Mar 18
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What episode mentions flesh/vampire fly parasitic relationship
I can’t pin that to a specific JRE episode from what you gave me. None of the excerpts here actually mention a “flesh/vampire fly” parasitic relationship. The closest match in your context is the parasite talk about:
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the grasshopper getting hijacked by an aquatic worm (suicide into water), and
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the tongue-eating louse that replaces a fish’s tongue. (That’s the wild “becomes the tongue” one.) If you mean the “vampire deer” thing, that’s a different bit—more like “Joe Rogan on Vampire Deer & Crazy Animals,” not a parasite fly relationship. If you can tell me one extra detail—like who the guest was, or whether it was about botflies / vampire flies / “flies that eat living tissue,” or even a single line you remember—I can narrow it down fast.
It was about botfly and flesh fly and their relationship in the wild, not sure who the gest was.
Yeah, from what you’ve given me here, the only clear match to what you’re describing is the segment titled “Joe FREAKS OUT Over Botfly Larvae Burrowing Inside of Human Skin w/ Greg Fitzsimmons.” That’s the one in your text where we’re already in that whole “parasites are horrifying” lane, and it’s explicitly botfly-focused.
Now—do I see the exact “botfly and flesh fly relationship” line in the snippet you pasted? Not literally. The excerpt you included is more about parasite nightmare fuel (frogs with worms in their eyeballs, Amazon nature footage, etc.). But it’s the only one that’s directly labeled as a botfly convo, and that’s almost certainly the thread you’re remembering.
If you can tell me one detail—was it the thing where the botfly uses another insect as a delivery system, or was it about flesh flies laying larvae in wounds—that’ll let me narrow it down way harder.
one line i remember was something like "Whats going on over in Australia at the moment? People are dropping like fly's. The Guest goes onto talk about flesh fly's and how they are commonly mistaken to not live in Australia.
Yeah, I can’t match that “What’s going on over in Australia… people are dropping like flies” line to any of the clips you dropped in here. Out of what you provided, the only Australia-related bit is the cane toad conversation, and it’s not about flesh flies at all. And the only thing that’s explicitly in the parasite/botfly lane is the botfly freakout with Greg Fitzsimmons, but the excerpt you’ve got there doesn’t mention Australia or flesh flies either—it's more the “parasites are insane” stuff (like the frog eyeball worms). So if this is definitely about flesh flies/botflies in Australia, it’s probably from a different episode/clip than the ones in your context. If you can tell me anything else—guest vibe (comedian? scientist?), or whether they said “myiasis,” “blowflies,” “maggots,” “Queensland,” “outback,” whatever—I can narrow it down way faster.