1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should know from house stuff Works 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and Jerry and this is 4 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: stuff you should not Hey, dude, how's it going good? 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: How are you man? Good? Chuck? Yes, Chuck? Yes, you 6 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: love New York right? Sure do? I love New York too. 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: It's good city. It's a great city. In fact, I 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: think we suggested first let someone do that on a 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: T shirt. I love New York. Yeah. I don't recall 10 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: that he hadn't been getting your checks. No, well, I'll 11 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: make sure you get those. I don't think the person 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: who really created that has been getting any checks for 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, that'd be an interesting little thing 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: to look up a bit. It's unknown to history who 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: who did it? Yeah? Who did? I heart New York 16 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: and that iconic font. I think it is known it is, Yeah, 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: I think it is. And I think it was probably 18 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: somebody who's contracted by, like not the Chamber of Commerce, 19 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: but some tourism board maybe for New York, like the 20 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: guy who wrote Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Yes, but 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: he got his copyright back from Montgomery Ward. Remember, it's 22 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: like the most benevolent thing any corporation has ever done. 23 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: My mind's still blown. And that was two Christmases ago 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: that we first learned about it. Anyway, I wonder, though, 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: if I Heart New York is actually in the public domain, 26 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: or if it's just been pirated so much that they 27 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: just don't even try to police it any longer. Maybe 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: because we for our Canadian tour um you may design 29 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: the Canadian leaf Canada shirts in place of the Heart. Yeah, 30 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 1: those are great. You can actually buy those in our store. 31 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: It's true. We never plug our store. No, we don't. 32 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's like we just pretend it doesn't exist. 33 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: It does exist. I felt like a jerk for a 34 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: second there by plugging the store. I was like, wait 35 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: a minute, I think we've ever plugged it. We're allowed 36 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: to do that. You can actually buy shirts. Yeah, it's 37 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: on our website. Stuff you should know dot com in 38 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: the top nav. I think it's as store. You just 39 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: click that. All all the stuff. The classic s y 40 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: s K Bowling shirt is on their classic Uh. There's 41 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: just a lot of stuff, good stuff. So anyway, New York, 42 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: New York made the news recently, as it does from 43 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: time and time, Chuck, and that it was discovered that 44 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: the flee that was responsible for spreading bubonic plague has 45 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: been found alive and well on the rats of New York. 46 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: Did you know that? What? Yeah? Now, the the people 47 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: UM who conducted the study, they just rounded up like 48 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: some rats and tested them, and they're like, Yep, this 49 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: one's got it. Yep, this one's got it. They were 50 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: quick to point out that the bubonic plague itself, which 51 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: is called um your Cinea pistalis, it's a bacteria that 52 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: causes the plague, which is nasty. Right, did we do 53 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: We didn't do a bubonic plague? Yeah, or black death 54 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: or something that was a good episode. I think this 55 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: is different. But the bubonic plague, it's it's caused by 56 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: a back there you're sending a pistles. And they said 57 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: that they didn't find you're sending a pistalis in the fleas. 58 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: They just found the fleas, the oriental rat flea on 59 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: the rats of New York. So they're saying, you're probably 60 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: not going to catch the plague. It turns out the 61 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: most people who get the plague all seven of them 62 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: every year in the US get them here in the south. Really. Yeah, 63 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: that's nice, so steer clear of the southern rats. But 64 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: the New York rats could just easily spread it to 65 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: because everything's in place for it to spread, right, So 66 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: fleece man. That's a good that's an old school intro. 67 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: It was okay, it's goods a little rusty. So yeah, fleas. 68 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: We've done ticks, and we've done um flies, and we've 69 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: done these termites. Was a really good remember them termites. 70 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: We have dabbled in the insect world. Yeah, and this 71 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: is a Tracy Wilson article who wrote, like all all 72 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: of the insect articles, you could tell this phone came 73 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: later and she's like, I'm so tired of talking about 74 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: the thorax that I'm not even going to mention it 75 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: in this one. Just go read any of the other articles. Yeah, 76 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: And there was one line in here where she was like, yeah, 77 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: and like the life cycles like most other insects, don't 78 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: be dumb. Read any of these hundred other ones I've 79 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: written about it. So please are the bane of my existence. 