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Speaker 1: This week's episode at a Crime Pace but Baden It

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Doesn't podcast is sponsored by Possibility Place Nursery. Though the

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name of a nursery sounds like a halfway house where

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your cousin Chris Pabian or possibly Mikey Papadolo got sent

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too after they got out of the joint for stealing snowmobiles,

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snowblowers and assorted power tools. I assure you it's one

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of the highest quality nurseries in the Chicago tri state area.

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Poss Where's Possibility Place located? I'm doing an ad for it.

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I'm the supposed to be an ad raid. There supposed

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to be a fucking ad raid. I don't know if

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they want to meet a Chris. I'm sure they knew

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it was coming in territory anyway. Possibility Place is a

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fantastic nursery on the in the Southwest Suburbs. I went

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there for the first time when we were filming Killer

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Law and they said they told us you guys got

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to go down the Possibility Place, but we couldn't make

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it there and to Pizzos, the other great wholesale nursery, well,

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the other great nursery in the Chicago area they're out

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in the pizzos out in Leland. Okay, Leland's funky out there,

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but they're cool. They're great people. Okay, Jack Pizzole's great.

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He got hammered at the at the show I did

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there last week and took us all out to the prairie.

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It was a wonderful time if it was like the

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most Midwest shit you could do. Took us out to

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the prairie that we created. Pizzle's great but possibility place

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they grow shit that nobody else grows. I finally went down.

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I made it down there last year. I did a

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show there. I met these two guys, these two brothers,

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these wonderful guys, and their whole staff. Everybody was dope

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as how. Everybody was nice. And they're growing extremely rid

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shit like shit that Pizzo doesn't carry, rare milk, weeds,

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comp Tonia, peregrina they got, they got Delia foliosa, they

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got a whole they you gotta go check them out.

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Let me I forget where they're at. Yeah, they're down

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there and money right off fifty seven southwest of Homewood

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south to Tinley Park, Okay, south of al Sip. Wasn't

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there a famous blues musician buried in al sip I

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forget was it fucking jb Otto or some I don't know,

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it doesn't matter. Get your ass it's not a possibility place.

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The sun's coming out, the temperatures are warming up. You know,

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the the gray skies up there in the Chicago Triestity

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area are starting to taper off. CA there's a hint

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of summer. You got two months left till it's really

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safe to plant. You could start getting stuff. Because these

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are natives, they evolved in the Chicago area. They could

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take these these waning frosts and you know, before everything

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finally thaws out. Let's be serious. The climate change is

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really fucked up the whole, you know, the winter thing

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up there. Anyway, get your ass down a possibility place,

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buy up all their stock. I'm telling you these guys,

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I would be advertising for them even if they weren't,

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you know, throwing me some plants and stuff. Okay, go

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to possibility Place and check them out. They're going. They're

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growing a whole lot of rare stuff. They have an

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awesome soil mix they're growing. They had you they got

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like six or seven different oak species they're growing magnolias

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like native magnolias there. I did a video on them

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last year because I was so impressed with the stuff

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they did. But check them out. They're great people, great staff.

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These are the people you want to support. If you

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don't go listen, if you don't go down there and

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you don't at least check them out and buy a

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couple of things. I'm gonna put beef bullyon cubes and

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all your fucking shower heads. Okay, I will come to

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your house and I will fucking poltergeist the shit out

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of you. All right, You're not gonna have a good time.

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When I'm through with your place, I'll come in there

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when you're not there, all right, not gonna swipe anything.

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I'm just gonna start putting stuff in it, you know,

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just doing little poltergeist, the type shit like shit that

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my five year old does. She's a poltergeist. Now. She

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takes my stuff, she moves it around, she takes my

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favorite drawing pens, she forgets to put the cap back

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on him. She leaves stuff in the middle of the floor.

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You know. Anyway, Possibility Place nursery located in Beautiful MONI

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I'll noise seventy five forty eight West Money, Manhattan Road.

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Check them out Possibility Place. It's not a halfway house.

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It's one of the best native plant nurseries in a

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tri state area. Welcome to another episode that a crime

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pays the bod and he doesn't podcast. It's what the hell? Wednesday,

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March eleventh. It's currently ninety degrees here in South Texas

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and I'm taking some folks shot to thorn scrub tomorrow.

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We just got our tenth pick. Let me turn this

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down for a second. It's some This is his bird.

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Do you believe this guy? This is not I recorded

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that guy in Costa Rica a while ago. I don't know.

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I don't know what his problem was. He's upset about something.

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Speaking of birds, I got this inca dove nesting right

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outside my door. I don't know why she picked that spot.

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I got these little hanging it's like a it's like

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a circle, a metal circle that you screw into to

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like a pylon or like a wood post outside your door.

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I screwed it to the post that hold up a

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part of my awning, and I you know, it fits

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one gallon pots perfectly. I order I'm on Scamazon and

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so I put the pots on there, and uh, you know,

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I got the little dangling cactus and stuff. I got

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like a cleisto cactus Cola de mononas the monkey tail cactus.

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why she poked it, And now I feel bad about

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when i' I leave my front door, like I'm bumming

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this bird out and she got two eggs in there.

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It's inca. Doves are fucking beautiful too, but it's it's like,

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you know, what am I supposed to do? So like

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me and Louis when we go out to walk or whatever,

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we go out the back. Now I got to go

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out through the back gate. It's a pain in the ass,

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but you know whatever, Hopefully it doesn't last to thee

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she I mean, she makes me feel like an asshole

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every time I go out like she like, she gets

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all freaked out and flies away. Fuck you, you showed

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up at my front door, right, but I created the

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habitat for you. So anyway, Yeah, welcome to an episode

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of Crimpace a bot and he doesn't. I spent all

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day yesterday brushing up on putting these slide presentations together.

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One for plant id in taxonomy. I have like three

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different plant id in taxonomy slide presentations that I put

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together real real, you know, in depth. I really go

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go hard on it, and I'm trying to do ones

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that are not as in depth so that people don't

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fucking fall asleep during it. Just emphasizing flower morphology stuff

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like that. Uh, just getting right into it, not going

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into the whole evolutionary history of angiosperms and how they

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evolved and appeared in the fossil record one hundred and

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thirty million years ago, right, But uh so that was

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that was you really realize how fucking nuts you are,

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you know, and like maybe mildly autistic when you're going

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through old presentations you put together. Well, I was like

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going to won when I taught this college course that

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I put together, and I was blown away. I was like, man,

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no shit, the athletes were falling asleep. I mean the athletes.

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That's what you want to do. You want to reach

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the athletes of the world and get them into natural sciences.

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And it can be a little hard because they're kind

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of thick skulled anyway, no offense, but you you that's

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the trick. You you don't want to be one of these,

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you know, academics. It's so good at sniffing your own farts.

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You want to be able to reach people, right, and

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you bring everyone up so that the whole populace, your

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whole community, is less stupid, and that there will end

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up benefiting you personally. Right, you don't want a bunch

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of be around a bunch of dummies that just want

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the uh, you know, the fancy shit, the shine shit.

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They don't. They're just lowest common denominator human impulses to

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horde shiny stuff and have nice cars and all this

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stuff that you could show to your you know, primate

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peers and gain social status. You want something that you

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want a little bit more enlightenment than that, right now,

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that's lowest common denominator shit. Aim higher. So, speaking of

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these these uh, these wanting the shiny shit, you know

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what people have been doing down here in South Texas.

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People have been making their own billboards like say you

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got a business, like a fucking funeral home or something.

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Funeral homes are the worst. I fucking hate these motherfuckers.

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They they build a they erect a sign, and they're

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already bleak ass parking lot and uh, and then it's

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an LED sign that totally pollutes the night sky. And

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this is maybe just a South Texas thing people tolerated here,

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but this is what ar fifteens were made for. They

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were made for shooting these things out right, because appelic

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gun's not bright, not strong enough to destroy these things.

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And don't ask me how I know that, but I do.

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And so you need like a high powered firearms, probably

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with the suppressor. Of course, be completely exercised gun safety.

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they're smaller than billboards, but they're LEDs. They're basically billboards.

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extra thousand bucks by advertising, you know, advertise here, advertise

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your shitty business. And what they did near my house

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is they butchered the shit out of these live oaks, right.

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on the sandsheet Quirkus fusiformists. I really wish someone would

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do some genetic testing on there, because there's no way

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that growing on the Texas standsheet didn't naturally select for

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a slightly different phenotype than say the populations that grow

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up in Austin a few hundred miles north, right, really

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interesting stuff. But other than that, oaks aren't really native here.

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tom a leap and thorne scrub. And it was up

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until nineteen hundreds, when you know, a lot of the

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land clearance happened for the citrus industry down here. You had,

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you know, these anglos from up north, from the Midwest,

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these pasty, pink motherfuckers. No offense to them, I could

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say that, because you know, Melanin. This is the thing.

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This is where I always break with the identitarians, these morons, right,

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I don't care what your backgrounds. You're identitarian. You're fucking moron.

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Nazis are identitarians too, They're like the quintessential identitarians. Right.

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Then you get the college kids with the septumbrings and

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a blue hair and shit, and they're talking about it anyway.

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But when this is the thing humans do, everyone does it. Right.

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You mistake culture for somehow being inherited or genetic, and

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you associate it with human phenotype, right, like being pink.

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The evolution of whiteness happened a number of times throughout

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human history, the same way that evolution of blackness or

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brownness did. It's just melanin content as it's selected alleles

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for melanin as they're selected for by the environment from

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a population evolving at a certain latitude. Right, you go

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too high and you're too brown or black, you're gonna

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get vitamin D deficiency, if you're too pink or aka,

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you're going to go too far south. And if you

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go too far south, you're gonna get vitamin B deficiency

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and skin cancer. Right. So, and I've talked about this before,

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but that's those alleles just code for melanin content. They

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don't code for anything else. You know, maybe there's different

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facial features occasionally associated with but that's it. That's I mean,

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it's just these traits that have no bearing on culture,

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which is not genetic. Okay, culture is taught, right, if

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you grow up in a death cult, you're taught the

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values of the death cult unless you rebel against it.

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So it just it fibes me out. I feel like,

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you know, elements, especially in the left, are slipping back

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into the identitarian shit. It's not about having context for

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how race has been used to divide and oppress and

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justify exploitation in the past by human societies. Right, we're

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talking about actually not looking deeper, not understanding what culture

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versus human phenotype is. Nobody understands what human phenotype is.

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I mean people who study it do, but members of

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the general populist You're not taught this shit in school.

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Everyone's so chicken shit about it because no one wants

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to be called racist or they don't want to let

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their own inherent racism out, you know, hint out whatever

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can go both ways, okay, but there's no you know,

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so many people are scientifically literate when it comes to

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what race is or how it doesn't really even exist.

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It's just been It's a construct that's been used to

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oppress and divide and divide people and also to justify

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expectation anyway, So you hate these anglos coming down here

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in a nineteen hundred's wonderful book called Blood Oranges by

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a dude name what was his name, Poeman or something.

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I don't know. It was like a white name too.

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It wasn't like a tejanod that wrote this book. Yeah,

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it was Bowman. But it's a Blood Oranges. Colonialism and

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agriculture in the South Texas border lands. Good book. Good book.

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So we've anyway bringing this back around to the live oaks, okay,

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and then we're gonna suck. We're gonna get back to

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the signs. I always bring these disjointed rants back. We're

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gonna get back to the signs the led these signs

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that need to either be banned or taken out. Okay. So,

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but these live oaks that kind of stop at the

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same and she most of the native habitat here was,

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of course, mimozoid legumes, and then you had siderox line celestrinum,

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which is sapotacy. Right. You always got to ask what

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family a plant is in before you really get into it.

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And so these live oaks aren't really native here, but

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they do all right, probably because they associate with michael

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rise that's brought in when they're planted in the landscaping,

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you know oaks, these oaks there, I think their Quircus fuciformists,

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but they're probably you know, mislabeled as Qurcus virginica. I

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don't know, I don't know where the source of these

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landscaping landscaping kind of the landscaping industry fucks everything up here,

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because these things are continental natives and they do provide

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a lot of habitat and food for caterpillars, but they're

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not directly native to this landscape, right, so it's still

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a little too hot form. And they depend on irrigation,

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and there's irrigation everywhere within human development down here. So anyway,

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but it's tree cover, right, it's not that directly native,

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but it does support life and it gives habit and

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it's tree cover. And so there was this bleak stretch,

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this bleak stretch of road, and they cut these trees down. Well,

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they didn't cut them, they pollarded them. They look fucking ridiculous.

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It looks like the tree in Mad Max, you know,

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when they're doing a hole who Killed the World? Thing

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and it's like the ladies have inherited the earth because

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all the men are dead from killing each other? Is

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that Mad Max? My thinking of the right thing? I

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think it is Fury Road. And so there's a shot

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where they're on this like darkened landscape and they're like,

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oho killed the world and it shows like these dead

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tree that's what this looks like. I don't know why

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they pollared them, right, there's so many landscaping practices here

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and in I think they do this in many plays

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in the Southeast too, that are just completely shit for brain.

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There's no thinking behind that, that's just what you do.

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And so anyway, they pollared these trees, probably because they

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maybe they just pollarded them because they wanted They wanted

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to get rid of the branches so you could see

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the sign, this hideous led light up sign which is

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blinding at night, and so it deprives the whole community

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not only of the night sky, but now because this

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sign is not planted directly adjacent to the road, it's

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in their parking lot, and the trees were blocking the

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view of the sign. So they powered the trees too

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to get rid of the probably because they realized they

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couldn't cut them down. That would be a little too hot.

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The city would find them for it, even though the

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city hates trees too, which again is not their fault.

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This is all just the result of indoctrination. And so anyway,

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they cut the shit out of these branches, so now

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you can see the sign they powered at them. The

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branches will, I mean the trees will grow back if

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we get enough rain. Otherwise they're gonna die and we're

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in a drought right now. The trees will grow back,

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but it's gonna take two or three years. There was

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a tree near my house where it is. Lady she

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hates trees too. I know because this is this old lady,

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because I've asked her if she wants trees. She's like, no, no,

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they're messy. I don't want them. I don't want the trees.

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They're messy. Okay, whatever, lady, have fun in the heat.

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But there was an oak tree there. We had this

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bad windstorm in May in twenty twenty two. I think

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it was ripped a bunch of shit up. It was great,

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did a great job, and it took this tree down,

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the major branches of it. And so it's taken three

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to four years for this thing to regrow a semblance

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of a canopy that provides shade. So you know, it

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is what it is. But these led billboards are driving

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me nuts, and they're going up. The funeral homes are

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the worst, right, like you're already making you're already shaking

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people down, you know, for six grand for a fucking urn.

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How much does a coffin cost these days? I don't

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know what twenty k. The whole thing's a rip off.

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You know what happened, buddy of mine, he's like sixty five.

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This is a great story. Maybe I've told it before.

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He when his mod died. His mod died, she was

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going getting a little bit senisle. She was, you know,

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an alcoholic. But he took real good care of her.

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He's a wonderful man. She finally croaked. He just showed

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up with a Subaru to the home she was in

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because she had to be put in the home. She

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couldn't take care of herself anymore. Got her body. They

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let him take her body. That's amazing. I think I

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think this is legal in Texas. He took her body.

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And then he had a whole predug on his land

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that he's restoring the native plants, and him and his

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daughter went and got his mom. I don't know if

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the rigor Mortis had said in or what. Now. This

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might sound gruesome, but this is the real shit, right,

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This is like death of Ivan. Ill it shit right.

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Confront death and be a you know, live with it,

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be a death dueler. Don't don't put makeup on it

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and pretend it's you know, it's not what it is right,

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that's fake, that's phony. So he went and he got this.

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He got the corpse, the stiff, and uh, it's the stiff.

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Did you see Goonies? Okay, anyway, he got the stiff.

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Remember when Chunk gets locked in a freezer with all

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the ice cream and the stiff that the fertilities killed.

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I digress, great movie, too scary for my fiber though

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she couldn't handle Sloth. She was being very ablest when

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Sloth came on and I told her Sloth is a

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good guy. She didn't care. She was just fucking terrified.

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I was so disappointed. How ablest could she be? Anyway,

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So he went and got his ma's body and put

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it in the subro and then threw it in the

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hole and placed it gently in the hole, and they

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each like had a moment saying goodbye to her, and

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then shoveled, you know, covered her up. And it was

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all legal too. He checked the laws, He checked the So,

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I mean, that's a great way to go out. I

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don't want to be filled with formaldehyde or anything. And

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I don't want you to spend you know, it's very

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energy intensive cremating people. Right, My buddy Evan was cremated.

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The whole time, I was thinking, Holy hell, can't we

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just go bury him in the redwoods or something? Right? Damn? Now,

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California's probably got laws about that, But what are laws

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if not to be broken? Right? But anyway, these funeral

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homes are real bad, and they're real bad with these

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light upbillity these signs. Do you get these where you live?

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They're fucking horrible. You can build your own sign it's

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like twenty feet wide at the most, maybe fifteen, and

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then sell advertising on it. Fucking unbelieving that should be banned, right,

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If not, they should, you know, somebody should go turd

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the sign. Could you get a third cannon? You could

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get a potato cannon? Mean you get a third cannon?

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Just turd the sign. Yeah, we got these kids showing

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up in a parking lot every night. They're launching, you know,

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with hairspray and a four inch diameter PVC pipe. You

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know these they're launching bags of shit at our led sign.

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I don't know why, you know, it's they say they

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can't see the stars anymore. They're just seeing these these

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the pink light, like pink light polluted sky from you know,

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our shitty sign that's advertising the shoe store or some

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fucking unnecessary service or a personal injury attorney more likely. Right,

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get a third gun, go turd these signs you got,

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someone's got. You know, when I see stuff like that

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and I see that no one's vandalizing it, I'm so

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I get so disappointed in area of teens. Right, it's

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just just because they're on TikTok or they have no

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political awareness these days? What is it? You know? I always

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listening to Dead Kennedy's when I was like thirteen, Right,

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I knew shit was fucked up when I was thirteen.

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I read People's History of Night States when I was fifteen.

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These kids today need to get they need to come

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correct on some of this stuff. It's very disappointing, right,

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And where's when you got teenagers that refuse to vandalize things,

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and especially not direct it, right, not not selectively and

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very specifically direct that vandalism towards just targets, very very disappointing.

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You got to do that stuff when you're young, because

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you can't get away with it when you're my age.

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I can't go turtis, I can't go launch turds. At

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a sign, an led light light up sign that you know,

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the owners of this sign are trying to profit off

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of it by both ruining the night sky and then

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cutting the trees that make it hard to see. Right.

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I can't go do that as much as I want to.

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I mean I could, but if I got caught, it's

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kind of a big deal. I'm trying to do other

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stuff here. You know, people know me. You know what

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I mean. You're fifteen years old. You can get away

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with it anyway. Last Saturday, I did a presentation at

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Quinta Mazatlan, which is a spot in McAllen. It's basically

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like a native plant botanic garden here in South Texas.

