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      About 14 years ago, I found myself in car with my friend Mark Loughney. I picked him up randomly as he was completing a hike through Dunmore, PA, and we decided to hit a meeting. He had a backpack & supplies, but the pack wasn't filled with granola. It was unexpectedly filled with many insects, and foraged beatles collected with great care, and affection. We discuss this today, beatles being a species he puts intense focus on expressing in his art.
 Our connection with each other was immediate, and also facilitated by a friend we both loved and lossed this year. Our friend Chris passed before Mark was released from prison, and their planned reunion never happened. In the atmosphere of grief Mark was released from prison with another distinct problem most newly free men don't encounter. He was famous. This fame rose from his unique, skilled and empathetic portrait art he expressed inside. This seemly started as a way in which he can combat a growing desire to take his own life in prison.
We also discuss the unlikely voice on NPR that saved him one afternoon in his cell, and propelled him into a direction of portraiture Art. In this practice of immersing himself in the details of other inmates faces he had an awakening. What can one wake up to by intensely studying other peoples faces and drawing that image?
  It's funny to think our faces are essentially objects for others to experience. We never get to experience reality from the context, and optics of our own faces. What was it about getting lost in the details of others' inmates faces that brought a tidal wave of empathy and purpose for Mark.....
I think he tells us clearly today that the idea of "subject & object" disappears in this deep focus, and one only can experience the moment when creating this type of portraiture. Time is intangible when existing in this flowstate, even in prison. It was here that Mark found connection and a new purpose.
Mark’s Show at currently at Brown University
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Jennifer and Jonn’s VW story is a love story. High school sweethearts and now husband and wife, their mutual love of VWs of all types has been present ever since their first date when Jennifer pushed her way into Jonn’s heart…

Упрощенная «Гранта» имела целый ряд предшественников – от Гадкого утенка «Ситроена-2CV», задуманного в 1930-х, до первого «Логана» образца 2004 года. И от наших военных «полуторки» и «трехтонки» до немецкого «Мессершмитта», который стал мотоколяской. Такие автомобили должны были заменить лошадей, потом помочь экономике, потом посадить за руль третий мир… и они всегда становились народными. Ждет ли нынешние «гранты» и «нивы» такая же популярность?

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This week we're talking about the beautiful jewel beetle! What causes its iridescent sheen? And how does it help them camouflage? Listen to find out!

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This episode is really special. When we started out on our 49 state adventure, we received a lot of encouragement. But then we got a message from a woman Ryan used to work with at children’s services some fifteen plus years ago. Her name is Sally Doyle. Even though Ryan and Sally worked together for years, he had missed an important detail about Sally’s life—she owned a VW bus.

Little Beetle has an important message to deliver to the far side of the mountain. But Little Beetle is VERY little, and the mountain is VERY big. Can his friends help him get to the top before it's too late?

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In this episode we chat to Jim Jeffrey, NatureScot’s Pollinator Strategy Manager, who explains the importance and diversity of Scotland's pollinators, and highlights how they're faring in the recent pollinator progress report.

Jim also showcases examples of projects up and down the country helping reverse nature loss, and he provides some great tips for ways we can all make Scotland more pollinator-friendly.

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You might be surprised to find out that before David Dotson was Dolly Parton’s right hand man for her nonprofit, he was a VW bus owner. We had the good fortune of interviewing David at the Dollywood Foundation Headquarters in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (in what would be the last interview ever conducted in that building). Tune in to hear David’s VW bus story and about the important work he’s done as CEO of the Dollywood Foundation, including The Imagination Library.

After staying several days at McIntyre’s Home for Wayward Buses and Wandering Souls in Miami, Florida, we finally convinced Ian McIntyre—VW bus enthusiast, artist, friend to all, dog whisperer extraordinaire, and all around renaissance man—to sit down with us for an interview. Tune in to hear why Ian created this home-away-from-home in paradise for fellow travelers. 

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In celebration of #InverteButtWeek on Twitter, this week's episode is all about those butts. And guess what? There are a lot of weirdass butts in the animal kingdom. How and why did we evolve butts?  Scientists still are not exactly sure how anuses evolved. What we do know, though, is that for those animals lucky enough to have an anus, they have been rewarded with the ability to digest food more efficiently. Here are some examples of weird invertebrate butts in this episode. 

Comb Jellies are one of the largest animals to swim using cilia. Comb Jellies probably have one of the weirdest butts, considering they have transient anus that comes and goes as they please. These animals might help explain how anuses evolved to begin with. 

Scorpions, specifically Ananteris scorpions, can literally lose their butts and survive. These scorpions detach their tails to escape predators. However, when they sacrifice their tails they lose not only their stingers but also their ability to poop. Yes, scorpions poop from their tail, and yes, they can live for months after losing their butt.