80 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: And I'll pepper throughout the podcast my experience with my 81 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: animals and fleas because I've had a couple of major 82 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: infestations in my life. But um, they are parasites, and 83 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: that means that they feed on the host, in this 84 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: case drinking your blood like a tick does. Yeah, yeah, 85 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: that's true. For some reason, I don't equate fleas with 86 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: ticks though, even though they're so similar. But yes, they 87 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: both drink blood. And in fact, what the what the 88 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 1: flea eats is called the blood meal. It's not it 89 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: is called dinner. They call it a blood meal. Yeah. 90 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: They're about two thousand species of flea. Um. We are 91 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: mainly going to concentrate on. I think they call it 92 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: the cat flea. That's the most common here in the States. Yeah. Um, 93 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: And the cat flee is not just attracted to the cat, 94 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: it also likes dogs, also likes humans a little bit. Um. 95 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: And then there's the dog flee, which is also attracted 96 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,799 Speaker 1: to cats and dogs and humans, but it will also 97 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: attach itself to raccoons, pigs, livestock, wild animals. It's not 98 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: very picky. Yeah, like the flea you get and you're 99 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: on the squirrel in your yard, that squirrel that haunts 100 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: you in your yard, um is going to be different 101 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: than the one on your pet. Inside largely because that 102 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: squirrel is never laying down for hours on end during 103 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: the day. Where the flea will, you know, find a 104 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: nice lazy dog and be like this looks like a 105 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: great place to fornicate and lay eggs and have a 106 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: blood meal or two. Do with my whole thing with 107 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: my mouthparts. For that reason, if you ever do find 108 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: a squirrel that's stunned or possibly dead, just lying there, 109 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: don't roll on it because the fleas will jump out 110 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 1: onto you. Have you seen those photos, they're old, but 111 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: of the dead squirrels with the action figures, showed these 112 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: Discotti the other day. He had never seen the I 113 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: should tell everybody has made an inquisitive Yeah, it's super old. 114 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: But someone at one point found a dead squirrel and 115 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: got like g I. Joe action figures and as if 116 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,559 Speaker 1: he had hunted it, like you know, doing a hunting 117 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: pose with his leg propped up on the squirrel's head. 118 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: And there's another one with the guy like holding up 119 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: the squirrel's head like it was a big game. It's 120 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: really funny. And it's funny because they didn't kill these 121 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: squirrels to do it, because that would be a different deal. 122 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: Squirrel died naturally, I'm assuming the squirrels just like, yeah, 123 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: run over in the road and someone was like, hey, 124 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: let me get my gho's out, like they were hunting 125 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: big game, because that's what you do. But should not 126 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: ever stage one of these killing an animal? No, And 127 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: you really probably shouldn't stage them anyway, because the people 128 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: who did stage them probably did get fleas, and they 129 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: got cat fleas or dog fleas, I'm sorry, and maybe 130 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: the plague. So chuck. Um we said that they feed 131 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: on blood, they have blood meals. They are kind of picky, 132 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: but not altogether picky when it comes to the kind 133 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: of hosts that they have, right, and that you said 134 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: that they're parasites, and they're specifically ectoparasites, which means they 135 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: live outside of the body, yeah, rather than endoparasites, which 136 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: live inside the body. But the thing that they have 137 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: in common is that all they do is take, take, take, 138 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: and they give nothing back in return but grief, which 139 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: you don't really want. So it's not a symbiotic relationship. 140 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,119 Speaker 1: It's a parasitic relationship that you have with your fleas. 141 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: That's a one way street, right, Um. Fleas are the 142 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: little guys, of course, um We we'll I think you 143 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. What we will describe it. 144 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: It's wingless um. They have these hard plates called sclare 145 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: rites um that their body is covered with, which is 146 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: why if you've ever had a flee and just mash 147 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: them between your thumb and finger and been like take that, 148 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: and then he goes and jumps off, like how did 149 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: that happen? It's because he's that they're covered with these 150 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: small plates to help that sclare rites. Yeah, you gotta 151 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: really work to kill a flea, like with your fingernails, 152 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: and it not only protects fleece from fingernails, it also 153 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,719 Speaker 1: protects them from falls because they will jump. They're known 154 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: to jump. Yes, we go ahead and talk about that. 155 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: I think we should. It's pretty amazing stuff, pretty neat. 156 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: What are the stats there? So a flea can jump 157 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: about seven inches vertically, that's up and down. Yeah, seven 158 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: to eight and thirteen inches horizontally, right, So big deal. 159 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: Seven inches. So remember in the cockroach episode where they 160 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: can move fifty body links in a second to humans 161 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: is like two fifty miles an hour. This is very 162 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: similar um in human terms, a flea's jump would be 163 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty ft vertical jump from a 164 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: human that's a lot. That is crazy, and four hundred 165 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: and fifty ft horizontal jump. Yeah, so when this fleet 166 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: jump six inches, you should be very impressed. It is 167 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: impressive because the current record for a standing long jump 168 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: is twelve ft and a fleet could jump the equivalent 169 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: of four fifty ft. That's right, setting world records from 170 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: your dog's but on a daily basis just one of 171 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: the amazing things about a flea um and creepy. Uh. 172 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: The exoskeleton is smooth looking when you're looking at the 173 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: little fleet on your knee, but what it really has 174 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: is a bunch of little tiny hairs um sort of 175 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: comb back like like a cool guy would do, like 176 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: the fons, like the fonds would do. They're pointing a 177 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: away from the head and that those little backwards pointing 178 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: hairs mean that they can sail through your dog or 179 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: cat's fur without getting hooked. But if you go and 180 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: try and get the fleet out, that will serve as 181 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: a hook like velcro. Yeah, anchor it in that fur. 182 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: Which is why I fine tooth combs work, but other 183 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: like a brush won't because the fine tooth comb is 184 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: so close together. The times are so close together that 185 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: the fleet still just can't hang on but a brush 186 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: it's like that was nothing. Yeah, and if you have 187 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: a flea infestation or a bit of a fleet problem, uh, 188 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: your fleet comb is gonna be a good way to tell. 189 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: But it's not gonna get rid of that many fleas. 190 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: You know, you can flee comb and still have fleas. 191 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: It's the canary in the coal mine. Yeah, but it's 192 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: a good place. Like if you do that, or if 193 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: you separate the hair and you see that dirt flee 194 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: dirt they call it. That's like either dried blood or 195 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: poop and a good sign that your dog or cat 196 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: has fleas. Yeah, it's not flee a No flea. Eggs 197 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: are clear, that's right, and smooth. So um. Fleas, like 198 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 1: you said, suck blood. They eat what are called blood meals, 199 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: which I just can't give past um. And they do 200 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: so because they have specialized mouth parts, which is basically 201 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: a combination of two saws on the side that puncture 202 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: your skin. Those are called L A C I N 203 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: I A. I was gonna say, listen you great um, 204 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: and they form a saliva channel which will come into 205 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: play later on. Yeah. Um. And then They also surround 206 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: what's called the epipharynx, which is the needle that sucks 207 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: the blood. That's right, and that is a stylet altogether. Um, 208 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 1: it forms a stylet, which is the puncturing organ, and 209 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: it basically it all just jabs into your skin and 210 00:11:53,840 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: that epipharynx is working with um basically stomach pumps, yeah, 211 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: to suck that stuff out. Yeah, which is pretty impressive 212 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: because it requires a lot of suction to get that 213 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 1: blood out. So again, pretty impressive with fleas jump far 214 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: suck really hard that they do suck. Yeah. Alright, Right 215 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: after this break, we're gonna talk a little bit about 216 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: that life cycle that we mentioned earlier. All right, Josh 217 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: fleet life cycle. Yeah. Again, you can just look at 218 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: Tracy Wilson be like, there's like other bugs. It's like 219 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,199 Speaker 1: a butterfly. It's still worth mentioning. So an adult has 220 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: some eggs, and those eggs are totally smooth. They don't 221 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: disappear smooth like the fleet itself. They are totally smooth. 222 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why they're smooth is because 223 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: the eggs are meant to fall off of the host, 224 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: like the flea itself is having a blood meal. On 225 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: your leg, laying some eggs, pooping, just doing all sorts 226 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: of crazy stuff, right. Um, And when it lays its eggs, 227 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: the eggs fall off and they fall into if you're 228 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: in the house, carpet fibers deep in the carpet, cracks 229 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: in your hardwood floor, man, that's the worst. Outside. They'll 230 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 1: fall into the soil and they are just meant to 231 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 1: be sequestered away. Yeah. They need in order to hatch 232 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: and develop, they need warm, moist environment about seventy degrees 233 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: fahrenheit sevent humidity, although they'll go as low as like 234 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: forty five anything below that, and they're just not gonna hatch. Yeah, exactly. 235 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: That's why a good winter freeze is gonna help your 236 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: fleet problem. Dry winter freeze, dry winter freeze. Um, your 237 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: eggs are gonna hatch in about twelve days. And that 238 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: twelve day span is one of the things that makes 239 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: flee so maddening, because you can think you've killed all 240 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: your fleas, and then there are tens of thousands of 241 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: them that are gonna hatch twelve days later, right, and 242 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: you go kill those and by the time you kill those, 243 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: they've already laid eggs. And this cycle continues, which is why, 244 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: and we'll get into it. You have to kill the 245 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: fleas and their eggs to to take out a flea infestation. 246 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,599 Speaker 1: At the same time, it's challenging and so UM. The 247 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: egg is sitting there in your hardvard floor, your carpet, 248 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: or out in the soil, and after about twelve days, 249 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: if the conditions are right, it'll hatch and it'll turn 250 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: into a lot larva. And the larva goes through three 251 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: in stars or cycles of development, stages of development, and 252 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: they mold after each one, and after the third in 253 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: star it says, I'm going back to my home in 254 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: the cracks in the floor and spin me a nice 255 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: cocoon and turn into a PUPA. That's right, And like 256 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: we said, it's sort of like a butterfly. Um, an 257 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: adult flea is eventually going to emerge from that cocoon. 258 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: It's not nearly as pretty as an beautiful iridescent butterfly. 