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