1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com? Yeah, wait your house 4 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: it's a good y Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 5 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: This is Josh. That's Chuck. This is Stuffy should know. 6 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: How do you smell? Chuck? Was that at the other 7 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: room this morning? So? How how are you holding up? Well? 8 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: This is we got a good three and a half 9 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: beat between us. Fine, um, you heard this is a 10 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: non usual opening for this podcast. You didn't hear, but 11 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: I heard you did. Okay, Okay, So that's the that's 12 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: the last few seconds. I guess of the Fly, the 13 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: original nineteen fifty eight version starring Vincent Price, and that 14 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: is the the inventor named Seth Brendle, who um brindle fly, Yeah, 15 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: who has converted himself into a fly. Well switched heads 16 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: with the fly, right, switched bodies, I guess. And now 17 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: he's a tiny little fly man who's being attacked by 18 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: a spider on the spider web. You know, I just 19 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: saw the Cromeberg version a couple of months ago. I 20 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: think I told you that. Yeah, it holds up the 21 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: first time. Yeah, it's that I don't understand why um oh, 22 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: what is his name, the main guy, gold bloom. I 23 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: don't understand why Jeff Goldbloom um decided to add I 24 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: guess it's a kind of like sexy arrogance to his 25 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: character because it came off weird. That's just the gold 26 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: he can do, I guess. So, man, the he brings 27 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: that to everything he does. He's tripping with it. So chuck, 28 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: we uh. We played that part of the fly not 29 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: so much because we could, although that was a large 30 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: part of it, but because we can explain what is 31 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: on that little fly body. Now, that's right. We've read 32 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: how flies work, and specifically how house flies work by 33 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: stuff to blow your mind. Robert Lamb's been popping up 34 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: a lot lately, hasn't he? Who Robert's work? Yeah? Yeah, 35 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: good stuff, And he just kind of pops into the 36 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: cubicles and says, hey, how's it going a lot lately? Yeah? Yeah. 37 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: The housefly josh, um, if you're if you live in 38 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: a house and you're flies flying around, you got about 39 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: a nine chance that that is an actual Musca domestica. Yeah, 40 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: that's the that's the houseflies name. That's right. There's not 41 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 1: some other more exotic name. It is on all um 42 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: initial appearances, one of the more mundane bugs ever. But 43 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: it's actually pretty interesting if you ask me, and disgusting 44 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: because they carry lots of diseases like typhoid, fever and 45 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: sam and ella and leprosy and cholera. Isn't that crazy? 46 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: They carry leprosy and testinal worms. Well, I knew that 47 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: bacteria that can lead to dysentery. I didn't know that 48 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: they could, Uh, they could carry leprosy, though I didn't either. 49 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: You know, I always equate leprosy with nudism because they 50 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: both they both live in colonies. Yeah, I always think 51 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: of leprosy when I think of lepricy. I think of 52 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: the Bible, because growing up in churches where I heard 53 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: about lepro colonies and leprosy and leprity being healed and 54 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: all that. Exactly have you ever seen the fog the 55 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: second one? I guess for the fog too? Was there 56 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: a fog too? I don't know. I mean John Carpenter 57 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: the original fog, I think, right, this is the remake 58 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: where the people attacking were lepers who were turned away 59 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: and now their ghosts have come back for Vengeance. I 60 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: think that was the original as well. It wasn't. I 61 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: didn't realize there were lepers. I thought they were like 62 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: pirates that have been across or something. Cheez. We need 63 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: to get her act together. And that's such a good movie, 64 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: the first one. Yeah, I'll check it out. I just 65 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: watched the thing last night. Oh that's a great one too. Yeah. 66 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: And I had a fairly voracious Alien versus the Thing 67 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: comments on I saw people get into that. I definitely 68 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: say Alien is bad or but the thing is more disgusting, 69 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: a little more twisted. Yeah, alright, this has been a 70 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: long setup. Flies huh so chuck, um, We've we've got 71 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: down that they spread disease, right potentially. Um. One of 72 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: the things that kind of cropped up while I was 73 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: reading this is it was kind of an expansion of 74 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 1: everything I'd always knew about flies. Yeah, we all know 75 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: a little bit, which I find very reassuring. You know, 76 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: it's not like quantum suicide, where it's like everything you 77 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: think you know is just