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The podcast hosts claim that since they started their show, several positive changes have occurred in the world. They mention that cigarette smoking in North America has dropped to its lowest level since 1965, global suicide rates have dropped by 38%, democracy is more widespread, young people are more optimistic, prison rates in the US are at their lowest in 20 years, and voter turnout in American elections has increased. They also discuss a study about ants trapped in a bunker who resorted to cannibalism and created an ant ladder to escape. Lastly, they mention a hiker who was killed by a falling redwood tree in California. The following program is for adult audiences only. This is Life Right Now. Are you ready? Find and like us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Things about us before we get into the news of the day. I just want to say a couple of things that have happened. We're entering season three and I want to just say the show now going into its third year, there's some things that have happened since we started the show. We got into it a little bit last night, but there's things around the world that are undeniably different since Gordon and I started podcasting. A couple things. Cigarette smoking in North America has dropped to its lowest level since 1965, since you and I started podcasting. There you go. Saving smoking from all over the world. Right? Here's the thing. Now, is it connected? I can't say it's not. Ever since Gordon and I started this show, global suicide rates have dropped by 38%. That's just since they were massively, they were 38% higher before we started doing this show. Is there a link? Prove there isn't. I don't know. I'm not saying there's a link. I'm just saying it makes sense that since Gordon and I started this show, democracy is more widespread than ever. Now, six in ten countries are democratic. They weren't before me and Gordon. That actually makes the most sense of anything. Does it make the most sense? Yeah. A global survey shows that since, actually since our first year, young people are now more optimistic than adults for the first time in years. Because the young kids are blaming the adults for everything. Realizing they're all fucking fault of the whole thing. Since Eric and Gordon started being right, since we started being right about things, the proportion of people being sent to prison in the United States is at its lowest rate in 20 years. Wow. And 65% of our listeners are in the U.S. 65% of our listeners are in the U.S. And more people have voted in American elections than ever before since we've been doing this show. Hmm. Should that have something to do with it? Is it Trump or is it us? You, you, you, you know. I'm just putting the dots out there. It's for you guys to connect them. Gordon and I bitch about gun safety quite a bit, especially recently. 67 new gun safety bills have been signed into law since you and I started this show. Oh, wow. Now, are they listening? Or were they going to do that anyway? That's not for me to tell you. But I'm going to tell you something. I'm just telling you. The world seems to be a much better place since Gordon and I started this podcast. State-based conflicts are down 32% since we started this. You know, the war is down 32% since we started this. Interesting. Gordon and I have been saying that the movement in the Middle East has to be dealt with differently. And since Gordon and I started saying that, 80% fewer Iraqis have died. That's just a fact. That's amazing. Gordon and I said things have to be done differently over there. And a year later, they're being done differently over there. Is it just a coincidence? Probably. Who knows? I don't know, but the world is better because of Eric and Gordon. That's right. I'm saying you could listen to Eric and Gordon, or you could be miserable for the rest of your life. I'm not going to tell you what to do. But I am going to tell you what to do. That's what we do. It's interesting to me. You know, I just like that the world is better. Pearl Jam hasn't put out an album in seven years. Everyone thought they were done. Everyone said they're not doing an album. I announced that we're doing a third season in March. All of a sudden, there's a new Pearl Jam album in March. Weird. Strange. Right? These things happen while we're on the air. That's all I'm saying. Do you think these things happen? I guarantee you probably wouldn't know it if they did. Not you, Gordon. I'm talking to the world. Yeah, of course. Number one news source in North America right now. The only credible news source in North America in the last two going on three years. Poison the ants. We have to help the poison ants. Oh, no. Because these ants, which have been trapped in there for years upon years, but they survived. Can you tell me what they're doing to these new ants? No. Well, they're cannibals now. Oh, of course. So they went from wood ants to being cannibals. And they found... What the fuck is the number here? Upwards