Hey, Amanda, how are you doing? Nice to see you.

Hey, Dill. Nice to see you, too. I have a little bit of a random question to start with, but I wanted to know if you have any experience with cicadas.

Yeah, sure. Yeah. I grew up in Minnesota, so they hatch there. They hatch in New York where I live now. I actually really like

cicadas. I think of them as like one of the sounds of the summer. You know, they have this kind of like late

summer, August drone. It's a little spooky. But yeah, cicadas are cool. Yeah. Well, I ask because I feel like

every couple years there's some sort of like cicada boom cycle.

Yes.

And they have this reputation, like as you were saying, of being sort of cuddly and cute, or at least if not that far.

They're harmless.

Like they don't do much to people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

But today I want to talk to you about a time in the Midwest when giant clouds of bugs were not so harmless or cuddly or cute, but actually were quite destructive.

And on that note, I see.

I see. Dun dun dun. That's right. Get ready. I want to show you a photo.

So can you see the photo that I'm showing you here?

Yes.

And what does it look like?

So it looks to be, it's like a carving.

It kind of looks like maybe like a church carving.

It's got like a saint.

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