I don't want, I NEED a Podcast with this guy's voice, it doesn't matter if you talk about scary bugs, how far you want to live from Australia, anecdotes from when you worked at Chipotle, It doesn't matter, I just want to listen to that podcast 🗿
@KC Totally true, his voice is very calm and at the same time conveys many of his feelings. You can read Lord of the Rings or any saga of books and I'll be there to listen.
I will never get over Jordan tossing something out of frame when he's not liking what's going on, the little, "Alright, okay, alright listen-" and I feel it in my soul.
6:54 the reason why Coyote Peterson is holding the toe biter willingly like that is because he's legitimately insane, he has a series of videos of him willingly getting stung by every insect on the Schmidt pain scale and showing his reactions... Also he's not Australian, I'm pretty sure he lives in Utah, so he's the closest you can get to Australian without actually living in Australia. All in all, I love Coyote and his videos are awesome.
I would love to see Jordan react to deep sea nightmare fuel. I'd say it's far worse than anything the insect world has to offer... well except centipedes. Fuck centipedes. and spiders.
That is a huntsman spider at the end. Harmless, curious, and they absolutely love trolling Australians by popping up right in their face while they're driving.
I was terribly arachnophobic. My wife grew attached to a jumping spider that had been hunting in our kitchen window everyday. It became our pet. Over a time I got used to the little booger. I even cried when she passed. I loved that little thing. Can’t seem to be afraid of spiders anymore. Now I’m fascinated.
Nah dude jumping spiders are an exception! I had an albino jumping spider, super sweet. Then I thought there was a baby jumping spider on my window sill. Nope. When it got bigger it bit me all over In my sleep. Was a brown recluse. F that.
@@gillypiexo I need to know what happened omg I hope you’re okay!!!! The only thing I know about recluse bites is how the venom literally eats your flesh. I hope you’re okay dude
i had a little spider friend named aquadytie (aqua-die-tee) who lived on my sink for about two years. he would keep me company while washing the dishes and was overall a pretty chill guy. after a few years of my brother gone (after being kicked out by my parents) he moved in and killed it the very same day. he knew how much i loved that damn spider. i cried that night and have hated him since. it’s been about four years.
theres something so weird about liking spiders one time there was a spider in a high window near the shower in my bathroom, i never sprayed it because then itd probably get in my eyes or itd be too high up, so i just never did anything and it rarely moved and after a while i honestly got attached and felt kinda bad when it did eventually need to be sprayed
As for Jerry, he’s commonly known as the Rhinoceroses beetle and these guys are also harmless as well. I am certain rhinoceroses beetles eat fruit and 10000% love tree sap as their diet. What’s cool about these guys are that they are like sumo wrestlers who fight only each other to compete for food and for ladies.
Haha honestly a true horror movie is just Jordan in Australia with all the bugs and horrified screaming throughout the trip. It'll never happen but it's fun to imagine. We got a glimpse of it with Jordan and the clip with the Australian spider in the car and the girls just straight up screaming...
A friend of mine literally totaled her car because she was driving and saw the spider in her car. Legit wrapped it around a tree. Got carted away in the ambulance and before they took her she asked them if it was dead. 100% true story…
Oh my god is she okay? I respect her fear of spiders but not at the expense of her overall health. I hope she was able to walk away with minimal side effects from the accident. My friend was not so lucky
@@Just999Me I’m so so sorry to hear that…lost many friends and a cpl family members to MV accidents.. I think I find this funny because it’s one of the few personal stories regarding motor vehicle accidents that turned out with a happy ending … She’s ok… Had some serious injuries, but only long lasting one was a scar on her face… which she wears with pride and it’s become the conversation starter for her story…
Hello from down under😄.. The spider in the car is one of our Australian tarantulas. I lived in Yallingup and left my car door open one night. The house next door had been in the middle of renovations so a displaced tarantula moved into my car. A few days later I noticed the whole interior roof from the front to the back had been woven into a huge web. Moments prior to this revelation I was sitting in the driver's seat at 11pm talking to my partner in Perth as She( the tarantula) quietly dropped down next to my face and put her feet on my cheek.. I screamed so loudly as I kicked open the car door and threw my phone on the ground which ended the call, my partner thought I had been killed😂😂. Once I calmed down I realised the massive web was there. This is in country and I had no choice but to drive the car home and the tarantula was in residence for some time.. she became the car mascot and often freaked me out until one day she was gone..
😂😂 Love how you had the spider in your car and she became the car mascot ❤ We have birds in the mall so they are like pets. The doors do not close sometimes so they come in. I hope housecleaning is cleaning really well.
I agree I’ve always wanted to do a video and say it was sponsored by raid bug spray as a bait and switch, but I think Jordan would be the perfect person to do it instead
Yes! Field work!..let me rephrase that. Field Trip! Ahhh much better. Khaki's safari hat boots and face net = your rich. And your welcome. If you come up with a catchphrase...you... can't...lose my dude. Gerald would want it that way.
Dear Jordan, I woke up from a nightmare at 2am and almost immediately went to this video so that I could sublimate my own fears in someone else’s wholesome and entirely justified terror. Because shared misery. Thank you for your service I can now fall back asleep. And I love you too.
i love how throwing random objects seems to be your comfort gesture of sorts, like it seems to at least partially reduce your level of distress towards the little crawlies XD
I'm chortling over here, "From the laws of the jungle, that's the spider's car now." Pretty much my thoughts exactly. I hate spiders so much that I freeze solid in fear when I see one. So I began making myself watch videos of spiders, people who keep spiders as pets, any and all jumping spider videos (because peacock jumping spiders are really cute), and this one Australian guy who I believe is on a mission to scare the beegees (you know, when your throat is too tight to scream so you sound like Barry Gibb?) out of anyone who may be inclined towards not liking spiders. I still don't like spiders after all that, but I don't freeze solid anymore when I see one, so that's progress.
I grew up on a Mango farm in Australia, the insect and arachnid things I have seen. A Trap door spider capturing a snake A Huntsman as big as a dinner plate A centipede crawl out of a dead Cane Toad The side of the house covered in ticks Locust plague A Magpie killed by wasps A dead bird in a spider's Web A kilogram of maggots A dead cow totally covered In ants, you could not see the cow, only smell it. A snake dying from the amount of ticks upon it Mice and rats in spider webs A wasp struggling to move a trap door spider 6 centipedes eating a rabbit. That's just the insect and arachnid stories
Yep. I believe every word you typed seven months and some days ago. I don't need proof that you are in fact, an Aussie. The ant covered cow I can totally believe too cause I've seen/smelled similar, just not at the scale of a cow.
Fun story: When I was 10 my dad took my mom and me on a speed boat in the lake. I hadn’t seen in him years so it was supposed to be a fun get together. But while we were in the middle of the lake, spiders 🕷️ started to come out of flooring and sides of the boat. And I’m talking about a ton of them. Big ones, small ones. I never thought so many spiders could be together if they weren’t the same species. I’m a severe arachnophobic, so my 10 year old ass decided to just out of the boat😅. I figured I would rather swim to shore than to be in a boat with 🕷️. My mother had to grab me from jumping into the lake and sit on me to keep me in the boat. It was a horrible experience. Now I hate boats and spiders 😅.
This is why you ALWAYS where your life jacket. So you jump can overboard & not die trying to swim to shore. Although honestly I'd probably jump so far & ty to run on water like a cartoon to get away.
@@Nirrrina 😂🤣😂I was wearing a life jacket. The spiders 🕷️ got on it so I took it off😅. I swear it was a fucked up day. And my mother found out I would choose to drown than to stay in a boat with a spider🤣.
First bug was a vinegaroon, also known as a whiptail scorpion. They're harmless, they just look vicious. The toebiter is actually native to the u.s, and the guy holding it is named coyote Peterson. He actually let the thing bite him. You got off easy by not watching the whole thing lol
The first bug was a vinegaroon! They are pretty common in the midwest, they can spray dilute acetic acid as a defense. It smells like vinegar, hence the name. They look big and scary, but they are pretty chill actually (Like you can tell it doesn't FREAK THE FUCK OUT like spiders and roaches do when they see a human)
ah not a vinegaroon. but vinegaroons def do get mixed up. that's a amblypygi also known as a tailless whip scorpion! they're little guys that like to skitter but are harmless!
