1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of I 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: and there's Chuck and there's Jerry, and the three of 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 1: us are easy, breezy, beautiful cover girls and this is 5 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: stuff you should know. How you doing, I'm great, good 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: I'm doing. I wanted to be a cover girl. Well 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: you are now I degree such fantastic. Um. I'm excited 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: about this one, Chuck. I'm really excited because it's like 9 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: a combination of one of our plant episodes with one 10 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: of our animal episodes. Yeah it is, isn't it. It's 11 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: really hard to not look at a venus fly trap 12 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: in action on a video and not think it's an animal. Um. Yeah, 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: I guess so, I guess sure. It's just so like 14 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: all you can think of, or all I can think of, 15 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: is that thing is like thinking with the brain. Let 16 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: me close my mouth and eat this thing. Yeah, I 17 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: know what I mean, That's what it looks like for sure. Yeah. 18 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: But the thing is, Chuck, is there's like there's a 19 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: whole thread of botany. Now there's like a big dispute 20 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: in the botanical world about just yes, about just how 21 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:30,839 Speaker 1: much plants think and thinking, and not necessarily in ways 22 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: that we would recognize its is thinking, but still having 23 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,119 Speaker 1: intelligence memory um. And one of the things that that 24 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: seems to be kind of emerging as far as studying 25 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: venus fly traps goes, is that plants, just like us, 26 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: use what are called action potentials, which is electrical transmissions 27 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: that cause cells to do different things when they're stimulated. 28 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: And that is thinking, like, that's how we think, that's 29 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: how neurons fire. So the idea that plants use the 30 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: same kind of general principle to do things or to 31 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: react to things or respond to things, or to change 32 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: the behavior. Buddy, that's thinking in a lot of ways. 33 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 1: What's a vegan to do? I know it does, definitely, 34 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: that's a that's a can. They're gonna all end up 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: breathe atterrians, right, oxygen materians. No, that's the thing. Did 36 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: you know that breathe at terrians? I feel like I've 37 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: heard of that. It's exactly what it sounds. So they 38 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: don't need anything. They just breathe in and drink water 39 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: or is that awful limit? I don't even know if 40 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: they drink water, probably water. Are they all dead eventually? 41 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure Okay, but yeah, we'll have to do an 42 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: episode on that because I don't know enough about it 43 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: to speak on of intelligently. But it is pretty interesting 44 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: because I know some people at least try it well. 45 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,839 Speaker 1: It sounds like a movement that would probably not gain 46 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: much steam, you know, right, because they're too tired to 47 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: prostalytize about it. It sounds like a short stuff. Okay, 48 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: there you go, gotcha. I think that's a great idea. 49 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: But we're here to talk about the Venus fly Trap, 50 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: not the w KRP in Cincinnati. DJ what a great character. 51 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: He had a lot of facets played by what was 52 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 1: named Tim something, right, Tim Reid. Wow. Nice. I saw 53 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: a lot of WKRAP when I was I did too, Man, 54 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: I love that show. It's funny. I remember, I'm already 55 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: going on a tangent before you even get started. But 56 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: I remember watching that show when I was little and 57 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: seeing Johnny Fever where the Grateful Dead t shirts, which 58 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: was my first exposure, and they had like the skeleton 59 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: and stuff, and I thought they were some kind of 60 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: like a metal thing. I did too. I actually had 61 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: a couple of other posters and I was like, this 62 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: band must be the coolest fan of all time. And 63 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: I finally heard them, I was like, this doesn't match 64 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: at all, like the best name ever, the best imagery, 65 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: and then I just didn't add up. Music didn't fit. 66 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: But we're talking about the venus fly trap, the plant 67 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: which if you think sure effort of those things that 68 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: that's like the one carnivorous plant. No, no, no, there 69 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: are hundreds and hundreds of plants that actually eat other 70 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: things by attracting things and capturing and killing them. Uh, 71 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,239 Speaker 1: but the venus fly trap gets all the press because 72 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: it just it looks like it looks and it's so cool. Yeah. 73 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of the other plants um like 74 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 1: eat and digest insects or even like some rodents. There's 75 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: a kind of picture plant that I saw. It's the 76 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: size of a toilet and like, if you're a mouse 77 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: and you fall in, that's it for you. Mouse. Um. 78 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: But they don't do anything. They just kind of sit 79 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: there and hope that something falls in. That. The thing 80 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: that makes the venus fly traps so fascinating is it's 81 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: one of only two plants in the world that actually 82 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: like closes that actually traps and and and it traps 83 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: its prey and like, that's just you just don't see 84 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: that the other ones the European water wheel, and it 85 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,559 Speaker 1: looks like a fern with the very tips of each 86 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: fern frond um, kind of like venus fly trap, the 87 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: very very small version of it. The Venus fly trap 88 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: is just big enough to be like, wow, that's really neat, right, 89 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: Like they would never write a character named Audrey after 90 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: those ferns and put them in Broadway musicals No and 91 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: Audrey two. Technically Audrey two. Yeah, Audrey was the guy 92 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: was Seymour's love interest, the girl