of, like, two million ant corpses. Who's the poor fucking intern who had to count those? Oh, I know. That's just it. Ant corpses. What? They examined the two million or so ant corpses left behind. Abdominal holes and other signs of bite injuries were found in 93% of the corpses. That's hilarious. And they ended up, the ants ended up creating a... Basically an ant ladder. So that they could get out through a hole in the ceiling, which is how they all got in there in the first place. As soon as they walked by this hole, they just fell right in. They created a dead ant ladder? No, a live ant ladder. Oh, okay. Yeah, they made an ant root leading up a wall. They made it just under the ceiling where the ants dispersed. Now, see, if they could do the ant ladder to get their freedom, why wasn't that the decision before the aliens cannibalized 93% of us? It just makes me think that they were planning that. We could crawl to freedom right now, or... This coffee over here looks kind of tasty. I mean, it was good and all, but I've always wondered... I wonder what we'd taste like. Seriously, we could just form a ladder and get out of here right now using our bodies. Or, now hear me out. Just hang on a minute. When we get out of here, there could be a lot less of us. And a lot more wood for you and me, if you know what I'm saying. I've got an idea. Yes. Now, do you want to know why that decision was made, by the way? I can tell you why. Why the ants made that decision? Yes. How do we know why ants made a decision? Because this next fact I'm going to tell you will answer that question. Oh, God. The colony's population was growing fast, but not because of reproductive activity. There was no queen, no eggs, or cocoons ever seen anywhere in the bunker. How did you think? Okay. Which meant that they kept falling through the opening in the roof from the outside. They were building their ant ladder to crawl out of. Right. All those ants kept falling in. Sure. So the reason why this decision was made, there was no woman to say, are you guys fucking stupid? Build a ladder. I get it. Let's get woodsy, and she'd go up there, and they're like, oh. Woodsy. You don't pick cannibalism over form a ladder and get out of here right now. By mistake. By mistake. That's not, like, they didn't just stupid their way into that decision. That was a conscious decision on their part. I'm sorry. You know, cannibalism is never plan B. We only have two options. Do the very simple thing that we're going to do anyway, or eat most of us, and then do the very simple thing that we're going to do anyway. No. Sorry. They did that on purpose. That was planned. Especially 93%, all but 7% had bite marks. You didn't get through 93% before you realized, no way, we didn't have to do this at all. Guys, we got to stop. It won't be enough for the ladder. Fuck. We're going to be short. We're going to be short. God damn it. That's okay. There's probably a group walking by right about now. Whoop, there they go. Someone put a fucking red circle around that hole already? There's two billion of us. I mean, that's just, like, that's just the dead ones. You still got a few alive ones that have survived. So you still got another, whatever, 7% of two billion is. Like, you'd think at some point one of them would be like, hey, where'd everybody go? Hey, where'd everybody go? Someone should put a pylon out or something. It's worked by scent trails. Yeah. So you think when you're walking and that scent just ends, somebody would stop and be like, hey, you ought to have been. So what happened here? I don't know. I think I see a sequel to A Bug's Life being written right now by me. A Bug's Life is short and delicious. I don't know. That's just ridiculous. That's a great story. Wow. Oh, wow. There's going to be some really expensive wine available soon. Is it made out of cannibal ants? Northern California in the Muir Woods National Monument Park. A hiker was killed by a toppling over redwood tree, a giant redwood. Oh, my God. Now think about this. This is a 200 foot tall tree measuring four feet in diameter. And this guy managed to get hit by it. Now, I'm not saying anything by this, but the guy's name is Subreddedeep Dutta. Oh, no. Subreddedeep Dutta, my friend, I know you've passed on. But, um... Dude, seriously? You couldn't get out of the way of a 200 foot fucking falling tree? That's got a base of four feet? That's, uh... That's fine. You literally have to step two steps to the side and you're out of its way. Now, four feet! That's a good healthy base on a tree, I will say. I mean, you hear it. You know it's coming. That doesn't sneak up on you. It only falls one way. I used to do arborists. I worked for an arborist very, very briefly. But I know that, like, if it falls one way, you just stand on the other side, you're fine. It doesn't matter how big it is. That's just... I don't know, man. Like, come on. Tree card alert! Tree card alert! Um, yeah. Those are back for a little while. And it happened in daylight. It was 4.30 in the afternoon. I just hope