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How you don't like that? Why
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too bad, it's not bid bid, it's not too bidh fere a little

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rejuvenated. Maybe it's because I just
took a nap. How the fuck don't

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you like house music? How the
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until I was like hell of thirty
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I had stuff growing up, you
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I was skeptical. But that's a
nice Chicago house mix of defective records,

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which is nice background. You know, something's it's all about timing right.

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Sometimes you want to listen to you
know, uh oi bands like fucking Blitz.

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You know, sometimes you want to
listen to to harmonica blues. Sometimes

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you want to listen sometimes you want
to listen to Luciano Pavarotti. You know,

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there's a time and a place for
everything, and sometimes there's a time

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and a place for Chicago house.
So I don't know. Some people who

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are still strict with their musical taste
I'm skeptical of normally normally indicates some sort

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of unresolved trauma they're not dealing with, you know, gonna get loose,

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a little bit relaxed. Anyway,
Welcome to another episode of crimepe is about

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and he doesn't podcast just cut back
from Chicago two days ago. I drove

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to like four in the morning.
I did the fuck did I stay?

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I stolen? I say, I
stayed in Joplin, Missouri, which is

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probably one of the most depressing towns
in that whole region. All of Western

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Missouri is kind of avoid How many
KKK meetings do they have in Western Missouri.

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They've gotta be like probably a dozen
more. I think it gives off

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that kind of vibe. It's fucking
weird. Then you get to Oklahoma.

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It's a little more chill there.
You know what, I got a bunch

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of natives, got a bunch of
Resussi evations. It's a little bit more

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loose, you know, feels like
it. You know, you get less

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of that mean fucking that means there. I had someone like scream at me

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in traffic in Joplin so they could
fucking go around me. Some neck beard

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in a giant oversized truck so he
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the red light that was like half
a block down. Like the whole landscape

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just looks like shit, dude,
I mean again, like the I know

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I've said this before, but the
typical that are crumbs. Uh, you

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know, transition of America drawing where
it goes from like idyllic pasture, the

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forest, idyllic pasture to just like
retail slum, just all the all the

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all the strip mall signs on the
you know, on the side of a

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row with the telephone wires and fucking
parking lots. And that's what Joplin,

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Missouri's an ugly town. Man.
No offense to anybody who lives there.

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You probably know what I'm talking about. You know, you're probably not bullshitting

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yourself, just kidding. I think
a lot of people are bullshitting themselves these

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days. But uh, you know, anyway, I stayed in Joplin.

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I drove all the way from Japlin
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uh fuck, I don't know how
long it take me, twelve fourteen

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hours and it was it was a
terrible drive. It was brutal and then

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it was rainstorming here when I got
down here. So anyway, um,

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yeah, I just the last week
or two in Chicago was fucking great.

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It was really fun. It was
hilarious. The stupid chonkasaurus thing blew up

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like hell. I kind of wish
it would stop now, you know,

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but it maybe it'll get someone into
into appreciating nature quote unquote in their own

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backyard. Um, that fucking sixty
pound turtle probably has no idea how how

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famous it is now. Um anyway, how about how about clickbait? You

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like clickbait? Um? I got
a bunch of stuff to talk about.

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God, I saw a beautiful speckled
king snake in these fucking mountains. I

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always stop at near a Toka,
Oklahoma, Oklahoma. It's like these upturned

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carboniferous limestone beds and uh, it's
a little it's near the freeway. Used

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to be an old highway that isn't
used anymore. Was probably before the freeway

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was built. In these limestone beds
have been flipped up at like, you

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know, seventy degree angle. They're
fucking beautiful. They're really cool. You

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can look at them and see all
kinds of cool crynoid fossils and stuff.

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So it's a spot I stop where
there's like a bunch of cool iatris and

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there's an Ariagonum. I think it's
lauinge of florum or launge of Folium.

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I don't know either way. It's
one of the It's a beautiful ariagonym species,

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a beautiful buckwheat species, which is
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out west, so to see one
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know. But but seeing the gentle
transition from the prairie to well, now

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it's all you know, hideous corn
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agriculture. But seeing that transition to
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the fucking Texas ebenies and giant miskeats
and all that shit, was so real.

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It's a real pleasure, you know. But the drive is absolutely terrible.

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I hate I hate driving. Um
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which I didn't know. It was
like the eastern edge of their range

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over there in Atoka. But that
whole area if you look on like a

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tobograph of h or a topographic map, and there east of Atoca, you'll

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see all these upturned beds. These
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you'll see the topography which's going on. You know, these mountains that have

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just been flipped up the Wachatas,
which I had more time to explore there,

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but I had to get home.
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Chicagoe. It was great, the
Field Museum. I went to it twice.

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We went and checked on the feral
cannabis patch on eighteenth and Western hadn't

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germinated yet. Not because I particularly
care for cannabis, but I think it's

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I think it's interesting that this weed
patch has been there for fucking almost twenty

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years, probably longer than that.
And uh, you know, now now

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potts legal in Chica, I go, no one cares, and and this

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is the I think pretty sure it's
a psychoactive stuff. It's not. It's

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not the ditchweed. It doesn't look
like the ferret like the ditchweed you get

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in and Nebraska. It's got a
little bit different of a color to it.

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the patty wagons up on the hill
above where it is. It's near these

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train tracks and this kind of like
diamond, near this railroad embankment. But

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uh, yeah, the pot comes
back every year. I got a tick

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when we were looking for it there. I couldn't believe it. I found

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a tick on me, you know, like a mile and a half from

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downtown Chicago. So it's evidently there's
a lot of coyote activity. I mean,

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I know there's a lot of coyote
activity, but the fucking buck there

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and there's terrible. I hope someone
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out there when I was younger.
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the train tracks. It was kind
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the tree cover was up. It
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old cottonwood tree right there, huge, like you know, six feet it's

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like three or four trunks, but
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And so we'd hang out right there. I found the remains of our own

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our old fire pit covered in leaf
litter. It was almost impossible to find

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because it's been you know, like
fifteen twenty years. But we would hang

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out there, and you know,
we'd see coyotes coming down down, you

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know, coming down the railroad and
payment and shit, probably eating rabbits eating

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those cotton tails, maybe the occasional
feral cat, the occasional street rat as

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well. I saw a beaver on
the Chicago River, which blew my fucking

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mind. Man kind of knew where
we saw Chankasaurus right there near Goose Island.

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I couldn't believe that. That was
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looked like a new tree. But
they don't get those up there. That

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was an actual That was a genuine
American beaver, another rodent. But still

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I'm still missing the Field Museum Plant
Dungeon, their plant Family Dungeon, where

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they have the well, witchy,
mirabulous diorama, which I encourage every went

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to see. If you can get
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do it. You could sneak in
there, you could do it. Get

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a fucking museum pass. They got
reciprocal admissions. Oh you know what I

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went to too. I went to
the these fucking museums. Man, they

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got some there. I went to
the American Museum of Surgical Science, which

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is certainly not worth the amount they're
charging. If it was like four or

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five bucks, i'd pay it.
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it's it's kind of like a gag. It's kind of a hack. You

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know. It's like the first floor
too. They got one room that just

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has all these these creepy statues in
it, you know, of like famous

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European doctors throughout time, just kind
of annoying. And it's got the nice

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checkerboard tile floor, so it looks
like some rich pricks mansion. And they've

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got like an old drug store set
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model of a pharmacist in the back, which is also kind of spooky.

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And then they've just got a bunch
of like disturbing I don't know, it's

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not that cool. Their exhibits are
weird. It's uh, they got an

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iron lung. I guess that's cool, right, you can remember what polio

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was like. Um, but it's
they wanted nineteen bucks to get in there.

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We didn't pay it. I had
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still kind of blown away they were
even charging that much. And it's weird.

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It's in like a it's near all
these you know, it's in the

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North North Loop, which is a
fucking the North Loop. Is it gives

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off a certain vibe, I'll say
that, and I do not like it,

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certainly, a vibe where it's kind
of fun to piss people off,

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you know, just by just by
doing your thing. It's by being yourself

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if you can. Um. There
were a bunch of ash trees that died

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too that that someone had whittled down, probably with a chainsaw. Ash trees

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that had died in the park.
Somebody had whittled down with a chainsaw into

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various sculptures, which I kind of
thought was cool. Um. We went

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to Montrose Beach, me and al
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were gonna do our workout order.
You know, we were on a due

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the fitness tip. We took the
weights and the fucking uh he get these

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way he took he took like exercise
bands and ship We must look like tweakers

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because we didn't know what else to
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nice day by the lake. It's
still kind of chilly, I mean,

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it's always chilly in Chicago, man, compared to where I lived now,

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you know, the first it was
it was still like fifty degrees in early

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May, like forty five. But
we took these weights to the fucking to

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Montrose Beach and I had that I
found this old like army army coat,

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like a flak jacket, you know, with the like rambo style like green

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which just like you see someone in
those I didn't realize it made me look

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that sketchy, but um, I
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I would be out paying graffiti when
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and had these pockets selling to the
back of it, and so I had

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that. It was only coat I
had. I didn't realize it's gonna be

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that coat. So I was wearing
that, and I was carrying these twenty

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pound weights and I was laughing his
ass off at me, like twenty feet

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behind me, because I'm like this
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Montrose by the Lake carrying these weights. Just the hardcore tweaker energy, just

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hardcore wingnut energy, Like what the
fuck? Um? Yeah, he videotaped

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me what his phone was kind of
funny. I saw it later. I

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was like, yeah, you know, I do kind of if I did

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see someone like that, I would
probably think they were on meth or I

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don't know what i'd think, but
it doesn't It don't look normal. But

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we went out there and then we
were we were gonna go find there's like

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a feral posse of raccoons that lives
on the lake. They live on the

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all these all these rocks that were
dumped to prevent the lake shore from a

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roading, you know, because Lake
Michigan used to all be like Marshland it

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was. I would have loved to
see what it looked like. I think

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all the Thuya occidentalis aka arbor vity
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but I've been up there. If
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Park in Scatson, and you could
see these undulating It's a really beautiful place.