that he liked, so 93 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: he named the plant Audrey two. Can I confess something? Yeah, 94 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: I know nothing about Little Shop of Horst. I mean, 95 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: I haven't seen in a really long time either, but 96 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: I um I went and looked up some stuff on it. Okay, 97 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: so you're confessing to um. I saw on a YouTube 98 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: video this guy from the Carolinas talking about the Venus 99 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: fly trap, and he said a more appropriate name for 100 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: them would probably be did you see this guy the 101 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: Caro the Carolina spider trap. Because of two things, they 102 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: are basically only found in about a seven hundred mile 103 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: area as far as growing wild along the coast of 104 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: North and South Carolina, and then he said they really 105 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 1: only eat about five percent of their diet as spiders 106 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, as flies. He said, they mostly eat 107 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: spiders and ants. Uh. And you can also throw in 108 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: crickets and slugs and some other caterpillary things in there. Yeah. 109 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, very frequently whatever just kind of 110 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: happens to to wander onto the plant itself. But I 111 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: mean it'll take what it can get. But I guess 112 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: winged insects and maybe get away faster or more easily. Yeah, 113 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I get the idea that the flies can 114 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: get out of there easier. So it's just I mean, 115 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: they're fine to eat flies, and it's harder. Yeah. I 116 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: also I saw I saw um. I don't know if 117 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: it was in that same video or not. That there's 118 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: only an estimated one d and fifty thousand of these 119 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: plants in the wild and the entire seven hundred miles 120 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: just tiny strip along the coast of North and South Carolina, 121 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: and they live in bogs like marshy bogs, sometimes salt 122 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: marshes um sometimes pete bogs, but you know, like a 123 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: wetland that's like always wet that's that's where they grow. Um, 124 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: and they like the sun and they like you humid. 125 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: But they can also whether the cold, as we'll see, 126 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: because it can get pretty cold in the winter in 127 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: North Carolina. So there's really no way around explaining the 128 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: origins of the name without it being a little well, 129 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: it's just a little dicey because it was named at 130 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: a time where, uh, things were different back then, and 131 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: they named it because the plant resembled, uh, perhaps a 132 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: woman's anatomy. Help me out here. No, I'm really enjoying 133 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: watching your tap dance. Well, I mean, and we've talked. 134 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: We may have mentioned it in the folklore episode the 135 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: idea of the vagina dentata, which in many different cultures 136 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: and nations around the world, there are these folkloric legends 137 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: of these women who had teeth and there vagina act 138 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: as a trap keep going chuck. And that is where 139 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: this name comes from. It's named after Venus, that got 140 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: pagan goddess of love because of that plant's resemblance and 141 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: because of that folklore. Yes, chee, good job man, I 142 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: think you really presented that well right, Um, I wouldn't 143 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: name it that today, can I say that? No? They 144 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: definitely wouldn't have. People are a lot less uptight when 145 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: it comes to s e X you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 146 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: it be the Carolina spider trap, that's right. I also 147 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: saw that when the it was imported to England for 148 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: studies around the mid eighteenth century, UM that it was 149 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: popularly called tippity witch. It's that's what they called venus 150 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: fly traps in England. I thought it was fun too, 151 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: And Charles Darwin said that it was one of the 152 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: most wonderful plants in the world, which I'm mean, that's 153 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: a that's a pretty good endorsement coming from him, you know. Oh, 154 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: I bet he loves the venus fly trap. Yes, he 155 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 1: really did. And I don't think because he um had 156 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: any kind of sexual proclivities toward it like some of 157 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: his other fellow botanists who actually named it that. No. 158 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: I think because it's a wonder of natural selection and evolution. 159 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: I would say that's why too. One of the other 160 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: things he's like, oh natural selection, yes, um. So one 161 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: of the other things about the venus fly trap has 162 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: another name too. It's um it's a taxonomic name. Is 163 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: Diane a Musca pula. I think that's right, and that 164 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: actually is named after Diana, a different goddess, the Roman 165 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: goddess of the hunt, and muscapula apparently means mouse trap. 166 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: So the other name thing you could call it besides 167 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: Venus fly trap is Diana mouse trap. It's not bad. 168 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: It's got a lot of really great names. I mean, tippity, 169 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: which it alone is worth, you know, celebrating. I think 170 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 1: Diana mousetrap might be my new hotel check in name. 171 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one. I like that. But at 172 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: any rate, they eat insects and not because they um 173 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: just love the taste of spiders or flies. Uh, they're 174 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: they're regular plants to They love photosynthesis and they do 175 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: their thing during photosynthesis like all plants do, and take 176 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: the energy of the sun and and then convert it 177 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: to sugar and oxygen and use that stuff as energy. 