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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: and there's Charles w Chuck Bryan, there's Jerry rolling back

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Speaker 1: again with us, and everything is back to normal. I

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Speaker 1: can stop trembling and foaming at the mouth like little

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Speaker 1: Danny in the Shining when he was all freaked out.

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about?

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Speaker 1: Remember when Danny's like just send there, zoned out, like

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Speaker 1: seeing I think the blood coming out of the elevator.

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Speaker 1: Why are you doing that right now? Because Jerry wasn't

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Speaker 1: around for a while. Remember we had guest producer no

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Speaker 1: who's great, but he's not Jerry. No. I mean, Jerry

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Speaker 1: is uh lovely person inside and out. And Noel looks

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Speaker 1: like somebody that might be falling around a parking lot

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Speaker 1: in a trench coat sometimes does, but it's beautiful inside

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Speaker 1: and under the trench coup. And I'm just kidding, nol

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Speaker 1: uh So orchids is what we're talking about today, Chuck. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how you doing? I'm doing good. I'm feeling like nice

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Speaker 1: and mellow because I just I researched orchids all morning.

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Speaker 1: You huff some orkids. M I snorted the orchids. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this in in real time, just so that people know

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Speaker 1: is our last recording of the year. How's that for

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Speaker 1: a brain buster because it's coming out in the new year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because we like to take it easy in December. That's

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Speaker 1: annual stuff. You should know. Tradition is mellow December one month, chuck.

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Speaker 1: We we were one December. We closed down almost for

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Speaker 1: like the entire month. Do you remember? It was great?

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Speaker 1: And hey, I think we I think we recorded on

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Speaker 1: like December two or third, and then that was it

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Speaker 1: until like the beginning of January. Yeah. We love doing

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Speaker 1: this and we love our job, but like any job,

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Speaker 1: it is also very nice to not do it for

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Speaker 1: a few It's like it's like, um, those cocktail wheenies

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Speaker 1: you might encounter at a Christmas party or a a holiday

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Speaker 1: party this year. You know, you eat like a pound

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Speaker 1: and a half of them, You're doing fine. You have

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Speaker 1: two pounds of them, You're like, I need to take

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Speaker 1: a break for a couple of minutes. It's just like that.

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Speaker 1: I just made those for Mike party. I love those

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Speaker 1: chuff I made them with Uh. I did the Martha

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Speaker 1: Stewart recipe. No way, it's slightly fancier than you're running

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Speaker 1: the mill recipe. What does she do to those to

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Speaker 1: make them faints? Well, the uh use like a philo

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Speaker 1: like puff pastry dough instead of your stah. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's a little different than I'm talking about. But what else, well, nothing,

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Speaker 1: You know, you roll up the little smokey's, you brush

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Speaker 1: the inside with a little like honey mustard, roll up

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Speaker 1: the little smoky's, and then you brush the top with

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Speaker 1: egg because that's how you get a scrambled eggs. That's

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Speaker 1: how you get that good golden brown. And then I

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Speaker 1: dusted mine with a little rosemary, se salt and sesame seed. Wow.

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Speaker 1: And then you bake them up, cut him into thirds

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Speaker 1: and throw them in. I bought my first chafing dish

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Speaker 1: of my life. You have a chafing dish? No, you

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Speaker 1: got me beat. I have a cock pot that doubles

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Speaker 1: as a chafing dish. That's the best I can come

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Speaker 1: up for man's shaping dish. Yeah, I guess that I

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Speaker 1: was way more excited than a middle aged man should

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Speaker 1: be about his first shaping dish. I gotta say that, No,

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Speaker 1: it is pretty impressive. Is it scalloped like the edges

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Speaker 1: and all that? Is it ornator? Is it like modern

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Speaker 1: and clean? No, it's like the stainless steel oval. It's

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Speaker 1: not square or like it has It's not a two banger.