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It's in McKellen. Now. McAllen is home to a very

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bleak in depressing shopping slum. But okay, south, just south

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of that, kind of near the airport is this remnant.

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It was like an old homestead some dude. I forget

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the history of the spot, but this dude had. This

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dude owned this house one hundred years ago and it's

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a beautiful house and kept a parcel a large amount

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of acreage of the native habitat intact. And I guess

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you really liked the native plants, and so what it

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has become if you look at the spot on a

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satellite map, Quinta Mazatlane like La Kinta, but instead of

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you know, a shitty you know, an overpriced for what

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it's worth hotel stay and a shitty Continental breakfast though

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they I'd have the Texas Toast waffle maker instead of that.

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It's a native plant botanic garden for South Texas. Know

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a bunch of people that work. They're good people, and

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so if you look at the spot on a satellite map,

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it's like an island of green surrounded by development and

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old agriculture. Right, the former citrus fields that are now

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being turned into shopping slums and housing and like tract housing, right,

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tract housing with lawns, with Saint Augustine lawns. Right, don't

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worry about where the water is going to come from.

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Shout out the Corpus Christy too. I guess they're finally

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running out of water now. It's becoming a pretty serious

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issue over there. I had a friend that was going

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to move to Texas and he was like one of

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the things that really freaked them out when he was

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he came here to sniff around for a week and

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see about it. One of the things that really freaked

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them out was the water issues, like, I'm not going

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to move there. It's not stable for water. It's going

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to cause there's too much development, there's not enough groundwater,

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and it's going to be a serious issue in the future.

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So anyway, but this spot king the Mazatlan is a

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thank God for them because it's it's like three bucks

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it cost to get into because it's partially run by

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the city. Three bucks to get into. I think it's

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like two bucks for seniors. You go in there, they

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got you can like see what thorn scrub is supposed

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to be. You could see what was supposed to be

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here before it was shitty lawns and old agricultural fields

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that just bake in the sun. You can see, you know,

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the landscape in South Texas was really really cool. Down

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closer to the river. You had the cedar elms and

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the more you know, moisture, kneading species, plant species, very thick.

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This is is subtropical, not really a desert. Right. You

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hit more of the scrub land stuff when you go

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west towards Laredo and thil rio. But right here it

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was I mean, it was like thorn forest. And then

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the upland sits. As you get further away from the river,

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further north of the river, you start getting into more

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of the actual brush lands as they call it, which

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I kind of don't like that work because it's not brush.

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It's like scrub. Right it's chaparral, it's thorn scrub. And

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that's where all the cool plants are, like all the

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mimosoid legumes, you know what I mean when I say mimosoid,

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the mimosoid subfamily of the legume family for BASI. Right

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with the little powder poof inflorescences, they look like, you know,

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fireworks going off. And then you look at them the

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flowers on these two on those mimosoid mimosa like flowers,

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the petals and sepals, the klyx and Corolla Calyx sepals

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Corolla petals are always highly reduced. And then the filaments

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that the parts of the statement that hold the anthrope

465
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,759
are very long, and that's what is used as the attractant.

466
00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:39,680
That and the smell for the pollinators. They fucking smell

467
00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:42,960
great too, like the Guahil. The Senegala bolandri is going

468
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,400
off right now. The huisace Vicelia pernisiana is going off

469
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,759
right now as well. But this spot, Yeah, if you

470
00:23:50,799 --> 00:23:54,720
happen to end up down here, check out Keith the Mazatlan.

471
00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:57,079
It's a really cool spot. And three bucks to get in,

472
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,000
you know, that's I mean, And I'm a cheap wap

473
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,279
that's I can do that. I don't feel bad doing that.

474
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,359
Some of these botanic gardens you go to in other

475
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,960
places fifteen bucks to get in, and then half the

476
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,119
shit is, you know, the stuff I'm always reeling against,

477
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,759
the you know, rich, rich, old lady gardens like the

478
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,839
you know, a bunch of mums arranged in a line,

479
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,119
or some whack floral display that sucks, you know, a

480
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:23,319
monet garden. So anyway, so I did this. I did

481
00:24:23,319 --> 00:24:26,720
a plant ide presentation there and I hit them up.

482
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,519
I was like, can I just do this? This would

483
00:24:28,519 --> 00:24:30,640
be great. I'll make it cheap, like one to five

484
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,279
bucks suggested donation. If you're broke, just come in. I

485
00:24:34,279 --> 00:24:36,720
don't care. You know, some fucking some of the kid

486
00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:38,759
like nineteen twenty years old. You don't got a lot

487
00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:41,359
of money, right, I didn't when I was young. Just

488
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,599
come in, it's fine, don't worry about it. Just pay

489
00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:45,920
attention and ask questions. I don't want you to just

490
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,720
sit there if this is flying over your head. If

491
00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:51,400
like I'm trying to teach you what's going on with

492
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,160
flowers of the sunflower family, asked RACI you know, so

493
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,000
you can identify them, so you can look at any

494
00:24:58,039 --> 00:24:59,920
plant that identify what family is. And if I'm trying

495
00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:01,440
to teach you what's going on, I don't want you

496
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,599
to just sit there gate mouthed. If you don't understand,

497
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,519
I want you to speak up. Don't be embarrassed, right,

498
00:25:06,559 --> 00:25:09,480
don't be embarrassed to speak be embarrassed if you're too

499
00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:12,200
chicken shit to speak up because you're worried about sounding dumb.

500
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:17,000
All right, everybody's sounds dumb, right, everybody, all eight billion

501
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,119
people on earth are just trying not to look stupid

502
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,960
in front of their their other, you know, primate relatives,

503
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,119
their primate peers. Right, we are just primis anyway. So

504
00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:29,599
but it was a good presentation. It was like an

505
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,200
hour and a half. I'm trying to keep these short.

506
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,640
I would have preferred to keep it to an hour fifteen.

507
00:25:35,079 --> 00:25:36,759
But that's kind of that. What I found to be

508
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,359
the important thing with these presentations is don't give too

509
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,880
much information, but when you do, with the information you

510
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,079
do give, make sure it hits the mark. Make sure

511
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:50,960
it really, you know, articulates the idea without being too

512
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,960
wordy because you're trying to make people understand it that

513
00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:56,240
maybe you don't have any prior experience with this stuff.

514
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,559
So anyway, we're going to do another one in April.

515
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,119
I think, what is it April twenty seven? When is

516
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:08,039
it April twenty seventh, it's supposed to be uh, yeah, no,

517
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,720
when is it April twenty third, Thursday, April twenty third

518
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,759
at Kenta. Yeah, so we'll do a book release and

519
00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:18,319
a presentation. It's gonna be outside, it'll be in the evening.

520
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,759
It's gonna be pretty it's gonna be pretty warm. So

521
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,480
definitely bring like a cold ice cold leader of water,

522
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,000
bring a yeah, bring a whole fucking cooler. Actually, and

523
00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:31,880
when you bring a cooler, bring some non alcoholic beers

524
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,960
for me, and maybe a cigar too. I like Nico Roustka,

525
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,960
but I'll smoke anything really anyway. So yeah, so that

526
00:26:39,079 --> 00:26:42,759
was fucking great because I love teaching. I love teaching

527
00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:45,279
people this so that more people can experience what I

528
00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:47,519
experience when I go look at these plants, Like I

529
00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:49,960
walk into my front yard and I'm just like, holy fuck.

530
00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:54,519
I love all you bastards everything around me, all the plants,

531
00:26:54,559 --> 00:26:57,000
you know. I love seeing them grow. I love seeing what.

532
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,640
I love the Palo Verde with its bright green bark.

533
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,359
I love the the pencil cactus, the kind of serious postsega.

534
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,359
I've gotten the ground all over, all over the place.

535
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,920
They're about to blow up. And I use my yard

536
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,559
as active seed stocks so I can sip, you know,

537
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,799
produce seeds, farm seeds and get them off to people

538
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,640
so that more of these things can be grown. And

539
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,799
now I'm trying to reforce the whole fucking block and

540
00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:22,160
the surrounding blocks and plant more of this stuff because

541
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,960
it's insane here. I mean, I feel so you know,

542
00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:27,319
it's it's hard being done in South Texas because it's

543
00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:32,079
just shopping slums, and you know, the cultures is in

544
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,480
some ways poisoned. It's just it's just indoctrinated into There's

545
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,400
a lot of wealth worship down here. There's a lot

546
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,200
of materialism, there's a lot of alienation from the living world.

547
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:43,000
But I feel like I've made my mission now to

548
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,319
do what I can to change that, and so I'm

549
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,880
much more useful here than say I would be. You know,

550
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,000
in California, where there's already you don't need it. You

551
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,599
don't need this as much, you know what I mean.

552
00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:57,319
So in the plants down here are just so fucking cool. Man,

553
00:27:57,519 --> 00:28:01,640
they're so fucking cool. And uh, the less people appreciate him,

554
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,279
the easier it is for some shitback developer or you know,

555
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,359
politically connected business person to come in and start saying, hey,

556
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,279
we need to, you know, get rid of more of

557
00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:13,480
our public lands. Why don't we set this aside for development,

558
00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:15,720
or why don't we turn this into such and such?

559
00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:18,079
And no one's using it anyway, you know what I mean.

560
00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:22,200
Whereas if people are actually no familiar with that last

561
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,240
remaining tract of wild land that they can publicly access,

562
00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:28,440
maybe they'll get really pissed off if someone comes for

563
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,400
it in twenty years. Okay, what's going on? I'm back.

564
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,480
It was a wonderful day yesterday. It was like a

565
00:28:34,519 --> 00:28:39,359
seventy five degree day sandwich between two ninety five degree days,

566
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,480
and then it's always hotter out at the conservation property,

567
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,759
out at Thornscrub. I took some people out there, took

568
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,960
five people out there, and we went on just like

569
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,599
a three mile hike out and back. We looked at

570
00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:55,119
the rotting pig carcass though. You know, it was one

571
00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:59,519
of the largest faral hogs. Benny had ever seen. That's

572
00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:01,240
what he said. He's the one that went and dragged

573
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,319
it out. I saw it on the camera there like

574
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,319
beat up Chevy dragon, this dead pig by a chain.

575
00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:10,240
It was fucking brutal. It was such a it was

576
00:29:10,319 --> 00:29:12,720
kind of a cab. But he went and he dragged

577
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,960
it out. There's this spot on the property that I

578
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,720
call Zinia Alley because it's like this little inlet. I

579
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,319
don't know why it's like that, Like it looks like

580
00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:23,319
a little you know, it's off one of the main

581
00:29:23,519 --> 00:29:26,279
paths and it's a little inlet like the size of

582
00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:28,920
a building, like a perfect rectangle. When I say inlet,

583
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,160
it's like an area of lower an area where there's

584
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,240
no shrub cover surrounded by shrubs. You know, if you

585
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:38,640
were looking on a satellite map, it would be like

586
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,799
a perfect rectangle and there's all this Zenia austro texana

587
00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:43,720
down there, which is a fucking incredible plant. To be

588
00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:47,640
there after, like when it's gotten good moisture, that whole

589
00:29:47,799 --> 00:29:51,119
property is just fucking incredible, man. And all the peotes

590
00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:55,599
are swollen up and like they literally poked their heads

591
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,599
up above the soil. There's a couple clumps that are

592
00:29:57,599 --> 00:29:59,200
already above the soil, but then there's some that are

593
00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:02,559
like flush at the ground. Right now they're underground. They

594
00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:06,359
were cess like the taproot pulls them in, but after

595
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,359
a rain they swell up like That's how I saw

596
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,559
this like little quarter sized payota that was in the

597
00:30:10,599 --> 00:30:13,559
middle of the one of the roads. But to be

598
00:30:13,559 --> 00:30:15,079
there after a rain is so nice. And so that

599
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,039
was when I saw this Zenias spot. It was just

600
00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:19,480
lit up with Zenia austro texana, which is like this

601
00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:23,559
little kanescent that is covered in it's like whitish kind

602
00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:25,640
of leaves like mint green leaves, you know, from all

603
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,960
the white hairs that protect that it protect the plant

604
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,720
against this brutal sun. And they were all flowering like these.

605
00:30:31,839 --> 00:30:33,920
It's like a clump like eight inches tall by like

606
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000
sometimes two feet wide. It'd be perfect in cultivation. I

607
00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:38,680
don't know why it's not grown more. I mean I

608
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,400
do because it's South Texas and so many people don't

609
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,799
know about any of the plants down here, and no

610
00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:45,759
one's trying to put them into the cultivation except for

611
00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:48,920
like two people. But the thing would probably grow as

612
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,480
far north as it probably do fucking great in San Antonio.

613
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,559
San Antonio is so nice, you know, it really is

614
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,680
when you get tired of Austin because it's filled with

615
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,960
you know, goofy shit bags making six figure salaries, designed

616
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:02,680
smartphone apps and video games. I don't know what do

617
00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:04,440
they do? What are these tech people in Austin? No

618
00:31:04,519 --> 00:31:07,000
offense if anyone in in an audience it works in

619
00:31:07,039 --> 00:31:09,640
tech and lives in Austin. This isn't about you, Okay,

620
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,359
it's clearly not about you. You're listening to this podcast. Okay,

621
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,960
But but San Antonio is nice because you got old

622
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,880
ass like buildings. In San Antonio. It's a little more rusty,

623
00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:23,799
it's not as gouched out, you know, guccied, it's not

624
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,079
as expense. I'd like San Antonio. I wonder if it's

625
00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:29,359
gonna get ruined like Austin anyway. Okay, The point is,

626
00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:31,359
and it got a river going through Austin. Austin's got

627
00:31:31,359 --> 00:31:33,559
a river going through there anyway, too. But this Zinnia

628
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,839
austra Texana it was. It was lumped in with Zinnia assarosa,

629
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,839
and I guess Billy Turner realized it was an rip

630
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:46,920
died of covid, well known Texas botanist. I guess he

631
00:31:47,599 --> 00:31:50,559
realized this is different than aceosa. It's not the same thing.

632
00:31:50,599 --> 00:31:53,680
It's way different, and so he he put it. He

633
00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:56,680
created the species in Austro, Texana. It was either him

634
00:31:56,759 --> 00:31:59,400
or someone else. I don't know. Forgive me if I'm wrong. Okay,

635
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:02,319
respected it that. I don't know who did it. But anyway,

636
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,440
Benny dragged this carcass out there. It was like a

637
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,680
two hundred and fifty pound sow with a bunch of

638
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,200
piglets in it. I know this is sad for the vegans.

639
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,759
If there's any of the vegans, listen and I'm sorry, Okay,

640
00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:14,680
don't tell me about how you're vegan. No offense. Fuck,

641
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,839
I'm really I'm really alienating my audience again. I'm sorry, Uh,

642
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,799
you know, just but anyway, you gotta kill the feral pigs.

643
00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:24,440
I'm sorry. They do so much damage. They're causing extinctions

644
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,839
of plants and of animals. They eat fucking baby tortoises

645
00:32:26,839 --> 00:32:30,200
for Christ's sakes. Huh, isn't that sad? You want to

646
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,119
defend a pig, you want to see a baby Texas

647
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:37,000
tortoise fucking die? So anyway, this carcass was out there,

648
00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:38,720
so we rolled up and we were up wind of it.

649
00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:41,880
We couldn't smell it yet and U but I could

650
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,039
hear the car of cars met cad Damn. They make

651
00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:46,480
this crazy sound. They sound like fucking dinosaurs. You know

652
00:32:46,519 --> 00:32:48,359
what a car car is. If you don't, you got

653
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:51,960
to look it up. Cr A c aar crested Cara Kara.

654
00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:57,240
The natives like their feathers. I wonder if there's probably

655
00:32:57,279 --> 00:32:59,680
been a few. I bet there's been a couple natives

656
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,960
that have making some out just for their feathers. They

657
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,279
make the payote fans out are the cara car feathers.

658
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,400
You know, a payote fan is like a thing that

659
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:12,119
members of NAC you know, not me, I'm you know

660
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,599
people that can actually use use use Payotea's medicine legally

661
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,839
by the the obscene law. Uh. But anyway, but they

662
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,960
you know, they go they'll make these fans out of feathers,

663
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,519
and they take them into the teepee ceremony, and they

664
00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:31,559
got the rattle and the gour making music and all

665
00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:33,799
the payote songs, and then people bring their fans out.

666
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,160
It's like a really beautiful they're really beautiful instruments man,

667
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,119
and people carry them around in a little wooden box.

668
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,240
They've got the fan and the gordon, all this and

669
00:33:42,319 --> 00:33:47,880
some cedar and juniper or Thuya, the Thuya genus. But anyway,

670
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,000
but they so the natives really like the car of

671
00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:52,119
cars for the feathers. Hopefully or not. Hopefully you're just

672
00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:54,200
finding roadkiller, not killing all these things, because it's a

673
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,160
beautiful fucking bird and they're hilarious. They make these like these.

674
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,519
I don't know what's the sound it makes. It's like

675
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:03,559
a clicking sound. They sound like fucking dinosaurs. They sound

676
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:10,000
like velociraptors in a in a Jurassic uh, Jurassic ballpark,

677
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,400
Jurassic ballpark, you know what I mean. They sound like that.

678
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,880
They're incredible birds. But they're also scavengers, so they're hunters

679
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,800
and scavengers, and so you'll see them hanging out with

680
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,000
turkey vultures sometimes, you know. And so they were all

681
00:34:23,039 --> 00:34:25,119
eating the ass out of this dead pig. Are you

682
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:26,880
sorry if you're eating? By the way, I know this

683
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,159
is this is kind of revolting. It was revolting to

684
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,480
see it, but it was. And I wish Benny hadn't

685
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,039
have dumped the pig in Zenia Alley because if that thing,

686
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:38,880
they'll clean this, you know, these these scavengers should clean

687
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,400
this thing up within a week. But if we get rain,

688
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,440
I'm gonna want to go to Zenia Alley and look

689
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,199
at all of Zenia Ostro Texana. The cool thing about

690
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,679
that plant, too, is the dispersal mechanism. So it's asta racy, right,

691
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,119
And ast Racy can have discoid flowers where it's just

692
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,920
disc floor. It's if you don't know what I'm talking about,

693
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,519
that's fine, but you should really look into it. U

694
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:03,920
And in ast Raci can have ray floor its. The

695
00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:06,920
rays are like the petals quote petals on a daisy,

696
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,719
but they're not true petals because Astraisi just does its

697
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,239
own weird thing with flower morphology, right, or like the

698
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,559
quote petals on a sunflower, those aren't true petals. Those

699
00:35:16,559 --> 00:35:20,320
are rays or legules. As they're called and so h

700
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:24,800
but the the on these zinias for a seed dispersal

701
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,639
mechanism of these seeds, the seed remains attached to that

702
00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:31,639
ray what looks like the petal, because these Zenians have

703
00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:35,159
like these white petals, three lobed petals. It's imagine like

704
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:39,159
a the paddle part of an ore, and like you

705
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:46,679
got three that paddal is divided up into three Sorry

706
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,960
mocking birds having a panic attack out some mean when

707
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,880
he's throwing a tantrum. I don't know what's up anyway,

708
00:35:51,519 --> 00:35:55,119
that paddals, you know, divided up into three lobes and

709
00:35:55,199 --> 00:35:57,400
so uh so it's like a there's what I mean,

710
00:35:57,519 --> 00:36:01,039
three lobed ray. It's like a three lobed pedal, and

711
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,159
uh the pedal stays at the race, stays attached to

712
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,320
the seed. Once the flower head dries out, and then

713
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,599
that raid the hisses and becomes like a little sail

714
00:36:11,039 --> 00:36:14,679
that catches air currents with the seed attached to it.

