Charles Liu

Let's use The Last of Us, okay?

Which was built originally as a video game, but now has been turned into a very successful television series.

As so many things have.

That's right.

Remind me to tell you about Monster Hunter.

Okay, that is a great game franchise, but that's in a moment.

Right now, we would say that the reason...

that the last of us happens and humans are threatened.

Global warming is the culprit in the last of us.

I did not remember that fact.

Mushrooms or fungi, a particular group of fungi, cordyceps, there are hundreds of species of this particular fungus.

We now understand that's the case, right?

But see, fungi, they can't survive parasitically in humans because we are warm-blooded.

we have a higher body temperature than most fungi can tolerate.

So, fungal parasitism or infection happens all the time in the cold-blooded world, okay?

Ants, wasps, they are parasitized by fungus all the time.

There's a famous zombie ant fungus

Right.

That causes the ants to go up and then the fruiting bodies grow out of their antennae and then they pop and then the fungi continue to reproduce.

That is nasty.