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Griffin: This final yahoo was sent in by Sam Leff, from Yahoo Answers user My Mouse Cursor's Gone, Where'd It Go, Oh, It Was Hiding On The Other Monitor, You Sneak Thief, They're, Something Went Wrong, Ah, No, Fuck It, who asks: "Do ants pee and poo and how?" Griffin: This one is my favorite. The question is phrased a little differently, but this is the one, of course, that everybody asks. Justin: Yes. Griffin: Do ants pee and poo and how? Justin: No, they do not. [laughs] Griffin: Yes, they do. This is something I never would have even considered. When I was an intern at a technical recruiter… well, maybe back in, like, ’95, ’96, I was actually, like, an actual… Justin: Yes. Griffin: …technical recruiter… Justin: [laughs] Griffin: …and so this is the typical intern job interview question, and, of course, what I always think of as an ant pooping question is: What do ants use to urinate and shit? Justin: Yes. Griffin: I would say: They have little pouches, I guess, or— Justin: Yes, little pouches, a special little pouch, or— Griffin: Some kind of sphincter— Justin: And this is why I‘m an IT recruiter, because these things just happen. I think I do not want to ever, ever, ever have to answer the poop question. [laughing] Justin: They do not… I mean, I could not imagine that I would have ever had to even consider the question of ants urinating. Griffin: Uh-huh. Justin: What is even the connotation of that? Griffin: [laughs] Justin: They pee and poop and we‘re not the least bit concerned. [laughs] Griffin: What are we concerned about? Justin: Because they‘re not going to do it on the carpet or… or anything like that. Griffin: They‘re doing it in the wall. Justin: They‘re doing it in the wall, yeah. Griffin: They do not… we do not… they do not… Justin: And, of course, this is a slightly different answer than is normally given to the poop question. Most pooper question answers are: they poop, it‘s brown, they‘re, like, out in the woods, I guess, and their, you know, whoosh, and then out they go, and they never come back. Griffin: Uh-huh. Justin: Now, you know, some people, when they‘re really, really, really disturbed, they might answer, you know, they‘re—they‘re, like, dying or they‘re eating it or they‘re sitting on it and it‘s developing on the wall or, you know, something like that. But I don‘t think they‘re doing this. This is one of those things that‘s a fun question, but, I would say, with ants, they do not pee and poo. Griffin: Uh-huh. Justin: And if they did, they wouldn‘t be called ants. Griffin: [laughs] Griffin: OK. Justin: I don‘t want to say that, because that‘s not what we do here at this place, but I would probably say they don‘t pee and poo. They just move that little bit of—it‘s just, you know, a little drop of something that ends up going back to the colony. Griffin: Yes. Justin: They would just be, like, moving it back to where they came from, and that‘s it. Griffin: [laughs] OK. Justin: They would just be collecting a little bit of, you know, stuff to take back to where they come from. Griffin: Mm-hmm. Justin: No. [laughs] It‘s just, you know, because you guys just had a baby, and I‘m just trying to avoid this poop question. Griffin: OK. Thank you. Justin: [laughs] Griffin: [laughs] Thank you. Justin: And that‘s another—it‘s just an ant question, OK? It‘s another… it‘s, like, another one. And that‘s not even to, you know, put a point on it. Griffin: No, no, no, no, it‘s not, like, one big thing. Justin: Well, it‘s a subset of the, you know, poop question, which has a whole host of questions that have been suggested