178 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: But they also need other stuff, just like all plants need, 179 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: but they can't get it because of where they live 180 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: and that p D. Marshy bog. They need all these 181 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: amino acids and vitamins that their land doesn't provide, and 182 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: they get that from these insects. Yeah, because most other 183 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: plants are able to get things like nitrogen from the 184 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: soil and phosphorus and magnesium soul for cassi calcium potassium. Like, yes, 185 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,319 Speaker 1: they need a TP energy and they a word in 186 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: the form of carbohydrates like all plants to um, but 187 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: there's other nutrients that they need to build sell walls 188 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: to produce dna um, to transport water throughout that kind 189 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: of stuff. Like you definitely need a lot more than 190 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: a TP. And since they can't get it from the soil, 191 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: they have evolved to get it by eating other bugs 192 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: or eating bugs or you know, even in some cases 193 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: like like those giant pitcher plants like mice, because animals 194 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: are really great mobile stores of stuff like calcium in 195 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: sulfur and phosphorus and magnesium. That's right, And then that 196 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: wet pd acidic soil they must seek purchase elsewhere. And 197 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: luckily those little spiders are happy to just crawl in there. 198 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: And maybe we should take a little break and we'll 199 00:11:50,080 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: tell you all about how this trap happens right after this, Okay, chuck, 200 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: Before we go any further, I just want to restate 201 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: one of the coolest things I've ever heard, that the 202 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: venus fly trap and other carnivorous plants couldn't get nutrients 203 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: from the soil they grew in, so they learned to 204 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: eat bugs to get those nutrients. It's astounding, and it 205 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: also makes them so similar to the to the animal world, 206 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,479 Speaker 1: because that's why animals eat other stuff, like other animals 207 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: or even plants, because we need to get our energy elsewhere. 208 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: We don't get it from the soil. So it makes them, 209 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: in some weird way akin to us as well. Do 210 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: you feel a kinship a little bit? And you know, 211 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: I'm a little attracted to it too, like some of 212 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: those early botanists, not in a Darwinian way or both 213 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: you swing both ways. Okay, I don't, I don't, I don't, 214 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: I don't judge. Who knew this podcast would go in 215 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: this direction? Right when I saw that first thing about 216 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: it being dicey, yes, about the name being I knew 217 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: exactly where it's gonna go. Uh. So they are not 218 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: the only plant also that attracts things via their smells 219 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: or these delicious syrupy SAPs. I mean, if you go 220 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 1: out in your garden on any day and see butterflies 221 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: and bees and other insects flying around, they're all going 222 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: to these plants and these plants are using these insects 223 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: in one way or the other. They're just not quite 224 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: using them up like venus fly trap does. Yeah, they're 225 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: using them to help pollinate. That's why they do that. Yeah, 226 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,719 Speaker 1: because they want the bee to fly away. They the 227 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: venus fly trap does not want anything to fly away. No, 228 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: it says, come here, let me eat you. So here's 229 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: what happens. If you look at a venus fly trap, 230 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: when it's unfolded and beautiful and has all these little 231 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: beads of sweet nectar on it, an insect will land 232 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: on that, and on each side of uh what are 233 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: they called petals? I saw, lobes, and then like that, 234 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: the thing that connects them in the middle is called 235 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: the mid rib. The mid rib, not the mid rib. 236 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: It's good, you only get it at certain times. The heather. 237 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: Right on each lobe, you've got three little trigger hairs 238 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: arranged in a little triangular pattern. And these are part 239 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: motion detectors and part sort of timers almost, because when 240 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: a little fly or a spider or any kind of 241 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: insect that's small enough lands in there, and we should 242 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: say by small enough we mean ideally about a third 243 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: of the size of those two lobes. Can't go much 244 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: bigger than that. No, and they're not big there, it's 245 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: not a big plan. I saw that they grow to 246 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: be about five inches tall. Yeah they're small. Yeah, they're 247 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: fairly small. And then each plant will have, you know, 248 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: between five and ten I think um fly traps on it. Yeah, 249 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: like if you get your information from Little Shop of Horrors, 250 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: you're being the slag um. So you've got these little 251 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: trigger hairs and once one of those is is flicked 252 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: by a fly leg or an ant leg or a spider, 253 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: it's sort of a timer kind of starts, and they've 254 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: got about twenty or thirty seconds to dance around that 255 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: thing without hitting either that one again or one of 256 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: those other trigger hairs. And once it hits the second one, 257 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: or hits that first one the second time within that 258 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: little timer, that is when the trap closes in a 259 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: fraction of a second, the blink of an eye. Oh yeah, 260 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: it's super quick. Um. And you know, I think one 261 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: of the things that makes it seem animal like is 262 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: it's it's really hard to find a nature documentary about 263 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: the venus fly trap without some sort of foreboding orchestral 264 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: music playing that ground so it really kind of juices 265 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: it up a little bit. Uh. But here's the deal is, 266 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: they don't they don't know exactly why or exactly how 267 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: the mechanism works, since it doesn't have a brain, you know, 268 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: they know they trigger that trigger hair and then it 269 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: claps shut. But all they've got is a pretty good hypothesis. Yeah, 270 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: So what they think happens is that the the um 271 