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Speaker 1: It's just you know, I threw my my sausage balls

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Speaker 1: together because it's all pork. Actually, I think the little

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Speaker 1: smokies were beef. How they think about it? Oh God,

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Speaker 1: But it kept it hot all night long. You know

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Speaker 1: that's great. Well, that's what the chafing dish is supposed

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Speaker 1: to do, you know. But in years path Us I

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Speaker 1: would just put out the hot stuff and say, well,

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Speaker 1: it cold when you're good and drunk, and if you've

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Speaker 1: got any complaints, get out. That's how you're famous for

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Speaker 1: saying at your Christmas parties. So chuck what you've just

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Speaker 1: I did sort of the dry version, because there's also

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Speaker 1: you were killing it this year, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: that's that's what they call the holidays. Anyway, So orchids, man, Hey,

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Speaker 1: do you have any orchids? No? But I am a big,

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Speaker 1: orchids is. I don't want them in my home because

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Speaker 1: I will kill them dead. You're gonna love this episode then,

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Speaker 1: because my friend I was once where you are, and

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Speaker 1: now I am an orchid raising fool. Oh really yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've got a six orchids and my I'm not kidding

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Speaker 1: they I mean they were like cuttings. But when I so,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. When I bought them, they weren't bloom.

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Speaker 1: Like when everyone buys an orchid, Well, it's it's in bloom, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's really really simple. You go out and buy an orchid,

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Speaker 1: once a week too. So on to say, Saturday, you

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Speaker 1: fun little game. Yeah, that's one way to look at it.

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Speaker 1: So this this whole discussion about orchids, right, and the

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Speaker 1: of orchids around the world. There's two hundred thousand hybrid

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Speaker 1: be in the flower already, and the male bees like, okay, hey,

422
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: how's it going, I'm gonna go see how you are

423
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,919
Speaker 1: exactly tries to um, well, I guess assault is the

424
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 1: best way to put it. The female bee, who he

425
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: thinks he is already in the flower, but it turns

426
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: out actually is the flower. And while he's like getting

427
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: increasingly frustrated but trying to do his thing, the pollinia

428
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 1: um detaches from the flowers reproductive column onto the bee,

429
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: and the bee flies off finally, is like forget it,

430
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. It goes and finds another flower

431
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: eventually and is duped and does the same thing, and

432
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: when he does that, pollinia is then transferred to that

433
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 1: flower's reproductive column and pollination takes place. It is amazing

434
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: because not not only does it look exactly like that be,

435
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: but it also puts out the same pheromones as that

436
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,360
Speaker 1: the female of that be. That's that's pretty pretty. That's

437
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 1: natural selection at its finest. All right, here's one the

438
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: Dndrobium Sineese, not the Gary Sinese. Let's say, yeah, maybe

439
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: maybe Gary Cinese is uh like great great great uncle

440
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: was an orchid hunter maybe in China. Yeah, maybe, I

441
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: guess it's possible because this is a Chinese orchid and

442
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: this one is paul donated by hornets very specifically, and

443
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: hornets like bees. Bees do not like hornets. So this

444
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: flower imitates, uh, the pheromones of bee fear. And so

445
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: the hornets like, hey, I think there's a bee over

446
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: there that's scared of me. Let me go, uh, let

447
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: me go kill it, Let me go do whatever hornet's

448
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: due to Beas what do they do they kill him?

449
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: I think they sting him? Do they sting him? Or

450
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: to hornets bite? Now hornets sting? They sting? Uh? And

451
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: so it lures it over there because I think there's

452
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,239
Speaker 1: a scared be and in fact there's nothing there but

453
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: the orchid going, welcome, hornet, leave your junk here, right,

454
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: and he does and already picks up the pollinium does

455
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: the same thing to another flower. So um, and then

456
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: one of the things that Paullen pointed out Michael Paullen

457
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: pointed out was saying, pollen, which one is it? Well,

458
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: I don't think so eminently you're thinking, so, yeah, but

459
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: which one is it? Do you know how to pronounce

460
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: his name correctly? Poland? We'll just say that just to

461
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: keep it from getting confusing. So what Michael Poland pointed

462
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: out was that, um, if you look at the types

463
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: of orchids like the orfice epiph era, if you look

464
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 1: at like the same orchids from the same variety, does

465
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: they'll they're slightly different. So it's clearly it looks like

466
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: the bee from behind and the pheromones that they're putting

467
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: out are the same as well, but they're slightly different.

468
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: And they're just different enough so that bees don't learn

469
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: to just avoid those flowers because they're being tricked every time.

470
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: So they it's it's just just different enough so that

471
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: the bees can't learn that. I think just think that's fascinating. Well, here,

472
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: did you read that Darwin article I sent you? Uh?

473
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: Did you send meyone? I didn't get it. Maybe I

474
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: didn't send this one. Sorry, yeah, you didn't send it.