completely unreal and just go 78 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: ahead and stop thinking. Now. This is like, yes, you 79 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: understand house flies, and here is some more information about them. 80 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: So I guess kind of this is almost like an 81 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: elementary school episode, which I find I find comforting and 82 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: reassuring to let's talk about fly anatomy, house fly anatomy, 83 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: and if I accidentally say fly, if you accidentally say fly, 84 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: we mean house fly specifically, right, that's right, Oh, And 85 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: dispersed throughout the podcast, we'll have fly facts that sounds 86 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: like this, So when you hear that, it's gonna be 87 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: a new fly fact. So, Josh, if you're talking a 88 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: housefly body, it's like a lot of insects. It's got 89 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: an exo skeleton made of kitan, and it's got three 90 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: sections to the body. You got the head, you got 91 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: the thorax, you got the abdomen. And as everyone knows, 92 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: this is the this is actually isn't a fly fact, 93 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: so no buzz, but it is effect, but it's not 94 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: one of our fly facts. So every jingle, no jingle. 95 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: Everyone knows that the fly has all those tiny, little 96 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: bitty eyes, and like you said, it's reassuring to know 97 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: that's exactly what they are. There two common eyes divided 98 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: up into three to six thousand simple eze yes, and 99 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: it's like a bunch of little video monitors because they 100 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: can't focus on one little thing in particular. It's like 101 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: a mosaic, right, but I also got the impression that 102 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: it's like a mosaic. But each little eye is kind 103 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: of its own. It's representative of the physical grid. It 104 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: makes a grid of its physical environment. Right. So I 105 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: wonder if the flies like, oh, there's a movement in sector, 106 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: what I wonder and like, I go focus on that 107 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: one simple eye to see that, you know a piece 108 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: of poo on the ground that I need to go, 109 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: you know, wattle through, or there's a human um who's 110 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: coming towards me or something. And of course by sector 111 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: ninety G, I meant sector three thousand to six thousand G. Yeah. 112 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: So those are the eyes, and they are also a 113 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: couple of little um I think three ocel eyes or 114 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: if you're in Itali in Italy, and they are between 115 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: the two compound eyes. And that's sort of like a 116 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: compass that keep the fly oriented and ideally flying towards 117 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: the sun. Okay, So I think that this should be 118 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: the first fly fact. All right, let's do it, okay, 119 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: uh chuck. The reason house flies are commonly found kind 120 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,119 Speaker 1: of flittering against a window because they're stupid, No, that's 121 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: a fly myth. The fly fact is that they're oh 122 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: ocelli or ocelli. The to simplize the act as a 123 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: compass orient themselves upward by finding the sunlight. They're all 124 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: constantly searching for sunlight, which is why they always go 125 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: to a window or a bugs ever. That was fly 126 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: back number one, all right, I like it on the head, Josh, 127 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: which is where a lot of the action takes place 128 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: with a fly. Um. They get their sense of smell 129 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: from their antennae right there. For tasting and eating. They 130 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: have a probiscus, which is a little plunger like thing 131 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: that sticks out from the bottom of its mouth and 132 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the bottom of the head um. They have 133 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: little feelers, two of these, and their max maxillary palps. 134 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and then they are the tasters. And at 135 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: the end of the probiscus you have the labellum, which 136 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: is um. Is that the mouth, the little spongey part. Yeah, 137 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: it's it's like a sponge mouth like it's not like 138 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: an open mouth that you think of. It's like a 139 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: sponge on the end of the pro proboscis where you 140 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: just suck. That's a probiscus didn't they it's close proboscus. 141 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: Sorry about that. No, it goes either way, and that 142 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: always makes me think of adaptation. Chris Cooper's character talks 143 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: about the probiscus of the orchid. Oh yeah, Jerry's and 144 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: they're just saying, yes, it's really weird. Apparently she's um 145 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: guest starring in this episode. She's paying attention for the 146 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: first time in weeks. So, um, chuck, there's a huge, 147 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: huge little thing that you You pointed out that um uh, 148 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: the labellum. Yes, the spongy mouth doesn't allow solid food 149 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: in and we're gonna get to that in a minute, 150 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: but just keep that in mind. That's fly foreshadowing, not 151 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: a fly fact. But we've come to what I think 152 