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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, and welcome to the crime pace. But Bondany

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doesn't podcast. Did anybody out there ruin Christmas? Did you

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ruin Christmas? Did you have any unpleasant altercations with family members?

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Was anybody lectured about lifestyle choices, lifestyle preferences, past failures,

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personality flaws or idiosyncrasies? Is that what Christmas is for?

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Did you feel bad about yourself? Because that happens a

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lot on Christmas too. The holidays can be a very

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traumatic and triggering time for many of us. And these

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dysfunctional days, these dysfunctional families, these badges of honor that

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we wear, okay, like past scars of emotional trammels which

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we may have or may have not dealt with. But

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I hope you feel good now, and we're gonna spend

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an hour together, maybe a little bit longer, and you

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can listen to me fucking rant. You can listen to

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me talk about, you know, epic uticular wax again. You

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can hear me go off on all different sorts of

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tangents and stuff. They haven't they haven't. I haven't suffered

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any consequences on this podcast yet, despite my constant shitting

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on the advertisers, and there have been some really, really

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bad ads. I'd like to mention I have prof I've

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heard from multiple listeners. But remember, you could just sign

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up for the fucking Patreon and then I don't have

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to listen to you complain. Oh, I had to push

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the I had to push the fast forward button and

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fast forward fifteen seconds through a through a fucking terrible

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You know, if you live in America, you should be

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used to this now, anyway. I mean, really, our national

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culture is advertising. It's we're so depoperate of any genuine

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authentic culture here. Okay, the youth are coming up on

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the TikTok viz. Everyone's looking for validation and credibility. There's

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no authentic personalities anymore. We've squeezed the last bit of

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authenticity out of the cities. We've turned them all into

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you know, he's overpriced cupcake boutiques, dog grooming salons and

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fucking you know, climbing gyms. No offense, that's you. You know.

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I don't know what my listeners are. You know, all

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over the place, we get listeners from right or left.

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I don't care. I think it's probably mostly lefties. But

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I'll talk to anybody about plants. I don't care, you know,

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as long as you don't tell me about your politics

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and get mad at me. If I don't, you know,

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spout them. We could we could find room, I will say. Though.

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You know, it's been a it's been a weird time

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for me for Christmas. Okay, I got sick again. Actually

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I didn't. I dodged a bullet. I had my first

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time using one of those online how you pay forty

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bucks and they write you a script. But I saw

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the fucking flags on a horizon at a influenza, a

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virus marching in in the form of my daughter coughing

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on me about nine hundred times. Again. You know, she's

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in school so that the parents can go to work.

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This is why we have school. This is why we

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have school. She already hates it. Five days a week

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is too much. She liked it for the first three

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or four days, well, three or four weeks, excuse me.

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But then you know, I think five days of just

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repeatedly having to go you know, seven am, they fucking

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wake these kids up, brutal man, and I'm you know,

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in the middle of doing all this other stuff. So yeah,

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you know, I can't. It makes me feel bad. I

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feel I feel deficient as a father. I should be

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taking her out, you know, because especially in South Texas

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and the shopping and retail slum that is South Texas,

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it's uh, you know, highs in the eighties, which is

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that's very chilly for us, you know, as opposed to

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one hundred and five like it normally is. But I

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saw the influenza a virus on the horizon. I gotcha.

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I went to this online what was it? What was it?

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I forget the name. I don't want to do promotion

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for them anyway, all right, but uh I went It

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was like an online you know, you right. I didn't

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even have to talk to them, but anybody, no no

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video calls. It was all you know, computer, computer health, telehealth.

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And they wrote me a script for tamiflu and some

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scissorup even though I didn't say I needed scissorp. They're

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just trying to drug me. But it was cheap because

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I don't have insurance. Nobody has insurance here, right, That's

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why that guy got mrked because that, you know, the oligarchy,

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it's never We're never gonna have health insurance. By the way,

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either right, So you know, the oligarchy's never gonna allow it.

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You think they're gonna put all these companies out of

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business and give people free or affordable health insurance. You

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could be paying eighty bucks a month to you know,

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for like a government plan, but instead you're paying four

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hundred dollars a month for a private plan, and then

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you get to pay again when you actually have to

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use it. I don't understand. He's bitch about this all

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the time, and I'm sorry for doing it again. We

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will talk about plants. But the Reagan ideas, the Reaganistic

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ideas that government can't do it, government can't do you

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want privatize, You're gonna privatize it, while the private sector

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in there really like the pri it suck this. Yeah,

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government bureaucracy is a pain in the ass. A lot

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of government workers don't give a fuck. It's miserable. Okay,

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but you got to pick your poison pal. You think

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a private company. I mean, you guys already believe I

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don't need to talk to you about this, but the

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ethos is just fucking insane. Then we deal with this

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twenty years ago. You know, this is why we need

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some good class conscious fucking leftism without the identitarian shit,

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you know, the identitarian politics. This is why I'm always

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whining about words like, you know, colonialism and all this shit.

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It's unless you're talking in a historical context, it doesn't

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have reference for today. Colonialism is some it's some words

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that the college kids came up with that's completely completely

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lacks class consciousness, and people are so dumb. There's good

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material there. When you talk about colonialism, you can really,

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you know, you talk with someone who's intelligent and actually,

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you know, isn't just using buzzwords. You can fucking take

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it apart and talk about good stuff. But that's of

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course not what happens in most of the dominant culture.

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flag for race, for iudentitarianism, and that's just it just

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misses the ball. Basically, you know, you need good class consciousness,

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and I think that's why so many of us brought

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felt brought together by Luigi. I almost ordered a candle

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of that young man. I had somebody write me saying,

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it's not okay, he still killed somebody. I know, I

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know it's bad he killed somebody. Okay, I'm not saying

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you should go kill someone. Though, my first sponsor in AA,

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Norm said he did condone homicide, right, he was practiced

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good recovery, but he but he condones homicide. And he

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used to talk about the liquor store burrito of spirituality,

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which is kind of like they did an authentic fake

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spirituality that doesn't really fill the pot. That's like you

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get a couple of the key ingredients. You could subsist

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on it for a while, but it's not gonna it's

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not gonna last. He was a wonderful man, you know.

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It was like a fifty five year old black man,

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looked like he was probably and he'd come in like

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fifteen minutes late to a meeting wearing a fucking entirely

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white suit, just totally fucking walking in like he's on

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the place. I think he ended up dropping. I think

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I annoyed the shit, But you know, that's what happens sometimes,

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you know. Anyway, what was I talking about? Anyway, we're gonna,

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we're gonna fucking we're gonna talk about uh peyote recovery

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here in a second. But you know, the healthcare thing

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really touched me. I do I still I feel I

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just think it was a wonderful moment for us as Americans.

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hard for you to understand because our system is so broken.

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As you know, right, I signed up for health insurance

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because I come from a long line of Italians that

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all get ass cancer, colon cancer. And granted it might

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be from consuming too much red red meat in Buffalo Motzarel,

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but just to be sure, I'm gonna get a colon

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ascob even though I'm not the age yet, you know.

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And I got a little fetish for people sticking you know,

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tubes and cameras in my ass. So that's why I'm

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gonna sign up get a colonoscopy. It's cheaper if I

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just pay cash than if I use the insurance plan

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that I just signed up for. I'm only gonna hold

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onto the insurance for a month or two, and I'm

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gonna get you know, get checked up, you know, get

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fondled by a doctor, maybe get a prostate. I don't know,

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I'm gonna get checked up on, get some blood work

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all that. You know. I am prone. I got diabetes

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predispositions supposedly according to my my genes, so I'm gonna

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make sure to type two diabetes isn't setting in yet, right.

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Do I get a lot of cardio? I do those kettlebells,

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I do it, go bike ride. Used to run a lot,

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but I haven't really been able to lately because of

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knee issues. Well not knee issues. I think it's just

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fucking it. So you gotta get good cardio, you know.

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So I hopefully I am holding the diabetes off for

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a little bit, but you never know. But I was really,

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I was, really I felt proud, I will, especially when

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Luigi turned out to be a handsome Italian. He was

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He's a handsome Italian man, young man, right, and he wasn't.

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He wasn't the he wasn't. I don't know what was

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he Libertarian or some weird shit. I don't know who cares.

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Right he had he was right on He was right

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on one thing, Okay, not killing someone, but on on

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airing aggrievance. Just viewed like that, airing a grievance, right,

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And I guess the guy he murked to it, he

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got in a DUI. Any good any good business sleeves right,

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any good money worshiping business sleeves that's worth their salt

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and runs a major company, especially you know, one that

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is built on screwing people over has gotten a DUI

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in the past. That's just a good. That's a good.

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It's like an echelon. It's a chevron, right, it's a

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chevron to put on your sleeve. You got a d ui,

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you know, probably cheating on your wife, doing a lot

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of blow. I don't know what you're doing. You know,

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you go to church on Sunday though, right, for the optics,

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that's all that matters. Anyway, he'd gotten the duy he'd

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been I guess they were. I don't know. I'm not

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trying to fucking I'm not trying to shit on the

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dead too much. Right, I'll let you guys do that,

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but I have to pretend to be you know, the

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uh uh more morally righteous. Anyway. I really feel though,

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for the you know, for the younger people that really

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felt the heroin Luigi. You know, it's it's warming my

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heart anyway. Uh I went on a bike ride. I

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took the advantage of a Christmas holiday, right. My daughter

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was pissed off. She stayed up too late, and then

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we let her open presence. She didn't even really care

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about it. You know, she's already becoming a nihilist and uh.

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ma and she opened more presents there and then passed

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out and took a nap. She still getting she was

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still getting over the flu. Whereas I got that description

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for tamaflu from the forty dollars telehealth thing, and then

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the tamaflu prescription. I went to good RX, and it's

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not a promotion for them either, but I'm just telling

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you how to get the good hookup. And the tamaflu

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was like twenty bucks. I started taking the Tama flu

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before I even felt it. I never got sick, and

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my daughter was coughing all over me. The flu will

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fuck you up. It's one of the only things that's

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ever sent me to the hospital, one of the only

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viruses that's ever sent me to the hospital. I wasn't

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able to breathe. I think there was twenty nineteen, yeah, anyway,

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maybe it was twenty twenty. I can't remember. Yeah, it

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was right before COVID broke out in twenty twenty. But anyway,

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I took advantage of the Christmas holiday and the complete

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lack of people on the streets here in South Texas,

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which is my favorite thing about Christmas. It's the complete

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lack of people. It's that day, it's the day after

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Tomorrow feeling, you know, that apocalyptic feeling when the streets

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are empty and quiet. And I went on a fucking

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twelve mile bike ride, which was so nice. I used

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to do that all the time, used to go on

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long bike rides. I thought I'd never own a car.

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I bought my first car when I was twenty six, No,

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twenty five, I was a twenty four. I don't fucking know.

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I bought my first car when I was in my

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mid twenties, a Honda prelude off of a guy in

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a parking lot in Sacramento who didn't care that I

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didn't know how to drive stick shift. He taught me

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on the spot. I killed the clutch two days later,

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got it replaced, and then that prelude lasted me for

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another two or three maybe four years, you know, gallivanting

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around northern California between rail yards and hiking spots and

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learning botany, my beginner years of learning botany. And then

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I sold it back to the state through their buyback

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program for like a grand so I made a hundred bucks.

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I bought it for nine hundred, sold it for sold

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it for a grand Oh god, the mocking birds there,

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I see him going. They're really enjoying the fruits and

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the Malviviscus arboreous, which is one of like five different

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unrelated plants that's colloquially referred to as turks cap, another

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stupid common name. It's more like a fez. Maybe, I

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don't know, is that what it is? Why did he

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even call it that? I guess the flowers look like

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a fez, Is that true? I don't fucking know. This

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is stupid, super common name. But I went on a

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bike ride and it felt cut. I got some good

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cardio in I didn't get killed. It's much too dangerous

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and much of Texas to ride a bike because the

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drivers are just so terrible and the trucks are so

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big they can't even see you. They'll run you over.

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They will crunch you right, just like you're a you know,

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one of these dead palm fronds laying in from the

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Washingtonia palms laying in the street, the cut right over.

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You just snap your spine in half, not even look back.

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They won't even know, right, worst drivers of many places

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I've seen I've been, and it's just dangerous. There's no

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bike lanes. They're not used to driving. They're mad at

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you for being out there because this is a car slum. Okay,

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this is an all American car slum. It's a fucking

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royal dump. Okay. We're all about ambulance chasing, car dealerships,

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muscle cars, parking lot princesses. You know, trucks that oversized

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trucks that you don't dent or scratch because you don't

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actually use them for work. We're about uh, we're about shopping.

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We're about parking lots. We're about being forced to drive over.

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We're about metabolic diseases. We're about heart disease. We're about obesity. Right,

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that's the natural, that's the national culture down here, and

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we're proud of it. Right. So anyway, I took a

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fucking it was nice. It was a wonderful you know,

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an hour I was out there, went down by the

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border wall, just getting fucking dystopic. This is why you

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really have to embrace some sort of nihilist catastrophism as

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your spirituality. And we're an eco based nihilist catastrophist. We

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pray to the plants, we findel the plants, right, we

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hug trees. We also condone homicide. And we have you know,

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no respect whatsoever for most of human infrastructure, modern human infrastructure.

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We're very kind to people. We're happy to teach people.

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We're happy, we smile, we shake hands, we say yes sir,

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we opened doors for people. But in the end we

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hope all of it collapses under its own weight, shortsightedness

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and selfishness, right and and and it's, uh, you know,

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we just kind of shrug our shoulders when it happens.

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It's a it's a eco based nihilist. Catastrophism is more

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of what I am. So that's why, you know, I

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just I think there's a little bit of politics in

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there too, but I try not to share them. Very

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class conscious need a class consciousness more than anything. Uh So, Anyway,

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we were out at Thorn Scrub two days ago. We

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got the Javier got a brush hog and we had

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to go clear some stuff land that had already been disturbed.

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But the blackbrush in the Guahil, the Senegelia balandroy, all

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these spiny legs come back. I like the first to

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recolonize disturbed land. There's also a shit ton of buffalo grass.

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So we're considering maybe getting a cow, which I never

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thought i'd do because I kind of hate cows. Nothing

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personal against them, I hate the phenomenon of cattle right

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because it's you know, overall, you don't want to be

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eating that stuff more than once a month. It's just

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not healthy for you. That's my opinion. To each their own,

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I don't care. You could stuff your face with donuts

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and fucking waterburger. I don't give a shit what you do.

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I just you know, I can't. I feel nauseated when

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I look at that stuff. I feel like I want

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to puke. I feel very uncomfortable watching people eat that shit,

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any of it, right, But to east their own, I

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don't judge. But we thought about getting maybe getting a

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cow and naming him. You know, we'll give him a name,

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just the resident cow he claimed the bag exemption. And

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then that cow will also take care of the buffalo grass.

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He'll gnaw it down, he or she. It could be

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a they, then could be a non binary cow. I

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don't care. We'll get it in there. It's gonna I'm

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gonna resist every urge to put a party hat on it, okay,

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because I think they look good, and probably think any animal.

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You put a party hat on an animal, just a

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paper one. It's cute and I don't know, you know,

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I don't know where I'm going with this, but I

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just think it'd be nice to have a cow get

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the egg exemption. We got to drill a well so

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it has water. We'll name it Marty or some shit

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and uh, and we'll make sure it lives a happy

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life all by itself. Knocking down buffalo grass, maybe we'll

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get another one. You know, I never thought i'd become

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a cattle men cattle person, but you know that fucking

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that buffalo grass. I don't think they're gonna go in

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and disturb much of the thorn scrub, right, but we

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do have a bad pig problem, so we're gonna have

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to get a pig kraal two. I reached out to

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a friend to handle it. He volunteered to come with

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AR fifteen's and his friend and shoot the pigs, which

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I'm absolutely not going to let him do because I

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think I think that sounds it's just the recipe for

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blowing up the spot. One of the nearby land owners

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also freaks me out. He's a very, very socially conservative

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man who sounds like he sounds like the mortician in

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Big Lebowski. You know, he's got that the most moderately

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pretty reciptacle just just reeks of creep them. I'm sure

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he's not listening to this podcast, so he won't be offended.

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He won't have room to get offended. But the guy

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really bummed me out, and he was just super controlling

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and nuts. There's an easement we have to go through

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to get get through his land. I maintained to completely

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polite demeanor with him all the all the while just

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being revolted. You know, this guy reminds me of like

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it's just horrible relatives that I wish I wasn't related

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to that I may have had to deal with fifteen

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years ago before they passed. You know. So there's that,

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Uh all the other some of the other nearby landowners

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sound cool, all right, you know, to a certain degree.

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But the pigs are a problem, and so we're gonna

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they were ripping up. They were going there's a wonderful

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elfin forest of blackbrush. I don't know if it's a

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climax community ecologically down here, I don't know what the

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climax would be. I'd imagine more of the climax communities

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would be the low growing miscuit. You know, it forms

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a nice canopy. There's a kindo series any acanthus, these

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clumps of the hedgehog cacti for any of those that

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aren't familiar, wonderful when they flower barren soils. Minimal buffalo

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grass incursion because it can't it can't get in there

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and it can't grow in the shit in the shade.

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It's not tolerant to the shade. But uh, they're still

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in I can't believe there's still fucking introducing buffalo grass

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for ranching. The ranchers did this. I blame the ranchers.

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Buffalo grass is ruining ecosystems all over the world. Australia.

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I believe it's native to South A guy might be wrong,

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but you know, either way, this this beautiful elfin forest

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of black brush. We were in there with five or

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six heads, five y six people. Uh you know, Ken

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King was out there too. He was actually wearing shoes

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this time. I was proud of him. He was wearing sandals.

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He was wearing tevas, but he was still out there.

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Uh and uh, you know, beautiful wonderful layer of duff

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on the ground and Mammalaria spherica all over the place

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that had been uprooted by the pigs. There was lots

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of you know, pig damage. Uh. They're horrible, horrible and

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you could smell them too. You could smell where they'd been.

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There's there, they've been there recently. So I think, uh,

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you know, I went on wanted these sights for a

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pig trap and there was you know, here these rednecks

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talking about that trap. Is I can't that that's the

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most ingenious design I've ever seen. Man. There's a three

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thousand dollars this thing costs. But it's the most ingenious

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design I've ever seen. Man. It's it's ye know, I

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can't believe nobody thought of them before. And you just

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get them. It's a corral so they can keep going

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in and then they get trapped in there, and then

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you just come by and level them all out. For

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any animal lovers, I'm sorry, but they're an invasive species

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and they're extremely destructive to habitat. So it's you know,

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it's the way it's got to go right. Then you

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bring your friend who's got an AR fifteen and he

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just levels them right. Because we're we're crazy primates too.

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We've got to do our part right. We're part of

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the food chain. So yeah, man, it was, but god,

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it's bad. There's there's I guess there's like a three

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or four hundred pound one that's been caught in the

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wildlife cameras. But these things are real, real bad. Oh God,

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can you imagine what? Then you got to take them,

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load them up in a truck, probably take four or

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five people to do it, and then take them off

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to get butcher, donate it whatever. I don't know, but

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it's there. They're really reckon habitat and they're trampling the

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bio crust through this wonderful black bio crust, which is

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one of the things I want to get a species

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idea on if we can get you know, soil biologies

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down there. I guess I could just collect them and

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send samples. But this crust that forms this nice biocrust

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that's no doubt enriching the soil and also acting as

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a germination bed for many seedlings, especially the cacti Mammalaria

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hider eye, Mammalaria sphiica, kindo serious penth the lofus, et cetera.

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And there it's just you could see everywhere it's just

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been trampled and crushed, and the deer do it a

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little bit, but it's mostly the pigs. I guess there's

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bobcats there too. I'd love for there to be oslots ocelots,

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however you pronounced that maybe a jag arundi, which are

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very rare wild cats that look like I don't know

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they got those rounded ears. Beautiful animals though, but there's

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a lot of work to do. But I'm just happy

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that we got it and we had the you know,

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now we've actually got a road, and we the road

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was already there but had been completely overgrown. The property

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had been neglected. That's probably where the pigs moved in

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because there wasn't a lot of sign of people. But

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we're gonna be raising money for a well and then

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getting a stock tank, and then trying to raise money

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to build like a cement pad with a shade structure,

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and then on that we're going to try to get

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the next step eventually, hopefully before I croak, whenever that is,

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will be a two story building and it'll be a

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goddamn bonifid research for stillity. We'll be able to host

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people up in the top, you know, hope, have researchers come,

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have a place to stay, be like a little bunk house.

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Get solar on there. It'll be really nice. And then

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we're gonna be replanting a dozen or so different species

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of cacti. Most of the other stuff seems to be

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good at establishing itself. There was Carlo Ridia. What is

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the species this linear aar Folia I forget which no

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part of folia I think was that it? Yeah, Carlolridia

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part of a flora, not part of a folio, not

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part of leaves, part of flowers. Carlo Ridi is a

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cool genus. There's I've seen three species. It's in a

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can't they see. It's got very distinct fruits that look

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like a bellows mechanism, you know, like the that you

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used to fan the flames of a fire. You know,

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it blows air out. They've got that kind of elongated

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teardrop shape. Just saw Carlo Ridia linear a folio on

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a ranch in southern Brewster County in West Texas, but

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part of flora is the one that's out here and

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in New Mexico. So I saw that out there, we

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saw parthenium and canum. Is that the one that's guay

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What is guayule. It's a parthenium species that I saw

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some tire companies trying to make natural rubber out of

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sustainable natural rubber. They got some farm in Arizona. Now,

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Guayule is Parthenium argentatum, which I've seen in West Texas

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but not here. But we had parthenium and kanam and

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there's Trixus everywhere too, which I guess was smoked. It

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was ethno botanically important as a a for the leaves.

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Smoking the leaves to the coyle Tecans, probably the lepon Apache,

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which is one of the dominant tribes down here, one

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of the most common. And then I think cole Tecan

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was just a term for it was like a clusterfuck

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term that the Spanish gave to the people that lived

463
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in the borderlands. Yeah, the tribes down here in South Texas.

464
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,119
Comanche a feared tribe that dominated the southern plains and

465
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,160
played a significant role in Texas front theory history. The

466
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,920
Comanche were skilled horsemen who migrated with markt style, but

467
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,640
they were relative newcomers. From what I understand. The Karanka

468
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,839
was the tribe that lived along the off of Mexico

469
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,079
and southern Texas. Can you fucking imagine how beautiful that

470
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,039
must have been? And I'm not saying it's success pool

471
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,440
now filled with commercial detritus and you know, the the

472
00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:15,519
effluent from the oil industry. I'm not certainly not saying that,

473
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,119
but God, it must have been fucking paradise all of

474
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:24,160
North America. Really, it really was the cole Tecans, a

475
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,160
nomadic hunter gatherer group that roam the coast and inland

476
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,079
of South Texas. The coal Tecans also settled in areas

477
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,200
of Mexico. I think that, I think that encompasses Lepona Paschi.

478
00:26:34,279 --> 00:26:36,119
I got her one of those DNA tests. She's like,

479
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,039
what is she like seventeen percent and then she's like

480
00:26:40,079 --> 00:26:46,400
forty percent Italian forty percent? She should only be she

481
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,680
should be less than that, because I'm only I'm only

482
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,839
fifty percent. But I think her ma, I think her

483
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,799
ma'sma was Spanish indigenous and then had some Italian in

484
00:26:56,839 --> 00:26:58,880
her as well, and maybe Portuguese. I don't know. All

485
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,920
that's all that's stuff. We also have down here in

486
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,880
South Texas. The Caddoscados c A D. D O S

487
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,480
a matriarchal society of farmers and villagers who built earthen

488
00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:14,279
mounds for religious ceremonies. And bar Man, That's who I

489
00:27:14,279 --> 00:27:18,160
would probably be lurking with. That was probably that was

490
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,880
probably cool. That was probably a cool society to be in.

491
00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:24,279
You know, I'm not so much into the war and stuff, right,

492
00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:28,039
it seems like they have a short life span, right

493
00:27:28,599 --> 00:27:32,480
the submit a Comanche's no offense, right, Quanta Parker, all

494
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,160
of them, you know, did a lot of wonderful things.

495
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,480
I'm just saying, I don't want to end up, you know,

496
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,480
shot or you know, studded with arrows, which happens, tends

497
00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:45,839
to have. Those things tend to happen in warring societies.

498
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,200
The Kaiwa an allyo To Comanche who migrated to Texas

499
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,119
from Montana, Missouri. And the Kickapoo, a federally recognized tribe

500
00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:59,160
with the reservation on the Rio Grande in Maverick County. Shit,

501
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,079
where's Maverick County? There's so many fucking counties in Texas.

502
00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:09,160
Oh jesus. Uh. The state culture of ambulance chasing and uh,

503
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,599
just perpetually driving. Now you took this beautiful land and

504
00:28:13,599 --> 00:28:18,319
you turned it in to car dealership's ambulance chasing billboards

505
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,400
and uh and what a burger and some people like

506
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:27,400
that and that's okay, that's okay. But but anyway, so

507
00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:31,359
this we're we're out at thorn Scrub. We got the brushog.

508
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,240
The fucking hydraulic tubes come off of it, blow hydraulic

509
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,319
fluid everywhere. It's because it was a rental and the

510
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,359
guy that works there apparently he didn't put it on

511
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,119
the right way. I don't know, but we had to

512
00:28:42,119 --> 00:28:45,039
take it back. The dude didn't want to give a refund.

513
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,680
He was like, yeah, it just fucking blows the mind

514
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,559
some of the shit that you encounter. Didn't want to

515
00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:56,519
give a refund. How he talked him into a refund

516
00:28:57,039 --> 00:29:00,200
because it was completely not our fault, and then had

517
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,799
to go back the next day brush hog it again.

518
00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:06,880
We're gonna have to scrape it. But the thing I'm

519
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,599
excited for the most is just doing ecological studies documenting

520
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,759
with photos. That's probably gonna be the most important. They're

521
00:29:13,759 --> 00:29:18,920
gonna be taking notes, documenting with photos, marking GPS locations.

522
00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:21,839
You know, if like a plant's been dug up and replanted,

523
00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:24,319
like dug up by pigs, because that's what the pigs do.

524
00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:26,079
They dig up the they dig up the cac die.

525
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,279
They eat the roots and then leave them there to die.