Laughed from beginning to end, I'm 100% with you. Funny story, in the shower and a palmetto bug (roach) decided it wanted to shower with me. I politely ran out with a towel in hand, out my front door across the cul-de-sac to my neighbor screaming to kill it, bring it out of my house and place it in his garbage can. I realized later what took so long was the fact that I did not wrap the towel around me, it was still in my hand. I simply can not!!!
A wolf spider held me hostage in the tub for a solid 2hrs. I had the fear sweats so bad that I got out of the bath more gross than I got in and I had to take a shower (ELSEWHERE) afterward.
The white flannel moth is adorable, but is extremely venomous in the caterpillar stage! And of course those wasps were aggressive; he just shucked their nest off! He can never open that window again 😂
the list of bugs in this video: 3:33 scorpion/whip spider without tail (according to user Wizardly) 5:00 huntsman (thanks to spudthepug) 6:00 toe biter 7:50 cecropia moth caterpillar taking a huge dookie (thanks to Matthew Kukowski) 8:30 lots of wasps 9:55 fruit/goliath beetle (suggested by Farcan/FallenStarArt respectively) 11:30 Phil the domestic silk moth (thanks FoolLych for the species and Graveantelol for the name) 12:48 jerry the grub turns into a elephant beetle (from Carden Gix'oth/Anli) 14:50 big spider inside a car (very scary) 17:11 Amazonian giant centipede (that thing's probably the size of a subway footlong) if anyone is willing to tell me what to change about this list i would be more than happy to edit the names/timestamps of things :)
Moth enjoyer here! The moth at 11:30 is actually a domestic silk moth, not a luna moth. Sorry if that came off as a bit nit-picky, but I just really like moths lol
OMG, the spider in the car was the end of me. I legit had to cover my eyes because it was so scary. You are def not alone on this one, Jordan. Mad props for making it through.
You're the bravest boi. Third video is of the dude that intentionally allowed himself to be bit/stung by like.. all of the most painful insects in the world. He did this so he could give people a valuable gauge for how much pain they cause and how long it lasts.
Since you shared some of your bug stories here’s one of mine: Years ago, I had to wash clothes by hand because my washer broke. It was summer so I made it a thing, staying outside and washing clothes in a metal tub while drinking soda and listening to podcasts. I went inside at one point and before starting another batch of clothes, I took a sip of my drink. Now, I can’t remember if I heard something first, but I do remember feeling something funny in my mouth. I had it between my molars and kind of nudged it with my tongue before I spat everything out. Imagine my horror when I see a bee walking around in the puddle of sugary goodness. Not only had I almost swallowed a bee, but I had also held it between my teeth and basically pet it with my tongue! I was so relieved that I didn’t get stung that once the shock wore off, I used a stick or lead to get it somewhere safe to dry off.
I have similar story but it was a giant cockroach eekkkk i was drinking water and it was in jug it fell in my mouth i immediately spit it out. it's been years but i still feel like i want to throw up
So the guy holding the toe biter is coyote peterson and he has an educational yt channel called brave wilderness. He has an entire series where he let's all sorts of bugs bite him, including the most painful bites on earth. Jordan my man I definitely suggest you do a reaction video to his series it would be a trip
The one around 9:42 is known as a Goliath beetle and these guys grow very big (from what I remember grow bigger than a hand or up to the face). The cool part about these guys is that not only these guys are harmless and fly slow as hell, but these guys are vegetarians or eat fruits like bananas so they are chill to have (which was why that beetle was leashed with floss).
I am in AWE of your bravery! I could only get through this video because you were there and I had the illusion of not being alone! And even with that I had to pause frequently! It's so great to see someone - especially a man!- so unashamed of their fears! That makes me feel so much better about my own freakouts! So much love to you, Jordan!! ❤❤❤ You're awesome!!!
My fear for bugs started when my parents brought me to a bug exhibit where they had loads of creepy crawlies but more importantly to the story was a giant animatronic Preying Mantis which loomed over you as you entered a certain area in the exhibit. It was lit dark so when you entered it would be over you immediately with its body lit up from beneath, needless to say I've never liked a bug since.
3:30 that’s called a whip spider. Here’s some info on them. Amblypygi is an order of arachnid chelicerate arthropods also known as whip spiders or tailless whip scorpions (not to be confused with whip scorpions or vinegaroons that belong to the related order Thelyphonida). The name "amblypygid" means "blunt tail", a reference to a lack of the flagellum that is otherwise seen in whip scorpions. Amblypygids possess no silk glands or venomous fangs. They rarely bite if threatened, but can grab fingers with their pedipalps, resulting in thorn-like puncture injuries. As of 2016, 5 families, 17 genera and around 155 species had been discovered and described.[2] They are found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide; they are mainly found in warm and humid environments and like to stay protected and hidden within leaf litter, caves, or underneath bark. Some species are subterranean; all are nocturnal. Fossilized amblypygids have been found dating back to the Carboniferous period, such as Weygoldtina.[1] Amblypygids range from 5 to 16 centimetres (2.0 to 6.3 in) in legspan.[2][4] Their bodies are broad and highly flattened, with a solid carapace and a segmented abdomen, or opisthosoma. Most species have eight eyes; a pair of median eyes at the front of the carapace above the chelicerae and 2 smaller clusters of three eyes each further back on each side. Amblypygids have raptorial pedipalps modified for grabbing and retaining prey, much like those of a mantis;[5] recent work suggests that the pedipalps display sexual dimorphism in their size and shape.[6] The first pair of legs act as sensory organs and are not used for walking. The sensory legs are very thin and elongate, have numerous sensory receptors, and can extend several times the length of the body.[2] Amblypygids have eight legs, but use only six for walking, often in a crab-like, sideways fashion. The front pair of legs are modified for use as antennae-like feelers, with many fine segments giving the appearance of a "whip". When a suitable prey is located with the antenniform legs, the amblypygid seizes its victim with large spines on the grasping pedipalps, impaling and immobilizing the prey. This is typically done while climbing the side of a vertical surface and looking downward at their prey.[7] Pincer-like chelicerae then work to grind and chew the prey prior to ingestion. The tailless whip scorpion may go for over a month in which no food is eaten; often this is due to premolt. Due to the lack of venom the tailless whip scorpion is very nervous in temperament, retreating away if any dangerous threat is sensed by the animal. Courtship involves the male depositing stalked spermatophores, which have one or more sperm masses at the tip, onto the ground, and using his pedipalps to guide the female over them.[8] She gathers the sperm and lays fertilized eggs into a sac carried under the abdomen, or opisthosoma. When the young hatch, they climb up onto the mother's back; any which fall off before their first molt will not survive. Some species of amblypygids, particularly Phrynus marginemaculatus and Damon diadema, may be among the few examples of arachnids that exhibit social behavior. Research conducted at Cornell University suggests that mother amblypygids communicate with their young with her antenniform front legs, and the offspring reciprocate both with their mother and siblings. The ultimate function of this social behavior remains unknown.[9] Amblypygids hold territories that they defend from other individuals.[10] The amblypygid diet mostly consists of arthropod prey, but these opportunistic predators have also been observed feeding on vertebrates.[2] Amblypygids generally do not feed before, during, and after molting. Like other arachnids, an amblypygid will molt several times during its life.[2] Molting is done from hanging from the underside of a horizontal surface in order to use gravity to assist in separating the old exoskeleton from the animal. Several species of Amblypygi are sold and kept as pets including Damon diadema, Damon medius, Damon variegatus, Euphrynichus amanica, Heterophrynus batesii, Acanthophrynus coronatus, Phrynus marginemaculatus and Paraphrynus mexicanus.[11] Tailless whip scorpions are kept in tall (>45 cm; >18 in) glass enclosures which allow for two things: Enough vertical space for climbing and moulting, and enough space for heat to dissipate in order to keep the enclosure between 70 °F and 75 °F. Five centimetres (two inches) of substrate at the bottom of the enclosure is generally sufficient to allow for burrowing and also serves as a method to retain water in order to keep the humidity above 75%. Tailless whip scorpions live anywhere between 5-10 years. Feeding can include small insects such as crickets, mealworms, and roaches. If you red this whole wiki page on whip spiders, here’s a cookie for your pain🍪
The fear of bugs is called entomophobia. It derives from greek (unsurprisingly) entomos means insect and phobos means fear, but I assume you already knew that last part.
