for some reason everybody thinks
butterflies are better than moths we
make children's books about butterflies
we use them as metaphors of change you
might be an ugly caterpillar now but
soon you'll grow into a beautiful
butterfly we go into fields and frolic
around trying to catch them and some
people even have a collection of them
granted the people who do collect them
do so by impaling the butterflies but
whatever it's still a compliment how
many other insects can say that they get
this much affection
maybe preying mantises where I come from
every time you see a praying mantis you
have to point it out like whoa guys look
a praying mantis and then you just look
at it anyway back to the point moths on
the other hand are like the white-trash
versions of butterflies
even though moths and butterflies are
practically the same creature for some
reason we give moths a bad rap we laugh
at them for flying into light bulbs
butterflies would do that too if they
want to sleep at night moths are so
attracted to bright light that they'll
follow it even if it kills them you
might think that this sort of behavior
makes them stupid but I like to think
that this just shows how dedicated they
can be we also get mad at moths for
eating our clothes but if butterflies
like the taste of our clothing they
wouldn't hesitate to chomp down on our
laundry actually butterflies probably
think that they're too good for your
clothing they'll need to find things in
life like flowers you hear that
butterflies think they're too good for
your t-shirts in Arizona we have your
normal run-of-the-mill moths you know
the type small gray they look like a
paper airplane made by someone who
didn't know how to make a paper airplane
we also have a moth called the white
line sphinx moth and these moths are
like the Godzilla of the moth world
which actually I'm pretty sure there is
a giant moth in the Godzilla world
Mothra this again just shows how much we
don't like moths we turned them into
city destroying monsters
when will the hate end I'm sure when
they film matharis scenes in the
Godzilla movie they didn't even use any
special effects they just used a normal
white line sphinx moth those things
could beat up hummingbirds if they
wanted one night when I was 5 years old
one of these big boys was hanging around
at our porch light cuz you know mods
they just love themselves some glowing
balls of heat and then when someone
opened the door the moths saw all the
other light inside and just flew
straight in more light this place is
absolutely clamoring its fate was sealed
as soon as it crossed over the threshold
I don't know what the moth did once he
was inside our house but whatever it was
it sure tired him out because the next
morning my sister
I found him on the kitchen windowsill
just lying there doing absolutely
nothing he was probably thinking about
the outside world and being with his
math brethren but he'd pretty much given
up trying to escape because me and my
sister just scooped him up and put him
into a jar and he became our new pet my
sister decided to name him Harry
now some moths are actually quite hairy
but this moth wasn't hairy at all so
that name didn't make any sense but we
were five so it didn't have to hey guys
don't get too attached to Harry we poked
holes in the lid we put leaves and
sticks in his jar which might have been
a good idea if he was still a
caterpillar but I don't think moths eat
leaves do they eat leaves we probably
should have just put in a t-shirt we
thought we were taking good care of him
my mom apparently didn't like Harry she
said I have a good idea why don't you
take Harry to your kindergarten class
tomorrow and I don't know maybe he can
be the class pet there this is back when
I thought my mom had good ideas so we
decided today Kerry to school because
think of how cool you would be as a five
year old showing all your classmates the
giant moth you captured looking back at
the situation having a class pet whose
life span that won't make it to the end
of the school year isn't a smart idea
the teacher probably didn't want to have
to come to school one day and explain to
a roomful of five-year-olds why the
class pet was lying on its back and not
moving so the teacher suggested what if
we release Harry at recess now a lot of
kids movies that have animals in them
the animals usually don't like being
captured the animals want to be free and
live out in the wild think Finding Nemo
spear at happy feet Free Willy it was
common knowledge to every five-year-old
that all the creatures walking on this
green earth wanted to live in the wild
so we were more than happy to put Harry
back in his home when it came time for
recess we all walked outside and we're
excited to be part of the newly
instituted catch and release moth
program we would like those people who
put beached whales back in the ocean
except in this metaphor the whale was
already in the ocean minding its own
business and then two dumb
kindergartners put it in a plastic
baggie and then moved it miles away from
its home it was supposed to be a happy
moment seeing Harry get rehabilitated
into moth Society but what actually
happened was a lot darker we gathered
around the teacher she opened the jar
but Harry didn't fly out so then she had
to shake Harry out of the jar we've
already established that Harry isn't
that smart
eventually he finally understood that he
was free the whole sky was waiting above
him he flew upward wings fluttering
ready to reclaim his moth life well
turns out there's a good reason giant
moths only come out at night and that's
mostly because of camouflage and the
fact that they're predators are asleep
Harry had neither of those advantages at
her playground in the middle of the day
not ten seconds had gone by when a bird
from a nearby tree swooped down and
grabbed Harry in its beak Harry was a
free month for a good ten seconds before
his painful inevitable death immediately
the entire kindergarten class began
screaming my sister ran after the bird
demanding that he released Harry
unfortunately birds don't listen to
those sorts of demands am i right Jaden
re sick all right
roll over re stay no speak so then the
teacher had to give us the talk about
how nature is a lot scarier than it is
in the movies basically the circle of
life involves a lot of death but on the
bright side we totally made that birds
day he was just sitting in a tree
probably wishing Arizona had more worms
and then BOOM free meal I wonder what
I'm going to eat whack for all we know
that could have been the birds first
time eating a moth I'm sure that bird
told all of his bird friends and they
totally didn't believe him dude I just
caught a moth like one of the big ones
yeah I know they're nocturnal but it was
just flying around in the middle of the
day
no I'm telling the truth dude there were
like 30 children who all saw me ask any
one of them and they'll tell you I
caught that moth I don't remember what
happened for the rest of the day during
school but I'm pretty sure we didn't get
much done when we got home me and my
sister tearfully told my mom about how
Harry had met his doom my mom said that
she was trying not to cry but I think
she was lying I don't think she was as
emotionally attached to Harry as we were
Harry was only a part of our lives for a
couple of hours but years have passed me
my sister's still talk about Harry just
randomly in conversation one of us will
ask hey do you remember Harry ah yeah
and now a random off that died 15 years
ago will be remembered forever in our
hearts if only Harry was alive to see
what he would have become I want to
share with you some pictures I've saved
in Harry scrapbook here are Harry's baby
pictures here's Harry's first apartment
and here's the last thing Harry ever saw
I don't know the rest of this song so
I'm just gonna stop right now
hey what's going on fellow teens I'm
doing something a little different for
this end card I'm doing this face cam
video because I want you to get used to
my face and what I look like why am i
doing that because I'm going to VidCon
baby I'm a featured creator so if you're
going to VidCon then be on the lookout
for this also I changed my channel name
recently I used to be the odd ones out
comic now I'm not since I changed my
name the plaques that YouTube sent me
are wrong now so I fixed them
I still haven't hung them up yet anyway
that's all I wanted to say thanks for
watching and we're your there's no
seatbelt and what a rascal well what are
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