259 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: Doesn't have blood meals as far as I know. Um, 260 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: there's your next sci fi movie, blood meal butterfly. Look 261 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: forward after Sharkonado three from this march UM about half 262 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: in a in a population if fleas, about half of 263 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: them or eggs, which is why we said they're so 264 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: problematic to get rid of, and only about five percent 265 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: reach adulthood. Um. And one reason is because females can 266 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: only lay the eggs if they've had that blood meal. 267 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: If they're starving, they will die before they reproduce. Yeah. 268 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: And what's neat about them too, is when they're in 269 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: the pupil stage and they're up in their cocoon and 270 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: hanging out developing and everything, because they emerge from the 271 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: cocoon is an adult. But while they're a pupa, they 272 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: can tell through either vibrations and and or sensing body 273 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: heat whether there's food nearby, like should I hatch? Because 274 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: they right, because they feed on warm blooded animals, so 275 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: they can tell them. They find these signals in the 276 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: environment and if they if the signals are right, they'll 277 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: come out of their cocoon. Uh and I think a 278 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: week or something like that. If the signals aren't right, 279 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: they can stay in their cocoon for up to a year, 280 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: and they actually can will flash themselves. They roll around 281 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: their cocoon and like debris and hair and stuff like that, 282 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. Yeah, that's why if you have 283 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: like a vacation house and you've eradicated your fleas and 284 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: then left for the winter. I guess you'd be there 285 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: in the winter you've left for the spring, depending on 286 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: how you I don't know how you do your vacation house. Um, 287 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: but when you come back, you can like that could 288 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: be the signal, hey, there are a hosts here now. Like. 289 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you've been overrun by fleas that whole time. 290 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: They've just been laying in wait for you to come back. 291 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: And then you're back and there say we're here. The 292 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: females can lay about twenty eggs at a time, or 293 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: about five during a long life. I saw up to 294 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: two thousand and another article than the say between Yeah, 295 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: but again they won't they won't lay eggs if they 296 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: haven't eaten no. Um. One of the they're cool things 297 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: about the flea larva is that they actually don't eat 298 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: blood meals. They eat just about everything else hair, dead, 299 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: skin cells, um, flea droppings, nasty nasty things, um, just 300 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: about anything that they'll find in the cracks and your floorboards, 301 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: or in your carpet or out in the soil. Right. Um. 302 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: But then once they hatch, they go after the blood meal. 303 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: One of the other things that the flea larva eats 304 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: our tapeworm eggs, which makes fleas again super nasty and 305 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: dirty little creatures because once they eat those tapeworm eggs, 306 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: they grow up to become fleas that have tapeworms. Yeah, 307 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: the tapeworm actually forms in the gut of the flea. 308 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: It can be that tiny and uh, then all of 309 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: a sudden, your animal has tapeworms because they got bitten 310 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,239 Speaker 1: by a flea who injected that junk into your your 311 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: dog or more likely you accidentally a to flee or 312 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: a flea got into your food or the the your 313 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: dog eight to flee, the tapeworm lodged itself and your 314 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: dog's gut, the tapeworm eggs were excreted through your dog's 315 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: rectum its bedding. You pet your dog, and then you 316 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 1: touch your mouth and the tape worms crawl into your mouth. 317 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: The tape worm makes and then now you're infected. So 318 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: there's like eighty different ways that a tape worm. You 319 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: can become infected with tapeworms just from fleas and specifically 320 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: dog fleas are the ones that carry tapeworms. Most likely 321 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: fleas on dogs or the dog. The dog flee um. 322 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: So that's nasty. Here's some more nastiness for you. The 323 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: reaction that you get when you get a fleet by 324 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: or your dog gets um. You know, when your dog 325 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: is scratching. That is from the junk and the saliva 326 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 1: of the flea, specifically the ct E F one protein. Yeah, 327 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: and it affects some people and animals more than others. Uh. 328 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: It was really bad on my dog Charlie, Like she 329 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: had the hair falling out in the bald spots and 330 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: the hot patches. She was like, these fleas are driving 331 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: me crazy. I know. It's terrible. Um. And the same 332 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: thing can happen to people. You know, if you get 333 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: a flea bite, you can see sometimes you have a 334 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: few little bumps. Yeah, some people react to it worse 335 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: than others, but everybody pretty much gets bumps. Those bumps 336 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: make it even worse because you can scratch it, and 337 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: some of those bumps will have bacteria flea excrement around them. 338 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: When you go to scratch them, you can break the 339 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: skin and actually move those flea excrement that's dirty is 340 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: all get out into your newly open break in the skin, 341 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: and you get all sorts of nasty infections from that. Yeah, 342 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: you can also get a murine typhus UH in the 343 