1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hello friends, Charles W. Chuck Bryan here on a Saturday. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Well it's really a Tuesday. Actually it's a Thursday, but 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: in your world it's a Saturday. So let's just pretend 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: it's Saturday. This episode Everybody is about Moss. Is Moss boring? No, 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: not at all. Moss is actually really cool and if 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: you listen to this episode from June, you'll learn it 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: for yourself. So check it out. Everybody, how Moss works. 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of I 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, who now refuses to do 11 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: the cheeks everyone. So I can't vouch for how good 12 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: the episodes will be from this point on. Cheeks are done. 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: I don't care about them anymore. We'll see, okay, I mean, 14 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: if we started nos dive, you're doing the cheaks again. Nope. 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: I will seek to it that you do the cheeks. 16 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: You can't do it, well, well I will stand on 17 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: your chest. Ben will grab one cheek, Jerry will grab 18 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: the other, and the cheeks will be done. That for 19 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: people who don't know we're talking about and it sounds 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: like really gross. So everybody knows what we're talking about. 21 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: Chuck does a little cheek poll to start off each episode. 22 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: It's a little good luck charm. And now he's suddenly 23 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: decided he's not going to do that anymore. So I 24 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: have a new good luck charm. What is it? It's 25 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: called not doing cheeks. It's not it's a bad luck. 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: So I've got a joke for you to open this 27 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: one up? Do you really? And I made it up today. 28 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: It's a made up joke. I don't want to hear. 29 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: What do you call a reproducing sphagnum? What, Randy Moss? 30 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: That's pretty good? Not bad? No, no, no, that's that's 31 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: into the realm of pretty good. Yeah, yeah, that's good. 32 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: I think if I was a tour guided a like 33 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: a nature, like a firm, bank, science and or something 34 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: that would be my go to for the kids to 35 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: try and identify with them. I don't think the kids 36 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: would like it as much as maybe the teacher. The 37 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: teacher would be like, that's pretty funny. And by the way, 38 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: those Brownie high socks you're wearing are great. Um, well, 39 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to give an intro an addition to the joke. 40 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: The intro joke. Maybe that should be your new good 41 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: luck thing you tell you make a joke, make up 42 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: a joke for every That would be welcome back Carter. 43 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: Did they have a joke for everyone? Yeah? He introde 44 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: every show by or maybe it was outrode by telling 45 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: a joke to his wife. Oh yeah, I hadn't picked 46 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: up on that. I only saw like maybe two episodes 47 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: of that show. Well then you heard two jokes, yeah, 48 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: plus all the other jokes. Was his wife one and 49 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: the same with um Bailey from w carp. Didn't they 50 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: look alike? Were they the same person? I don't know 51 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: if they were the same person, but they definitely seem 52 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: the same. And they both were gasses. They had the 53 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: feathered hat, long feathered haired seventies ladies. Yeah. I don't 54 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: think they were the same though, but they were both 55 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: probably in the love boat. Yes, yes, within five years 56 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: as like a way to revitalize their career. Um, Chuck, 57 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: I was going to talk about the ice age, the 58 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: beginning of the ice age, or of ice ages glacial periods. 59 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: Remember right now we're in the midst of an interglacial period, right. 60 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: I want you to think back way back four hundred 61 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: and seventy million years ago, there was no such thing 62 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: as a glacial period, and by proxy, there was no 63 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: such thing as an interglacial period. All we had was 64 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: one hot, soupy, barren mess of land and ocean, and 65 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: that was it. That's right. This is what's called the 66 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: Ordovician period or or Dvichan period, depending on where you 67 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: come from. Uh and uh. The the beginning of this 68 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: period is characterized by ice ages, and um paleo geologists 69 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: I guess you could just call them geologists really, because 70 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: nobody's studying like present stuff very much. It's mostly paleo geology, right. 71 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: They were like, where did this ice age come from? Where? 