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You could see these undulating dunes,
like there's like you know, by

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undulating, I mean it's like three
not doinges, excuse me, undulating Thuias

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swamps where it gets like three foot
tall hills and then there's a little dip

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and then you know these these undulating
berms. I guess I don't really know

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what caused that, but uh,
you know, they got lego fights in

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there, and it's the shady underneath. It's all. It's all Thuyia occident

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and Talis all arbor viti, which
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other words, a mutant of Thudia
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want to pronounce that occident talis.
It's got these it's kind of like fucked

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up looking foliage, Like it doesn't
look smooth. I don't know what it

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is, but they treat them like
Italian cypresses here and they just you know,

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beat you over the head with them. They're just so overused in horticulture,

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and it's kind of funny since they're
all the same clone. I'm waiting

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for the day that's something some virus
or or or whatever evolves to fucking kill

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these things and they all night at
the same time. Because they're kind of

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hideous. They're not that spectacular of
a tree. They don't get that tall,

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and they maintain this iconical form.
They get like twenty feet tall at

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the most. And they just remind
me of all these places that suck,

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like like the landscaping at a fucking
oil changed place, or like you know,

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suburban style office parks. They got
a lot on the in the non

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suburban areas of the city too,
But it's just, you know, it's

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it's a very it's a very Chicago
thing. It's a very Midwest thing.

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I wish I could remember the name
of the cultivar, but I don't really

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pay attention to things like that.
But I've seen my moss house. I

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planted these dune redwood trees in her
tiny little yard. They're fucking taking over.

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I got a Baker cypress in there
too, It's taken over. It's

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nice. It's the only the only
true cypress that can survive Chicago winters in

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the genus has sparrow cyprus, you
know, the New World cypresses. It

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fully smells incredible on it. They're
from northeast California, but they can take

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a Chicago winter, and it gets
cold in northeast California, but it doesn't

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get Chicago cold. I wish more
people planted that. You got to plant

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them in a in a protected location. I get something more than arboretum.

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They killed it within like a because
you know that's how they plant everything,

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or the more an arboretum is a
is a and they do. I love

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what they do, a lot of
good stuff, but there's still like that

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old school, uh kind of archaic
style of botanic garden arboretum, which you

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get a lot on the East coast
and Midwest where it's like these these olms,

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steady and lawns, you know,
like these kind of like uh referencing

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Frederick lawn almost like because it was
kind of the way he built parks.

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But um, kind of like the
more British botanic gardmen, You've got these

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these open lawns with like a specimen
tree with like a neatly mode uh bed

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around it, you know, or
it's it's in a it's in a bed

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with a neatly mode margin. It's
just it's so fucking lay man a botanic

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garden that's dependent on lawnmowers. Um. You compare that with someplace like ucb

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where it's just everything's just packed and
tight like it was in the wild,

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you know, like like it would
be and grouped like it would be ecologically

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like by region, you know.
So he would like the Mexico section,

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you can steal them all these plants
from that grow together in Mexico. You

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go to like the Asian section,
you gonna see all these plants that grow

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together in Asian. You go to
South America section and see all these plants

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that go together in South America.
So anyway, they planted this this Baker

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cypress that I gave them modoc cypress
in the middle of this garden bed in

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the middle of this this essentially open
field because they were planting it was like

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a specimen tree in the fall.
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winter and the thing just got fucking
murked by these desiccating you know, forty

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mile an hour winds that Chicago gets
in the winter. And there was no

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protection. There were no trees around
them, there was no wall, like

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no wall around them, nothing to
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so they did. It was just
like this like this icy blow dry around

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them for five months, and the
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the end of the year, but
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I remember seeing it later, but
it was it just looked like a stick,

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you know, it looked like shit
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Like see there's another house next to
her. There's like a it's like

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a brick wall. And they're one
one of the Banker's cypruses, so you

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know, they're kind of protected,
you know, as they would be in

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situ like a in a grove or
a force them. So um, but

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yeah, man, I don't know. There was the fucking Film Museum.

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I always love going to the Field
Museum. You got it. Like I

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was saying, you gotta just get
a pass, get a fucking pass,

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you know, or find a good
way to You can't sneak in a lot

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of these museums anymore. They got
on lockdown. You know. The museums

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are just they're just they're not places
for learning anymore. They're they're suburban theme

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parks. So but Field Museum is
still pretty great. But we did a

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show me and All did uh.
We showed two screenings a kill Your Long

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and then shot the ship. It
was weird. It was like it was

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like a blend of like stand up
and then as screening for our TV show

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that nobody can watch because nobody watches
cable. They only you know, I

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don't blame them, you know,
Direct TV. Yeah, yeah, sure,

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Spectrum Cable. I've tried watching.
I stayed in a ship back motel

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while I was in Joplin, and
I saw I saw our show in the

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guide you know the TV guide button
when you put the hit the TV the

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guide button and it shows you like
a listing what you could watch every time

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I watch cable television, Like I
don't ever watch TV. I mean,

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I'll stream stuff sometimes, but I
don't certainly don't pay for any sort of

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cable service. Anytime I watch it
just reminded how nauseating the fucking ads are.

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They totally make it not worth it
because you end up watching forty percent

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of what you end up being exposed
to is just advertising most like just the

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most obnoxious shit, you know,
where they turn up the volume on it

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and talk to you in that horrible, that over excited, fucking consumer voice.

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So uh, but yeah, I
saw her. I saw our show

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on two sixty seven. I saw
it listed there. This is like great,

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two sixty seven. You got two
hundred and seventy. How many channels

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on direct TV. You can go
to a motel and you can watch TV.

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You could just sit and oh god, I was just I was excited.

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The place didn't have bedbugs though,
it just had the specter of despair

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and the faint scent of cigarette smoke. Um. But yeah, we went

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to this. Uh. We had
to show at a on the northwest side,

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at what was it called Color Club
or something. It was nice.

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It was a fun little event.
We got to shoot the ship. I

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saw some people I hadn't seen in
a while, and then I saw that

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it was cool. The forest preserve
near my moss house, the Cook County

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Forest Preserve, they masticated a bunch
of a bunch of the undergrowth. They

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should have they should have burnt it, of course, but you can't do

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that when you got you know,
suburban homeowners around. People get mad about

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that. So all the trout lilies
were coming up, all this cool shit

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that people have no idea about,
that I had no idea about, even

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though I grew up only a few
blocks away from it, you know.

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And that, of course is the
that's the huge problem with all this stuff

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is there's no exposure to it.
I mean, I was I gained such

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an innate hatred for for tulips,
like the second or I just remembered still

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being exposed to tulips, just endless
tulips as a little kid, which of

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course it's you know, makes it
feel like it's northern Europe because that's where

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all this shit is, you know. Bread Um. I think tulips are

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actually native to you know, Eurasia, but still, um, they plant

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them like hell man all downtown,
I mean, no native plants anywhere downtown

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and the North Loop and any of
these in any of these places that would

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feel fun to get thrown out of, you know, Um, God,

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and tulips are so whack man,
I just beaten over the head, just

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one bed with like a four hundred
tulips in it, Like, really,

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where's the fucking where's all the vernonia, the silphium, the fucking there's so

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many cool native prairie plants you could
be putting in there, you know,

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Um, the kankakee mallow, the
fucking Iliamna romota, you know that that

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could be. It's the list is
endless, you know, go to like

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Illinois wildflowers and see what they got
popping up. The fucking maypops that I

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always forget the name of it.
It's in Berbera daisy. Let's see Arisima

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even like a nice shady understory,
you know, Arisima trifl um aka Jack

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in the pulpit aka jack and a
jerk off booth aka skunk cabbage or is

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that something else? I don't know, all these all these stupid common names.

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Sensitive fern, Monoclius sensibilis. That's
a cool one, h god damn

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bunch of nice stuff. Oh yeah, Potophylum peltatum, no may apple they

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call it. Yeah, mayapple.
What a weird flower too, But you

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know, there's so many, there's
so many options. I mean, it's

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just it's weird. I thought native
gardening was like native plant gardening was on

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people's radar there, but it's not
really, at least not in them.

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You know, whoever's working in city
horticulture, they still just beat you over

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the head with the fucking tulips and
the what were some of the other plants

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I can't even remember what uanymous and
pakasandra are two other things they beat you

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in the overhead with, which is
cellistracy and two other non natives, non

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native I don't know if they're invasive, but just you know these like boring

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groundcovers, cellistracy and bucks they see
the boxwood family, respectively. Oh god,

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they're everywhere. Man, it's brutal
that in the fucking Vinca. It

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just kills me. So many cool
prairie plants, so many cool prairie plants

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you could use, and instead you
just use this this trash that doesn't benefit

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this stuff. It's all that stuff
is the desert for cool insects too,

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you know, for cool pollinators and
birds and shit. I saw really excuse

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me, Oh saw really uh beautiful
humming bird I've never seen before, probably

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flow up here from Mexico, you
know, to steal our jobs, you

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know, doing so. Biden watched
these these you know, illegal alien humming

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birds come in and here, you
know, because Biden hates America, because

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it's what watched the Duel Order.
I saw this really cool hummingbird pollinating this

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rips less Amazonica. I got in
the pseudo ripslist. Excuse me, Amazonica.

