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Judd Apatow hasn’t relented in his Twitter takedowns of Bill Cosby, and on Wednesday posted a video of the comedian discussing Spanish fly — an alleged aphrodisiac derived from dried beetle dung — with Larry King.

In the clip, Cosby and King engage in a brief back-and-forth on the merits of the bug (frankly, King doesn’t come off very well here, either), with Cosby beginning the exchange by saying boys would be searching for Spanish fly “from age 11 on up to death.”

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“That’s right,” King replies, laughing.

“The old story was, if you took a little drop,” Cosby says. “And you put it in a drink…”

“That’s right. Drop it in her Coca-Cola,” King cuts in. “It don’t matter.”

“It doesn’t make any difference,” Cosby says. “And the girl would drink it and —”

“And she’s yours,” King says.

“Hello America!” Cosby finishes.

It’s not the first mention Cosby has made of Spanish fly: the bug was a prominent feature in his comedy routine in the 1960s. Here’s an audio clip: