Beantown Podcast - Invasive Species Power Rankings (07262020 Beantown)

Episode Date: July 26, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss the top 10 invasive species, including killer algae, feral hogs, and swamp rats! NATURE

Hey, what's going on? It's Kunde with Fernis. Welcome to my show Kunde with Fernis presents the bean town podcast for hot and Muggy Sunday July 26th. I suppose it is the The hot part of the year, you know, you get to July, there's no more like surprise, heat or excuses. It's not like you get a hot day in early June and it's like, well, June is pretty much summer, but it's still pretty hot, you know. Once you get to this late stage of July and then in August, all the way up until I'd say Labor Day, there are no surprise hot days. If it's hot, you had it coming. My name is Quinty Vifertis and this is my show What's Going On, How are ya?

What's happening? Did I mention it's hot? Wow. Today's one of those days where it's really hot first and foremost, but second most, it's windy, right? Which is a great thing to have, right? You're either of wind the knowing, but it's so hot, feels like it's hovering on 105 right now, that the wind is just like a hot wave of air. There's no refreshment. We're not picking up anything off the lake. I bet Lake and Lucy and that thing would have been a Would have been a hot tub without the heater it was Basically felt like you go to the hotel pool and you go in the hot tub and the the heater in the hot tub

Like isn't totally working, but it's so hot in that Chlorinated pool room anyways, and it's like kind of a hot tub. That's basically what it felt like So we're doing our best to stay cool here. I'm hoping the audio on this works out okay. I do have the tower fan going on level two out of three and it's blowing pretty well and then we got all all three of the ceiling fans in the apartment are running bedroom, dining room, and living room, which is where we're recording. Just an audio cast today in case you couldn't figure that out in the first two and a half minutes.

No video today. I just, I look like crap. I just got home maybe two hours ago. And you know, hadn't been home in, you know, 30 hours or so. A little bit less than that. But, you know, having showers since yesterday morning after my long run, so, you know, we're recording this at 5 o'clock PM. I last showered at 9 AM yesterday morning.

But there's just been a lot of going to the pool. So chlorine by extension, a lot of going to the pool, so chlorine by extension, a lot of sunscreen, and then, you know, sleeping through the night. And then today, man, we, it's hot. Conveniently picked today out of all days to go do an outdoor social distance approved hangout. With some college friends that haven't seen in a while, just not even doing anything, literally just sitting in a green patch underneath the tree in the shade, just catching up, chatting out by the lake there. Which was nice, but boy it was hot,

very sweaty. So we got all that work in and I was gonna shower right when I got home, right? Because you can, so why not? But then I realized, well I'm getting carry out, get some Chinese food for supper. And I figure, oh actually the Chinese place that you go to is about a solid 20 minute walk. It's not like just around the corner.

It's, you gotta go, it's a little over a mile away. So you, you know, you burn some calories going there and coming back, but I figure, you know, by the time I get back I'm gonna be super sweaty. So I might as well just eat supper and then, and then I'll shower after that. So, which is a dangerous precedent. will just eat supper and then I'll shower after that. Which is a dangerous precedent. The last couple of Sundays I have put off my showers until bedtime, but you gotta go. You gotta do it.

So I'll be half awake stumbling into the shower. It feels great to get clean, but it doesn't feel that great to be ready for bed and then it's like, well, now we're gonna hop in the shower. First world probs though. Listen to discretion is advised. When you're listening to the Bean Tom podcast number one, we'll occasionally use some language. And number two, podcasts is objectively terrible. Although I gotta say, I'm really excited for today

because we're going solely, solely S-O-L-E-L-Y off of an email from Hashtag friend of the podcast, Tark Shahada. If you don't know, his work go check out the local glow podcast and he's also got some of his own music in different parts of the interweb. You just got to look for it a little bit. He released an EP about a year ago. Three songs I think, it's a lot of fun. Gotta go check that out.

