Hello, friends. We are traveling this week. So instead of a regular episode, this is an episode of

Bugs Need Heroes, a podcast in which an ecologist and an illustrator team up to create a new

insect-inspired superhero each episode. They kindly had me back on for a second time to brainstorm a

mantis shrimp-themed superhero. I always have tons of fun

talking with them, and I think that you're all going to have tons of fun listening to it. So enjoy.

Bugs Need Heroes Presents the Painbow. Hello, friends and fiends, welcome to bugs, new heroes, a podcast for an artist and an entomologist team up to illustrate the inspiring abilities of insects by creating bug-themed superheroes. I'm Amanda.

I'm Kelly.

Producer Derek and Desdemona are also here. Before we get started creating this bug-inspired hero, what's bugging you, Kelly?

Um, you know, just computers are annoying.

That's about it.

Uncooperative machinery is what's bugging me.

I dropped mine today.

Your computer?

My whole computer.

It had it in like a tote bag and I thought my arm was in the tote bag.

So I was swinging it over my shoulder and then I swung it into nothingness and it landed on the asphalt of the road. Oh no.

The noise I made could only be described as anime asked like, you know, so it's okay.

It's got a little bump on the corner and i'm upset about it but

you know i can't afford to replace it so yeah this is the episode where bugs your hero starts

a patreon to replace him in this clumsy computer dropping ways is that is that also what's bugging you today is flying, flying machinery?

Just flying machinery.

My, uh, sister was in town this week.

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