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I got in a back in a
backyard here. I kind of got

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down here. Man, everything was
fucking overgrown. It's just like a fucking

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jungle. That mockingbirds hanging out and
that that oak tree I'm trying to kill.

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They use these, they plant these
these quirkas Virginiannas around here in South

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Texas. They're not really native.
There's a couple native to the sand sheet,

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but they used you know, it's
like the home depot. It's like,

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I'll give them that that it at
least is native east to here.

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It's native to the region. But
out where we are, it's like transitioning

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Gulf Coast, transitioning the desert.
You know, let's say, yucka payote

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twenty minutes away, that kind of
thing. So they plant these oaks and

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they just they always end up kind
of looking like shit, or they they

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take forever to get established and then
it just it looks weird. Why did

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I plant the misquite? You know, I went to Harold Washington Library when

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I was in Chicago too. That
brought me back to my youth. That

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was so nice. I used to
just hang out there. This is probably

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like two between two thousand and three
and like two thousand and six, whenever

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I come back to visit, because
I was basically traveling for like three or

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four years straight, and so whenever
i'd visit, you know, we didn't

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have smartphones back then, which was
nice. It was actually nice, and

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so if you wanted to like lurk
on the internet or research something or just

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you had time to kill you on
the loaders somewhere, I'd just go to

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the library. And so I'd hang
out there at these big tables, get

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a stack of books to look at, like just get like pick eight or

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nine and just go sit at the
tables and fucking read and draw for like

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three or four hours. Didn't have
to pay to hang out there, obviously,

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you probably will in the future.
I think that's the direction of America's

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going. But but yeah, it
wasn't. It was. It was a

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nice reminder, you know, like
the I love, like the smells of

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a place bring you back. Harold
Washington Library is such a cool spot.

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Do you go to the top floor. They've got that like open atrium with

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these four big planters with trees in
them, small trees in them, and

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in the skylights up top. It's
such a beautiful place in a central location

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too. Go there, and then
I would go to like Billy Go Tavern,

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the underground one, the original one. Go go there and get like

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a egg sandwich, like an egg
and cheese sandwich, and then just lurk

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there for a while drinking coffee,
had cheap coffee. It's nice to see

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all these places. It's it's fun, man. You go back to these

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places and you kind of remember.
I remember bits of myself, you know,

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and I also gives me some insight
into, you know, my own

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bullshit, Like how how I would
feel back then, like what was actually

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I can and looking back on like
who I was, Like shit that was

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that I wasn't dealing with my own
bullshit. I wasn't dealing with like just

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you know, fucking being too fighty, just too much of a like stick

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in the mud, paint in the
ass um I don't know. I mean,

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I still am in a lot of
ways. But there's I'd like to

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think there's been some personal development over
the last I don't know, fifteen years,

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twenty years. Not enough, but
there's been some um. But yeah,

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the city is so clean now,
man, And there's there's I've seen

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more of those stupid rectangular buildings,
those condos. You know, they the

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developers would buy a lot, take
down these beautiful old buildings, so many

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cool buildings that were built one hundred
years ago, highly ornamented, you know,

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a treasure to walk to having on
a block, because it's just it

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makes everything look nicer. It's like, you know, and the shit they

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put up now are just these instant
buildings to house affluent people with no taste,

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and that's generally what it feels like. It's it's so sad, man,

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I've seen so many they build these
things out of fucking center blocks.

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They look like shit. They slap
a fake balcony on there, a balcony

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that you can't go like I don't
understand not going to ornament the thing.

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You're not gonna you're not gonna go
on like a decent architectural plan. You

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can't take extra time to put a
couple you know, extra borders or I

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don't know what the fuck, what
is the word you come at an architecture

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guy, but you know, whatever
you call extra extra am on there or

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whatever. But you could put us
like a fake balcony in like a balcony

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you can't even use. It's just
like these these steel beams, like these

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you know, small steel slats and
beams. I don't get it, you

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know. And they all look the
same too. The instant buildings, instant

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boring rectangles being sold for way too
much money that replaced these beautiful, cherished

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civic monuments. You know, even
it was just like a corner store or

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there was a bar inside, or
even just like a nice looking apartment building.

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So there's all these just I don't
know, I don't know if they're

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like yuppie condos or what they're I
assume they're mostly to own, I don't

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know, but they look fucking hideous, and you know, they're obviously cheap

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to build, and the developer just
slaps them up, sells them for a

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lot of money, makes makes their
money, and takes off. And meanwhile,

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you know, the entire the public
sphere, the way that the street,

402
00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:56,720
the street decore essentially looks, the
buildings that the rest of us have

403
00:26:56,799 --> 00:27:00,880
to pass by, just get dumber
and more bland looking. So uh,

404
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,960
you know, it's kind of the
general direction of of America. I guess

405
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,880
though. It's all just about It's
all just about the bottom dollar. You

406
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,920
know. Build shit is as cheap
as possible, sell it for as much

407
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,920
as possible. Um. But uh, I was. I was impressed at

408
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:21,119
how much the cops have laid off
in recent years too. It was kind

409
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,799
of nuts. I remember the cops
used to always come in. They'd show

410
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,000
up at all the parks at night
at the time that the parks to due

411
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,279
to close and run everybody out of
there, which you know sucked if you

412
00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:32,000
were hanging out with your friends it's
like ten pm, the park closes.

413
00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:33,759
The ten PM. They'd actually come
in and run you out of there.

414
00:27:33,799 --> 00:27:37,519
They'd drive into the park. Um. You know. I had a friend

415
00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:44,640
who got arrested for smoking a joint
at Pratt Street Beach Beach once which was

416
00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:47,880
nuts. Like I arrested for smoking
a joint in Chicago. That's crazy.

417
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,319
Um. And now there's just there's
like the smell of weed smoke everywhere,

418
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,599
which is you know pleasant. I
think it mellows people out, especially what

419
00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:02,039
a what a problem the Midwest has
with uh, with alcoholism. It gives

420
00:28:02,039 --> 00:28:04,000
people an alternative, you know,
if they if they're not ready to go

421
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,359
through through life sober yet, at
least they can do something a little bit

422
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:15,160
less unhealthy. Um. Obviously smoking
weed every day is you know, not

423
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,839
great for you, but uh or
for your mind. It'll make you a

424
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,240
little little wet brain, a little
rusty, but uh, it's better than

425
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,799
than drinking. But um man,
people were smoking cigarettes on the on the

426
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:32,000
on the Allen in the subway too, like in a fucking subway tunnel that

427
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,640
that subway tunnel between uh the Jackson
Street Red Line and Blue Line. I

428
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,519
remember you used to be able to
there was a tunnel beneath the Washington stop

429
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,440
in the loop for the Red Line
and Blue Line too, but I guess

430
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:48,319
that's closed now. Um it's just
just goes Munroe and then uh whatever,

431
00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:53,400
the next stop is Clark. But
uh, some fucking asshole was smoking in

432
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,960
the in that long tunnel between you
know, the red line and blue line

433
00:28:59,359 --> 00:29:03,839
at Jackson Street, and that wasn't
even you never see that back in the

434
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,960
day, never see people smoking down
there. That was just it's such a

435
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:11,319
like enclosed space too. It's dick
boo. You'd always smell piss, but

436
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:17,720
you'd never smell cigarettes. But uh, you know anyway, and yeah,

437
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:19,480
yeah, all the graffiti was riding
for a while too. You see,

438
00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:23,759
you know whereas Mayor Daily's graffiti blasts, you just see that brown paint and

439
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,400
everything, you know, just the
hideous brown paint that you know, you

440
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,359
people would paint something in a day
or two later just get covered up with

441
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,920
that brown paint. Rooftops, alleyways
whatever, you know, rooftops face in

442
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,799
the l. Chicago has historically been
a rooftop oriented town for graffiti. You

443
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:47,039
know, you would because the rooftops
all faced the elevated train, so that

444
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,640
was like they were just like little
billboard billboard essentially billboard spaces for graffiti writers.

445
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,640
But uh, goddamn, but it's
nice to not to see that brown

446
00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:00,319
paint that much anymore. So,
yeah, I don't know, it was

447
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,279
it was it was nice to be
back, you know. But again that

448
00:30:03,319 --> 00:30:04,920
Field Museum Plant Family Dungeon. You
gotta go in there. It's like walking

449
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,480
into a plant systematics textbook. And
I have a feeling they're gonna get rid

450
00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:12,240
of it at some point because it's
an old exhibit, like that whole room

451
00:30:12,319 --> 00:30:15,400
is an old exhibit. But you
can go through all these different plant families.

452
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,200
They've got models of the flowers and
ship up there. It's really cool,

453
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,640
and they're gonna get they're probably gonna
get rid of that Wellwitchia diorama.

454
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,759
I shit you not. It's a
Wellwitchie and morablist diorama, so you could

455
00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:30,519
feel like you're experiencing Wellwitchia. They
got a you know, the mural in

456
00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:34,039
the back. They've got the little
mural on the wall on the back.

457
00:30:34,119 --> 00:30:37,599
They got glass up front, of
course, you know, because they don't

458
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:38,599
want guys walking in there, because
that's what I would try to do,

459
00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:42,359
you know, taking selfies with the
plastic models of these plants. And then

460
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:47,440
they've got you know, two or
three plastic models of Wellwichia, just like

461
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,480
for an animal diorama you'd see at
the Natural History Museum in New York.

