From the Vault: Do Ants Make Traps?
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The trap is insidious. But of course it is. It was designed and executed… by ants? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, the ant wars continue as Robert and Joe explore some of the possibility that a few formidable Formicidae species actually lay traps. (originally published 1/20/2022)."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | My name is Joe McCormick. |
| 0:12.3 | Today we had originally planned to have an all new interview for you, but due to some holiday |
| 0:17.3 | scheduling mayhem that had to be delayed. |
| 0:20.4 | So instead, the door is creaking open. |
| 0:23.0 | And we're going down, down into the vault to bring you an episode of Yesteryear. |
| 0:28.5 | This episode originally aired January 20th, 2022, and it is about allegations that |
| 0:34.6 | ants, as in the insect, build structures that could be called traps. |
| 0:39.8 | Please enjoy. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:47.8 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:56.3 | My name is Robert Lam. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Joe McCormick, and today we're going to be talking about traps. |
| 1:02.7 | I think I've mentioned this in some weird house cinema episodes, but for some reason, |
| 1:07.9 | ever since I was a little kid, I have always loved movie scenes where the protagonists |
| 1:13.9 | build a trap to use against the villain or the monster. |
| 1:17.5 | I remember, like, home alone when I was a little kid, that whole sequence was great. |
| 1:22.7 | It sort of expands to fill my whole childhood impression of what the movie was, and if |
| 1:28.1 | you go back and watch it as an adult, it's kind of weird that it's only like 15 or 20 |
| 1:31.9 | minutes of the runtime. |
| 1:33.3 | In home alone? |
| 1:34.8 | Yeah. |
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