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: the lobes stay open um like that you just um 272 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: liken it to a mouth, So the mouth is wide 273 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: open on the venus fly trap. By the cells around 274 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: that the lobe I guess around the midrib and the 275 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: lobe where they connect are basically being crumpled. And then 276 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: something about the trigger hairs being stepped on starts to 277 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: um d crumple that still like it starts to release 278 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: a little bit of the pressure, and then when that 279 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: second hair is triggered, the pressure is fully released. And 280 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: they think what happens is through the use of um 281 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: of burning a TP for energy, that the the the 282 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: water pressure changes in those cells so that they go 283 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: from being crumpled to being plump, and so they're no 284 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: longer holding the flower open and the mouth open. So 285 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: it just shuts, and all of that is again carried 286 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: out by those action potentials, which starts with the trigger 287 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: hair being stimulated, which somehow creates an electro chemical um 288 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: transmission that goes through the plant cells to tell it 289 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: get ready, get ready because it might happen again. And 290 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: when it happens again, it says, okay, release the water, 291 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: and then the thing snapshot, which is pretty neat. But 292 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,479 Speaker 1: even after that, even after that second stimulation and the 293 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: mouth um the mouth closes, that's not the end of 294 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: the whole process, Like, that's there's still another third one, 295 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: and it has to do with those amazing trigger hairs 296 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, like this, to me, it's already pretty 297 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: remarkable that this plant can do this, and and I 298 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: knew I kind of knew all that stuff, But this 299 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: is when it really floors me, because even before I 300 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,719 Speaker 1: got to this part, I started thinking like, yeah, but 301 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: how long does this take into like reset the trap? 302 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: Like what if a what if something kind of floats 303 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: through there that's not an insect and it just happens 304 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: to trigger two of those hairs, you know, does it 305 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: just open right back up? Does it spit it out? 306 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: Like oh, I don't want this thing in there. What 307 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: if some dumb little kid sticks his finger in there, 308 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: it's gonna close of course, because it's triggering the trigger hairs. Yeah, 309 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: and you should not do that, by the way. No, 310 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: you should totally not do that. But you know that's 311 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: why I said, dumb little kid. So what it counts 312 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: on is a living thing squirming around in there. Once 313 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: it's sort of you know, it's not sealed tight exactly 314 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: at the very very beginning. It's it's like shut. Ideally, 315 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: they're not getting out, but maybe a fly can slip 316 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: out if it's quick enough, or maybe it can work 317 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: its way out. But all that's doing is triggering those 318 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: little trigger hairs again. And that's the signal basically that like, no, no, no, 319 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: you've got a living thing in here. It's not a 320 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: something that fell off a tree or whatever that you 321 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: don't want. So now is the time where you really 322 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: really close down and locked down tight. Yeah, it's the 323 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: thing's been inside scirming because like you're saying, it's it's 324 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: like it's got alive one here. One of the other 325 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: things that just I found absolutely astounding, Chuck, is when 326 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: the when the venus fly trap seals shut, when it's like, Okay, 327 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: I've got a bug in here, and I want to 328 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: go ahead and start eating it. The little things that 329 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: look like teeth, the cilia, they lace together and form 330 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: an air tight seal. And there's a couple of reasons 331 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: for this. One. It keeps the bug from escaping, which 332 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: it couldn't really get out after the second the second 333 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: hair was tripped, like, it forms a cage. But then 334 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: after it squirms around inside that cage, then it seals tight, 335 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: air tight, and that's it for the bug, by the way, 336 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: um and it keeps the bug inside. It also keeps 337 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: um uh bacteria from entering because this is not a 338 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: fast process what's about to happen. It takes the course 339 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: of days before it's completed, and in that time bacteria 340 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: can enter through any like hole in that seal. And 341 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: so the seal prevents bacteria from getting in and rotting 342 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: the bug and in turn rotting them the venus fly trap, 343 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: causing the poor little fly trap to turn black and 344 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: fall off. So I saw it takes about an hour 345 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: or two to fully seal. Uh. It takes about Remember 346 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,199 Speaker 1: I said earlier, like what if something just happens to 347 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: go how long does it take to reset the trap. 348 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 1: That takes about twelve hours if there's a uh twig 349 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: or something. But I was looking for a kind of 350 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: a fun word for a that's not sexual. How about 351 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: a a twitter like a false alarm? But my mind 352 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: just keeps going to dirty places. Well, like, why I 353 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: have no idea false alarm? Let's just call it? No? 354 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: Know what? What were you going to think? That was dirty? 