72 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: Like when did this start? And they figured out that 73 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: what triggered this was the arrival of the very first 74 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: basic land plants e g. Mosses, that's right. And they 75 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: recently figured out, um, that mosses came about about four 76 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: seventy million years ago, and they triggered these ice ages 77 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: by latching onto rocks. So these were a certain type 78 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: of moss as you and I know, called granite mosses, 79 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: and they would actually leech materials from these rocks to 80 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: use as nutrients and minerals. Right, these are like wheaties 81 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: for moss. Early moss, Well, the moss started releasing stuff, 82 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: releasing uh no, sucking in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 83 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: enough to reduce the global temperature mean temperature by eight 84 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: degrees centigrade, which led to the beginning of ice ages 85 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: and the ice age periods that we know and love. 86 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: You can thank moss for. You go outside, you find 87 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: a little bit of moss, You grab a little piece 88 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: of it gently and then shake it sand shake it 89 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: a little, say thanks for the ice ages. Well, we 90 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: needed ice ages. Yeah, that remains to be seen. No, 91 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: it's all part of the big soup. We've had some doubt. 92 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: We've had some chilly, windy weather lately, and it has 93 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: been getting to me like it's been like just seeing 94 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: the trees, like getting whipped outside makes me feel chilly 95 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: and then in turn I feel socially isolated and mad. Wow. Yeah, 96 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: it's been really windy. Yeah. Crazy. So we're talking about moss. 97 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: This is no joke. April is over by now. We're 98 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: in it right now, but by the time it comes out. 99 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: This is no April fool's joke. We're talking about moss 100 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: and how it works, because it's part of our long 101 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: parade of explaining absolutely everything in the no In universe 102 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: that's right at mosses. Moss is part of that. It's 103 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: part of that. So let's talk about moss. Well, moss 104 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 1: is pretty fun and unique in some ways. If you 105 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: ask me, uh, because unlike most flowering plants and trees, 106 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: or let me go ahead and say it, all flowering prants, 107 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: prants in trees, Um, they don't have roots like traditional 108 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: root systems. Moss doesn't know mosses don't. They do not. Um, 109 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: they don't germinate from seeds. Pretty weird. And uh, they 110 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: don't gush water around through internal systems and systems. Yeah, 111 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: and that's weird. It is, especially if you're familiar with plants. 112 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: Then you're like, well, when moss is strangely for somebody, 113 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: you know, an average bystander like me, I'm like, okay, well, 114 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: moss doesn't do that and plants do. It doesn't seem 115 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: particularly weird to me, but I do find it intriguing. 116 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,559 Speaker 1: It makes me want to know more about moss. Well, 117 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: you've got about fifteen thousand species. If you want to 118 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: talk about moss. Uh, Traditionally you were probably going to 119 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: think of moss as the true moss. Well, let's back 120 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: up a little bit. They're related to the liver wort 121 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: and hornwart. Yeah, I've seen I saw other articles on moss, 122 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: and everybody points that out for some reason. I'm I'm 123 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: not sure if they're like, I gotta put ten things 124 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: in about moss, and that's what I got nine until's 125 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: put that. Uh they are in the phylum uh Brio fida, 126 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: and they're in three groups. You've got the granite mosses, 127 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: the pete mosses, and true mosses. Um. True mosses are 128 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: probably what we're going to think of when you think 129 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: of the little green carpet like padding that you see 130 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: every kind of fallen tree, uniforest or something. Yeah, and 131 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: there are tons of true moss, like fourteen thousand species um. 132 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: Granite mosses are blackish, small growing Arctic regions in the 133 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: mountains on rocks. They're the most ancient moss apparently, that's right. 134 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: And they're only about a hundred species of that. And 135 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: then the final sub group is the pete moss grows 136 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: in bogs. Have you ever been in a bog, then 137 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: you've probably seen some petemas or sphagnum moss, right, And 138 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: that's the money moss because you can burn it and 139 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: convert it to electricity and charge money for it. That's 140 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: why it. Sphagnum is the money moss. And oddly or 141 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: not oddly but remarkably moss. The sphagnum moss do you 142 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: use as a soil conditioner. We do that in our 143 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: garden because some of it can hold twenty times it's 144 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: dry weight and water. It's pretty amazing. That's very amazing. 