715
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,199
And that's how that thing ends up everywhere. And then

716
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,920
you know, ends up on some calcareous mud soil with

717
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,440
the nice soil crust and once it gets wet, that

718
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,599
you know, crusted hairs to the seed, you know, it

719
00:36:25,639 --> 00:36:29,280
kind of sticks to the sticky, calcarious soil and germinates

720
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,400
and you get new zinias. I think we grew someome

721
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,280
at Limestone Tortous. I think I think I got some

722
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,519
seed for James. I don't know if he germinated them yet.

723
00:36:37,559 --> 00:36:40,000
But you know, all this, all the thorn scrupt shit.

724
00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:42,519
You sow the seeds and they'll come up, you know,

725
00:36:43,519 --> 00:36:47,760
intermittently over the next six months. Right, nothing, None of

726
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,599
these seeds germinate, you know, right when you sew them.

727
00:36:50,639 --> 00:36:53,519
Some do, but most won't. But anyway, but that pig,

728
00:36:53,559 --> 00:36:54,840
you know, if I want to go see these zinnias

729
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,679
and that pig is still the carcass is rotting, you know,

730
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:58,960
in like the next month, I don't want to. I

731
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,920
hope I can't smell it. But whatever, at least we got,

732
00:37:01,159 --> 00:37:03,280
we're getting the pigs. We just got a third one today.

733
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,599
We trapped a third one. I went out there yesterday

734
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,039
when I went out the air stay, I saw that

735
00:37:09,079 --> 00:37:12,039
I went to the trap and these pigs, these smart bastards,

736
00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:14,760
knew not to go inside the trap to get the corn.

737
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,480
We've done there. The trap doesn't have a floor, right,

738
00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:19,760
So they were digging under the trap to get the

739
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,400
corn that fell out there. So then I had to

740
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,800
go get some rolls of wire that we had up

741
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,000
at the at the shack up front and wire them

742
00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:30,679
to the sides of the trap, extending like two or

743
00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:32,639
three feet out from it so the pigs couldn't dig.

744
00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:35,719
And sure enough I checked. I checked the cameras today

745
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,360
and it was in there. Massive fight. It's got to

746
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,320
be a two hundred pound pig. I have. I do

747
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,159
hate these things. It's it's personal. Now. They've just destroyed

748
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,559
so much. And I just repotted all the mammalaria's sphear

749
00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:50,679
could it they ripped up? Because they eat the roots

750
00:37:50,679 --> 00:37:53,480
and then rip up. There's you can't find mammalaria sphere

751
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,519
con our land anymore. They've gotten all of it. There's

752
00:37:55,559 --> 00:37:58,039
so many fucking pigs, they've killed all of it. And

753
00:37:58,079 --> 00:38:01,239
we're in a bad drought. So but uh, on the

754
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,119
drive out there, man, the Texas poaloverdi Parkinsonia, Texano was

755
00:38:05,159 --> 00:38:07,719
going off. The blackbrush is going off. It smells so good.

756
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,519
The blackbrush smells so good when when it flowers. Man, mean,

757
00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:13,639
you can have two inch long spines on that thing.

758
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:17,840
But god damn, the flower the inflorescences smell incredible, like

759
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,880
like some sort of fancy perfume. But yeah, the Texas

760
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,280
the pile of the Texas pealovardi is nuts because it's

761
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:27,000
it's one of those plants that really grows fast as

762
00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:30,239
hell as long as it's in full sun, and if

763
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,239
it's in a pot too long, it starts to die.

764
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,199
Like it's this, it's this catch twenty two of well,

765
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,079
you have to water the thing, but the pot only

766
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:42,480
goes so deep and it's a small volume of soil,

767
00:38:42,599 --> 00:38:46,480
and this I think these Parkinsonia texana is used to

768
00:38:46,519 --> 00:38:50,880
sending its roots deep down, and so you have to

769
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,079
water at occasional and then you water it and then

770
00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:55,719
it doesn't like that. That's when you water it, it starts declining.

771
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,159
It's like one of those things that just they just

772
00:38:57,199 --> 00:38:59,320
do better in the ground. And the way you plant

773
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,000
it is you find the shittiest, hottest part, you know,

774
00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:05,800
like most inhospitable part of a patch of land, and

775
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,400
you plant it there and then water it. Cover the

776
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,000
soil with a little bit of mulch, and then water

777
00:39:11,039 --> 00:39:13,719
at like once a week if that only when the

778
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,159
soil is dry and they can grow. They can you know,

779
00:39:16,199 --> 00:39:18,760
become an instant screen. Like I put one in my yard.

780
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,639
It got like twelve feet tall the first year and

781
00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:24,960
a half. Such a fucking great tree. But it had me.

782
00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:28,639
You know, a number of plants out here, number of trees, well,

783
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,960
a bunch of stuff is drought deciduous. And I think

784
00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,800
that's it's such a crazy I remember the first time

785
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,920
I learned what drought deciduous was. It was in a

786
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,480
David Attenborough video about subtropical dry forests in India. You know,

787
00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:44,599
you mentioned these trees lose their leaves not in response

788
00:39:44,639 --> 00:39:49,320
to cold temperatures, but in response to a long, hot

789
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,880
dry season. You get the monsoon season, and then you

790
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,199
have a long hot dry season, so not really a desert,

791
00:39:54,199 --> 00:39:56,280
but still a long because they get they still get

792
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,840
twenty or twenty five inches of water, if not more,

793
00:39:59,519 --> 00:40:02,039
but u but you get this long dry season. It's

794
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,239
it's it was wild. And I think you know, once

795
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,639
you study bodany or you travel anywhere in the tropics,

796
00:40:08,639 --> 00:40:10,119
you realize this is a thing. But if you grow

797
00:40:10,159 --> 00:40:12,519
up in the temperate latitudes, most people don't even realize

798
00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:15,519
this is a thing that the tropical dry force. So

799
00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:18,599
I was really curious about how that works. I'd love

800
00:40:18,639 --> 00:40:20,519
to do more research into that, like how does a

801
00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:26,679
plant evolve the capacity to effectively shut down its respiration

802
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,559
because not just the photosynthesis, right, it's the metabolism too,

803
00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:33,599
the respiration too, or not shut it down entirely, but

804
00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:37,199
basically enter a state of torpor, right, like cut its

805
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,800
leaves off so that it's no longer absorbing water or

806
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,119
trying to absorb water that's not there because the soils dry.

807
00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:46,840
It hasn't rained in a few months, and it's still

808
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,960
hot as balls because you're in such a low latitude

809
00:40:49,559 --> 00:40:52,920
in the itcz the intertropical convergence zones on the other

810
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,199
side of the equator the equator for that season, you know,

811
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,719
it's not going to be coming back crossing the equator

812
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,639
to the other to your side out of the equator

813
00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:04,440
for another few months. So just knowing how to downregulate

814
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,760
everything and reading about it was really cool because it's

815
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,599
it's uh, you know, respiration, and that's the thing. It's

816
00:41:11,599 --> 00:41:15,400
like having to shut down, having to shut down respiration

817
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,199
or just really you know down regulated. You know, you

818
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,679
basically gotta you basically got to shut everything down, right,

819
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
or at least the interstate of dormancy, Like just like

820
00:41:27,079 --> 00:41:30,360
plants and winter climates do. Okay, you mobilize all your

821
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,440
valuable resources, sugars, amino acids, all that shit from the

822
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,119
leaves back into the stems and roots. So the leaves,

823
00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:38,079
like if you go to a dry forest, like the

824
00:41:38,119 --> 00:41:41,000
tropical dry forests in Costa Rica they're in like they're

825
00:41:41,039 --> 00:41:43,719
in Guanacosta, like in northwest Costa Rica. You go there,

826
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,440
go for a walk during the dry season or right

827
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,239
at the dry season, you'll see that the leaves are

828
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,159
turning yellow. And that's because all the chlorophylls going back,

829
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,480
the nitrogen, especially from the chlorophyll is going back into

830
00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:59,920
the stems, and it's you're just leaving behind the carotenoid pigments.

831
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:02,480
You know, all the good all the good shits be it.

832
00:42:02,519 --> 00:42:04,679
The sugar is especially going back into the stems. The

833
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:08,239
same same thing that plants and winter climates do. Right,

834
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,840
you're shutting down okay, of course, the point of doing

835
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,119
that is, uh, you know, you're shutting down respiration because

836
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:19,760
especially during times of stress and droughts, the time of stress, plants,

837
00:42:20,199 --> 00:42:25,400
any organism, really animals, to start producing reactive oxygen species,

838
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,159
you know, as a product of metabolism. And so that's

839
00:42:28,199 --> 00:42:33,400
where antioxidants come in, is to basically deactivate those reactive

840
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,519
oxygen species. That's why you you know, antioxidants, it's not

841
00:42:36,599 --> 00:42:39,039
just a health food gimmick. There's actually a benefit to it.

842
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,159
And that's why you add that's why you know, there's

843
00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:46,039
a benefit in consuming antioxidants from plants. Right, But don't

844
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:48,960
oversteam the broccoli. You just want you want it just right.

845
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,199
You don't want to brown, you want it still being green,

846
00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:55,039
maybe five ten minutes max. You know, it's aside from

847
00:42:55,079 --> 00:42:58,559
obviously conserving water, the main thing is really really you know,

848
00:42:58,679 --> 00:43:03,039
cutt and respiration, uh, you know, by seventy percent or something,

849
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,639
and that's you know, fifty to seventy percent of respiration

850
00:43:05,679 --> 00:43:08,960
occurs in the leaves. So you get rid of the leaves, boom,

851
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:13,519
You've you've you know, fifty to seventy fifty seventy percent

852
00:43:13,559 --> 00:43:15,440
of respiration occurs in leaves, and you've gotten rid of

853
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:21,880
fifty to seventy percent of the potential for reactive oxygen species. Right,

854
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,599
So maintenance respiration still occurs in stems just like it.

855
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,360
You know, if you scratch the stem, it's still going

856
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,840
to be green, just like if you scratch the stem

857
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:33,280
on a maple that lost its leaves in fucking Vermont

858
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,599
or something. But it's a pretty amazing thing to evolve

859
00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:40,119
because you'll see these trees and they just look like shit.

860
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,360
Like drive it like driving out everything. It looks like

861
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:48,000
a fucking mad Max landscape. Thorn scrub does rio. Grand

862
00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:50,400
City got ray. We didn't get rain. We're a little

863
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,039
bit too far north. It's it's that's crazy to see too,

864
00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:57,000
because it's like a forty mile thirty forty mile difference

865
00:43:57,039 --> 00:43:59,960
if that. And at the south end, closer to the border,

866
00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:02,000
I got two and a half inches. We didn't get anything,

867
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,960
but everything is dead and dormant, and so it looks

868
00:44:06,119 --> 00:44:08,800
like a wasteland, but it was. You know, It's the

869
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,920
cool thing is watching all of that come back to

870
00:44:11,039 --> 00:44:15,920
life literally within like twelve or thirteen hours after a rain.

871
00:44:16,679 --> 00:44:19,599
Twelve or thirteen hours after a rain, stuff starts lighting

872
00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:22,960
up again. I remember watching this was cool. I was

873
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,400
in I think I was in the turtle mounds of

874
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,599
the Mohave Desert. I was on mushrooms this day too.

875
00:44:26,639 --> 00:44:28,599
This was a wonderful day. Almost stepped on a speckled

876
00:44:28,639 --> 00:44:31,719
rattlesnake while I was on mushrooms. It didn't bite me.

877
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,119
It was so kind. I was with a friend and

878
00:44:34,159 --> 00:44:36,840
we had crashed in the back of the truck overnight

879
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,519
listening to this hard rainstorm in the Mojave desert, and

880
00:44:40,559 --> 00:44:43,800
then went on his hike to go look at this

881
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,400
disjunk population of fan palms. Was it fanm palm? I

882
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,280
think it was. Yeah, it was fan pomps way out

883
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,000
there and there, you know, the ground was really wet

884
00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:57,800
and soro feminist spinosis. The American smoke tree right, one

885
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,760
of two unrelated plants known as these smoke tree. Right,

886
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,280
not the not Cotinus, the Eastern smoke tree. But this

887
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,400
is the desert smoke tree. Wait. I think it's desert

888
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,760
smoke trees, and I don't know they're fucking common names anyway.

889
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,360
This is a legume, really beautiful legume with photosynthetic stems.

890
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,719
It's got leaves when it germinates, purple flowers. It's Phaboides subfamily,

891
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,239
so it's got the banner wings and keel pedal morphology

892
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,360
as opposed to the seysalpinoid flower morphology or the Mimosa

893
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:28,079
flower morphology from Mimo soiity the Mimosa subfamily, and it's

894
00:45:28,079 --> 00:45:30,360
one of my favorite trees. And the seed, these seeds

895
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,960
had been in this gravel wash and they it was

896
00:45:34,039 --> 00:45:37,199
like six hours after the rain stopped, and the seeds

897
00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:40,360
had germinated and they were already sending up kind of

898
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,440
leens like they respond that quickly. Like just the absorbent

899
00:45:43,559 --> 00:45:47,760
capabilities of these roots and seed coats, especially once they've

900
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,719
been tumbled in a gravel washed and scarifight, as as

901
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:56,599
that desert smoke tree seed had been is incredible. So

902
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,840
but this, this this ability to die o drought is

903
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,639
so it's so incredible to me. And I think that's

904
00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,840
one of the best arguments for convincing people to use

905
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,159
native plants, especially if you come from a fucked up

906
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:15,199
area where you can get months without rain and where

907
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,719
it's incredibly hot. The fact that people were the fact

908
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,920
these honkeys from up north and no offense, you know,

909
00:46:23,119 --> 00:46:25,239
were actually fucked them. But you know what I mean,

910
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,760
these honkys from up north one hundred years ago, we're

911
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,480
trying to come down here exploit cheap Mexican labor to

912
00:46:31,519 --> 00:46:33,760
grow citrus is fucking nuts to me, because this is

913
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,760
not the climate that you want to grow citrus in.

914
00:46:36,119 --> 00:46:39,280
There's no water, the soil is salty, it's hot as

915
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,760
balls for eleven months out of the year. When I

916
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,519
was in that quarter, I was at six thousand feet.

917
00:46:43,519 --> 00:46:46,239
They were growing citrus up there. Fine, it never gets

918
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:51,000
hotter than eighty degrees, right, it's like cloud forest, right,

919
00:46:51,119 --> 00:46:55,440
high solar insulation never freezes. Six thousand feet you're on

920
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,960
the equator, doesn't get hotter than eighty degrees fahrenheit. And

921
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,199
then you realize, why the with these morons trying to

922
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:05,039
grow citrus in Florida and in Texas. You go to

923
00:47:05,119 --> 00:47:08,559
Florida and the citrus all looks like shit, it looks

924
00:47:08,679 --> 00:47:14,400
like fucking garbage. They're all they've got pathogens too, right, Especially,

925
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,880
it's easy to get, you know, to fall prey as

926
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,679
a plant, to fall prey to pathogens. When you're you know,

927
00:47:21,119 --> 00:47:25,440
not growing in ideal temperatures. You can't manufacture all the

928
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:29,920
you know, phytochemistry. You need to defend yourself. And you're probably,

929
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,199
especially if it's not getting cooler than eighty degrees at night,

930
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:36,880
you're gonna hit your compensation point. Your metabolism is always

931
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,480
running twenty four to seven, but the sun's on the

932
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,360
out for twelve hours during the day, so you're only

933
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,920
able to manufacture, however, many carbohydrates and it never really

934
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,320
cools off, so you start depleting your energy stores and so.

935
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,159
But people, of course, humans always try to make a

936
00:47:51,199 --> 00:47:53,360
square peg fit in a round hole, especially when it

937
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,719
comes to like plant life. I see this all the time, right,

938
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,559
we can have a grepe myrtle, it said, I go

939
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:02,639
just water it. Fucking insane. And so what they do

940
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,800
with the citrus is they just douse it with chemicals,

941
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:10,719
toxic ass shit, right, just they and then it's and

942
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,280
it still looks like shit. It's still got chlorotic leaves.

943
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,760
The citrus industry is falling apart. The city's citrus industry

944
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,079
in Texas fell apart, but it just got re all

945
00:48:19,119 --> 00:48:23,679
the agriculture just got replaced by the tractouse industry. Building

946
00:48:23,679 --> 00:48:26,239
these bleak houses, which you know these every one of

947
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,480
them's got a fucking lawn. There's no tree cover except

948
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,760
for these shitty live oaks they plant. Though I sound

949
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,360
a little mad, I'm sorry, it's it's fucking madness. I

950
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,960
see this and I'm like, this is good luck, good luck.

951
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,679
You guys don't even know that, like the leadership, you

952
00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:42,199
don't even know how to live on this land. You

953
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,000
don't even know the tools that this land came with.

954
00:48:45,079 --> 00:48:46,760
You don't even know what you're doing here. Man. You

955
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,880
might as well be in fucking Iowa or Connecticut or

956
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,960
you know, wherever you're or Georgia, Like you have no

957
00:48:53,119 --> 00:48:56,480
clue about This is why you got to You got

958
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,960
to teach kids about native plants and like your ecoss

959
00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:04,119
them your specific biome when they're young, like second or

960
00:49:04,159 --> 00:49:07,599
third grade, start fuck even younger, man, and get them outside,

961
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,880
Like every school should have a native plant garden. I

962
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,880
went to pick my daughter from school the other day.

963
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,280
There's a line of cars. Everyone's three hundred No I'm not,

964
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,079
I know. I sound like everyone's three hundred pounds because

965
00:49:18,079 --> 00:49:21,280
no one walks right. Everyone's waiting in these giant escalades,

966
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,880
which themselves are emitting heat, and they're just and they're

967
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,559
waiting there for like thirty fucking minutes to pick up

968
00:49:27,559 --> 00:49:30,199
their kids. It's like, Jesus Christ, don't you want to

969
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,880
go take a walk. It's not even that hot yet. Like,

970
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,159
I can't sit still in my car for that long.