But Tarik emailed us saying, Hey, I'm not reading this. I'm paraphrasing this. I'm a fan of the power rankings. You know, we did power rankings for American Girl Dolls a little over a month ago, I think. And then in our second half of the last week's program, we talked about Coldplay albums, which wasn't the main focus of the show. I just kind of threw it in there to fill time. And I know what you're saying out there at home, Quinn, the last 135 episodes of the show, you've just been filling time. Well, give me a break, okay? It's hot. But today, I'm excited. We're bringing back the power rankings. I figure, you know, not like the show is transitioning into a power ranking show, but the thing with

the bean-tongued podcast is, you know, the main stick has always been, let's talk about my adventures and experiences, because that's what everyone was asking for two and a few years ago when we started. But frankly, with quarantine, not traveling, and not having that many interesting experiences. So you got to evolve and adapt and overcome. Although I'll say next week, go on Indiana for a wedding, we've had at least one, maybe two, lively, bean-tongued podcast episodes from Indiana in the past. I don't know what we're going to do. I might record on Thursday night or something,

get it out of the way because I'm not bringing my podcasting equipment with me. I'm sure as hell not doing it Sunday night after you get back. Beyond the lookout, we might have a little midweek surprise here. Speaking of midweek surprises here, before we announce our power rankings for this special episode, I should mention for those listeners who are still wondering, Hey Quinn, you know you read the Scott Farrell book. It's out there on YouTube.

We've got the private link if you want it. But you're wondering what's Scott been up to the last four years, three and a half years as the book ended. He turned 40 on Friday, very exciting, happy birthday Scott. And I'll let you know this. If you are, if you you know, listen to the audiobook or even if you didn't and you're just aware of this character, who is all too real, Scott Therrell, and you've heard me talk about how musically bad he is. Like for a man who's committed his pretty much his entire professional working career

to the art form of music other than his amateur porn, he's really bad. Like there's a reason why he spent 20 years than his amateur porn. He's really bad. There's a reason why he spent 20 years being a professional musician and he's still just hanging out in Rockford, working for a church. And his opera company closed. They're not putting on shows anymore. He's really bad.

My point here, if you want to go check him out the Cherry Valley United Methodist Church where Scott Ferrell works as the Quirer director Live streams their churches every Sunday morning if you just YouTube Cherry Valley UMC you can go see Scott Sing and play the piano. And you'll, you can hear exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not being harsh on this guy. He's a really bad musician. Fine pianist, you know, he's been playing for a long time now.

Serviceable. But singing voice like I was listening to him this morning saying, no pun intended, him. He was singing Seeky first, the kingdom of God. And it's just so pitchy, like it's a really simple song to sing. Seeky first, the kingdom of God. Yadayadayada. All the choir boys out there will listening. Shout out to the choir boys.

Big, big cohort, a choir boys. But man, it just was all over the place with a pitch. I don't get it. It seems so simple. The reason I brought this up, and we're going to get, I'm not going gonna describe it in graphic detail, I'm only going to even allude to it, I'm not even gonna use the vulgar terminology. I'll keep it anatomically correct. If you don't want to hear what Scott did for his 40th

birthday party, skip ahead one minute here. It's not even that bad. It's not anything sexual even. It's just related to a piercing. I'm going to go ahead and say it right now. Scott Farrell pierced his manly part, the big one. And here's the thing they don't tell you about Twitter. There's no like NSFW filter, even for public pages like Scots. He can just post whatever pictures of whatever

to genitalia he wants with whatever sticking out of it, which is fascinating that you can do that on Twitter, which means there's a lot of just like porn on Twitter apparently, not that I'm looking for it. I'm not, they don't want that. I just shock that you can do that on Twitter. Like you can't, you can't post porn on Instagram, I don't think. But Twitter doesn't really have a filter on that stuff. It's interesting. Whatever.

That's what Scott Farrell did is for his 40th birthday party. We are on minute 12 here at the Beentown Podcast for Sunday July 26. And I'm happy to announce that thanks to a listener suggestion, Tariq Shahada, thank you for emailing us. Your request has been granted. We're going to do power rankings of invasive species today. Invasive, INVASIV species, almost a palindrome. We are really excited to be doing it.

The first step was sitting down on the couch here when I got home and figuring out which species we're going to be ranking. Because really you could go crazy with this stuff. But we've picked out 10. And I'll read you the 10 I picked out here. The order I read them in right now doesn't matter. We're going to jump in. It's a top 10 power ranking.