526
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,039
And you know, if it's winter, the cact this probably

527
00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:34,680
has a couple months to live, depending on how big

528
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,319
it is before it completely croaks. If it's summer, that

529
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,920
thing will be toasted. It'll burn through all its energy

530
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,559
stores within two to three weeks if it's in full sun.

531
00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:47,359
If it's in shade, it can have a little bit longer.

532
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,759
But but those energy stores are what's gonna you know,

533
00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:53,039
the roots completely die. Those energy stores are what's going

534
00:29:53,079 --> 00:29:55,599
to be important for it to generate new roots. And

535
00:29:55,599 --> 00:29:57,119
then you got to go in and shoot the pigs.

536
00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:01,720
So I need to get better guns. I've only got

537
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,400
like a little twenty two handgun. You know. I used

538
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,480
to have a mosin the goat, but tweakers stole it

539
00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:08,240
when I lived in Northern California. It was in a

540
00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:11,359
storage room. We had to take it away. Okay, I

541
00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:14,279
had a Mosen the Gaunt. It's an antique Russian sniper rifle.

542
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:18,359
It'll blow holes in box card doors. Very fun to shoot.

543
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,519
But and I'm not a gun nut. I just like

544
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,480
playing with them sometimes, all right, And since I don't

545
00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:27,920
drink anymore, I feel a lot more safe and ethically

546
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,799
sound doing so. But I had a mos in the

547
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,960
gun that got ganked by tweakers, like he's bound to

548
00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:39,200
happen in northern California. We'll blow holes in box card doors.

549
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,640
It was very, very fun to shoot large bullets. But

550
00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:46,680
aside from that, I just have a twenty two. You know.

551
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,440
We had to take the mosen Neganta out of the

552
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,359
house because a friend that was living there at the

553
00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:53,920
time was suicidal. Now he was always threatening suicide. I

554
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,000
don't think he actually would have done it. I love

555
00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:59,079
the man, but you know, he's in now to like

556
00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:02,039
his tenth or eleventh year of alcoholism. I had to

557
00:31:02,039 --> 00:31:05,079
distance myself, as you sometimes have to do with addict

558
00:31:05,119 --> 00:31:07,839
their alcoholic friends. I still retain a place in my

559
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,599
heart for him, but you're not going to change people.

560
00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:15,440
You can only do so much. But anyway, we had

561
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,920
to take the gun out of the house, you know,

562
00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:20,599
because he was threatening suicide. Not directly with that gun,

563
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,319
but uh, you know, he was just depressed. He would

564
00:31:24,359 --> 00:31:27,359
get emotional. I kind of called his bluff. Again. I

565
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,880
love this man, but let's be honest there, right. You know,

566
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,440
there's some friends you worry about popping themselves. This was

567
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,599
not one of them, right, But and that was you know,

568
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,839
and then it was it was taken. It was gracefully

569
00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:41,440
taken in the dead of night by some of the

570
00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:46,359
metamphetamine addicts and enthusiasts of northern California, Sisku County, California,

571
00:31:47,599 --> 00:31:52,240
Wonderful County which I hope to return to. Learned botany.

572
00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:56,119
There cut my teeth, Iliam the bakery Hespero ciprus baker

573
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,720
eye Juniperus occidentalis, which has the mild hint of cat

574
00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:07,480
urine and it's resin resinous foliage. So anyway, but you know,

575
00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:09,599
you get a large caliber fire arm, you pick it.

576
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,759
You know on your side, you can open carry when

577
00:32:11,759 --> 00:32:15,400
you're out there. Okay, I had a friend get attacked

578
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,480
by faroh pigs. He runs the nursery. He's a gentle man.

579
00:32:19,559 --> 00:32:26,039
He's a gentleman, somewhat frail, not frail, he's just you know,

580
00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:30,319
he's he's fit. He's he's a fit. You know, he's

581
00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:33,319
not eating tacos like the rest of us here. And

582
00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:35,319
he got attacked, he got chased down, they fucked up

583
00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:38,599
one of his dogs, and now he packs heat, right,

584
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,839
because you got to for the pigs. It's the main

585
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,160
reason for the pigs. I carry a knife in case

586
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,599
I ever get attacked by a stray pitbull or I

587
00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:49,240
got to pull one off one of my dogs, because

588
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,359
there's a lot of loose dogs around here. You know,

589
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,960
this podcast is sounding it's sounding a little rough round

590
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,599
the edges. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. We have

591
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,640
some sensitive listeners out there. But I carry a knife,

592
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,440
a nice leatherman or a gerber which is cheaper and

593
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,839
more affordable, but requires a little bit more maintenance in

594
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:09,440
the form of turning the screws because they come undone.

595
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,720
The things were probably made in China, and that's one

596
00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:14,160
of the main reasons why I do it. In case

597
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,880
you have to, you know, uh, you know, take a

598
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,720
pit bull off of one of your dogs or your

599
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:23,119
child or something. Right. I hope I never do. I've

600
00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:25,720
met so many wonderful pitpulls, met some very scary ones

601
00:33:25,759 --> 00:33:28,640
too that with definitely mal cats and kids if they

602
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:33,200
could so, but studying the land out there is one

603
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,400
of the things I'm most excited about. And studying that

604
00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:37,960
goddamn biocrust was one of the things I was most

605
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,920
excited about. But that's not going to happen now because

606
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,960
the pigs with their little cloven feet are trampling. The

607
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,799
pigs have cloven feet. I don't know. I don't even

608
00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:51,160
know what that means. I think it just means it's bifurcated.

609
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,759
Is that what it means. Yeah, it just means it's bifurcated.

610
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,319
They're cute little piggy feet. They're cute. Can you say

611
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,759
cute little piggy feet? If you're about to shoot them?

612
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,599
I wouldn't you know if you could, if you were

613
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,359
able to get one of those little ones, that'd be

614
00:34:06,359 --> 00:34:08,280
a cute animal on a birthday head you could. You

615
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,280
could adopt a cute little pig and take it, take

616
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,000
it with you, and you know, domesticate it, domestimicate it,

617
00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:17,960
and turn it into you know, a really cute little animal.

618
00:34:18,039 --> 00:34:19,719
I mean, you imagine a thing in a vest with

619
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,280
a little Santa's little help her had like an elf right.

620
00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:24,679
They tell me that's not cute. You take it to

621
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,119
the mall on the holidays where they still exist, and

622
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,119
you you just let it go nuts, right, You're just

623
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,199
chasing a pig throughout, and then you just claim it's

624
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,559
not your fault when security's you know, trying to I

625
00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:39,559
don't know what would happen. Let it run loose. If

626
00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:41,760
it's only semi domestic and you take it to a

627
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,079
mall and it's in a Santa's little helper hat, that

628
00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:47,599
would be ideal, so that it's still kind of scared

629
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:49,079
of you. It's not used to people yet, it's just

630
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,360
running around. You're chasing through the food court. Security is

631
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,599
getting involved, right, and you're they won't even you know,

632
00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:58,840
they don't even know it's yours. It might not be

633
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,000
fun for the pig, but if it's a cute little thing,

634
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:04,360
maybe someone else will adopt it. You know, there was

635
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,679
a pig at a house, uh, a couple blocks away

636
00:35:08,679 --> 00:35:11,480
from where my daughter daughter's grandmother lives. Oh, look at

637
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,320
this little hummingbird's hanging out in the Amelia patents. What

638
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,920
is it? Which species is it? What do we get

639
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,480
done into buff bellies? But tell me that wouldn't be cute, right,

640
00:35:21,599 --> 00:35:23,639
A little pig chasing a pig through a mall on

641
00:35:23,679 --> 00:35:27,119
the holidays, you know, making a big scene, and it's

642
00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:31,519
in an elf costume, completely feral, right, you'd have to

643
00:35:31,519 --> 00:35:33,039
get it in the elf costume. You might have to

644
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:35,800
anesthetize that are, you know, shoot it with one of

645
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:41,679
those downers, you know, the darts, right, so you could

646
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,119
dress it up, because it's not going to let you

647
00:35:43,159 --> 00:35:45,239
dress it up if it's fully feral. But then you

648
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,159
just let it go and it'd be a good holiday

649
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,280
season pig chase in a mall. I had to go

650
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,400
to a mall here in McCallen a while ago. It

651
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,199
made me feel dead on the inside. It made me

652
00:35:55,239 --> 00:36:00,000
feel terrible. I see the commercial infrastructure in the region

653
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:02,800
where I'm forced to live due to family reasons, and

654
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,360
I want to die. It's a real feeling I have.