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: is fly fact number two. Don't you are you going 153 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: with the biting? Yeah, the biting, Okay, fly fact number two. 154 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: Houseflies do not bite. If you get bitten by a fly, 155 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: it was not a houseflowd on housewives. Might be a 156 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: horse fly, and you know those in the summertime when 157 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: you're in the pool, the land on your head and 158 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: bite the tar out of you. Or it might have 159 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: been your little sibling, brothers, sister. That's true and what 160 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: other list another one stable flies, which are yeah, yeah, 161 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: horseflies there there. They kind of take care of all 162 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: the horses at once, where a horse flies just like 163 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: I just want this one horse. That's my take on it, 164 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: all right, So that's fly fact too, So chuck, Um, 165 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: we are onto wings now, which isn't necessarily a fly 166 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: fact because it's so essential. Right back in ancient times, 167 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: which was up to sixty million years ago, as I understand, Um, 168 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: that's how long houseflies have been around. Um, they had 169 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: two sets, two full sets of wings, and nowadays in 170 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: our modern times, it looks like flies have houseflies have 171 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: one set. That's not necessarily true. Yeah, if you're a 172 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: little jerky kid, a little myoclonic jerk, and you pull 173 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: the wings off of a fly, you probably think you're 174 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: just pulling off too. Yeah, and you may be, because 175 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: those are the large ones. But there's little tiny guys 176 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: under there, and they're called halters, right, and the halters 177 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: where actually if you if you pull the halter off, 178 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: these little tiny wings um that are underneath or above 179 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 1: I think they're underneath. They're underneath the big wings um. 180 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: They allow they basically allow the fly to move quickly 181 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: in the air right to um to maintain balance a 182 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: direct direction hover, yes, um. And so if you remove 183 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: one of these, it can only go in circles. If 184 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: you remove both of the halters to fly, can't get 185 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: is an airborne at all? Yeah, with those two big wings, 186 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: it still can't fly without his little halters. Ye, it's 187 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: pretty good, but not a fly fact. No, very interesting nonetheless, 188 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: But the the big wings, the large wings that you 189 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: see when you look at a fly, are the ones 190 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: that do the real heavy lifting, right. Yeah, We're talking 191 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: two hundred to three hundred flaps per second, and they 192 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: can go about four and a half miles an hour, 193 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: which I would have assumed they could go faster than 194 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: I can run four and a half miles an hour. 195 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: And it's and I've seen flies zipping by me when 196 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: I'm running. So chuck first, I don't know if you 197 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: said the all of the moving parts, the wings, the legs, 198 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: all this stuff, um, are located in the thorax, right, 199 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: So you get the two sets of wings up top, 200 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: and then below that you have the different legs. And 201 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: the legs are well, they're they're standard legs. They're segmented 202 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: and joined. But the most interesting part for me about 203 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 1: the fly legs the house fly legs are the tarsi, right, yes, 204 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: which are little tiny hairs on the end of the 205 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: legs that act as pretty much the same thing as 206 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 1: taste buds do for us. So that's why a fly um, 207 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: that's why it'll land on food. It's not just landing, 208 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: it's tasting to say do I want some of this? 209 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: And most of the time the answers yes yes. And 210 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: we'll get to the gruesome truth of that in a 211 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: moment as well. Right, My favorite part of the legs 212 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: is the pole vili. They are a little moist suction 213 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: pads and they are the little grippers. So that's why 214 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: when you see a fly, uh, jump on a wall, 215 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 1: fly into a wall, and just all of a sudden 216 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: they're like Spider Man right walking up the wall, little grippers. 