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: southern and southwestern parts here where we live. UM that 344 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: is caused by the bacteria Rickettsia type and UH mainly 345 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: on the cat flee in the oriental rat flee. But 346 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: that's one of the things you can get when you 347 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: when the flea is defecating while they're eating, you scratch 348 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: and you get that infected waste in the scratch or 349 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: you know, if you've broken your skin, so you get 350 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: typhus from it from that you scratch in your skin. 351 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: And then of course we talked about the plague, which 352 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: is pretty interesting. The plague bacteria actually infects the flea 353 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: itself and it develops this film in the flea's mid gut. 354 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: So when the flea goes to eat a blood meal, 355 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: it can't digest all the way, so then it goes 356 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: to feast on the next person and when it punctures 357 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: your skin, it actually barfs up the undigested blood meal 358 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: that's now infected with the plague into your skin. Now 359 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: you have the plague. Man, when you hear words like 360 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: mid gut and blood meal and mouthparts like barf is 361 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: the least offensive of all those. That sounds cute. So, um, 362 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: we can understand why everyone wants to get rid of fleas, 363 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: but some people learn to love fleas, especially in the 364 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: nineteenth century, and we'll talk about those people and their 365 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: flee circuses right after this. All right, Josh, you mentioned 366 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: flee circuses. Um. I always thought that flee circuses were 367 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: just fake, and that they use magnets and other little 368 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: things to like move the bicycle and that can be 369 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: a flee circus. Those are called, I believe, illusory flee circuses. No, 370 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: they have a name humbug flee circuses. But there were, 371 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: and I guess still are in some places, flee circuses 372 00:21:55,359 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: that actually attached little leashes and chains to fleas and 373 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: they do things, they pull things around. Yeah, because here's 374 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: another astounding thing about fleas. They can lift up to 375 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: sixty times their body weight, so they're enormously strong. Yeah, 376 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: sixty times. Like think about it, man, Like imagine lifting 377 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: sixty times your body weight. You'd be crushed. It's like 378 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: that's a huge rock to you. You know, it's a boulder. 379 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: It's a boulder. So fleas can lift their equivalent of boulders. 380 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: And these boulders, especially in the nineteenth century, but starting 381 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: about in the sixteen hundreds came in the form of 382 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: things like chariots, coaches, hearses, just things that like say, 383 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: a horse would draw, but in miniature. Yeah, And apparently 384 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: before that, even in the late fifteen hundreds, a guy 385 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 1: named Mark Scalliot in eight he was a watchmaker, and 386 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: apparently watchmakers were the first dudes who had the idea 387 00:22:55,760 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: to attach a flea to a chain, and in fIF 388 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: did so. It was a lot consisting of eleven different 389 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: pieces of steel, iron, and brass, which together with the 390 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: key belonging to it, weighed only one grain. Whatever one 391 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: grain was, It's like a pound and a half. Let's 392 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: no no way. So this is the late yeah, and 393 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: he was the first guy who was like, hey, this 394 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: little flee can actually carry something, right, So that call 395 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 1: it on. But apparently the the paying public didn't catch 396 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: onto what was really going on, which was these guys 397 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: had figured out how to actually train fleas. One of 398 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: the thing first things you have to teach them is 399 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: to not jump, and apparently you train them not to 400 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: jump by keeping him in a sealed container. I was 401 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: gonna say about beating them by like holding their parents hostage. Um, 402 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: you keep them in a jar, I guess the sea 403 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: through jar, so they can see their parents on the 404 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: other side are being held hostage. But they jump and 405 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: jump and they get nowhere, and they learned jumping is futile, 406 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,719 Speaker 1: so the very shallow something I guess yeah, yeah, um. 407 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: And then after they learned to jump, you tie them 408 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: up to this harness, this very tiny harness, and then 409 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: they live in the harness for the rest of their lives, 410 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: which no, it's about three months. But um, so let's 411 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: say flee lives a year. The first six months it 412 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: has to mature to about the age where it can 413 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: learn and it's big enough to put in the harness. 414 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: You spend three months training it, and then it has 415 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: a performing life of three months where it's basically just 416 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: living in this harness, carrying chariots around for people's entertainment. 417 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: There are probably people out there feeling bad about the flee, yeah, 418 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: but don't forget the plague and flee instrument. Yeah, all 419 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: that stuff. It is kind of sad to an extent um. 420 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: But in the six d apparently the public thought that uh, 421 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: the fleas the flee circus trainers were sorcerers. That was 422 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 1: a big thing because that explains it actually just as well. Well, 423 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,479 Speaker 1: they really caught on in places like october Fest in Germany. 424 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: They loved it. They still do. I saw a video 425 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: of a dude in Germany like today showing his flee 426 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: circus off. It seems like very German thing to do, 427 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: you know, be trying to fleece, to pull the things. 