355 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: What were you thinking that was dirty? I can't I'll 356 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 1: tell you later. I guess I can't say it out loud. 357 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: I kind of figure this out. Oh, oh, I know. 358 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: To me, let's just say it's a false alarm about 359 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: twelve hours, and then the entire digestive process can take 360 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,479 Speaker 1: a week or more. Yeah, Like, if there is an 361 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: actual bug in there, it takes about a week to 362 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: digest it. It doesn't sound like a pleasant way to 363 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: go for a bug to be trapped in a venus 364 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: fly trap, because after that seal is completely sealed, w'd 365 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 1: you say, it takes about a couple of hours an 366 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: hour or two for that seal to be airtight. Yes, 367 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: the whole time that bug is still alive, chuck, and 368 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: it's still just sitting there flipping and flopping against those 369 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: trigger hairs. And this is the other service that the 370 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,959 Speaker 1: trigger hairs provide that I referred to earlier, that when 371 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: they're stimulated again after this thing is sealed, what they're 372 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: doing is telling the venus fly trap, Okay, this thing's 373 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: about this size. Um, it's not a big thing. It's 374 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: about medium size. So I only need to release, you know, 375 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: a little bit of digestive enzymes. And this is a 376 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: really great adaptation because it's really energy um intense to 377 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: produce digestive enzymes. UM. So the fact that it just 378 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 1: kind of dolls out just as enough to dissolve whatever 379 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: is in there, whatever size insect is in there, is 380 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: pretty astounding. And it judges this somehow, some way, in 381 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: a mindless sort of way, by how much those trigger 382 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: hairs are tripped while the thing is is squirming around 383 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: in the ceiling um fly trap. It's just awesome that 384 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,199 Speaker 1: it can do that. Yeah, I mean, and this this 385 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: jumps to the end a little bit. But the reason 386 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: it does that is because it can only do that 387 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: so much. Um. They do. They do recycle what they 388 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: can from those juices at the end of the process. 389 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 1: But I get the feeling like each With each opening 390 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: and digestion and manufacturing of those enzymes and recycling of 391 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: of what they can of those enzymes, it just gets 392 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 1: a little bit less and a little bit less, until 393 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: eventually the lobes uh can't do their job anymore. And 394 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: then they just stay open and say, all right, I'll 395 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: just be a regular plant and soak up the sun. 396 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna photosynthesize. Brother. I showed my daughter this 397 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: morning when before she left for school, I was watching 398 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: these videos. It's like, oh man, she's gonna love this. 399 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: And she watched it and got really sad about the fly. 400 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 1: That's sweet, and it's because of the way they shoot these. 401 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: They do that dramatic music, and she's conditioned, you know, 402 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: she's been disnified. So it's like it's Bambi's mom in there, 403 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, it's Bambies fly mother, or it's uh, 404 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: it's Dory sure, Dory the fly version. Just show her 405 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: a fly close up or have her listened to our 406 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: Flies episode and she'll be like, I don't care. I know. Um. 407 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: The other thing they do that really kind of um 408 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: is really easy to overlook, but definitely perhaps overly dramatizes 409 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: a venus fly trap. Shutting on a fly is they 410 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: they will very often dub in like a panther's roar 411 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: right when it um right when it shuts, and it's 412 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: you can't pick it out unless you're looking for but 413 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: when you are, it just sticks out like a sore thumb. Uh. 414 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,439 Speaker 1: I think they get about ten to twelve either partial 415 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: or complete closures per lobe set. So that's how long 416 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: they can hang in there before they coast into retirement. 417 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: Not a bad run. And when you consider that, uh, 418 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: they're only eating an insects every like week or two 419 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: maybe in the wild, how about three times a month. Yeah, 420 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 1: so multiply that times tend it twelve and that's that's 421 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 1: your lifespan basically. Although I did see that they can 422 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: live twenty years in the wild well because they'll regenerate 423 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: new lobes and yes, so yeah, they grow from a 424 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: rhizome and those things pop up. But the plan itself, 425 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: that's a fairly long lived plant. Yeah. So okay, so inside, 426 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: so one thing I feel it is worth like explicitly 427 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: mentioning here with the venus fly trip, You've got this 428 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: open mouth and then when it closes, it converts into 429 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,959 Speaker 1: a stomach. It's kind of like one of those washer 430 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: it's also a dryer once the wash cycles over. Right, 431 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: I've always wanted one of those. Yeah, I think it'd 432 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: be pretty cool. I've never heard if they actually like 433 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: work or not. But maybe we'll just we'll we'll go 434 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: in Dutch on one together, Okay, and see we'll just 435 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: straight it off month to month. Well, we'll rent a 436 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: I don't have room for it, neither do you. We'll 437 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: rent a storage space, yes, and we'll just buy a 438 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,360 Speaker 1: little single unit. We'll hire an electrician and a plumber 439 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: to come out and outfit it for a washer, dryer combo, 440 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: and our our bunk beds from the old days will 441 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,959 Speaker 1: be moved in there, just for nostalgia. Yeah, but this 442 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: time we'll be able to wash our sheets. So so 443 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: in this, in this, what's went from the mouth now 444 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: the stomach those digestive juices just enough to to melt 445 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 1: basically the bug that's in there, based on its size 446 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: and it's scormy nous. Um. They flood this thing and 447 00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: again over the course of like five to twelve days. Um, 448 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 1: it's going to basically break down all the soft tissue 449 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: inside that bug inside it's exoskeleton and basically liquefieding to 450 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: goo until it just kind of mixes in with the 451 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 1: digestive juices. Right. And then in this mouth that's now 452 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: become a stomach, the nutrients that that fly or that 453 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: spider that ant carried around with it, that became liquefied, 454 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: are broken down into like really tiny basic particles like 455 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: amino acids and stuff, not even like proteins, like even 456 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: more basic than that. And then the plant absorbs it 457 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 1: just like you do in your gut, right, and it 458 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: uses those nutrients to do things like build cell walls 459 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: or repair it's DNA, or to transport water throughout its body. 460 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,479 Speaker 1: Just not so stuff, right. And then there's one other trigger. 