TWT #94 - Turning Fear Into Fascination with Ms. Mallory, Queen of Creepy Crawlies

Join The Wild Times crew chillaxing on the couch at Retep’s 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, don’t 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 - Mallory’s 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 Mallory’s 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. Mallory’s pod, 8 Minutes Of Ew   17:58 - Brosteners listening on a “listening device” (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. Mallory’s 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 - Mallory’s first expedition into the Belize jungle 31:20 - Forrest Galante’s survival tips: how to NOT get botflies   37:40 - Maggot debridement therapy a.k.a “Nature’s Neosporin” (Retep 2022) (*more gnarly content on the Youtube*)   40:10 - Fascinating leech facts: medical leeches used for surgery recovery?!    41:44 - Forrest’s horrific leech story: Extinct or Alive behind the scenes   44:20 - Ms. Mallory’s 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 what’s 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 - Forrest’s first pick: creepy, undulating legs of a millipede   53:42 - Retep’s first pick: head and beady eyes of a sewer rat   54:5 - Mallory’s first pick: nightmarish head of a lamprey. Second pick: tongue of a parasitic wrasse   55:55 - Retep’s second pick: tentacles of a giant squid AND a bonus Retep fact about giant squids   56:60 - Forrest’s second pick: body of a slime eel / hagfish. Last pick: face of a blobfish (Retep’s spirit animal - repping the merch)   59:00 - Retep’s last pick: stinky body (glands specifically) of a skunk   59:58 - Mallory’s 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, don’t forget to comment and vote who you think made the grossest, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices