we reflect on the small, sometimes awkward reminders of our shared humanity—a rogue spit choke or the suburban battle of wills with a lawnmower. With thunder rumbling over Nashville, we dance through our emotions, sharing the joy and the mundane of life's everyday dance. Producer Sara adds her own stories, making this a conversation you'll want to join.

Life lately feels like an emotional whack-a-mole, doesn't it? We get real about riding the rollercoaster since 2020 and the unassuming acts of courage that get us through the day. Sharing a soothing quote from Rilke and musing on the ebb and flow of our feelings, we invite you to join us in finding strength in the present and solace in the world's natural wonders. This heart-to-heart is a reminder to pat yourself on the back for your bravery in the small things and to take a deep breath of fresh air when life gets overwhelming.

And just when you think things can't get any quirkier, we slide into the topic of cicadas and the gifts these critters are bringing with them this summer. We navigate the choppy skies of airplane safety anxieties, laugh through the social dances of lifestyle changes, and gear up to face nature's little surprises. Wrapping up with a nod to fresh starts and the nostalgic magic of summer camp, we leave you with a sense of hope, resilience, and anticipation for the adventures ahead. Tune in for an episode that's as fun as it is profound, where every chuckle and challenge is part of the beautiful mix that is life.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:04

Welcome to the Cat and Moose podcast. I'm Cat and I'm Moose.

Speaker 2 0:09

This is a true life podcast where we explore the quirks of being human.

Speaker 3 0:20

Excuse me, I was going to say how's this? And then I choked on my own spit.

Speaker 1 0:24

Excuse me, I was going to say how's this, and then I choked on my own spit. That's what sounds like is happening up in heaven right now. It sounds like some angels are choking on their own spit, and the way the thunder is just rumbling in the background.

Speaker 4 0:38

You guys, it's kind of nice. Yeah, I kind of like it.

Speaker 1 0:40

That rolling, rolling thunder Me too.

Speaker 3 0:44

We're also under severe thunderstorm and tornado watch. Yes, as we record, here it comes. Here comes the rain Again.

Speaker 4 0:56

Falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion. Hey, hey, hey, talk to me. Shoo-wop, shoo-wop, like lovers do Shoo-wop, shoo-wop, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.

Speaker 2 1:21

I like your dancing. That went along with that.

Speaker 1 1:23

Yes, I'm feeling really, really Joyful, joyful, I like that. Not really, but that felt nice.

Speaker 2 1:32

I woke up and I was like I am so damn tired today. What is going on on this crazy rainy, stormy day in Nashville?

Speaker 1 1:42

I can tell you what it is is. We socialized last night, but we were home by 8 o'clock. Oh, I know.

Speaker 3 1:50

It took a lot out of us.

Speaker 1 1:50

We socialized, Mercury, went into retrograde and now we've got weather moving through town that is going to make it feel like it's winter again for two days.

Speaker 4 2:00

So, like.

Speaker 1 2:01

All of our systems are just a little bit like.

Speaker 2 2:06

Yeah, I'm upset Cause I have to go out. Do you have to go out this week? Do you have to?

Speaker 1 2:12

go into the world. This week I do. I do every day this week. I leave on.

Speaker 3 2:17

Wednesday, again for tour and I'm going to other States and I'm going to other states.

Speaker 1 2:25

That's how tour works. Sarah, have you only been in Tennessee this whole time?

Speaker 3 2:30

Well, I've been off for like two and a half weeks, so now my brain has to reset. It's going to be good, though it is going to be good.

Speaker 1 2:40

Are you enjoying your job on the road, sarah? Yeah, I really am. I'm loving it. That's awesome, and was it nice to have a couple of weeks off, and what did you do?

Speaker 3 2:53

Yeah, stayed home total staycation. We worked on lots of podcast things, which has been fun, as you guys know.

Speaker 2 3:03

And I've done some outdoor projects. She has built a new walkway in the backyard.

Speaker 3 3:06

It's in progress.

Speaker 1 3:08

Most things are Now. Is this being? Is she utilizing the same like stepping stones, as what I saw in your yard when I was over there last week? They look like a sliver from a tree trunk. Yeah. You know, yeah, those are so cool. Thank you, trunk. Yeah, you know. Yeah, those are so cool. Thank you. Will you tell our patrons and our listeners the story of when I came over the other day and you had just cut the grass around your ride on lawnmower?