217 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: Or that's how Jeff Goldblum did it, with some swad 218 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 1: of viv as well thrown in there. Uh. And then 219 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,439 Speaker 1: the abdomen they have the key organs which are the 220 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: reproductive organs, and the female the oviposter, and the male 221 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: has the ideas and I actually look at that one 222 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: up nice and that's not how it would have pronounced it. 223 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: But these little uh, little things retract when they're not 224 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: in use, on both the male and the female, so 225 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,719 Speaker 1: they'll stay protected there. That's very aerodynamic. It would be 226 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: very unerodynamic to have the adegus just kind of laughing 227 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: in the wind flies a thing around the house. It's 228 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: like putting the landing gear down a little too soon. 229 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: Write exactly, um, so chuck you you we already foreshadowed 230 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 1: what's going on with them. The mouth, the sponge mouth, 231 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: the labellum. Yes, um, that it can only up liquids. Well, 232 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: not everything a fly eats is liquid, right, No, not 233 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: if they want to jump on that steak or that 234 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: dog crap or dry blood yea. Um. When a fly 235 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: encounters something, well, first of all, part when when the 236 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: it accepts food into the bellum, it basically sucks it 237 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: straight into the stomach. If it's liquid, it's good to go. 238 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: So when it lands on the food and it finds 239 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: that it can't um, it can't just suck it up, um, 240 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: it basically tries to crumble it with the end of 241 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: its proboscus. Right at that point, it's got tiny little 242 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: it's it's smaller, it's more manageable, and then it pukes 243 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: on it. Yea, that's step two. Everything you've ever heard 244 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: about flies vomiting on you um or your food or 245 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: whatever when they land is absolutely true. Yeah. I thought 246 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: I might have thought that was an old wives talle 247 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: in this article. No, it is true. Um. What the 248 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: fly does is basically spit up saliva and digestive juice 249 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: is onto the little crumbs that it's made using its proboscus, right, um, 250 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: and it sits there for a couple of seconds thinking, 251 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: and then it it tries to slurp it up. Um. 252 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: And Robert makes a really good point in the article 253 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: this sounds extremely disgusting to us, right, sure, but the 254 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: fly isn't doing anything we don't do. When we take 255 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: food into our mouth, we chew it, we masticate it. Right. 256 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: Saliva is attacking it, starting to break it down, and 257 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: then it goes through our esophagus into our stomachs and 258 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: it becomes digested by juices. The flyes just doing the 259 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: same thing, but on the outside of its body because 260 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: it doesn't have teeth, and we have the decency to 261 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: keep it all internal. Right, We don't go into restaurants 262 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: and puke up onto our plate. That just would that 263 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: would be untoward. So if there if the um, if 264 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: this food is kind of in an in between state, um, 265 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: and it's been spent on, vomited on left and it's 266 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: still not quite right, it gets moved to the crop. Right, Yeah, 267 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: I see the what should we call this fly fact? Okay? 268 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: Fly fact? Was this three? Yeah, there's a crop, like 269 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: you said, and instead of just um saying, oh, well 270 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: this this little bit of crumb isn't quite liquid enough, 271 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: let me just go fly to another one, the fly 272 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: is pretty efficient, so they say, actually, let me save 273 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: this for later, stick it down another hole into the crop, 274 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: and in the crop it waits, and then they'll pass 275 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: it back and forth, maybe add a little more digestive juices, 276 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: throw up on it a bit more, and they do 277 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: this until it's ready to be you know, until it's 278 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: liquid ready to go down the shoot. It doesn't waste 279 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: its food. That was fly fact three. Right, Yes, there 280 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: is one thing you know we said that the fly 281 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: is not really doing anything differently than we do to 282 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: our food, is just doing it on the outside. That's 283 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: still horrific and disgusting, because um, not only is the 284 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: the fly carrying possibly leprosy to your sandwich. When it 285 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,719 Speaker 1: throws up on it, it's probably throwing up something at 286 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: just eight which, as you pointed out, could be dog poop, 287 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: could be blood. Uh, could be the you know, poop 288 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: from a leprous dog, something like that. So when you 289 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: you're at a picnic or something and you see that 290 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: fly on your sandy, it's probably and if you see 291 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: it moving his little hands around, it's vomiting disease on 292 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: your food. It's what it's doing, right, exactly, Potentially disease, 293 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: not always no. And plus you don't underestimate the human 294 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: immune system. I mean, we all have white blood cells, 295 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: you know, we all, we all can mount a pretty 296 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: decent defense unless we have some sort of immuno deficiency. 