461 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: There's one other signal that happens where when the digestive 462 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: enzyme is basically all that's in there, all the nutrients 463 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: have been sucked out. Somehow, it is able to UM 464 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: to analyze the ratio of digestive juice to nutrients, and 465 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: when there's basically nothing but digestive juice is left, it 466 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: reabsorbs the digestive juice and that acts as a trigger 467 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: for those cells to compress again and the mouth to 468 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: come back open and then ideally a gentle breeze will 469 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: blow away what's left. There's a little exoskeleton in there, 470 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: and then Audrey's ready again. Uh, and you know again 471 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 1: about a week to twelve days. It depends on how big. 472 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: You know, it's a little ant, it's gonna be quicker. 473 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: We mentioned that the juices get weaker, so if it's 474 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: an older trap or set of lobes, it's gonna take 475 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: a little longer. And then the temperature can actually speed 476 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: it up a little bit. If it's itit's warmer and 477 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 1: there's more heat, then there's gonna be a faster breakdown, 478 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 1: so that will also speed it along. Just as amazing, man, 479 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I knew it was going to be an 480 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: amazing like topic, but I was even astounded by how 481 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: it using these things are. But we're not done. We're 482 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: gonna take a break and we're gonna come back and 483 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 1: tell you all about if you want to grow one 484 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 1: of these monsters in your house, what you can do 485 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: right after this. All right, if you're a fan of 486 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: Broadway or Evolution or Charles Darwin or ancient folklore, or 487 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: just freaking out your neighbor's kids or your own kids 488 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: or grandkids and you want to venus fly trap in 489 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: your house, you can do that. You don't have to 490 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: live in the Carolinas. You just have to set up 491 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: an environment that is like you're in the Carolinas in 492 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: your home somewhere. Yes, you have to become a tar 493 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: heels fan or outside your home. Yeah, because you know, 494 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure in the Atlanta Piedmont, in probably 495 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: parts of Alabama, in North Florida, you could probably grow 496 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: these things in a pot outside probably so um. But 497 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: if you live in um, say a much colder area, um, 498 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: you know, above the Mason Dixon line probably, or in 499 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: a much drier area like the Southwest, you're gonna have 500 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: to You're gonna have to unnaturalize it a little bit. 501 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: For example, if you live in a low humidity area, 502 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: you would want to probably put this thing in a 503 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: terra arium. Yeah, and that's I've always wanted a terra aium. 504 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: I think they're fun. Sure, So uh get a ru aium, 505 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: make it wet in there. Uh, you're gonna have a 506 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: you know, I think I think about a four inch 507 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: pot is a decent starter pot and you may not 508 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: need anything else actually, because they're really not that big, 509 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: like you said, and you gotta keep checking that soil. 510 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: You don't want it, um you don't want it swimming 511 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: in water, but you definitely don't want it to dry 512 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: out at any point. Yeah, and you also don't want 513 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: to um water it from above. I didn't see why, 514 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: but I suspect that it might, like a rain drop, 515 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: could conceivably cause it to um to close accidentally if 516 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: you've got enough water splattering on it and triggering those 517 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: those trigger hairs. Oh. I wonder if they grow in 518 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: the wild under more densely covered areas to prevent that. 519 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: That's possible. But um, so what you do is you 520 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: you water them from the bottom up. You place them 521 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: in a pan of or a little tray of standing 522 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: water about a third of an inch or a centimeter deep. 523 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: What watering tips with jobs? Well, listen, there's one of 524 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: there's something else that you want to keep in mind. 525 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: I think most people wouldn't realize. It's like you can't 526 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: you can't water these guys with tap water. Um Oh, 527 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: I just got what reference you are making? You cutter? 528 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: Do we need like a million feet worth those of water? 529 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: Like you, you basically want to make sure that your 530 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: house is completely flooded with water to make these things live. Uh. No, 531 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: you bring a good point, though it needs you can't. 532 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: Like tap water is no good and probably most of 533 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: the filter water using is probably no good either. No, 534 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: because the salts and nutrients will build up in the 535 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: soil and these things have evolved not to use that 536 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: stuff and like it will actually harm them for the 537 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,959 Speaker 1: same reason you don't want to use fertilizer either. They 538 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: don't need fertilize or they any bugs. Basically, yeah, they said, 539 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: and I thought this is really cool. Just collect some rainwater, 540 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: and that's that's your best bet. If you can't collect enough. 