he wasn't, like, a super, like, environmentalist. Save the trees, dude. And he got taken out by a tree. And that is... Can you say his name again for me? Yeah, hang on. His full name is... That is not... That's an ethnic-ass name. You don't... Absolutely. Wow. H-R-A-D-E-E-T. That's Subraheep... Subraheep Duta. That's one of those names. That's, like, serious. It's not one of those... You don't think... There's some ethnic names that can be sort of white. That is not one. Like Andre? You can... No, no, I think black guys pretty much have the market on Andre, but it could go either way. Yeah. Sub... Subraheep. Subraheep. That's... Subraheep. You know what? Yeah. Two guys that are very, very... Always on complete opposite ends of the spectrum intellectually. Sorry for your loss. Family of Subraheep. See, Sub, what... Again, I hate to do this, but I just find it humorous, but he was with somebody at the time, and the woman was injured by falling debris, was taken to hospital, but, yeah. She couldn't say, hey, move? Right? I mean... Yeah. He was impaled by, like, one of the branches? Sure. But this guy legit got hit by the tree itself. Subraheep, heads up! Maybe heads up in their language means something else. I don't know. But they're from Minnesota, and... They're from Minnesota, and they were visiting California, and, yeah. Motherfucker got smoked by a 200-foot-tall tree with a 4-foot diameter base. I can tell you the first problem. Hmm. Minnesota is not one of the states on our list. There it is. First problem right there. They are not one of the 28 who listen to Eric and Gord, and therefore, anyone who listens to Eric and Gord, what if we're right, knows to get the hell out of the way of a 4-foot-fucking-falling tree. Yeah, you hear a cracking of a 4-foot-diameter tree. No, for those that don't know, for the bottom half, that's 4 feet across, not around. That's 4 feet across. That probably didn't... It probably wasn't, like, snap, boom. You know? It takes a long time for 4 feet of wood to crack. And it's 200 feet tall. Like, that's a lot of shit. It probably cracked for a good long time, and he was standing up going, I don't know, what? What is that? What's going on? Why is this weird shape coming at me? I don't know. This tree is making all kinds of weird noises. No, I'm going to keep looking up and see what's going on up there. Maybe it's a woodpecker. You know, and of everything else, I love the comments, because one of the things that the thing says is that it is an extremely, a very rare, isolated event. I certainly hope so. Here's the first thing. The first guy's comment, this is what he says, he puts that quote. So this is a very rare and isolated event. He goes, actually, 100 people a year die from falling trees. Rare, yes. Okay, now hang on. You used your first statement, 100 people a year die from falling trees. You've got 300 and how many million people in the US? Roughly. About 10 times Canada. It's about 300. 10 times the size of our entire country's population. And 100 of them die a year from falling trees. Now, out of that 100, how many of these idiots are still holding on to the chainsaw? Yeah, exactly. So when you break this down to how often it's actually like somebody being killed by an actual tree collapsing under its own accord, it probably comes down to like four a year. Yeah, I'm going to ask Google a question here and see, and I don't want this to end up like our people dying in a cemetery episode. But I know that was pretty funny, though. And actually, I just listened to it the other day, that's why it came to mind. It is quite funny. But I just want to see what else kills 100 people a year. I'll be looking for that, just so you know. In June of 2018, a 14-year-old Boy Scout from Texas was killed by a falling tree during a camping trip in Georgia. Okay, bee stings kill 100 people a year. Bee stings kill 100 people a year, okay. That's one. Champagne corks kill 24 people a year. Really? Champagne? You don't have to dine from that. That's absurd. There is less... Okay, here's what this is. How likely are you to be killed by a shark? Well, one person every two years is killed by a shark. 25 things more likely to kill you. Now, four-foot trees, I don't know if they're on this list, but traffic lights. Traffic lights are responsible for 2,000 deaths a year in the U.S. Has there been, like, a traffic light falling on somebody? No, no. It's a combination of people running them and them falling, just any traffic light-related incident. Now, here's one. Here's one. Here's one. More common than the tree there. Falling coconuts kill 150 Americans a year. Now, here's what you and I are quite fond of. This isn't in America, this is worldwide, but mosquitoes kill 800,000 people every year. Yeah, that's still huge. And it's all from, like, one town, I think. Yeah, it was one... It was one country, like, Burma or some shit. Yeah. Football injuries kill 12 people per year. Tripping and falling, 6,000 deaths per year. Raw meat. Here's the country where you're allowed to ask for your burger to be medium rare. 5,000 people a year in the U.S. die from consuming raw meat. That's amazing. You know, blue steak. Yeah. Now, in response to that, cows kill 20 Americans every year. So I guess that means that those deaths, it must be from people eating, like, raw meat. That must be, like, chicken. I don't know. It just says raw meat. Number 10 on the list. 104 people are killed by wind. I'm sorry? Wind. Wind, as in W-I-N-D, wind? W-I-N-D, wind. 104 people. That includes hurricanes and tornadoes. Hmm. I guess. But nobody's killed by the wind. They're killed from something hitting them. Horses kill 20 people a year in America. The cold kills 600 in America alone every year. Ladders. Most of that's in Florida when it hits plus 10. Ladders. 