462
00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:55,200
They got a couple of those too. Oh there's a lizard climbing the text

463
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,839
Sudium crenadum. That's nice just looking
out the window. So you know,

464
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,519
should go in there and experience it, because I have a feeling in ten

465
00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:04,000
years it's not going to be anymore. Ship five years. You know,

466
00:31:04,079 --> 00:31:07,119
it's old, it's antiquated. They'll
pull in, they'll put in some new

467
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:12,960
fucking exhibit that they charge twenty bucks
to see on top of their twenty five

468
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,519
dollars admission or whatever they they charged. When was the last time have I

469
00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:18,559
ever paid to go to the Field
Museum? I think I used to always

470
00:31:18,559 --> 00:31:22,440
sneak in, and then I got
this, you know, reciprocal admissions passed,

471
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:29,720
so I can get into any museum, any museum that participates in it

472
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:36,079
in the US. But um anyway, Oh, it was cool to see.

473
00:31:36,119 --> 00:31:38,960
I saw lupinous perennis and lit those
sperm um connessance, which I had

474
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,599
never seen in Chicago. But I
saw him at the dunes. I went

475
00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:48,279
to the dunes in Northwest Indiana one
day. What a fucking experienced Northwest Indiana.

476
00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:52,759
Holy shit. I remember getting picked
up hitchhiking by this this drunk racist

477
00:31:52,839 --> 00:32:00,039
off duty sheriff once when I forget
where we came. Damn, I can't

478
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:02,319
remember where I was coming from.
I think it was coming from, like

479
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:06,799
I don't know, man, oh, I was coming from Memphis. I

480
00:32:06,839 --> 00:32:08,799
forget how the fuck we gotta ride. We took a we rode a train

481
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,559
or some shit up to India.
Anyway, we were in Gary and we

482
00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:15,680
were hitchhiking. And Gary's a black
town too. I wonder what the fuck

483
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,079
this cop was doing there. But
he was drunk off his ass driving the

484
00:32:19,119 --> 00:32:22,960
sketchy van with all these fishing poles
in the back packing heat, had a

485
00:32:22,039 --> 00:32:27,839
giant revolver on his hip, and
went on this incredibly racist, you know,

486
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,680
uncomfortable rant where we're like sitting there
like sweating bullets. Just, oh

487
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:36,680
my god, what is this fucking
maniac swerving all over the road. Um,

488
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,440
I forget where he dropped us off. I think we might have told,

489
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,680
we might have lied and said we
were closer than we were or something.

490
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:44,359
Just we get out of his fucking
car. But yeah, and then

491
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:47,559
yeah, finding out he's a sheriff. Of course he's sucking off duty sheriff.

492
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,960
That made sense, okay, Um, but uh, but the dune

493
00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:55,240
system. It was. It was
so funny. We got it was like

494
00:32:55,319 --> 00:33:00,960
May fifth or or no, maybe
May eighth night. I forget why it

495
00:33:00,039 --> 00:33:06,160
was. It was fucking already late
into the spring. And I went to

496
00:33:06,279 --> 00:33:09,720
a friend's parents live out there,
and like the north they got like a

497
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,400
little house out there in the Northwest
Dunes where they moved to they said,

498
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,480
Fox Chicago. They left, they
moved out to Northwest Indiana and U and

499
00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:20,720
so they you know, I saw
this kind of dune system. It was

500
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,839
cool. It was a lot of
invasive plants. But near Indiana Dunes National

501
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,400
Lake Shore, they're they're actually burning, and so you got to see what

502
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,599
it might have been like. I
don't know. Fuck, you know,

503
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,319
two hundred years ago, three hundred
years ago. And there's still industry everywhere

504
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:42,359
too. Yeah, Northwest Indiana got
notoriously fucked into a coma by industry too,

505
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,400
the steel industry. It's like multiple
super fun sites, highly polluted.

506
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,759
It's kind of sad. There's like
that scene in Blues Brothers where you could

507
00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:53,519
see Cow You Met. They've got
an aerial shot of Cow you Met,

508
00:33:53,559 --> 00:34:00,240
and it just looks it looks like
this post apocalyptic industrial hill. You know,

509
00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:04,000
this thick haze over everything. You
know, the sun barely able to

510
00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:07,440
shine through it, it's so dark. And that of course is just right

511
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,519
over the border from northwest Indiana.
But this, um, we saw this

512
00:34:12,519 --> 00:34:16,320
this, you know, this near
uh Indiana Dunes. So I think,

513
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,719
I guess it's the National park now. But we saw where they had actually

514
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:27,320
you know, land managers whatever,
the parks park system whatever had they had

515
00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:30,800
they were intentionally burning. They were
doing controlled burns. Munch of stuff was

516
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,719
burned, the larger trees survive,
it clears out the brush. All this

517
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,840
stuff then comes up in the spring, and so yeah, it was nuts.

518
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,440
I didn't realize there was a loop
in growing that close to Chicago.

519
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,719
There's so much I didn't realize when
I was growing up there, I had

520
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:51,119
no idea of what the flora or
the natural landscape was like. But to

521
00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,960
see a loop in there was incredible
loopinous parentnis, these beautiful blue flowers with

522
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:00,920
the palm leaves, and then that
little sperm um hairy pecoon, hory pocoon

523
00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:06,719
whatever whatever it's called, fucking ridiculous
common name baragin as is. The family

524
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,159
of the Borge family was coming up
right there too. It was fucking beautiful.

525
00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:14,079
And then we went out to the
uh, the lake which was still

526
00:35:14,159 --> 00:35:19,519
frigid as hell with this mean ass
wind biting us. It was fucking man,

527
00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:22,199
I couldn't believe how cold it was. God, it was brutal and

528
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:28,000
uh, I guess it must have
been May May second. Anyway, it

529
00:35:28,079 --> 00:35:31,719
was fucking already May, and it
was still cold as hell with these frigid,

530
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,599
icy winds coming off the lake.
There was no one out there because

531
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:42,559
it was just so brutally cold.
And I saw there was arctostaphlos uva URSI

532
00:35:42,639 --> 00:35:45,880
there a bunch of cool plants.
What else was there? It was,

533
00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:51,360
Oh god, a rabbidopsis. Was
it a Rabbidopsis la rata? I think

534
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,880
that's what it was. Let me
see, Yeah, Rabbidopsis la rota,

535
00:35:54,039 --> 00:35:59,599
which has kind of like a northerly
distribution, like northern latitude distribution, but

536
00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:01,639
it's you can fight it in the
Chicago area around the lake. Just just

537
00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:06,400
a little white flower of brassica,
you know, which was flowering despite it

538
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,840
being you know, forty degrees forty
five degrees. Time I hit to take

539
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,079
time, hit to go to the
bedroom over there and get something to drink.

540
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,400
Took a nap today at six pm. I just woke up. It's

541
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,719
been fucking hazy over the sun came
out today. It's really like ninety five

542
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,400
where I lived. Oh yeah,
that's nice. Do you like that.

543
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,000
I'm going to Lake Wales Ridge over
there in Florida in October. I'm going

544
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:37,719
to fucking New Zealand in June May
twenty ninth actually to film and we got

545
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,199
I want to thank Is it a
fucking no, it's just a torn up

546
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,519
leaf on it, sim flarid.
I gotta stop looking out the window.

547
00:36:43,559 --> 00:36:45,280
Sorry, I'm fucking distracted. I'm
doing a podcast there. God damn it.

548
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:51,559
Thank you to anyone who sent cash
to buy Alan Rockefeller a fucking plane

549
00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:57,000
ticket because he said he was gonna
go to New Zealand to film cilosopy.

550
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,079
New Zealand has like eleven philosophy species. I have no idea where there's so

551
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:07,360
much silosopy aka pilocybe, which is
not I supposed to pronounce it. That's

552
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,559
actually one where I mean, you
could pronounce it eever you want. It's

553
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:12,079
lad, but it sounds a lot
better if you pronounce its philosophy. I

554
00:37:12,199 --> 00:37:14,719
told him, you know, we
were going in January, and he said,

555
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:15,559
yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll
go whatever. They went to Ecuador

556
00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:20,880
and he's fucking around. The dude
just makes his money given presentations. So

557
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,760
I guess he was still broke.
And I was like, fuck, are

558
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:23,280
you coming. He's like, I
don't know, I don't really have any

559
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,039
money as fuck. He was really
we leave in a month, man,

560
00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:30,519
and so, uh, you know, and none, no plants are going

561
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:34,480
to be going off. And I
don't know enough about my college to feel.

562
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,199
I mean, I can't do what
fucking I'm not. I'm not a

563
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,639
mushroom guy. I do plants,
you know. And so I was like,

564
00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:43,039
you gotta cook, man, you
gotta come with I'll kill you if

565
00:37:43,039 --> 00:37:45,000
you flake. And then I was
like, wait, why don't we don't

566
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000
why don't we just why don't we
just see we can crowd fund you a

567
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,039
ticket? And so we did,
which is cool. So thank you to

568
00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:57,920
everyone who donated money and who I'm
now going to send stickers to just give

569
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,199
me time. I'm overwhelmed. I
have intense eighty you can't get shit done

570
00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:02,760
today. I had so much shit
to do that I just kind of like

571
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,920
stared at the wall, got overwhelmed
and took a nap, which is what

572
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,719
you need to do sometimes. But
anyway, I'm going to New Zealand in

573
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,400
June to make videos about mushrooms,
New Zealand mushroom diversity, and I'm going

574
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:21,320
to Brazil to do drenaling bromeliads,
and then I think I'm just gonna try

575
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,320
and then I'm supposed to go to
the Calloween Native Plant Conference and fucking mid

576
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:31,239
July, and then August I think
I'm gonna try to chill and just not

577
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:36,960
do anything and get some writing and
shit done and organized stuff for this book.

