Cockroaches are cool!

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🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Cockroaches - do they get a bad rap? Producer Thomas Lu teams up with self-proclaimed lesbian cockroach defender Perry Beasley-Hall to convince producer/guest host Rebecca Ramirez that indeed they are under-rated. These critters could number up to 10,000 species, but only about 30 are pesky to humans and some are beautiful! And complicated! And maybe even clean.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.3	Hey, Duterino, it's Rebecca Ramirez.
0:08.0	And me, Thomas Liu, Howdy Howdy.
0:10.8	So T Liu, what you got for us today?
0:13.4	Right, Rebecca, tell me.
0:15.4	Do you know what alien life form leaves a green spectral trail?
0:20.2	Oh, wait, don't tell me.
0:22.1	It was on final jeopardy last night.
0:24.0	Zed, we have a bug.
0:25.6	Is that men in black?
0:26.8	You just love a man in a suit.
0:28.8	You know me so well, Rebecca.
0:31.2	But not the men in black specifically.
0:34.0	I want to talk about a misunderstood, wildly underappreciated character.
0:39.5	Okay.
0:40.5	Thanks for having me, Carnage Tiger.
0:42.9	They consume and fast, destroy, and...
0:44.8	Oh my God, Thomas, do you want to talk about the villain?
0:47.4	You bet I do.
0:48.7	Imagine a giant cockroach with unlimited strength, a massive inferiority complex, and a real
0:54.8	short temper.
0:55.8	It's tear-assing around men.
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