541 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: If you, you know, live in Phoenix and you want 542 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: to grow a venus fly trap, you're already kind of 543 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: growing upstream. But um, you may not be able to 544 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: collect that rainwater either. So at least get some deionized water, 545 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: maybe some distilled water, or if you've got a reverse 546 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: osmosis system, which you might in Phoenix, then you can 547 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: use that stuff too. You can use that stuff, and 548 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: if you don't have a reverse ostomosis system, you can 549 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: buy it. Usually at any aquarium store they sell that. Okay. Um, 550 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: so the water is the important what kind of water 551 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: you use again, don't use fertilizer um and apparently uh, 552 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: because they grow in areas that get cold in the winter. 553 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: If you are growing when in a tra areum from 554 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: November to February, you want to take it out of 555 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: a tra areum and like put it in a window 556 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: in your garage or something like that, Like let it 557 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: actually get cold, and you're gonna get freaked out because 558 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,719 Speaker 1: the plant will actually die back to the rhizome and 559 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: it'll look like you lost it or something like that. 560 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: But then come March, you're gonna be pleasantly surprised when 561 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: it comes bouncing right back. Yeah, and you can treat 562 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: it like any plant that you overwinter that kind of 563 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: goes dormant. You can clip off the dead detritus and 564 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: it'll grow back. How many how many of those are 565 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: we gonna get per plant? Like four or five? I 566 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: think it's a five to tend somewhere, oh, five to 567 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: ten even Okay, that's what I saw, but I could 568 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: be making that up. There's a lot of numbers flying 569 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: around in this one um. But what about the feeding? 570 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: You know, it's uh, if you have this thing in 571 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: your house or in a tru Areum, you're not just 572 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: going to count on a rando fly that got in 573 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: or or akucaracha to walk into its midst. So just 574 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: like if you have a constrictor and you've gotta you know, 575 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: go to the pet store to pick up some mice, 576 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: you have to feed this thing. Yeah, apparently, um, you 577 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: can feed it live bugs, but you know there's problems 578 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: with live bugs. Apparently, live meal worms can actually burrow 579 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: their way out of the plant, which is not pleasant 580 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: for the plan. I'm sure. Um, crickets can easily get 581 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: too big or can stick a leg out which will 582 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: keep that seal from getting air tight, so they can 583 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: um they can decompose uh from bacteria that gets slipped 584 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: in that can actually make the plant decomposed to So 585 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: your best bet is to get some freeze dried meal worms, 586 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: blood worms or crickets, Uh, put a little water on there, 587 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: stir them up, and then put it uh drop it 588 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: on the the plant in its mouth basically and so 589 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,760 Speaker 1: um you might get a closure response from just dropping 590 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,720 Speaker 1: it in there because it might hit a couple of sillia. 591 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: But don't forget like it's not going to start releasing 592 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: those digestive enzymes until it's sillia. The little trigger hairs 593 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: are stimulated once it's closed, So you actually have to 594 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: have like a little toothpick or something like that and 595 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: just very lightly, very gently kind of rub those sillia 596 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:34,439 Speaker 1: so that it'll close fully and release those digestive enzymes. Right, 597 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 1: And like you said earlier, don't uh invite your neighbors 598 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 1: kids over to trigger this thing for fun because it 599 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: only gets tinner twelve with those closures, and you're you're 600 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: you know, you're literally shortening the lifespan of that lobe 601 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,439 Speaker 1: if you're doing so for fun. Uh, So you gotta 602 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: drop an insect. You probably won't be able to catch 603 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: any flies. Even if you're good with those chopsticks. Man, 604 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: very few can accomplish that feed. You have to be 605 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: friends with Pat Morita. And they got to be small, 606 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: remember about a third the size. I told you I 607 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: worked with Pat Marida once, right. Uh. No music video, No, 608 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: I don't think you have to want to say it was. 609 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,839 Speaker 1: It was one Emily producer and I worked for it 610 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: was I think it was alien Ant Farm and they 611 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: did a Karate kids send up and Pat Morita starred 612 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: and um I was Pat Marita's guy that day to 613 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,799 Speaker 1: to get him what he needed in his trailer, and 614 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,400 Speaker 1: he was as nice as he could be. R I 615 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,279 Speaker 1: p God rest his soul. And I don't think it's 616 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,320 Speaker 1: a big deal to say that Pat Marita loved sipping 617 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,960 Speaker 1: on Chardonnay during the day on a shoot. Oh he 618 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,960 Speaker 1: didn't get plaster or anything, but he he wanted a 619 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: bottle of wine, a nice bottle of white chardonnay. And 620 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: he was just a lovely guy, how positively cultured. You know. 621 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: I heard Mr T likes to drink huge cups of um. 622 00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: I don't know what it was he was drinking, but 623 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,879 Speaker 1: he would he'd like to drink on set as well 624 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: during the day. Oh. Really interesting. I did a Wye 625 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: Cliff video one time, and uh, he and his his 626 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: crew they really drank. Oh yeah. But I mean sometimes 627 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: those music videos that was just sort of the um 628 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 1: it was just sort of a party atmosphere, like they 629 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: would use as an excuse to be like, all right, 630 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 1: all my friends are coming here for twenty four hours 631 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: and we're just gonna get down. And um. I also 632 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,439 Speaker 1: had one of the coolest experiences of the music video 633 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: life on that whye cliff job, and that I was 634 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: standing kind of right next to a and I'm just 635 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: so square. I don't know what it's called. When they're 636 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:44,240 Speaker 1: improv rapping and like dissing each other like the competition style. 