Hi! Australian woman here. I died at "2015 Honda Sonata," but then I came back for the rest of the video, because this is information I need. Also, the Nightmare Cetipede? Yeah. Scolopendra gigantea. I have one in a shadow box by my bed. No, really. A very thoughtful friend sent me one for my birthday a few years ago. I named her Amelia. The same friend sent me a huge framed tarantula for my previous birthday. The spider in the Australian women's car would've ended me. Also, you nailed the Australian 'no'. Well done!
Ok so, zoology nerd time bc I like bugs :) The first bug is called a whip spider, a totally harmless arachnid that is closely related to scorpions, true spiders and ticks The second one is probably a wolf spider? I’m not sure but it’s a spider for sure (not a tarantula) she definitely had babies somewhat recently though (but anyone could tell you that) I’m not sure about most of the beetles but the second to last video is of a Huntsman Spider, a common spider in Australia and they like to hide in any little nook they can (especially in cars, houses, the woods, etc.), they have a pretty potent venom but they’re dangerous mostly because of their hiding places which scare people when they’re found For the last video centipedes CAN NOT eat humans (their venom is rough but it cant kill you unless you happen to be allergic to the toxins), centipedes also eat by chewing whatever prey they catch their mandibles on the underside of their heads (not their pedipalps which are what actually inject venom) thanks for coming to my Ted talk
My wife and I watched this together; and when we got to the third bug video you did and you were reading how the toe-biter sinks it's long needle like jaws into your body, your video cut to a video game commercial that started with the 17+ mature eating because of blood, gore, and violence. We were cracking up soooo hard because of the irony!
This was awesome 😁 Love the Jerry to Gerald journey 😂 Once a spider dropped down in front of my face while I was driving and I yeeted across three lanes of traffic in my panic. Thank goodness I didn't hit anyone but OMG 😱😫
I hate bugs too, but you know what I'm gonna suffer through it with you for moral support as thanks for all the months of laughter you've brought me. 😖KEEP ON KEEPING ON CHAMP!
Jordan, thank you for being brave enough to do this video. I've been stationed from the US military in Europe (scorpions were common when I lived in Castello D'Aviano by the foot of the mountain), Okinawa (Habu snake - venomous pit viper , Huntsman & banana spiders), Guam (Cane toads, brown widow spider, great banded hornet), Ascension Island (lesser brown scorpion), Central Texas (Southern Black Widow, Brown Recluse, Striped Bark Scorpion, Texas Red-Headed Centipede, Kissing Bugs, Asp Caterpillar, and the Eastern Velvet Ant) not including the ones I saw in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Bosina. You, Jordan, are lucky to see them in video and not having a camel spider chase youo during a night run cause you got confused for food.
@@goldenlynelslayer4096 True, unless the babies snuggle in your uncovered boots. We used panty hoses or plastic bags to keep them out. When it's zero dark thirty in a dark tent, you don't pay attention to where you slide your feet. When no one tells you they don't like the human species, the fear of being prey kicks in.
Why the hell am I just realizing you have videos and not only shorts? 🤦🏾♀️ About to binge all of your context repeatedly 😆 Your perspective, energy and humor brings me joy. Plus you are handsome to the Gods 🙏🏾 Thank you for being you 💜
All I got to say after watching those clips is "AW HELL NAWWWW!! NOPE NOPE AND NOPE!!" Idgaf WHAT amount of money someone offered me to physically touch/hold any of those hybrid mutant science experiments gone horribly wrong, I wouldn't take it!! Love that Jordan is facing his fears because it's inspiring me to do the same, but I still (and probably always will) have a severe aversion to all insects, and most reptiles and marine creatures.. they're just not for me at all and I prefer to stay outta their space and vice versa.. lol..
I cannot express how excited I was to come across a long form video from you! I 1000% share your feeling on spiders but I will apparently watch any terrifying shit just because it's you. The emotion in "What happened to Jerry?!?!" still has me dying. Lol. Absolutely love all your content and can't wait to see more long form! If it's bugs again, maybe you should stand up to make escape less dangerous to equipment and give you room for the "all the nope" anxiety dance. Lol
When I was visiting my grandmother in KY as a kid - they had "June bugs (beetles)" that my siblings would tie a string on them and fly them around in circles around me, which I hated.
Hi, Aussie here, I've had a huntsman spider in the car multiple times...fun fact...if you open the window, most of the time the wind just makes the spider move further into the car to get out of the wind...they don't like that. So if the car is in motion, don't open the window, just get a container and hold it over the spider until you pull the car over.
When I was in college I had a friend with a fear of snakes with the same intensity here. Confession, this one time I had a book of Gary Larson Far Side cartoons. There was one about snake parents with a large amount of baby snakes in one of those wood slat playpens, and because they're snakes the babies were going everywhere. I thought the cartoon was funny and cute and might help my friend with her phobia. I put a copy of this cartoon on her door. I don't know if she ever, to this day, has entirely forgiven me.
Saw your shorts and became a fan almost instantly. You have a wonderful personality, funny, with an equally amazing voice to boot, while also being attractive af! I truly hope for nothing but sunny days and happiness for you, and thank you for being you
Jordan you don’t just have to worry about huntsman spiders in Australia though. I guess there’s really tiny spiders and there are so many of them that when they travel - in a method called ballooning - the webs left behind make the ground look like snow. It’s literally raining spiders.
I love seeing you happy ( my two favorites are when you say, come here no back up / when you throw the cup, or the paper towel through the door frame )not scared. I’ll catch you in the next one but for now Harvey compilation .❤
6:56 True, but that’s also Coyote Peterson. He’s a different breed of man entirely, and has been bitten/stung by a myriad of insects purely for science
The first bug you saw was a fascinating species known as whip spiders (thanks to its long antenna) they are actually related to spiders being an arachnid, and are harmless to humans! (Physically at least) depending on where this video was filmed it could be one species native to Florida! They are amazing!
I'm glad you liked the fluffy moth! I used to be really scared of moths until I found out about those guys and also when I met a really pretty Luna moth in person once. But if one flies into me in the house it's over
For the "what is that": 3:20 - Tailless whip scorpion. The front is where the two pincer-like legs form a 'T' shape. Harmless. But very glad I knew that when I first saw one (I was on a toilet). Spider at 5:30 is is probably a Sparassid - so huntsmen and rainspiders. Big, a little grumpy when they have babies but not really dangerous. Most spiders are very good mothers (including Sparassidae), so those probably are its babies. Toebiters and other diving bugs are not flexible. Easy to hold them without risk of biting. 9:42 is just a fruit chafer. This is a male in the Goliathini tribe. It barely has jaws as an adult (so if it does bite, it isn't anything to write home about), and mostly feeds on sweet sap from acacia and similar trees. An extended warranty wouldn't work because it barely lives a month. Gerald looks like a Hercules beetle. The Pokemon horn is for wrestling other Geralds. Same family, different subfamily, as the previous clip. And don't open car windows to shoo a spider out of a moving car. It will move away from the rushing air, and towards the interior of the car. Can't speak for Australia, but the giant centipedes (Scolopendromorpha) that we have here in Zambia are generally more retiring than (some of) our spiders, but I am much more wary of them because their bites are worse.
My suggestion is inch up to scarier bugs honestly. Moths are great subjects for helping treat a phobia like that IMO because most of them are just fluffy lil guys. The Rosey Maple Moth is a favorite of mine. I have a deathly bad fear of centipedes though, especially house centipedes, and I feel every reaction here... never let anyone tell you you're less of an adult for being scared of insects. It's common.