We'll do the first five. Then read our ads, and then we'll do our last five here. But here's the 10 invasive species that we're dealing with in no particular order. We've got the Asian carp, the bowl weevil, the common rabbit, Burmese python, swamp rats, brown, what is this word? Marmorited stink bug, marmorited, M-A-R-M-O-R-A-T-E-D, brown-marmorded stinkbug,

feral pigs, killer energy, sounds like not real, but it's all real, I promise. Zebra muscles and the European, not the European starling, the European Union. I got that backwards. Not the European Union, the European Starling. I'm gonna drink a water here. We're doing okay with the heat. We're managing. It's all about staying hydrated. Wearing as few clothes as possible, wearing my boxers right now.

We're not naked. Getting those fans going. And yeah, during the heat of the day, you know, between, I don't know, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Yeah, it's going to be toasty. But you just got to stick it out. The important thing, keep your crotch cool. Okay, kids, for all you kids out there, thinking, hey, how do we stay cool in the summer?

Maybe you ran out of popsicles. Here's all you need to remember, and it's not WWJD, it's KYCC, right? Like you're emailing the Bluegrass state, but they're not your primary subject sender or receiver, you're CCing them, KYCC, keep your crotch cool. I think we could get a new bean town podcast ad where the tag line is keep your crotch cool Right a lot of a lot of the big podcasts have like underwear ads. Oh boy We're getting work emails Sunday at 5 p.m

What's going on in your life where you finally get to the point? Sunday 5 p.m. Where it's like, all right, time to catch up on emails. You're supposed to be caught up. Okay. Tip number two for all the youngsters listening out there. Avoid sending emails on Sunday night. No one wants to get an email on Sunday night.

Unless it's from those publisher clearinghouse people who show up to your door with a giant check, right? If I got an email from the publisher clearinghouse hearing house folks. And it said, we're outside your door, open up free money inside. That's a Sunday night email I'd want to receive. Okay. Here's a Sunday night email. I don't want to receive. I'm seeing in the Facebook group that people got into different types of classes. I might sound stupid, but how did they do that? I didn't know this was an option, and I don't know if I still have time to get into one of those specialized classes. Just keep it for Monday morning, okay?

I'm doing my best. At number 10 here, Power Rankings, List of Invasive Species, we're going to just get the boring one out of the way first. We're going with a common rabbit. Here's the thing. You might think rabbits are fun and cool and cute. And if you get one, you could name it Joel Chandler Harris. But here's the reality of the situation

Two rabbits one male one female can turn into a billion rabbits in the span of one glacial epic E PO CH right you didn't think I knew that word did you That's a problem. They're gonna be eating your turnips. They're gonna be eating your carrots. They're gonna be all over your water chestnuts and your strawberry fields are going down

Rabbits won't stop until you hit ground zero. Rabbits won't stop until you hit ground zero. They do make good stew though. Have you ever had rabbit? Mm, can be a little tough, but if you make it right, can be tasty. That's the thing with rabbits, and that's why they're all the way down in the bottom of our power rankings,

because even though they can be very troublesome, you know, you get a billion rabbits going in the world, they might eat your crops, but you can just turn around and eat them, okay? Not a bad deal. You're going to see a lot of these species. Are they all animals? Let's see. More or less, yeah. We didn't touch plants, sorry. You're gonna notice a lot of these animals aren't as fun to eat. I think rabbits are towards the top of the list in the eatability category. Number nine,

Number nine. Fans of birds will be bummed or happy depending on how you're treating these power rinkings to see the Europeans starling. No, that's not Dame Maggie Smith. It's a type of bird coming in at number nine. Number nine on our power rinkings list of invasive species, the European Starling. If you've ever seen the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, you kind of get a sense of what's going on with the European Starling. They fly in gigantic flocks. Imagine a cloud of locusts, but instead of locusts, it's birds. And they just kind of descend upon towns, villages villages and general metropolis, which is the plural

of metropolis. And they kind of just wreak havoc. Apparently, they really like to bug cattle as well. You know, when I was figuring out the list of 10 species I wanted to discuss today, for most of them, I was like, finding them on national geos or something and just like briefly perusing some facts and factoids about them.

I'm going to try to remember as much as I can about each one of these because I'm literally just reading off this list of 10 right here. I don't have any fun facts in front of me. But the Europeans starling, they can get in there and they'll mess you up, man. And in general, you know, flocks of birds can be spooky. You know, you get vultures, obviously, but you also go to the beach and there's like a ton of seagulls hanging out whitey birds man, they're gonna cause some issues or

Canadian geese What's up with geese anyways like They got a stick up there asked so far You could drill for Canada oil Edmonton Oilers. Edmonton, that's in Alberta, is that right? Sounds right. Edmonton and Calgary, those are both in Alberta.