Sea cucumbers have been described as the earth worms of the ocean. But why are their butts interesting? Did you know they breathe through their butts? Or that they can use their butts as a defense mechanism? Or that they can spit their organs out of their butt? 

Diving Beetles are aquatic insects found in lakes, ponds and streams. These beetles breathe air, cannot “hold” their breath like sea mammals, and they don’t have gills. So how do they spend most of their lives under water? With their butts, kind of. 

Beaded Lacewing are winged soft body insects. These basic bugs will lay their eggs next to a termite mound because termites are their only source of food. Guess how they kill these termites? With deadly farts. 

Bombardier beetles are a group of ground beetles that eat mostly insects. What makes these beetle’s butts interesting is they eject a boiling hot quinonoid spray from their butts to protect themselves. This toxic spray can kill bugs and burn humans. Reminds us of our Dragon episode ...

Listen now to learn more about weird invertebrate butts, and help celebrate butt week. 

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For the last couple of years, there's been this new trend in the zoology world where researchers or people who have discovered new species are naming them after famous movie stars or characters. In this week's episode: Let's Talk Wild EP 8 - Newly Discovered Animals Named After Famous Movie Characters, I'll let you guys know which names I like and don't like from Pokémon, Harry Potter, Disney, Marvel, and even Tim Burton. 

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Dung beetles are a large group of Scarabaeinae that almost exclusively feed on dung. Dung Beetles are widely used as an indicator of an ecosystem's health. In some countries, they have even been introduced for the benefit of animal husbandry. The dung beetle, (otherwise known as a scarab), enjoyed a sacred status among the ancient Egyptians. Trust us, you want to learn more about this amazing beetle. 

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Same-sex penguins hatch their first chick at New York zoo, and parents and baby are doing great.

Gray wolves back on endangered species as federal judge restores protections for gray wolves in much of U.S., reversing Trump's (bad)  policy.

Dung beetles live in many habitats and are found on all continents except Antarctica. Dung beetles do not have to eat or drink anything else, because the dung provides all the necessary nutrients. By burying and consuming dung, dung beetles improve nutrient recycling and soil structure and reduce the number of pests. So you want these bugs around. 

The Egyptians saw the  scarab (dung beetle) as a symbol of renewal and rebirth. The image, conveying ideas of transformation and resurrection, is ubiquitous in ancient Egypt. Dung beetles can navigate using the Milky Way making them the only insects known to orient themselves by the Milky Way. 

Listen now to discover the mysteries of the dung beetle. 

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We had been staying in David’s driveway as we ventured toward Salem Massachusetts. Even though he insisted he didn’t need to be interviewed, we decided otherwise. Over the breakfast he prepared for us, we had a little conversation with him about his time driving VWs. 

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Ladybugs (Ladybirds or Coccinellidae) are a widespread family of small beetles. Regardless of their name, they are not bugs nor birds. We’re not sure where their name comes from but it might come from "Beetle of Our Lady" in reference to the Virgin Mary. Many cultures consider them good luck, this is probably because they sometimes eat unwanted pests which helps preserve crops.

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This week it's complicated. Jennifer talks about the cocaine hippos from Colombia and how they have become the first animals recognized as “legal persons” in the U.S. (If you want to learn more about them listen to our episode all about Hippopotamus found at the link below). Then she talks Penis worms that lived in the depths of ancient seas more than 500 million years ago. Amber didn’t look into bad news because bad news is sad, but for her good news refugees in Cameroon have turned a desert camp into a thriving forest.

Ladybugs are often brightly colored with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, heads and antennae.  However, they are not all red and some are not colorful at all. There are 6,000 ladybug species worldwide and almost 500 species in North America.

Unfortunately, due to invasive species of ladybugs, such as the Harlequin ladybird (Asian lady beetle, Asian Ladybug) and the Seven-spotted ladybug, native North American ladybug species, such as the nine-spotted ladybug, are becoming displace and even extinct in some areas. 

Listen now to learn about the good luck bug, one of nature's natural pests, and  also, one of nature's natural pest controls.

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• Native Plant of the Month (Wax myrtle) at  ~23:41
• Bug of the Month ( American Burying Beetle)  at ~ 27:54
• Garden Tips of the Month at ~ 33:30

As many of you know, the good ol' slug bug, the beetle, whether it is super or standard, is the gateway into bus ownership. We met a man, Lew Hann, who perfectly demonstrates how one goes from beetle to bus. And his story begins wayyyy up north. 

Neil is a close friend of ours. In fact, I actually lived with him after my divorce. Miracle too—a couple of divorced people living with our friend, Neil Webster. Now Neil has owned a whole lotta VWs. And even though we usually don’t talk about other VW makes on this program, it is worth noting that Neil’s love of the VWs happened, well, right after a divorce.