8:30 Fun story right, when I was in 5th grade there were many wasp nests at the back of the school, so one day during recess my classmates thought it'd be fun to throw stuff at it until it fell. And when it fell wasps came out EVERYWHERE and we ran, one kid got stung and only one. He was sent home. We still took down another nest without anyone getting stung so yea.
I've held a giant centipede! That exact species too! It was rly cool but the legs feel a lot sharper than you'd think. It isn't painful, but it feels like being poked by a blunt needle every time they take a step
My mom got a yellow jacket down her shirt once while gardening. In the moments it took her to get out of her shirt she was stung 17 times. I’m not a fan of bugs myself, but it’s not at this level. Something about Jordan’s reactions is so endearing, what is it about this guy that’s so damn appealing?
Whenever I see bugs (especially spiders) in my apartment the fear washes over me so completely and manifests in the NEED to destroy what ever bug it is. I instantaneously decide that only one of us can live and I plan to be the one that does. That feeling when a spider slips away with a grudge is my nightmare fuel
OMG I've been in the spider-in-a-car situation a couple of times now, but with much smaller ones and it was still terrifying cause you can't always pull over right away. With something that big, I'd literally just die of terror.
Mini leash thing is interesting. 10:09 I hate bugs as well but heard stories from my mom when she grew up in the Philippines. She'd catch dragonflies or beetles and have them fly like that.
For a while when I was younger I couldn't eat whole strawberries because I bit into one once and there was an alive worm wiggling inside. The strawberry was perfectly pristine, no holes or anything on the outside, but the inside was black with that worm. My mom said it could've been worse because at least I didn't bite it and see HALF a worm.
I truly appreciate you doing this Jordan. The ability to watch this without feeling like I'm overreacting is honestly freeing for me. Thank you so very much Jordan ❤️
I've never agreed with anyone's reaction more. My friend and I were eating lunch at a picnic table outside in the sunshine under a tree, when she stopped and said hold on. Then she reached over and flicked something off my shirt and said, "you had a little green grubby on you. You would have freaked". Yes I would have.
The first bug that you showed reminds me of that scene in the goblet of fire where the fake mad eye Moody was torturing what looked like the creature in the first video
Proud of you for facing your bug fears! I used to be so afraid especially of spiders. I slowly started exposure therapy through animal husbandry videos. Ants Canada is a good place to start. He has a channel dedicated to any keeping. Pretty cool.
I can’t tell you the number of times I screamed watching this. SO glad I didn’t watch it at work. Only reason I stayed was because Jordan did. His voice soothed me enough to make it through and his reactions made mine feel validated😌
That story time made me remember when I was in 5th grade a classmate of mine brought to school a big ass black spider with yellow spots on it's butt and it escaped and we all thought it went out the window but my word! When I was sitting on my chair I kept feeling like there was a loose thread on my leg and when I checked, I had a lot of yellow webs! My soul literally left my body when I saw it hiding under my chair! To this day, every time I feel that same sensation on my body I freak out! I am forever scarred.
There are adorable moth plushies available for weirdos who enjoy moths and think they're cute, like me. I put one on my wishlist and my Auntie sent me a cuddly Poodle Moth. It's absolutely one of my favorite things ever.
Beetles and moths are definitely a lot more capable of being cute than other bugs. Sometimes I think grasshoppers can be cute, but I definitely get the phobia, especially with spiders.
Ooo I'm so glad to get longer content from here.....this makes me so happy. There aren't many creators that bring me as much joy as this man, he is darling, funny and his delivery is great! Thanks for the joy Jordan 😃
I just remembered this. Just sitting at home, it’s cold and it’s dark outside and then bang. What looked like a small bird rammed itself into the window. It took me a little to realise that it was a huge as moth. There’s another story regarding my brother and big moths but it sounds way better in person than if I tried to write it out.
I completely understand that fear. I was car-jacked by a June bug. I gave up my car and the guy at taco bell had to move my car out of the drive thru. Peace and love to you.
I don't want, I NEED a Podcast with this guy's voice, it doesn't matter if you talk about scary bugs, how far you want to live from Australia, anecdotes from when you worked at Chipotle, It doesn't matter, I just want to listen to that podcast 🗿
@KC Totally true, his voice is very calm and at the same time conveys many of his feelings. You can read Lord of the Rings or any saga of books and I'll be there to listen.
I 100% agree. So relaxing
they would be an amazing fucking ttrpg player. I would KILL to listen to them play dungeons and dragons or Cyberpunk
100% agree. I could listen to this guy every night when going to sleep. Lol
Yes, his voice is very soothing to me. I play his videos over and over just to hear his voice.
I will never get over Jordan tossing something out of frame when he's not liking what's going on, the little, "Alright, okay, alright listen-" and I feel it in my soul.
His desk must be very clean after these videos
6:54 the reason why Coyote Peterson is holding the toe biter willingly like that is because he's legitimately insane, he has a series of videos of him willingly getting stung by every insect on the Schmidt pain scale and showing his reactions... Also he's not Australian, I'm pretty sure he lives in Utah, so he's the closest you can get to Australian without actually living in Australia. All in all, I love Coyote and his videos are awesome.
I used to watch his videos all the time, I can confirm he is the most insane person I’ve ever seen.
As a Utahn, I confirm this is true
But… coz no!
Never
This video is basically Jordan doing his
✨i’m uncomfortable✨ dance for 19 mins straight, it’s perfection.
Lol you're out of control lol 😆 smh
Uhhh? What?
@@J.Qu1ncy what's ur question
We need to keep this guy from the entire concept of deep sea gigantism.
The giant isopods would give him nightmares.
I would love to see Jordan react to deep sea nightmare fuel.
I'd say it's far worse than anything the insect world has to offer... well except centipedes. Fuck centipedes. and spiders.
@@Grimsikk True dat 😂 Fuck dem centipedes man
The isopods at the bottom of the ocean would haunt this man's soul.
RUclips was made for this guy
That is a huntsman spider at the end. Harmless, curious, and they absolutely love trolling Australians by popping up right in their face while they're driving.
Fun fact: That first bug is a whip scorpion and is actually 100% harmless. People actually keep them as pets.
I worked for an insect zoo, and these guys are sweet hearts. They even have favorite keepers.
I just know it as ‘the thing from Harry Potter’ lol
But why did it like bananas though
@@ChristianDeRiemer who doesnt like bananas?
Perfect to scare guests and I still think it’s a Xena morph PROOF ME WORNG
I was terribly arachnophobic. My wife grew attached to a jumping spider that had been hunting in our kitchen window everyday. It became our pet. Over a time I got used to the little booger. I even cried when she passed. I loved that little thing. Can’t seem to be afraid of spiders anymore. Now I’m fascinated.
Nah dude jumping spiders are an exception! I had an albino jumping spider, super sweet. Then I thought there was a baby jumping spider on my window sill. Nope. When it got bigger it bit me all over In my sleep. Was a brown recluse. F that.
@@gillypiexo gotta look at those eyes. The truth is in the eyes.
@@gillypiexo I need to know what happened omg I hope you’re okay!!!! The only thing I know about recluse bites is how the venom literally eats your flesh. I hope you’re okay dude
i had a little spider friend named aquadytie (aqua-die-tee) who lived on my sink for about two years. he would keep me company while washing the dishes and was overall a pretty chill guy.
after a few years of my brother gone (after being kicked out by my parents) he moved in and killed it the very same day. he knew how much i loved that damn spider. i cried that night and have hated him since. it’s been about four years.
theres something so weird about liking spiders
one time there was a spider in a high window near the shower in my bathroom, i never sprayed it because then itd probably get in my eyes or itd be too high up, so i just never did anything and it rarely moved and after a while i honestly got attached and felt kinda bad when it did eventually need to be sprayed
As for Jerry, he’s commonly known as the Rhinoceroses beetle and these guys are also harmless as well. I am certain rhinoceroses beetles eat fruit and 10000% love tree sap as their diet. What’s cool about these guys are that they are like sumo wrestlers who fight only each other to compete for food and for ladies.