I've never been to Alberta some day. I'm gonna go to Bant. Okay, that's the European Starlink, coming in hot at number nine on our power rankings of invasive species. At number eight, fans of the ocean will love it. I think they're from the Caspian Sea or something. One of these animals on here is from the Caspian Sea, and this one would make sense.

It's the zebra muscle, muscle, M-U-S-S-E-O. Apparently they started in the Caspian Sea, just the largest lake in the world. Then they somehow crossed the Caucasus into the Black Sea, which is mighty impressive. Okay, people talk about Hannibal and taking his elephants. I think we've talked about this before in the show. First of all, crossing the straight-of-dubralter with a herd of elephants, I don't understand. But then, crossing the elps with elephants, like, on top of the matterhorn or what's going on. Hannibal will get all the headlines.

What no one's talking about is how zebra mussels climbed the Caucasus mountains, or the Caucasus, that right, the Balkans? I don't know. The coccuses region where Kim Kardashian's from, to get to the black sea. That's pretty impressive, okay? Because usually when you see muscles,

or at least in my experience with muscles, they're just kind of hanging out in the ocean. You know, they're kind of like barnacles. Just Jay Chilling. I never seen a muscle climb Mount Albrus before. Okay. You never see any national geo pictures of the day where it's like a muscle family that climbed Mount Elbrus and they've got a little muscle flag that they plant on top of the mountain and they have an instacaption that's like just the bicep emoji. I've never seen that before.

Okay? Man, I'm really talking about these zebra mussels. Maybe they should have been higher than number eight. Here's the downside to zebra mussels though. Not as tasty as the rabbit. I know I'm offending, marginalizing, isolating, the seafood community here. But I just don't get the, what's all the fuss with muscles. You gotta like, pry them open.

Anything, okay, I'm just gonna state this right now and I'm gonna do it unapologetically. 13 syllable words. Anything you got to pry open? No, no thanks. We're talking lobster, clams, anything with a shell I'm not particularly interested in, muscles. not particularly interested in muscles. Prying leads to crying. OK? There's tip number three for the kids. Number one, KYCC.

Number two, I forgot. Number three, a crying leads to crying. I hope you're writing this down because I think the only one I'm going to remember is KYCC. And then I'm going to forget what that actually stands for. Keep your crotch cool and prying leads to crying. And we had number two, but I forgot what it was. Zeeber Muscle is number eight.

Number seven, the longest one on the list, and I need my reading glasses there in the other room. I'm trying to remember what this word is. I don't know what it means. The brown same issue I had last time. I got to get real real close to the screen. The brown marmorated stink bug. Marmorated. I think I already spelled it. Here's the thing with stink bugs. They smell pretty bad. But the reason they're not any higher on this list is because they don't really do anything else. They're just kind of there. Apparently they can reproduce really rapidly, which I think is a

common trait amongst most of the species we're discussing today. But I remember when I'd be corned to testing, and the corn, there were always, I mean, there's lots and lots of different bugs, but the ones you always notice were the stink bugs, because they're big and a box like, and occasionally you would crush one with, you know, in between the leaves of a corn plant, and it would get real stinky. And a profession that's already notoriously stinky to your tassling corn,

stink bugs just make it all that much worse. Especially when you get the brown marmorated ones, you know, as far as stink bugs go, they're probably the stinkiest, okay? That's just my opinion. But who are you going to trust? Okay? Some etymologists who's teaching you about words or some entomologist who's teaching you about insects or Quinn David Furnace. Okay? Those are your three options. End of list. Number six.

