“Tens Of TRILLIONS Of Mosquitos” - Google UNLEASHES Lab-Bred Bugs To ‘Combat Disease’

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Apparently, Google is planning on releasing mosquitoes.

[00:00:03]>> Great.

[00:00:03]>> Okay. What do you mean mosquitoes? They want to release millions of mosquitoes into California to help stop diseases.

[00:00:11]What's the disease? What do you What do you want to do? No, they want to release mosqu guys. This is not a like this is not Rob, this is not a spoof of a story.

[00:00:18]This is a real story that we're talking about.

[00:00:20]>> Correct. And they want to do it here in the state of Florida as well.

[00:00:22]>> Yeah. Well, that's where that's where, you know, it's going to be a problem when you're doing something like that.

[00:00:26]Google planning to release mosquitoes, a tech giant is seeking federal approval to release, you ready for this folks, 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida over the next two years as part of an effort to reduce the spread of mosquitoborn disease including Westnile virus, St. Louis and syphilitis and then a bunch of other uh viruses that I'm not going to read.

[00:00:52]Uh the proposal is currently under review by the US Environmental Protection Agency, which is accepting public comments through June 5th before deciding whether to issue an experimental uh permit. Rob, can we see what these mosquitoes look like that they're talking about? On Friday, a positive sample of Westnile virus was confirmed in Riverside County. The project is part of Google's little known debug initiative launched more than a decade ago to develop new techn technologies aimed at reducing populations of disease carrying mosquitoes. Rather than releasing biting insects, the company plans to release male mosquitoes infected with wbakia, a naturally occurring bacteria. Is that what the mosquitoes look like?

[00:01:32]>> She has eyebrows. Rob, is that it?

[00:01:34]>> Yes, that's what they're said. This from the CDC.

[00:01:36]>> How long does it take to make each of these mosquitoes? Do we know?

[00:01:40]How long does it take to make these mosquitoes? What is the cost of each mosquito? So, one of them is a self-limiting gene that prevents female mosquitoes offspring from surviving to adulthood. Another one is a fluorescent marker gene that f that glows under a special red light that allows researchers to identify GM mosquitoes in the wild. GM mosquitoes produce in a lab lay eggs which carry the self-limiting and fluorescent marker used for mosquito control. When the egg hatch, they develop into adult mosquitoes. These mosquitoes mate with wild females. Makes sense. The genes are passed on to offspring. The expected result of using GM mosquitoes is that number of AE uh mosquitoes in that area decreases. It's pretty wild. Did you know that only female mosquitoes bite? They need a blood meal to produce eggs. Male mosquitoes do not bite.

[00:02:31]>> Typical.

[00:02:31]>> They need they feed on nectar from flowers. Tom, your thoughts on this?

[00:02:35]Does this concern you at all? Yes, because you know what I find this to be ridiculous. You know why I find this to be? I don't trust it because California and Florida do have something in common and that is massive agriculture crops.

[00:02:47]You know, there are grapefruit and oranges and it's called Orange County around uh Orlando for a reason and it was called Orange County in Southern California for a reason. So, check this out, Pat. Fruit flies can be a problem.

[00:03:01]They can infest um orange groves, grapefruits, lemons. you saw all the lemons. We used to drive in um um up through um Ventura County toward um Santa Barbara and you could see lemon groves, all this stuff. Well, check this out. Fruit flies became a problem and scientists came up and says, "Hey, you know what we could do? We could breed a bunch of sterile males. We can breed a bunch of fruit flies. We'll sterilize the male with chemical or radiation or something. We'll have some various techniques and then we'll release them out into the wild and then they'll mate with the females and the females won't get pregnant and there'll be no more fruit flies and we'll cause it. They spent millions and millions, I think even billions of dollars on it. And guess what happened?

[00:03:48]>> The neutered male fruit flies were less strong and they didn't fly as well. And sometimes they would mate with the female and then she would turn around and then mate with a wild male fruitfly and get pregnant. Anyway, that's what was happening. I don't trust these programs. And by the way, there's a hysterical University of Nebraska study that goes back like 2010, 2012, but it basically said, "Guys, sterilizing the fruit flies and sending them out may not even work. As a matter of fact, you may have the same sized problem that you did because the sterile males, you know, flew weekly. And by the way, guess what?

