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# Cicada swarms and Martian storms and fish walking out of the sea... # | 0:00:06 | 0:00:10 | |
Really? | 0:00:10 | 0:00:11 | |
# Elks in trees and foaming seas and giant mayfly mobs... # | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
Huh? | 0:00:14 | 0:00:15 | |
# Zombie snails and friendly whales and completely frozen frogs... # | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
You what? | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
# They're wild and weird, wild and weird | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
# Really, really wild and really, really weird | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
# They're wild and weird, wild and weird | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
# They're really, really wild | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
# They're really, really wild and weird. # | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
Love is in the air on today's show including | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
a strange sound that's bewitched a town... | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
Neh! | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
..A swarm of mayflies on an intensive speed date... | 0:00:35 | 0:00:40 | |
..And the kissing bug which loves nothing more than kissing us. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
Do you know what? | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
You really do have the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
Tim, I don't know what to say... | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
And those eyelashes | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
get me every time. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:01 | |
And as for those | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
floppy ears and waggy tail, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
well... | 0:01:08 | 0:01:09 | |
Oh. Oh, I see. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
Oh, I thought... | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
No, no. Do you want a biscuit? | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
Yeah, I suppose it's some consolation. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
-No, that one's for the... -What? | 0:01:20 | 0:01:21 | |
-Oh... -Oh. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
You know, when it comes to love, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
I like to be serenaded with a beautiful song. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
It's funny you say that. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
Have a look at this. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
This is Sausalito on America's West Coast, | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
an exclusive neighbourhood of houseboats | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
kissed by the gently lapping waves of San Francisco Bay. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:42 | |
Could there be a more romantic location to find true love? | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
Are you feeling all right? | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just go with it, go with it. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
Because when darkness falls, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
the lover's serenade of a real American beauty strikes up. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
Here's a sneak preview from the local residents. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
Neh! | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
Meh! | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
Mmm... | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
If you've ever had a sound system with a hum in it, it's that sound. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:11 | |
Eh-eh! | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
It sounds like a low-flying flock of B52s. It's a low hum. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
LOW HUM | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
TIM HUMS | 0:02:20 | 0:02:21 | |
They don't sound very happy. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
No, they don't, no. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
TIM HUMS | 0:02:24 | 0:02:25 | |
Have you got any idea what's making that noise, then? | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
TIM HUMS | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
You? | 0:02:30 | 0:02:31 | |
OK, that was me then. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:32 | |
Yeah, granted. However, the locals have their own theories. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
LOW HUM | 0:02:37 | 0:02:38 | |
Secret navy communication systems, telephone systems run amok, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
pacemakers going off at the same time from old people's homes. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
No, I mean, you can imagine just about anything. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
We would put our hands around the light poles, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
and they would be vibrating with this sound. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
And that's why I was convinced it was electrical. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
It had to be electrical. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
LOW HUM | 0:03:01 | 0:03:02 | |
RATTLE | 0:03:02 | 0:03:03 | |
No. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
BUZZ | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
No. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
WHOOSH | 0:03:09 | 0:03:10 | |
All right, all right! Whoa, whoa, whoa! | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
No! I give up. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
Don't worry, the state of California sent in the experts. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
ELECTRICAL HUM | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
After spending a year and a lot of money analysing sound waves | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
and testing a range of completely bonkers theories, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
the experts were spent. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
So in a last-ditch attempt to find an answer, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
they called in biologist Professor John McCosker. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
Cue eyebrow raise. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
I received a call from the head | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
of the Noise Abatement Bureau in Marin County. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
The Noise Abatement Bureau? | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
-IN AMERICAN ACCENT: -N-A-B! You got a problem with sound? We'll abate it. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:52 | |
Step away from the microphone! | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
-OK, OK. -He-hey! | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
Yeah, good. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:58 | |
Meanwhile, back to the call that John received. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
Whoo-hoo! | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
He said, "You know, I can't believe I'm even wasting my time asking | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
"you this question but is it possible that a fish could make | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
"so much noise it would keep people awake?" | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
No way! | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
It's not a fish, is it? | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
So I said, "Sure, play the sound over the phone." | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
He did, and I said, "Oh, yeah, that's Porichthys notatus, | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
the batrachoidid, it's a midshipman, they make noise. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
It's also called a humming fish." | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
That is bonkers! | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
I don't believe it! | 0:04:31 | 0:04:32 | |
I thought this could not be a fish, they have to be out of their minds! | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
She doesn't believe it either! It is not a fish! | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
