wow their legs are sharp oh yeah they're
definitely
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dude there's one in your ear i think
it's gonna make it to your brain
hi i'm coyote peterson and as we all
know i put myself in some pretty crazy
scenarios to help educate you about our
planet's most misunderstood animals
recently we produced an episode titled i
put my head into a box of spiders now
the purpose of this was to help those of
you who are afraid of spiders get over
your arachnophobia today we're going to
take a look at a different fear
cat's aritaphobia which if you didn't
know is the fear of cockroaches so to
help with this experiment we've built a
little thing that i like to call
the roach table
ladies and gentlemen let me introduce
you
to the roach table
now today's experiment speaks for itself
it's my head inside of a plastic box
that we're going to fill with 500
roaches but this experiment is a little
bit different because it's not just me
today let me introduce you to my good
friend
mike easter
long time friend of mine who is an
expert when it comes to reptiles and
amphibians but he believe it or not is
afraid of roaches and truly i mean truly
suffers from cats
so today we're going to test out
exposure therapy now there may be the
chance we get mike to ultimately hold on
to a cockroach we may even be able to
get him inside of the helmet if we're
lucky but at the very least exposure
therapy is going to help him hopefully
one day overcome his fear of these for
the most part harmless creatures
mike are you ready for the experiment to
begin not really no no you want to just
change spots real quick i wish you luck
but i want nothing to do with this
okay so the first thing that we're going
to introduce to the helmet is 10
madagascar hissing cockroaches which as
you can guess from their name come from
the island of madagascar now my
associate dr al daboa is going to
add these creepy crawly insects on top
of my head
coyote
yeah
are you ready
i think i'm as ready as i'm going to get
but let me ask mike mike are you ready
it's hard for me to even watch this yeah
this is like a worst-case scenario
now can you tell everybody out there
watching right now what would it be like
for you to be trapped inside of this
helmet what would you be doing at this
moment i couldn't imagine myself in that
position if i was i'd be i'd be freaking
out beyond belief like you would just be
in a complete state of frozen i'd
actually probably be past i'd probably
pass out you would pass out yeah i
couldn't even think about doing what
you're about to do okay so mike if
you're ready let's count down and add
some roaches
three
two
let the cat aribia phobia let the cat
aridia knight let the cat aridiaphobia
nightmare begin
three
two
let the catarina
cat originate
it's cat aridiaphobia
that's a tongue twister
mike you want to count us down no thanks
worth asking all right here we go three
two
one let the roach nightmare
begin
oh my gosh that is a really strange
feeling
wow their legs are sharp oh yeah
yikes
oh the hissing sound
and one of my ear
definitely is digging in oh gosh that
feels so weird ah it is chewing on the
edge of my ear
wow that is extremely uncomfortable
but their legs allow them to walk up
surfaces even as smooth as glass you can
see we've got one who's uh
just about to escape you guys should
grab that
okay it's out
it's out of the container you guys know
that
free
is one escaping mic or you get nervous
no yeah i don't just watching them move
makes my skin crawl so the fact that one
has gotten out of the helmet really
makes your skin crawl it makes it a
little closer to me which i don't like
no one seems to care
mike you want to uh come over and put it
back in the helmet for me yeah dude sure
not a problem
my goal today would just be to get mike
to hold on to one cockroach if we could
just get that far it's gonna be a big
day i mean the fact that he's even here
watching this experiment is a really
good sign exposure therapy is the number
one way to start getting over your
phobia of anything in life whether it's
an insect an arachnid or even something
like a clown
which i kind of feel like a clown inside
of this box with a bunch of roaches
crawling around in my head
well 10 hissing cockroaches is
definitely a creepy feeling but i think
it's time to up the ante what do you
think mike
i think regardless of my answer you're
gonna do it anyway so go ahead mario
let's add 25 more roaches
now this species is called the dubia
roach and these will make up the
majority of our roach nightmare today
oh those are fast oh that is oh that is
a whole nother level
a whole nother level there's one getting
out again mario oh my gosh
wow
uh i kind of feel like if you've seen
one route you've seen them all but
believe it or not i'm like i bet you
didn't know this there are around four 4
600 species of roaches that inhabit our
planet and they can be found on pretty
much every single continent all right
we've got another daily special here uh
it's about 25 ready
wow
okay okay
now i'm beginning to know what it feels
like to have been on fear factor and
mike here's another little tidbit that
you probably didn't know at one point in
time joe rogan actually ate a hissing
cockroach as a part of the series how
about that mike you think you could eat
a cockroach there's not a dollar amount
that would convince me to to eat a roach
that's gross
roach is in the helmet roach is outside
of the helmet
mario let's just flood the helmet with
roaches
i think i'm ready at this point
oh man
oh my gosh that's crazy oh gosh it's so
gross
oh my gosh so weird oh they don't smell
good
this is a whole other level
wow wow wow wow okay this is
i'm i've chills dude there's one in your
ear i think it's gonna make it to your
brain actually that's one of the things
that people fear the most is that
roaches will come and lay eggs inside of
their ears that is a complete misnomer
it is definitely not going to happen
it smells horrible inside of this right
now just so you guys know the helmet is
really beginning to stink
what is going on
why is this happening
mike as you probably know the point
where most people encounter cockroaches
is at night scurrying around their
kitchen the reason people are so afraid
of them is because they are so
incredibly fast in fact based on their
size and leg length they are one of the
fastest terrestrial animals on the
planet
how does that one feel in your ear uh
you know i i don't even really notice it
that much anymore is it in my ears in
your ear yeah no it is it is in my ear
i thought it was in my ear not exactly
the most comfortable it's made there
really grossing me out more roaches
let's add another 100 and see what
happens
it'd be great if you could give me a
warning before that happens
when it rains and pours
that's a lot
oh my god all right let's let's take a
second give that one he's going okay
just grab that one if you don't mind i
think they fly
actually mike technically almost all
roach species are capable of flying oh
awesome
wow
the smell
on the inside of this box right now is
not pleasant that i can tell you with
certainty
the sound
of all of those little legs
crawling on top of each other and
scraping at the glass of the helmet is
the weirdest noise
i don't even know how to explain it it
just makes your whole body squirm
ready for more
mike
yeah
yeah mike's excited all right guys more
roaches
let me know when so i can close my eyes
now
was that
enough time
okay at this point we have 500 roaches
inside of the helmet
and as you can see
they're not eating me alive you can see
that they're actually more interested in
getting away from the front of my face
and that's primarily because i'm
breathing out carbon dioxide they don't
want anything to do with that and
they're actually all migrating towards
the back of the helmet and it's pretty
interesting so it goes to show you that
roaches actually want nothing to do with
you if you're a human but mike at this
point what do you think is this really
as bad as you thought it was going to
turn out to be
i would say it's not quite as bad as i
thought it would be but this doesn't
make me any less fearful of these creepy
crawlies
well i gotta tell you mike i'm at least
proud of you for going through the
exposure therapy today of me getting
inside of the roach table having 500 of
these creepy crawlies put on top of my
head like i said earlier guys exposure
therapy is definitely the best way to
overcome some of your phobias start by
just witnessing something visually and
if you're brave enough work your way up
from there by eventually interacting
with whatever that fearsome thing might
be
i'm coyote peterson be brave
stay wild we'll see on the next
adventure
uh mario i think i'm ready to come out
of the roach table
are all the roaches gone
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