578
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:43,079
And then September I might be back
in Chicago. Late September. I'm

579
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:49,840
going to fucking New York September twenty
first or second, or I don't know

580
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,440
what the fuck. I'll be up
and doing another presentation a cactus store,

581
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:59,800
which should be fun and nice.
And then, oh, you know some

582
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,559
I got invited to fucking speak it
Cornell, which is funny. I didn't

583
00:39:04,599 --> 00:39:08,119
think Cornell would wanted to do with
me since one of these oh I'm never

584
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:13,360
even gonna mention it. I'm not
even gonna get negative. But some fucking

585
00:39:14,119 --> 00:39:16,000
some lady who looks like she'd be
the one to like call the cops on

586
00:39:16,079 --> 00:39:20,880
you for having your dog off Leshan
North Berkeley, who works there, doesn't

587
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,480
like me for some reason. I've
never met this woman. I don't know

588
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:28,760
what her issue is, but she's
got you know, ah, yeah,

589
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:32,320
I don't know. She's like looks
like one of those people like you know,

590
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,280
other aspects of life aren't going well, so she's got to pick fights

591
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,639
with others. I don't fucking know. We've all been there, though,

592
00:39:37,679 --> 00:39:40,440
I guess right. I always liked
that for a while, I spent a

593
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:45,519
lot of time angry and just like
needlessly creating conflicts with people because I was

594
00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:49,960
already in a shitty mood or felt
like shit about myself or whatever. You

595
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,280
know, I mean that it's a
common human response, you know. That's

596
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,960
why you know, some people are
just really trying. Man. It's just

597
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,119
a day to day effort trying stay
positive, and you can't always do it,

598
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:05,880
you know, so until you know
you end up putting you know,

599
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,320
ascid in their water supply or something, it's gonna be hard. You can't

600
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:15,400
some people you can't make cut loose, all right. But you know,

601
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,960
one thing back to Chicago, though, one thing that just drives me fucking

602
00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:22,559
nuts. When you get on the
CTA, the Chicago Transit Authority, which

603
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:24,880
is the subway there, the voice
that comes on and they do it on

604
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:30,400
the Metro too, which is like
the suburban commuter rail, is this obnoxiously

605
00:40:30,559 --> 00:40:36,320
honky, unrepentantly vanilla. No one
fucking talks like that except people that live

606
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,599
in Highland Park, which is a
terrible place. That's like where all the

607
00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:44,639
like Chicago lawyers live. No offense
to anyone who grew up in Highland Park

608
00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:46,920
or is forced to live there if
you're young. If you're young, you

609
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,800
know, and your parents live there, and that's where you have to go

610
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,440
back to. I'm very sorry.
I feel for you, but it's it's

611
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,599
not your fault. Okay, It's
like you're choosing to live in Highland Park.

612
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,039
But some people do choose that.
I don't understand why, but but

613
00:41:00,119 --> 00:41:04,440
it's like the voice of someone that
would live in in Highland Park, you

614
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,920
know, notoriously affluent north Shore suburb
will met any of these places. But

615
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:13,719
it's uh, doors are closing,
doors open on the left at Jackson.

616
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,599
It's this fucking it's so awful,
man, and it's so it just represents

617
00:41:17,639 --> 00:41:25,079
the sterilization, the fucking wafering,
the vanilla flavoring of Chicago. That what

618
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,679
you know what the CTA used to
sound like, was you know, someone

619
00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:32,840
would come over this nasty ass intercom. It just sounded like the speaker had

620
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:40,599
blown out, you know, a
decade ago and step. Yes, it

621
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:43,920
was hilarious. You couldn't understand.
I mean, you couldn't make out what

622
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,159
he was saying or she or they
or whatever the fuck You could you could

623
00:41:46,199 --> 00:41:50,840
understand it, but it wasn't.
It wasn't I'm not gonna say it was

624
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:55,119
King's English. Okay. It was
loud, it was abrasive, it was

625
00:41:55,199 --> 00:41:58,920
oh you kind of winced when you
heard it, but it also felt good.

626
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,440
It was so at Chicago. What
is this? Doors open on the

627
00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:07,239
left at Jackson that code switching voice. Holy fuck, that hummer is right

628
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:14,039
there. Oh he's going for the
Amelia. Oh that's nice. Damn.

629
00:42:15,519 --> 00:42:17,360
Now he's hitting the Malva viscus.
What the fuck is that? That's huge.

630
00:42:19,559 --> 00:42:22,280
It's got like an orange ass,
but it's big. It's not like

631
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:27,159
any of the any of the hummers
you see out there in California. You

632
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,840
know, don't California in my Texas
the minute I crossed into Texas two days

633
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:37,280
ago, I started seeing all the
fucking hilariously cartoonish oversized trucks without a single

634
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:42,039
dent or scratch on them, And
everyone drives like an asshole, like Texas

635
00:42:42,159 --> 00:42:45,239
drivers at a fucking worst. It's
like it's pure ego. Like everything else

636
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:50,480
in the state, it's pure ego, not that bright. And they'll they'll

637
00:42:50,679 --> 00:42:53,719
make a big deal. You're going, you're going fucking eighty miles per hour

638
00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:58,320
in a seventy and they're there,
but there they want to go eighty five

639
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,119
or ninety, and so they'll just
speed around you to fucking get up.

640
00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:04,119
Even though they can't go any there's
like a truck, you know, one

641
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:06,400
hundred and fifty feet in front of
you, there's nowhere for them to go,

642
00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:09,039
they're still going to do it.
They make a big fucking swinging dick,

643
00:43:09,679 --> 00:43:13,679
you know, display of like getting
you know, they're cutting you off,

644
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,599
getting in front of you after they've
passed you. It's so fucking annoying,

645
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:20,639
but also kind of funny because it's
just it's such a like utterly Texas

646
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:25,679
thing. This fucking how much how
much untreated trauma is there. There would

647
00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:30,639
be trauma t r A U M
A. How much untreated trauma is there

648
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,119
in a state of Texas, probably
a lot, you know where they gotta

649
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:37,079
legalized weed down here too. You
know, you get people instead of numbing

650
00:43:37,079 --> 00:43:42,920
themselves with alcohol, maybe they can
just uh can get somebo These these angry,

651
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,000
angry people just you know, smoke
a weed, relaxing a little bit,

652
00:43:45,679 --> 00:43:51,480
you know. Not like that's something
I advocate. I advocate not doing

653
00:43:51,519 --> 00:43:53,320
either really, at least not an
excess. I'm not a big pot guy.

654
00:43:53,679 --> 00:43:57,960
Once that once in every couple of
weeks or something. I like the

655
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,360
physical effects. I don't like what
it does to your mind. But I

656
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,079
said, I fucking hate alcohol.
God, it makes people so fucking annoying

657
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,800
and still once in a while.
You know, that was my problem.

658
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,519
It was like, you know,
maybe some people can do that. They

659
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:13,760
could drink, you know, they'll
have a pint and they'll let it sit

660
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,880
at that. But I didn't want
to do that. I wanted to drink

661
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,519
ten ten beers, go steal a
forklift, try to get arrested, you

662
00:44:19,599 --> 00:44:22,320
know, getting a fight with a
friend over something stupid. Whatever. You

663
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,039
know, that was a fun night, a buzz. What do you want

664
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:28,320
to do with a buzz. You
know, now, I drink an A

665
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,400
Beers. If I want that hoppy
taste, I'll drink an A Beers,

666
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:35,079
you know, which the taste was
sometimes nice, but you know, numbing

667
00:44:35,119 --> 00:44:39,840
yourself, preventing you from being what
you could be saying dumb shit, dumb

668
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:45,159
conversations when you're impaired. It was
certainly not worth it. It wasn't wasn't

669
00:44:45,199 --> 00:44:49,559
fun. The only reason you like
it is because you're addict. Never mind,

670
00:44:49,599 --> 00:44:52,039
Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm apologized, and I tell people that want

671
00:44:52,039 --> 00:44:57,159
to smoke too, so to me, I'm that guy fucking annoying. Um.

672
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,760
Can I just go off on Field
Museum one more time? Though?

673
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,519
But I got so much nostalgia for
that building, man, I have so

674
00:45:02,559 --> 00:45:07,119
many pleasant memories of being there as
a kid. You know. The general

675
00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:09,599
ambiance is so great. That's what
I if. That's what I would like.