475
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: It's okay, tell me about it. It's called moth Tongu's

476
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: orchids and Darwin they're predicted power of evolution and basically

477
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: back in the day eighteen sixty two, a British orchid

478
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 1: grower sent Darwin Um some orchids from Madagascar and said,

479
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: look at these things. Aren't they amazing? They have a

480
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: nectary which is like a foot long, and Darwin's like,

481
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: he writes back, he wrote to a friended q Q

482
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: Garden's kW which is wonderful, wonderful public garden in London,

483
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: which I went to with Emily and Um, and that

484
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: they had a quite an orchid collection there, of course

485
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: because they raided the world for years. Uh and he said,

486
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: he he wrote and said in Madagascar there must be

487
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: moths with the proboscis capable of extension to a length

488
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: between ten and eleven inches, because like that's the only

489
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: explanation here. Well yeah, and he was defending his new

490
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: theory of natural selection well and co evolution specifically, so

491
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: he positive these things are co evolving. And not only that,

492
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: he literally predicted had this new species that he that

493
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: no one had ever seen before. As it turns out,

494
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: there is a moth. In nineteen o seven, twenty years

495
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: after Darwin died, the subspecies of the gigantic congo moth

496
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: from Madagascar uh was identified that had this long proboscis

497
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: like twelve inches long. And they were like, hey, this

498
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,479
Speaker 1: has got to be the thing. Like, I think Darwin

499
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: was right. But it wasn't until about a hundred years

500
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: later that they finally literally observed on camera this moth

501
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: feeding the flower. And Darwin was like, from his grave,

502
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: told you so. Yeah, he said, boo yah, how about that,

503
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: like a hundred and thirty years after he first suggested

504
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: this was all all proved out. That is pretty cool.

505
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: It's awesome that Darwin. He was a heck of a guy.

506
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: He's kind of smart, you know, he was a little smart.

507
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: I've got one more and this is just so Remember

508
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: we said there's twenty five thousand species. Yeah, we're not

509
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: gonna go through them. No, I want to go go

510
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: over one more though, called um Bulba phyl Um bakari

511
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: and it it's um pollination is aided by flies and

512
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: carrying beetles, and what attracts carrying beetles and flies, well,

513
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: rotting flesh because it's where flies feed and that's where

514
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: they lay their eggs that turn into maggots. Right, So

515
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: the flower puts out the smell of rotting meat to

516
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: attract the specific type of of pollinator so that it

517
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: can it can be pollinated. Let's I'm just insane. All right,

518
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: you want to take another break? Yeah, all right, we're

519
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: gonna take another break and come back and talk a

520
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: little bit about the fact that vanilla is an orchid

521
00:30:44,800 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: and other amazing facts. Alright, So vanilla is an orchid.

522
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: Moving on, that was an amazing fact. It is an

523
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: amazing fact. Like, who knew. I mean a lot of people,

524
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: but I didn't know. The flavoring is um, it's the

525
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: it's the seeds, Yeah, it's it's the vanilla bean. Obviously,

526
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: it's not like they grind up those sweet petals of

527
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: the flower. Yeah, but it's not even the outside of

528
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: the bean. It's the little tiny seeds inside. That's where

529
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: the vanilla flavor comes from. Yeah, there's this fascinating anecdote.

530
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: I can't remember the gist of it, but it's in

531
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: that that book, the Derito effect that I talked about before,

532
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: where they he was talking about the the origin of vanilla,

533
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: imitation vanilla and how they just changed the world. Basically,

534
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: apparently the vanilla market was crashing and somebody came in

535
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: at just the right time propped it up. Yeah, propped

536
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: it up with the imitation vanilla. But go again, go

537
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: check that book out. It's amazing. Well, are you talking

538
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: to me or everyone else? Uh? So let's talk about

539
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: some Let's talk about how to care for an orchid.

540
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: Just in case anybody said, you know what, I'm gonna

541
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: go to my local big box retailer. Even better, I'm

542
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: gonna go to my local, locally owned mom and pop

543
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: nursery and buy an orchid today, my local orchiddery. Yeah,

544
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: this is what you want to look for, Okay. Um, Well,

545
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: first of all, when you when you look at the

546
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: orchid itself, it might give you a few clues as

547
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: to what it needs care wise, um, right off the bat,

548
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: like and and these are broad um. I mean, if

549
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: you're an expert, obviously you know a lot about it.