428 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: Uh Andy Kaufman, sure, Um County Island and the Long 429 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 1: Beach in California and New York City, Um, places like Blackpool, England. 430 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: Wherever there were circuses and freak shows and stuff like that, 431 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: you you might find a flee circus going on. Yeah, 432 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: and there's a dude named Andy Clark who's got one 433 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: going now. He's he's got his hands on nineteenth century 434 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: manual's magazine articles reviews of the real flee circuses, and 435 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: he's um recreating on my guess. But we'd be remiss 436 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: to not mention Albert totally. Isn't that his name? Who? El? 437 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: Albert Tolato? Who was he? He was like the flee 438 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: circus guy, just the legend in the field. He was 439 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: the chief flee circus dude. He go over in his house, 440 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: he's got like fleas doing the dishes and pretty much 441 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: he's cleaning up after him. Uh so chuck flee circus 442 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: kind of hard to do. Most people just want to 443 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: get rid of fleace, so there's some waste. Yeah, And 444 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: like I mentioned, I've had two major infestations, one in 445 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: Los Angeles where UM I could not find. Here's my advice, 446 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: this is off script. If you want to get rid 447 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 1: of your fleas, try and find the source area, find 448 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: the head fleet. Find the head fleet and take a meeting. UM, 449 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: work out a negotiation between the two of you, and 450 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: it should work out. No chariots. So find find your 451 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: source and and l A. I could not find my source. 452 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: That was driving me crazy. And finally I was going 453 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: I was outside. I thought, let me go in the 454 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: yard and we had this uh sort of squirrel. Now 455 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: it was a garage on the side of the house 456 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: the dead squirrel and filled the dead squirrels and that 457 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: was it. Um. And on the other side of the garage, 458 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: it was like two ft of space about fifteen ft 459 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: long between that and the fence. And that's just the 460 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: place where nothing ever went, you know, and except the dogs. Yeah, 461 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: except the dogs. And I was walking over there, and 462 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,360 Speaker 1: what I do is I walk around the yard barefoot 463 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: if I'm looking outside, because yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, 464 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: you look down and see if they jump on you. 465 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: And I walked around the corner to this thing, dude, 466 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: and in five seconds I had probably a thousand fleas 467 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: just crawling all over me. Was it sandy over there 468 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: at all? It's kind of dirty and it was dank 469 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: and dark? Yeah, yeah, just not like like I said, 470 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: it was not well traveled. And dude, I was like, 471 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: all right, this is it. And I did the thing 472 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: I don't normally do, which has get a lot of 473 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: chemicals and sprayed all over it. Did you set it 474 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: on fire? Set it on fire and it up and 475 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: pooped on it? And that did it. Here's some of 476 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 1: my excrement fleas. And then I had a situation here 477 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: in Atlanta where I actually got it, had a guy 478 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: come out and spray um nematodes um instead of chemicals. 479 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: You can apparently spray your basement and house and floorboards 480 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: with nematodes. Those are flatworms, right, yeah, they're living things 481 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: apparently that I guess. I would guess you have no idea, 482 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: but that that worked. UM and I also use what 483 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: your overrun with nematodes. Now they were great. They left 484 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: sprinkle a little on your coffee. So there's some those 485 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: chemicals you mentioned, there's some pretty cool UM chemicals. Yeah, 486 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: there's some topical treatments that you can use on your animals, 487 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 1: which they say they're safe. I try to avoid them 488 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: just because I don't know. I just don't think that 489 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: chemicals that seep into the skin of your animal is 490 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: ever good. No, I mean it's a great you make 491 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: a good point, you know, Yeah, which I been forced 492 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: to use them, which I hate. But if you could 493 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: control the fleas in the environment, you could conceivably not 494 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: have to use the chemicals on that. That's what the 495 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: nematode guy said. He's like, I don't ever use that stuff. 496 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: He said, you stop it before it starts. And it's like, well, 497 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: good for you. You own you've got tons of nematodes 498 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: in that can. You've got a fancy pants dog. But 499 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: when it comes to those topical things UM and I, 500 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: g r s and set growth regulators, my favorite is 501 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: the kitan synthesis inhibitor. Those that's mean it basically creates 502 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: mutant fleet soft fleas that never grow their exo skeleton right, 503 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: which means they never developed fully, which means their toasts. Yeah, 504 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: which means they can be killed by dog scratches and 505 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: bites and things. Uh. Those I g rs keep that 506 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: I mentioned keep fleas from hatching, uh because they mimic 507 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: flee hormones. Uh. And some of these things will kill 508 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: just the eggs, some kill adult fleas, some kill both. 509 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: You pretty much want something that kills it all. Yeah, 510 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: you want to get the worst thing you can get 511 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: for the flea. So if you do have an infestation, 512 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: Tracy Wilson recommends some steps to take all at the 513 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: same time. You don't want to do one or the other. Um, 514 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: you want to treat your pets and the dank area 515 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: between your garage and the fence at the same time. 516 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: You want to wash all of your pets clothing, all 517 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: of their their betting being all that stuff. You want 518 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: to wash it like five million times in the hottest water. 