Last one before we eat our heads here. I'm really running out of gas, just like personally. I'm on the couch, like rubbing my face. I don't really like smell that bad, but I'm not, I don't smell good. And I'm just kind of hot and need a nice bath. But we're going to make it. That's my promise. That's the Bean Town podcast guarantee. What I might do is once we get through the ads here,

I might actually pause the recording and get some ice water. Anything to kind of shock me back into coherence. Stamiya, if you're stamiya, pa, nela, staa. D'ya, pa, nela, pa, nela. Oh! Number six. Last one, before our halftime break here, is the Burmese python. Probably the spookiest animal on our list here and maybe the most like dangerous to humans in terms of actually being killed by an animal is the Burmese python

Burma of course the former name of Papua New Guinea or Salon. I don't remember which one say, Lawn, I don't remember which one. Somewhere in Asia, and these pythons are their trouble, man. I read that they were the only reason they've been introduced into the Western world is because of people that keep them as exotic pets. And Mike, if you're going to get a pet making an erotic pet,

which I understand the confusion because a snake can be erotic, you know, sexy, slither-in. Oh, there's some Harry Potter fanfiction for you. But no, right? Scarlett Johansson, voice is Ka, KAA. I thought that was a type of triangle in geometry. What do you got? Your S-A-S, your A-S-S.

That was my favorite one. Scarlet Johansson's A-S-S. All right, off topic here. But the Burmese Python is number six. Those guys are large. And in charge, they'll squeeze your underbelly, just like we learned in land before time. Number five with Chomper, they're trouble.

You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna read the ads, and then I'm gonna hit the pause button. I'm gonna get some ice water, and I'm gonna go watch not the entire fifth land before time, but at least that one song. Where they're, you know, that episode was trippy, man, cause they're unlike the land bridge. And then the land bridge disappears, what happened there?

And then it's like cast away. I'm gonna have to read through the plot of land before time five. So I apologize if it's a little bit of a longer break. You should just consider yourself lucky that I'm not reading the Wikipedia plot of land before time number five live on air, okay? If you wanna do that, Google it yourself, but I've got stuff to do and I get to have Chinese food after this

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I'm gonna take a quick pause. I'm gonna get some ice water. We got five more species to go, and I'm going to read the plot of the land before time five. And if it's good enough, I'll read it live on here, okay? I'll be right back. All right, we're back. Get a load of this.

It's kind of quiet, but I'll do my best. All right, that was it. I don't even know if you can really hear that. Land before time five. Forgot these songs are like, everyone's singing. Oh boy. What do you got? Littlefoot, Sarah,

Petri, Spike. Is that one of the characters' names, the kind of dopey one? Chomper, my favorite. Makes his first appearance in number two, I think, and then shows up again in number five. Ducky, land before time five, the mysterious island. What a production.

1997 Directive Video Animated Adventure Musical Film. adventure musical film. Wow. What? What a cast-a-characterist. Littlefoot. Sarah Duckie, Petri, Spike, Chomper. Grandpa and Grandma Longneck. Oh yeah, because Littlefoot's mom dies in the first one, right?

It's like, Bambi. Wow. So what's the like conflict in this one? I know that the land bridge that they walk on disappears. I don't know. Whatever. Sharp tooth. Is that what it is?

Welcome back. I said I wasn't going to read about it on air and here we spent the first two minutes of the second half doing just that. Oh man, look at this. Holy cow, look at this sharp tooth character. This guy is bad news. Holy cow, there's there's YouTube clips and everything. Look, this sharp tooth guy is trouble, okay? Maybe we should put him on the list of invasive species. Not sharp tooth. Holy cow, he's like a mountain goat.

Look at him on the side of this mountain. You gotta pause this episode of the Bean Tum Podcast and go watch the YouTube clip with 76,000 views, the Land 4 time 5 against Sharp Tooth. Look, he's in the caves. They put Ducky out there as a bait. Wow. What a picture. Well, I wasn't sure what I was going to watch tonight. But I think it's become pretty clear that we're watching the land before time. Mysterious island. Oh man, he went into the water and he still, oh watch out for that bowl. There's going to fall on your head.

What? They're pushing this giant ass boulder. It got away five tons off the edge of the cliff and they're about to hit. Oh man, Petri's gonna get eaten by sharp tooth. God, the steam from his nostrils blew him away. This is riveting stuff. Uh oh. Littlefoot and Sarah are pushing the Boulder on top of the Dino's head.

Duckies right on his nose. This is crazy stuff. Can you believe this was direct to video? I sure can't. Oh, he pecked him in the eyelid. That's a good move. Uh-oh. Where's Chomper during all of this?

I thought Chomper was supposed to be our big hero. So, I someone died, Yikes. Oh, I thought, okay, I thought Petri died, but everyone's okay. If you're just joining the Bean Tom podcast on Minute 38 here, we are doing a power ranking of the top 10 invasive species, which is very exciting, especially for all those science nerds listening to our show. I think we've had a pretty good time so far, and we're about ready to jump back into our list and go for the last five here.

