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for that hi everybody this is Skip Alzheimer and I'm checking to see if my microphone's working and it is um this is the a Geeks lunchtime streaming show and we just watched some footage of some sperm uh what's interesting is I've posted uh this sperm footage years ago like maybe more than a decade ago on different platforms and lots of people have comments about it but only one person said hey that's not human sperm that's some sort of mammal sperm that's a small mammal you didn't IDE it necessarily but so I got a bunch of this footage from uh a reproductive research lab and uh some of the cans of film uh say rabbit sperm uh I don't this particular reel which I think is the best of all the ones that we have uh I don't know it didn't identify what it was but I'm guessing it might have been rabbit sperm or a mammal that gnaws a mammal that gnaws it you you ask here's a film about that enjoy [Applause] most of the mammals that inhabit our Earth are rodents mammals that [Applause] gnaw [Music] they're easy to tell apart from other mammals they're usually small and they have long curved front teeth that grow throughout their lives these inzer teeth are not only shaped differently from those of other mammals but they're also constructed differently the front surfaces are hard enamel the back surfaces softer dentine as the teeth are used softer dentine wears down faster than the harder enamel and a chisel-like shape is maintained continual growth makes up for the continual wear and the other way around the continual wear keeps them from growing too long when you compare the teeth of the gnawing mammals with those of the hoofed mammals the difference is easy to spot the incizors of a deer are small the MERS in back are larger these are used for grinding up the grass and leaves that a deer [Music] eats the MERS and the meat eating mammals are sharper and the canines not the front in sizers are long and sharp these are used by the meat eaters for tearing [Music] flesh but notice as we move the jaw of a gnawing mammal that the front incizors are longest their chisel-like shape is suited for getting at particular kinds of food in their [Music] diets kangaroo rats eat seeds squirrels gnaw holes in the hard shells of nuts to get at the food [Music] inside but the most common foods for most gnawing mammals are shs grass and other [Music] plants some rodents will eat almost anything some eat berries some mushrooms and if you eat insects and other small [Music] animals whatever the rodents die each food Gathering trip is dangerous because most rodents are small there are always larger meat eaters around Hawks and Eagles thrive on rodents so do snakes and some medium-sized meat eating mammals [Music] too so the no mammals are usually secretive animals they stay close to home and that home is usually a place fairly safe from predators many like the woodchuck burrow in the ground so to prairie dogs who live together by the hundreds in enormous networks of tunnels many kinds of mice build their nests in Grass others like the packrat use grass and other materials to line their nests in rock [Music] crevices some take to the trees because of their sharp claws squirrels are well adapted for climbing and so many make homes in trees some in natural holes others in nests they construct of twigs and leaves some gnawing mammals smaller than squirrels like this deer mouse also live in trees so do larger ones like the porcupine fine unlike most rodents which depend upon Escape for survival the porcupine carries an effective defense around with [Applause] it muskrats and beavers build lodges in the water to keep out of the way of predators but eventually each animal must come up from its burrow or down from its tree or back to the shore for food and when it does it exposes itself to danger to help warn them of appro approaching danger the rodents have a number of Highly developed senses most depend upon extremely sensitive hearing to make them aware of danger others use their sense of smell few of them have very sharp Vision however like other mammals that are also prayed on by Meat heaters the Nars have eyes so placed that it's possible for them to see danger coming from almost any direction without moving their heads Darkness helps hide those that feed at [Music] night their large eyes and Keen sense of smell make it possible for them to maneuver in dim light Darkness hides them from some Hunters but not from from those that hunt in darkness most rodents that feed during the day are hidden by their small size and coloration some rodents use warning signals to tell others of danger prairie dog signal with a chirp likee bark that's why they're called prairie dogs beavers slap their tails on the water other beavers here this and dive below the surface for safety Chipmunks chirp a danger signal there are other adaptations that help protect them from predators chipmunks have special cheek pouches that can be stuffed with large amounts of food which reduces the number number of dangerous food Gathering trips food can then be taken home to be eaten or stored in safety the habit of putting food away for a later meal is more common among the gnawing mammals than among any other mammals except humans squirrels are well known for burying and hiding [Music] nuts whether they actually remember where they've hidden them or just sniff them out is [Music] questionable many nuts in the ground are forgotten and Sprout into trees pine squirrels gather cones packrats are great collectors that's where