971
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:37,559
I Meanwhile, I'm showing up on a bike. They look

972
00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:39,280
at me like I'm a crackhead. I got a bike

973
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,199
with this little tandem thing that she can ride. You know,

974
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,559
she gets pissed if I don't bring that to pick

975
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:45,800
her up. She gets mad at me. You know, she starts,

976
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:50,719
throws a tantrum, and shit, it's just and so I'm

977
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:52,599
out there waiting for them to bring the kids out,

978
00:49:52,599 --> 00:49:55,239
and I'm just roasting in the sun. There's no tree cover.

979
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,800
It's just like a barren patch of soil and asphalt

980
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,800
and concrete. And to me, that's just fucking man Like.

981
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,280
Don't you want Don't you want nice stuff? Right? Don't

982
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,000
you want some like living things around you? Don't you

983
00:50:08,039 --> 00:50:11,840
want some trees? Like, even if you're you know, uh,

984
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,880
whatever side of the political spectrum you're on, you want

985
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,880
tree cover. You just need trees. You They're fucking nice

986
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,719
to look at. They give shade, birds can hang out

987
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,000
of them. Don't you like to hear birds? Don't you

988
00:50:23,079 --> 00:50:28,239
like to hear the little chirpies? Huh fucking madness. I'm

989
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:29,920
gonna hit the I mean, I'm gonna hit the principal

990
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,239
up be like, look can can we just plant the

991
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,199
tree here? I'll maintain it. Someone else hit me up

992
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,039
from she came to my show. It was this teacher

993
00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:43,119
loved the school teachers. She uh, she came to my show.

994
00:50:43,199 --> 00:50:44,719
She hit me up and she said, you know, can

995
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,199
you cause I was putting ads out for planting trees

996
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,760
around here and she said, uh, can you plant trees

997
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,400
at the school? I gotta get back to her actually,

998
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,079
because she was checking with her principal. I was like, yeah,

999
00:50:53,079 --> 00:50:54,760
I can plant trees. You guys just got a multim

1000
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:56,599
because I don't want to. I don't have that much time.

1001
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,719
I barely have time. My time still prejudiced to me.

1002
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,239
If I come over there, I don't want to. I

1003
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,079
don't want them to die because nobody waters them. Can

1004
00:51:02,119 --> 00:51:04,119
you guys water them? Can we get some most there?

1005
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:09,280
Let's plant some tepewahes, not live oaks. Right. I went

1006
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,960
to speak at this school a month ago. I think

1007
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,360
I mentioned this in the last podcast, and it was

1008
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,079
really nice, these junior high school kids into plants. I

1009
00:51:18,079 --> 00:51:20,239
would love to teach a fucking botany class to junior

1010
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,440
high kids. You know that shit changes. You get a

1011
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:28,079
good teacher junior high or high school about ecology or something.

1012
00:51:28,119 --> 00:51:30,039
I remember the ones I got, you know, like the

1013
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:32,519
guy that took us in a van to go drag

1014
00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:35,039
a deer carcass that had just been hit out to

1015
00:51:35,119 --> 00:51:36,920
a field and then come back and check on it

1016
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,639
three days later to see how clean the vultures had

1017
00:51:39,639 --> 00:51:42,760
picked it. Right, that was like, I still remember that

1018
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,519
thirty years later. I'd love to do that for kids.

1019
00:51:44,599 --> 00:51:47,119
I could tone down the cursing, right, Just give me

1020
00:51:47,159 --> 00:51:50,920
a semester. You even got your give me you know,

1021
00:51:51,039 --> 00:51:54,599
one one one hour class, right, like twice a week.

1022
00:51:54,639 --> 00:51:57,800
I could do it. I teach kids about some cool stuff.

1023
00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:59,920
Just take him out. But every school should have a

1024
00:52:00,119 --> 00:52:02,480
native plant garden where they got all the native plants

1025
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,000
from that region, because that is so vital. Right, it's

1026
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,719
not a feel good thing. Pay yourself on a back.

1027
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,079
I'm using a fucking paper straw. That's so vital to

1028
00:52:10,159 --> 00:52:13,639
understanding where you live. These fucking things were built by

1029
00:52:13,639 --> 00:52:15,440
the region. They were built by the land that you

1030
00:52:15,519 --> 00:52:19,239
live on. Okay, you're not gonna go crate You're not

1031
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,719
gonna grow crape myrtles in fucking South Texas. That's insane, right,

1032
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,199
we have tepeways We got ebonies, We got all these

1033
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:31,760
mimosoid legings. We got cideroxilon Coma sapotasi mostly tropical family.

1034
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,039
We get you know, it smells incredible when it flowers.

1035
00:52:35,039 --> 00:52:37,199
The trees get covered in monarchs because the monarchs love

1036
00:52:37,199 --> 00:52:39,800
the flowers. You can eat the fruits. Do you like

1037
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,840
the squishy fruits? We got so much cool shit. It

1038
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,239
doesn't have to be like this. It's only like this

1039
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,000
because of a lack of imagination, because of a lack

1040
00:52:48,039 --> 00:52:52,639
of awareness about the plants here. Got to educate people,

1041
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,119
especially in the most extreme climates. You know they do.

1042
00:52:55,199 --> 00:52:57,800
They have stuff like this in Tucson, right. Tucson's like,

1043
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,599
you know, ninety years ahead of the Rio Grand Valley.

1044
00:53:00,599 --> 00:53:02,960
I say Tucson because that's the hottest balls climate too.

1045
00:53:03,159 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaking of which, I just got Brad Lancaster's rainwater harvest

1046
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,480
thing for dry Climate's book. We did a book swap.

1047
00:53:08,679 --> 00:53:12,119
I sent them concrete botany. He sent me, uh, rainwater

1048
00:53:12,159 --> 00:53:16,079
harvest thing for dry climates. Great guy, he's got fucking

1049
00:53:16,119 --> 00:53:19,000
equations in there. You know, you know he don't tell

1050
00:53:19,079 --> 00:53:21,400
me heat off that college. I see what he put

1051
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,320
in a factor he's playing. They got numbers and equations.

1052
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:29,039
He's a real smart guy. He's got he's got equations

1053
00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:30,679
and now I didn't read them. It's a little. This

1054
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,559
is a little I said, wow, whoa, hey, easy there guy.

1055
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,840
I will look at them later, but I just wanted

1056
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,840
it for the he's got these, you know drawings he

1057
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:45,360
did of rainwater catchment basins and yards. Fucking dope. He's

1058
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,159
got the website too, rainwater harvest thing for dry climates

1059
00:53:49,199 --> 00:53:51,800
and dry land harvest. Was it dry land harvest? Throw

1060
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:55,440
dry land rainer rainer that you know, the guy that

1061
00:53:55,519 --> 00:53:57,360
he's got the stuff that he cuts the holes in

1062
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,360
the curb and you think he's damaged in public infort structure,

1063
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:01,920
but he's not. He's doing it because there's good he's

1064
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,440
catching out of water when they run along the gutted. Yeah,

1065
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,639
but you should check his website out Brad Lancaster rainwater

1066
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,840
Harvester dot com. I think that's it. If you just

1067
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,920
type in Bret you'll get to his website. But that's

1068
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:17,519
the that's the type of shit. That's what we need

1069
00:54:17,559 --> 00:54:19,840
to be doing for infrastructure down here. Okay, you can't

1070
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,599
do this, you can't have the way it is is

1071
00:54:21,639 --> 00:54:25,840
fucking nuts. It's incongruent combos. Say d say nice with

1072
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,920
a nice with a good quality of life and a

1073
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:31,599
sustainable future. Here you can't have turf, grass, lawns. I

1074
00:54:31,639 --> 00:54:34,280
see these guys mowing these dirt lots down here. By

1075
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,280
the way, if you live in Texas and you get

1076
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,960
a you get a video of a man on a

1077
00:54:39,079 --> 00:54:43,239
riding mower just doing donuts in a dirt lot, like

1078
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,159
there's not even grass there because it's so dry and

1079
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,679
parts and he's just clicking up, kicking up clouds of dust.

1080
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:52,119
Please please record at least thirty seconds of it. You

1081
00:54:52,159 --> 00:54:54,320
can be as artsy as you like. Just get close

1082
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:55,760
up to it. Don't do it from you know, one

1083
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,280
hundred feet away. Go up there and just give him

1084
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,199
a thumbs upper something telling me he's doing a great job,

1085
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,079
and just say you rerecording it for a class project

1086
00:55:05,119 --> 00:55:06,639
or some Be really nice to him so he's not

1087
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,440
vied out. You don't want to ruin a mood. Right,

1088
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,920
he's in his zone. Let him do it, but just

1089
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,280
get some footage and then send it to me. And

1090
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,119
I'm not gonna like humiliate the guy, you know, if

1091
00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:17,880
you can do without his face. And there these guys

1092
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,480
normally wear those masks too. They look like ice agents. Right.

1093
00:55:20,599 --> 00:55:22,000
I was wearing one of those just when I was

1094
00:55:22,039 --> 00:55:25,880
shoveling Moult. Just now. You know those those uh those

1095
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:28,320
little scarfs you pull up, they're real nice too. They

1096
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,639
block the sun. I got a little toasted yesterday. But

1097
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,000
bring those out, get them in, you know, just get

1098
00:55:34,039 --> 00:55:36,239
some good footage and send it to me, because that

1099
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,360
is the most iconic Texas thing that displays the madness. Brother,

1100
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,119
what are you doing right? You are like you're this

1101
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:50,440
is the most Sissyphician task is the fifthy tech, the

1102
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:55,400
master gardener. I'm a master gardener, the Master Gardener Association.

1103
00:55:56,159 --> 00:56:00,599
I got my Master Gardener license. Listen, I don't know

1104
00:56:00,639 --> 00:56:04,119
what words are using, but I got my master gardener license,

1105
00:56:04,599 --> 00:56:07,800
and I got I did my volunteer hours at the

1106
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,360
Botanic Garden, okay in the suburbs right there, and I

1107
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,880
know what I'm doing. Now. You're gonna try a lecture me,

1108
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,760
but get some get some footage of that. It's just

1109
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:21,639
it's such a perfect you know, it's it's words cannot say,

1110
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,159
words cannot describe what that video does. And it's a

1111
00:56:25,159 --> 00:56:28,920
Texas thing. The man that the man feels the sentence

1112
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,960
that guy's just probably working the shit out. It's not him.

1113
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,519
But you know, if it's if it's a private guy,

1114
00:56:32,559 --> 00:56:35,159
if it's like a dude doing it for his own yard,

1115
00:56:35,199 --> 00:56:39,119
even better. Right, the men get his sense of purpose

1116
00:56:39,679 --> 00:56:44,719
from riding mowers. Right, makes them feel like they're doing something.

1117
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,920
They're just lost. You got to read direct that energy.

1118
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,800
That guy should be shoveling mulch and putting fucking plugs

1119
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:52,079
and native plants in the ground. He should be composting

1120
00:56:52,119 --> 00:56:54,159
his own ship, is what he should be doing. Right,

1121
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:56,800
you want to you want to ruin the ambiance at

1122
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,239
a dinner party talk about ship composting a amazing Get

1123
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:04,199
some wood chips. I just got it. You know what

1124
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:07,280
I just got. I got a wood chipper. You put

1125
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:12,000
your friend in the chipper? Eh? And I guess that

1126
00:57:12,159 --> 00:57:16,800
was your accountlice and the wood chipper, the wood chipper?

1127
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:19,840
Did you put your friend in the wood chip? Anyway?

1128
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:21,920
I got this cheap woodship around Scampus. I was like

1129
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:25,320
one hundred and thirty bucks and it was worth it.

1130
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,239
I was out there because I you know, I get

1131
00:57:27,239 --> 00:57:28,800
all the sticks. I do it. You know, I'm not

1132
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,400
mowing a law. But I'm trimming trees and shit while

1133
00:57:31,559 --> 00:57:33,760
you know, shrubs in the brush lands here in my

1134
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,440
little thorn scrub garden, and I always get the little

1135
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,519
sticks that I worry about those being a fire hazard.

1136
00:57:38,559 --> 00:57:41,079
So what I do. Granted there's a limit of about

1137
00:57:41,119 --> 00:57:43,119
an inch and a half inch and three quarters. It

1138
00:57:43,159 --> 00:57:44,760
says inch in three quarters. But I know I'm gonna

1139
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,280
fuck that thing up, right. I run all my shit

1140
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,280
into the ground, run all my equipment into the ground.

1141
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:50,880
So I take an inch and a half. I got

1142
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,599
a lot of sticks, some of the tepawahey branches. When

1143
00:57:53,599 --> 00:57:55,880
you got to prune those shits, you know. I went

1144
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,559
and I was driving around on my truck throwing, uh,

1145
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,880
throwing pieces of a live oak trimmings in there, long branches.

1146
00:58:06,199 --> 00:58:08,480
You just eye it right where it gets an inch

1147
00:58:08,519 --> 00:58:11,239
and a half thick. You cut there and then you

1148
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,000
got like a four foot section. I was putting these

1149
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,679
in the chipper. I filled up two thirty gallon tubs,

1150
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:20,559
two thirty gallon planters with very finely ground wood chips,

1151
00:58:20,559 --> 00:58:22,079
like not the stuff you would get from a tree

1152
00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:26,599
company too, more fine finely ground that's the carbon. Get

1153
00:58:26,639 --> 00:58:30,559
some leaf mulch, in there too, and then and then

1154
00:58:30,639 --> 00:58:34,880
get some coffee grounds, maybe a turd, and you put

1155
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,039
it in the tumblers and tumble it. Get some you know,

1156
00:58:38,119 --> 00:58:39,960
it's too hot where I live for worms, so we

1157
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,840
get black soldier fly larvae. They just show up. They're amazing.

1158
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,599
They look the maggots look like they're what they call

1159
00:58:44,679 --> 00:58:47,239
meal worms. You know, if you ever had a kid

1160
00:58:47,239 --> 00:58:49,920
in friend in high school who would feed meal worms

1161
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:54,840
to his reptiles, you know, and they do quick work

1162
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,079
of anything, man and eliot, the dairy delia whatever. The

1163
00:58:58,119 --> 00:59:01,320
meal worms are better than worms. I think the black

1164
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,119
soldier flies, and I think black soldier flies are native anyway.

1165
00:59:04,679 --> 00:59:07,840
But I'm just gonna start making my own soil and

1166
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:11,519
then I'll mix that with because I was trying it

1167
00:59:11,559 --> 00:59:15,119
with juniper bark. But you know, you need that shit composted.

1168
00:59:15,239 --> 00:59:17,880
And I think when I realized the good way to

1169
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,039
do this, and you'll get like a I got like

1170
00:59:20,039 --> 00:59:23,440
a fifty gallon drum that just just woodships. That's like

1171
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:28,199
the end stage. Once the you know, tumbler compost has

1172
00:59:28,239 --> 00:59:32,360
gotten good going. You know, it's not too smelly, it's

1173
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,559
there's a lot of uh, you know, you could see

1174
00:59:34,599 --> 00:59:38,480
the springtails in it. There's a species of might I

1175
00:59:38,519 --> 00:59:41,760
see in the compost too. I'm getting all Damon tie

1176
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,880
On this follow Damon tie On Instagram TI T I

1177
00:59:45,119 --> 00:59:48,639
G h E. My buddy. He's always posting good, good

1178
00:59:48,639 --> 00:59:52,119
shit about. He's got his own like circular ecosystem in

1179
00:59:52,159 --> 00:59:57,679
his backyard. He waters his tricho serious with urine. He's

1180
00:59:57,719 --> 01:00:00,880
he teaches what is he like teaches DNA sequence singing.

1181
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,079
And I don't know if he's always flying all over

1182
01:00:03,119 --> 01:00:06,480
the place giving lectures and shit whatever. But I've learned

1183
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:10,960
so much just from watching his stories. Damon tie friend

1184
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,800
of mine from the Bay when I lived out there,

1185
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,199
and he's he's responsible for a good amount of the

1186
01:00:17,199 --> 01:00:21,840
psilocybin mushrooms that come up in wood chip beds around

1187
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,239
the Bay area, just from taking stem butts from old

1188
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,599
patches and transplanting them to new patches of woodships during

1189
01:00:27,599 --> 01:00:30,320
the rainy season. But so I'll get all the hot

1190
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:35,719
shit in the compost, tumbler, coffee grounds, food scraps. The

1191
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:39,400
coffee grounds are great. That's high nitrogen. That's like liquid

1192
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:41,159
gold to me, right, I'd like work with the coffee

1193
01:00:41,159 --> 01:00:43,400
shops around town. Give me your coffee grounds. Right, it's

1194
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,559
like a mafioso thing. I'm going to make collections and

1195
01:00:46,599 --> 01:00:48,840
then I'll put that in the tumbler and then you

1196
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:53,199
tumble it. And it's got to be sealed because it's

1197
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,119
I use a tumbler because you can't just have open

1198
01:00:55,119 --> 01:00:57,280
compost here. It's too dry and moisture will just get

1199
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,559
sucked out of it. It's weird. It's humid because we're

1200
01:00:59,559 --> 01:01:01,800
close to the but then the air will really it's

1201
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,159
so hot, and hot air can hold so much moisture.

1202
01:01:05,039 --> 01:01:08,480
Whenever the humidity wanes even just a little bit, the

1203
01:01:08,519 --> 01:01:10,559
air then sucks moisture out of stuff. So I keep

1204
01:01:10,599 --> 01:01:12,760
it closed system, you know, so you're not losing as

1205
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:17,159
much moisture. Keep it in a tumbler, and then once

1206
01:01:17,239 --> 01:01:19,760
it's like good and black, add some biochart to it.

1207
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,679
If then nitrogen's not enough, you know, you got to measure.

1208
01:01:22,719 --> 01:01:25,760
I got a temperature gauge to a thermometer. You stick

1209
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:27,199
it in there. You want it to be like one

1210
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,800
hundred degrees fahrenheit hundred and ten. If it's lower than that,

1211
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,119
you need more nitrogen. If it's warmer than that, you

1212
01:01:33,159 --> 01:01:37,000
need more carbon. And everyone does it their own way.

1213
01:01:37,079 --> 01:01:40,039
I'm not like a compost king. I'm just learning what works.

1214
01:01:40,079 --> 01:01:42,320
It's like go and but the end result is so

1215
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:43,599
I've got it in the tumbler, and then I'm going

1216
01:01:43,639 --> 01:01:46,239
to put it into this other the last stage with

1217
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:50,920
the woodships in like a bigger tub, a bigger barrel,

1218
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,800
and then water the shit to keep it wet. Because

1219
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:57,400
I noticed when I used to get these moltstrumps dumps

1220
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,920
for the illegal garden. I got like ten illegal moult

1221
01:02:00,199 --> 01:02:04,679
dumps on Mendela Boulevard right there on a median strip

1222
01:02:04,719 --> 01:02:07,760
when I was doing illegal gardening out there, planting cypruses.