145 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: That's some strong moss. You're gonna find moss all over 146 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: the place, including places where you won't find any other 147 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: living plants, like the bottom of an Arctic or Antarctic lake. 148 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: That is pretty impressive. Like the only multi cellule or 149 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 1: plant growing down there is moss. And it grows really slow. 150 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: I think as little as one centimeter per year, this 151 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: aquatic moss at the bottom of these frozen lakes. And 152 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: that is the slowest growing and longest living a fresh 153 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: water plant ever recorded, I would guess. So it's kind 154 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: of like um putting somebody on ice, right, slowing down 155 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: the cellular processes, but they're still active. So you could 156 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 1: by by in theory extend their lifespan, right, that's right, 157 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: same thing with moss. Yeah, it's probably even easier with moss. 158 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: And by that same token, um, the zombie moss. I 159 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, you could dry some 160 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: mosses out for nineteen years without water, and if you 161 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: add water to it, it'll you knows itself, it'll turn 162 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,079 Speaker 1: into a big dinosaur. It's pretty cool though. They can 163 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: go dormant for that long. Yeah, it's amazing, And all 164 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: mosses can go dormant's like one of their defense mechanisms. 165 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: Still just turn brown and dry out and there an 166 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: endormant state. Unfortunately, you can't really tell, like what the 167 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: differences between dead and dormant until you add water and 168 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: see if it comes back. That's the only way to 169 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: determine the length of a moss's dormancy. Oh so if 170 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: you add water and it just stays dead, then it 171 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: was dead. That's sad. Um. So you said there's like 172 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand species and they kind of range in size 173 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: and shape and texture color. Um, some of the I 174 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: think the peat mosses grow different colors like rose yea, 175 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: some grow black like the granite moss. You said some 176 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: are silver, which is amazing. Um. And then there's the 177 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 1: smallest mosses, the Ephemorum, which is uh half a millimeter tall. 178 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:56,319 Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's adult size. Um. And then there's the Dawsonia, 179 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: which is up to almost thirty inches seventy centimeters in height, 180 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 1: which that's pretty wide variety. Okay, some moss is fairly interesting. 181 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: So far, let's talk about the individual plants. Because when 182 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: you look at um moss and you think about moss, 183 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 1: you're thinking of a carpet of plants, right, Those are 184 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 1: actually like a bunch of little plants put together. Correct. Yeah, okay, yeah, sure, 185 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: that's that's one way I think of it. So when 186 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: you're when you're talking about moss um, when you're talking 187 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: about the individual parts or the individual plants, they're pretty simple. 188 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: They're pretty basic. You have um something called the gameta 189 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: fight which is the stem and the leaves. Right, that's right. 190 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: The leaves are generally arranged in a spiral pattern. Uh. 191 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: And the leaves are usually um a lance shaped with 192 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: like a point. Right. That's where you're gonna find your 193 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: reproductive parts, right. Um. At the bottom, there's rhizoids instead 194 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: of roots. Remember, these are not roots and um, so 195 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: they don't anchor themselves to anything necessarily. They will the 196 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: anchor themselves to like maybe organic material something, but it's 197 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: not into the dirt um. And they also don't they 198 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: don't suck up water in the same way that roots do, 199 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: but they do use rhizoids a lot of it's kind 200 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: of academic. The difference is really between rhizoids and roots. 