676
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,639
That's what I would want a house
to look like if I had the

677
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,039
time or the money I have neither, you know, get that that same

678
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:21,360
kind of general ambiance. It's like, that's the same feeling I get for

679
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,480
Union Station in Chicago, which is
a beautiful building. By the way,

680
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,039
If you've never been there. You
know, it's like it'd be, you

681
00:45:28,079 --> 00:45:32,679
know, analogous to Grand Central Station
in New York. Like just you know,

682
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:38,159
really pretty fucking going for that Greco
Roman thing on the inside, tall

683
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:45,920
ceiling two hundred feet tall, natural
light coming in, tons of activity,

684
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,000
buzzing with activity, you know,
and it's the spot where you can hang

685
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,159
out. You don't have to pay, you know. So Um, I

686
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:58,280
don't know, it's just it's so
important for cities to have civic buildings like

687
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,599
that that people can enjoy, you
know, whether it's the library, right,

688
00:46:00,599 --> 00:46:04,559
I just get people out into the
public sphere, you know, death

689
00:46:04,599 --> 00:46:08,199
in life of great American city style. You know, there's a wonderful collectiveness

690
00:46:08,199 --> 00:46:13,840
and bringing people together in many of
these urban spaces that haven't been corporatized or

691
00:46:14,159 --> 00:46:19,840
turned into four pay places yet,
but that's increasingly happening. So you gotta

692
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,039
just you know, you gotta steal
stuff when they do that, you know

693
00:46:22,599 --> 00:46:27,960
it, Go steal stationary supplies,
sneak in, don't pay man. It's

694
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:34,000
so funny. Al is all about
making Chonkasaurus merch now. Um, oh,

695
00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:37,920
my buddy was coming, my buddy
Lance over railroad guy. Um,

696
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:38,679
but yeah, I was all about
it. Man, He's all on a

697
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:40,519
merch table. So I was like, all right, fuck it, let's

698
00:46:40,519 --> 00:46:44,800
do it. And that's fine.
I'll draw. I'll draw this fucking bloated

699
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:51,360
turtle that that captured the hearts and
minds of so many out there in Chicago,

700
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:52,960
land across the world. I can't
believe how much this fucking thing blew

701
00:46:53,039 --> 00:46:57,639
up. Talk to a dude from
the New York Times last night, you

702
00:46:57,679 --> 00:46:59,519
know, And I don't care.
I mean, it's fine, it's I'm

703
00:46:59,559 --> 00:47:01,199
all about. But I'm just the
whole fucking thing I'm trying to get people

704
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:06,880
stoked on is you can have nature
in a city anywhere. All you gotta

705
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,840
do is plant the native plants.
You plant the native plants, all this

706
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:13,679
ship comes back. You know.
If I lived in a city, I'm

707
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,880
fucking add to this stuff. I'd
be planting shit in parks, planting it

708
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:21,159
illegally on the fucking railroad tracks wherever
anywhere I can go, collecting seeds,

709
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:22,519
growing a ship ton in my yard. If I don't have a yard,

710
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:28,000
I'd still be out lurking documenting everything, documenting the invasive plants to come out.

711
00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:30,360
That's all we were doing that day. We went out. It was

712
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,480
a nice fucking day and we were
just like, let's go al was It

713
00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:36,760
was Al's idea. You know,
we were gonna go to the fucking Sloan

714
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,440
Urinal company a Mannheim Road and film
a fucking gag video there. I've got

715
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:44,920
a couple of videos of us and
stuff to edit, um, you know,

716
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,360
because we actually went there. Man, I remember when they closed their

717
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:51,679
hair in U. Where the fuck
is that? What is it? What

718
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,519
is the guy? I can't remember
what town is it? Oh? Bensonville,

719
00:47:53,599 --> 00:48:00,079
Yeah, Bensonville, Illinois, home
of Victory Auto Records, notorious Chicago

720
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:05,320
local commercial, A beautiful Victory Auto
Records. You know where the guy opens

721
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,199
the door on like a fucking nineteen
eighty Pontiac and the door fells off.

722
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,840
That old car is worth money.
Anyway, we did this video on Bensonville.

723
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,159
I think it's still up on the
YouTube if you go far enough back

724
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:20,840
where we were filming all these abandoned
houses before they demolished them for the airport

725
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,960
when they did the airport expansion on
like two thousand and eight, two thousand

726
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:27,519
and nine. We usually just go
around fucking film and stuff just to be

727
00:48:27,639 --> 00:48:30,719
fucking reading. You know, this
is like before you could you could upload

728
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:34,599
it to YouTube, but I kept
all my shit private, like you couldn't

729
00:48:34,639 --> 00:48:37,119
watch any of this stuff. We
were just doing it for fun, just

730
00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:39,880
having fun, fucking around. But
um, we went out that day.

731
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,199
We were gonna go to Manheim Road
too, because we had done a Sloan

732
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,679
urinal factory tour of Mannheim Road.
Did we can do a tour? I

733
00:48:46,679 --> 00:48:51,159
don't know. We filmed some shit
there once because I just thought it was

734
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,320
hilarious, you know, but uh, because you know, you'd see how

735
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:59,360
these urinals I'd say Sloan and then
it would say Melrose Park or wherever the

736
00:49:00,039 --> 00:49:01,079
headquarters. So we're gonna go to
Manheim Road and do that. But it

737
00:49:01,079 --> 00:49:07,360
was a beautiful day, so I
was like, let's go to Let's go

738
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,199
to the river and go kayaking.
And so we went down there. We

739
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:14,519
went to the Chicago Kayak they're cool
there too, and it was like it

740
00:49:14,599 --> 00:49:17,960
was like forty bucks for a tandem
kayak per hour, so it was like

741
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:22,119
twenty bucks each, which is more
unreasonable. And the dude we talked to,

742
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,440
nice guy, but he was like
so obviously stoned. It was hilarious.

743
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:30,000
It's like all these hippies running this
kayak place that are just probably constantly

744
00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:34,519
stoned twenty four seven, which I
totally support. I wouldn't have it any

745
00:49:34,559 --> 00:49:37,199
other way. If there's someone that
should be high as fuck, it's the

746
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,800
people that are running a kayak rental
place. We get on this thing.

747
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,719
They didn't ask They forgot to ask
for our IDs or any We could have

748
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,599
just like paddled off with the thing
and never come back, you know,

749
00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:49,360
never came back. I mean,
it was the first day they were open,

750
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,280
So I guess I can't blame them
for it. You know, i'd

751
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:53,440
be a little out of it too. Shit, I'm out of it right

752
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,079
now. Just woke up from a
nap an hour ago. But anyway,

753
00:49:57,079 --> 00:50:00,079
so we were just paddling around.
We were just documenting what plants had popped

754
00:50:00,119 --> 00:50:02,000
up. I mean, I made
a fucking video about it. You could

755
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,280
see it. And of course most
of them were invasive. It was a

756
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,519
lot of buckthorn along the creeks,
which hopefully or along the river, which

757
00:50:08,519 --> 00:50:13,440
hopefully someone can go in there and
just hack this ship back, you know,

758
00:50:13,519 --> 00:50:15,400
treat it with roundup, just paint
some round up on the stump and

759
00:50:15,519 --> 00:50:20,159
kill the fucking buck thorn. God, it's so so terrible, and plant

760
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,119
some natives, you know, in
their place. Once you plant the natives,

761
00:50:23,119 --> 00:50:28,039
they'll overtake, or at least keep
the invasives down, you know,

762
00:50:28,039 --> 00:50:30,239
at least shade them out a little
bit. You'll stuff to go through and

763
00:50:30,519 --> 00:50:34,599
remove them every once in a while. But um, and then we saw

764
00:50:34,679 --> 00:50:37,679
we even saw an alder man.
We saw it all their going out of

765
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:43,599
this. The whole river has been
channelized into, you know, like there's

766
00:50:43,599 --> 00:50:49,760
no natural bank and along most of
the river it's all just these steel corrugated

767
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:55,559
retention walls. We saw elie agnes, another invasive. We saw Siberian elm,

768
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,920
or one of the invasive elms.
The only thing that was native was

769
00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:02,840
yeah, it was box cell there
acer ugundo. But there's a ton of

770
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,840
shit that would thrive there. But
it was cool to see the bioswales that

771
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,159
Urban Rivers is doing two or Urban
Rivers dot org and they're north. That

772
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,920
Choko source was at the Division Street
bridge and the east side of Goose Island

773
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:19,519
and just like half a mile up
near the riis where Urban Rivers. Then

774
00:51:19,559 --> 00:51:22,199
those guys are fucking cool. We
met them. They're really nice people.

775
00:51:22,519 --> 00:51:28,760
They've created these floating bioswales where they're
planting all these native plants Hibiscus mosuetos,

776
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:34,440
the native Illinois hibiscus, which is
fucking thriving there, bunch of swamp milkweed,

777
00:51:37,559 --> 00:51:39,760
rose c it's called Queen of the
Prairies, the common name. But

778
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:45,280
it was thriving. And this fucking
bioswil that has got to just be completely

779
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:46,679
inundated with water. I mean,
the soil has got to be all the

780
00:51:46,679 --> 00:51:50,840
time. It's a floating bioswil.
So that was cool to see. They

781
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:57,360
had verbinajstada, which is the common
names blue blue, vervane. I mean,

782
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,599
these were all dormant. Now they're
coming back, but I mean all

783
00:51:59,639 --> 00:52:02,760
these cool native shit thriving there.
They said it's covered. I mean you

784
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:07,960
could see across it. It didn't
look that impressive now because it's just coming

785
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,639
out of the dormant seasons, coming
out of winter. But they were telling

786
00:52:09,679 --> 00:52:14,360
me, the two dudes we talked
to there that you you know, during

787
00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:17,679
like fucking July August, you can't
see on the other side of it.

788
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,440
All this shit is like five or
six feet tall. It's just this thicket

789
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,880
of these these you know plants,
these I guess not a quad. They

790
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:30,800
had a native junkus too, a
bunch of native actual aquatics, but like

791
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:35,400
Queen of the Prairie is not an
aquatic, you know. But this stuff

792
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,079
just it's so thick. The hibiscus
too, I mean, the hibscus gets

793
00:52:37,079 --> 00:52:39,840
five or six feet tall, so
thick you can't see across it. It's

794
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:44,400
fucking amazing creating habitat, and it's
so easy. They just take these little

795
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:49,840
nets. They fill it with this
like this aggregate that's kind of akin to

796
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:54,480
like pummice, and and then some
organic material they had hand on there too,

797
00:52:55,159 --> 00:52:59,800
and h they've got it. You
know, basically these floating beds,

798
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,400
the margins of the beds I think
have some sort of floating I don't know

799
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:07,280
what now they kept it afloat,
but so either way, it's fucking cool.