It's a fish! It's a fish! | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
However unbelievable it might be, this is the culprit, | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
the humble humming toadfish. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
RHYTHMIC HUMMING | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
Let's have a look at a dead one in a jar. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
Doesn't look like much, but it could make enough noise | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
to keep us awake all night. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
It spends most of its life living buried in the sand, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
buried in the mud. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
Mm, not that attractive, so in order to attract a mate, | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
it has to display, and in so doing, it displays vocally. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
A lot of fishes make noise and most of them | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
use either the grinding of their teeth... | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
GRINDING | 0:05:20 | 0:05:21 | |
-Eugh, stop it, stop it! -My ears! | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
No! | 0:05:23 | 0:05:24 | |
..or they use their gas bladder or swim bladder. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
You'd better believe it now, Naomi. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
This fishy beauty uses its swim bladder, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
normally used to control buoyancy, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
as an amazing instrument to woo the ladies. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
Toadfish spend the majority of their life in the ocean. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
They enter the bay | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
at the beginning of summer | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
and get into the shallow waters so that they can make their nest, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
usually against large rocks, large wooden structures, | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
or against the edge of a houseboat hull. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
The water is very murky, it's dark, | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
and they start trying to attract a female. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
That such a small fish is able to generate such an enormous sound | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
and create such a giant ruckus as a result. I mean, how wonderful! | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
That's what nature can do. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
It's an amazing fish. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
Well, maybe not that one. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
It's not the only one, you know. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:26 | |
-Really? -Hm. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
Here's my pick of the pops, top five fishy tunes! | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
Grunting his way in at number five, it's our friend the humming toadfish. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
This sound is a sure-fire way to see off potential rivals. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
RHYTHMIC HUMMING | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
At number four, the unmistakable chirruping | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
of a sergeant major fish defending its territory. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
GRUNTING | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
New in at three! | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
That is the sound of the famous pufferfish, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
the little fish with a big defence. | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
CRUNCHING | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
And at number two, that is the song of the cod, | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
an oceanic pop star who's definitely had his chips! | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
GRUNTING | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
But at number one, it's Mr Love Machine again, | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
keeping the neighbours awake all night, | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
the one and only humming toadfish. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:16 | |
LOW HUM | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
Ha-ha-ha! | 0:07:18 | 0:07:19 | |
Finished? | 0:07:19 | 0:07:20 | |
Er, yeah, have actually. Do you want these? | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
-No. -No? | 0:07:23 | 0:07:24 | |
Moving on. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
There are some love stories that are the stuff | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
-of nightmares! -What? | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
This gas station is being attacked by... | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
-Some kind of bugs. -Something. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
And that lady won't even get out of her car. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
It's like it's snowing. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
Here, in Lake Erie, a swarm of... | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
Hang on, hang on, hang on! | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
Did you say Lake Erie? | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
Yep. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:53 | |
Ha! Well, what do you expect? | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
If you call the place Lake Erie, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
weird stuff's going to happen, isn't it? | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
No sympathy for these people. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
Like I was saying, here in Lake Erie, | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
a swarm of literally billions of mayflies descended on the town. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:10 | |
Every surface, every inch of the air was filled with winged insects. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:15 | |
That is really creepy. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
Who's that? | 0:08:20 | 0:08:21 | |
Greg Stewart, a local resident who witnessed it first-hand. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
They were all over the wall of the city, | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
and I didn't know if I should even get out of my car. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
It was that bad. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
Don't get out the car, that's my advice! | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
And as I got out, they started crunching under my feet. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
Aw, he got out the car. Don't worry about my advice. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Then, within days, | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
they spontaneously started to die in their billions. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
The drifts of dead bodies got so deep | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
that the local authorities had to | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
use snow ploughs to unblock the roads. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
And as they started to break down, they left another treat too. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
It smelled of motor oil and vomit. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
OK. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
-That's that bit. -Eugh! | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
Here you go. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:15 | |
Oh! | 0:09:15 | 0:09:16 | |
What, there's not a little bit of you | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
that's intrigued to know what that combo smells like? | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
-Not in the slightest. -No? | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
That's a shame. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
We need an expert. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:25 | |
It's Don. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:26 | |