655
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,880
I look at the billboards for ambulance chasers. Right, there's

656
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,480
a couple that I know their names now. I've seen

657
00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:14,920
the billboards so many times. There's so many billboards for

658
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:19,039
personal injury attorneys that I hate myself because I've actually

659
00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:21,719
seen them. I wish I had the self discipline to

660
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,239
avoid it, to tune it out the same way that

661
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,679
a Buddhist monk who sets himself on fire at noon

662
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:29,800
self immolates, is able to tune out the pain. I

663
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,199
wish I was able to do that with the things

664
00:36:32,199 --> 00:36:35,280
I have to be exposed to down here. The money, worship,

665
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:40,119
the materialism, the car dealerships, the muscle cars, the parking lot,

666
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:46,679
princess trucks. Right, but I'm not able to. I suck

667
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:51,920
it all in right, like a bad fart in an elevator, right,

668
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,920
like you're standing next to one of the most vile

669
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,039
human beings that you've ever encountered in an elevator. Pick up,

670
00:36:57,079 --> 00:37:01,039
like any family law attorney CEO. Oh right, like you're

671
00:37:01,039 --> 00:37:04,920
standing next to Brian Thompson. Let's pick a different CEO,

672
00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:06,679
because Brian Thompson's sad. I don't want to I don't

673
00:37:06,679 --> 00:37:09,360
want to say bad about the dead. Let's let's pick.

674
00:37:09,639 --> 00:37:12,760
Let's pick Steve Nelson, CEO of NAW Okay, that's that's

675
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,880
great for our purposes. Right here, Say you're standing next

676
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,239
to Steve Nelson and elevator and he farts out this

677
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,840
horrible smell of like try tip and whatever sirloin, you know,

678
00:37:24,039 --> 00:37:27,199
some very rich steak that he consumed the night before,

679
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,320
and you're just sitting there this we're doing a metaphor

680
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,360
right now. Okay, you're just sitting there taking a big

681
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,639
breath in, just inhaling this in. It's poison, right, That's

682
00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:41,239
what I'm doing spiritually when I'm in the commercial infrastructure

683
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,960
of South Texas, or the I thirty five corridor between

684
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,960
San Antonio and Austin, which is also some of the

685
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,840
that's some of the most hideous mileage you can encounter anywhere,

686
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,239
and not only in the United States but in North America.

687
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,719
Right it's it's one of the most hideous commercial corridors ever.

688
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:01,440
Just a god forbidden fucking Travis. What's been done to

689
00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:04,760
that land. It's if I go to Hell, that's gonna

690
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,559
be one of the versions of hell. Is I'm just

691
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:09,199
going to be trapped in a fucking car going back

692
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,039
and forth surrounded by shitheads on the I thirty five

693
00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:16,159
quarridor between San Antonio and Austin. That's what's happening when

694
00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:19,280
you're there, You're sucking all that in. When I am right,

695
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,159
maybe you too, but you don't know it. But I

696
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,280
certainly am, and as good as I feel when I'm

697
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,320
on a limestone hilltop in West Texas, or in the

698
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,159
Mojave Desert, in Death Valley, in a Panament range, or

699
00:38:32,199 --> 00:38:38,039
in the Sahado of Mina gjerais Brazil. Looking at Wonderlichia mirabolis. Okay,

700
00:38:38,079 --> 00:38:45,679
wonderful grows on these quartzite sands. It looks like a candelaboratory.

701
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,119
It's a remember the sunflower family ast racy pollinated by bats,

702
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,280
big artichoke style flowers, the size of a grapefruit. All right,

703
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,079
wooly as hell. Because it's in a very dry area. Right,

704
00:38:56,119 --> 00:38:58,280
You're at like twenty degrees latitude north. You have a

705
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,760
wet season. You've got a very dry season, but it's

706
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,000
hot all the time. Right, That's I feel so good

707
00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:08,159
when I'm in these these and there's lithophytic orchids on

708
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:11,239
on the rocks, and cool of the lozias, the resurrection

709
00:39:11,519 --> 00:39:15,079
plant that the resurrection monocot, and the screw pine family or

710
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,360
Panda nales and the screw pint order. Right, these wonderful landscapes,

711
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:22,679
I feel the exact opposite as good as I feel there,

712
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:29,239
I feel just as bad, conversely, reciprocally, when I'm in

713
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,480
in these horrible commercial landscapes, that America has only been

714
00:39:32,519 --> 00:39:34,800
able to build because it's got so much open land

715
00:39:35,159 --> 00:39:39,039
and a complete lack of foresight and and no culture

716
00:39:39,119 --> 00:39:43,159
beyond just consumerism and selling shit and using farming people

717
00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:47,519
as consumers. That's our national culture, right, really pathetic. We

718
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:50,119
don't even have healthcare, we don't even but we just

719
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,320
we farm people's consumers. That's what I feel. I'm sucking

720
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,719
in the fart of Steve Nelson in a closed elevator

721
00:39:57,199 --> 00:39:59,880
and he's just letting them go. He's just we got

722
00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:03,280
thirty more floors to go. The elevators moving really slow.

723
00:40:03,639 --> 00:40:07,519
Hasn't been serviced in a year and a half. Okay,

724
00:40:08,159 --> 00:40:10,159
I don't know what's up. The police need to be

725
00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:12,159
greased or something, but it's going really slow and he's

726
00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:16,079
just cutting them the whole time, and I'm just sucking

727
00:40:16,119 --> 00:40:18,519
in that poison. That's how bad I feel when I'm

728
00:40:18,559 --> 00:40:21,960
in a commercial landscape, right, because it means so much

729
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,760
more to me. Like I see a billboard for a

730
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,519
politician with a mustache and a cowboy hat talking about

731
00:40:29,599 --> 00:40:33,880
border security, and then I start thinking about bamboozled Latinos right,

732
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,880
who have forsaken the indigenous side and are fully embracing

733
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,320
the Spanish side. It's more complicated than that. I'm generalizing,

734
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,159
but that's where I go with it. It's very dark.

735
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,199
I see the ambulance chasers. I think about money worship,

736
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,639
I think about lowest common denominator practices. I think about

737
00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:55,360
these are the people that are, you know, dominating the

738
00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,400
culture right our national culture in this country that's killing,

739
00:41:00,599 --> 00:41:06,119
you know, everything, killing the land that I love. We're

740
00:41:06,199 --> 00:41:10,679
destroying these beautiful fucking museums and libraries of evolution to

741
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,320
support shit that on its own merit is terrible and

742
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,639
needs to be destroyed. And that's where I go with that.

743
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,400
I just go to it. So I need to find

744
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:20,960
a way. What I'm saying is I need to find

745
00:41:21,199 --> 00:41:24,239
a meditation to go through so that when I'm looking

746
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,800
at these sleeves, bags and this culture of death, I

747
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,039
don't I'm not filled with hate, you know, I'm filled

748
00:41:31,039 --> 00:41:35,280
with with non attachment. I let it go and I

749
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,920
just realize it's all poison. I don't excuse it, but

750
00:41:39,199 --> 00:41:41,400
you know, I realize that people are lost and we

751
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,000
have a fundamental disconnection to the life around us, and

752
00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:47,199
it's not you know, you could be negative and call

753
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,920
it what it is, but at the same time, have

754
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,559
compassion for your fellow primates and realize that, you know,

755
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:58,440
maybe there's a chance they'll come around sometime, you know,

756
00:41:58,519 --> 00:42:00,719
if they're accidentally dosed with assid or something, or have

757
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,760
some fucking miracle of self enlightenment, which probably won't happen. Okay, anyway,

758
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:13,440
speaking of death cults, we were out in you know,

759
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,559
some of the land that's been getting destroyed, looking at peyoti's.

760
00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:20,199
We were on a private ranch a few days ago

761
00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:23,840
looking at a peyote that had been shaded out by

762
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,880
It was being shaded out by buffalgrass, by invasive buffalo grass.

763
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,880
And I had gone in probably I think it was

764
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:36,760
back in March, maybe December of twenty three, and I

765
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,280
took the buffalo grass away. I cut it back because

766
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,800
this thing was getting shaded out. Any cactus that's getting

767
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,440
you know, they need a little bit of shade here

768
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,079
in this heat, like they need a nurse plant. They

769
00:42:47,079 --> 00:42:49,199
don't want to get completely shaded out. So I took

770
00:42:49,199 --> 00:42:51,719
in this buffalo grass was completely shading this thing out.

771
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,440
It was beginning to get ediolated, you know, where it

772
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,800
looks like a like a nipple that's been tugged on

773
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,039
too hard, like really weird stretching, really weird looking cactus

774
00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:05,199
stretching for light, not get enough light. And of course

775
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,599
peyote or any of these cacti that have that beautiful

776
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:10,280
blue glaucus texture which is caused by that wax, that

777
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:15,000
epic uticular wax. Those basically just lipid molecules, long chain

778
00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:18,679
fatty acids produced by the epidermis, which I did not know.

779
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,960
I thought they had to regenerate from the apical maris them.

780
00:43:21,119 --> 00:43:25,679
They're actually produced by the epidermal tissue. Be familiar. Go

781
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,880
refer to that Tissue System's podcast and I make that

782
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,840
public I don't know, but it's on the Patreon too.