201 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: In my opinion. Sure, I'm going to get some mail 202 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: about that, but I think that they're very similar. Well yeah, 203 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: but I mean the fact that it can grow on 204 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: a rock kind of instead of soil kind of says 205 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: it all excellent. Okay, So um in the uh gamda fight, 206 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna have, like I said, you're reproductive parts both 207 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: mail and male um. And then we'll mention this because 208 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: it comes around later on when we talk about the 209 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 1: reproduction emerging from the top of the female gameta fight 210 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: is a sporta fight and a thin stock called a 211 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: sita and a little brown ball on top of that 212 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: known as the um capsule, right, and then on top 213 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: of that is the a perculum, and it's like a 214 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,959 Speaker 1: little hat that the capsule wears um and that that 215 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: comes into play. Uh, well, let's talk about how it 216 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: gets nutrients. Then we'll talk about the dirty stuff, the 217 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: Randy moss. Yeah exactly. That was a pretty funny joke. 218 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: That was silly, Okay. So um, A moss needs a 219 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: few things to live, and one of those is water, 220 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 1: of course, possibly one of the most important ingredients, because 221 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: it aids in not just the not just photosynthesis, but 222 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: also in reproduction, which we'll see. Yeah. I don't want 223 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: to get ahead of ourselves. Boy, we've really built up 224 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: this sexy monster. Not as interesting as we're making it. Yeah, 225 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: there's no like riding crops involved or anything like that. Well, 226 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: but there are parts. Yeah, all right, okay, so um. Yeah, 227 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 1: and I was surprised by the number of parts. I 228 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: didn't realize they were that involved. I thought it was like, 229 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: here's a spore and go forth and reproduce. Um anyway, 230 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: with with that water that moss needs because moss mosses 231 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: need like pretty much across the board. One of their 232 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: great characteristics is a moist environment, right, um, And they 233 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: need this water or they get this water since they 234 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: lack roots in a number of different ways. Some have 235 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: very absorbent leaf surfaces where you can pour drop of 236 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: water on a leaf and it goes. It's just gone. 237 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing thing to watch. Spongey. Sure. Um. And 238 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: then another way is the rizhoids, which although they aren't roots, 239 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: still managed to suck up water. And they do this 240 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: through capillary action in the same way that like a 241 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: paper towel. If you if you put a drop of 242 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: paper drop of water in your hitchen counter, ask your 243 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: mom first before doing this, because someone will freak out 244 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: on you if you do something like this. Um, put 245 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: a drop of water on your kitchen counter and take 246 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: a single thing of paper towel, set it next to it, 247 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: just barely touching, and the paper towel go suck it up. 248 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: It's amazing. That's capillary action and it's the result of 249 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: the UM adhesion. In this case, let's say with rhizomes, 250 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: the adhesion of water molecule to the rhizome rhizoid is 251 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: greater than the UM cohesion between that water molecule and 252 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: all the other water molecules. It's part of it's a 253 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: quicker picker upper nice. Uh. So once you've got a 254 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: little water in there, the water is going to be 255 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: moved between cells um or transported through cells depending on 256 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: the moss, and then you're gonna get your photosynthesis, which is, 257 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: you know, part of being a plant. Did you like 258 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: this analogy? I didn't find it apt necessarily. I just 259 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: ignored it. So at the end of photosynthesis, you're gonna 260 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: have sugar and oxygen as a byproduct. Releases the oxygen 261 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: like a good little plant, and um eats the sugar 262 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: basically yeah and says give me more, yes, UM, So 263 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: it converts the sugar into energy to break down. Minerals 264 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: say that it's leaked from rocks or a tree stump 265 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: or whatever it's attached to to grow and to reproduce. 266 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: That's right. I think we're at the sexy moss point. 267 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: Reproduction occurs can occur in a couple of ways, and 268 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: the first way is UM. For the reproduction tube. Again, 269 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to get a vase shaped um arcagonia. 270 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: It's getting all like a Georgia O'Keefe painting in here. 271 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: It is UM and that's gonna produce the eggs. It 272 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: develops at the tip of the gameta fight, which we 273 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: talked about. And then on the male side you've got 274 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,360 Speaker 1: the antheridia and that produces a sperm, and the sperm 275 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: swims through basically fertilizes the eggs, which is why they 276 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: need to be moist. Like you said, the sperm swims 277 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: through nearby water to get to the egg. It's pretty remarkable. 