Join The Wild Times crew chillaxing on the couch at Retepβs place as they chat with the one and only Ms. Mallory, Queen of Creepy Crawlies! This woman is a serious badass with plenty of gross creepy crawly tales to share. Between her Fear2Fascination program, 8 Minutes of Ew podcast, and Weird Nature series, Mallory brings a new perspective into play that makes bugs and insects cool, not creepy.
Watch on YouTube for some of the gnarliest and most amazing creepy crawly videos and images. For our brosteners just listening, donβt stress, this episode is full of wild and gnarly stories. We love you!
TWT #94 - The Breakdown
00:00 - INTRO: Robot Kyle counts us down
1:35 - Meet the queen of creepy crawlies, Ms. Mallory!
3:10 - Malloryβs story: fear to fascination
5:08 - How Forrest met Mallory
6:11 - Guess the skull with Ms. Mallory and Forrest Galante (super cool, go watch on Youtube!)
07:50 - Check out Malloryβs hagfish in a jar
8:00 - Ms. Mallory goes to Narcisse Snake Dens
10:00 - The Ms. Mallory and F2F angle for wildlife conservation
12:48 - Eating bugs is cool. Even Rhodes Galante is doing it!
15:30 - Mallory ruins blue cheese for everyone #science
16:37 - All about Ms. Malloryβs pod, 8 Minutes Of Ew
17:58 - Brosteners listening on a βlistening deviceβ (Forrest Galante 2022), time to come to Youtube for some tantalising wildlife video content!
19:04 - Superpowers of the velvet worm
20:14 - Why salamanders are SO dang cool
24:45 - African clawed frogs make good pregnancy tests AND deathly chytrid fungus diseases
26:25 - Ms. Malloryβs experience with botfly nesting in her HEAD (*brosteners, do yourself a favour and go to the Youtube for some horrific botfly extraction footage*)
29:21 - Malloryβs first expedition into the Belize jungle
31:20 - Forrest Galanteβs survival tips: how to NOT get botflies
37:40 - Maggot debridement therapy a.k.a βNatureβs Neosporinβ (Retep 2022) (*more gnarly content on the Youtube*)
40:10 - Fascinating leech facts: medical leeches used for surgery recovery?!
41:44 - Forrestβs horrific leech story: Extinct or Alive behind the scenes
44:20 - Ms. Malloryβs creepy crawly tips: how to remove leeches properly
46:33 - How Mallory brings wildlife to underprivileged children
49:10 - Where to find more of Ms. Mallory and whatβs next?!
51:00 - Forrest casually ruins how we perceive toothpaste #hagfishfacts
51:40 - BATTLE ROYAAAAAAALE, Creepy Crawly Edition
Rules: Choose 3 elements of weird animals to create the most disgusting, off putting creepy crawly.
*No 2 picks from 1 category (spiders etc)
*Snake draft
52:55 - Forrestβs first pick: creepy, undulating legs of a millipede
53:42 - Retepβs first pick: head and beady eyes of a sewer rat
54:5 - Malloryβs first pick: nightmarish head of a lamprey. Second pick: tongue of a parasitic wrasse
55:55 - Retepβs second pick: tentacles of a giant squid AND a bonus Retep fact about giant squids
56:60 - Forrestβs second pick: body of a slime eel / hagfish. Last pick: face of a blobfish (Retepβs spirit animal - repping the merch)
59:00 - Retepβs last pick: stinky body (glands specifically) of a skunk
59:58 - Malloryβs last pick: creepy hairy body of a tarantula
1:01:26 - BR Recap (Dave Sunshine, get ready to create some gross as mockups)
1:02:25 - OUTTRO & where to find Ms. Mallory
Brosteners, donβt forget to comment and vote who you think made the grossest,
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