550
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: But these are just some kind of broad things to

551
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: look for. If if it doesn't have many leaves, or

552
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: if the leaves are kind of leathery, um, then it

553
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: probably needs more light than maybe another variety. Yes, and

554
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: if the leaves are limp and soft, uh, it probably

555
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: maybe is a little light sensitive. And maybe you don't

556
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: throw it on your sun deck. Yeah. And and you

557
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: should probably ask the person you're buying the orchid from.

558
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, do all that you know, don't us and

559
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: expect to walk away with complete knowledge. Yeah. So again

560
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: you're probably going to find if you look in the

561
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: potting medium. There are terrestrial orchids, but I've never seen

562
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: one in real life. I've only read about him on

563
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: the internet. You know, have you ever seen an orchid

564
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: in soil and dirt? Uh? Just I've just read about

565
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: it in legend right, same here, same here. I've always

566
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: seen him in like sphagnum moss or something like that.

567
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: You can also find it in like coconut husk, fiber

568
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: just all. Apparently styrofoam beads work just fine. Because the

569
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: point is the orchid isn't getting any of its nutrients,

570
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: or getting very very little of its new nutrients from

571
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: the growing medium. It's that which is why you need

572
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: to fertilize it, like basically weakly, because that's where it's

573
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: going to get it's um it's nutrients from So the

574
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: growing medium matters in that what you're what you're doing

575
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: is providing a lot of aeration for the roots of

576
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: the the um orchid, which don't they since they don't

577
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: grow underground, they're exposed to air and light and all

578
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: that stuff, which is totally fine, But that means you

579
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: don't want to cover them up too much with the

580
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: growing medium. You want to let them run free. Um

581
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: and and so that's the purpose of the growing medium itself. Yeah,

582
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: you don't want to grow an orchid in a rubber

583
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: bladder full of red clay. That's a that's dead. That's

584
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 1: a dead orchid. Uh. Those fleshy roots that you see there,

585
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: they have these white cells that they're covered with called velamen,

586
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: and they're just sponges that absorb all the nutrients and

587
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: all the water. Uh. And it's also a coding that

588
00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: helps protect moisture loss from heat, even though they generally

589
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: like light and they like warm environments. You just it's

590
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: you know, they are sort of delicate. You don't wanna

591
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 1: you don't want to bake them in the hot Georgia

592
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: sun all day. Now. Very there are very few orchids,

593
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: and you're probably going to be like an orchid enthusiast.

594
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: By the time you really come across an orchid that

595
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: likes lots of intense sun, most of them, for the

596
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: most part, are they like sun, but it's gonna best

597
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: be indirect, like maybe in a window that gets a

598
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: little bit of sun. Um. And then the high humidity

599
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 1: I think is is not across the board, because there's

600
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: orchids that live like in mountainous areas where you know,

601
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: it's kind of rocky and desert and arid um. But

602
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: the most of the orchids you find, like you're gonna

603
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: find at the store in the United States or you know,

604
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: the UK, they're they're probably tropical. So they want high

605
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: humidity on the order of like and they want temperatures

606
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: daytime temperatures of at least eighty degrees fair high God

607
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: knows what that is in celsius. And then they want

608
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: like twelve to fourteen hours of daylight. Chance of brain yeah. Uh,

609
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: like I mentioned, they do, they need to be water

610
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: but like you said, they really like. The way to

611
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: kill an orchid is to overwater it or to not

612
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: have your drainage. Right. Um, a water logged orchid is

613
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 1: no good. No, apparently they can tolerate drought better than overwater,

614
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: much better. So um, again you want to water weekly.

615
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: You want to wait until the growing medium dries out

616
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: again and then water it. And since you're fertilizing it,

617
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: you you it's damaging to put fertilizer onto dry orchid

618
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: roots apparently, right, so, which is why you only want

619
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: to use liquid fertilizer with orchids, but you also want

620
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: to pre water it. You want the orchids to to

621
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: be already wet when you use the fertilizer. The next day,

622
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: dilute that liquid fertilizer two right, Yeah. The the rule

623
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: of thumb that I was told was you wanna um

624
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: fertilize weekly weekly, so w e a k yt Yeah, okay,

625
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: I don't even need to finish it. So um, I

626
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: use a orchid fertilizer which smells so bad. It smells

627
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: like it smells like concentrated like rodent p and it

628
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: kind of looks like a to actually like dried out

629
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: concentrated rodent p um. It could be, but apparently that's

630
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: what orchids like. Because it's keep in mind going, but

631
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: you it says to use like a teaspoon for a

632
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: gallon of water. So I use like three quarters of

633
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: a teaspoon for a gallon of water, and it seems

634
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: to work pretty well. And use that gallon for all

635
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: your orchids or you just keep that stored. Uh no, no,

636
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: I will. So I'll water them until like they're nice

637
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: the growing mediums nice and wet, and then I'll come

638
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: the next day and they'll just kind of like give it,

639
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of the couple of turns a

640
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: couple of glugs on each orchid just to get it

641
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: around there. I don't soak them with it, so it

642
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: depends on, you know, how heavy handed I am from

643
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: week to week, and they don't seem to mind one

644
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: way or another. Sometimes I'll use the whole gallon, but

645
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: most of the time it's like half to two thirds

646
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: of the gallon I'll use to fertilize it. Do you

647
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: talk to them, I don't think so not. I'm not

648
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: conscious of it if I do, but that's I might.

649
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: Who knows, I'm pretty pretty insane. It's possible I talked

650
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: to him and don't realize that, you know what I mean,

651
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: Not like I'm I'm talking to them and they're talking back,

652
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: but it's entirely possible. I say things to them and

653
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: I'm not aware. Okay, but you you don't, like you

654
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: haven't named them and make an effort to speak to them.

655
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: O my crackpot. Come on, I don't know. I don't

656
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: mind that. You want to hear something weirder than that, though,

657
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: some ridiculously high percentage of dog owners don't talk to

658
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: their dogs. What do you mean, like something like I

659
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: want to say I will have to look it up.

660
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: But some more than half of dog owners don't talk

661
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: to their dogs, Like they don't give them orders or

662
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: they don't say your tweet bath. So they might give

663
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: them orders like sit or come on, let's go or

664
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: something like that, but they're they're not also like all right,

665
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: we're almost there, are um? Yeah, they're just not like

666
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: not not whatever is in between those two things. They're

667
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: not doing that. They're not talking to their dog. I

668
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: just find that bizarre. I mean, I'm yelling at my

669
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: dogs half the time. Are in the other half of them?

670
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking to a stupid boys. You don't

671
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: yell at your dogs. You yell at your dogs. Yeah,

672
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, of course, what do you say.

673
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: You yell like I love you so much? No, I

674
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: yelled Nico get off of me. Good God, stop it. Okay,

675
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: that's a pretty cute. Yeah, I mean it's not cute.

676
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: Like what do you do? Wh dog is in your face,

677
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: like chewing your hair and like scraping, scratching your chest

678
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: And are you threatened him with the baby gun? Yeah,

679
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,280
Speaker 1: that's like the puppy bounder. No. I never hit my dogs,

680
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: but man, I yelled them all the time. They're all like,

681
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: Nico is just so needy. Is that your shelty? No, no, no, no,

682
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: Charlie's great. She never needs to get yelled at. Nico's

683
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: just needy, and like, uh, like jumps on people and

684
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: you know there's no way a dog can jump on someone.

685
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: And you're like, would you please get off of that person?

686
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you go get down. Yeah,

687
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: I got you. I see what you're saying that that

688
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, not yelling like I hate you because

689
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,879
Speaker 1: I'm upset in my own life, right right, Yeah, that's

690
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: what I was after, Like, I hate my job. It's

691
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: all your fault. Um, Hey, did I tell you that

692
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: we did a DNA test? On little Momo and she's

693
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: like ten percent shelty, Oh really yeah, And we were like,

694
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: well that explains her hurting us towards the door. Like

695
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: if if one of us is getting ready to go out,

696
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: she'll go and get the other one just kind of

697
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 1: like push push him toward the door. Is she also, um,

698
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: just very aware of where everyone is at all times,

699
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: like checks on everything. Yeah, Like if I go to

700
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: bed first, you mean, Momo will go to bed with me.

701
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: And then like if if if Momo decides that you

702
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: me stayed up long enough, she'll come out in the

703
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: doorway and kind of look at her like all right,

704
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: it's time to go to bed, She'll come and get you. Yeah.