783
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,920
The slide presentation for it, the three types of you know,

784
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:41,840
we go through parentama, colin kama sclerinicuma, you know, epidermal tissue,

785
00:43:42,559 --> 00:43:49,920
vascular tissue, et cetera. The Tissue Systems podcast. I think

786
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,280
it was back in October November. But anyway, the epidermis

787
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,360
is what generates the cuticle, which all land plants have,

788
00:43:57,039 --> 00:43:58,960
except for like the filmy ferns and some that are

789
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:03,199
from really humid environment. Aquatic plants don't have cuticle because

790
00:44:03,199 --> 00:44:05,280
they don't need it. You don't need a cue. The

791
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,760
purpose of the cuticle is to steal the leaf and

792
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,880
the stem off and the fruit whatever the epidermal tissue.

793
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,400
You seal the epidermal tissue off from the atmosphere so

794
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:20,000
it doesn't lose moisture. Cuticle is also kind of waxy

795
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:25,920
molecules produced by the epidermal tissue, So the epidermis produces

796
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,440
the wax for the cuticle and for the really you know,

797
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:38,760
really hardy, ultraviolent resistant succulents produces that the epicuticular wax

798
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,840
and farina as well. And farina is actually not the

799
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:44,960
same as epicarticular wax. I've been referring to it as that,

800
00:44:45,039 --> 00:44:48,039
but farina is more like a powder which you'll sometimes

801
00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:51,719
see on specimens of Dudleia or other plants, and some

802
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,599
cacti will get so much epicicuticular wax that it looks

803
00:44:54,679 --> 00:44:58,239
like like a ferina. Actually, you know what, I think?

804
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,360
Farina is actually produced by tri if I'm correct. Let

805
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,800
me look this up. Yeah, correct, there we go. Furina,

806
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:10,239
a powdery white wax coating found on certain plants like succulents,

807
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,079
is produced by specialized glandular tricombs, and I think some

808
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:22,239
of those cool caylanthoid ferns produce furina as well. Now

809
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,280
you know what I forget. You'll have to refer to

810
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,320
that Michael Wyndham podcast about kylanthoids. When was that back

811
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:33,119
in April or March. But you know, Natholina or gyracosma,

812
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,559
I think I think they produce ferina. It might be

813
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,840
something I don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm

814
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,480
really sorry. But either way, in the case of cacti,

815
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,880
that epic particular wax is produced by the epidermal tissue,

816
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,199
and tricombs are also produced. They are part of the

817
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,519
epidermal tissue. Tricombs are part of the epidermis. The hairs

818
00:45:54,599 --> 00:45:58,800
are part of the epidermis. So the point that I'm

819
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:04,280
getting at is to recover from sunburn. Because these plants

820
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,719
have been growing in the shade. They were dark green.

821
00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:09,920
They didn't have that epicuticular wax because they didn't need it.

822
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,639
If they had that epicuticular wax and they were growing

823
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:14,880
in the shade, they wouldn't be able to get any light.

824
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,599
They would starve. So the plant can regulate. The epidermis

825
00:46:18,599 --> 00:46:23,920
can apparently regulate how much epicuticular wax is produced, and

826
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:28,239
it must be being removed somehow as well, because if

827
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,039
a plant's growing in shade, it'll reduce the amount of

828
00:46:31,119 --> 00:46:35,079
epicuticular wax, or at least the new growth that is

829
00:46:35,119 --> 00:46:37,920
produced at the apical maritime in the center of the

830
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,920
paoti plant will come out with less epicarticular wax. I

831
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:47,360
don't know. Can epicuticular wax that blue color, that white

832
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,320
stuff that gives payoti plants their blue color. Does it

833
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,519
eventually slough off? I would assume so, because that's what

834
00:46:54,599 --> 00:46:58,159
we ended up seeing on these plants that we visited

835
00:46:58,559 --> 00:47:03,280
last week, was that they I got a photo in March.

836
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,159
I did a video oness It came out today. I

837
00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:07,079
put it on a fucking Instagram, which I don't even

838
00:47:07,119 --> 00:47:11,360
really like using that much anymore. But this thing looked

839
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,519
like a buttole it looked like a burnt puckering button,

840
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,119
not even puckering. It was very tight, you know, it

841
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,800
was very like this. I'm sorry for going there. You know.

842
00:47:20,199 --> 00:47:22,360
It's like we've you know, you all been there. You

843
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,840
have some you know, you eat something bad, your stomach's upset,

844
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:32,519
you just die, you know. But it was this plant

845
00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:34,760
had been burned. This payoty plant had been burned, that

846
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,320
had this burnt tissue. And I'll remind you that sunburn,

847
00:47:38,519 --> 00:47:42,199
the effects of ultraviolet radiation on plant epidermal tissue are

848
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,519
drastically increased with temperature. So a plant may not sunburn

849
00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:49,000
at seventy five degrees, if it's in full sun at

850
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,320
one hundred and five, it will absolutely can't take anything

851
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,760
but morning sun before the day heats up. So that's

852
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,599
why east facing in a really hot climate like in

853
00:47:58,639 --> 00:48:03,119
the Sun Belt, for certain plants, east facing is best

854
00:48:03,679 --> 00:48:07,760
because they get morning sun and then by the hot afternoon,

855
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,960
the morning is really cooler. By the hot afternoon, they're

856
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,960
in the shade. But I thought it was really wonderful

857
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:15,880
to see because my initial assumption had been that this

858
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,320
thing is only the sunburn is going to create scar

859
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,000
tissue and it's going to have to regenerate from the

860
00:48:20,039 --> 00:48:22,320
apical maris then, but that was clearly not the case.

861
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,679
All the aerials were basically in the same place. They'd

862
00:48:25,679 --> 00:48:28,480
only moved a little bit, right. The thing had plumped

863
00:48:28,559 --> 00:48:31,400
up a little bit more, but that was it. It

864
00:48:31,519 --> 00:48:36,360
plumped up a little bit more, and you know it

865
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,840
wasn't all sucked in. I mean that was another result

866
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,840
of the shade. I think was that it was it

867
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,960
was well. When it got sunburned, it kind of the

868
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,960
tissue contracted towards the center, but the sunburn was completely gone,

869
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:52,320
and it looked like a healthy, you know, chalky blue

870
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,079
peyote plant. And then of course looking into it more

871
00:48:56,079 --> 00:48:58,000
and I talked to Jim Moss South about this too.

872
00:48:58,039 --> 00:49:00,559
I said, what do you think he didn't even know?

873
00:49:00,599 --> 00:49:02,719
I don't think he had he had done it. I

874
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,760
talked to him when I originally, you know, was beginning

875
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,880
this quasi experiment in March. So what do you think's

876
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,320
gonna happen? So I don't know. That's a good thing.

877
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,880
That's a good thing to to uh make a record of.

878
00:49:14,599 --> 00:49:18,519
But the the epicarticular wax was produced, there was minimal

879
00:49:18,599 --> 00:49:21,679
new growth out of the appical maris. Them haven't gotten

880
00:49:21,679 --> 00:49:23,639
a lot of rain. It's only been eight months. These

881
00:49:23,639 --> 00:49:27,440
things grow extremely slowly. There was minimal new growth out

882
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,440
of the applical maris teme unless the aerials had, you know,

883
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,280
unless these were new aeroals like the next subsequent series

884
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,559
of aeroals had been produced, and they just coincidentally happened

885
00:49:37,559 --> 00:49:39,920
to be in the exact same spot that they were.

886
00:49:40,039 --> 00:49:42,960
The old ones were eight months ago, the old ones

887
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:44,639
that would now be at the perimeter of this teme,

888
00:49:44,679 --> 00:49:48,519
because they remember. These paoties grow from the center out right,

889
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,760
like the way that like a hose would gush, it

890
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,599
moves out right, or like a fountain, a fountain in

891
00:49:56,679 --> 00:49:59,320
a bleak office park. You know, they got those founds

892
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,440
that of the waters and smell like shit from all

893
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,039
the geese, you know, that ship in the retention pond,

894
00:50:04,039 --> 00:50:06,239
and like a bleak office park. That's I'm sorry, that's

895
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,519
just where I go to when I start thinking about this.

896
00:50:08,679 --> 00:50:10,320
They got a fountain and it's you know, it's a

897
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,960
circular tube, a circular tube, and it shoots out water

898
00:50:15,119 --> 00:50:18,039
in all directions, you know, towards the perimeter. That's like

899
00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:21,719
the way that the applical maris them of the payotes grow.

900
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,000
But that's not what happened. This was just generated new

901
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,639
epic particular wax. And I've seen that on other plants

902
00:50:28,679 --> 00:50:33,960
too that got sunburned. So it's really interesting. I wonder

903
00:50:34,079 --> 00:50:35,960
now I want to burn more plants. I've got, like

904
00:50:36,519 --> 00:50:40,159
you know, some some trikes. Somebody gave me some tricho serious.