Speaker 3 3:38

Well, I didn't cut it because my ride on lawnmower is stalled. Because my ride on lawnmower is stalled. It's dead right now. But the grass had been cut all around it and it just looked so ironic because there was all this like really tall grass growing up around the lawnmower.

Speaker 2 3:59

Yeah, well, the other day we tried to get it started and I was like I have an idea we need to do like a running, a starting jump, and so we pulled it out on the sidewalk where we had a little bit of an elevation and we popped the clutch and she got on it and I just started pushing it. I'm like, turn it, turn it, turn it.

Speaker 1 4:24

And two people went by laughing driving past us and it didn't work. Here's what I want. Here's what I want to know is why, in the name of all that is good and right, did you not record that?

Speaker 3 4:37

I know.

Speaker 2 4:38

I thought about it as we were doing it because, well it, it was really funny. We're in the middle of suburbia, just you know, pushing each other. We're like trying it now, you try, you ride it. And then Sarah's yelling at me like steer it, steer it and I'm like, oh, I didn't think about that.

Speaker 3 4:53

I ended up, I know yeah, and it it didn't go any faster than like three miles an hour, so you think it sounds really fast, but it was like three miles an hour, so you think it sounds really fast.

Speaker 2 5:07

but it was like, and we couldn't go down a real hill because we would never have stopped.

Speaker 3 5:11

Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, so it's entirely pointless.

Speaker 1 5:21

Do you know how in in some like movies and TV shows they'll have like the characters like on a boat, like kind of driving the boat.

Speaker 2 5:25

But their hair's not moving.

Speaker 4 5:26

Yes, so it's like. You know there's no wind. You know it's like it's just it doesn't look right.

Speaker 1 5:31

It's like I'm envisioning you guys on this, like really like, crazy like downhill like burning, like the pits of hell lawnmower.

Speaker 2 5:45

And it's in, like your hair is just like completely yeah. Yeah, it's pretty much what was happening, and it probably wasn't even as exciting as it felt, but at 45 years old, I get my thrills where I can.

Speaker 1 5:52

Yeah yeah, I mean as you, I think you should, and I celebrate that have you ridden a lawnmower lately? Cat no, I have not ridden a lawnmower.

Speaker 2 6:05

Lately have you not been on a motorized vehicle since you flipped yourself on the forerunner?

Speaker 1 6:11

pretty much. Yeah, I've, I mean other than my actual car, right, right, you know, and someone I was reading through my journal the other day, old journal and um this is gonna be juicy from like 2019, like early 2020 kind of around, when we started the podcast, and one of the quotes that I found in my journal was that in order to enjoy life, there has to be at least some level of complete denial I mean, I would agree with that.

Speaker 2 6:48

I used to get so mad at the uh, the idea of, um, ignorance is bliss. It used to make me so mad and I'm like, why would you want to be ignorant? And yet, in the case of life, there are times where where you can choose ignorance if you don't really know, I'd just rather not know Totally, I'd just rather not know. So wait, you wrote this in your journal.

Speaker 1 7:14

Well, it was a quote from my therapist, actually. Oh, your therapist, I see. Well, that's encouraging. And then it made me think about how you know.

Speaker 1 7:23

One of her points was like if you, if you are going to get in a car and drive across town, you have to to engage in some sort of denial, going down the road, trusting tens of hundreds of other humans to follow the rules and do exactly what they're supposed to do so that we all stay safe. Right, you know, like there's a chance that that's not going to happen, and it's like you've got to kind of just go like la, la, la, la, la, hope it doesn't, hope, it doesn't, hope, it doesn't, hope it doesn't. And it reminds me of this news article that I saw this week from out in San Francisco. This family had just bought a Tesla Model X brand new, four days old car, yeah, and the car was parked in the driveway. An 18-month-old somehow got in the driver's seat of the car, turned the car on and drove the car. An 18-month-old drove the car down the driveway and into the garage and hit its mother, who was eight months pregnant.

Speaker 3 8:39

Oh my gosh, this happened on your street, on my street. That's what I heard you say earlier. No, it's a news article. No, this is on your street, on my street. That's what I heard you say earlier. No, it's a news article.

Speaker 2 8:48

No, this is a news article, but keep going.

Speaker 3 8:52

Wait a minute. I have multiple questions Down the street.

Speaker 2 8:55

Can I pause for questions? Yes, yes, okay. So you first of all called the child an 18-month-year-old and I need clarification on that. Secondly, she got pregnant fast. Can we pay?

Speaker 1 9:16

attention to that. Right, okay, she spent less than nine months recovering.

Speaker 2 9:26

Right, exactly.

Speaker 1 9:27

And doing it again.

Speaker 2 9:28

There she went again. Okay, is she okay? Yes, oh, thank God.

Speaker 1 9:35

She broke her pelvis and had to deliver the baby early.

Speaker 2 9:44

I mean that could have crushed the baby, the baby's okay too.

Speaker 1 9:49

Yeah, and Tesla's not okay because they're getting sued? I bet, because I guess, like the lady said, that the salesman said this is the safest SUV on the market and yet somehow her 18 month year old child still got in there and drove that puppy into the garage and pinned mama up against the wall.

Speaker 2 10:18

So oh my gosh. Okay, can I share the news that I saw this week that I need discussion about? Yes, did you guys see about this?

Speaker 3 10:33

I was just going to share that, no way. Yes, I, we need to talk about this. I have something.

Speaker 2 10:40

You guys have probably heard of these twins. They're conjoined twins. Abby Hensel is one of the twins and the other twin who is conjoined to Abby is Brittany Hensel, and they were on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1996. And then they had a TLC reality series called Abby and Brittany, and Abby got married to this guy who was a nurse and army veteran. Looks like a super nice guy and his name is Josh Bowling and they live in Minnesota. But it brought up a lot of questions that I thought we might be able to cover here on the Cat and Moose podcast.

Speaker 1 11:22

Yeah, I mean we are an expert podcast, so I think this is the place where people would want to come to get a better understanding of how this would work. So I I know I have questions. What are your questions?

Speaker 3 11:35

I. I would like to share my screen while we're talking about this. Oh, let me unshare mine, because I had the same thing I didn't know it was on your list as well I know it's perfect.

Speaker 1 11:46

Yeah, it's like you guys share a brain we are conjoined at the brain share away, sarah.

Speaker 2 11:56

Oh, they're dancing at the wedding yeah and there's some interesting comments here.

Speaker 3 12:02

Okay so.

Speaker 2 12:05

Abby and Brittany. They're not both married to him Right.

Speaker 3 12:10

Okay, here's what it says. Abby, the left side conjoined twin, married Josh Bowling, a nurse and United States Army veteran, in 2021. Abby and Josh kept their marriage under wraps from the public eye until 23. This clip is from their wedding reception. The Hansel twins share a bloodstream and all organs below the waist. Abby controls their right arm and leg and Brittany controls the left side. So glad the twins are still living their life. Congratulations.

Speaker 2 12:41

Lots of questions so they share organs from the chest down. I'm guessing Brittany had to agree to this marriage and that's my first question. Would you like to answer that? Kat does not look like she wants to answer that.

Speaker 1 13:01

I just like I am. Did I get you, Did I?

Speaker 3 13:06

get you, I know.

Speaker 1 13:08

You have got me, you have got me.

Speaker 2 13:11

I mean, I feel the same way. There's a lot.

Speaker 1 13:15

There is a lot and I just like I really want, I want to under, I just want to understand, I want to. It's like I want to sit down with them and go like, what is this, what is this experience like for you, like for each of you, as well as for the husband, I mean, like that is, is it just a thing where it's like their family has normalized this because, like they love each other and this is like what they know?

Speaker 2 13:40

Well, yeah, I think so. Um, you know, and listen, let me say, like, this is something I you know. I've never known anyone who was a conjoined twin. I remember them being in the news because it was so rare that they could survive, and so I guess my questions are like I'm just a little worried about Brittany, and I'm sure she's fine, and I understand why they didn't bring this to light until much later because there are so many questions. But some of the comments are great. What happens when they get into a fight with their husband? I noticed when they were dancing at the wedding that both arms were around him, so I suppose, you know Brittany is coming along for the ride, so anyway scroll back scroll

Speaker 1 14:35

back anyway, scroll back, scroll back the other way. This yeah this comment thread assured me that hell is gonna be lit like what does that?