297 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: And if we do have that, then they were probably 298 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: in some sort of treatment for it. So for the 299 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: most part, I mean, it is gross. But you know, 300 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: I think in in modern times where we got the 301 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: flies under control at least you know here in the West. Yes, Um, 302 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: for now, until the apocalypse comes the Rise of the 303 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: fly right, Um, do you remember of that part in 304 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: Amityville Horror The priest is like he's covered in flies 305 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: and starts sweating and was that Rod Starker Huh yeah, 306 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: nice good. I would have been so out of there, 307 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: um chuck. Yes, we talked about their sexy bits already. 308 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 1: What do they do with them? What's the fly family? 309 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 1: Like a fly family? Josh is like many insect families. 310 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: They man will chase down a female and impregnate her 311 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: and it happens really quick. She's ready to lay her eggs. 312 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: Toot sweet and uh, they don't stick together after they mate, 313 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,439 Speaker 1: they separate and the and the mother doesn't even guard 314 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 1: the eggs like a lot of species do. One night 315 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 1: love affair. Yeah, and she basically dumps the eggs and 316 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: what she deems to be a safe place and she's like, 317 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: I'm out of here. It's one night stand followed in 318 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: child abandonment. And how many eggs is it? Later time? 319 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: Did we get that up to nine? Over the life 320 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: cycle of a fly? Okay, in a life cycle, I 321 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,479 Speaker 1: think they said the average lifesman is about three weeks, 322 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: but it could be three months. Yeah. I don't think 323 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: a fly can live physically beyond three months. But yeah, 324 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,880 Speaker 1: the average lifespan and reality because of fly swatters and 325 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: things like that. Um is like twenty one days. I 326 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: think he said. Yeah. So the life cycle um is 327 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: a lot like most insects. It's got the egg and 328 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: then the larva, then the pupa, then the adult. Warm 329 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: summertime is optimal. It takes about seven to ten days 330 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: to go from egg to adult. And they go through 331 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: I think three molten stages. Uh, the little maggot student, 332 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: they see, you know this, you know all this. You 333 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: learn this in school. Didn't it nice to know this? Yeah? 334 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 1: Very nice? So chuck um with the maggots. The first 335 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 1: stage of the most interesting stage. We've arrived at a 336 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: story that I have. Oh boy, when I was in college, Um, 337 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: cooked steak through cooked steak and really actually, now they 338 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: think about it, I guess I've probably trimmed some raw 339 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: meat off and put it in the guard bridge can, 340 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: as is normal, a garbage bag in a garbage can, 341 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: the kitchen garbage can. Okay, And I get up the 342 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: next so I'm a normal person. I'm not stick away 343 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: exactly exactly. Um. So I get up the next morning 344 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: and I go into the kitchen and I wonder, why 345 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: is the kitchen floor moving like that? Oh man? And 346 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: I kind of followed the floor as it went up 347 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: the garbage can and into it, and I realized that 348 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: my kitchen floor, it's a small kitchen, granted, but my 349 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: kitchen floor was covered in a living layer of maggots 350 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: the whole thing, the whole thing. So I'm like, I've 351 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,479 Speaker 1: got to get rid of these. What how do you 352 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: take care of a maggot infestation? And I tried bleach first, 353 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: did nothing to him, didn't even slow down one of them. Really, 354 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: I ended up having to walk all over them. Well that, yeah, 355 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: that's the old fashioned way. That's that's what I had 356 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: to do. And for I did not actually have a 357 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: floor infestation after that, so I guess I got them all. 358 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: But they make a horrific little popping sound. Did you 359 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: have have like snow shoes or something at least no, 360 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: probably like hiking boots or something. It was an athen 361 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: Why were they all over the floor? Was it from 362 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: the steak it out of the garbage can overnight? Like 363 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: like that? That's frightening, But that I mean that follows 364 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: with um what we know about the housefly life cycle. 365 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,719 Speaker 1: That Larva's hatch um within a day, right, and and 366 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 1: don't forget Larva and by Larva's I met larva with 367 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: an E on the end um equals maggots breathe out 368 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: of their butt, right, didn't we learn that somewhere else? 369 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: So they never have to stop eating exactly. So they're 370 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: just like this little fleshy worm like thing with the 371 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: hooked mouth that just does nothing but eat. And yeah, 372 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: because they breathe out of their butts and molt like 373 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: I said, three stages, and then the third molten stage, 374 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: you know, it goes uh, it gets a little darker 375 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: and enters the pupa stage and that's the larger protective shell. 