Alie Ward

I'm just not even tired right now at all.

That's bonkers.

Good for them.

So I invite you to see the 2022 paper, Effects of Cocaine and Heroin and Their Combination on the Development Rate of Califora Vomitoria, which tossed some fly eggs into pots of minced pork and then just watched them grow up into maggots.

So these lab-coded drug lords found that maggots seem to favor the effects of the cocaine.

But yeah, this is all important because if you're trying to date a body...

time-wise, how fast and how much these maggots develop could be affected by what kind of final weekend the corpse had had.

And if you're wondering how the flesh-loving bottle fly got the name Califora vomitoria, it looked...

I look this up and it seems that the site of maggots all over butcher's meat pre-refrigeration was just enough to make people straight up hurl.

So they named the fly Califora vomitoria.

And we do have a fly episode for you with fly enthusiast and dipterologist Dr. Brian Lessard.

And if that is not creepy enough...

We have an osteology one about bones and body farms.

And if that is not creepy enough for you, our October Spooktober series kicks off with an episode in a few weeks all about creepiness from a psychologist who studies creepiness.

And not to suggest that Mary eats cocaine pork to work faster, but...

are you already working on another book?

Because I feel like it's, I can't even imagine when a book comes out.

You must be so exhausted.

But do you have like four other books just in the wings?

I have a pitch.