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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: They'd be It is Kevin Milne's birthday week and he

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Speaker 2: is with us this morning, Kilder Kevin, how was it, Curer?

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Speaker 3: I had a very nice week, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: One of the highlights actually was on the evening of

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Speaker 3: my birthday, we had corn beef sandwiches. Did you with

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Speaker 3: I don't. I can't think of an easy, more attractive

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Speaker 3: and tasty meal than corn beef sandwiches.

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Speaker 2: Really would that be? You know, have you ever played

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Speaker 2: the death Row dish? You know where they say what

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Speaker 2: So if you were on death row and you got

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Speaker 2: to pick your last meal, what meal would you choose?

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Speaker 2: Would you choose?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I don't think it'd be the cornbas sandwiches.

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Speaker 3: I'd be going for some crayfish and black voices probably. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, someone said someone said that you Yeah, I'm really

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Speaker 2: If it's a death row dish and that's your absolutely meal,

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Speaker 2: really what you want to choose as an all you

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Speaker 2: can eat pasta or something, so you just keep going,

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Speaker 2: just keep on going. Yeah, Well, happy birthday. I'm pleased

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Speaker 2: to please to hear that you enjoyed it. But Kevin,

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Speaker 2: you want to talk about something that has been winding

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Speaker 2: you up a little bit and continues to wind up.

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about flies this morning?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know if it's the same way you are, Jack,

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Speaker 3: but the common household fly seems to be making a

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Speaker 3: comeback after a quiet summer. They're everywhere, and I've developed

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Speaker 3: an interest in flies. How come when they land on

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Speaker 3: your knee, for example, they're nearly always getting away from

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Speaker 3: you if you try to squash them. Over a lifetime,

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Speaker 3: I've enhanced my technique at swatting a fly. I don't

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Speaker 3: slam the hand down on them the minute they land.

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Speaker 3: If you're waited about five seconds there torso drops into

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Speaker 3: a relaxed position between their knees. Have you noticed that, Jack?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it depends on the fly.

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Speaker 3: But yes, yeah, yeah, we're talking about the common household fly.

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Speaker 3: But when they're in the relaxed position, you slowly bring

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Speaker 3: your hand down closer to the fly without screwing it away,

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Speaker 3: and once you're within twenty centimeters, then you know smack.

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Speaker 3: You lift your handback up to inspect the damage, and

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Speaker 3: once again there's nothing there. It drives me nuts, but

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Speaker 3: I've been reading about the fly, and it's a little

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Speaker 3: wonder we can't catch them to set off. Their eyesight

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Speaker 3: and their neural skills react so quickly they see your

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Speaker 3: hand coming down on them in slow motion at a

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Speaker 3: quarter of the speed that we see it. Wow, they've

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Speaker 3: got so much time. They see our hand coming down

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Speaker 3: towards them, they light up a fag and consider what

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Speaker 3: way to fly out. They can fly off in any

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Speaker 3: direction they like and laugh at you from a distance.

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Speaker 3: Flies can launch themselves off your knee in zero point

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Speaker 3: seven million seconds.

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Speaker 4: That's point not seven seconds. If they're threatened, they can

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Speaker 4: fly at twenty four kilometers an hour. That's the same

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Speaker 4: speed that Sam Ruth, a fifteen year old around the

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Speaker 4: four minute mile on Wednesday night. Now, just like you

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Speaker 4: and I would never chance of catching Sam, you could

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Speaker 4: never catch a healthy fly.

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Speaker 3: The only flies you catch are those that have got

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Speaker 3: something wrong with them. How does that make you feel, Jack,

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Speaker 3: that you're slamming your hand down on a fly with

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Speaker 3: some disability.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things, isn't it that? I mean,

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Speaker 2: flies drive me crazy, absolutely crazy, but I begrudgingly can

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Speaker 2: look at the fly and think that is an incredibly

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Speaker 2: well adapted species. Like how like if you were if

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Speaker 2: you were designing a fly from scratch, I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: you could improve on it, you know, like it is

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Speaker 2: just so so incredibly well adapt It's like a cockroach

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Speaker 2: or a rat or what anything else. Right, there's something

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Speaker 2: about vermin, something about pests that you know, the reason

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Speaker 2: they endure them, the reason they managed to evade us,

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Speaker 2: is because actually they are just supremely adapted.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but price really, I mean, they are one

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Speaker 3: of God's little creatures, as they say. And yeah, I

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Speaker 3: mean if you try to sit down and make one

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Speaker 3: but very very difficult, you wouldn't do it. And so

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Speaker 3: to some extent, I have a despite the fact that

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Speaker 3: I'm always trying to swat them off my knees and

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Speaker 3: stuff and catch the odd one, I've got quite a

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Speaker 3: lot of respect for them. I don't like spraying them really. See, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it seems like that's sort of masculine.

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Speaker 2: Well I'm it's not. I'm not worried by that. My

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Speaker 2: wife's is the spraying. She's a big sprayer, and I'm

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Speaker 2: always just like, oh, are we just spraying castinogens around

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Speaker 2: the house, And of course the can says, oh, it's

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Speaker 2: safe and stuff. I'm like, I'm not sure that that's

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Speaker 2: something that kills these things as effectively as that does

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Speaker 2: is necessarily going to be healthy for us. But I suppose, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I suppose don't say breeze the breeze is the best thing.

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Speaker 2: You won't have a breeze coming through, because then they

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Speaker 2: don't they don't like the breeze. Apparently, so if you

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Speaker 2: can get a bit of a draft going in the house,

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Speaker 2: apparently that can be effective. But I don't know anyway,

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Speaker 2: KEI hopefully, hopefully, is the weather starts to get a

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Speaker 2: little bit cooler, you're going to have fewer flies at

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Speaker 2: your place. But I appreciate your time this morning, and

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Speaker 2: glad that you enjoyed your birthday. Here you go, Muz says,

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Speaker 2: come on, re smacking a fly, You clap your hands

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Speaker 2: slightly above them, then they fly up into your hands.

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Speaker 2: Mary reckons that you've got to go from behind them.

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Speaker 2: I still reckon, Mary that with their kind of field

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Speaker 2: of vision, that most flies are going to be able

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Speaker 2: to evade you. But thank you for that.

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