Speaker 2 14:48

even mean, probably just because people are stupid. Let's see, um, this guy says I have a lot of questions and none are appropriate. Um, but yeah, I just made me think. And then I thought well, what if Brittany wants to get married?

Speaker 3 15:06

That was my next thought, yeah.

Speaker 4 15:08

Right, what do we do Do?

Speaker 2 15:09

we all just live together. And then you know I have to think about the sex, not just to make sure everyone's on board. But then what if Brittany gets married? Do they also get to have sex with their her husband?

Speaker 1 15:24

I think so. Yeah, I don't know. I mean because, like, the organs below the waist are shared.

Speaker 2 15:31

Yeah, so what about having a baby? I mean, that's anyway, it's fascinating.

Speaker 1 15:38

I want to say that it is fascinating. Yes, it is fascinating.

Speaker 2 15:41

I have more questions, but I will save them.

Speaker 3 15:45

I'm glad we both had that, thank you.

Speaker 2 15:47

Thank you, thanks for covering it, guys.

Speaker 1 15:51

Yeah, I mean absolutely. I just feel completely stunned, mace.

Emotions, Challenges, and Coping

Speaker 2 15:56

Well, I'm so glad oh, okay, I mean, I was too for what it's, for what it's worth. Yeah, um, how are you guys doing? I should have started with that. Oh, hey, moose, oh hey kat hey producer sarah.

Speaker 3 16:12

hello guys, kat and Miz Hi.

Speaker 1 16:16

How are we doing? That is the question that has been posed, and are you posing that to me and Sarah as conjoined twins?

Speaker 2 16:23

Yes, as my favorite conjoined twins. Okay, how?

Speaker 1 16:29

are you? How are they? How are they? Yeah, sarah, would you like to answer for our right side or our left side?

Speaker 3 16:38

The right side because you're left handed. Okay, how are we doing? We have had a slightly stressful day, maybe more annoying than other, but otherwise I feel a little warm.

Speaker 1 17:07

I'm happy to see you. Yes, I'm happy to see you too, and I'm thankful that things haven't been too crazy for our right side today. Our left side today is feeling a little bit like, maybe a little bit of frustration, because it just today has felt weird. I think it's like, you know, mercury went into retrograde. You know we've already talked about socializing and and all of that. And then, like today, like my schedule has been strange and yet really good and and I have felt like it's 10, 30 in the morning, when it's like four o'clock in the afternoon but four o'clock in the afternoon hasn't gotten here yet. But I feel like I've already lived it like it just feels very strange in the left side of our body today I agree on the strangeness.

Speaker 2 18:01

I woke up feeling tired and I have so many people lately that I feel like are going through the hard stuff right now and um, I was reminded this morning of this quote by Rainer Maria Roche Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror, just keep going. No feeling is final.

Speaker 4 18:28

And.

Speaker 2 18:29

I was sharing that with a friend this morning who is just dealing with a bunch of grief around something, and I was just like you know, I, I we talk about this a lot, kind of our therapy journeys and what each of us are going through. But you know, I I feel like I went through a lot in my twenties and thirties but, like things just feel a lot heavier since COVID, you know and I don't know if that's just the marker that I've put on it, but something about like 2020 forward has just felt heavy and, um, I just want to encourage people that, uh, sometimes that emotion feels like it's not going to go away and that it's not going to get better or it's not going to loosen and it does.

Speaker 2 19:23

And so if you're in a place right now where you're like struggling around something, just know it can get better.

Speaker 1 19:30

Yeah, yeah and one of the things that um that that reminds me of moose is that my understanding is that emotions come in waves. Yeah, and so they're constantly changing and that doesn't mean that I'm sad now and happy one second later. They might not be that fast of transitions or that fast of waves of transitions are that fast of waves, but it's like it's. To me it's kind of comforting to know that it's on a bit of a continuum that is ebbing and flowing, and ebbing and flowing.

Speaker 1 20:05

And so enjoy the good times and know that, if it's not good times right now, that good times are coming, and if it's good times right now, that challenges may be behind or ahead, and just try your best to be present with that.

Speaker 2 20:26

Yeah, present, that is the thing, right, like actually feeling what's going on, and then, you know, getting on the other side of it.

