off top. Your house is actually a collection of tiny ecosystems for thousands of species of insects

and bacteria. Different ones can survive in the basement, then can survive in the fridge,

then can survive in your salt shaker, then can survive in your bathroom, then can survive in your

bedroom, and they all need each other to stay alive. Kind of cool when you think your house is a tiny

little world for a bunch of tiny little creatures. Play the music.

This is the Dominique Foxworth Show. What up Charlie? You just gave me nightmares.

Yeah, it was weird. So I was reading about this professor who used to do like

insect research in crazy rainforests places because he wanted to like discover new insects and

then he started to discover that there are plenty of tiny organisms that live inside of our house

and insects that live inside of our houses. And the thing that like that didn't surprise me,

the number of species kind of surprised me how many different species there are like thousands

in each of our houses and depending on where you live in the world and whether you have pets or don't

have pets, you'll have like they can tell things about the way you live in your house. And no

matter how clean your house is these things still exist. But the thing that really blew my mind,

which is why I highlighted it is that it's an entirely functional ecosystem. So like in places where

like your basement where it could be cold and wet, you'll have an ecosystem. But if you took

the organisms from your basement and put them in your bedroom, they wouldn't survive. And like in

your bedroom, there exists like mites that survive off of eating your dead skin cells. And then other

bacteria survive over eating those mites. And if you move them into the kitchen, they would not

survive. And the same is true like in your freezer where it's extremely cold, you can find organisms

that live in your freezer. That of course, if you leave the freezer open and it all melts,

that they won't survive. It's just a kind of crazy to think about like how our world operates.

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