they get their [Music] name and the beavers cut twigs and saplings to take to their lodges they anchor these on bottoms of streams for use as food in the [Music] winter storing food makes it possible any of these small Plante eating animals to remain active during the cold months when food is normally scarce the rodents have learned to eat the food human store hundreds of Millions of dollars worth of crops are destroyed each year by [Music] rodents some rodents carry disease the spread of plagues has been blamed on the black rat most rodents reproduce quickly partly for this reason the gnawing mammals are important AIDS in scientific studies they're used in research on nutrition Behavior and [Music] medicine and they're even kept as [Music] pets if any one word could be used to describe the gnawing mammals it is [Music] successful they have managed to spread to and thrive in almost every part of our Earth from deserts to much colder [Music] climates some live in high mountains and some tunnel most of their lives beneath the ground only a few are fairly large for example the Capi Bara in South America May weigh 200 lb but most rodents are [Music] small in kinds and numbers however the mammals that gnaw far outnumber all the other mammals on our [Music] Earth no no um that was a uh kind of serendipitous thing the sperm footage and then revealing that it was rabbit footage and then having that film lined up um sometimes that happens it's like oh I could show this film great great uh let's see uh you know we've been scanning a bunch of cornet films and so here is our basic civil rights and I don't know if there's any people of color in this film I think it's Lily White um which a lot of cornet films were of the time anyways our basic civil rights [Music] enjoy [Music] will you step forward please this kind of case I'm glad to say doesn't often come to my court an injunction has been asked against this man who was was peacefully Distributing hand bills a great deal of authority a great deal of responsibility is placed in our police and in our judges this Authority can be misused I'm glad that a system of civil rights has been established by our citizens to protect all individuals an injunction would be a clear infringement of this man's rights under law Mr cleric dismiss the complaint for injunction in this cause for want of equity here ye here ye here you this honorable branch of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County is hereby adjourned your honor uh your honor these young people have been waiting to see you they're from the high school well what can I do here your honor I'm Harry Andrews and this is Ellen Jackson how do you do this is Jeffrey Moore hello Jeff we're to make a report on civil rights and Well we'd like to talk to you about civil rights he oh get me my portfolio on civil rights with you friend here sit down sit down I saw you sitting in the courtroom this afternoon we were very interested in that last case sir because it concerns civil rights well yes but wait suppose you tell me just what are civil rights they include freedom of speech freedom of the press and freedom of conscience we know they're fundamental to our way of life and most of them are found in the first 10 amendments to the Constitution uh sometimes referred to as the Bill of Rights they say that we're entitled to such rights as life liberty property Fair trial and and citizenship and a lot more and that they can't be denied to anyone and some of those rights are found in earlier documents such as the Declaration of Independence and I I guess you can find people trying to do something about them all through history well isn't there any more to it than that well let's see in this portfolio I keep a record of what I consider to be the most important aspects of our rights civil rights civil rights defend the individual they are interrelated they are defended by ensuring them to others could could you explain those judge Copeland civil rights defend the individual now just what does that mean you know individuals sometimes need protection from private groups or other individuals or even from a hostile majority and sometimes from the government itself now our rights are organized to provide protection where protection is most needed here let me show you this freedom to speak worship print and assemble and freedom to petition the government when you think you've been wronged and to bear arms no Force quartering of soldiers or Searchers and seizures without a warrant your life liberty or property cannot be taken from you without due process of law the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury the right not to be tried again on the same charge once you've been acquitted no excessive bail and fines are cruel and unusual punishments and our Bill of Rights also mentions that any other rights not mentioned are reserved to the people or the states where they live well now some of the later amendments had something to do with rights too didn't they well yes they do these are the original rights that make up our Bill of Rights the others follow more or less from them judge Copeland what about the trial you said it had something to do with civil rights indeed it did if you'll think back you'll find that civil rights were at work in today's case Mr Smith charged that the defendant Nixon was causing a public disturbance by passing out election hand bills on the street Corner Nixon appeared in court our law permits him to appear before a court with all reasonable speed this is one of the important rights guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution Nixon protested that he was being denied the right of freedom of the press as you know I denied the complaint for injunction but suppose that Nixon had been charged with violating a statute of this state dealing with the distribution of hand bills suppose that we had tried Nixon for violating that law then still more civil rights would have come to his protection something called due process of law which we might say includes being informed of the nature and cause of the charges having the right to assistance of a lawyer to defend you having the right to enjoy an open trial by an impartial jury being confronted by Witnesses against you and being allowed to present Witnesses in your favor and should you be convicted the right to appeal your case to a higher Court civil rights defend the individual we're so used to enjoying civil rights we're likely to forget how it would be without them try and picture how this trial might be run in a country where there there are no civil rights what are the charges officer this man was passing out election hand bills and littering up the streets trying to influence our elections eh your honor regarding uh elections I think you are not allowed to think about things that are contrary to the public good but your honor I merely wanted to express my opinion the very idea of an individual expressing his opinion publicly about things related to elections you not only expressed your thoughts you put them in print well your honor may I present Witnesses of course not may I ask for a trial by jury and a lawyer to defend me certainly not there is no defense the court finds you guilty do you see what I mean without civil rights your life liberty property could be taken away from you on a mere whim I'm glad that wasn't the way the trial actually took place civil rights make that much difference yes civil rights defend the individual and here's another important point about them and about the trial you saw civil rights are interrelated now let's suppose again that Nixon were on trial for violating a state law now of course our aim would be to give a fair trial after all this is one of the man's civil rights but how could it be given suppose the witness had not been allowed to talk or for that matter suppose the lawyer were not allowed to speak freely in the man's defense could a fair trial have been achieved D no the more you study civil rights the more you will see that these rights depend upon one another they are interrelated once you have gained one right the others are more easily achieved do you mean judge Copeland that in order to pass out those handbills this man had to have all these rights of course enen and that's got to be in our report oh no it doesn't even if it's true the class w't understand it no I won't let you put it in that's now wait a minute here Order in the Court what's this third Point here civil rights are defended by ensuring them to others what does that mean each of you especially Jeff here seems to want to deny the others the right to State their opinions in this report that you're writing but don't you see if one of you forces the others to be silent there's a possibility that somebody stronger or with more Authority will come along and force you to be silent did you ever think of that Jeff if we all agree that each one has equal rights to State his opinion then that danger doesn't exist I see by protecting the rights of other people we're really protecting our own exactly that's why we must constantly be on guard if we are to keep our civil rights in good working condition we must work to understand protect and extend them extend them judge cin yes our civil rights are growing we've already achieved some goals but there's a great deal more to be gained and worth gaining think how often civil rights plays a part in your everyday lives and ask yourself if you are helping to understand protect and broaden them do you you always respect other people's right to have their own opinion no matter how wrong it may seem to get together with others and say what they think to be able to write and print what they believe even if you disagree with it do you always respect others rights to property Liberty life the rights of every member of the community these rights and many others need to be understood stood protected and extended to every citizen and each one of us can play an important part in supporting these rights our civil rights are always in danger we may lose them unless you and every good citizen takes an active part in guaranteeing them here's something you can do be informed remember the Civil Rights we have find out what these rights are know them recognize them know how they operate be vigilant learn how these rights may be protected and how they may be abused finally discuss civil rights help to inform other people for it is only by a mutual understanding and supporting of civil rights that we can enjoy their benefits oh boy all right so my microphone flaked just what's crazy is like I was watching it the whole time and then it was just as the VN came up and then it flaked out I'm like a anyhow we're working on it working on trying to find a new solution I have a lot of different pieces of Hardware that I could try and see and I don't know if it's an OS issue or Os or OBS issue or the microphone itself is beginning to crap out so many things to think about um yeah that was great I that last film was awesome I love films from 1950 because they're they're looking back at post-war they're looking