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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Thursday, March 10th, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

The giant yellow spiders set to invade the eastern seaboard of North America are not as scary as the internet is making them seem.

Plus, the Smithsonian is returning a number of artworks to

Nigeria, and President Biden is considering a digital currency for the United States. Here are some of the

cool things from the news today. All right, so I saw a couple of headlines about this story last

week, but quickly realized it wasn't really a big deal at all.

So I wasn't going to talk about it on this show.

But then, sometime over the last 48 hours, it has completely blown up into disaster piece theater with clickbite headlines, fearmongering about it.

And people who were only reading those headlines and not the articles posting alarmist hyperbole about how 2022 just can't cut us a break.

It's murder hornets all over again.

Except this time, it's spiders.

Giant yellow, three-inch-wide spiders that can weave webs up to 10 feet deep. But they're practically

harmless. According to the University of Georgia, whose researchers published the paper in mid-February

that a bunch of outlets have been blowing out of proportion, the Joros spider first arrived in the

state of Georgia in 2013 and has been spreading throughout the southeastern U.S.

since then, but their range is now expanding up through the entire eastern seaboard.

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