705
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: And does she sit in the window and bark at

706
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: everything if if she had a window to bark out of, yes,

707
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: but we live in a windowless box, right, So that's

708
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: Charlie's main job. Is she just sits on the sun

709
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: room sofa looking out the window as if it is

710
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: her post. Yeah, and she'll bark at yeah this this

711
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: Charlie Barkett birds no, just like people and other dogs.

712
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: I mean, and literally like it's her job. You can

713
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: tell she's not a jerk. She's just like, I'm on

714
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: duty is what we call it, you know, understood, Yeah,

715
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: it's tell her to clock out, clock out, Charlie. Does

716
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: she listen, come to bed? Have you tried yelling at

717
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: at her? No, she's she doesn't need yelling, like A said,

718
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: said clock out Charlie. Um, all right, So back to orchids.

719
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: Potting and repotting orchids generally, unless you have to repot

720
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: an orchid, don't repot an orchid just because you're like, yeah,

721
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: I'm kind of sick of that pot. Let me put

722
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 1: it in a new one, right, because they say, oh, yeah,

723
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: I'm not very happy with that. I'm not going to

724
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going to send up another flower for at

725
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,760
Speaker 1: least a year. Yeah, they don't like getting repotted. Um,

726
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: but if you have to report, uh, I mean, what's

727
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: your advice. I'm actually I've not had that much trouble reporting. Um. Yeah,

728
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: like I guess, I guess they don't immediately that Actually,

729
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: to tell you the truth, now that you asked me,

730
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: that that explains why some of them haven't flowered for

731
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: so long, because I have repotted them here there, but

732
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 1: I was over watering them and it was kind of

733
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: vital that I did repot them because their roots were decaying.

734
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: So if you have an orchid that you realize you've overwatered.

735
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: And this is when I learned not to use sphagnum

736
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 1: moss any longer because it really holds in water. And

737
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: that's the great thing about the pine bark is that

738
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: it just lets the water go right through it hangs

739
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: onto some of it. But you're the point is to

740
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: just water and orchid as frequently as it needs it,

741
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: rather than watering it and letting the soil hold the

742
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: water and for it right. So the sphagnum moss was

743
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: holding that that water in and the roots were rotting,

744
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: so I had to repot it. I had to trim

745
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: off some of the old roots, and then I learned

746
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: this trick somewhere on the internet. But I dusted the

747
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: roots that were rotted with cinnamon, and I think cinnamon

748
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: might be an anti microbial or something like that. But brother,

749
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,959
Speaker 1: my orchid loved me for that, Thank you so much.

750
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: Started growing almost immediately, even though I just repotted it

751
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: and cut off a significant number of its roots. Yeah,

752
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: so it's vital to repotted sometimes. But yeah, like you said,

753
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: you don't want to just be like, I think I'll

754
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: switch it to this pot for this month because I

755
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: like yellow in the spring. Yeah exactly, Yeah, Um, what

756
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 1: else you got anything else? No? I think you said

757
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: that growing it from seed is next to impossible, so

758
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: it's just go buy one. Yeah, i'd like to hear

759
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: from h I'm sure there's some horticulturists who have done that.

760
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear about that experience. Yeah, I'd like

761
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: to hear all the things I got wrong. You're like,

762
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: chuck me out at your dog, right, and we would also.

763
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: I think we kind of touched on it at the

764
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: very beginning. But I've got to give a shout out

765
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: to the article The Orchid Thief and the movie that

766
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: was based on adaptation. Yeah, I don't think we can

767
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: uh like in our in our stupid article. It's a

768
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: orchids in pop culture, the movie While or Kid with

769
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: Mickey Rourke and gry Oates like, are you kidding me? Like?

770
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: There was an entire movie written about orchid hunting and

771
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: the super rare ghost orchid that John Laroche hunts in

772
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: the wild swamps of Florida by the great writer Susan Orlean,

773
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: and it was not even mentioned. No, you know, I

774
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: got a story about that. My friend Stacy works. It's

775
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: a costumer in the film industry, and she worked on adaptation.

776
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: And about a year before she started work, I was

777
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: just into reading any and all scripts I could read

778
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: at the time. And she said, I got a new script.