at the fact that we fought um a World War because of despotic government and uh being aware of the fact that the United States could fall into a despotic situation um we don't know anything about that but um anyways uh let's see let's watch behind me I have a film scanner and I have a film set up on it and it is I don't know what this is about but it's um that's weird it says uh yeah I don't know what's going on with this uh take two from the sea enjoy [Music] [Music] this is sound roll number 14 wild sound effects for leaving the docks and heading out into the channel That voice you just heard belongs to David the one with a beard and a stubborn look in his eye he's my sound man and that's me Bart we're making a film and it's called take two twoo from the sea it All Began back in Hollywood the biggies at Universal Studios wanted to talk to Bart and me about making a movie since they refused to discuss the project over the phone we could only assume that it was big really big Bart politely asked me to wait outside while he clinched the deal he claimed that I looked unprofessional and potentially shift fart has such a nice way of putting things Hollywood isn't a bad place to be you can always find a familiar face when Bart walked outside I knew instantly that the project was something beyond our wildest imaginations and it was our assignment clams and oyster ERS at least they gave us a big fancy camera van to travel around in since we knew nothing about clams and even less about oysters we had no idea where to look for them with a little research we discovered that clams and oysters are found wherever salt and freshwater mix in bays and estuaries on all coasts of the United States so we started our search up the West Coast hey Bart yeah have you ever thought of the possible number of other things we could be making this film about we're Notting we're not getting money to shoot other things Highwire acts lady wrestlers oh yeah I thought about it you know but we got paid to make this film okay well I want you to know really that the only reason I'm doing this is for the money David I had no Illusions about why you're in this film I thought maybe our friendship might enter into it our partnership movies move clams and oysters don't move they lay right on the bottom they don't move from the time they're born you know something David you will pay for this abuse you'll pay as long as I don't have to eat any oysters you will be up to your neck and oysters right up for the neck David well Bart was right about that we really got into it at least Bart did there were so many oysters on the flats that you could hardly move without stepping on them but just as I predicted the oysters were just lying [Applause] there walking around on those Flats was kind of rough but the same oysters I was stepping over that morning turned out to be a lot easier to harvest later that day at high tide what kind of oysters can we find on the west coast well on the west coast we have both the Olympia and Pacific oysters the Olympia oyster is an oyster native to this country um origin way back in the beginning of of time our Pacific oyster is a an oyster that was first brought into our country in the early 20s uh of a Japanese origin this dredge that we're going out to now is is a dredge that is harvesting Pacific oysters Pacific oysters right you give me an idea how the uh how the dredge Works how it actually functions to get the oysters well it actually acts like a big vacuum sweeper it just lifts the oysters up off the bottom onto a conveyor belt the conveyor brings them on up to the surface transfering them to a barge we can Harvest with the two men approximately a th000 bush an hour when a well bad that sounds like a lot of oysters and it is but that was Pacific Oysters next we saw Olympia oysters which are much smaller they're considered quite a delicacy shucking them is easy when you know how Olympia oysters are usually grown in Oyster dkes which are nothing but big man-made tide pools what do the dyes do well the dyes provide protection from the extremes of heat and coal like a cushion of protection of water at low tide see further up the coast we found another way to farm oysters raft culture in this method they grow oysters on strings which are hung from rafts because the oysters are stacked on top of each other like apartments in a high-rise building you can grow a lot more oysters in a smaller area and because the oysters are floating in the Plankton Zone they get more food this makes them grow faster and [Music] larger even the son of an oyster farmer has to work up his courage before he can down his first raw oyster that confirmed all my suspicions Having learned all we could about west coast oysters we set out to investigate clams the next day part figured he could do his preliminary research best from the back of a [Music] speedboat [Applause] [Music] we finally located some clams on a nearby Beach I figured I could learn the most about West Coast clams from a man who really knows what clams are all about clams look different from oysters but they're both by Valve shellfish the generic name for them is mollusk this looks like a good spot we'll try right here for some of our clamps now what's the green stuff that's the Eel Grass that I'm Shoveling off I can get down from the clams are this gravel we've got the butter clams little necks hard shells today we have about a minus one ft tide what's this well that's a cockle now those are good eating all the clams are very excellent eating but a cockle is a little bit strong so