Oh yeah, I've handled a few at work! They're just goofy lil fellas. Well, maybe not little lmao
@@somethingsomethingsarcasm little is an understatement. Think these guys are still chill most of the time
Consuming nightmare fuel for content for us, a true king, may you be freed from all bugs in the future
Fu K that keep it coming 😂😂😂
Haha honestly a true horror movie is just Jordan in Australia with all the bugs and horrified screaming throughout the trip. It'll never happen but it's fun to imagine. We got a glimpse of it with Jordan and the clip with the Australian spider in the car and the girls just straight up screaming...
Ameen lol
A friend of mine literally totaled her car because she was driving and saw the spider in her car.
Legit wrapped it around a tree.
Got carted away in the ambulance and before they took her she asked them if it was dead.
100% true story…
Oh my god is she okay? I respect her fear of spiders but not at the expense of her overall health. I hope she was able to walk away with minimal side effects from the accident. My friend was not so lucky
Honestly that would be my story if a spider decided to make its home in the car.
@@Just999Me I’m so so sorry to hear that…lost many friends and a cpl family members to MV accidents..
I think I find this funny because it’s one of the few personal stories regarding motor vehicle accidents that turned out with a happy ending …
She’s ok…
Had some serious injuries, but only long lasting one was a scar on her face… which she wears with pride and it’s become the conversation starter for her story…
Spider lived and went on home to tell his family all about it
This is why you turn the a/c vents to the off position. It deters insects from coming in.
Hello from down under😄..
The spider in the car is one of our Australian tarantulas. I lived in Yallingup and left my car door open one night. The house next door had been in the middle of renovations so a displaced tarantula moved into my car. A few days later I noticed the whole interior roof from the front to the back had been woven into a huge web. Moments prior to this revelation I was sitting in the driver's seat at 11pm talking to my partner in Perth as She( the tarantula) quietly dropped down next to my face and put her feet on my cheek.. I screamed so loudly as I kicked open the car door and threw my phone on the ground which ended the call, my partner thought I had been killed😂😂.
Once I calmed down I realised the massive web was there. This is in country and I had no choice but to drive the car home and the tarantula was in residence for some time.. she became the car mascot and often freaked me out until one day she was gone..
Did you find her eggs?
@@OhPervyOne No, never even thought to Check.. she was definitely a she and she was a big fatty.. beautiful spider
😂😂 Love how you had the spider in your car and she became the car mascot ❤ We have birds in the mall so they are like pets. The doors do not close sometimes so they come in. I hope housecleaning is cleaning really well.
I want to go to Australia just as much as Jordan doesn't want to go there. I get so excited about finding new bugs and animals.
I also have a slight bug phobia, so watching this was also difficult for me. You are not alone, Jordan.
Same here. Hate spiders, disgusted by roaches.
I did not have a bug phobia until I watched this video
9:52 it is called entomophobia
The intrusive thoughts make it so hard to watch.
some here
Man needs more nature documentaries.
Edit: You think he can get a RAID sponsorship? No, no, not that one. The bugspray.
I agree
I’ve always wanted to do a video and say it was sponsored by raid bug spray as a bait and switch, but I think Jordan would be the perfect person to do it instead
Yes! Field work!..let me rephrase that. Field Trip! Ahhh much better. Khaki's safari hat boots and face net = your rich. And your welcome. If you come up with a catchphrase...you... can't...lose my dude. Gerald would want it that way.
Dear Jordan,
I woke up from a nightmare at 2am and almost immediately went to this video so that I could sublimate my own fears in someone else’s wholesome and entirely justified terror. Because shared misery.
Thank you for your service I can now fall back asleep. And I love you too.
i love how throwing random objects seems to be your comfort gesture of sorts, like it seems to at least partially reduce your level of distress towards the little crawlies XD
I love how Jordan just always has several objects on hand to toss off screen when he's uncomfortable
Bro he chucked something out of frame as I read this 😂
I'm chortling over here, "From the laws of the jungle, that's the spider's car now." Pretty much my thoughts exactly. I hate spiders so much that I freeze solid in fear when I see one. So I began making myself watch videos of spiders, people who keep spiders as pets, any and all jumping spider videos (because peacock jumping spiders are really cute), and this one Australian guy who I believe is on a mission to scare the beegees (you know, when your throat is too tight to scream so you sound like Barry Gibb?) out of anyone who may be inclined towards not liking spiders. I still don't like spiders after all that, but I don't freeze solid anymore when I see one, so that's progress.
Heard once that there are at least eight spiders watching you at any one time.
I grew up on a Mango farm in Australia, the insect and arachnid things I have seen.
A Trap door spider capturing a snake
A Huntsman as big as a dinner plate
A centipede crawl out of a dead Cane Toad
The side of the house covered in ticks
Locust plague
A Magpie killed by wasps
A dead bird in a spider's Web
A kilogram of maggots
A dead cow totally covered In ants, you could not see the cow, only smell it.
A snake dying from the amount of ticks upon it
Mice and rats in spider webs
A wasp struggling to move a trap door spider
6 centipedes eating a rabbit.
That's just the insect and arachnid stories
You should record what you see and document it.
A huntsman as big as a dinner plate would have me in awe
Skin crawling while imagining what u have seen.
Yep. I believe every word you typed seven months and some days ago. I don't need proof that you are in fact, an Aussie. The ant covered cow I can totally believe too cause I've seen/smelled similar, just not at the scale of a cow.
@@Sphendrana w h a t -
This was like reading a horror book Jesus Christ how did you stay sane?!??! 😱😨
Fun story:
When I was 10 my dad took my mom and me on a speed boat in the lake. I hadn’t seen in him years so it was supposed to be a fun get together. But while we were in the middle of the lake, spiders 🕷️ started to come out of flooring and sides of the boat. And I’m talking about a ton of them. Big ones, small ones. I never thought so many spiders could be together if they weren’t the same species. I’m a severe arachnophobic, so my 10 year old ass decided to just out of the boat😅. I figured I would rather swim to shore than to be in a boat with 🕷️. My mother had to grab me from jumping into the lake and sit on me to keep me in the boat. It was a horrible experience. Now I hate boats and spiders 😅.
This is why you ALWAYS where your life jacket.
So you jump can overboard & not die trying to swim to shore.
Although honestly I'd probably jump so far & ty to run on water like a cartoon to get away.
@@Nirrrina 😂🤣😂I was wearing a life jacket. The spiders 🕷️ got on it so I took it off😅. I swear it was a fucked up day. And my mother found out I would choose to drown than to stay in a boat with a spider🤣.
@@Nirrrina 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@cielsebastian5145 sure it must of fueled your phobia being forced to lie down while spiders crawled all over you.
Would of chosen to drown as well.
Oh man! Your story had me in tears!!!😂
First bug was a vinegaroon, also known as a whiptail scorpion. They're harmless, they just look vicious. The toebiter is actually native to the u.s, and the guy holding it is named coyote Peterson. He actually let the thing bite him. You got off easy by not watching the whole thing lol
The first bug was a vinegaroon!
They are pretty common in the midwest, they can spray dilute acetic acid as a defense. It smells like vinegar, hence the name.
They look big and scary, but they are pretty chill actually (Like you can tell it doesn't FREAK THE FUCK OUT like spiders and roaches do when they see a human)
ah not a vinegaroon. but vinegaroons def do get mixed up. that's a amblypygi also known as a tailless whip scorpion! they're little guys that like to skitter but are harmless!
Yeah a tailless whip scorpion and completely harmless. I have one as a pet:)
Common in the Midwest where????
It looks like the bug in the goblet of fire, is it the same type?
@@caitlyn8878 WHY, it literally looks like an alien parasite
Laughed from beginning to end, I'm 100% with you.
Funny story, in the shower and a palmetto bug (roach) decided it wanted to shower with me. I politely ran out with a towel in hand, out my front door across the cul-de-sac to my neighbor screaming to kill it, bring it out of my house and place it in his garbage can. I realized later what took so long was the fact that I did not wrap the towel around me, it was still in my hand. I simply can not!!!
😂😂😂
A wolf spider held me hostage in the tub for a solid 2hrs. I had the fear sweats so bad that I got out of the bath more gross than I got in and I had to take a shower (ELSEWHERE) afterward.