What's done? | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
No, Don. Look. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
He knows everything about the Lake Erie mayflies. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
Well, the big swarms are really a result | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
of the life history pattern of Western Lake Erie mayflies. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
They live in the mud for about two years, and they grow and they moult. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
About the middle of May, the first of June, | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
they all come out of the water at one time. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
After about two days, there's a swarm, a swirling swarm | 0:09:53 | 0:09:57 | |
like a little funnel cloud that's formed by the mayflies. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:01 | |
So where does love fit into all of this then, Naomi? | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
Well, the females are searching the swarm for a fella. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
OK. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:10 | |
And once they've hooked up, | 0:10:10 | 0:10:11 | |
she heads back to the lake to lay her eggs. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
OK, and the male? | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
Oh, he dies. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:18 | |
Sorry. Sorry, sorry. He dies? | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
Yep. And when the female's laid her eggs, she dies too. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
What? | 0:10:24 | 0:10:25 | |
Hang on a minute, hang on. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
Right, so you spend two years of your life | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
moping around a muddy lake as a grub... | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
-Larva. -Yeah, same thing. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:33 | |
Then you finally get old enough to flee the family nest. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
-In this case, a lake. -Yeah. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:38 | |
Then you meet the girl of your dreams and you go on this whirlwind, | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
insane speed dating session, and then he dies? | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
Yep. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:46 | |
What, and everyone's OK with this, are they? | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
Except the clean-up crew. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
Getting rid of a million dead lovers is a hands-on job. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
Oh, nice to see they're using a giant millipede to do it. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
That's a hose, Tim. | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
Oh, OK. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
That seems like a lot of hard work to me. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
No-one said love was easy, Tim. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
It is when the kissing bug's concerned! | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
The kissing bug? That sounds adorable! | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho! | 0:11:10 | 0:11:11 | |
In the backstreets of South America, millions of dark forms | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
lurk in the shadows, waiting till nightfall to emerge. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
These are kissing bugs, | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
and if there's one thing they like kissing more than | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
anything in the world, | 0:11:26 | 0:11:27 | |
it's us. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
Something tells me this isn't going to be very nice, and given that, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
who is he, and why has he got one of those things on his arm? | 0:11:32 | 0:11:37 | |
That's Dr Matt Yao from the London School of Tropical Medicine. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
They're really quite nasty bugs. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
If they're hungry, you can actually see them. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
They'll be attracted to the heat of my finger, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
so they're quite vicious and hungry. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
And similarly, if I breathe on them, they become very agitated, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
and that's the carbon dioxide from my breath. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
And if I breathe a bit more... | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
Again, you can see them probing through the net. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
Ooh! Hey, I'm just going to try something, Naomi. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
Works every time! | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
So these bugs are attracted to warmth and carbon dioxide | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
and feed on the blood of larger animals like us humans. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
They sink their needle-like mouth parts into their victim's flesh | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
and draw long and hard on their blood, whilst we sleep away, | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
blissfully unaware. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
Well, that doesn't explain their name. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
Over to the doc. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:29 | |
One of the reasons why they are called kissing bugs | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
is it's just that they tend to come out at night, | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
when the lights are off, | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
and your face tends to be the most exposed area. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
So they can crawl all over the face, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
but generally kiss around the mouth area or around the facial areas. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:48 | |
That is disgusting! | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
That's not even the half of it. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:52 | |
Prepare yourself! Have a look at this. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
So if you've got a family and they're being fed on every night, | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
particularly the children can actually become anaemic. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Which basically means you haven't got enough blood in your body | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
and that leaves you feeling pale and weak. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
But they have another, darker legacy. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
You see, whilst kissing you on the cheek, they might well leave you with | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
the life-threatening Chagas disease, a condition caused by a tiny parasite | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
carried by the kissing bugs that can eventually lead to heart failure. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
Doc, take over. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
When they take a blood meal, they defecate. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
BOTH: EUGH! | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
And you can scratch it into the bite wound or you can rub your eyes | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
or put your fingers to your mouth, and that's how you become infected. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
Ooh! | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
Yeah. You know we've actually got some of these, don't you? | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
What? In here? | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
Yeah! The doc send them over, little bad boys. I mean... | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
GLASS SMASHES | 0:13:45 | 0:13:46 | |
BUZZING | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
BOTH: ARGH! | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 |