we always use that in chowder we run it through a meat grinder and make it into chowder that's a little neck that's a good one here's another one that's a butter clam there that's a good steamer well here's another larger butter clam we'll use that for clam chowder oh do clams make pearls too well they make a pearl but it's a very irregular Pearl and not good in color you have to have an oyster to make a real pearl that you can sell on the market say that one that'll make a good eating we just got about enough in the bucket there for a good mess for you and I those clams were really terrific digging your own makes them taste even better but there's more than one way to get a clam people who harvest clams for a living use more efficient methods like the oyster dredge we saw earlier this clam dredge uses Jets of water to stir up the bottom and lift the clams onto a conveyor belt when I heard about this process I was skeptical but it turns out the dredges don't hurt the bottom they find all sorts of clams on the west coast Gaper clams cockal razor clams butter clams and guoy Ducks guy ducks are the largest and one of the most popular West Coast clams since they sort the clams by size the men have to make several decisions a [Music] second [Music] the next day we shipped all our exposed film back to Hollywood set a little prayer and headed across the Rockies to our next location the Gulf [Music] Coast the first thing we had to get used to on the Gulf Coast was the pace of life down here oysters are the big thing on the Gulf Coast David was still curious about why people go for oysters so he decided to find out for himself don't look at that camera yeah you like oysters yeah love them love oysters you like big oysters or small oysters any kind fried any any way that raw prefer do you like oysters I love oysters certainly what do you like about I just love oh the freshness when they're nice and salty especially that's one they the best what kind of oysters do you like all kinds you mean you even like them raw right you like raw oysters right I eat oysters do you you like them yeah how come cuz they taste good well my father forced me to eat them your father forced you to eat them well yeah he said that you know they really are good and you ought to try them you know I didn't want to so he said try it so I said okay and I really like them then what about when you eat oysters how many oysters do you eat at one time about at least a dozen probably the most we ever had was about 10 dozen 10 dozen yeah you sat down an 8 10 dozen oysters at one time at one time I could eat three three I just talked to a man that could eat six dozen six dozen six dozen and then you can walk around uh ripping doors off and stuff like that after you eat that many oysters it all depends on the individual yeah yeah you know what is that true I mean you know what what's all this talk about oysters oysters do believe oysters has a tendency to build within themselves you know build what build their nature up uh let's get more specific uh what nature uh uh mother nature mother nature you mean it's make you make you stronger man right right right I don't believe that you know I've heard the same thing a 100 times but I don't believe it it's true do you like oysters yeah I like oysters how come because uh they're good to eat they're tasty if you don't like them you don't like them and if you you'll get used to them probably I don't think you can get used to an oyster uh you either like it after you've tried it or you don't I don't know got used to them they're okay now I think they were good oh yeah I love the T they're really good they taste very good I just love them I like them the last person we interviewed turned out to be something of an expert she said that if we really wanted to find out what oysters are all about we'd have to try them ourselves David had certain reservations sure I had reservations there's an old saying he who ate the first raw oyster was a brave man and I am not a brave man Jean was a walking oyster encyclopedia and fart was really soaking it up it was nice to meet a girl who was so well informed oysters it turns out are a very healthy food she told us that they're high in protein and low in calories they're in a class with milk a half dozen oysters on the half shell for example contain only about 70 calories both oysters and clams give you a good supply of iron and vitamins oysters are full of all sorts of goodies that the body needs that you don't get from most other Foods funny I never knew Bart was so interested in nutrition and the great thing about it all is that there are so many ways to prepare them meanwhile the Moment of Truth had arrived for me for some people oysters take a little getting used to fortunately David's UNC reaction didn't keep Jean and me from enjoying a terrific dinner the next day Bart planned to shoot a local oyster boat and we headed out into the Bayou Country hey Bart this is at least the 10th time we've been over this bridge very is pretty Bridge isn't it Dave look I think it's a good idea to go out and shoot a clam barge I think it's really a fine thing for this film at the same time I think it would be nice if we knew where we were going follow the water there's water here there's water there's water all over this place haven't you been looking around set a tall stand of trees next to a sign for watch it next to a sign why don't you look at your map there find it on the map come on give me a break the map's not going to help us and it's not a clamb boo Dave it's an oyster Barn there