355. Oh, wow. Hot tap water. Oh, come on. Kills 100 people a year in the U.S. So you have just as much a chance of dying from hot tap water as you do from a falling fucking redwood tree. Now, I, I, oh, here we go. Dogs kill 30 Americans a year. Hmm. One for you and I. Now, we know better because we've done almost a whole episode on this. Ants kill 50 people every year. I wonder how much that is for one person, and the other person goes in to rescue them, and they become succumbed to the pressure. Oh, my God. I didn't even believe this was actually possible in real life. Hmm. Falling icicles kill 15 people per year in the U.S. That surprises me. I thought that number would have been higher. Now, this... That actually surprises me. This is amazing, but the cutest animal in the world, and this is not America, this is worldwide, but hippopotamuses, hippopotami, claim the lives of 2,900 people a year. Wow. So, you're just... A guy who commented on, on Sander B. Berdyberdyb's death got 29 times better chance of being killed by a hippo than by what buddy died from there. So, it's, it's... To say it's common, no, 29 times more common to be killed by a hippo than a four-foot, 200-foot-tall tree. And, and just to, just to give one more thing just to relate this more to America as well. On Friday, Baltimore broke the annual per capita homicide record after reaching 342 killings on Friday. So, you have three and a half times more likely of being killed in Baltimore walking down the street than you do about getting killed by a falling tree. So, in other words, get out there and hike in the forest and avoid Baltimore. Right. Now, here's one just in the United States. 450 people per year, every year, die by falling out of bed. And... Those are seniors. My favorite, which is, oh, by the way, one that you'll love, 24,000 people worldwide every year are killed by lightning. Holy shit! That's really high. And now, my favorite, as many as 1,000 per year. This is 1,000 people per year die trying this. Now, how many are trying it for that number to be so high? Autoerotic asphyxiation. Shit. That's awesome. Thank you. What's the least favorite VaynerX fast? What's his name? Oh, Jesus. Michael Hutchinson? Yeah. Michael Hutchinson? Thank you, Michael Hutchinson. You made it popular. That's great. Jesus Christ! And here's the... Brian Gumbel sitting there. Not that this guy looks like Brian Gumbel. But, just stunned. And the whole country is stunned. Well, not the whole... Who knows where anything goes on in Oklahoma. So, all of Oklahoma was stunned. And then this went on. It just obviously went viral, because that's what things do. And that's a good thing now. I don't get that. Going viral is good. And chlamydia should be fantastic, but not so much. Uh, anyway. This guy, this white, very white... Talk about a flip of the tongue. Jesus. She's apologizing now. He is being the bigger man going, look, she just made a mistake. We've been friends for years. She doesn't need it. This is just a teachable moment to teach that words matter. Hey, fucker! In the 21st century, you don't go to turn into a black man and say he looks like a monkey is wrong? Society's not right for you. Yeah, but they're friends. It's okay. We're live in Salt Lake. Yeah, it's okay to say that at your fucking house behind closed doors. It's not live on the fucking air. Exactly. But it's so much funnier that way. Well, of course it's funny. But just because it's funny doesn't mean you... I mean, this is coming from me. I'll say anything, and I... Listen to our show, and the things we say on it, and you think they're insensitive to human matters. What you don't hear me say is you don't hear me call up a fucking black guy and go, Hey, monkey boy! It's just not gonna happen, you know what I mean? Like, there's... You gotta have a little fucking spring somewhere. Exactly. Wow. Hey, he looks just like you, you fucking ape. Jesus. Can you imagine? Like, it's... It's... It's... It's fucking... It's an ape! You can't freak out laughing when you're talking about how it's not funny, Gordon. It's had its time. It's in the 80s. I was born in the 70s, raised in the 80s. I'm allowed to laugh at these sort of things. Didn't we ever just crap all over that one? 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