376 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: Then it fully develops and outcomes a beautiful butterfly or 377 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: a disgusting house fly like barton the Simpsons. Yeah, and 378 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: how to like what Barton the senses. There's a treehouse 379 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: of Horror where they redid the fly where he's like 380 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: that mindless like the fly with Bart's bodies it's mindless eating. Yeah, 381 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: that was one of the earlier ones. That's a good one. Uh. 382 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: And then they get out of their little shell there 383 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 1: with a temporary swollen bump because they can't chew to 384 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,159 Speaker 1: get out of an egg or the shell, so they 385 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 1: they literally use this bump on their head to crack 386 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: their way out, and then after they get out, that 387 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: bump deflates and it just becomes part of the head again. 388 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 1: I wonder if it's unique to each fly, like they 389 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: can recognize one another from the bump on the head, Like, 390 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, and I didn't There wasn't a name 391 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: for that in here either. No, it's just the swollen 392 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: bump alright. Fly fact number four. Yes, so we talked 393 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: about a fly. It can't live longer than three months, 394 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 1: that's right, That is if it's existing outside of diapause, right, 395 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: Totally fascinating to me. Yes, So diapause is basically like 396 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: suspended animation or hibernation for the fly. Basically, if there's 397 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: no food around um, and there's no predators either, and 398 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,919 Speaker 1: the flies like I'm gonna see what's going on a 399 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: few months from now, the fly can basically shut down 400 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: it's it's life processes to the state where it can 401 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: just exist without moving. It's like a state between life 402 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: and death for a few months, right, and then wake 403 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 1: back up and be like it's the future or it's 404 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: winter and I'm dead soon. That's another part, because don't 405 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: they only live during the warmer months or do they 406 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: don't live all year around. They they thrive in the 407 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: in the warmer, warm, muggy areas. So Josh, surely these 408 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: things add nothing to the world aside from being discussing 409 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: little creeps. Agreed? Not true? You don't want them in 410 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: your house? Well, remember, Chuck, these are one of the one, 411 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: one of like three bugs that you and I agreed 412 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 1: are are fine to kill. Yeah, what else did we say? 413 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: Mosquitoes and mosquitoes, ticks and this is the only non 414 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: blood sucker. Interesting. It's a poop Peter though, and that's 415 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: why I don't want in your house. But they are 416 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 1: good um, like all flies in the world at large, 417 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: great source of protein. They break things down in in 418 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: into smaller bits for other bacteria and life forms to 419 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: feed on. They are an important part of any ecosystem 420 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 1: that they live in. I mean, there's nothing here that's useless, right, 421 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: That's right? Okay. I think they even found a use 422 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: for the old appendix, didn't they they did? Doesn't it 423 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: like um combat cancerous growth? I can't remember, I believe 424 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: so uh, And I think they even use maggots and 425 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: uh freshwater fishing raising commercial fish like to lapia. Yeah 426 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: to life, you love them. They use pupa. The pupa 427 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: is high in protein. Okay, so that's what they feed them, 428 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: a little freeze dripe pupa m And you know, if 429 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: you're if you're a survivalist, or you're in a bad 430 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: situation out in the woods and you need to survive, maggots. 431 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: If you get like a rotted uh rotted tree on 432 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: the ground, you want to eat those maggots. You'll eat it. 433 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: You'll eat it and you'll like it. I would do it. 434 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,199 Speaker 1: And I'm not down with that stuff at all, but 435 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: I would do that, of course, to save myself. Full 436 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: circle and Tom Fagy, oh yeah, nice job, thank you. 437 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 1: Do we have time for one more fly fact? I? 438 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: I think so, I think, yes, we do alright. Fly 439 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: fact number six, No. Five five. Ancient civilizations actually made 440 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: regular sacrifices to the fly gods to keep the swarms 441 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: out of their houses and temples because they thought they 442 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: were harbingers of harbingers of sickness and death, even though 443 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 1: they didn't know the science behind it. Right. The flies 444 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: are just there's something about them. They are um, They're 445 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: disgusting there, unwholesome. That's the word I'm looking for. They 446 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: are inherently unwholesome. Yeah. So if you want to keep 447 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: flies out of your temple, right, you have several options 448 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: available to you. Right, keep a clean house, that's number one. 449 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: That's the smartest thing to do. Don't don't don't leave 450 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: like your carton of milk open and just sitting on 451 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: the counter when you're doing it, all right, Or the 452 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: steak in the trash. Yeah, Emily makes me throw away food. Uh, Like, 453 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: I put it in a bag and take it out 454 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: to the garbage. So what we do too, that's what 455 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: you do with adults in college, I think so. Yeah, 456 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,199 Speaker 1: it's like scrape in the trash. It was in a 457 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: kitchen garbage can with the top. I mean in college, 458 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: I would have left that plate out in the living 459 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: room on the couch. I've always been fairly clean. Yeah, 460 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: me too. What else can you do fairly biological control? 461 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: You've got the old venus fly trap, which you know, 462 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: if you can keep them healthy either kind of tough. 463 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: Not just that. At the end of the um at 464 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: the end of the fly that was at the beginning 465 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: of this podcast, it's taught in a spider web, which 466 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: happens quite a bit, so us. As long as the 467 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: spider is not going to kill you and your family 468 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 1: while you're sleeping, just leave it along because it's going 469 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 1: to control the fly population tremendously. That's right. And farmers 470 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: even there's some commercial farms that actually buy uh parasitic 471 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: wasps too, you know, eat larvae right and take care 472 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: of flies for their crops. The Tarot melody wasp, that's right, 473 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: Tara Melody. Uh, keep your windows and door shut. That's 474 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: kind of obvious. If you're gonna keep your door open 475 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: in the middle summertime, you're gonna have a lot of flies. 476 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: I think that's funny that even warranted its own bullet point. Yeah, 477 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: and the flyswatter did too. Actually physical control and fly 478 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: paper which is disgusting. Yeah, it's it's gross too, I 479 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: mean especially around food, like if you see that in 480 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: the kitchen at camp. Yeah, you know when you went 481 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: to camp and you walk past of kids and there 482 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: like flies there. It's like, get some glass glazies windows, 483 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: what is wrong? Or at least changed the fly paper 484 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: every day. That's something too. There's bugs appers and then 485 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: I wouldn't even endorse pesticides for house flies. You don't 486 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: want to be sprayed that stuff in your house, But 487 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: that is an option for some people and it's just 488 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: not for me. They can be very dangerous and has 489 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: anybody who's ever seen a bug's life knows the bugs 490 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,159 Speaker 1: appers actually get bugs high. It's kind of like a 491 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: hallucinogen to him. Oh was that what happened in that? Yeah, 492 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: I remember the guy that's got zapp, the bug got zapp. 493 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: He's like, oh, that was far out something along those lines. Yeah, 494 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: bug zappers are fun. So chuck, you got any more 495 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: fly fax or anything? I know? So we're done with 496 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: house flies. I'm done forever. House Flies just just as 497 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: disgusting as you always thought. That's right, and you already 498 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: knew everything about him. So everybody yourself a pat on 499 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: the back of this one. Right. Yeah, we should mention 500 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: if you use a fly swatter, it's a lot of 501 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: fun to smash a house fly, but you leave behind 502 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: quite a disgusting mess. You will not allow house or 503 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: fly swatters in the house. Now, we don't. We haven't 504 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: owned up. They're they're really kind of gross. That's only 505 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: second to the Pooper Scooper for the kiddie lettering devices. 506 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: Or the toilet scrubber next to the toilet, or the plunger. 507 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: So that's it. Now you know what chuck's in my 508 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: houses look like. Right. If you want to know more 509 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: about flies and you want to see these fly facts 510 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: in text, even you can type in house flies uh 511 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: in the handy search bar at how stuff works dot com, 512 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: which of course brings up listener mail Uh funny or 513 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: sad funny. Okay, I'm gonna read the Hodgman exchange. Oh 514 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: oh really, I was thinking we wouldn't do that and 515 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: end up on Judge John Hodgman. Maybe he'll litigate this 516 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: if we just pretendally can he doesn't exist. We'll see. 517 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this though, all buddy, Uh Johnny Rocket 518 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: Hodgeman John Kellogg Hodgman. Rocket is his maiden name. He 519 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: has a podcast he does through Jesse Thorn's Maximum Fun 520 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: Sound of Young America, called Judge John Hodgman. We plugged 521 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: it before he settles minor disputes between friends, lovers, husbands 522 