278 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 1: It's almost like a fish. Yeah, but it's a sperm, 279 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: that's right, So it's more like a tadpole. Yeah, that's 280 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: what you mean. Um. And then the egg getspur lies. 281 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: You're gonna get a spora fight. Um. We already talked 282 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,239 Speaker 1: about the SPORTI fight. That's the tall, thin stalk with 283 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: a little uh, a perculum at the top. A perculum 284 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: is gonna open up at a certain point. That's the 285 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: hat released. The tip of the hat happens, releases the spores, 286 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: which are basically like seeds, and uh, there you have it. Well, yes, 287 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: and then the spore goes and germinates like a seed. 288 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: This this is what I'm saying, rhizoid root, spore seed. 289 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,360 Speaker 1: I mean, I know that there's some difference is here, 290 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: but they're not that great anyway. The spore goes, lodges 291 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: itself into a It's different than every other plant, every 292 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: other millions of plants. Okay, I understand I get it. 293 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: I know that there are differences. I'm just saying, like 294 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: the difference between the two is not like a wow 295 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: kind of thing for me. I get you. I wish 296 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: it was. I understand. I'm not fighting yet. Um. So 297 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: the the the the spore germinates into another plant and said, 298 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 1: and the whole thing happens again, hopefully not with any 299 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: plant that it's related to though. That's chriss um. So 300 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: the other way it can reproduce is a sexually which 301 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Um. And basically, if you've got enough 302 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: moisture and a piece of moss breaks off and floats 303 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: downstream or gets caught up in the wind and it 304 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: roots down in a nice and moist place, it'll reproduce. 305 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 1: It'll just start growing again. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. But 306 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: it doesn't root rhizomes, rhizomes, rhizoids. What is the I 307 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: think I'm confusing riboflaving with something else to get rhizomes. Um. Okay, 308 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: so we have healthy, sexually active moss everywhere all over 309 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: the place. We understand them. Um, I mean we understand 310 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: them now, Like that's moss right there. Oh we left 311 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: that one interesting fact. I thought, there's their leaves. The 312 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: tiny little leaves are so small, they're very rarely one 313 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: cell thick. Yeah that's tiny. Yeah, it's neat um. Okay, 314 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 1: So now that we understand moss, if you have said 315 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: I like moss a lot, I've seen moss before. I 316 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: want to bring more moss into my life. I happen 317 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: to have a yard, so I'm going to introduce moss 318 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: to it. We we we now can say, yes, here's 319 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: how you do it, because we understand moss, and here 320 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: is how you do it. Yeah, and I I like 321 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: the look a moss like to go between plants or 322 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: like in Japanese gardens, mosses like big, yeah, crazy big. Uh. 323 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: So if you want to grow some moss, one thing 324 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 1: you can do sometimes is just transplant, like gently scrape 325 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,919 Speaker 1: it off that rock and a you know, sort of 326 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: like a big chunk of like a carpet squares you 327 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: can get and just throw it on the ground and 328 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: water it water, and sometimes that will be important. It is, yeah, 329 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: not always um if you if you put it in 330 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: the right kind of place. Mosses require low sunlight basically shade. 331 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: In fact, if you have low sunlight and you have 332 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: trouble growing grass, moss is a great alternative. It is 333 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: very much so um you So they want low sunlight 334 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: or shade um and they also prefer low acidity um, 335 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: lower acidity than turf grass prefers. So yeah, if you 336 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: have a patchy piece of piece of yard, moss might 337 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: grow there very well. So and just transplanting it like 338 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 1: that could work, especially if you keep it water. You 339 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: can also um try propagating it using a pretty ingenious 340 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 1: little method of um taking a clump, a whole bunch 341 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: of moss um, throwing it in a blender with some 342 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: buttermilk and then taking that mixture with the paintbrush and 343 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: painting it wherever you want. Very cool. Yeah, buttermilk it 344 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: just must be the wonder thing for the moss. Yeah, 345 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: it's like with the packed with nutrients. You also want 346 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: to take care of your moss um as as low 347 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,959 Speaker 1: maintenance as it seems like. There is some things you 348 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: have to do, like leaves, twigs, that kind of stuff. 