1223
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,440
And then I moved to the cloud forest stuff from

1224
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,280
the neotropics, right, so same lineages is the stuff we

1225
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:17,119
would get in California, just you know, eight hundred miles

1226
01:02:17,159 --> 01:02:20,679
to the south in neotropical cloud forest settings. You could

1227
01:02:20,719 --> 01:02:22,599
do that in the Bay because the temperature was right.

1228
01:02:22,599 --> 01:02:25,480
It's got that cool maritime climate rarely gets hotter than

1229
01:02:25,519 --> 01:02:29,840
eighty five, doesn't ever freeze, and so they grow a

1230
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,000
lout of that cloud forest stuff. You just don't get

1231
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,599
anywhere near the amount of rain the cloud forests in

1232
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:36,880
Mexico or Costa Rica gets so I was bet the

1233
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:40,079
cloud fores stuff's amazing because it's all hummingbird pollinated shit,

1234
01:02:40,079 --> 01:02:42,119
and I love to see in the hummingbirds, you know,

1235
01:02:42,199 --> 01:02:45,639
in Oakland when I'm going to drink coffee and breathing

1236
01:02:45,639 --> 01:02:49,320
in diesel particulates. So, but I noticed when I would

1237
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,039
get these mulch piles dumped, I'd look at the bottom

1238
01:02:52,119 --> 01:02:55,280
at a mulch pile, and the shit after it had

1239
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,159
been there for six months, the stuff at the bottom

1240
01:02:57,239 --> 01:03:00,280
was like this fine powder, right, it was decompos closed

1241
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:03,760
wood chips with this like they'd break down into this

1242
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,400
fine powder. And that was the that was. You could

1243
01:03:06,519 --> 01:03:09,599
just use that as an organic base in a potting mix,

1244
01:03:10,199 --> 01:03:15,559
adding some perlite, maybe a little vermiculite, maybe some other

1245
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:20,719
you know, bark fines whatever, but you had like a

1246
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,880
potting mix. Right, it was fucking great and a little

1247
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,719
bit of compost maybe. So that's what I'm trying to

1248
01:03:25,719 --> 01:03:28,199
do now and I need But so I needed to

1249
01:03:28,199 --> 01:03:30,039
get the wood chipper to do that, because that's going

1250
01:03:30,119 --> 01:03:32,039
to be the base. But to get the woodchips to

1251
01:03:32,119 --> 01:03:36,440
decompose faster and add nutrients to them. That's where the

1252
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,599
coffee grounds and just the regular food, scrap composts come in,

1253
01:03:40,039 --> 01:03:42,280
so I'll let you know about my progress. But the

1254
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:43,559
end of the day, I don't want to have to

1255
01:03:43,559 --> 01:03:46,559
be buying bags of peat moss or whatever stupid shit.

1256
01:03:46,559 --> 01:03:48,920
I don't even use peat moss like Burger pro mix.

1257
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:50,920
You go to like a source supply store, they got

1258
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,840
Burger pro mix. It's first off, it's forty bucks. Second

1259
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,760
it's pete and so they're looting this shit out of

1260
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,039
you know, peat bogs in Canada. It's fucking obscene. I

1261
01:03:59,039 --> 01:04:01,400
don't know why they don't just use composted forest products.

1262
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,280
That's what Tristan, a possibility place uses. They use like

1263
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:09,280
decomposed pine bark and you know pine finds from the

1264
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,719
lumber industry, but in the South, the one in the south,

1265
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:16,039
so it's all like pinus teta, what is it? Loblelly?

1266
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:21,599
You know? Is that your friend in the wood chipper?

1267
01:04:22,559 --> 01:04:26,280
So uh, I think that's the best, you know, but

1268
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:28,920
I'm curious to see. I don't know. You don't know

1269
01:04:29,119 --> 01:04:31,960
until you know two weeks after you've put a plant

1270
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:33,679
in it, and then the plant is either doing well

1271
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,119
or it's getting chlorotic leaves. That's why I would learn

1272
01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:38,679
my way. That's how I learned about the biochar fuck up.

1273
01:04:39,519 --> 01:04:42,519
I thought biochar could be used in just kind of

1274
01:04:42,519 --> 01:04:45,920
in lieu of pearlite, and that was not the case.

1275
01:04:46,079 --> 01:04:48,920
You can, but you've got to. It sucks nitrogen out

1276
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,000
of stuff, so you have to compensate for the nitrogen

1277
01:04:51,079 --> 01:04:55,679
somehow by either using chemical fertilizer or urinating on it,

1278
01:04:55,719 --> 01:04:58,280
like Damon Tide does. Damon ty is really into the

1279
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:02,079
urine thing, you know, is nitrogen. It's another great way

1280
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:04,199
to buy people out to you because you want to

1281
01:05:04,199 --> 01:05:05,880
sift out the squares. You don't want to have to

1282
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,559
be around people like that. If you don't have to

1283
01:05:07,599 --> 01:05:10,960
start talking about compost shitting or using urine as nitrogen,

1284
01:05:11,119 --> 01:05:13,599
and that'll that sh you get rid of the fucking guccas.

1285
01:05:13,639 --> 01:05:15,360
You know, you don't want the guccas. You don't want

1286
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:18,760
people that are chasing the finer things in life. I

1287
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:20,840
really don't. I don't really care to be around those people.

1288
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,599
But the soil, you know, the soil thing's been a

1289
01:05:24,599 --> 01:05:26,280
real pain in my ass because I just go through

1290
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,800
so much of it, and so it would be great

1291
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,639
if I could find, you know, a place that would

1292
01:05:31,719 --> 01:05:35,840
come dump composted forest products like a cubic yard in

1293
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:37,880
my driveway or some shit, or in a you know,

1294
01:05:38,199 --> 01:05:40,960
a vacant lot near my house. The vacant lots are great.

1295
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:42,880
You got to use them right until the owner kicks

1296
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:47,760
you out. Luckily the owner. Luckily the owner here doesn't.

1297
01:05:48,079 --> 01:05:49,639
I don't know if she knows or what. But who

1298
01:05:49,679 --> 01:05:54,400
knows or he just ask you know. But but other

1299
01:05:54,519 --> 01:05:56,519
than that, I was using like ocean forest, and then

1300
01:05:56,559 --> 01:05:58,239
I would just mix it with other stuff. But ocean

1301
01:05:58,239 --> 01:06:02,159
forest is a fucking rip off too. It's a it's

1302
01:06:02,199 --> 01:06:04,960
a bummer. How do you get if you got a

1303
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:09,639
good gimmick for getting cheap, low cost soil mixtures. Let

1304
01:06:09,639 --> 01:06:13,320
me know the guy, this guy that used to draw,

1305
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:17,320
He used to grow plants for fish and wildlife in

1306
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,280
the tubes, you know, in little paper tubes, like two

1307
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:25,039
inch by eight inch deep tubes. He would just get

1308
01:06:25,159 --> 01:06:28,199
native soil, which is shit in a pot. It's like

1309
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,239
it's verdict. So it expands and contracts depending on the

1310
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:34,400
moisture content. It is brutal if you let it dry out.

1311
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:36,519
It's really hard to get it in a pot. It's

1312
01:06:36,559 --> 01:06:38,760
really hard to get it to absorb water. Again, you

1313
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,400
have to like let the water sit and sink in

1314
01:06:42,719 --> 01:06:45,320
and so because of it. I mean, it's great in

1315
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,519
the ground because it stays wet for a while. But

1316
01:06:48,639 --> 01:06:51,000
everything in a pot, the volume is much smaller, so

1317
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:55,320
you know, temperature fluctuates more, much more than the ground does,

1318
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,920
for instance, and so does the moisture content. Like a

1319
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:02,000
black pot, a black one gallon pot sitting in full

1320
01:07:02,039 --> 01:07:05,239
sun will dry out, you know, if if it's from inundated,

1321
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:10,719
completely saturated soil to you know, the the texture of

1322
01:07:10,719 --> 01:07:14,960
a brick adobe brick in the full sundown here in summer,

1323
01:07:15,039 --> 01:07:18,079
within like an hour or two. And so to compensate

1324
01:07:18,079 --> 01:07:22,519
for that, he would add vermiculate to the to the

1325
01:07:22,519 --> 01:07:27,760
the native soil, this fine silty clay loam, this calcareous stuff,

1326
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,000
and and that would help. But then you still you

1327
01:07:31,039 --> 01:07:32,880
got to keep everything wet. You gotta I don't know, man,

1328
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:34,760
I just I just want to grow a bunch more

1329
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,039
shit and get it out everywhere. It's like a it's

1330
01:07:38,039 --> 01:07:40,559
like the same form of art, or like when I

1331
01:07:40,639 --> 01:07:42,679
used to do graffe. It's the same feeling. It's just

1332
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:46,800
it's just planting as much shit as possible and trying

1333
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:51,360
to unfuckify your local landscape for those of you that

1334
01:07:52,119 --> 01:07:54,280
are not lucky enough to live in a place that

1335
01:07:54,639 --> 01:07:59,960
already has a bunch of plants native plants around it. Anyway, unrelated,

1336
01:08:00,199 --> 01:08:02,519
me and my friend Caesar were supposed to go to Uh.

1337
01:08:02,599 --> 01:08:07,119
He lives in Mexico City, Uh, and I was I

1338
01:08:07,199 --> 01:08:08,800
was gonna, I guess, fly down there, and that we

1339
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,519
were gonna fly to Cuba. But I guess. You know,

1340
01:08:11,119 --> 01:08:14,199
Cuba is fucked from the US placing an oil embargo

1341
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,359
on it. I guess they were getting their their oil

1342
01:08:16,399 --> 01:08:19,479
from Venezuela, so there's no gas and they're they're stress,

1343
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,880
They're fucked, and the US is just causing problems everywhere

1344
01:08:24,039 --> 01:08:29,279
now for everybody, right, US and Israel both. I got

1345
01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:35,560
called an anti Semitic cook in my inbox the other day.

1346
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:37,680
I don't know, I can't tell if it was a botterer,

1347
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,239
if it was someone real, uh, but it was because

1348
01:08:41,279 --> 01:08:44,319
I posted something I got Israel. You know whatever man

1349
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:46,840
Israel as a fucking It's so hard for me to

1350
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:51,279
keep it closed politically when I see crazy, heinous shit

1351
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,920
going on. You know, there was the it's and it's

1352
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,479
always on Facebook too, whenever someone's going to tell you

1353
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:00,000
to fuck off. It's always on on Facebook, I first

1354
01:09:00,039 --> 01:09:03,560
some reason. Instagram. Never, it was on a story too.

1355
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,920
It was not like a disappearing story. It's well you

1356
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:08,239
get for watching my stories, Get the fuck off and

1357
01:09:09,039 --> 01:09:12,520
get the fuck off. Uh social media, you're watching stories

1358
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:14,960
that disappear in an hour, You fucking nerd. Then you

1359
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:18,680
get an upset about them. But I get it's always

1360
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:20,800
that they get. I don't know what these dudes think.

1361
01:09:21,239 --> 01:09:22,960
It's always a dude. Well, actually no, there was a

1362
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,720
lady to lady who said that's the go to alien

1363
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,000
eight a large part of our conservative audience. Yeah, if

1364
01:09:28,039 --> 01:09:31,760
they can't just agree to disagree, shut up. You know.

1365
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,119
It's uh, we're living in these weird times. It's just

1366
01:09:35,159 --> 01:09:38,479
so fucking weird, noning. None of it makes sense anymore.

1367
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:42,880
It's just so fucked so uh anyway, but no Cuba,

1368
01:09:43,119 --> 01:09:46,880
No Cuban serpentine for me. God, there's some incredible shit.

1369
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:51,279
I want to go see that Mark Gravias species that

1370
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:55,359
produces the radar dish leaves above its pendent inflorescences so

1371
01:09:55,399 --> 01:09:58,840
that it's visible by bats. I gotta I gotta presentation

1372
01:09:59,359 --> 01:10:01,479
on pollin a biology. You know you can look at

1373
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:03,600
a flower and tell if it's pollinated by moths, if

1374
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,119
it co evolved with moths, or if it covalved with

1375
01:10:06,159 --> 01:10:10,079
hummingbirds and butterflies. How how how it you know you

1376
01:10:10,079 --> 01:10:14,399
can tell if it's co evolved with bats or mammals

1377
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:17,840
or whatever pollinating it. It's a cool presentation. I put

1378
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:21,520
it together when I was teaching at college course at

1379
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:24,920
the university two years ago. I forgot I had it. It

1380
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:27,000
was on my old Google slides list. It's a fucking

1381
01:10:27,039 --> 01:10:28,880
dope presentation. And yeah, I had a present I had

1382
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,760
a photo of I don't know where I got it

1383
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,439
of that that mark Gravia species. I think it's what

1384
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:36,279
is it even ensis? Oh? Yeah, there it is. I've

1385
01:10:36,319 --> 01:10:40,399
seen it. Mark Gravia ivinya e ve e n I

1386
01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:42,520
A god, this is a nice presentation. I got to

1387
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:45,680
put this thing back together. This is holy fuck. I

1388
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:49,119
forgot these flowers got the Oh, I would love to

1389
01:10:49,159 --> 01:10:52,239
see that. Where do you see mark Gravia avignya. Mark

1390
01:10:52,239 --> 01:10:55,239
Gravia is a genus in Eric Hayley's the Blueberry Order.

1391
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,840
There's a lot of different family polmoniac Is in the

1392
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:02,520
blueberry order of the ocatillo families in the blueberry order

1393
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:05,239
Eric Cayley's it ends in a L E s so

1394
01:11:05,279 --> 01:11:08,560
it's an order, not a family. But yeah, they got

1395
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:12,800
that cupped that cupped leaf above it looks unlike any

1396
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:16,760
of the other leaves on this vine. It's so fucking cool.

1397
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,239
You know. The bat's basically selected for that. It helps

1398
01:11:20,279 --> 01:11:22,640
them see it so that when they're emitting their little

1399
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,279
chirp and sonar, they can pick it up where the

1400
01:11:25,319 --> 01:11:29,640
flowers are easier. And then I got the La Fouenzia pocaai,

1401
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:33,399
which is I think that was lith racy big nectar. Yeah,

1402
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:38,680
big white petals on a red cup that composed of

1403
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:42,359
a sepals and you could so much nectar and you

1404
01:11:42,359 --> 01:11:44,279
could see it. I saw that in Brazil and minas

1405
01:11:44,319 --> 01:11:47,000
your rice. That was a crazy fucking hike that they

1406
01:11:47,159 --> 01:11:51,760
Dylan and I Dylan Zalar, crazy bastard, great fucking guy,

1407
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,479
kids like twenty three. Maybe he's twenty four and now,

1408
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:56,000
I don't know, you got a whole life ahead him me.

1409
01:11:56,199 --> 01:11:58,800
He's already knows so much. He's been all over the

1410
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:02,119
world looking at plants. We went down there. We did

1411
01:12:02,119 --> 01:12:05,560
like fourteen twelve, No It was fourteen miles that day,

1412
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:07,640
but it was intense. We saw a lot of crazy shit.

1413
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:11,359
He got to see, Oh that promeliad that looks like

1414
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:17,319
Ankolirium agavoides. Was that what it is? Yeah? What a

1415
01:12:17,319 --> 01:12:19,680
weird one. Holy shit he got he got to see

1416
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:23,199
Ancolirium agavoides. I didn't make it because I got distracted

1417
01:12:23,199 --> 01:12:26,960
looking at too much cool shit. That was where I

1418
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,640
realized that all the plants there had converged on the

1419
01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:34,479
same form of not having leaves for like the eighty percent,

1420
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,600
you know, lower down part of their stem. I'm putting

1421
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:39,920
that in this third book. I got coming out the

1422
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:42,920
imbricate leaf thing because I saw members of coffee family

1423
01:12:43,039 --> 01:12:47,960
Asperracy Melostomatas all doing the same thing, converging on the

1424
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,560
same form of Imbrikit sessile leaves with no petiole and

1425
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:55,239
then you know, leaveless for the bottom eighty percent of

1426
01:12:55,319 --> 01:12:57,880
the stem. You know, if it's like a three four

1427
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,560
foot tall shrub. It was fucking whe I was like,

1428
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:02,439
why are they all growing like this? You know, it's

1429
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,520
got to do deal with the heat that just the

1430
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,079
stress is there, The soil is shit, It's all quartzitic

1431
01:13:09,159 --> 01:13:12,000
sand that's you know, super nutrient poor. And then they

1432
01:13:12,039 --> 01:13:14,560
got that long dry season. God, there's so much crazy

1433
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:19,319
shit in Brazil and minas your rice and Bahia Bahia.

1434
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:22,439
I know how you pronounced that. It's Portuguese. Shut up

1435
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:26,279
to Brazil anyway. And then I got pictures of Kegelia africana,

1436
01:13:26,319 --> 01:13:31,039
big red flowers, another bat pollinated and bird pollinated flower.

1437
01:13:31,079 --> 01:13:32,840
You know, you could look at the flowers like that,

1438
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:36,000
You could look at the the corolla opening and see

1439
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:38,840
it obviously wasn't made for bees. That thing's fucking huge.

1440
01:13:39,399 --> 01:13:42,479
It fits the head of a bat or a bird perfectly.

1441
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:46,159
And then you know what I should have put in there?

1442
01:13:46,199 --> 01:13:50,840
I should have put what is that asparagaceous thing from

1443
01:13:51,039 --> 01:13:56,079
o al of Faarax Arethrina Crista gali and Ali faarax

1444
01:13:56,119 --> 01:14:00,600
to another bird pollinated caranthodendron pentedactylone. I wish we could

1445
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:04,319
grow that here. It's just horrible climate. That's a Wahacken

1446
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:09,239
cloud forest. Melvin malves far too hot for it down here, right,

1447
01:14:09,279 --> 01:14:14,239
That's definitely needs temperatures of like seventy degrees max and

1448
01:14:14,359 --> 01:14:17,359
lots of water vapor. But I should have put the

1449
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:20,720
what is that member of aspara gailees that grows in Australia.

1450
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:23,479
They got one of them. It looks like a formium

1451
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:25,600
or in a gave maybe, but they can get like

1452
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:28,880
eight feet wide eight feet tall and they get dori Anthes.

1453
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,399
That's it, dori anthesd r y a n t h

1454
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:38,119
ees fucking wild Australian bird pollinated Aspara gailees member. Yeah,

1455
01:14:38,119 --> 01:14:40,199
I got photos of at dori Anthes. I put it

1456
01:14:40,239 --> 01:14:43,000
on my I neet and my eye naturalists, even though

1457
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,680
it's cultivated, because I want, you know, I'll use the

1458
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,880
photos for presentations again or something. I want to be

1459
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:50,479
able to show people, forgot, what a dope plant that is.