[00:04:28]The females in the wild tended to prefer the males that were in the wild, not the sterilized, weak flying sterile fruit flies. And I thought this was hysterical. So, by the way, they tested.

[00:04:42]>> It's just like, here we go again.

[00:04:44]>> They did this in 2017. Google did this actually. Google's uh life sciences unit is releasing 20 million bacterias in Fresno infected mosquitoes in Fresno. Verily the life science armor Google parent company alphabet has hatched a plan to release 20 million labmade bacteria infected mosquitoes in Fresno and that's a good thing. You see the Zika carrying edit Egypt mosquitoes pre prevalent in the area. Earlier this year a woman contract contracted with the first case of Zika in Fresno through sexual contact with a partner who has been traveling.

[00:05:14]And now there's a fear of inevitable mosquito meets patient if we don't do something about it. Very plans called the debug project hopes to now wipe out.

[00:05:22]I mean you know there's certain industries you go in that first of all even by the way let's just say a noble person was running that company.

[00:05:30]>> Okay. Alphabet.

[00:05:32]>> No no let's say a noble person is trying to release these mosquitoes. Take somebody you trust and they're running a company.

[00:05:38]>> Okay.

[00:05:39]>> Is there any winning in this business?

[00:05:41]People ask you what do you do for a living? We released mosquitoes.

[00:05:45]>> Wait, wait. How many of them?

[00:05:47]>> Yeah. In 2017, we released 20 million in Fresno and we're thinking about doing 32 million, but we're good people. We're churchgoing.

[00:05:52]>> Okay.

[00:05:53]>> How hard of a job it is to do.

[00:05:55]>> Dude, you ruined my summer. My backyard was terrible.

[00:05:58]>> By by the way, in full like to be in give you some context, do you know how much 32 million mosquitoes are? Not a lot. Rob, how many total mosquitoes are there in America? I'm sure somebody counted them one by one by one.

[00:06:10]>> Two billion.

[00:06:10]>> Yeah. Yeah. It's No. No. No. separate them by citizens and illegals.

[00:06:14]>> It has tens of trillions.

[00:06:15]>> That's the number.

[00:06:16]>> Tens of trillions of mosquitoes. 32 million mosquitoes is like the poor 22,000 cops in France trying to prevent all the immigrants in France of destroying the city with 7880 arrests.

[00:06:28]32 million mosquitoes is nothing.

[00:06:29]>> Tens of trillions.

[00:06:30]>> Tens of trillions of mosquitoes just in North America alone. By the way, added tens of trillion, nine of them are in Fort Lauderdale. I don't know if you know that or not. During summer, they show up when it rains. Adam, your thoughts on this because they want to release this in California and Florida.

[00:06:46]>> Yeah. Like 62%.

[00:06:47]>> I just want to know one question. Do local communities get to vote on this or do they just get to release mosquitoes >> uh when they feel like it? It's kind It kind of reminds me one of those things that's like you only stop a bad guy with a gun, with a good guy with a gun. It's like you only stop a incilitus mosquito with a non-male binary mosquito that basically takes down the queen mosquito.

[00:07:08]Everyone should be skeptical, but at the same time, we should understand. I assume they know what they're doing.

[00:07:12]>> You're going to assume. I don't listen, I don't know about you, but the past few years asked a good question, though. Did the people of the city have to vote vote for?

[00:07:22]>> I asked, did people in Fresno have to vote for it? Says no.

[00:07:25]>> The residents of Fresno did not vote for the mosquito project. The program was handled through a combination of regulatory approvals, local mosquito control district, public comment period, and environmental and health reviews. It was not placed on a statewide ballot for Fresno voters. Very worked with local mosquito control authorities and state federal regulators to conduct a release.

[00:07:47]Public meetings and common opportunities were held, but there was no referendum requiring majority voter approval.

[00:07:53]That's interesting.

[00:07:55]Yeah, you would want the people that are living there at least to have a say like at schoolboard meetings and be like, "Hey, I'm not cool with what you guys are doing. You guys are putting these books in the library. They get to go and voice their opinion and push back there."

[00:08:07]>> Yeah. So, the critics were saying exactly what you said. Critics said the residents should have a direct vote.

[00:08:12]Releasing millions of mosquitoes affected by a broader community. We should have something to say.