519 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: You can probably with bleach if you can if you 520 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: can find it, which it's not that hard to go 521 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: to the store. Um, you want to bathe your pet. 522 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: You want to use a fleet home yeah. Uh, you 523 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: want to get a vacuum a lot, a lot, like 524 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: every day. Really, she says, at least every other day. 525 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: Is that what you said, Well, I mean every day 526 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: if you really want to Yeah, I would recommend twice 527 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: a day. Yeah, and not don't just vacuum and then 528 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: put it in the closet. If it's a canister or bag, 529 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: you want to empty that immediately outside. It's nice, you know. Yeah. 530 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: And you want to chase squirrels away. Yeah. And there's 531 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: a lot of stupid home remedies that say they work 532 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: that don't. Um brewers, yeast, garlic, vitamin supplements, ultrasonic collars, 533 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: flea collars, No, that stuff really works, trust me. Chance. 534 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 1: I got this one more thing on sand fleas. Did 535 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: you read this and talk about sand fleas um are 536 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,959 Speaker 1: found in tropical areas another in Florida, but mentioned the Caribbean, Well, 537 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: the South American South Africa. I think that they were 538 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: native to the Caribbean, I'm sorry, sub Saharan Africa, and 539 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: they were taken got to Africa by the in the 540 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: slave trade. Actually, so that's how they spread, yeah, which 541 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: is just yeah. So if you've ever heard of chicos 542 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: or chiggers or jiggers, or niguas or peak quas or beachops. 543 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: These are all names for the sand flea. Uh. And 544 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: this lady was studying them, and she said, she's a 545 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: PhD student named Marlene. Uh named Marlene, and she was 546 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: studying ways to prevent um tangy assis infection in Madagascar, 547 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: which is spread by fleas, the sand fleas. And she said, 548 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 1: how are these things reproducing? And she said, look, I've 549 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: got a flea and they host in the body. These 550 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: are different kinds of fleas actually root and into your 551 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: under your skin and live there forever. Yeah, So it's disgusting. Well, 552 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: it's not just to extract them, right, it's not just 553 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: disgusting too. Once they move in and live there, and 554 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: they'll actually they'll they'll move in as groups often um 555 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: they spend the rest of their life there. Over time, 556 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: walking becomes painful, Eventually walking becomes impossible, and all of 557 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: a sudden, there goes your livelihood. So apparently the this 558 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: article mentions that affects the poors to the poor. So, 559 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: especially in Sub Saharan Africa, it's a real problem among 560 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: um the poverty stricken areas because you get a sand 561 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: flea in your foot, and that's it your toast. A 562 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: year later, pretty much so, she noticed that she had 563 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: one between her toes, and she said, you know what, 564 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: let me just let it burrow and see what happens. 565 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: And she did, and it lived a lot longer than usual, 566 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: uh two months, and she said it was still regularly 567 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: expelling liquid from its abdomen, but she never got any eggs. 568 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: And the reason uh this happened, she learned, and they 569 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: now have a new theory cooking is because she put 570 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 1: a sock and a shoe over it and didn't let 571 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: any other fleas in there. So basically this flee never 572 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: had sex and so never laid eggs. And what they 573 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: theorize now is that these female fleas can basically lay 574 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: there in a waiting state for longer than they should 575 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: ever be able to live, waiting for a male flee 576 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: to come around and fertilize the mature eggs. Science. Science, 577 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: So now they think basically that this is the deal, 578 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: and they don't know quite how that's going to help 579 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: them with fighting it, but they do know that it 580 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: takes two to tango, for sure, in your foot, in 581 00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,040 Speaker 1: your foot having sex under your skin. And speaking of 582 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: sex and fleas, we have to mention the Autobiography of 583 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: a Flea, which was an anonymous erotica book written in 584 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century, like I think the eighteen eighties is 585 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 1: huge in London. Um, and it is about a flee 586 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,760 Speaker 1: that that tells the tale of a girl it's attached 587 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: to who becomes the sex toy of a bunch of priests. 588 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 1: What autobiography of a flee? Uh? And uh, I guess 589 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,280 Speaker 1: that's it. You've got anything that can top the Autobiography 590 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,840 Speaker 1: of a Flee definitely not. Fan fiction is the ultimate. 591 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,920 Speaker 1: So uh. If you want to learn more about fleas, 592 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: you can type the word fleas into the search bar 593 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 1: at how stuff works dot com. Since I said search parts, 594 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:48,320 Speaker 1: time for listener medal. Uh spoiler alert on this people. 