Speaker 2 20:35

It's not easy, I gotta say it's not easy, especially when you don't know, you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Speaker 2 20:42

You know, like sometimes it just feels really dark and even when, like, morning comes, you're like, oh, at least it's light out. But I still feel the same way, you know, and um, but yeah, I think to Sarah's point earlier of like you know, wait, which one no, you said this cat, I don't know who said it of getting in the vehicle and going out into the world and like, oh, you were talking about like having some sort of denial, um, and I just think that, uh, we need to give ourselves credit when we are brave for the little things, because I just feel like so many people are struggling right now, so many people are hurting, and sometimes, like, doing the little stuff is what's keeping us alive, even if it's protecting us, and we're in survival mode and all of that, like, give yourself credit for that and give yourself a break and don't do the push and don't do the hustle, because that doesn't help us yeah.

Speaker 2 21:42

Yeah, I didn't know I was going to preach a sermon to you either. It's great.

Speaker 1 21:49

I didn't know you were going to either, and and I was just thinking, reflecting on what you were saying and also reflecting on me saying, oh like, be present wherever you are along the wave, and it made me think like that might sound like really harsh advice, because if you're in a place that feels dark or that feels heavy and you hear, just be present in that moment.

Speaker 1 22:13

It's like, no, that's the last thing I want to do is is feel present in that moment and, um, I just want to, I want to acknowledge that and, um, and also say that, um, I, I tend to feel like I need to have like a response or a like comma, and this is going to get better, and sometimes we just don't.

Speaker 2 22:39

Yeah, I know it's true. I highly recommend as we always talk about going outside. If you have those overwhelming feelings of it's not going to get better, like just go outside, take off your shoes, put your feet in the grass. Take off your shoes, put your feet on in the grass. Yeah, even if you can't make it anywhere else, like just remember that there's a lot of amazing living organisms around us that aren't human, that can give us a lot of peace.

Speaker 1 23:06

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was this morning, uh, walking my dog and intentionally did exactly that, and and was thinking of you too, as I was just putting my feet in the clover it was nice and cool and had a bit of dew on it because it hadn't quite rained yet today and I was just thinking about how, like okay, like this, this is really good, like this grounding is really good. And as I was getting ready to record the podcast today, I was reviewing some of my notes and I was taken into a place that feels very different than having my feet in the clover and just the dew dripping all around me. I was thinking about the passengers of this United Airlines flight that, just a couple of days ago, left Frankfurt, germany, and was on its way to San Francisco and over the Netherlands.

Speaker 1 24:00

The commode one of the commodes in the plane overflowed and exploded into the cabin overflowed and exploded into the cabin, and so the plane had to turn around and do like an emergency landing, because there's just like shit just sloshing up and down.

Speaker 2 24:25

Wait in the cabin where there's humans, there's shit everywhere.

Speaker 1 24:29

Oh my gosh. I mean, this is a nightmare. I'm just saying like like for these people. They had a bad day yes that is insane.

Cicada Infestation and Airplane Safety

Speaker 2 24:40

That really happened. Yeah, what is going on with all these airplanes like I don't know, I mean we've been like flying since 1920 and all of a sudden, like shit is falling apart. Are we? Are all the planes from 1920?

Speaker 1 24:56

yeah, I don't know. I mean it's like, but when I was reading this article it started with if it's boeing, I'm not going you know, like that's a that's a thing now.

Speaker 2 25:06

It's like, if it's a boeing airplane, like people are going, like no I gotta fly to california next week and uh, a family member said, oh, it's not a boeing 737, is it? And I was, I literally just wanted to be like seriously, go f yourself like yes, there aren't any other planes that right there's like 91 of what's in the air is like a 737.

Speaker 2 25:32

I know I speaking of, I got to share this funny thing. So this, um, you know I love awkward situations just because, uh, I have a lot of grace for them, cause I'm generally put myself in them, cause I'm socially awkward at times. And so I was sitting with an extended family member, as you always say, kat, trying to be very non, uh, identifiable. It was just the two of us and they looked at me and they said how do you feel not going to the gym anymore? And I was seriously like, what did you just say to me? And I've only been not going to the gym for a few weeks, but I have been off the gym and I, it was one of those moments where I was like I know you and you're not judging me, this isn't someone who would judgmentally ask that, but also like who asks someone that like now that you're not going to the gym, how are you feeling?

Speaker 1 26:36

How long have you not been on weight watchers? I know.