[00:08:16]Large-scale biological interventions should require stronger public consent.

[00:08:21]Man, I don't know. This is the direction we're going.

[00:08:24]>> By the way, have we not learned in the past couple years just blindly trusting these giant corporations and billionaires? They're playing scientists. We just talked about Bill Gates recently. This is Google. Google and al this alphabet, right? This is a a parent company.

[00:08:38]>> Vinnie, let me tell you what's coming.

[00:08:40]Let me tell you what's coming.

[00:08:41]>> What?

[00:08:41]>> Can we play imagination game real quick?

[00:08:43]You ready?

[00:08:44]>> Go ahead.

[00:08:44]>> Okay. So, check this out.

[00:08:46]>> What is the likelihood that if it already exists, it could already exist.

[00:08:51]What is the likelihood in the next five, ten years there's going to be mosquito drones this small that they'll fly into the negotiation room >> and just sit in other say I'd love to be a fly on the wall. Well, that's exactly what they're going to do.

[00:09:08]>> Military mosquitoesized drones to go >> and track anything and everything that's being said and leak the information. I wouldn't put I if they're not already in the late stages or they don't have one, they'd be very very dumb. Like I'm pretty sure that they're almost there.

[00:09:25]Do you remember in >> Well, you could never tell anybody about it. Is that it, Rob?

[00:09:28]>> Look at that guy.

[00:09:30]>> Look at that guy.

[00:09:30]>> What does this drone do? Tiny. Quiet enough to be called mosquito drone.

[00:09:34]>> Black hornet. What does it do, Rob?

[00:09:35]>> I horn it.

[00:09:36]>> Oh, okay. C Can you play it? Actually, play. Let's listen to the audio. Yeah, for sure. This is coming.

[00:09:42]>> Maybe the music we can't play. Yeah. So, it has the camera in there. Look at the camera. The way it comes out.

[00:09:48]>> Boom. It's like the mosquitoes dangling, but it's the camera that comes out >> and then it records.

[00:09:54]>> I wouldn't put it past. It's >> flight computer.

[00:09:58]You can make it so flipping small that is not even detectable. Data extractor, Vinnie. It goes in the computer and extracts. Like, you ever seen the Transformers one?

[00:10:10]>> Yeah.

[00:10:10]>> Well, the first the thing is in a purse and it's trying to find Wiki's glasses.

[00:10:13]>> Yeah.

[00:10:14]Wiki.

[00:10:15]>> Yeah. Wiki's glasses.

[00:10:17]>> Do you remember in uh uh the Fifth Element they had the guy had a remote control? Cockroach had like things on its head.

[00:10:23]>> Well, Pat freaking sharks have laser beams.

[00:10:26]>> What's the term they use when they when you have uh something in a room recording devices? It's called bugged.

[00:10:33]>> Aa. There you go. Right there. By the way, you remember when you caught my uh massage mosquito?

[00:10:39]>> Yeah.

[00:10:39]>> Yeah. I'm replacing that as we speak.

[00:10:41]>> There was quite a few. I'm replacing that as we say.

[00:10:43]>> But but by the way, do you not think for a second intel agencies are right now working on mosquito sized cameras?

[00:10:49]>> It's already done.

[00:10:49]>> I think it's already it's already done >> for sure. I mean, >> instead of biting you, the mosquitoes just >> forget cuz pagers are big. Mosquitoes are now.

[00:10:57]>> Exactly.

[00:10:57]>> Pagers are Imagine 5,000 mosquitoes going at boom boom boom and it just pops and it bites you. And by the way, even worse, >> like there's some really nasty areas you can go. Imagine mosquitoes that can release viruses. Oh, >> the way you can get rid of 50% of a nation.

[00:11:13]>> That's what >> they just fly. No, literally.

[00:11:15]>> I know.

[00:11:16]>> You drop them, they go, they're it's like on a mission. Release a hundred mosquitoes into an area. Next thing you know, half the population is gone.

[00:11:25]>> It used to be frogs they used to focus on and they would frogs would become, you know, it's a different situation.

[00:11:30]But >> anyways, I I don't know. These mosquitoes I don't trust. It was yesterday. It was we had people over at the house and I'm walking around and Tom is asking me about the different shoes.

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