349 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: Since it's in a shady area, it's usually subject to 350 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 1: those things falling on top of it, and then actually 351 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: will um burn it like acid. There won't be a 352 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:51,959 Speaker 1: lot of growth in the area of your moss because 353 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: the leaf is preventing it from doing its thing. Yes, 354 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: you want to clean it off like with your carpet. Yes, 355 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: maybe with a very light broom, very light. Yeah, a 356 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: leafblower on a low setting, which you hate. Yeah, I 357 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: just don't like the noise. But in this case it 358 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: makes sense unless you have a very light broom, or 359 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: you could just pick these things off individually, that's right. 360 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: If it's got weeds, you don't want to yank the 361 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: weeds out because that can yank up moss. You don't 362 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: want to do that, so you just want to like 363 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: snip it with scissors. And it's no wonder. This is 364 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: popular in Japan because they're always more like tinder and 365 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: carrying with their gardens. Anyone who has the patients for 366 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: like bondsai and oor gami and things like that, well 367 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: we'll snip weeds with scissors. You mean, I were in 368 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: Kyoto and witnessed the man cutting the grass at a 369 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: park with scissors. Yeah, my neighbor used to do that 370 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: in my old house man, but his lam looked awesome. 371 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 1: Oh beat. Yeah, I don't have time for that crap. 372 00:22:51,520 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: No one has time for that. Um so yeah, keep 373 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: it well fed. As in once a year aside from 374 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: the water, you're gonna want to in mid spring get 375 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: out your butter milk again, So basically like right now 376 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: or like last week. Yeah, true, get about a quarter 377 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: bottom buttermilk, mix it with a couple of gallons of water, 378 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: and uh spray, yep, spray it all over and missed 379 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: your moss. They love missed they do. They drink it 380 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: up literally, yeah, well they use it capillary action to 381 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,479 Speaker 1: drink it up, no roots involved. Let's say you want 382 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: to kill moss. Yeah, I thought that this is very interesting. 383 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: In this article, it's like all pro moss and then 384 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: all of a sudden it takes a really dark turn 385 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: with the subject heading how to kill moss. Well, some 386 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 1: people don't want it, you know, like they don't want 387 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: ivy taking over their yard. They don't want moss taking 388 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: over their yards. Although they point out in the article 389 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: it's not going to take over your lawn because it's 390 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: not going to grow where your lawn would grow. It's 391 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: a lighten up. But if you're one of those people 392 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: who are prone to slipping things, you may not want 393 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: that on your sidewalk. Um. You definitely don't want moss 394 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: on your roof. There's a sign that you have a 395 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: big problem if you have moss on your roof, unless 396 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: you are doing that on purpose, like a green roof, well, 397 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: then you're not going to have the kind of roof 398 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: that you have to worry about. Exactly. If you have 399 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: a traditional shingled roof and you have moss, you need 400 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: to do something about it for a couple of reasons. One, Uh, 401 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: it's the presence of moss trapped moisture. Moss is designed 402 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: to do that if you're in an into intelligent design theory, um, 403 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: and that means that it's going to foster things like 404 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: fungus that will decay the would beneath, meaning you'll have 405 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: a hole in your roof. Yea at some point. Um. 406 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: The rhizomes, right, rhizoids, What is wrong with me? I 407 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: don't know. The rhizoids also like to get in between 408 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: shingles and loosen them, that's right. And what else? Uh? Well, 409 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: I mean you don't want it on your roof, and 410 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: so one thing you can do to kill it is 411 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: use pesticides and chemicals. Not pesticide, I guess it would 412 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 