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Lightning Bugs or Fireflies · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: PC Richard and Son should like pay for a special
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  Speaker 1: version of that song right with the whistle of PC Richard.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't they thought of that?
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  Speaker 1: I come on, get on it, guys, light FM, Cubby Christine,
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  Speaker 1: Producer Kristen. Let's take an impromptu poll right now. Can
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  Speaker 1: you give us a text at four four three sixty three?
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  Speaker 1: Are they fireflies or are they lightning bugs?
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  Speaker 2: So cute? I love them so much, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: Since I'm a kid, I used to get them in a.
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  Speaker 2: Jar and light up the whole jar and then set
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  Speaker 2: them free.
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  Speaker 1: Then, of course set them free, I say it on
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  Speaker 1: the radio, but I think they died in there. But no,
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  Speaker 1: of course I set them free is what I did
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  Speaker 1: after I caught them. But yes, fireflies or lightning bugs?
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  Speaker 2: Right, so it looks like we're split, like as far
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  Speaker 2: as the country is concerned, those in the West and
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  Speaker 2: Northeast say fireflies and the rest of us say lightning bugs.
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  Speaker 2: Call them lightning bugs. And I'm from New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: So as a kid growing up in Virginia, they were
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  Speaker 1: lightning bugs. But my kids call them fireflies. So now
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  Speaker 1: I've been saying fireflies more.
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  Speaker 2: And producer Kristin, you're in New Jersey. Are you lightning bugs?
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  Speaker 2: She these lightning bugs too.
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  Speaker 1: Lightning bugs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but she can nod, she can nod, and we
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  Speaker 2: can interpret or not.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to let the people know listening that
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  Speaker 1: Kristin is here and does work here. But you can't talk.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long story. But one day we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: it or get the book coming out in October. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yes.
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  Speaker 2: Ten million fireflies.
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  Speaker 1: Great song. Hey there's a song called fireflies, not lighting bugs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just works. So they're flying insects that emit
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  Speaker 2: a light from their abdomen and it depends on where
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  Speaker 2: you live as to what you call them. I do
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  Speaker 2: want to get a little serious for a moment, Cubby,
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  Speaker 2: because I have great concerns we're not seeing as many
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  Speaker 2: of them, and there is habitat loss because of urban development.
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  Speaker 2: There's light pollution, there's pesticides, there's climate change, and that
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  Speaker 2: is contributing to the reason we're not seeing as many.
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  Speaker 2: They could be gone completely. So like to help them
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  Speaker 2: out as much as possible. Turn off outdoor lights, leave
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  Speaker 2: the leaves, you can, you know, like any any place
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  Speaker 2: that they can hide out and yeah, that's part of
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  Speaker 2: their habitat. Limit the pesticides if you can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just try and help them out as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe it was me. I'm the problem. It's me
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  Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty, all one hundred of them that
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  Speaker 1: I had in a jar that I never let loose.
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  Speaker 1: It could have started right then and there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: actually the demise.
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  Speaker 2: Googling and there's a news report and there's this one
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  Speaker 2: kid in Virginia at age nine, troublemaker.
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  Speaker 1: All right, fireflies or lightning bugs, what do you call it?
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  Speaker 1: Four four three six three