905
00:50:40,199 --> 00:50:42,559
I want to you know, shade them for a couple

906
00:50:42,559 --> 00:50:45,280
of months, expose them to the hot sun in the summer,

907
00:50:46,119 --> 00:50:49,079
and then you know, take a sharpie and draw around

908
00:50:49,119 --> 00:50:53,800
it and see what happens. Right, Because if that's another

909
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,679
thing you could you could do is draw on if

910
00:50:56,679 --> 00:50:59,079
you have a payote or a tricho serious, put some

911
00:50:59,079 --> 00:51:01,800
permanent marker on it, you know, on one of the lobes,

912
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,800
and see what happens to it in eight months, right,

913
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,599
if it if the permanent marker has worn off, meaning

914
00:51:08,639 --> 00:51:12,760
that the the the cells or the epicarticular wax that

915
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,000
it was drawn on had been shed or not. If

916
00:51:17,039 --> 00:51:18,639
you want to read more about this stuff, there's some

917
00:51:18,639 --> 00:51:22,880
really there's some really good information at web dot bioside

918
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:27,920
dot u Texas dot edu forward slash mass Seth. It's

919
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,280
web dot bioside that you Texas that Edu Moss Deth

920
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:36,039
Jim Moss Seth has done an invaluable amount of research

921
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,519
on cactus anatomy and physiology. And cactus I love because

922
00:51:40,559 --> 00:51:45,280
they're the iconic desert plant and they've they're just bare bones,

923
00:51:45,639 --> 00:51:50,440
just a stem. I mean, you really know, leaves you know,

924
00:51:50,519 --> 00:51:54,760
spines are technically leaves or leaf bud scales, but it's

925
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,159
all the same tissue. It's leaf tissue. Spines are dead

926
00:51:58,199 --> 00:52:04,239
at maturity. It's tissue. It's dead and maturity. And he's

927
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:05,719
got a you know, there's a shit ton of good

928
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:09,280
stuff on his website, mas Seth Research Cacti. Can also

929
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:14,719
just google Maseth Research Cacti. He's got stuff on epidermis cortex,

930
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,960
which is parentalma tissue, which is the storage. It's the

931
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,400
mass of the cacti. That's the cactus that stores water

932
00:52:22,519 --> 00:52:26,880
and carbohydrates, et cetera, and has the cortical bundles in it,

933
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:33,039
which makes cactus grafting so easy. Spines poisons alkaloids i e.

934
00:52:33,199 --> 00:52:38,480
Mescaline and some of the milk produced by Mammalaria's wood.

935
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,239
So it's got secondary growth in there. You normally don't

936
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,360
think of the secondary growth and cacti because they seem

937
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,960
so soft, at least the epidermist does. But they've produced

938
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:53,079
true wood. They have lateral maristems, secondary growth, roots, succulents.

939
00:52:53,119 --> 00:52:56,480
The roots are really interesting. The ability to dye root

940
00:52:56,519 --> 00:52:58,760
cells to die and then just generate new ones. You know,

941
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,159
the root cells die and times of extreme drought and

942
00:53:01,159 --> 00:53:04,960
then they could generate new ones apical maristimes. All kinds

943
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,960
of nice stuff on there. But yeah, I was I

944
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,559
was stoked to see that it was, you know, and

945
00:53:10,599 --> 00:53:12,159
I was stoked to see that I was wrong that

946
00:53:12,199 --> 00:53:16,360
these things can basically heal from sunburn. Now, if that

947
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,639
epidermal tissue dies, I would presume that the paradorm, the

948
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,920
secondary growth, the lateral maris them beneath, would just produce

949
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,599
cork tissue. Cork tissue is also dead at maturity and

950
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:34,480
not photosynthetic. Right, It's analogous to tree bark. Uh. But

951
00:53:34,519 --> 00:53:36,920
I would imagine that's what happens if the epi. If

952
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,239
it's the sunburn, it is so bad that the epidermal

953
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:43,119
tissue dies. But I think there probably doesn't happen. I

954
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:45,840
think that natural selection has probably figured out a way

955
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,519
to prevent that, because if the epidermal tissue dies, you fucked.

956
00:53:48,519 --> 00:53:51,760
I mean, you can't photosynthesize anymore. But I think in

957
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,960
most cases of summer and the epidermal tissue is not

958
00:53:54,079 --> 00:53:58,239
dead anyway. Another nice observation I made last week was

959
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,519
there's a spot here. It's the only places where the

960
00:54:01,639 --> 00:54:05,960
rock wall loving plant. You NIGHTI Lobata grows. And when

961
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,360
I say rock wall, I mean natural rock walls, not

962
00:54:08,559 --> 00:54:11,960
human not human constructed like cement walls. But that'd be

963
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,199
a great spot to sow some seeds, which I actually

964
00:54:14,199 --> 00:54:19,000
tried doing. And also, uh, this plant has adapted to

965
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,920
human cities, to growing out of rock walls and buildings,

966
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,639
primarily abandoned buildings that suffer serious neglect because no one's

967
00:54:25,679 --> 00:54:29,800
gonna rip them off in places like Saltia Saltio, excuse me,

968
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,119
Saltio Cohuelia, Mexico, which is where I noticed it was

969
00:54:33,159 --> 00:54:38,079
fucking everywhere. Growing also with Brokelia liciniata, another Chihuahua desert plant,

970
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,599
but you NIGHTI Lobata. Velcro leaf family Lois sa c

971
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,679
Mentzelia is another wonderful genus and his family along with

972
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:52,119
quite a quite a cadre of South American stinging species,

973
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:57,239
genera and species. And they've got the you know, velcro

974
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,119
leaf because they got those little barber hairs. I'll stick

975
00:54:59,159 --> 00:55:02,280
to your shirt whatever. It's very it's very very fun,

976
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,360
very cute. You know. Blaze men Zellia, the blazing star

977
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:10,000
Menzelia lavicolis in northern California was one was a plant

978
00:55:10,039 --> 00:55:13,360
that I think was the first species that became familiar

979
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,480
with in this family so many years ago, growing in

980
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:22,760
volcanic outcroppings in Siskyou County and elsewhere. Huge flowers, many stamens,

981
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,519
lots of staminodes as well, and then little capsule fruits

982
00:55:27,559 --> 00:55:30,119
with many seeds in them, and quite a bit of

983
00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:33,280
mucilage as well, which is probably how they're able to

984
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,800
tolerate such harsh and dry conditions where they grow. They

985
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:42,920
like full sun exposure. But NAIGHTI Lobata was growing at

986
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:47,719
this little shrine basically a rock shelter, a natural rock

987
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:53,800
shelter composed of conglomerate cobbles cemented together with kalichi on

988
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,480
this small hill down here in South Texas, and there's

989
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,280
a little shrine. They got Saint Jude. I thought it

990
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:02,280
was the Christ. No, it was Saint Jude, you know,

991
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,960
certainly looking more pale than he was in real life.

992
00:56:06,559 --> 00:56:08,480
In the painting. They got a little painting there, you know,

993
00:56:08,599 --> 00:56:10,840
lots of plastic flowers, all this stuff. You know that

994
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,639
I will eat us go there and prey and everything,

995
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:18,280
and then litter as well. But uh, but they mean well,

996
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,199
but anyway, Yeah, so there was. But this plant was

997
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,559
just having a fucking banger year. And it's under the

998
00:56:25,679 --> 00:56:28,719
rock shelter too. Only spot that it grows in the United States,

999
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,840
mostly Mexico, mostly grows in this I've also seen it

1000
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:36,639
in the siah Madre near Monterrey and beautiful washteaka Canyon

1001
00:56:37,679 --> 00:56:40,920
right by the damn you nighty Lobata And that's the

1002
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,679
habitat that it's evolved with over the last however, many

1003
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:45,960
millions of years. Is growing out of You always see

1004
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:47,800
it growing out of rock. Was almost never see it

1005
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:49,880
growing out of soil. I've grown it in soil before.

1006
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:53,480
It doesn't last long. I've gotten seed. The seeds are

1007
00:56:53,599 --> 00:56:57,199
fucking tiny, like a fruit will have you know, probably

1008
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,960
nine hundred tiny seeds in it, barely big than orchid seeds,

1009
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,639
like they're dust. But you could see with tiny seeds

1010
00:57:04,679 --> 00:57:07,039
like that, how it would so easily adhere to a

1011
00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:09,880
rocky surface if that rocky surface was covered in fog

1012
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,800
or do any kind of condensation. That's where it terminates,

1013
00:57:14,039 --> 00:57:17,480
and fog is mostly which is probably nourishing these things,

1014
00:57:17,519 --> 00:57:19,760
because again they're under the rock shelter. They're not getting

1015
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,480
any rain. You know, this little shrine is under the

1016
00:57:22,599 --> 00:57:25,360
rock shelter. All the good rock shelters have been taken

1017
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:29,840
and turned into religious shrines. It's such a drag. You know.

1018
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:33,000
The Catholics really got you know, they got an early

1019
00:57:33,119 --> 00:57:37,519
edge on its continent and took all the good rock shelters,

1020
00:57:38,159 --> 00:57:41,880
at least the easily accessible ones been turned into religious shrines.