1: be abide. Yeah, they say pesticide in here. That wouldn't 413 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: be right now. It's a herbicide, um like round up sure, 414 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: which if you're into spring that kind of junk on 415 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 1: your lawn, feel free. I advise not to. But that's 416 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: just how I play in my yard. What so you 417 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: don't use scissors, but you don't use pesticides. Huh huh Um, 418 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: you just kicked back and you're like, grow baby. No, 419 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: I take care of things, but I just don't like 420 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: I just don't like spring chemicals all the way. What 421 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: do you use as herbicides and pesticides white vinegar? Mm 422 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: hm yeah, like as a spray for what does that 423 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: work for? Anything? Like pesticide and herbicide or oh I 424 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: don't know about pesticide, but herbicide, like it'll kill weeds 425 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: and really that's interesting. Uh yeah, put it in the 426 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: Hudson sprayer and um or just live with it. Yeah. 427 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: I guess it depends on the weed for sure. But 428 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: if you have animals, you don't want to be spraying 429 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: your yard with chemicals. Even though they say like once 430 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,640 Speaker 1: it drives, it's fine, I don't buy it. I don't 431 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: buy that either. Um. But if you do want to 432 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: get rid of it, um, they say the best way 433 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: to get rid of it naturally is to you know, 434 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: make it a not moss friendly environment, so like cut 435 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: back some some shade cover, maybe make it sunnier. That 436 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,400 Speaker 1: will help get rid of the moss. Yeah, just make 437 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 1: it so it wouldn't want to live there if even 438 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: if it could, yeah, or scrape it off if it's 439 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 1: like on a sidewalk or something that could really or 440 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: so it may come back. Don't be surprised. But yeah, 441 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: just a flat shovel or a hoe will take care 442 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: of moss usually too. That's right. Say yeah I didn't, 443 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: I didn't know about this strip up on your roof, 444 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: and it'll keep mosses away. Hate that stuff, that's right. Um. 445 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: And then the last moss fact of the podcast, if 446 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: you're ever lost in the woods, you need to get 447 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: your bearings. Start looking around and see what side of 448 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: the trees and um, well, pretty much an upright growing tree, 449 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: what side moss is growing on? And you probably have 450 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: found something like north, because moss is going to grow 451 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: on the side that gets the least exposure to sunlight, 452 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: which would be north. So we just follow that and 453 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 1: you will end up in Canada every time, even if 454 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: you start out in Australia. Hey Australia. All right, well 455 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: that's moss. Huh, you got anything else. I'm gonna grow 456 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 1: a little moss gard in my front yard, are you 457 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: going to? Yeah? Well I was gonna zero escape it anyway, 458 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: so they might as well get some moss. Go on. 459 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: I wrote an article on that deer escaping. Yeah, but 460 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: the problem is is this isn't zero escaping because that's 461 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: dry landscaping. This requires water, but it's still be pretty 462 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 1: low maintenance. Yeah, in my front yard doesn't get very 463 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: much sun. Like I failed miserably at trying to grow grass. 464 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna like mulch and moss and I put 465 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: plants and stuff. I'd like to see that. Yeah, one day. Um, 466 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: if you want to know more about moss, including seeing 467 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: some very pretty pictures of moss um and to get 468 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: to the bottom of the what Chuck and I decided 469 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: was an in apt analogy between photosynthesis and cookie baking. Um, 470 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: you can type in moss in the search bart how 471 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: stuff works dot com and noll bring this up and 472 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: you will be very happy. And you should also be 473 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: happy because I said search bars means it's time for 474 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: a listener. Mayal Josh, I'm gonna call this the nicest 475 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: irishman on Earth. Wow, this guy was super nice. Uh, Josh, 476 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: Chuck and Jerry. My name is John Keating and I'm 477 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: writing from Dublin, Ireland. I've been a reasonably long time listener. 