Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacey Toth of realeverything.com. I'm all about loving

the skin you're in and being healthy inside and out.

And I'm Dr. Sarah Bountine of the Paleumum.com. I believe that scientific literacy is the key

to improving public health.

Welcome back to the whole view, episode 459. I want to welcome our special guests today,

Brood X cicadas, where if Sarah and I are quiet enough, you can hear them. Yeah. So loud.

Outside, outside, like, the windows are closed. That's so loud they are. It's really kind of

a cool experience to live through this, like, with the kids as well. But I had a moment, a couple

of days ago where I was talking to Mad about how I'm going to miss Brood X when they're gone.

And by the way, if you don't know about Brood X cicadas, Google it, super fascinating.

They only come out of the crowd. Discover, I think I was discovery. Did this, it was on the,

I found it on the Apple News app. And it was a, like, story of their life cycle. But then as you

would scroll down and read the next stage of their life cycle, it had an animation in the background.

It was fantastic. I will try to track down a link if a link is a thing that I can create based on

that so that we can put it in the show notes. But fascinating, a little bit, like, you're not used

to seeing animation while you read. It was kind of, it was kind of a neat, it was like a neat,

multi-media experience to learn about 17 years. 17 years. Yes. 17 years, they live underground.

And then they come out and they scream to mate. And like, that's, that's it. They die. They don't

even, like, eat, they just literally come up to mate. And then the larva aggressively lives

underground for 17 years. Mad says they're like, they're, you know, quite the predators underground

for a bug. But, um, and then they, they come out once every 17 years. And so I had this moment

where I was talking to Matt about, I'm going to miss them when they're gone because the hum has become

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