All right, let's do this. Come in, or let's review where we've been so far. Number 10, it's our Power Rankings list of invasive species. Number 10, the Common Rabbit. Oh, we will, we will, we quiet. I'm hunting rabbits. You know that song, Wabit Slayer?

Oh, you got a YouTube that. Kill the rabbit. Oh, and it won't be no more, Peter Wabit, no more Wadja Wabit, no more playboy bunny, Wabee. Oh, it's pretty good stuff. Oh, my foot.

Number nine, the European Starling, number eight, Zebra Muscle. Number seven, the Brown Marmer Stinkbug. Number six, the Burmese Python. and picking it up here in the second half, which will be far shorter than the first half. I promise, because I'm kind of angry and hot, hot and angry. Hot and angry. What's going on there? That's not right. I'm going crazy over here. Number five swamp rats. They live in Louisiana. They're kind of like those things, the beasts of incredible

size or whatever, from the Princess Bride, whatever they're called, rodents of impeccable tonsils, I don't remember what they're called. They live in Louisiana. They're like beavers, evil cousins, because they just go in there and they really wreck stuff. Apparently, they like to go into lakes and riverbeds, and they just start digging.

And they don't stop until it's done. No one knows what they're digging for. Gold, I suppose. Wouldn't it be so cool if there was an entire species of animal that valued a precious metal, like gold or silver, the way humans do, and they used it to trade and start their own currency system. You'd have to be a pretty intelligent animal,

but I could see like parakeets doing that or cockatuse. Don't sleep on the swamp rats because they might be starting their own currency system. You go down to Louisiana. You're gonna see some swamp rats starting their own gold mints and gold mines. That'll mess you up, man. Number four, we're getting down to it here. Oh, I said I don't have any plants.

Well, someone's got to check me on this. I'm not a botanist. Killer algae coming in at number four. Algae is a plant, right? Algae is not an animal. Algae is a plant, right? Algae is not an animal, algae is a plant. And someone check on the algae for us. Please, thank you. Get our assistant on that. Killer algae, I forgot

what I was reading about them, but they sound, it sounds like trouble, okay? Anything with a killer in front of them? Whales or orcas or Brandon Flowers, they're gonna be trouble, okay? Killer LG they're gonna show up. They're gonna be in your pools your ponds your schools Your community centers your mom and pop, and they are just going to wreck.

Wreck it all. They're going to wreak havoc. And you're going to have a lot of scum, ponds gum specifically, also known as killer algae. It's estimated that killer algae covers 75% of the world's natural bodies of water. Full coverage. You can't even get a canoe through there. That's what we're dealing with here. Okay, you know, you can talk about lib tards and terrorists.

And swamprats, all you you want but the real killers are killer algae as far as I'm concerned. Coming in at number three a very fun one, feral pigs or feral swine. I think it's the state animal of Louisiana besides swamp rats. Feral pigs can be found on every continent, except for the ones where they're not found. Wouldn't it be bad to ask if there is a colony of feral pigs in Antarctica? They just adapted to the cold.

Kurt Russell down there in the thing. You think the real killer is the thing, but turns out it's a colony of feral pigs. How do they get to be so feral anyways? And what exactly does it mean to be feral? Is feral a synonym for just being wild or does it have something to do with being like infected by something? I don't know. But I tell you what, regardless if you're a feral pig, you're going to be causing some trouble. They're coming in there eating all your truffles and they're not getting your hints for when it's time to leave. Okay, so you're just going to have to tell them right to their faces. The problem

with feral pigs, they're not very good listeners. Historically, I'm sure before someone emails us and says, oh, but my feral pig listens to me just fine. I'm sure before someone emails us and says, oh, but my viral pig listens to me just fine. I'm sure if you get one in isolation and train it, it would be a good listener. But in a pack, you get that pack mentality going? Those guys aren't going gonna take your shit. You can take that to the bank. Number three, Ferrell Pigs. Number two, right down to the Needy Grady here. Number two is Asian Carp.

Everyone's favorite fish. And everyone's favorite type of carp. You know, Asian carp, we're really stealing the headlines like 15 years ago, particularly in the Great Lakes and like the Illinois River. And I feel like we don't really talk about Asian carp anymore, but I don't know if that's because we've sort of gotten in under control or if it's just become part of the ecosystem.

