#1407 - Michael Malice

Joe Rogan (0:04)

So what were you saying about tarantula hawks?

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Tarantula hawk wasps.

Michael Malice (0:07)

Yeah, they're like...

And then tarantula is eaten alive by the offspring for weeks. And then when this was discovered, this kind of stuff in the Middle Ages, they were like, this is a big theological dilemma, because why would God make this happen?

Jamie (0:45)

Yeah, why would God do that?

Michael Malice (0:47)

Nature is, I mean, I could go down this rabbit hole for hours.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Please do.

Michael Malice (1:28)

It's a parasite. I don't know why it's so big.

SPEAKER_5 (1:30)

Who's big?

Joe Rogan (1:31)

It gets to trap rats. It's hard to imagine.

Michael Malice (1:34)

No, it's not carnivorous, it's the flower.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

It's getting sneaky.

They're adapting, bro, that's what it is. They get ready to eat people. Look how big 柔 are.

Michael Malice (1:42)

They're gorgeous.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

They are beautiful. Oh wow, look at that one where the guy 데 家具 Gen hochge plant H blockchain has got his hand on it 開스 湖 Welt.

Michael Malice (1:53)

So I have umbsome from the island of Sokotra, I have a flower, which is in Arcapelago near the coast of Yemen called Duval Yondra, D-U-V-A-L-I-N-D-R-A, and their flowers look and smell like meat, because you want to attract flies. And the hotter it gets in the house, the more the flower smells.

It's really cool when you get it to bloom.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

So it's actually heat activated just like rotten food would be?

Michael Malice (2:19)

Yeah, to trick the flies, because flies are going to be attracted.

SPEAKER_2 (2:22)

There it is. There are number seven.

Michael Malice (2:25)

That one is just right there, James. You see that in the second, the third one on the left. There, that's it. You can look at the texture.

And it even has hairs to replicate a wound. Ugh!

Joe Rogan (2:36)

It looks like a blown out butthole. Yeah. But from an alien.

Michael Malice (2:40)

Oh, there is a butthole.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

Look at the little dot in there.

Michael Malice (2:42)

Oh, there is a butthole that smells like shit. If you look up white slonia, white S-L-O-A-N-E-A, it smells like an asshole and has hairs that wriggle in the wind. And it's to replicate an asshole.

W-H-I-T-E-S-L-O-A-N-E-A. White slonia, named after white and Sloan. It's from Somalia. Yeah, look at those flowers.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Oh, God.

How weird. Just the sheer variety, and that smells like a butthole and has hair on it.

Michael Malice (3:16)

Yeah, and the hair moves. My friend calls it God's mistakes.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

But the sheer variety of nature is so weird.

Michael Malice (3:23)

Isn't it great?

Joe Rogan (3:24)

I mean, that's not unusual. If an asshole is not unusual, and every animal has an asshole, why is it unusual to have a plant that looks like an asshole?

Michael Malice (3:32)

And we have the expression, you attract more flies with honey than vigor, but it's also like a pig to shit, a fly to shit. You're going to have flowers that smell like shit.

Joe Rogan (3:40)

Yes.

Michael Malice (3:41)

And there's a lot of them. There's a whole family of them, and they're gorgeous.

Joe Rogan (3:45)

Yeah.

Michael Malice (3:45)

They smell.

And when they pop open, they fart. It's like a fart, because it's contained, and then it pops open.

Joe Rogan (3:52)

Oh. So like the gas has come out of it when it pops open.

Michael Malice (3:54)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:55)

It releases a dose.

Michael Malice (3:57)

Yeah. Look up the biggest one, Stapilea, S-T-A-P-E-L-I-A.

Joe Rogan (4:01)

Are there any plants that have the same effect on people?

That like, you know that one, well, it's not even a plant, actually. It's a fungus. There's one branch of the cordyceps mushroom that infects ants and gets them to explode.

Michael Malice (4:15)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (4:15)

So that they spray the spores everywhere.

It grows inside of them and then literally explodes out into the air. So the spores will infect other ants. Well, when ants find out that one of their members has been infected, they'll take that ant way out of the community. Like, wait, they'll take them on a walk.

Michael Malice (4:32)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (4:32)

Because they know somehow or another that this thing is going to blow up on all their family.

Michael Malice (4:36)

They took, they had found footage of this. And literally, like, the mushroom grows out of the ant's head and then it pops out.

Joe Rogan (4:42)