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I don't like bugs and I don't think I'm alone in that.

Creepy crawlies, my grandma called him, but she'd also follow up that phrase with some empathy.

They're just trying to get along in this world, she'd say, just like you and me.

Maybe that's true, but sometimes I wonder if grandma would have changed her tune if she'd been around when the National Reporter published a bizarre article.

In the fall of 2013, the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan had a meltdown.

According to the national reporter's story, the radiation wasn't just poisoning the environment.

It was... changing it.

This atomic seepage contaminated a bunch of giant Asian wasps,

vicious critters that are already pretty deadly,

and made them blow up to about four times the size,

made their venom instantly fatal, and their attitude a little salty guess that's putting it lightly

this article claimed those horrific mutants had somehow made their way to nebraska and were killing folks

left and right was it true hard to say the publication is typically a satire mag and the whole thing

sounds pretty hokey. I think you can sense that there's a butt coming. But, last week I got a

strange letter from a girl named Caroline, a fan of the podcast. She referenced

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