1460
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:53,760
God I miss living near UC Berkeley because in that

1461
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:56,319
climate you could grow anything. That is such a great

1462
01:14:56,359 --> 01:15:00,199
fucking botanic garden. It's a living museum of plant from

1463
01:15:00,239 --> 01:15:03,640
all over the world. I'm so grateful that it is

1464
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,600
like that that it's basically like a science botanic garden

1465
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:11,560
and research botanic garden, and taxonomic botanic garden and ecology

1466
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:15,319
botanic garden. Like you go to the Eastern North America section,

1467
01:15:15,399 --> 01:15:16,760
you feel like you're in Eastern North America, you go

1468
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:18,520
to Mexico, you feel like you're in Mexico. You go

1469
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:21,279
to fucking the Australian New Zealand section, you feel like

1470
01:15:21,319 --> 01:15:24,680
you're in Australia, New Zealand. You know, it's fun. It

1471
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:26,880
gets so fucking cool. And yeah, they don't none of

1472
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:29,479
the stuff they plant. I think they don't plant something

1473
01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:31,600
if it's invasive because if it's invasive, there's no point

1474
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,600
in having in a botanic garden anyway because it would

1475
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:37,720
be probably out colonizing the fucking hills already, So they

1476
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,720
don't need to, you know, so they strictly use stuff

1477
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:44,399
that And I think especially it's safer in that climate too,

1478
01:15:44,399 --> 01:15:48,319
because the summers are dry. Sorry it was Benny Klemy,

1479
01:15:48,359 --> 01:15:51,319
but yeah, you know the the it's so dry in

1480
01:15:51,359 --> 01:15:53,439
a summer, stuff can't really get established, like shit that

1481
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:59,079
would be invasive. But yes, yes, it's just so nice

1482
01:15:59,079 --> 01:16:00,560
to be able to. I would go there three times

1483
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,680
a week seriously when I was when I was living there,

1484
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,399
when I wasn't working, because it's you learned something new

1485
01:16:05,439 --> 01:16:08,640
every It's like having a you know, ah past to

1486
01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:11,600
the museum, like if you lived close to the to

1487
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:14,279
a nice natural history museum. Wouldn't you go there a lot, right,

1488
01:16:15,039 --> 01:16:18,039
or like a nicer barium. Every every time I went,

1489
01:16:18,119 --> 01:16:20,079
I learned something new. And especially with you know, plants,

1490
01:16:20,119 --> 01:16:23,159
something might be flowering at a certain time of year,

1491
01:16:23,199 --> 01:16:25,479
and then it would be flowering the rest of the year.

1492
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:28,000
So then you know, you only see it. You know,

1493
01:16:28,039 --> 01:16:29,800
you half the time you go there, it won't be

1494
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:32,159
it won't be an action. And then you go there

1495
01:16:32,159 --> 01:16:35,000
one it's so you always see something new. I learned

1496
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,520
so much, and I would go to like, you know, Chile,

1497
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,760
and I know you know a few of the plants already,

1498
01:16:41,279 --> 01:16:43,760
or the lineages, the generic because I'd already seen them

1499
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,079
at UC Berkeley. That's what every botanic garden should be.

1500
01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:48,079
That's why it makes me so mad to see the

1501
01:16:48,119 --> 01:16:51,520
show garden shit, the show gardens, you know, just like

1502
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:55,359
fancy fancy show gardens for the rich. Got it, No

1503
01:16:55,399 --> 01:16:59,319
one wants to see that stuff, huh, some some rich

1504
01:16:59,359 --> 01:17:02,720
old lady or something, all right. The crime pace fans

1505
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:06,479
are the cool old ladies, not the fucking rich. Orthodonis's wife,

1506
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:13,920
who's you know? Anyway? Say? Why are these thingling out? Orthodonas?

1507
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,159
That's the pay that could be anything and you know

1508
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:20,359
just the show gardens. Oh look it's the Home and

1509
01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:24,640
Garden Show. But anyway, doriy Anthony's PALMERI that was it's

1510
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:28,119
a massive plant too. When is it flower? Bright red

1511
01:17:28,399 --> 01:17:31,479
large flowers on it? And this whole spike like an

1512
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:36,760
eight foot long spike of baseball sized red flowers flowers?

1513
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:41,199
Says it flowers mostly in September and October. And it's

1514
01:17:41,279 --> 01:17:43,600
it's Eastern Australia, so it's gonna be what is it

1515
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:49,319
like Sydney? Yeah, right on the border are Queensland, New

1516
01:17:49,359 --> 01:17:52,920
South Wales and it's probably in cultivation. I would assume

1517
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:57,760
it's in cultivation there. Anyway. God, there's some cool shit

1518
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:03,159
out there. But uh yeah, man, I forgot on that presentation.

1519
01:18:03,359 --> 01:18:07,000
I had a bit on fly pollination too, you know,

1520
01:18:07,039 --> 01:18:12,720
I got the stapeliads, I got Aristo Lochia erect the

1521
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:14,880
which was you know, all the all the pipe vines

1522
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,359
are fly pollinated. They keep the flies in the little

1523
01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:21,600
tube flower, the pipe vine, the pipe flower, Dutchman's pipe?

1524
01:18:22,279 --> 01:18:24,159
Why is this Dutchman? Why's it got to be Dutchmen?

1525
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,399
These common again, with these common names, could be anybody.

1526
01:18:27,399 --> 01:18:29,880
It's not just Dutch people. That smoke pipes. Why has

1527
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:34,079
it got to be a man anyway? So the hares

1528
01:18:34,279 --> 01:18:37,119
keep that fly in there, and then once the thing's pollinated,

1529
01:18:37,279 --> 01:18:40,239
the column is, you know, composed of all the stamens

1530
01:18:40,239 --> 01:18:43,199
and the stigma or aggregate together in a single column

1531
01:18:43,239 --> 01:18:46,159
at the base of that pipe flower. And if you

1532
01:18:46,199 --> 01:18:47,960
cut it open at the right time, I've got a

1533
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,399
massive patch of a rist Of loki erect in my backyard.

1534
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:52,800
I need to get more of them. They produce little tubers.

1535
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:55,680
They're self seating at this point, so I can probably

1536
01:18:55,680 --> 01:19:01,720
dig a few up. But but but yeah, so you know,

1537
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:03,520
cut the one of those flowers open. There's a bunch

1538
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:05,720
of flies in there. All. You know, what is it?

1539
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:09,720
Five hundred species of Aristolochia do that. Costa Rica's got

1540
01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:13,680
some incredible ones. We have Aristolochia ringins and I think

1541
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,560
Gigantia at limestone tortoise right now. A friend sent the

1542
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,720
seeds Costa Rica, and so we got a ship tone growing.

1543
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:23,119
You could hit up limestone, hit up our nursery. You know,

1544
01:19:23,199 --> 01:19:25,640
we got a nursery in Sagine. It's being James Peace.

1545
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,279
I collect the seeds, he grows the stuff and then

1546
01:19:28,359 --> 01:19:30,439
I just go in there, we check check on stuff,

1547
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:36,399
and it's you know, it's mostly him growing, but but yeah,

1548
01:19:36,479 --> 01:19:37,880
it's we got a lot of good stuff up there.

1549
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:41,239
We got a bunch of Vernonia larcini. We got we

1550
01:19:41,319 --> 01:19:44,720
got pal Maria ostro texana, that rare, say style pinioid

1551
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:48,359
legume that nobody fucking grows. Nobody else is growing. That.

1552
01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:52,359
The flowers look like orchid flowers. They're so cool. Oh,

1553
01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:54,880
I got nice photos of on a in ad of

1554
01:19:55,119 --> 01:20:01,039
Aristolochia corda flora from Costa Rica. A nice macro shot

1555
01:20:01,079 --> 01:20:03,600
of the gnostemium. That column that I was talking about.

1556
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,520
It's such a weird structure, man. You got the stigma

1557
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:11,800
up top all glistening, and then the the stamens down below,

1558
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:14,560
the anthers down below. But I don't think there's really

1559
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:16,600
any filament, not that you can see. It just looks

1560
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,479
like a weird crown shaped structure. And so the flies

1561
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,920
go in there, they're trapped. And I think Aristolochia are

1562
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:26,640
protogenists too, or proto ginus, so they're female first. They're

1563
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:30,920
facultatively female first, before the anthers mature and open and

1564
01:20:31,039 --> 01:20:34,359
you know, the hiss and release pollen and then after

1565
01:20:34,399 --> 01:20:38,960
the pollen gets deposited on the on the stigma up

1566
01:20:39,039 --> 01:20:42,359
top the top of the crown, then the anthers down

1567
01:20:42,399 --> 01:20:45,600
below release pollen and the flies get covered in pollen,

1568
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,720
and then that's when the hair is with her, and

1569
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:49,479
then the flies can escape and then they go get

1570
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:53,039
trapped by another flower. Also going back, I think it

1571
01:20:53,079 --> 01:20:56,239
was last episode, you know, the one before last episode

1572
01:20:56,279 --> 01:20:59,560
I had talked about, you know, the redneck rbid legend,

1573
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:02,319
that a redneck rural legend that the trees suck up

1574
01:21:02,319 --> 01:21:06,239
all the water, which it turns out some of them do,

1575
01:21:06,359 --> 01:21:08,760
the junipers do. I mean, they don't suck up water.

1576
01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:11,800
It's the cohesion tension theory. You know, as water evaporates

1577
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:16,560
out of the stomata, the cohesion and tension of water

1578
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:19,680
inside the xyleum vessels. Well, I guess in the case

1579
01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:22,399
of juniper it would be tracheads because remember jymno sperms

1580
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:26,000
have tracheods which look different. They taper at the ends,

1581
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,960
they come to a point and then you know, they're

1582
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,520
all just smushed into each other and then the pits

1583
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:33,720
at the end of the point on the lateral sides

1584
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:36,159
of the tube. Can imagine a tube like I don't

1585
01:21:36,159 --> 01:21:38,920
know how long tracheads are, how long are trachiads. It

1586
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:42,119
says the trachead length in juniper is between one hundred

1587
01:21:42,199 --> 01:21:45,720
and one thousand, five hundred micrometers, which is point one

1588
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,880
to one point five millimeters. That's kind of long one

1589
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,720
point five millimeters. Shit, So you should be able to

1590
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:54,880
see that under a dissecting scope. But the tracheads, you know,

1591
01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:57,239
so at the end of the at the the end

1592
01:21:57,279 --> 01:21:59,399
of the tracheads, it's where the pits are. Maybe they're

1593
01:21:59,399 --> 01:22:00,800
in the middle too, I don't know, I forget, I

1594
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:04,640
have to look this up again. But the pits so

1595
01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:07,119
like the point that end of a trachead will line

1596
01:22:07,199 --> 01:22:09,880
up with the point that end of a tracheod next

1597
01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:13,600
to it. These are a range longitudinally, and so that's

1598
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,600
how the water flows. And so that's really good, it

1599
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:20,319
turns out at preventing air bubbles from moving from trachia

1600
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:23,359
to trachiad, because that's how that's how you know, that's

1601
01:22:23,359 --> 01:22:25,720
how the plumbing gets all screwed up during times of drought.

1602
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,079
You get cavitation, you get an embolism, you get an

1603
01:22:28,119 --> 01:22:33,079
air bubble inside the plumbing. But regardless anyway, so it's

1604
01:22:33,159 --> 01:22:36,479
it's water evaporating out of the stomata in a leaf

1605
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:39,520
or in a juniper scale, and then as it evaporates,

1606
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:42,159
the cohesion intension of the water pulls up more water

1607
01:22:42,199 --> 01:22:44,800
from down below. And I guess junipers can get very

1608
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,439
deep tap roots, and so they actually do use a

1609
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:50,800
lot of water. They can access water from deep down,

1610
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:54,600
and that's different from something like mesquite, which can get

1611
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:58,199
really deep tap roots but will actually bring water up,

1612
01:22:59,039 --> 01:23:01,960
transport it via it's internal plumbing in the roots and

1613
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:06,640
then but then dissipate the water at the top part

1614
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:09,720
of the route into shallower soils. So it's kind of

1615
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:13,359
like which ends up benefiting grass around it and other

1616
01:23:13,399 --> 01:23:17,560
plant species around it. Miss So mesquites do that. Mesquites

1617
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:19,920
are what you want around They use hydraulic lyft. That's

1618
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:23,640
called hydraulic lyft. Right, it's like the deep tappert system.

1619
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:26,039
It's kind of like nature's well, you know, bringing water

1620
01:23:26,159 --> 01:23:29,399
from below, whereas junipers just access the water in and

1621
01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:31,760
piss away. But that's still not a good reason to

1622
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:34,319
wipe out all the junipers in an area, which is

1623
01:23:34,319 --> 01:23:36,119
and this is the thing you always hear, you know,

1624
01:23:36,199 --> 01:23:39,560
redneck land manner. There's no offense bliss their hearts talking

1625
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:41,600
about is that junipers suck up all the water. So

1626
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:43,600
we're going to save water by you know, clearing the

1627
01:23:44,399 --> 01:23:48,239
juniper pine woodland. Well, are you clearing it? Because what

1628
01:23:48,359 --> 01:23:50,880
the encroachment is the thing that's occurred over the last

1629
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,479
century due to fire suppression, and you're trying to, you know,

1630
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:56,800
bring back the grasslands. That's not so bad, it's kind

1631
01:23:56,800 --> 01:23:58,640
of good. I like that. Or are you just clearing

1632
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:01,720
it because you that's just what you're supposed to do,

1633
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:03,760
You just clear. And so you're clearing, you know, a

1634
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:06,800
juniper pine woodland that the area might have always been

1635
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:09,439
a juniper pine woodland. Maybe it's not. It doesn't just

1636
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:12,079
exist as a result of fire suppression. Are you sure

1637
01:24:12,119 --> 01:24:14,760
you want to do that? Does that make sense to

1638
01:24:15,159 --> 01:24:17,359
And then you're exposing all that land, the barren sun,

1639
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:21,680
you're moving all that habitat right. So, and that's of

1640
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:23,439
course the all that you always hear people saying that

1641
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:25,920
we're gonna get the trees suck up all the water. Well,

1642
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:30,119
first off, it's not active, it's passively they suck it.

1643
01:24:30,159 --> 01:24:33,239
And also they're very good at mitigating drought and controlling

1644
01:24:33,279 --> 01:24:38,720
how much they're relieving. Miscuit does that wonderfully, but uh,

1645
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:42,199
you know, but also woody encroachment is the thing. Woody

1646
01:24:42,319 --> 01:24:47,319
encroachment do the removal of herbivores or like Kyle Liibarger's

1647
01:24:47,319 --> 01:24:50,880
dealing with an Alabama fire suppression, you got, you know,

1648
01:24:51,079 --> 01:24:55,960
juniper woodlands encroaching what were formerly glades in grasslands and

1649
01:24:56,279 --> 01:24:58,600
leading to hugh, you know, just sucking up the ecology.

1650
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:03,079
It's a native species, but it's like deer. But overpopulation

1651
01:25:03,199 --> 01:25:05,800
of deer, overpopulation of juniper, they can both fuck up

1652
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:08,640
the ecosystem. They can both lead to reductions. You know,

1653
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:11,279
if you have just a monoculture of juniper woodland with

1654
01:25:11,319 --> 01:25:13,039
whatever else in it, you're not gonna have any of

1655
01:25:13,039 --> 01:25:17,720
the cool pedio mealums or oh punthia like the native

1656
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:21,560
prickly pair they have on glades and Alabama. Alabama's got

1657
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:25,880
some fantastic shit. Thank god for Kyle Liiberger. They're getting

1658
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:29,399
people to appreciate grasslands. Man. Some of the stuff he's

1659
01:25:29,399 --> 01:25:31,680
been posting lately has just been a bummer. Man. I

1660
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:33,920
don't know how he keeps his head up above it,

1661
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:37,000
because it's so aggravating the development that's going on up there,

1662
01:25:37,039 --> 01:25:40,159
Like in Huntsville. It's the same shit they do here.

1663
01:25:40,199 --> 01:25:45,640
It's just totally mindless, incongruent with ecological reality, incongruent with future,

1664
01:25:46,279 --> 01:25:49,920
with the sustainable future, and just highly ignorant. There's I mean,

1665
01:25:49,960 --> 01:25:52,039
the people doing this, the developers, they go in, they

1666
01:25:52,079 --> 01:25:54,119
clear everything, they don't leave any of the trees. Then

1667
01:25:54,119 --> 01:25:59,000
they bring in horticultural atrocities like crape myrtle and all

1668
01:25:59,039 --> 01:26:01,760
this other you know, garb, and then they're trying to

1669
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:04,119
do turf grass lawns. It's like, man, you've got all

1670
01:26:04,119 --> 01:26:07,359
these cool fucking natives, You've got the native prairies of

1671
01:26:07,399 --> 01:26:13,159
Alabama that are so underappreciated. It just drives me nuts.

1672
01:26:13,239 --> 01:26:16,439
Just got to be, you know, just the fucking development

1673
01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:19,520
that goes. And it's so sleazy too, like the people

1674
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:23,800
doing this no offense right, no offense, full offense, the

1675
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:28,479
ship bag developers and just all fucking you know, mar

1676
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:32,800
A Lago face and fucking suits and all phony. You know,

1677
01:26:33,039 --> 01:26:37,239
just intellect of a fart, right creativity of a fart.

1678
01:26:37,399 --> 01:26:40,880
Just people who you know, subordinate, followed the rules their

1679
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:45,199
whole life, never fucking you're just really good at following directions,

1680
01:26:45,279 --> 01:26:46,640
you know, so they can get their pat on their

1681
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:50,520
head and you know, get theirs. They can go get theirs,

1682
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:53,119
they can get like a like fucking fancy car to drive,

1683
01:26:53,319 --> 01:26:55,760
or go live in a mcmacha with a bunch of

1684
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:59,399
other boring knobs. I really got some contempt for this stuff, right,

1685
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,800
I just that's is that really the world you want

1686
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:05,239
to live in? It's so fucking whack, it's so dead

1687
01:27:05,279 --> 01:27:08,760
on the inside, it's so sterilized and just lifeless. God,

1688
01:27:10,079 --> 01:27:15,560
I mean the developer, city politician connection, local politicians, and

1689
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,880
developer like you never meet anyone cool who works for those.

1690
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:22,079
I'm sure there's exceptions, I'm sure they exist. Have you

1691
01:27:22,119 --> 01:27:24,119
ever met a developer that seems like they actually be

1692
01:27:24,159 --> 01:27:26,439
fun to hang out with and doesn't just have like

1693
01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:30,479
this plastic shit eating grin and just just full of shit?

1694
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:32,560
You meet these meet these people are just full of shit.