595 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 1: That says to do with movies that you may have 596 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,319 Speaker 1: seen to stop the podcast now. That is so nice 597 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 1: if you don't want to be spoiled about Birdman in particular, 598 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: which we've already talked about. Okay, guys, for the last years, 599 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: I've cringed and groaned every time you make an error 600 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: or sweeping statement about films. Chuck, you discussed gailmo Guillermo 601 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 1: del Paro as the director of The Orphanage, and he 602 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the making out that film. 603 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 1: I'm misspoke. It's The Devil's Backbone, which was about an orphanage. 604 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 1: Didn't he wasn't also directed by a Latin America No, 605 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: but I was thinking of the Devil's Backbone, So he's right, Chuck. 606 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: You also stated once that James Cameron has not made 607 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: any good film since The Terminator, to ignoring the fantastic 608 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 1: blend of comedy in action that his true lies. Oh yeah, 609 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 1: that was pretty good. I didn't like it. That's why 610 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,279 Speaker 1: I didn't mention it. Um. But when it comes to 611 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,800 Speaker 1: some movies that change milk filmmaking at strong suspicion, that 612 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: would be my first listener mail. So Josh's criticisms a Birdman. 613 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,840 Speaker 1: He he suggested first that the scene where Riggan confronts 614 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: the critic represents the director's pulpitting to the critics. Um, 615 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 1: he says, the critics who have attacked him, And he 616 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 1: says that can't be right because the guys in universal 617 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 1: praise for his movies. I'm sure he's been criticized potentially 618 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,320 Speaker 1: unfairly in the past that's what I think. Uh. And 619 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: the ending of Birdman, Josh, it is heavily implied, and 620 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: we had a bunch of people say to this, actually, Uh, 621 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: it is heavily implied earlier in the film that the 622 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 1: type of psychosis he suffers from his daughter also shares 623 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 1: the moment when he returns to the room to find 624 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: she returns to find that her father has gone out 625 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 1: the window. We hear sirens indicating that he has in 626 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,359 Speaker 1: fact jumped to his death in reality, but she looks 627 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 1: out the window and up to the sky, seeing a 628 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: hallucinatory image. Um, he will now live on for her 629 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 1: as Birdman and no longer her never their father. Her 630 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: reaction is also strongly indicative of this, as her face 631 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: does not reflect that of a sane person seeing a 632 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 1: human flying through the air, but instead of blissful ignorance. 633 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,840 Speaker 1: So I've heard that theory that she's she's you know, 634 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: he did jump to her death and she's just like 635 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: suffers a psychotic breakdown, or that he actually did kill 636 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 1: himself on stage, and all of that last stuff is 637 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:07,440 Speaker 1: not reality. Whose reality is it? I don't know who cares? Uh. 638 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 1: He also takes us to task on eight and a 639 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: half being the birth of surreal cinema because that goes 640 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,359 Speaker 1: to own Chin and delou F, and that Citizen Kane 641 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: was a genesis of dark lighting. Not so, because fil 642 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,800 Speaker 1: noir goes all the way back to the Cabinet of 643 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: Dr Calla, Gharry and m this guy's fun to watch 644 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: movies with and dude, this is the tame version he was. 645 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,439 Speaker 1: Actually it was funny because he was kind of rude, 646 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 1: but then he was like, I love you guys, so 647 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,879 Speaker 1: I think he want to wear your skin. I think 648 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: he was just being cheeky. Uh and also too, by 649 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: the way, dialing for murder, that was anatomy of a 650 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,960 Speaker 1: murder that you were thinking of? From Auto premature I 651 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 1: looked for maybe not, but there was a movie called 652 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:56,680 Speaker 1: Anatomy of a Murder by dial M. Right, yeah, right, 653 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 1: that's what you said, and I said, I don't know, 654 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 1: and then you kept talking and I looked it up 655 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 1: and apparently some people didn't hear me correct and say, yes, 656 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: you were right about Hitchcock. I guess it was anatomy 657 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,440 Speaker 1: of a murder I was thinking of. Or there was 658 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 1: one that was just called M that was also well 659 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 1: m one and it was the first talkie to use 660 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 1: m R as a wilder release, wide wide release, and 661 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:29,520 Speaker 1: that was premature, nor this correct. Uh, he said, this 662 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,720 Speaker 1: email has already exceeded the link that moderate sanity would allow, 663 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 1: and it was even longer. And disagree, sir, You're clearly 664 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: crazy from the first sentence. I'm just kidding. That is 665 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 1: Travis Dukelo and he's a good guy. He just he's 666 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: a film buff and took it's the task. Thanks a 667 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 1: lot of Travis. It wasn't too bad. We've survived worse, 668 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:55,160 Speaker 1: that's right. Uh. If you want to correct us or 669 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 1: throw in your two cents or whatever, because film appreciation, 670 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,799 Speaker 1: I don't care what you say is subjective. True. Uh. 671 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: You can tweet to us at s Y s K podcast. 672 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,240 Speaker 1: You can join us on Facebook dot com, slash stuff 673 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: you Should Know. You can send us an email to 674 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 1: Stuff Podcast at how stuff Works dot com, and as always, 675 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: joined us at our home on the web, Stuff you 676 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: Should Know dot com For more on this and thousands 677 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 1: of other topics. Is it how stuff Works dot com.