turns out that the Department of National Park Services had to warn humans to
stop licking toads because it's dangerous and while it might get you high and
you might enjoy the high, it's just ill advised.
Not a good idea.
So this poor guy not upset, very upset that this keeps happening to him.
He would like you to put him down, don't lick him.
He didn't ask for it, he didn't consent to it.
Leave him alone.
Okay.
Toads aren't really the cutest animals but that toad definitely is.
Yeah, I know. Toads, let's be honest.
Look, I don't want to be a toad ist but
they're they're quite unattractive at least to the human eye.
I love the story in 1000 different ways.
One of my favorites is imagine if there was a creature on this planet that was
bigger and smarter than us and like like like let's say it's a gorilla but
the gorillas genius.
He's like mm me like the humans just like you're like come on.
I mean our secretions got other beings high.
It's not impossible.
We have pheromones.
Yeah but those pheromones don't don't get us high.
I know there ain't no human secretion getting anyone high unfortunately.
Or fortunately maybe.
Alright so anyway but let's let's get back to the story and
why the National Park Service had to get involved.
So the image that you looked at was the sonoran desert toad to be specific.
And and it's causing total chaos,
the toad is about seven inches long making it one of the nation's largest and
lets out a weak low pitched toot lasting less than a second.
Just some fun trivia about the sonoran desert toad.
Anybody would know what a low pitched toot is like.
That was low pitch.
That's it please.
It's scientists.
Okay. You wouldn't understand.
Let me continue.
So their secretions apparently get people high and
that's why we are dealing with this mess there.
The secretion from their skin is called five meo D.
M. T.
If consumed.
It has like this hallucinogenic impact.
And so let's just number one people love getting high.
Like that's the number one thing here, right?
They love getting high so much that they're willing to lick a disgusting toad
that they found on the street.
Let's just acknowledge that for the record.
But it's way worse than that because it's it's also got toxins.
It's also got poison so you could actually do tremendous damage to yourself.
How do you know how to lick a frog?
Like you have to lick it right?
I don't know how licking it right is and I don't want to.
No no no. But but that's the other thing.
So some of these individuals are getting real snippy over the fact that people like
us keep saying that they're licking the toads.
Like no we're not licking the toads we are smoking.
We're smoking their secretion.
Okay you better get the facts right.
No but no no that's okay.
So I'm sure like the toad if aficionados like the soma is of toads, they're
probably like, dude, I know how to extract the secretion and this etcetera, etcetera.
But this story also explains there's dudes who are like, dude,
I found a frog alright.
And just like, but you can hurt yourself because you could like,
you get an irregular heartbeat.
There's like 1000 things that the poison and the frog could cause a problem.
Don't do it.
Don't do it if you don't know what you're doing.
I don't if you want to be stupid and you want to do this.
I believe in personal liberty.
As long as you're destructive behavior is only destructive to yourself.
I don't care. But the problem
here is it's not just destructive to themselves.
Like it's destructive to these animals who didn't ask for this.
Okay.
And they also didn't ask to have trippy secretions that get people high.
Can we just note?
I mean, I want to acknowledge the elephant in the room here, right?
The word secretions is like disturbing.
What's more disturbing?
The word moist or secretions, they're bad.
But I'm gonna go secretions to has to be secretions.
Let's take a poll.
Quick poll.
Secretions raise your hand.
We've got 1234.
Bart thinks moist is terrible.
Okay.
All right.
Okay. So let's get to the national park service,
they say, as we say with most things you come across in a national park,
please refrain from licking.
I guess that's the thing they say.
I mean we do live in America.
What's going on in the natural parks that I'm not aware of.
A lot of fun things.
Apparently, apparently these toads have prominent
para toyed glands that secrete a potent toxin.
It can make you sick if you handle the frog or get the poison in your mouth.
So don't get the poison in your mouth, Don't get their secretions in your mouth
now while no, at least not the toad secretions.
While the secretions can lead to a trip, the national capital poison center notes.
It can also cause severe irritation, pain and tissue damage.
A lick or two can cause numbness of the mouth and throat as well as severe and
life threatening effects on the heart.
The agency warns these effects include irregular rhythm of the heart,
heart block, reduced blood pressure and cardiac arrest.
These severe effects can also occur after absorption through the skin.
You should just ingest magic mushrooms instead.
Yeah, it's guys, it's called marijuana.
It's called LSD.
You don't have to be like, what do you what what is I mean,
first of they lost me on tissue damage.
I was already out on tissue damage before we got to the numbing of the mouth and
before we got the cardiac arrest and
before we got to all that stuff just it's called edibles.
Look into it, right?
You don't need to get hot up on these frogs, but
I finally understand the old story.
You know, you kissed the frog and it turns into a prince,
turns out you kissed the frog.
You get so freaking high.
You think it turned into a prince you hallucinate that the frog has turned into
a Yeah, that explains that story completely.
Get yourself a real prince ladies.
Okay, stop licking the frog.
Alright, by the way, this is gonna be our most popular video because
people are gonna be like licking toes.
No! Toads!
Toads, guys, bring it down.