The white flannel moth is adorable, but is extremely venomous in the caterpillar stage! And of course those wasps were aggressive; he just shucked their nest off! He can never open that window again 😂
the list of bugs in this video:
3:33 scorpion/whip spider without tail (according to user Wizardly)
5:00 huntsman (thanks to spudthepug)
6:00 toe biter
7:50 cecropia moth caterpillar taking a huge dookie (thanks to Matthew Kukowski)
8:30 lots of wasps
9:55 fruit/goliath beetle (suggested by Farcan/FallenStarArt respectively)
11:30 Phil the domestic silk moth (thanks FoolLych for the species and Graveantelol for the name)
12:48 jerry the grub turns into a elephant beetle (from Carden Gix'oth/Anli)
14:50 big spider inside a car (very scary)
17:11 Amazonian giant centipede (that thing's probably the size of a subway footlong)
if anyone is willing to tell me what to change about this list i would be more than happy to edit the names/timestamps of things :)
Moth enjoyer here! The moth at 11:30 is actually a domestic silk moth, not a luna moth. Sorry if that came off as a bit nit-picky, but I just really like moths lol
@@foollych2301 cool thanks for the info! i will be sure to edit it
I think that second one is a huntsman.
Phil the silk moth
@@graveantelol phil it is
OMG, the spider in the car was the end of me. I legit had to cover my eyes because it was so scary. You are def not alone on this one, Jordan. Mad props for making it through.
"that's not even Jerry that's Gerald now" I'm crying dude
You're the bravest boi.
Third video is of the dude that intentionally allowed himself to be bit/stung by like.. all of the most painful insects in the world. He did this so he could give people a valuable gauge for how much pain they cause and how long it lasts.
Coyote Peterson.
Guy in 3rd video is/was a true hero.
He's Coyote Peterson from Brave Wilderness
I don’t care if it’s RUclips or if it’s a podcast, I need more Jordan content. Not even bugs, just this man’s stories.
I JUST REALIZED WHY WE ADORE THIS GUY, DASHIEXP IS EXACTLY LIKE HIM 😂 WE NEED A WHOLE NEW JORDAN + DASHIEXP CHANNEL 😂😂😂😂😂
@@alamdaaliartes who?
as someone who was born in Australia, I moved all the way to Canada so I could move as far from those spiders as possible. Love the vids Jordan
Since you shared some of your bug stories here’s one of mine:
Years ago, I had to wash clothes by hand because my washer broke. It was summer so I made it a thing, staying outside and washing clothes in a metal tub while drinking soda and listening to podcasts. I went inside at one point and before starting another batch of clothes, I took a sip of my drink.
Now, I can’t remember if I heard something first, but I do remember feeling something funny in my mouth. I had it between my molars and kind of nudged it with my tongue before I spat everything out. Imagine my horror when I see a bee walking around in the puddle of sugary goodness. Not only had I almost swallowed a bee, but I had also held it between my teeth and basically pet it with my tongue!
I was so relieved that I didn’t get stung that once the shock wore off, I used a stick or lead to get it somewhere safe to dry off.
I have a story similar like yours
I have similar story but it was a giant cockroach eekkkk i was drinking water and it was in jug it fell in my mouth i immediately spit it out. it's been years but i still feel like i want to throw up
So the guy holding the toe biter is coyote peterson and he has an educational yt channel called brave wilderness. He has an entire series where he let's all sorts of bugs bite him, including the most painful bites on earth. Jordan my man I definitely suggest you do a reaction video to his series it would be a trip
I loved watching that series when I was in school.
The one around 9:42 is known as a Goliath beetle and these guys grow very big (from what I remember grow bigger than a hand or up to the face). The cool part about these guys is that not only these guys are harmless and fly slow as hell, but these guys are vegetarians or eat fruits like bananas so they are chill to have (which was why that beetle was leashed with floss).
The first time I've ever seen those tailless scorpions/whip spiders, I seriously thought I was hallucinating (the thing in the first video)
This was the bug in Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, when Mad-Eye Moody does the unforgivable curses
I'm so proud of his character development with Jerry and Phil!
I am in AWE of your bravery! I could only get through this video because you were there and I had the illusion of not being alone! And even with that I had to pause frequently!
It's so great to see someone - especially a man!- so unashamed of their fears! That makes me feel so much better about my own freakouts!
So much love to you, Jordan!! ❤❤❤ You're awesome!!!
I'm emotionally exhausted just from watching this. My deepest respect to everyone who can touch this big no-nos without instantly falling into a coma.
My fear for bugs started when my parents brought me to a bug exhibit where they had loads of creepy crawlies but more importantly to the story was a giant animatronic Preying Mantis which loomed over you as you entered a certain area in the exhibit. It was lit dark so when you entered it would be over you immediately with its body lit up from beneath, needless to say I've never liked a bug since.
I'm sorry but that's a hilarious origin story🤣
@@ashduwitt9899 I’m glad my childhood trauma is a good story :)
So your parents like to traumatize you I gather
3:30 that’s called a whip spider. Here’s some info on them.
Amblypygi is an order of arachnid chelicerate arthropods also known as whip spiders or tailless whip scorpions (not to be confused with whip scorpions or vinegaroons that belong to the related order Thelyphonida). The name "amblypygid" means "blunt tail", a reference to a lack of the flagellum that is otherwise seen in whip scorpions. Amblypygids possess no silk glands or venomous fangs. They rarely bite if threatened, but can grab fingers with their pedipalps, resulting in thorn-like puncture injuries.
As of 2016, 5 families, 17 genera and around 155 species had been discovered and described.[2] They are found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide; they are mainly found in warm and humid environments and like to stay protected and hidden within leaf litter, caves, or underneath bark. Some species are subterranean; all are nocturnal. Fossilized amblypygids have been found dating back to the Carboniferous period, such as Weygoldtina.[1] Amblypygids range from 5 to 16 centimetres (2.0 to 6.3 in) in legspan.[2][4] Their bodies are broad and highly flattened, with a solid carapace and a segmented abdomen, or opisthosoma. Most species have eight eyes; a pair of median eyes at the front of the carapace above the chelicerae and 2 smaller clusters of three eyes each further back on each side.
Amblypygids have raptorial pedipalps modified for grabbing and retaining prey, much like those of a mantis;[5] recent work suggests that the pedipalps display sexual dimorphism in their size and shape.[6] The first pair of legs act as sensory organs and are not used for walking. The sensory legs are very thin and elongate, have numerous sensory receptors, and can extend several times the length of the body.[2]
Amblypygids have eight legs, but use only six for walking, often in a crab-like, sideways fashion. The front pair of legs are modified for use as antennae-like feelers, with many fine segments giving the appearance of a "whip". When a suitable prey is located with the antenniform legs, the amblypygid seizes its victim with large spines on the grasping pedipalps, impaling and immobilizing the prey. This is typically done while climbing the side of a vertical surface and looking downward at their prey.[7] Pincer-like chelicerae then work to grind and chew the prey prior to ingestion. The tailless whip scorpion may go for over a month in which no food is eaten; often this is due to premolt. Due to the lack of venom the tailless whip scorpion is very nervous in temperament, retreating away if any dangerous threat is sensed by the animal.
Courtship involves the male depositing stalked spermatophores, which have one or more sperm masses at the tip, onto the ground, and using his pedipalps to guide the female over them.[8] She gathers the sperm and lays fertilized eggs into a sac carried under the abdomen, or opisthosoma. When the young hatch, they climb up onto the mother's back; any which fall off before their first molt will not survive.