Speaker 2 26:40

What's it like to eat fried foods again, or how's your body feeling? It was just like this, wow moment and I had the option to just be like wow, that was shitty, which I could have done and wanted to be my first answer, but what I said was I smiled and I took a breath, which was very rare for me, and I said not great now why did?

Speaker 2 27:05

you guys stop going to the gym well, no, it's just life has gotten in the way, but it was just. Yeah. I mean, somebody was very direct in my life like how is? Your body feeling not going the gym not great. So there you have it a good conversation. Good conversation yeah yeah, conversation, good conversation, yeah yeah, that's how to handle awkward conversations. Just answer it honestly.

Speaker 1 27:31

Yeah, I like this. Well, answer me honestly Do you know about the impending doom that is apparently going to be bestowing itself upon Nashville in the next couple of months? Are you?

Speaker 2 27:46

talking about Enlighten the oh, the cicadas.

Speaker 1 27:52

The cicadas is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 27:54

Listen, I'm not going outside. It gives me a reason not to go outside. Tell everybody about this. This is crazy.

Speaker 1 28:03

Well, everybody's been going oh, my God, the cicadas, and I feel like they say that every year and there's like two and one like drops dead on my pool deck and is like you know, and I'm like, yeah, is that, it like is that, and um, and apparently this year um is a more heavily infestated year because broods number 13 and broods number 19.

Speaker 2 28:29

Oh, good old, 13 and 19. Lucky 13.

Speaker 1 28:31

Yes, Are both. Yes, they're both um hatching like revealing themselves this year. And it's supposed to be all over kind of the Midwest, southeast, like Arkansas, kentucky, tennessee. Like I don't like it.

Speaker 2 28:48

Like anyone that lives outside of the states, are like that's why I don't live there.

Speaker 1 28:51

Yeah right, yeah well. It's another good reason not to live here, other than the humidity and the weird weather, and and all of that. In my research in understanding of the cicada infestation that is coming, I learned something. Really interesting, though, is that cicadas are sap suckers. They're like suckers. What does that mean? Yeah, like they. They get their nutrients from trees and leaves and like, and the stuff that's like in the plants that that they're like hanging out in and that's like their food, and all sap sucking creatures trickle when they pee trickle in the world.

Speaker 1 29:34

It's like take a little drop of sap, drop a little drop of urine. Take a little drop of sap, drop a little drop of urine, like that's just how these creatures exist, with the exception of the cicada, who pees in a stream. Like humans do pees in a stream, cicadas pee in one continuous stream. That's about if. If there's nothing obstructing it, it's about 10 feet long of a stream do you have a video?

Speaker 2 30:06

stop it. It is not 10 feet long.

Speaker 1 30:09

It's 10 feet long cicada piss. Watch out, do you have?

Speaker 2 30:14

a video no we, sarah, find a video. You have to find a video. Somebody has a video of a cicada pissing 10 feet.

Speaker 1 30:23

Well, Well, I think I saw one, but I didn't. I didn't like bring it, bring it Cause I were an audio podcast.

Speaker 4 30:31

Even though we just invested in the video.

Speaker 2 30:36

Okay, I have questions. Wait, I have a video. She has a video. Okay, Share your video. But while you're finding the buttons, let me ask this how long do they last? Why isn't there a way to kill I'm not about killing animals, but I am all about killing insects why isn't there a way to find their nests their brood, if you will and murder them before they awake?

Speaker 1 31:04

I mean, we have biologists, that's why we have biologists. I mean, I would imagine that there would be all kinds of ethical debate over that moose. I mean, look at what pesticides did to Eagles back in the early 1900s. I am not talking about Eagles.

Speaker 3 31:20

I'm talking about maybe Eagles eat cicadas.

Speaker 2 31:22

Who, what, what does? What do cicadas do for the ecological systems of the world?

Speaker 1 31:32

I have no idea. We need to find out.

Speaker 2 31:34

I'm going to Google it. While Sarah's, I've got it. I found one. No, I've got it. It's my turn. I've got a good one. This one's called the unique urination of a cicada.

Speaker 3 31:44

That's the one I found it's going to be great. Show us.

Speaker 2 31:49

Tiny animals and insects typically sprinkle droplets of urine. The noisy cicada is different. Look at it being noisy, just like large mammals. Oh, oh, oh oh.