are no CL just keep driving please trust me I will get you there how he got us there is another story it was hotter than a steamed clam so Bart rented a portable fan we do everything first class [Music] [Music] young oysters are harvested so they can be transplanted in a less crowded bed where they'll grow better Gul coast oysters are the same type east coast oysters but since the water is warmer in the Gulf the oysters mature in 2 years instead of three normally oysters grow about an inch a year because the water is low in Salt the clams and oysters here taste sweeter less salty that makes sense at first Bart told me there were no clams down here but he was wrong again on the eastern part of the gulf they scoop up Venus Sunray clams while we were shooting David started picking up a a strange sound on his earphones at first Dave thought it was another airboat but it turned out to be a state inspector flying in to check the dredging operation in every state where clams and oysters are harvested there's a government organization that regulates the [Music] industry spection like a lot of the other oystermen around here the skipper is of slavonian descent how's your oysters running conis skinny Max going to be beding from natural SE when it opens up yeah we going to bet a few for one month these inspectors do a lot to help the oystermen they control the Harvest to prevent depletion of the oyster beds they inspect the waters where shellfish grow to make sure that it's clean and they supervise the planning of oyster shells on which young oysters grow we found out how that was done several times a year barges loaded with several tons of empty oyster shells are towed out to the bays and the shells are scattered overboard there's a method to this madness young oyster larv are are swimming around in the water and they need something to latch on to in order to grow the empty shells called cultch provide the best home for the young oysters if we didn't give oysters this helping hand they'd probably have an even tougher time surviving sailing back to Port I began to realize how many people go to a lot of trouble to make sure that oysters survive I guess they must be worth it maybe I really hadn't given them a chance that evening we headed up to the East Coast where people have been eating clams and oysters for hundreds of years one of the oldest ways to gather clams is by raking for them in shallow water but finding a clam raker wasn't as easy as we expected who said it was going to be easy I I think there's got to be another way to get out here B no no I I think this is it I I couldn't find any other way does the guy get out here this way yeah the same way if I could you oh he didn't come out this way he does this every day little further and we'll find him we'll find him hi all right fart don't hang on to me let's try to play this straight try to play it straight I play it just fine hi how you doing uh my name is Bart and uh this is David Hi and um well what we're doing is uh we're we're making a film about clams and oysters uh if you wouldn't mind we just like to take some footage what you're doing is that okay go ahead right ahead well that's great ready Dave sure turn it on da okay boss some say the early settlers stayed close to the coast because they depended on clams and oysters to keep them alive during the long hard Winters standing there in our present condition the icy waters swirling about our knees it was easy to imagine what those Winters must have been like so we vowed that from now on we would film clams under drier circumstances the driest boat we could find was the soft clam clam dredge most soft clams are taken in Northern New England in the Chesapeake Bay some people call them Steamers soft clams are easy to spot because their necks stick out beyond their shells riding up the East Coast we ran across another dredge this one was harvesting hard clamps since they get clams of all sizes out here they are sorted by size as they come up out of the water later on that day we found out more about the different sizes of clams and what they're used for the nice thing about digging your own clams is that you really work up an appetite that way so they tell me testing 1 2 3 testing 1 2 3 testing testing hello [Applause] hello hi how you doing hi listen uh you're not going to believe this but we're taking some pictures and we' like to take some pictures of you and talk to you is that all right yes it is great well here's what we'll do how about if you look right over there at that guy if you look at him he won't bite y'all set Bart yeah okay go along the edge of the shore here I believe there'd probably be a lot of different kinds of clams right yes there's quite a few different kinds you want to tell me what they are yes you can find a Little Neck that's this one small one yes then the Cherry Stone the next in size all right and the Chow clam Chow clam's a big guy the larger one yes if if people are going to eat this little tiny one this Little Neck how would they eat it uh raw and how about this uh how about this one you call the Cherry Stone raw and steamed and this one uh in chowa the big one's in chowder clamp yes okay thank you very much okay cut by this time I thought i' had seen every kind of clam there was but there turned out to be yet another kind the surf clam using electronic depth recorders to find them this surf clam dredge can scoop up clams when the ocean is 200 ft deep operating 30 Mi off the Atlantic coast this area is noted for its waves called slow rollers it takes about 20 minutes to