779
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 1: It's called The Orchid Thief by some uh dude named

780
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: Charlie Kaufman. It's like, all right, And I read it

781
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: in a night. I couldn't put it down, and I

782
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: called her up the next day. I was like, I've

783
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: never read anything like this in my life. There hadn't

784
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: been anything like that, Like this is unlike any movie

785
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: I've ever heard of. And I have no idea what

786
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: I just read. I know. And then they changed the

787
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: name from worka deep to adaptation and it's one of

788
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: my favorites. It's great. Charlie Kaufman needs to get back

789
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: to work now he's working. What's he doing now? Did

790
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: you see? Uh? And I'm a Lisa, Yeah, that was

791
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: like three years ago. That's what I'm saying, get to work, Kaufman.

792
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's working on something. I hope so, uh yeah,

793
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: I love the adaptation. Chris Cooper that performs is one

794
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: of my favorite acting roles of all time. Yeah, they

795
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: couldn't have couldn't have cast it better than that. God,

796
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: he was great. Yeah, well that's uh, that's adaptation, as

797
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: was Nick Cage. I don't want to short change him. No,

798
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: and of course Meryl Streep, I mean, does it even

799
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: need to be said? Yeah, but Nick Cage can he

800
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:44,479
Speaker 1: gets a lot of crap. But well he oh sure

801
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, the wicker Man remake. That was not the

802
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: least of him. If you go on to Netflix, he's

803
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: on like every third third movie on Netflix. Yeah, he's

804
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 1: making bank. Brother, I don't know if you can maybe

805
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: he's definitely keeping his head above water. Well he's spindy,

806
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: so how is that what it is? Yeah? Apparently he

807
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: is quite a reputation for buying ridiculous things. M hm,

808
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: that cost a lot of dough. Well you got anything else?

809
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: And now I've got nothing else? All right? Well, uh,

810
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: welcome Slash. I'm sorry to all of the new people

811
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: who have never heard this podcast before but are into

812
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: orchids and thought they'd give it a try. Uh And

813
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: if you want to know more about orchids, you can

814
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: type that word in the search part how stuff works

815
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: dot Com. Since I said that it's time for a

816
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: listener mail speaking of all the things you just said

817
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: and listener mail. Did you see that one from the guy?

818
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: He said that we were just dilettants and kind of

819
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: laid into us. Yeah, you go just dilettants and all

820
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: you do is just talked like forty minutes about an

821
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: overview about things right and email them back. It's like,

822
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: you got it, buddy, Yeah, that's exactly what we are.

823
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: His complaint was that each episode is about a different topic. Yeah.

824
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 1: I was like, and then we just give the broadest

825
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: of overviews over forty five minutes. I was like, that

826
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: is our show to a t. Yeah, you should write

827
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: our buyook. Keep looking, buddy, I wish him. Well, that

828
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: was nice of you. That's that's world class, Chuck. All right,

829
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this flight attendant response. Surprisingly, the bet

830
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: show kind of blew up. We got a lot of

831
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: responses from airline workers and flight attendants and passengers, and

832
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: most of them were angry either. I think we did

833
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: good on that one. So here we go, flight attendant here,

834
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: thank you for the awesome podcast. It was really on point.

835
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: I was impressed the amount of research and how much

836
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: you got it right. You both asked for someone to

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Speaker 1: The answer is yes. We can even be paid a

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Speaker 1: Most people don't because it's not much money and not

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Speaker 1: worth it. Secondly, there was and this is with uh

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Speaker 1: just let me finish. Secondly, there was some debate over

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Speaker 1: whether we needed to score an eighty or ninety and training. Actually,

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Speaker 1: you're both right. We have to score at least an

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Speaker 1: eighty on the first take. If we fail, we have

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Speaker 1: to score ninety on the retake. Thank you for doing

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Speaker 1: an episode on our profession. The things could be better.

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Speaker 1: We love our jobs and have a great time. But

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Speaker 1: see you all on a flight sometime soon. And Chuck,

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Speaker 1: the whiskey will be on me. Sorry, Josh, no peanuts.

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Speaker 1: That is from Daniel, flight attendant, major airline. Everything's always

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Speaker 1: coming up, Chuck, I bet you can get your whiskey too,

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Speaker 1: my friend, that'd be great. Well, thanks a lot, Daniel.

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Speaker 1: I'll be sure to go check the email out and

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Speaker 1: I can get some free whiskey too. If you want

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Speaker 1: to offer us free whiskey, we are all ears. You

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Speaker 1: can tweet to us. I'm at josh um Clark on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: serious Clark dot com. You can find Chuck on Facebook

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