Speaker 1 32:05

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, they just squirted on out and then see they, most of them pee in droplets but cicadas. Oh, look here. So much, you guys, that's insane.

Speaker 2 32:17

Oh, that is so gross, that is pretty terrible. Oh man. So when are they coming? Do you know? Have you done?

Speaker 3 32:27

a deep dive.

Speaker 1 32:28

I know what does that mean. Well, not a deep dive, I think in the next.

Speaker 2 32:33

We're a shallow dive podcast, like that would be the best description of us.

Speaker 1 32:39

We're a mile wide and an inch deep. That's right, baby? Yeah, no, I was. Just I was reading random like news articles and this one said something along the lines of like be careful that the cicadas don't pee on you. And I was like, wait what? And so that's when I learned about the brood number 13, the brood number 19. And I just I don't remember other details because I was so consumed with like, ooh, the two broods and the projectile peeing and like we know that cicadas come in the summer, right, it's not?

Speaker 1 33:13

like these bugs like come and descend upon us in the winter. So it's somewhere in the next few months.

Speaker 2 33:20

I'm looking it up. It's important. Okay, they were. They emerged around mid May and remain for a month, during which time they will search for mates and then hibernate. 13 year old cicadas have not emerged since 2011. I mean, so they're? They're 17 year old cicadas.

Speaker 1 33:45

Oh, my gosh, well, these broods, like like one is. I mean, so they're 17-year-old cicadas. Oh my gosh, well, these broods, like one, it comes back every 17 years, and one of them it comes back like every 19 years or something like that.

Speaker 2 33:56

That made it where they overlap now, so they leave between 2 and 17 years. Oh wait, wait, wait. The undisturbed below-ground habitat will live between 13 and 17 years, so they're at the end of their life.

Speaker 1 34:12

Last year. You want to murder them.

Speaker 2 34:14

They're going to cause hell, I do want to murder them, I do yeah.

Speaker 1 34:17

I want to explore that a little bit.

Starting Over and Summer Camp Memories

Speaker 2 34:19

Yeah, interesting. I feel like I've told you guys, but I was at a YMCA camp as a child and brood number 12 came after me at the Girl Scout camp. I don't know. No, it was a YMCA camp and they got in my hair and, like you would just be walking from one thing to another and they would just attack you, I probably have been peed on by a cicada.

Speaker 1 34:46

Well, well, that's what I'm wondering is if you've had cicada urine in your hair.

Speaker 3 34:51

Oh, I bet, so we might all have some this year. Yeah, we might. What are we going to do? I'm going to get.

Speaker 2 34:59

Have you seen those things for hikers where they put a net over their head? Yeah, I'm going to get one of those when I go outside.

Speaker 1 35:07

I think yeah, like what people wear in the rainforest to not get bit by mosquitoes.

Speaker 2 35:13

Yeah, Okay, so what else do you have, Kat?

Speaker 1 35:19

Anything else. Those are my three big whammies.

Speaker 2 35:23

They're great whammies and I have a song that has been tickling my tutu oh my gosh. No, that is not what I meant.

Speaker 1 35:35

It's been getting my goozle as Kat would say Is this how we get deemed an explicit podcast?

Speaker 2 35:43

Yes, I've been tickling my tinkle, your tinkle, so it's Chris Stapleton, so stick around, because, of course, you love Chris Stapleton. But, um, you know, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to start over in life and, um, I think there's different places in our life people who have to get divorced and have to start over that way, people who completely go I'm going to start over a new career People who, you know, lose a child and have to figure all that out. And this song is called Starting Over, and it just encourages me that with the right people, you can really get through anything, and so I wanted to share this as we finish this week's podcast. Thanks, moose.

Speaker 4 36:31

Well, the road rolls out like a welcome mat To a better place than the one we're at and I ain't got no kind of plan. But I've had all of this town. I can stand and I got friends out on the coast. We can jump in the water and see what flows We've been saving for a rainy day. Let's beat the storm and be on our way. It don't matter to me, wherever we are's where I want to be and honey for once in our lives. Let's take our chances and roll the dice. I can be your lucky penny.

Speaker 1 37:43

Special thanks to our producer, Sarah Reed.

Speaker 2 37:46

To find out more, go to catandmoosepodcastcom. Cat and Moose is a BP production.