fill the dredge and in the meantime there's nothing to do but lie around and try not to think about the slow rollers these were the biggest clams we'd seen yet they must use them for chowder for once David was right they do use them to make chowder and minced [Applause] clams people have been studying clams and oysters for a long time but as we found out at a marine laboratory there's always a lot more to learn what kind of work are you doing bar we're studying reproduction of oysters in the laboratory reproduction then you have different sexes in here yes there are male and female oysters in this tank uh in the spring of the year the female release their eggs into the water and the male release their sperms and fertilization occurs what's the movement I see in there well what you're probably seeing are laral oysters that uh have arrived on the shell after several weeks of development through laral stages in the water and we refer to them as spat well what happens to them do they all grow up oh no uh very few of those will survive as a matter of fact only two or three of them will actually develop into a full- grown oyster on that shell well how do you tell the difference between males and females telling a male from a female oyster is a very difficult thing to do as a matter of fact an individual oyster such as any one of these could change its sex several times in its lifetime change an oyster's lot is not a happy one besides the problems of changing its sex from time to time an oyster has several natural enemies starfish can wipe out hundreds of Acres of clams and oysters the starfish just pry open the shell and suck out the clams and oysters the drill as you might have guessed actually drills a hole in the Shell to get at its victim it figures that these Predators must be very fond of clams and oysters since they go to such lengths to get them with all these Predators oysters need help to survive hatcheries are designed to do just that the hatcheries do something they call aquaculture which is a $3 word for oyster farming what they do is experiment to find new ways to grow oysters like growing them on plastic sheets once the oysters are old enough to fend for themselves they are planted in oyster beds a few months ago I would have been surprised to see that they still use sailboats to get oysters but nothing surprises me anymore Bart said that I was going to be up to my neck in clams and oysters and he was right [Music] [Music] [Music] la [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] when we got back to Hollywood Bart hit on the terrific idea of having a clam bake kind of a promotional gig for the film we needed to pick up a few things at the supermarket I had no idea you could just go to the market and get clams and oysters it's amazing what a variety of forms they come in yeah and they're so easy to fix even David can do it with all the new methods of packaging clams and oysters you can buy them any month of the year there's an old myth that you shouldn't eat oysters in a month that has an r in it but that's not true anymore in cans you can get steamed clams oyster bisque oyster stew New England clam chowder and Manhattan clam chowder Frozen you can get breaded clams breaded oysters oysters mouret oysters Rockefeller and clams casino and of course you can get them fresh at the seafood counter fresh oysters and fresh clams there that should just about do [Music] it [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] when we finished the film The Big Shots at the studio we very happy with it they called us back because they had an even bigger project for us to tack I knew that this time it was something big really big like well like whales [Music] whales so we're going to talk about whale farming and whale harvesting and they're going to have whale bakes um what a fascinating film that was I had no idea what that film was going to be uh it came from excuse me a community college at the coast of North Carolina so that's where the other films about Nets and about uh learning kns came from but yeah about shellfish um fascinating and the take on it was just so weird like all right we're going to do this boring film about uh oysters and clams and we're going to admit that it's boring right up front uh with one of the characters uh and then we're going to make it about these personalities and about whether or not Bart will eat oysters uh and then they both learned to love shellfish uh me not a fan not a fan but um I am a fan of you guys watching and tuning in and we both kind of premiered that together in the 21st century we were there together watching that and we can look back fondly and say remember that time that we watched that film with uh Bart and that other guy uh and they travel across the country to film shellfish farming harvesting anyways if you like what you saw or at least like the concept of what we're doing here gives us a thumbs up or a like or a subscribe you can also go to ko-fi.com avgeeks or patreon.com avgeeks those are great ways to support us um tomorrow I'm doing a show a live show besides doing the streaming show here I'm also doing a live show at the Alamo in Raleigh um we're doing those excruciating 1980s and uh right now we've sold out there's no seats left but if you always check like two hours before you might see that there's some free seats because sometimes people can't make it so keep an eye out um and we will be doing a show in may as well but thanks again for tuning in I appreciate your eyeballs and we'll be back tomorrow on Tuesday everybody take care bye