Some species of amblypygids, particularly Phrynus marginemaculatus and Damon diadema, may be among the few examples of arachnids that exhibit social behavior. Research conducted at Cornell University suggests that mother amblypygids communicate with their young with her antenniform front legs, and the offspring reciprocate both with their mother and siblings. The ultimate function of this social behavior remains unknown.[9] Amblypygids hold territories that they defend from other individuals.[10]
The amblypygid diet mostly consists of arthropod prey, but these opportunistic predators have also been observed feeding on vertebrates.[2] Amblypygids generally do not feed before, during, and after molting. Like other arachnids, an amblypygid will molt several times during its life.[2] Molting is done from hanging from the underside of a horizontal surface in order to use gravity to assist in separating the old exoskeleton from the animal. Several species of Amblypygi are sold and kept as pets including Damon diadema, Damon medius, Damon variegatus, Euphrynichus amanica, Heterophrynus batesii, Acanthophrynus coronatus, Phrynus marginemaculatus and Paraphrynus mexicanus.[11] Tailless whip scorpions are kept in tall (>45 cm; >18 in) glass enclosures which allow for two things: Enough vertical space for climbing and moulting, and enough space for heat to dissipate in order to keep the enclosure between 70 °F and 75 °F. Five centimetres (two inches) of substrate at the bottom of the enclosure is generally sufficient to allow for burrowing and also serves as a method to retain water in order to keep the humidity above 75%. Tailless whip scorpions live anywhere between 5-10 years. Feeding can include small insects such as crickets, mealworms, and roaches.
If you red this whole wiki page on whip spiders, here’s a cookie for your pain🍪
I actually like reading this stuff so you did me a service. You should have 2 cookies.
It was also the bug in Harry Potter when they were showing the unforgivable curses.
Why on earth would you type all of this
You've never heard of copy-and-paste, @@perrycoffey5410?
@@perrycoffey5410I think it's a copy/paste
17:27. I like how Jordan was extremely terrified but instantly became curious lmao
For a first official video? You did phenomenal 💖
I hope to see more of your videos!
The fear of bugs is called entomophobia. It derives from greek (unsurprisingly) entomos means insect and phobos means fear, but I assume you already knew that last part.
Hi! Australian woman here. I died at "2015 Honda Sonata," but then I came back for the rest of the video, because this is information I need. Also, the Nightmare Cetipede? Yeah. Scolopendra gigantea. I have one in a shadow box by my bed. No, really. A very thoughtful friend sent me one for my birthday a few years ago. I named her Amelia. The same friend sent me a huge framed tarantula for my previous birthday. The spider in the Australian women's car would've ended me. Also, you nailed the Australian 'no'. Well done!
Very important question- what do you feed your centipede or is it dead
@@invisiblejay Roaches, rats, the occasional small child.
Just kidding, it is a preserved specimen.
😉
Your "friend" sent you those??!!?? Good thing they aren't your enemy!!! Yipes!!😵💫😵😳🤣🤣🤣
@@evangelinebelami8716 That's love! 🥰😍💖😍🥰
Ok so, zoology nerd time bc I like bugs :)
The first bug is called a whip spider, a totally harmless arachnid that is closely related to scorpions, true spiders and ticks
The second one is probably a wolf spider? I’m not sure but it’s a spider for sure (not a tarantula) she definitely had babies somewhat recently though (but anyone could tell you that)
I’m not sure about most of the beetles but the second to last video is of a Huntsman Spider, a common spider in Australia and they like to hide in any little nook they can (especially in cars, houses, the woods, etc.), they have a pretty potent venom but they’re dangerous mostly because of their hiding places which scare people when they’re found
For the last video centipedes CAN NOT eat humans (their venom is rough but it cant kill you unless you happen to be allergic to the toxins), centipedes also eat by chewing whatever prey they catch their mandibles on the underside of their heads (not their pedipalps which are what actually inject venom)
thanks for coming to my Ted talk
My wife and I watched this together; and when we got to the third bug video you did and you were reading how the toe-biter sinks it's long needle like jaws into your body, your video cut to a video game commercial that started with the 17+ mature eating because of blood, gore, and violence. We were cracking up soooo hard because of the irony!
The character development this mans went through for Jerry is amazing
12:58 Jerry is a big boy now
They grow up so fast 🥲
This was awesome 😁
Love the Jerry to Gerald journey 😂
Once a spider dropped down in front of my face while I was driving and I yeeted across three lanes of traffic in my panic. Thank goodness I didn't hit anyone but OMG 😱😫
I hate bugs too, but you know what I'm gonna suffer through it with you for moral support as thanks for all the months of laughter you've brought me. 😖KEEP ON KEEPING ON CHAMP!
Jordan, thank you for being brave enough to do this video. I've been stationed from the US military in Europe (scorpions were common when I lived in Castello D'Aviano by the foot of the mountain), Okinawa (Habu snake - venomous pit viper , Huntsman & banana spiders), Guam (Cane toads, brown widow spider, great banded hornet), Ascension Island (lesser brown scorpion), Central Texas (Southern Black Widow, Brown Recluse, Striped Bark Scorpion, Texas Red-Headed Centipede, Kissing Bugs, Asp Caterpillar, and the Eastern Velvet Ant) not including the ones I saw in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Bosina. You, Jordan, are lucky to see them in video and not having a camel spider chase youo during a night run cause you got confused for food.
You've survived coz you know your bugs my G !
Camel spiders can’t hurt you
@@goldenlynelslayer4096 just try and say that with a calm voice when its actively chasing you
@@observantwonderer7401😂
@@goldenlynelslayer4096 True, unless the babies snuggle in your uncovered boots. We used panty hoses or plastic bags to keep them out. When it's zero dark thirty in a dark tent, you don't pay attention to where you slide your feet. When no one tells you they don't like the human species, the fear of being prey kicks in.
Why the hell am I just realizing you have videos and not only shorts? 🤦🏾♀️ About to binge all of your context repeatedly 😆 Your perspective, energy and humor brings me joy. Plus you are handsome to the Gods 🙏🏾 Thank you for being you 💜
15:00 is a justification to punch the driver, so they stop the vehicle.
All I got to say after watching those clips is "AW HELL NAWWWW!! NOPE NOPE AND NOPE!!" Idgaf WHAT amount of money someone offered me to physically touch/hold any of those hybrid mutant science experiments gone horribly wrong, I wouldn't take it!! Love that Jordan is facing his fears because it's inspiring me to do the same, but I still (and probably always will) have a severe aversion to all insects, and most reptiles and marine creatures.. they're just not for me at all and I prefer to stay outta their space and vice versa.. lol..
I cannot express how excited I was to come across a long form video from you! I 1000% share your feeling on spiders but I will apparently watch any terrifying shit just because it's you.
The emotion in "What happened to Jerry?!?!" still has me dying. Lol.
Absolutely love all your content and can't wait to see more long form!
If it's bugs again, maybe you should stand up to make escape less dangerous to equipment and give you room for the "all the nope" anxiety dance. Lol
When I was visiting my grandmother in KY as a kid - they had "June bugs (beetles)" that my siblings would tie a string on them and fly them around in circles around me, which I hated.
16:16 Oh my- I found one of those in my room, crawling in the wall and doing weird tickling noises. That thing was HORRIFYING omfg
And I'm not even Australian-
How the fuck are you alive?
Hi, Aussie here, I've had a huntsman spider in the car multiple times...fun fact...if you open the window, most of the time the wind just makes the spider move further into the car to get out of the wind...they don't like that. So if the car is in motion, don't open the window, just get a container and hold it over the spider until you pull the car over.
When I was in college I had a friend with a fear of snakes with the same intensity here. Confession, this one time I had a book of Gary Larson Far Side cartoons. There was one about snake parents with a large amount of baby snakes in one of those wood slat playpens, and because they're snakes the babies were going everywhere. I thought the cartoon was funny and cute and might help my friend with her phobia. I put a copy of this cartoon on her door. I don't know if she ever, to this day, has entirely forgiven me.
Saw your shorts and became a fan almost instantly. You have a wonderful personality, funny, with an equally amazing voice to boot, while also being attractive af! I truly hope for nothing but sunny days and happiness for you, and thank you for being you
Jordan you don’t just have to worry about huntsman spiders in Australia though. I guess there’s really tiny spiders and there are so many of them that when they travel - in a method called ballooning - the webs left behind make the ground look like snow. It’s literally raining spiders.
Australia really is the Devil's sandbox.