1695
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:35,680
They're just good, it's smiling. They're full of shit, right,

1696
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:40,359
full of shit. God of it reminds me that George

1697
01:27:40,399 --> 01:27:42,119
Carlin bit. You know, I'm just gonna go ahead and

1698
01:27:42,119 --> 01:27:47,640
play it full of shit, stupid or fucking nuts. You'll

1699
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:58,800
be listening to some guy. This guy is fucking stupid.

1700
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:03,960
Then there are some people they're not stupid, they're full

1701
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:10,840
of shit. That doesn't take very long. This body that

1702
01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:14,119
doesn't take you about the same amount of time. You'll

1703
01:28:14,159 --> 01:28:18,079
be listening to some guy and saying, well, he's fairly intelligent.

1704
01:28:20,119 --> 01:28:27,880
He's full of shit anyway. And more depressing news, another

1705
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:33,000
Mexican environmentalist was attacked, probably by cartel people or government there.

1706
01:28:33,079 --> 01:28:36,479
They're kind of the same in Mexico. There's a heavy corruption.

1707
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:41,720
This dude in Niareate, this activist, land defender, environmentalist, Eric

1708
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:44,520
Saracho s A R A c Cho. If you want

1709
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:48,960
to look it up, Eric Saracho, Agui laru. They try

1710
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:50,800
I guess they tried to kill him. He survived. I

1711
01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:56,760
guess he's in the hospital. This happened March eleventh. Yeah,

1712
01:28:56,760 --> 01:29:00,560
and Nioret Jesus Christ, this happened so much. Man, it's

1713
01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:04,920
so because they don't know. Mexico is so corrupt. Mexico

1714
01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:07,880
is so corrupt. And the cartels, I mean they run everything,

1715
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,640
not just drugs. Like they they're demolishing a lot of

1716
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:15,920
the butterfly the monarch Preserve in mitchell Acan, the Aby's

1717
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:21,199
religiosa forces religious fur forests. Those forests are incredible. To them. Man,

1718
01:29:21,199 --> 01:29:24,000
it's like nine foot tall loopins and the understory with

1719
01:29:24,039 --> 01:29:27,560
all these mushrooms the other during mushroom season, it's incredible.

1720
01:29:28,119 --> 01:29:31,000
Now these Aby's religiosa force like nine thousand feet and

1721
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:33,159
I guess cartels are cutting. They're log doing a bunch

1722
01:29:33,199 --> 01:29:36,439
of logging to put up fucking avocado fields. They have

1723
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:38,640
their hands in everything. Drugs are like so little of

1724
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:42,640
what the cartels do now it's literally it's like the

1725
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:48,039
Italian mafia. They've got hands and everything. So I don't

1726
01:29:48,079 --> 01:29:51,199
know what he was, what was he working with? H

1727
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:55,119
what was his main? What was this guy Eric Saracho's

1728
01:29:55,199 --> 01:30:00,640
main What was his jam? Uh? Yeah, he was just

1729
01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:04,960
raising awareness of socio environmental risks related to development projects

1730
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:09,359
and the overall expansion of real estate and tourism so

1731
01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:15,279
phrases that threatens the ecosystems of the Mexican Pacific and

1732
01:30:15,359 --> 01:30:18,000
light of the tourism infrastructure boom in different parts of

1733
01:30:18,039 --> 01:30:23,800
the state, including Sayulita, Nuevo Varta, Plaia Lore Marcos and

1734
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:26,880
the project for real estate development the construction of a

1735
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:30,840
marina at Plia el monteon residents and Collectives of San

1736
01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:33,680
Panco of organized themselves demanding full access to information and

1737
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:39,039
transparency from municipal, state, and federal authorities regarding pertinent environmental

1738
01:30:39,079 --> 01:30:42,720
impact statements and the granting of land use licenses that

1739
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:46,199
can provide legal certainty of the populations to the populations

1740
01:30:46,239 --> 01:30:49,079
directly affected. Yeah, so developers are just coming. I mean

1741
01:30:49,079 --> 01:30:53,880
the whole economic model is of this economic model of

1742
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:56,960
just development and tourism. Well the phrase of bullshit. You know,

1743
01:30:57,279 --> 01:30:59,560
you see a billboard with the glistening signs and the

1744
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:03,079
fucking plastic face, you know, wearing too much makeup, with

1745
01:31:03,119 --> 01:31:05,880
the perfect teeth. It's like that's it's all part of

1746
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:08,479
the same fucking poison. It's all part of the same

1747
01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:12,199
shit cookie this whole like culture that worships money and

1748
01:31:12,239 --> 01:31:15,239
want and it's all over the world, worships money and

1749
01:31:15,319 --> 01:31:18,439
wants the finer things in life. And it's just remember

1750
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:20,520
when like growing up, there were cartoons. They were really

1751
01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:23,960
cartoons that made it like, you know, there was like

1752
01:31:24,119 --> 01:31:28,479
environmental awareness was just seemed more of a common thing

1753
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:31,279
that everybody agreed on was good. You don't want to

1754
01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:32,800
ship where you eat, you don't want to fuck up

1755
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:37,199
the planet, and here, it's been politicized, and you know,

1756
01:31:37,359 --> 01:31:40,119
business interests have done a really great job of marking

1757
01:31:40,199 --> 01:31:44,720
it as just the you know, anti growth, anti business,

1758
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:47,760
just wacko environmentalists. And then but I mean it's everywhere,

1759
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:51,359
it's it's it's a now that's all gone, there's no

1760
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:55,760
like who cares, fuck earth and just loot what you can.

1761
01:31:56,479 --> 01:31:58,640
But for what that's not just what? I don't understand.

1762
01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:00,720
What do you do? You have all this, you have

1763
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:04,159
all this money. You could drive fancy cars and have

1764
01:32:04,239 --> 01:32:06,359
like a turf grass lawn and a swimming pool and

1765
01:32:06,399 --> 01:32:10,279
a McMansion with you know, all glass windows. And then

1766
01:32:10,359 --> 01:32:12,880
what you like, what do you do with that? Like

1767
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:15,119
that's not gonna make your life happy. You haven't had

1768
01:32:15,159 --> 01:32:19,199
a cool life full of experiences, and you haven't created things,

1769
01:32:19,239 --> 01:32:22,560
you haven't taught yourself a skill. You're just the fucking vacuole.

1770
01:32:23,279 --> 01:32:26,079
You're just the fucking you know, what do you do

1771
01:32:26,199 --> 01:32:29,079
with that? It seems so boring to me. It's it

1772
01:32:29,159 --> 01:32:32,079
always has even when I was a kid. And it's

1773
01:32:32,119 --> 01:32:34,399
so obvious too, like you just want this a lot

1774
01:32:34,399 --> 01:32:36,119
of this ship. You just want so you can impress

1775
01:32:36,159 --> 01:32:39,760
some fucking dummy that you know, you don't really know

1776
01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:42,560
or respect in the first place. It's all just primate

1777
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:46,479
social signaling and social stratification. You know, at the end

1778
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:48,520
of the day, we're just monkeys that want to be

1779
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:53,399
noticed by our monkey peers. And once you realize that

1780
01:32:54,079 --> 01:32:56,760
you don't, you stop wanting this shit. Doesn't it seem

1781
01:32:56,800 --> 01:32:59,199
more ridiculous to you? I don't caire it like I

1782
01:32:59,199 --> 01:33:00,680
want to. I want to learn how to do things.

1783
01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:03,920
I want to travel, I want to, you know, I

1784
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:07,479
want to have good experiences, whether I'm like laughing my

1785
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:10,399
ass off, lighting my farts on fire around a bonfire

1786
01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:13,880
at you know, at a campfire at night, or whether

1787
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:17,399
I'm having like a you know, a large dinner with

1788
01:33:17,439 --> 01:33:20,159
a bunch of friends and we're all having a great time.

1789
01:33:20,199 --> 01:33:21,760
Doesn't that seem more for I mean, that's the ship

1790
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:23,680
that those are the moments that make life worth it,

1791
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:28,800
not whether you have a fucking Jaguar, the automobile or

1792
01:33:29,399 --> 01:33:31,960
you know, or fancy stuff. I mean, you want to

1793
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,520
be comfortable up up to a point, but beyond that,

1794
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:36,960
doesn't it just get fucking boring? Like the wealthy always

1795
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:40,800
seems so fucking boring to me, Just so boring. And vapid.

1796
01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:45,399
They're just holes. You know. The wealthy never create cool culture,

1797
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:48,039
they never create art, they never make good music. They

1798
01:33:48,119 --> 01:33:51,399
just they're all just sniffing each other's farts. The reason

1799
01:33:51,399 --> 01:33:54,079
they the only reason the wealthy are ever into culture,

1800
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,199
most of them, is so that they can you know,

1801
01:33:57,279 --> 01:33:59,439
it's it's social points. They have something to talk about

1802
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:03,000
at their party or to or this. Knowing about this

1803
01:34:03,159 --> 01:34:06,399
gives you status. It's so fucking you know, do some

1804
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:09,520
all That's what I say, Do some all, right, force

1805
01:34:09,560 --> 01:34:11,800
them to have a really bad trip and take away

1806
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:14,319
their toys. But it Shit's part of the same culture

1807
01:34:14,319 --> 01:34:17,920
that's killed in the world. It's disgusting. They're fucking boring people, boring,

1808
01:34:18,279 --> 01:34:23,039
shitty people, plastic people, you know, not every which person.

1809
01:34:23,199 --> 01:34:26,880
Just you know, this type of value system when you

1810
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:30,119
see it, you really do. Dumb is a brick. Not

1811
01:34:30,199 --> 01:34:32,399
a lot of content there, not a lot of substance,

1812
01:34:33,079 --> 01:34:37,079
relatively empty, and they have all the shiny shit, stupid

1813
01:34:37,119 --> 01:34:41,680
shiny shit. Really concerned what others think of them, Really concerned,

1814
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:44,720
don't want to be embarrassed, don't want to be embarrassed

1815
01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:49,239
by anything, Really concerned about not looking weak or stupid,

1816
01:34:49,359 --> 01:34:53,640
or whatever, and all their energies put on how you know,

1817
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:57,800
attractive they are or how tough they are they appear,

1818
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:01,760
and then the shiny shit that they have it's got.

1819
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:04,960
It's so fucking lame. It's like it's it's literally it's

1820
01:35:04,960 --> 01:35:08,800
like lowest common denominator chimp shit, that's like chimp behavior.

1821
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:12,600
Chimps probably are smarter than that. It's just it's the dumbest.

1822
01:35:12,640 --> 01:35:15,359
It's bottom of the brainstem stuff, Like there's aim higher, man,

1823
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:19,199
that's the most you want for your life really anyway, Uh,

1824
01:35:19,399 --> 01:35:22,159
this guy is still alive. Thank god they didn't kill him,

1825
01:35:22,159 --> 01:35:25,399
but they'll probably try again. It just sucks. This is

1826
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:28,479
such This happens so much in Mexico and Central America.

1827
01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:36,800
I'm sure it happens in Old World tropics as well. Yeah, man,

1828
01:35:36,880 --> 01:35:39,159
I can't imagine what it's got to feel like, you know,

1829
01:35:39,279 --> 01:35:43,760
trying to protect the the insane and stupid members of

1830
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:48,039
your species from decimating things that that you know are

1831
01:35:48,079 --> 01:35:50,920
the lifeblood of the entire world around you, you know,

1832
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:54,479
and then getting getting attacked for it. You have to

1833
01:35:54,640 --> 01:35:57,960
risk your life to do it. God, it's it's especially

1834
01:35:58,159 --> 01:36:02,279
nauseating hearing about like the two real estate development and tourism.

1835
01:36:02,319 --> 01:36:04,840
Like wait, they want to build like hotels, so some

1836
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:07,760
Fraser can go sit on the beach and it fuck

1837
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:09,000
wants to go to the Who wants to go to

1838
01:36:09,079 --> 01:36:10,760
the beach? I got a beef with the beach. I

1839
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:13,359
got a problem with the beach. It gets it's so

1840
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:17,600
boring to me, But that's what I get. That's because

1841
01:36:17,600 --> 01:36:19,479
it's what the phrases love doing. It like sitting on

1842
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:21,199
a beach. You go sit on the beach, You take

1843
01:36:21,279 --> 01:36:24,840
some selfies, We through sunglasses, check your phone, check your

1844
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:27,199
social media every half hour. Sit on a beach and

1845
01:36:27,359 --> 01:36:29,399
just get his get his sun, tap, work on your tan.

1846
01:36:30,119 --> 01:36:32,199
Sit on the beach, check each other out, sniff each

1847
01:36:32,239 --> 01:36:36,000
other's farts, sniff sniff on each other like dogs. Go

1848
01:36:36,279 --> 01:36:38,039
go sit on the beach. I have no interest in

1849
01:36:38,079 --> 01:36:39,960
being on the beach because there's no plants there. I

1850
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:41,359
don't what am I going to do on the beach.

1851
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:44,199
I don't want to go swimming. You go swimming out

1852
01:36:44,239 --> 01:36:47,119
in South Padre down here, you're gonna get attacked by

1853
01:36:47,119 --> 01:36:50,520
a bull shark or something. Sorry about that went off on.

1854
01:36:50,680 --> 01:36:52,840
I got a little rantied, Eric, I got a little

1855
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:55,159
hot but uh, I forgot to mention one thing I saw,

1856
01:36:55,199 --> 01:36:57,680
I say, when I was at uh at thorn scrub

1857
01:36:58,359 --> 01:37:00,359
and again it looks like shit, it's such a bad route.

1858
01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:03,920
Was a Verdin nest v r d I N. This

1859
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:05,520
is a cool little bird. You should look it up.

1860
01:37:05,640 --> 01:37:10,039
V e r d I N Verdeen and it built.

1861
01:37:10,119 --> 01:37:12,479
We saw we found this nest that it but it

1862
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:14,760
didn't have it wasn't just like an open top nest.

1863
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:18,119
That wouldn't make much sense in a hot desert like

1864
01:37:18,239 --> 01:37:20,960
environment where you need to shield yourself from the sun.

1865
01:37:21,319 --> 01:37:23,159
So it was a nest with like a side door

1866
01:37:23,319 --> 01:37:25,239
came out the bottom. It was really cool. I had

1867
01:37:25,239 --> 01:37:28,359
no idea what it was, but it's obviously an adaptation

1868
01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:32,039
to hot and dry regions. You build a nest on

1869
01:37:32,119 --> 01:37:35,199
the side. And I sent it to a friend who's

1870
01:37:35,199 --> 01:37:37,520
a burder and then they told me, yeah, it's it

1871
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:41,680
looks like a Verdin nest. Really fucking cool. How about that? Huh.

1872
01:37:41,800 --> 01:37:45,039
You know the effects of adapting to your region are

1873
01:37:45,079 --> 01:37:48,640
all around, except within human society. Not a lot of

1874
01:37:48,680 --> 01:37:51,079
whole not a lot, a whole lot of uh, not

1875
01:37:51,079 --> 01:37:54,399
a whole lot of adaptation here night, we're still trying

1876
01:37:54,399 --> 01:37:57,920
to grow turf, grass, lawns, just having open exposed parking lots.

1877
01:37:57,920 --> 01:38:01,560
And you know, we hate, at least in South Texas,

1878
01:38:01,640 --> 01:38:03,880
we hate trees because they're messy. We got it. It's

1879
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:06,159
much better to just have all that land just open

1880
01:38:06,199 --> 01:38:08,920
and exposed to the hot sun because at least you

1881
01:38:08,920 --> 01:38:11,479
don't have a mess to clean up, the mess being

1882
01:38:11,640 --> 01:38:16,680
leaves and whatever detritus the tree might drop. Fucking fucking madness.

1883
01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:19,800
See that's what I say. It's incongruent. The little birdies

1884
01:38:20,439 --> 01:38:25,079
can can learn to survive in their climate, why can't we?

1885
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:28,520
What is it like in Florida too? It's the same

1886
01:38:28,600 --> 01:38:32,680
kind of derange ship. People are just totally the culture.

1887
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:36,760
People are just human. Culture is just totally out to

1888
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:42,119
lunch with learning to you know, live where you learning

1889
01:38:42,159 --> 01:38:44,920
to appreciate where you live and figure out how to

1890
01:38:45,199 --> 01:38:47,479
how to you know, it's you can't. You can't do

1891
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:50,399
the same shit you do in New England in Florida

1892
01:38:50,520 --> 01:38:56,439
or South Texas, you have to adjust much different climate. Anyway.

1893
01:38:56,920 --> 01:38:59,560
A couple of days ago, I stopped by ut RGV,

1894
01:39:00,079 --> 01:39:06,239
A excuse me, ut RGV. The community counts down here

1895
01:39:06,279 --> 01:39:09,319
and they're doing some really interesting work. I think there's

1896
01:39:09,359 --> 01:39:11,560
a guy I forget his name, but he leads one

1897
01:39:11,560 --> 01:39:13,520
of the bodany departments there and they're doing some really

1898
01:39:13,520 --> 01:39:15,960
interesting work with the thorn scrub species and they're growing

1899
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:20,399
all these mesquites and a few texas ebonies, both mimosoid

1900
01:39:20,479 --> 01:39:26,640
legumes in PVC tubes, experimenting with three different diameters of

1901
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:30,359
pc PVC tube. They literally just got four foot sections

1902
01:39:30,359 --> 01:39:34,039
of PVC tube filled with soil. And because these get

1903
01:39:34,119 --> 01:39:37,199
really deep tap roots, all the mimozoid legume trees that

1904
01:39:37,239 --> 01:39:39,119
do so well in the deserts get really deep tap

1905
01:39:39,159 --> 01:39:42,279
roots and uh, you know, stash everything in the ground,

1906
01:39:42,359 --> 01:39:44,720
try to reach some water. If you can build an

1907
01:39:44,760 --> 01:39:49,359
extensive roots system that goes very deep, and that makes

1908
01:39:49,399 --> 01:39:52,880
them great for you know, the hell strip two for planting,

1909
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:55,760
because they don't go they don't go out laterally like

1910
01:39:55,880 --> 01:40:00,760
oak trees or sycamore roots do. They go down, so

1911
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:03,439
they're not gonna fuck up the sidewalk. But anyway, and

1912
01:40:03,520 --> 01:40:06,000
so they've got three different diameters, ones like two and

1913
01:40:06,039 --> 01:40:11,039
a half inch ones diameter four foot two and a

1914
01:40:11,039 --> 01:40:15,159
half inch diameter four foot deep, the others like three, three,

1915
01:40:15,279 --> 01:40:18,640
maybe four inch diameter four foot deep, and then they

1916
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:22,119
got like a six inch diameter, four foot deep tube

1917
01:40:22,159 --> 01:40:26,199
and all three they've got probably twenty of each, maybe

1918
01:40:26,239 --> 01:40:29,279
thirty of each, and each one is a ceiling in it,

1919
01:40:29,359 --> 01:40:32,520
and they were all sewn at the same time. They

1920
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:35,800
all look great. None of them have chlorotic leaves, yellow leaves,

1921
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:38,800
or dieback or anything. But the ones in the larger

1922
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:42,760
diameter tube, not surprisingly, are maybe twice as tall as

1923
01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:48,119
the ones in the two and a half inch diameter tube.