800
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:08,480
I'll put this. I'll put the
video out whenever I get around the

801
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:15,039
working on it. But it was
really impressive to see. And I mean

802
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:17,079
anyone could do that. You could
gorilla do that. You could do that

803
00:53:17,199 --> 00:53:22,480
illegally and unauthorized. Who's gonna give
a shit on the filthy fucking Chicago River

804
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,119
or if you're in you know,
Cincinnati, wherever, any nasty body of

805
00:53:25,199 --> 00:53:29,920
water, you know, you could
create these little floating bioswales using like the

806
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,039
plastic netting something to hold it up. You know, just fuck around,

807
00:53:34,559 --> 00:53:37,000
figure it out, you know,
find out what works, and then start

808
00:53:37,079 --> 00:53:40,639
planting stuff in there. But it
was wild to see because I just remember

809
00:53:40,679 --> 00:53:44,239
that river growing up. Man,
it was so nasty. I remember running

810
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,199
from crackheads once when I was after
I was doing graffiti, forget where it

811
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,679
was, and then it was on
a Chicago and Halstead I can't remember anyway.

812
00:53:51,679 --> 00:53:53,800
You know, these crackheads that see
me painting, they stopped me.

813
00:53:54,039 --> 00:53:58,000
Fucking dude is big too, and
he's like, you know, give us

814
00:53:58,039 --> 00:54:00,199
twenty bucks. We're gonna call the
cops. They were not going to call

815
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,159
the cops, but they were certainly
gonna fuck with me. And I remember

816
00:54:02,199 --> 00:54:07,119
I had to like run through this
fence up beat standing on one of those

817
00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:10,960
sketchy retention walls above the river to
get away from these dudes. And they

818
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,719
I mean, of course they didn't. They weren't that ambitious. Once I

819
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,320
made it past them and went under
the fence, and then was on the

820
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:22,760
river, like you know, six
feet above the river, not much room,

821
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,880
just a little ledge and not much
room to stand, holding onto this

822
00:54:25,039 --> 00:54:29,280
fence to get away from them with
a bag of spray paint and whatever.

823
00:54:29,559 --> 00:54:31,079
They of course didn't come after me, but you know, I remember looking

824
00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:34,559
down at the river and being like, oh guy, it was probably like

825
00:54:34,599 --> 00:54:38,239
a half a mile not even from
where we where we saw Chonkasaurus, and

826
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,639
just you could always smell the river. It's it's it's got to be this

827
00:54:42,639 --> 00:54:45,800
this some sort of algae or something
that you know, benefits from the sewage

828
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:50,239
and the runoff that because it's it's
like an organic smell, but it smells

829
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,880
gross. You know, it smells
like a dirty body of water. Whenever

830
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:57,679
you smell that, it's a dirty
body of water. And uh. And

831
00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:59,840
that was that was my experience with
the river. So to see if fu

832
00:55:00,199 --> 00:55:04,519
sixty pound snapping turtle and then the
bioswales and the beaver and all this cool

833
00:55:04,519 --> 00:55:07,400
shit was so great. I mean, it's you know, and that's what

834
00:55:07,519 --> 00:55:09,239
I tell these media people when they
were asking me about the clickbait thing with

835
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,320
the Choka Soaurus. It's like,
I think it shows that people like being

836
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,000
around nature. You bring nature back
to a city, it makes everybody feel

837
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,800
good. It's and we have to
bring nature back to the city because nature

838
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,280
is getting forced out of everywhere.
Else is urban sprawl, you know,

839
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:29,320
as a as America finishes, turning
it's over abundance of land into more of

840
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:37,559
this depressing extremely emotionally isolated, physically
isolated, car dependent diabetes landscape. You

841
00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:40,239
know, of consumer retail and just
fucking driving, you know, during your

842
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:45,679
whole waking life when you're not at
work or sleeping or watching your TV program

843
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:51,679
you know, on your cable.
All right, God, but yeah,

844
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,679
I gotta get that fucking video done
about the biosweals. It was real nice.

845
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:59,119
So it's good. It's a good
you know, that's and I made

846
00:55:59,119 --> 00:56:01,079
that point the video too. It's
a nice if cities are going to become

847
00:56:01,119 --> 00:56:07,079
so fucking expensive to live in,
where it's just these shitty developers and landlords

848
00:56:07,079 --> 00:56:10,360
making all the money off of everyone
else because it's it's it's they're way over

849
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:14,639
priced to live in. Price gouging
is a thing, of course, especially

850
00:56:14,639 --> 00:56:17,440
with rent. All the buildings look
like shit because it's they're just built you

851
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:22,639
know, these quick get these get
rich quick schemes for developers to you know,

852
00:56:22,679 --> 00:56:24,239
house affluent people who don't have any
taste. They don't care that their

853
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:29,239
building looks like a fucking you know, external hard drive to begin with.

854
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,719
You know, at least the benefit
maybe is is that now, I mean

855
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:37,440
rich people don't like being around pollution, and you know, maybe now there's

856
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:42,000
a little bit more money to go
around to do things like, you know,

857
00:56:42,039 --> 00:56:46,800
build fucking bioswales on a formerly polluted
industrial river. So and the fucking

858
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:51,039
beavers are coming back. God damn
the beavers. Man, That's it was

859
00:56:51,159 --> 00:56:55,119
nuts. Could see beaver We were
at fucking Montrose in the beach and we

860
00:56:55,119 --> 00:57:00,320
saw beaver activity there too. I
couldn't believe it. And they're as the

861
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:04,480
cruising spot. I always think that
nature preserved Montrose Beach in Chicago is like

862
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:08,400
a notorious cruising spot. Boys Town
is only a mile or two away.

863
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:12,400
How far is boy I don't know
either way. They got a bar called

864
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,360
the Manhole there, which I've never
been in. Sadly enough, I'd like

865
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:20,400
the fucking because you get a you
get a fucking If I still drank,

866
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,639
I probably could have gotten a few
drinks there, you know, But Uh,

867
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:28,480
but the fucking logo for the manhole
was hilarious. It was like a

868
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,239
big time of Finland, muscular bound, fucking beefy boy standing out of a

869
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:36,639
fucking sewer holding the manhole above his
head with like a hard hat, like

870
00:57:36,679 --> 00:57:42,920
a YMCA hard hat, just like
the most clichde gay. Uh fucking it

871
00:57:43,039 --> 00:57:45,039
was. It was as the manhole
still there. I don't know, maybe,

872
00:57:45,559 --> 00:57:50,119
but um, either way, it
was a notorious cruising spot over there

873
00:57:50,159 --> 00:57:52,840
by Montrose Beach and now it's a
nature park two and you got a beaver

874
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:57,039
living over there, or maybe a
couple of them. And that's where me

875
00:57:57,119 --> 00:58:00,519
and Al were. We went and
met up with fuck for get his friend's

876
00:58:00,599 --> 00:58:05,239
name. His friend was cool.
He was like this old fucking uh you

877
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:10,360
know, old Lefty, old fucking
like I w W Lefty rolled up on

878
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,760
a bike. We shott the ship
with him for a while. It was

879
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:16,880
still early May and the lake got
cold as fun when we were in.

880
00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:21,239
I looked like a tweaker in the
fucking I don't know anyway, that was

881
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,000
where we went. We took our
little weights and shit, you know it's

882
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:29,559
nice. We go to work out
on the lake at ten o'clock at night

883
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:36,079
looking like total weirdos. Um but
uh anyway, so that was that's what

884
00:58:36,119 --> 00:58:37,519
I try to tell all these reporters
that were kind of me. It's like,

885
00:58:37,519 --> 00:58:42,360
anyone can you know? The take
hold message here is anyone can do

886
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,280
this. If you build it,
they will come. Build the native plants,

887
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,199
all the cool native wildlife will come
back. It feels good to be

888
00:58:46,239 --> 00:58:51,280
around this stuff. It's in our
genome to be around this stuff as humans,

889
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,239
as primates, we are part of
nature. We're not separate from it.

890
00:58:55,079 --> 00:58:59,719
You know. We need to stop
thinking that we're we're better than it,

891
00:59:00,559 --> 00:59:02,199
that were that we can control it, that we can fucking turn the

892
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:07,559
land into a smoldering ash tray and
then just leave for Mars. So,

893
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:12,599
you know, trying to sneak that
message in there. But um, yeah,

894
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:20,559
we're also selling chunk of Souris shirts
now. So I did a lithograph

895
00:59:20,079 --> 00:59:24,559
uh at hoofprint, which is in
the old Chicago Manufacturing District building. Sketchy

896
00:59:24,599 --> 00:59:29,360
building, super old ceiling is going
to collapse soon. We went up on

897
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,760
the roof, beautiful looks over the
fucking train yard to the south. It's

898
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:36,159
on the south side. It's I
like pershing and Damon Damon runs right into

899
00:59:36,199 --> 00:59:38,840
that building and the building itself,
well, the clock tower building is abandoned,

900
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:44,840
but the whole huge cold storage uh
now it's artists. It was like

901
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:49,719
owned by the army during World War
Two. It's an extensive, monolithic building.

902
00:59:49,719 --> 00:59:53,519
It's so it's so fucking big.
Uh, I don't know, it's

903
00:59:53,599 --> 00:59:55,559
it's it's cool. It's a cool
building. I mean we were up on

904
00:59:55,559 --> 00:59:59,519
the roof though, and there was
like trees. There's like a little garden

905
00:59:59,559 --> 01:00:01,920
growing up out of the top of
this flat roof. Man, it looks

906
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:05,400
so I saw it, and I
was like, that ship's gonna collapse soon.

907
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,679
Oh my god. This whole building
is so sketchy. It needs so

908
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:13,719
much work. All though, like
calking and mortars like coming off the top.