I love seeing you happy ( my two favorites are when you say, come here no back up / when you throw the cup, or the paper towel through the door frame )not scared. I’ll catch you in the next one but for now Harvey compilation .❤
6:56 True, but that’s also Coyote Peterson. He’s a different breed of man entirely, and has been bitten/stung by a myriad of insects purely for science
Okay, that one at 11:30, I see that and I think Mothra, and I'm immediately comforted.
The first bug you saw was a fascinating species known as whip spiders (thanks to its long antenna) they are actually related to spiders being an arachnid, and are harmless to humans! (Physically at least) depending on where this video was filmed it could be one species native to Florida! They are amazing!
3:01 Screaming at the top of my lungs for that person to not put their hand in there. What is wrong with people.
4:32 “looks like two kids and a cousin” 🤣
I'm glad you liked the fluffy moth! I used to be really scared of moths until I found out about those guys and also when I met a really pretty Luna moth in person once. But if one flies into me in the house it's over
You’re SUCH a brave boy Jordan! 🤣 Thank you for doing this video, it was pure gold!
For the "what is that": 3:20 - Tailless whip scorpion. The front is where the two pincer-like legs form a 'T' shape. Harmless. But very glad I knew that when I first saw one (I was on a toilet).
Spider at 5:30 is is probably a Sparassid - so huntsmen and rainspiders. Big, a little grumpy when they have babies but not really dangerous. Most spiders are very good mothers (including Sparassidae), so those probably are its babies.
Toebiters and other diving bugs are not flexible. Easy to hold them without risk of biting.
9:42 is just a fruit chafer. This is a male in the Goliathini tribe. It barely has jaws as an adult (so if it does bite, it isn't anything to write home about), and mostly feeds on sweet sap from acacia and similar trees. An extended warranty wouldn't work because it barely lives a month.
Gerald looks like a Hercules beetle. The Pokemon horn is for wrestling other Geralds. Same family, different subfamily, as the previous clip.
And don't open car windows to shoo a spider out of a moving car. It will move away from the rushing air, and towards the interior of the car.
Can't speak for Australia, but the giant centipedes (Scolopendromorpha) that we have here in Zambia are generally more retiring than (some of) our spiders, but I am much more wary of them because their bites are worse.
Thx. Really interesting info.
My suggestion is inch up to scarier bugs honestly. Moths are great subjects for helping treat a phobia like that IMO because most of them are just fluffy lil guys. The Rosey Maple Moth is a favorite of mine. I have a deathly bad fear of centipedes though, especially house centipedes, and I feel every reaction here... never let anyone tell you you're less of an adult for being scared of insects. It's common.
Omg if I see a centipede or cockroach I’m running, you will not see me after
8:30
Fun story right, when I was in 5th grade there were many wasp nests at the back of the school, so one day during recess my classmates thought it'd be fun to throw stuff at it until it fell. And when it fell wasps came out EVERYWHERE and we ran, one kid got stung and only one. He was sent home.
We still took down another nest without anyone getting stung so yea.
so um, my 5th grade class was fearless
@@V33sVideostore And stupid. XD
9:54 i literally threw my phone dawg 🤦♂️
I've held a giant centipede! That exact species too! It was rly cool but the legs feel a lot sharper than you'd think. It isn't painful, but it feels like being poked by a blunt needle every time they take a step
My mom got a yellow jacket down her shirt once while gardening. In the moments it took her to get out of her shirt she was stung 17 times. I’m not a fan of bugs myself, but it’s not at this level. Something about Jordan’s reactions is so endearing, what is it about this guy that’s so damn appealing?
Whenever I see bugs (especially spiders) in my apartment the fear washes over me so completely and manifests in the NEED to destroy what ever bug it is. I instantaneously decide that only one of us can live and I plan to be the one that does. That feeling when a spider slips away with a grudge is my nightmare fuel
Jordan, I'm so proud of you! Way to take on your phobia!!
I wonder if Jordan has seen Starship Troopers
@@shanilbahadur7546 or how about Eight Legged Freaks?
@@OhPervyOne gotta check that out
@@shanilbahadur7546or played Hell Divers 2
OMG I've been in the spider-in-a-car situation a couple of times now, but with much smaller ones and it was still terrifying cause you can't always pull over right away. With something that big, I'd literally just die of terror.
Hi Jordan! I'm definitely a fan and have been following you for over a year, and you're hilarious 😂
Mini leash thing is interesting. 10:09
I hate bugs as well but heard stories from my mom when she grew up in the Philippines. She'd catch dragonflies or beetles and have them fly like that.
For a while when I was younger I couldn't eat whole strawberries because I bit into one once and there was an alive worm wiggling inside. The strawberry was perfectly pristine, no holes or anything on the outside, but the inside was black with that worm. My mom said it could've been worse because at least I didn't bite it and see HALF a worm.
I found a green little thing kinda looked like a praying mantis
You can purge bug larvae and worms from berries by soaking them overnight in slightly salty water.
Just look at it as extra protein. 👍🤣
I truly appreciate you doing this Jordan.
The ability to watch this without feeling like I'm overreacting is honestly freeing for me.
Thank you so very much Jordan ❤️
anyone see the bug come out of Jordan's hair at 14:03 🤣
I've never agreed with anyone's reaction more. My friend and I were eating lunch at a picnic table outside in the sunshine under a tree, when she stopped and said hold on. Then she reached over and flicked something off my shirt and said, "you had a little green grubby on you. You would have freaked". Yes I would have.
Bro… you have come to be one of the few emotionally stabilizing RUclipsrs. I wholly appreciate your content. Having PTSD… yes. Thank you.
The first bug that you showed reminds me of that scene in the goblet of fire where the fake mad eye Moody was torturing what looked like the creature in the first video
THE EDITING IS GOLD oml great video, Jordan, couldn't stop cracking up at 1 in the am
Proud of you for facing your bug fears! I used to be so afraid especially of spiders. I slowly started exposure therapy through animal husbandry videos. Ants Canada is a good place to start. He has a channel dedicated to any keeping. Pretty cool.
I can’t tell you the number of times I screamed watching this. SO glad I didn’t watch it at work. Only reason I stayed was because Jordan did. His voice soothed me enough to make it through and his reactions made mine feel validated😌
That story time made me remember when I was in 5th grade a classmate of mine brought to school a big ass black spider with yellow spots on it's butt and it escaped and we all thought it went out the window but my word! When I was sitting on my chair I kept feeling like there was a loose thread on my leg and when I checked, I had a lot of yellow webs! My soul literally left my body when I saw it hiding under my chair! To this day, every time I feel that same sensation on my body I freak out! I am forever scarred.
I'd forever resent that classmate bc bro ain't no way😭
9:42, yep, it's called Entomophobia
12:16 Phil makes exotic thread, he is harmless
Thanks for taking one for the team Jordan.
Now this needs to be a series on your channel lol
This is good therapy to help you get over the fear Jordan. You got this I'm proud of you ☺️
There are adorable moth plushies available for weirdos who enjoy moths and think they're cute, like me. I put one on my wishlist and my Auntie sent me a cuddly Poodle Moth. It's absolutely one of my favorite things ever.
I am DYING rn … I can’t breathe his mannerisms are killing me pleasee😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2:44
Beetles and moths are definitely a lot more capable of being cute than other bugs. Sometimes I think grasshoppers can be cute, but I definitely get the phobia, especially with spiders.
im not really scared of arthropods but jumping spiders, weevils, and silk moths are one of the cuter guys of the group
0:44 the timing is hilarious
Ooo I'm so glad to get longer content from here.....this makes me so happy. There aren't many creators that bring me as much joy as this man, he is darling, funny and his delivery is great! Thanks for the joy Jordan 😃
I just remembered this.
Just sitting at home, it’s cold and it’s dark outside and then bang. What looked like a small bird rammed itself into the window. It took me a little to realise that it was a huge as moth.
There’s another story regarding my brother and big moths but it sounds way better in person than if I tried to write it out.
I completely understand that fear. I was car-jacked by a June bug. I gave up my car and the guy at taco bell had to move my car out of the drive thru. Peace and love to you.
Found you through your short vids, and I'm so glad.
Watching you respond to these bugs kept me calm as my computer crashed repeatedly. It's magical