1924
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:52,159
And so and then that, you know, the more root

1925
01:40:52,239 --> 01:40:54,560
space you give it laterally, the bigger it's going to get.

1926
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:56,680
There's also a larger volume of soil, so there's more

1927
01:40:56,720 --> 01:41:00,000
nutrients to pull from, and they don't dry out that volume.

1928
01:41:00,159 --> 01:41:02,479
Soil doesn't dry out as quickly. The larger the volume

1929
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:05,039
of soil, the less time, the more time it takes

1930
01:41:05,079 --> 01:41:08,319
for it to dry out in between waterings, you know.

1931
01:41:08,399 --> 01:41:11,119
And so they've just got these things outside cooking in

1932
01:41:11,159 --> 01:41:14,319
the sun. They they're held in like a you know,

1933
01:41:14,359 --> 01:41:16,880
a four and a half foot tall wooden crate, and

1934
01:41:16,960 --> 01:41:19,199
they've got on the sunward side. On the south side,

1935
01:41:19,239 --> 01:41:21,920
they've got a board blocking it so the PVC doesn't

1936
01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:24,640
get hot. But it's really cool because I saw a

1937
01:41:24,680 --> 01:41:29,800
photo of that, photos about where one had been unearthed.

1938
01:41:30,279 --> 01:41:31,640
It would be cool if they could grow them in

1939
01:41:31,640 --> 01:41:34,000
clear tubes because then you could actually see it without

1940
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:37,119
having to destroy the tree. But you could see the

1941
01:41:37,159 --> 01:41:42,199
tap root. But either way. I mean, you know, for

1942
01:41:42,279 --> 01:41:45,039
a six inch tall mesquite ceiling will have like a

1943
01:41:45,079 --> 01:41:49,399
thirty six inch deep tap root maybe four maybe four

1944
01:41:49,439 --> 01:41:51,960
feet deep, so what is it forty eight inch? So

1945
01:41:52,079 --> 01:41:54,479
I mean it really you could visualize it. You know,

1946
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,319
the root is four to five times the length of

1947
01:41:57,359 --> 01:41:59,760
the shoot up top. And that's what makes them so

1948
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:05,039
good at growing. And you know these silty clay soils

1949
01:42:05,079 --> 01:42:09,119
that bake in the in the sun and get extremely

1950
01:42:09,239 --> 01:42:12,439
dry and also to be able to deal with the

1951
01:42:12,560 --> 01:42:14,479
drying winds, et cetera. And you know I was at

1952
01:42:14,520 --> 01:42:18,800
a oh that and the rhizobial bacteria of course, that's

1953
01:42:18,840 --> 01:42:22,720
fixing atmospheric nitrogen, turning it into a usable form for

1954
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:28,239
the plants, you know, using that nitrogenase producing root bacteria,

1955
01:42:28,279 --> 01:42:33,600
the Rhizobium bacteria. So anyway, and I was at a

1956
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:35,960
spot today, you know, some bleak fucking development. It was

1957
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:39,239
in far Edinburgh, one of these like major these big

1958
01:42:39,279 --> 01:42:42,960
South Texas cities where it was agfields and then they

1959
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:44,920
cleared it, and then the mesquite and some of the

1960
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:49,359
prickly pair took back over pioneer species once the agriculture

1961
01:42:49,399 --> 01:42:51,840
died out and it was abandoned, and then now they're

1962
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:56,600
clearing it again to put up the most depressing, soulless

1963
01:42:57,079 --> 01:43:00,880
shit for brain, just completely shipped for brained buildings. Like

1964
01:43:01,319 --> 01:43:05,000
you know, if look at the climate here, these are

1965
01:43:05,039 --> 01:43:07,479
not the buildings you would think you'd be building in

1966
01:43:07,560 --> 01:43:11,079
the hottest climate in the United States. Right, Phoenix gets

1967
01:43:11,119 --> 01:43:13,840
individually hotter days, but Phoenix actually has cold winters. I

1968
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:15,920
say this all the time. We don't have Death Valley

1969
01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:18,680
has cold winters. It gets cold. That's something in the

1970
01:43:18,680 --> 01:43:22,239
back of a truck in Death Valley. It's fucking cold,

1971
01:43:22,640 --> 01:43:24,359
and then it'll get really hot during today. So we

1972
01:43:24,399 --> 01:43:26,800
have but we've got stable and consistent heat throughout the

1973
01:43:26,840 --> 01:43:29,600
year except for like February. And so this kind of

1974
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:33,399
shit with the large expanse of parking lot, no tree

1975
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:37,840
cover whatsoever, Saint Augustine grass that you're watering, you're draining

1976
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:40,520
the aqua for the water. That's fucking Saint augustine grass

1977
01:43:41,119 --> 01:43:43,560
you know that no one's gonna use. You're watering a

1978
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:46,159
useless crop that no one uses. It just gets mode

1979
01:43:46,199 --> 01:43:49,680
and then mulched. It looks horrible, I mean. And then

1980
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:54,720
just the most basic, bitch, lowest common denominator you know, landscaping,

1981
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:57,439
none of it native, that they use, like these shrubs

1982
01:43:57,479 --> 01:43:59,680
to line these buildings. It just looks fucking bleak. And

1983
01:43:59,720 --> 01:44:02,960
then the massive strips of black asphalt that just turn

1984
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:06,439
into heat mats in the sun. It's fucking miserable. And

1985
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:08,439
then of course you have that around and no one

1986
01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:11,760
wants to go outside when everything looks like that, you know,

1987
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:14,880
and no one knows what's being taken from them to

1988
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:17,399
begin with, because the habitat's all been destroyed, and very

1989
01:44:17,399 --> 01:44:20,960
few people you know, in these places are into nature

1990
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:24,279
to begin with, or hiking. It's just fast food, video games,

1991
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:28,119
staying in your car, working your job, being good, taking

1992
01:44:28,119 --> 01:44:30,119
the little pat on the head, following the rules, and

1993
01:44:30,159 --> 01:44:33,640
that's it. That's life. And so but one of these lots,

1994
01:44:34,319 --> 01:44:37,119
you know, So do I figure what these buildings even house? Like?

1995
01:44:37,119 --> 01:44:39,439
When was a medical building? One was like some sort

1996
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:41,960
of I don't know, they're like medical the medical industry

1997
01:44:42,079 --> 01:44:44,640
is huge down here, the health industry because there's so

1998
01:44:44,720 --> 01:44:47,399
many people that get metabolic diseases that it can be

1999
01:44:47,479 --> 01:44:51,359
so sick. Huge industry down here. That and border patrol,

2000
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:57,039
very little manufacturing, oh in retail too, and so but

2001
01:44:57,159 --> 01:44:59,079
one of these lots hadn't been cleared and so there

2002
01:44:59,119 --> 01:45:02,239
were little patches of green around that. It was mostly

2003
01:45:02,319 --> 01:45:07,640
kr bluestem invading these recently graded, mostly barren clay lots

2004
01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:13,079
that are awaiting development. And there was Solanum eliagnefolium, which

2005
01:45:13,079 --> 01:45:15,199
is a relative of potatoes and tomatoes that forms a

2006
01:45:15,199 --> 01:45:19,279
tuber like root, has really cool radar disc purple flowers

2007
01:45:19,279 --> 01:45:21,520
with big yellow anthers. The bubble bees love it. It's

2008
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:25,000
a great pioneer species. Weedy as hell, hard to get

2009
01:45:25,079 --> 01:45:29,760
rid of, but it's a native. There was Convolvulus equitans,

2010
01:45:30,399 --> 01:45:33,840
you know, which, like Solanum eliagnifolium, has this minty green

2011
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:36,800
look to the leaves due to the presence of tiny

2012
01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:39,760
white pubescent hairs on it. That's an adaptation to drought

2013
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:43,479
and wind and heat high heat. But then there were

2014
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:45,600
these patches where the you know, you could tell there

2015
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:49,079
was a mesquite there, but they were just getting mode. Right,

2016
01:45:49,119 --> 01:45:51,479
So it had this extensive roots system underground. If you

2017
01:45:51,479 --> 01:45:53,359
could look at it with like an X ray vision,

2018
01:45:53,359 --> 01:45:55,520
there was an extensive root system underground. But you know,

2019
01:45:55,520 --> 01:45:58,399
you get some guy in a riding mower going past

2020
01:45:58,399 --> 01:46:00,800
it every week or two in it back, and so

2021
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:03,159
it's got multiple stems. But if you were to let

2022
01:46:03,199 --> 01:46:07,119
that thing just grow, you would, you know, and just

2023
01:46:07,399 --> 01:46:10,359
train one leader, like cut every every all the branches

2024
01:46:10,399 --> 01:46:13,399
except for one. Let it get kind of bushy. I

2025
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,640
keep the solar panels out and I get like two

2026
01:46:15,760 --> 01:46:18,560
or three feet tall, and then trim all the sides.

2027
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:21,920
But one develop a single leader. It might even be

2028
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:23,560
good to just leave the shoot set so it can

2029
01:46:23,720 --> 01:46:25,560
build up that root system. It's going to make a

2030
01:46:25,600 --> 01:46:28,039
stronger plant and then well, you know, wait to prune it.

2031
01:46:28,439 --> 01:46:30,880
Prune it. For a single leader, you'd have a tree

2032
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:33,600
that's built for this landscape, for this environment. You'd have

2033
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:36,039
a mesquite that you know. Then they get big done here,

2034
01:46:36,079 --> 01:46:38,720
they get like, you know, thirty foot tall trees. There

2035
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:42,640
was a gorgeous one on this lot that hadn't been

2036
01:46:42,680 --> 01:46:46,960
cleared yet. There was like a you know, a dead end,

2037
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:50,359
one of those dead end signs like the railroad crossing

2038
01:46:50,399 --> 01:46:53,920
red and white color, and it looked like someone that,

2039
01:46:54,079 --> 01:46:56,520
you know, probably a drunk driver something had driven by it,

2040
01:46:56,920 --> 01:46:59,039
almost probably doing donuts there on the weekend at like

2041
01:46:59,079 --> 01:47:02,800
two am, you know, because just people drive drunk here

2042
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:05,800
and everyone's getting hammered. There's not nothing else to really

2043
01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:09,640
do on the weekends. And but this misquite looks beautiful,

2044
01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:11,399
and it was in full flower and it was fucking

2045
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:15,039
vivid green. And meanwhile, all the landscaping in these lots,

2046
01:47:15,119 --> 01:47:19,279
these commercial properties was just fucking dead. And it was

2047
01:47:19,399 --> 01:47:22,600
being watered too. They were spending tons of money to

2048
01:47:22,640 --> 01:47:26,760
irrigate this stuff, and the landscaping, the trees were all dead.

2049
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:29,119
It was like non native oaks, like oaks you know

2050
01:47:29,159 --> 01:47:31,439
that grow on like the East Coast and like Maryland.

2051
01:47:31,680 --> 01:47:34,079
You're trying to get him to grow, you know, in

2052
01:47:34,119 --> 01:47:36,920
a in a fucking landscape where peote grows. He had

2053
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:40,840
good luck. It's like, remind me that the dude in

2054
01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:43,840
West Texas who this this house got sold I think

2055
01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:46,000
the owner died. It was They had an amazing native

2056
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:47,640
plant garden there. I don't know if someone taught at

2057
01:47:47,680 --> 01:47:50,720
the university there. What this is an Alpine Texas there

2058
01:47:50,720 --> 01:47:52,680
were gray foxes living in the yard. It was a

2059
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:57,800
beautiful yard. A gave have Alaradiana, Lucophylum agarita growing there, everything,

2060
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:00,279
all these wonderful native plants. They demolished it. This guy

2061
01:48:00,319 --> 01:48:02,880
moved there, didn't know anything about it, had some money,

2062
01:48:03,239 --> 01:48:07,479
demolished all of it, and then hired a landscaper to

2063
01:48:07,479 --> 01:48:11,600
come in. The landscaper did the weed fabric and cobbles thing,

2064
01:48:11,720 --> 01:48:16,199
and the dimulch looked fucking landscape of death, just so bleak,

2065
01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:20,720
and then planted an evergreen magnolia. You're planting an evergreen

2066
01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:24,920
magnolia from a you know, which is native to where?

2067
01:48:25,199 --> 01:48:29,640
Where are they native? Like Florida, Georgia, Mississippi. You know

2068
01:48:29,720 --> 01:48:31,880
climates that get like sixty inches of rainy year. You're

2069
01:48:31,920 --> 01:48:34,319
planting that in West Texas, which gets like eleven inches

2070
01:48:34,359 --> 01:48:38,600
of rainy year. Good luck, Holy shit. Anyway, I'll wrap

2071
01:48:38,640 --> 01:48:40,640
it up there, and it's an hour and forty five minutes.

2072
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:44,359
For Christ's sakes, you're still listening, Jesus. Anyway, So I

2073
01:48:44,399 --> 01:48:48,239
got a couple things. I got a presentation on Wednesday,

2074
01:48:48,479 --> 01:48:52,479
March eighteenth at Wildwes dot Org. It's at six pm.

2075
01:48:52,520 --> 01:48:54,159
It's the lives. Well, it's supposed to be. It's a

2076
01:48:54,199 --> 01:48:56,319
live stream of a pre recorded so it's not really

2077
01:48:56,399 --> 01:48:59,520
a live stream, but you know, and that's nice. That

2078
01:48:59,560 --> 01:49:03,079
should be the attacks and the kind of horticultural atrocities

2079
01:49:03,119 --> 01:49:06,079
I talked a bit about in this podcast. It's about

2080
01:49:06,119 --> 01:49:10,399
an hour and a half long. And then what else?

2081
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:13,039
I'm going to the Philippines in April. I got invited

2082
01:49:13,079 --> 01:49:16,079
to go with a couple botanists out of Manila doing

2083
01:49:16,159 --> 01:49:22,359
surveys in the cloud forests in the Central Philippines. And

2084
01:49:22,399 --> 01:49:25,119
then I got a book release thing April twenty third

2085
01:49:25,119 --> 01:49:29,680
at Quinta Mazatlan. And then what else the fuck do? I? Oh, yeah,

2086
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:35,079
I'll beat the Carnivorous Plant Symposium in mid May. That's

2087
01:49:35,399 --> 01:49:40,680
May sixteenth, I believe, presenting plants, presenting on carnivorous plants

2088
01:49:40,680 --> 01:49:45,760
from both the Eastern and Western hemisphere, but everything in

2089
01:49:45,760 --> 01:49:48,239
the southern hemisphere. Well, no, there's a couple of Mexicans.

2090
01:49:48,920 --> 01:49:53,920
Got a couple of Mexican pings, including Pinguicula gypsicola. That's

2091
01:49:53,960 --> 01:49:57,520
May sixteenth. Where's where are carnivorous plant people have their

2092
01:49:57,520 --> 01:49:59,720
thing at it? It's in North Carolina. And then I'll

2093
01:49:59,760 --> 01:50:02,399
be I'll be sticking around North Carolina until May twenty second,

2094
01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:09,800
and then May twenty seventh through June roughly eighth or ninth.

2095
01:50:10,279 --> 01:50:12,079
I'll be on me and Al will be on tour

2096
01:50:12,399 --> 01:50:15,439
doing for the book release, and I'll be a Chloween

2097
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:19,159
Native Plant Society thing. Well, what is it Kloween Native

2098
01:50:19,199 --> 01:50:21,479
I don't know it. It's something in Klowe, North Carolina. They're

2099
01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:25,279
doing a they're doing. Ah, I should find the name

2100
01:50:25,319 --> 01:50:26,920
of this. I don't know. People just tell me where

2101
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:30,119
to be. It's too much for me to keep track of.

2102
01:50:30,199 --> 01:50:32,000
And it's you know, I'm not I'm not interested in

2103
01:50:32,039 --> 01:50:33,920
the boring details anyway. I just go there and run

2104
01:50:34,000 --> 01:50:36,399
my mouth and hang out with people. It's Callowe Native

2105
01:50:36,439 --> 01:50:39,640
Plant Conference and I believe that. A hold on, let

2106
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:42,439
me look up wording and that'll be okay. Yeah, that'll

2107
01:50:42,479 --> 01:50:46,079
be a Western Carolina University in Kulowe, North Carolina. I've

2108
01:50:46,079 --> 01:50:48,000
been there once before, like two or three years ago.

2109
01:50:48,079 --> 01:50:49,760
It was a while ago, what was it twenty three

2110
01:50:50,960 --> 01:50:53,319
I've been in Brazil and I had the fly back.

2111
01:50:53,439 --> 01:50:55,640
My daughter got sick. Oh, it was fucking terrible. It

2112
01:50:55,680 --> 01:51:00,520
was an anxiety inducing it was an anxiety inducing for me.

2113
01:51:01,239 --> 01:51:05,600
And then August fourteenth to twenty first, to think I'll

2114
01:51:05,600 --> 01:51:09,039
be in Denver, got invited to speak at Denver Botanic Garden.

2115
01:51:10,119 --> 01:51:13,880
And then September seventeenth through the twenty first, I'll be

2116
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:18,000
at the Aeroid Society in Miami. What a what a

2117
01:51:18,039 --> 01:51:21,039
funny city. Miami's I want to see the Pine Rock Lands. Oh,

2118
01:51:21,039 --> 01:51:23,039
it's real nice. It's nice to go over there. And

2119
01:51:23,079 --> 01:51:25,399
then I think after that, I'm fucking free and I

2120
01:51:25,399 --> 01:51:30,319
can travel around, you know, like for for pleasure to

2121
01:51:30,359 --> 01:51:32,920
go look at plants. And you know when I say pleasure,

2122
01:51:32,960 --> 01:51:36,239
I mean go spend twelve hours a day hiking up mountains,

2123
01:51:36,279 --> 01:51:40,600
photographing plants, getting stung by insects, cut up, and you know,

2124
01:51:40,720 --> 01:51:45,159
nowhere within sight of a single billboard. So anyway, all right,

2125
01:51:45,159 --> 01:51:46,920
well that's all I got. Have a recurret. They hopefully

2126
01:51:46,960 --> 01:51:50,039
get some out of that, and uh, I don't think if

2127
01:51:50,039 --> 01:51:53,039
there was anything, I think that's it. All right. You

2128
01:51:53,119 --> 01:51:54,600
just have a good you just have a good rest

2129
01:51:54,600 --> 01:51:57,399
of your day there, buddy, Okay, go buck yourself. Bye,