How did the Asian carp get into the Great Lakes from Asia? That's what I want to know. That's maybe even more impressive than the family of muscles that climbed Mount Elbrus, Europe's tallest mountain, which I don't think we gave enough credit to that family of muscles, zebra muscles, not just any average muscle, but Asian carp making it, making its way from the Himalayas its native habitat to the Great Lakes region, the Illinois River and beyond. They're everywhere at this point. And I don't want to get any angry letters about racial and ethnic stereotypes saying,

hey, Quinn, you singled out the Asian carp, what about the other carp? I don't have time for this. Okay, I'm running a very mildly successful podcast. You know what you can do? You can email beentownpodcastyahoo.com against beentomiumpodcastyahoo.com and I'll throw it in the spam folder. That makes you feel any better. You feel like you're heard, been listened to, seeking and listening. The only person who listens worse than a pack of pharaoh hogs is yours truly, Quinn David Furnace.

Coming in at number one, I think a lot of people knew it was going to be this way. They have a very fun place in United States history. Coming in at number one, and thanks to Tark Shahata for the idea of ranking invasive species, it's the bowl weevil. You know what I would really like and I think we could make the bowl we will less scary less intimidating is if in the the biology textbooks the botany textbooks the zoology textbooks when he gets when he shows a picture of the bowl we will if they all had bowl cuts done and I don't want to, you know, shit where I eat, but they're not done maybe by cuts by Q. Cross dimensional revenue, isn't there a product, vertical integration. That's the terminology for it. Someone paid attention in macroeconomics, which I never took. But now I'm taking all y'all to school. The bowl weevil would be less intimidating

if it had a bowl cut. I think we can all agree on that one. But the bowl weevil infamous for destroying the cotton crops at Georgia back in the 1920s. As if the 20s weren't already tough enough. Boy. And then just when things got the worse, then the 1930s happened. And then we elected a Democrat in Roosevelt, on top of all other things. What's next? World War Two? Yup. In case you're tuning in at minute 48 with

Bean's on podcast, Quinn is doing a retelling of 20th century American history. Welcome to the show. Thanks to the bull weevil and remember kids, keep your crotch cool. I said I was gonna forget number three. I already forgot number two. I did forget number three. It's something to do with land before time five. I don't know. We have been all over the place on today's episode. But I think it's been a good one. I closed out the list without going back to the top 10. That's highly embarrassing. And you know how technology is, and with my thumbs,

it's going to take 30 seconds just to find the list again. Nevermind, I found it. To recap, number 10, the common rabbit, number nine, European Starling, number eight, zebra muscle, famous for their mounting climbing abilities. Number seven, the brown, marmorated sting bug, number six, the Burmese python, which is when we talked about scarlet Johansson. Number five, swamp rats, state animal of Louisiana.

Number four, killer algae, they cover 70% of the earth's freshwater. Number three, feral pigs. They're not good listeners number two Asian carp is not a stereotype and Number one the bowl We will I've never seen bull Durham Kevin Costner What about the battle of bull run? Great battle. Is that the same thing as the battle of Antietam? And is that in Virginia?

Maryland? Who knows? Bull Run. I always get my like Civil War battle locations mixed up. The first battle of Bull Run also known as the First Battle of Manassas. That's what it is. It's not Antietam. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War and was a Confederate victory while

it's embarrassing. So where is Bolvrond? Virginia, I assume? Yeah. 25 miles southwest of DC. So where is Antietam? Is that in Maryland? That's also known as the Battle of Sherpsburg. Boy, there's a lot to keep track of here.

Battle of Antietam. It's a fun name. Well, just tell me where it is. Sherpsburg, Maryland. Was that so hard? Wikipedia. What a joke. Thanks to Tark Shahada for that great idea. That was a lot of fun. Going through invasive Species, I know I had fun and

I'm watching a Snapchat of raccoons playing with house cats. What a day. Yes, I'm Snapchatting and podcasting at the same time. I have a life. Gotta get the fans what they want. If you have any other ideas you can shoot us an email. I think we've already said it like four times on the show already. So I'm not going to repeat myself. You should have been listening. Things have gotten very hostile on being some podcasts. Thanks everyone for listening. This was a fun episode.

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