478 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: I started listening to the show over a year ago 479 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: when I started studying for my leaving cert the Irish 480 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: University Intrigue exams. On a number of occasions during my 481 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: exams I was able to recall a topic you guys 482 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: covered during the series, especially in English in history. Due 483 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: to this, I feel I owe you a great deal 484 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: of thanks. As I was accepted to the College of 485 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin 486 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: better known as Trinity College and it's go Thunderbolts in 487 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: case you're curious. During the year in Trinity, it was 488 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: announced that a fraternity is to be established within the college. 489 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: In Ireland as well as in the UK, society and 490 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: clubs take up the role of frats that frats have 491 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: in the US. However, one exception is normally these clubs 492 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: societies do not have a particular house associated with them 493 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: like we do here. Uh. This house concept is something 494 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: I'll have to deal with the near future, as I 495 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: shall be staying in the Beta Theta Pie branch of 496 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: the University of Toronto on in the city in search 497 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: of work this summer. On this side of the Atlantic, 498 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: the frat concept is mainly centered around their depiction in 499 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: such movies as Animal House or how the Winklevoss twins 500 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: were portrayed in the social networks. Did you see those 501 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: guys enter in a commercial for like pastachios? I did. 502 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: It's awful. Hey man, they're gonna make that dollar some way. Huh. Yeah, 503 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,239 Speaker 1: the multimillion dollar payout wasn't enough. Yeah. Um, they were 504 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: wealthy already. Yeah, exactly. They seemed like nice enough guy. Oh, 505 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: they seem like great guys, um and such. We see 506 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: them as being an alcohol fuelled rich boys club. Yes, 507 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: except for the College of Pharmacies fraternity. What are they like, 508 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: It's a pill fueled club. Um. I know that both 509 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: of you weren't associated with a rat when you were 510 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: in college, so maybe I'm right on the button there. Also, 511 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: I'm curious as to why the idea hasn't successfully been 512 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,239 Speaker 1: exported to Ireland. In the UK and further afield, and 513 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: what exactly is the association with the Greek alphabet and 514 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: why did they develop in the US in the first place. 515 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: So he wants us to do a podcast. Oh, I 516 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: thought he wanted us to answer now, as this email 517 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: has already exceeded the limit I felt it would, so 518 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: I shall end it on this note. I just want 519 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: to further emphasize my gratitude and respect I have for 520 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: the s Y s K team and all the individuals 521 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: involved in how stuff works. Here's hoping for a successful 522 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: venture on the TV. Best of luck and slam must 523 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: be an irish thing. S L a M. I never 524 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: heard of that. Is it like an acronym for something 525 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: or No, it just says best of luck in slam, 526 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: So we'll probably hear about that. And that is from 527 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: John Keating. Thank you John. That is very nice of you. 528 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: That was a very nice email, wasn't it. Do you 529 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: want to do frets? Yeah? I think we should at point, well, 530 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: I guess we have to explain everything. If we did Moss, 531 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 1: we have to do frats, right, Um, let's see what 532 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: should we call for, Chuck. I don't believe anybody could 533 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: possibly have a Moss story, which makes me want to 534 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: hear one. Well, that means people go, oh boy, you 535 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: didn't think you'd get a moss story listen to this, Okay, 536 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: so we might as well ask for it. I once 537 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: laid so still for a year I had moss growing 538 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: on my side. That'd be pretty cool. That would be cool. 539 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: And then there's the tree man, who I think some 540 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: people call the moss Man. I don't think I know him. 541 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: Oh you do. He there's a video on how stuff 542 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: works with this man who has like some sort of 543 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: HPV and like he's growing like bark like skin. Yeah, 544 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: I've seen that. Yeah, I think he's called a tree man. 545 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: Though it's not the moss Man, is it. I don't know. 546 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: It's sad. So we've already heard about that guy. Don't 547 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 1: send us any links to that video seeing it. But 548 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: if you do have an interesting moss story, we want 549 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: to hear it. Not only that, if it's interesting enough, 550 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: we'll promote it on the show. The listener mail. 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