637 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what that's called. It's called a mile Yeah, 638 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 1: it's called an eight mile face off. Okay, that's what 639 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 1: I said. I went, Hey, guys, nice eight mile face on. Um. 640 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 1: But I got to kind of witness one of those 641 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 1: in person, and I was like, oh my god, it's 642 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,719 Speaker 1: like the ellen is just off the chart. So it 643 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: was good because sometimes those things are really not good. No, 644 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: I mean these were these were pros. Oh good man, 645 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 1: I'll bet that was cool to see. It was fun, 646 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,960 Speaker 1: but they were they were fun too. Wow. Uh did 647 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 1: we say everything there is to say about Venus fly traps. 648 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,280 Speaker 1: I also had to put a joint in Buster Rhymes lips. 649 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:25,120 Speaker 1: I think I've told that story. He smokes marijuana, believe 650 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: it or not, because he was in a in a 651 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: video for Gimme Some O. He was fake tied to 652 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: the train tracks in one scene, so he was he 653 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: was couldn't move and he was on the ground and 654 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 1: he would always ask me. I would stand by and 655 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: hold the burning blunt and I would put it in 656 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:46,400 Speaker 1: his lips every you know, probably eight seconds. Good lord, 657 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,960 Speaker 1: it was great. Like, those are the fun things you 658 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: can do as a p A. Sometimes I recommend it. 659 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,799 Speaker 1: Those are some cool stories, Chuck, you can really get 660 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,040 Speaker 1: in the mix. There's nothing to do with penus fly traps, 661 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: so but it does. Now well, if you want him 662 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,759 Speaker 1: about venus fly traps, go buy one. You can buy 663 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,520 Speaker 1: one online, although supposedly you should probably go to a 664 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: nursery that specializes in carnivorous plants because they actually know 665 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 1: what they're talking about. So let's start there. Okay, can 666 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: you grow them from seed? You can? You can go 667 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: from seed. You can also divide them, like as they 668 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,000 Speaker 1: get to be adult size, right before they come out 669 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 1: of their winter dormancy is a good time to divide them. 670 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: So they make great gifts. I love it. Uh And 671 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: since Chuck said he loves it, of course, everybody, it's 672 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:34,920 Speaker 1: time for a listener Mayo, I'm gonna call this Clark 673 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: me a listener mail. Okay, did you see this one? 674 00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: It sounds familiar. It's from a few weeks ago. Hey, guys, 675 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:43,560 Speaker 1: I just want to tell you that I've been subtly 676 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: leaving Clark as a verb in the conversations with my 677 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 1: family for the last three weeks. Uh, this is Leslie, 678 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 1: this is mom that's doing this. At first, I did 679 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:54,840 Speaker 1: it just to be funny and see what they would say. 680 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 1: None of them had heard that particular episode and don't 681 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 1: even know about clarking, but no one questioned it. I 682 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,840 Speaker 1: asked my husband to clark me a ten dollar bill, 683 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: and I told my son I would clark him a 684 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,920 Speaker 1: notebook for school, and it's told. I told one of 685 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: my daughters that someone could clark her a phone charger. 686 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,120 Speaker 1: Everyone just proceeded as if I'd said nothing out of 687 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:21,279 Speaker 1: the ordinary, and it was totally surreal. Anyway, I just 688 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,879 Speaker 1: had to share that with you guys, because I feel 689 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,799 Speaker 1: like I have a hilarious inside joke but no one 690 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: to laugh about it with. If you do read this 691 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,839 Speaker 1: on the air, and how could we not? Uh, will 692 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,160 Speaker 1: you please shout out my husband, Clint and my kids Jackson. Uh, 693 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,879 Speaker 1: it looks like Emma and Grace it maybe m E, 694 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 1: M m E. Thanks for what you do. I'm a 695 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,600 Speaker 1: longtime listener to love your show so much It's perfect 696 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: for those like me who have a love of learning 697 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: and laughing. And that is from Leslie and her family 698 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:54,440 Speaker 1: just sound wonderful and I it says something about how 699 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: much they're listening to you, Leslie. I hate to break 700 00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 1: into you. That's pretty great. Or they're just like moms 701 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 1: on off a rocker. I guess we'll just go with it. 702 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,200 Speaker 1: What a great email. I'm going to guess the middle 703 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,920 Speaker 1: kid's name is Emmy. Okay, so we've got m Emmy 704 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,800 Speaker 1: and Emma. I don't think we can miss Chuck unless 705 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:21,440 Speaker 1: it's just the artist formerly known as Well. Thanks again, Leslie, 706 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,600 Speaker 1: that was a great email, one of the all time greats. 707 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,959 Speaker 1: If you ask me, and if you want to throw 708 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,960 Speaker 1: in your two cents and see if you can compete 709 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,759 Speaker 1: with Leslie's email, we would love to hear it. You 710 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,760 Speaker 1: can send it to us at stuff podcast at iHeart 711 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:39,240 Speaker 1: radio dot com. Stuff you Should Know is a production 712 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts my heart Radio, 713 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,400 Speaker 1: visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 714 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,880 Speaker 1: you listen to your favorite shows.