909
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,880
I was standing on this like seven
story roof looking down looking at all

910
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:21,519
all the pieces of the building falling
off of it and ship. I was

911
01:00:21,599 --> 01:00:23,840
like, fucking amen. But it
was beautiful. You look to the northeast,

912
01:00:24,159 --> 01:00:28,480
you can see the Loop and the
Sears Tower in the Chicago skyline.

913
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:31,559
You look to the south, you
can see the crepit industry, the train

914
01:00:31,639 --> 01:00:36,840
yard, and the back of the
yards neighborhood. And plus it's near the

915
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,679
stockyards too, which are always fun
to just go lurking on the weekend.

916
01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:45,280
I remember I rescued a little dog
from a little straight dog that was covered

917
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:52,800
in ticks in the stockyards like fifteen
years ago. Fuck man, it's nust.

918
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:54,559
That thing is probably dead now.
I'd like to think it was a

919
01:00:54,599 --> 01:00:58,960
puppy at the time. I'd like
to think if I think it did find

920
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,800
a good home I called the fucking
animals shelter where we took it to,

921
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:05,639
I'd like to think it grew up, had a nice life with someone on

922
01:01:05,679 --> 01:01:09,760
the South Side, and then you
know, gad rest. His soul is

923
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:14,800
now laid to rest. Uh,
you know, after after living a very

924
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:22,119
fulfilling dog life somewhere in the back
of the yards. Um so uh,

925
01:01:22,159 --> 01:01:23,360
I don't I guess that's it.
I guess I'll fucking rap. There's probably

926
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,440
something I forgot. I want to
talk about that I forgot. But either

927
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:29,679
way, you know, if you
want to buy the chunk of short shirts,

928
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:36,519
it's a chunk of short Chonkasaurus shirts
and hoodies with the drawing I did

929
01:01:36,559 --> 01:01:39,000
on it. It's um Oh,
the lithograph that I did fucked up by

930
01:01:39,039 --> 01:01:40,920
the way too, so we can't. There's not gonna be any But then

931
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:44,679
I went back the next day and
did another one that I don't like as

932
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:46,719
much, but it's fine. It's
like eighteen by twenty four too. It's

933
01:01:46,719 --> 01:01:52,119
like a big it's a big image. So I guess they're gonna run lithographs

934
01:01:52,199 --> 01:01:55,880
of it. Nice prints should look
good, hopefully with a couple of different

935
01:01:55,880 --> 01:02:00,800
colors. Um, it's fun,
man drawn with those cramps. I hadn't

936
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:06,400
done that in a while. Senega
it's a species of Senegalia, which was

937
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:10,400
formerly Acacia that they use for them. Oh god, what is the fucking

938
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,119
what is the compound they put on
the stone? Gum Arabic? Oh yeah,

939
01:02:15,119 --> 01:02:21,480
that's a gum Arabic. But it's
a species of Senegalia for basi so

940
01:02:21,639 --> 01:02:25,159
um anyway, Yeah, the shirts
and hoodies are available at crime Pays,

941
01:02:25,239 --> 01:02:30,320
but Botany doesn't do my shopify dot
org. I put the link in in

942
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:37,559
my in my fucking bio, but
um, yeah, I don't know says

943
01:02:37,599 --> 01:02:40,159
it says Chokasaurus Biological Survey. I
don't know, some goofy shit. We

944
01:02:40,159 --> 01:02:45,280
were just trying to get people stoked
about the fucking sixty pound snapping turtle.

945
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:49,400
It's mate was right there too,
And it was funny watching these things scurry.

946
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,320
It's the little one, which I
presume was its mate. The larger

947
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:57,000
one was probably a pregnant female,
was like scurrying off these fucking those rusty

948
01:02:57,119 --> 01:03:01,039
chains trying to it, and it
was the smaller one was still big.

949
01:03:01,079 --> 01:03:05,320
It was so fat. It couldn't
like you know, the pond sliders when

950
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,559
we get close to that and these
other turtles that they would just jump off

951
01:03:07,559 --> 01:03:13,079
the logs they were on. But
this snapping turtle, the smaller the two

952
01:03:13,119 --> 01:03:15,480
of them, the smaller one was
having trouble scurrying off in then the big

953
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:20,679
one, Chonkasaurus, finally dipped out. When we got closer, she wouldn't

954
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:22,559
let us get closer than you know, I don't know. We were still

955
01:03:22,559 --> 01:03:28,320
pretty close, like seven or eight
feet, but um, anyway, uh

956
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:34,639
yeah, it was just fucking hilarious. It was cool to see those pylons

957
01:03:34,679 --> 01:03:37,400
they used to put She was hanging
out on these these chains that hold you

958
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:43,400
know, essentially like twenty telephone poles
together. Those were what the city used

959
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,320
to put in at the corners of
the bridges. To prevent barges from running

960
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:51,480
into the bridges like these pylons.
They would basically hammer them into the fucking

961
01:03:51,559 --> 01:03:54,159
silt, sink them into the silk, pound them into the silt, and

962
01:03:54,199 --> 01:03:59,119
that that's what would protect the bridges
from barges, you know, say like

963
01:03:59,159 --> 01:04:03,320
a tugboat driver was drunk or something. Um. But uh, there's not

964
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:06,519
really barges in the river anymore.
I think there's one only one industry.

965
01:04:06,559 --> 01:04:11,599
It's a cement plant. They've got
silos and shit right there near Chicago and

966
01:04:11,599 --> 01:04:15,400
hostead. It's the only that's the
only business. It still gets river barges.

967
01:04:16,119 --> 01:04:18,679
There's a couple we saw parked.
But man, it's so fun.

968
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:24,280
We go to Chicago kayak, rent
the kayak from the stone guy, and

969
01:04:24,519 --> 01:04:28,559
uh and go check out Goose Island, go up river wherever the fuck you

970
01:04:28,559 --> 01:04:31,280
know, there's so much good stuff
and check out Urban Rivers to Urban Rivers

971
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:35,440
dot org or just they're near the
RAI building on the east side of a

972
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:39,800
Goose Islands. You know, you
can go look at you could join our

973
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:44,280
co op and look at you know, two hundred dollars sleeping banks whatever other

974
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:48,480
stuff they sell that stainless steel camping
gear, fucking jet boil my balls,

975
01:04:48,559 --> 01:04:50,960
whatever. I don't know what other
stuff they sell and how they do apparel

976
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:56,039
at the RAI they do like expensive
you could buy like one hundred and twenty

977
01:04:56,039 --> 01:05:00,840
dollar pants, you know, look
like look like someone at the climbing Jim

978
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,760
Right. Rock climbing is fun,
but why is it the clientele. It's

979
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:08,199
good, no offense, no offense
to anybody that does rock climbing, But

980
01:05:08,239 --> 01:05:12,920
the clientele is like such a fucking
brand, such a vibe. And I'm

981
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,280
not demonizing it at all, but
it's funny. It's just like it's such

982
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:19,039
a like I don't know, dad, fucking v D. It's like a

983
01:05:19,119 --> 01:05:24,239
V five. It's like V six
D. Could D like like five eleven

984
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,920
five. It's pretty cool. I
did pretty cool, but like I could

985
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,360
do better at dude, it's like
pretty here to watch this. Check it

986
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:30,800
out me, you know what I
mean? You know what I mean?

987
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,159
Anyway, No, I'm really gonna
go now. I'm fucking finally waking up.

988
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:39,400
Thanks for listening, schmuck. Hopefully
you had a good time. You

989
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,360
want to email me crime Pace,
body doesn't email dot com If it's super

990
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:45,800
long, I won't respond. If
you keep it short, I'll probably respond

991
01:05:45,159 --> 01:05:48,239
and they'll probably be typos. And
if I'm using voice to text because I'm

992
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:51,760
on my phone, I'm not on
my laptop, maybe it won't make any

993
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:55,280
sense. You'll just have to decode
my response. But I always try to

994
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:58,280
respond. If I haven't, don't
take it personally. I just sometimes I

995
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,199
open that email inbox and I just
want to go laid down, you know,

996
01:06:01,039 --> 01:06:03,079
I just want to stare at the
wall and give up. So,

997
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,760
uh, what the fuck else?
Oh? Yeah, just kill your lawn

998
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:12,320
Channel two sixty seven on Direct TV. If you end up, you know,

999
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,480
staying in a ship bag motel for
the night because you're driving. That's

1000
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:19,360
probably the only way that anyone who
actually listens to the crime Pace podcast would

1001
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:29,079
be within a fucking a groin hair's
worth of the direct TV channel two sixty

1002
01:06:29,119 --> 01:06:31,239
seven, or it's on Spectrum Cable
one thirty nine or one twenty nine.

1003
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:34,639
I don't know. It's on Earth
X Man Earth x TV. Do I

1004
01:06:34,679 --> 01:06:39,079
have anything else exciting? Oh,
I've still got books, but I don't

1005
01:06:39,119 --> 01:06:40,800
have any time to draw on them. Oh no, you know what,

1006
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,119
I got like five or six books. You're already drew and if you want

1007
01:06:43,119 --> 01:06:45,840
to buy a book, off me
fifty five bucks with the drawing or just

1008
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:49,840
twenty five bucks without a drawing,
but I'll sign it for you and throw

1009
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:55,559
some stickers in there and what the
ship. So anyway, just email me

1010
01:06:55,559 --> 01:06:57,320
if you want to. I don't
fucking all right, I'm done. That's

1011
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,840
all I got. Go fund yourself. I hopefully hopefully you got something out

1012
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of the have a good rest of
the evening, morning, afternoon, whatever

1013
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the fuck they back