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: and wives. It's very funny. So John writes this last week, 523 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: and there is a fan that said I wish to 524 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: file suit against the stuff. You should know podcasts and 525 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: this guy. It's complaining about the fact that we said 526 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: in the Scooby Doo show that there were the Boston 527 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: area campuses. Yeah, the five the five colleges that were 528 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: represented by the characters. Supposedly it was one of the 529 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: Scooby Doo myths, and we said that they're all Boston 530 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: area colleges. Like, what ones Amherst, you, mass Holyoke? Yeah, 531 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,239 Speaker 1: Mount Holyoke's North Northampton And all right, that's the ones 532 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: we'll get too. So March eighteen eight their nine Am, 533 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: Judge John Hydman writes to the stuff you should know. Seriously, guys, 534 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: see this Hello, The five colleges are in the Connecticut 535 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: River or Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, specifically Amherst, Northampton 536 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: in Holyoke, Massachusetts. This is painful to me, not only 537 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: because this is Hodgman country, but it was which is 538 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: mainlier than Marble Country. Actually it also has more argyle. 539 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: That's right. It was indeed while driving up and down 540 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: the tobacco fields along the Connecticut River that I first 541 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: came to enjoy your podcasts and to admire your great knowledgeability. 542 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: Wait you say tobacco fields, that is right. The Connecticut 543 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: River Valley produces what is historically the most prize shade 544 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: tobacco in the United States, and Massachusetts tobacco is still 545 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: dried and used as rappers for fine cigars. Were you 546 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: aware of this? In all caps? He he loves all cats, 547 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: and he's very intimidating. Sunday, even hope to show this 548 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,479 Speaker 1: fine country to you, my semi hometown, in my total 549 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: home state, and to remind you of the great motto 550 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: of Hampshire College. To know is not enough. I look 551 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: forward to hearing this letter read in its entirety on 552 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: your podcast before you forced me to humiliate you on mine. 553 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: That is all. Chuck Bryant writes, back, boy, John, did 554 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: we hear about this one? It made it abundantly clear 555 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: that the fine people of Massachusetts need to get right 556 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: with one another and cease to throw up walls between themselves. 557 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: There's enough segregation in the world. At ten o four, 558 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: Judge John Hodgman writes, so you have already run a correction, 559 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: then I must have missed it. Sarcasm uh. Ten o six, 560 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: Chuck writes, we have not and shall not take part 561 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: in the continued segregation of the fine people of Massachusetts. 562 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: That is all. At ten oh eight, John writes, you 563 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: leave me no choice but to mention this on my 564 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: own podcast, And I respond to him, and you leave 565 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: me no choice but to scoff at it publicly on 566 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: our podcast. This is like a nerd battle at this point. 567 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: It Yeah, And then John writes, very seriously, you don't 568 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: want to go down this road, Chuck, just read my 569 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: letter on the air before this gets ugly. I finally responded, 570 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: if anything gets read, it shall be the entire exchange, John, 571 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: complete with your threatening words from the alleged judge. And 572 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: then he writes back, finally, you are a monster. And 573 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: that is the end of the exchange. That was a 574 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: great gramantic reading. Man. Thank you, thank you, and thank 575 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: you John. Beep beep beep and uh sorry. I guess 576 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: to everybody who was offended by that, which was a 577 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: substantial amount of people who wrote in, I guess in Massachusetts, 578 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: that'd be like saying equating making with Atlanta or something, 579 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: and we would say, no, no, no, no, Makan's not 580 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: even close to Atlanta. Yeah, but I don't know if 581 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: I would um point out the difference angrily. Well, Plus 582 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: they were disassociating from Boston. Usually you glom onto the 583 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: big city and they were like, no, no, no, no, no, 584 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 1: We're not Boston this one. Yeah, so I don't know. 585 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: If I don't get it, I don't either. But um 586 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: to each his own, as we always say, right, that's right. 587 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: If you want to litigate us somehow via email, maybe 588 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: you can contact John Hodgman. Um, we should probably give 589 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: us personal email out huh see it's so kind to 590 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 1: copy ours. Yeah. Um, well, you can contact us first 591 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 1: and we'll see if we can put you in touch 592 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: with John. Um. You can reach us via Facebook at 593 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: uh facebook dot com. Slash stuff you should know. 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