1021
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:46,559
But anyway, this thing, so it's mostly getting fog. You know,

1022
00:57:46,559 --> 00:57:49,360
there's morning fog. It's very humid here. We're still you know,

1023
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:51,480
like an hour and a half from the Gulf, maybe

1024
00:57:51,519 --> 00:57:55,440
two hours from the gulf, so still sufficiently humid. Which

1025
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,840
is surprising that so many people that come down here

1026
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:02,079
to visit the cactus gardens of South Texas there's liking

1027
00:58:02,159 --> 00:58:04,960
in all the blackbrush. It's that humid. Mornings can be

1028
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,000
really foggy. You've also got the Rio Grande two miles

1029
00:58:09,039 --> 00:58:12,400
south of here of this area, and so these little

1030
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,360
plants are just they're having just a banger year. It's

1031
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:20,480
exceptionally dry right now. It's basically a drought, no rain whatsoever.

1032
00:58:22,039 --> 00:58:24,840
None of the parcels that I've been to, none of

1033
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:29,480
the plants look happy. They're all wilting. Croton insigness looks

1034
00:58:29,519 --> 00:58:32,400
wonderful when it's wilting too, like the natural drought state.

1035
00:58:32,519 --> 00:58:36,280
It's perfectly fine, it's just wilting. It'll pop back to

1036
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,000
life when it gets some little bit of moisture, which

1037
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:42,440
hopefully is soon. It's like fucking eighty five degrees here

1038
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:45,559
on Christmas too, which is amazing. It really tells you

1039
00:58:45,599 --> 00:58:49,159
how hot, how hot it is. It's cumulative heat throughout

1040
00:58:49,199 --> 00:58:52,599
the near year, not just individually hot days. But what

1041
00:58:52,679 --> 00:58:55,239
was remarkable to see on Yuke NIGHTI lebada and I've

1042
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,559
seen this and so many other rock wall loving plants

1043
00:58:58,599 --> 00:59:03,760
like paridally or oh god, what is it? There's another faciita,

1044
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:08,599
there's a facilia. There's some really wonderful rock wall loving

1045
00:59:08,639 --> 00:59:11,760
plants on the limestone in the Mojave desert. Right, Salvia

1046
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:17,519
funaria is another one, right Funeral mountain sage Mortonia utah

1047
00:59:17,519 --> 00:59:20,360
insists out there. But I've seen this since some of

1048
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,239
the like the rock wall loving plants, they are bacious

1049
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:25,079
ones that kind of drape over the rocks. Is the

1050
00:59:25,159 --> 00:59:28,280
peduncles that hold the fruits after the flower is done,

1051
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:32,039
will reflex back towards the rock wall turn around so

1052
00:59:32,119 --> 00:59:35,320
that they can self sew when that dry capsule fruit opens,

1053
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,519
and that's what this eukenite was doing. It's amazing, and

1054
00:59:37,559 --> 00:59:39,920
this is why it's thriving on this rock wall. This

1055
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,280
is why it's so abundant, because think about it, if

1056
00:59:42,599 --> 00:59:45,320
it didn't reflect back that you know, this thing is

1057
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,719
draping off the rock, maybe it would drop seeds further down,

1058
00:59:49,719 --> 00:59:53,280
you know. But these it's you know, probably a foot

1059
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,519
foot and a half a foot to eighteen inches off

1060
00:59:56,519 --> 00:59:59,960
of the rock wall, and so it's just casting seeds

1061
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,519
out into the open. These things can't grow in soil

1062
01:00:02,559 --> 01:00:05,559
because they'll get out competed by other plants. Right. That's

1063
01:00:05,559 --> 01:00:07,440
one of the benefits of growing in a rock walls

1064
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,679
that you can outcompete anything else. Nothing can grow on

1065
01:00:10,719 --> 01:00:12,760
the rock wall. Very few things can grow on rock walls.

1066
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:17,800
Most plants need soil. So if you've monopolized that niche

1067
01:00:18,199 --> 01:00:23,039
of a nearly vertical rocky substrate that lacks soil, especially

1068
01:00:23,079 --> 01:00:25,239
on a porous rock like limestone, I feel like there's

1069
01:00:25,239 --> 01:00:27,400
many more rock wall loving plants on limestone than on

1070
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:31,639
something like rhyolite, which is volcanic, because limestone is so porous.

1071
01:00:32,159 --> 01:00:34,599
And seems to hold water so good. But then once

1072
01:00:34,639 --> 01:00:38,400
you're on the rock wall, whenever it does rain, it's

1073
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,079
going to act like a funnel and it's going to

1074
01:00:40,199 --> 01:00:42,079
run down that rock wall into the crack that you're

1075
01:00:42,079 --> 01:00:44,079
growing out of. And you got easy source to water.

1076
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:47,000
You can outcompete other plants. Your hairs are probably cut,

1077
01:00:47,079 --> 01:00:49,559
your leaves are probably covered in hairs. It's in this

1078
01:00:49,679 --> 01:00:52,760
case barbed tricombs, so you're not losing a lot of

1079
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:56,079
moisture from your leaves, You're reflecting some sunlight whatever. But

1080
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,519
this was fucking wild to see that this is basically

1081
01:00:59,559 --> 01:01:03,320
a self sewing plant. It's so odd for the fruits

1082
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:05,840
of any plant to do that. The curve back towards

1083
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:10,480
the substrate really really bizarre. And Isaac Lickteror had told

1084
01:01:10,519 --> 01:01:13,960
me that he's seen this in perridally too. Perrotyle p

1085
01:01:14,239 --> 01:01:17,400
r I T y l E. The rock daisies, the

1086
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:21,079
genus of rock daisies and the sunflower family, asked Racy.

1087
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,360
So I was stoked to see that. I've never noticed

1088
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:27,119
it before. And again, this plant is it's one of

1089
01:01:27,119 --> 01:01:29,239
the plants I'm writing about in my book because it's

1090
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:36,519
colonized urban environments so well, like Salteo, Mexico. Wonderful city Salteo.

1091
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,360
It was really cool to see how it was thriving there.

1092
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,440
I saw astro lipis growing out of some of the

1093
01:01:44,519 --> 01:01:46,960
And it's like a dense city too. It's like a

1094
01:01:47,039 --> 01:01:50,679
you know, large pedestrian and large amount of pedestrian traffic.

1095
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,440
Dense cities, really nice buildings closer, like the kind of

1096
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,920
city that's great to walk around in, you know what

1097
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,960
I mean. And there was fucking youuke NIGHTI lobata every

1098
01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:03,039
where astro leapis. It must have been into Jerema or

1099
01:02:03,119 --> 01:02:08,920
Sinuata everywhere, and uh yeah, man, it was I should

1100
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,440
do anig naturalist search. What species an astro leapis? Was

1101
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:15,519
it that I saw growing in downtown Salteo. Okay, there's

1102
01:02:15,559 --> 01:02:18,840
four species that come up on a naturalists Coachee census,

1103
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:22,039
which is a very narrow one. The fronds are narrow,

1104
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:26,559
very easy to distinguish. I think that's the one. I

1105
01:02:26,599 --> 01:02:29,159
just did a drawing off. That's nice. That a nice drawing.

1106
01:02:29,199 --> 01:02:32,039
I draw these things on butcher paper, get them scanned,

1107
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:34,960
then I can hack the prints for you know, twenty

1108
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,679
bucks each. Whatever depends on how big they are get

1109
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:44,119
him scanned a nice thick paper. Astra Alepis coachy census sinuata.

1110
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,760
Is it that you know what that looks like a myriopters?

1111
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,840
I can't tell. Fuck look at the key and floor

1112
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,760
of North America for astro Alypis. Jesus Christ have fun

1113
01:02:54,800 --> 01:03:01,320
with that sinuata into Jerema and coachy census. But it's

1114
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,760
mostly oh in crassi Folia supposedly, which is very hairy

1115
01:03:06,079 --> 01:03:09,159
at acxial surfaces to the leaves to the upper sides.

1116
01:03:09,199 --> 01:03:15,360
But yeah, I don't know anyway. Uh, but it was

1117
01:03:15,639 --> 01:03:18,760
a fucking great great to see, great city to walk around.

1118
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:20,800
And we went to a little Serape museum we did.

1119
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,000
This is like two years ago. I was there. And

1120
01:03:23,039 --> 01:03:26,039
then Berkelia Le Siniata growing out of the fucking uh

1121
01:03:26,719 --> 01:03:32,880
the overhanging on one of these little shops. So in

1122
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:36,480
other news being that it cooled off so much down here,

1123
01:03:37,079 --> 01:03:39,440
meaning it's you know, highs and eighties instead of one hundred.

1124
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,840
We've been planting this public garden which a friend of

1125
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,559
mine started. His famili's lived there for like you know,

1126
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:49,400
twenty thirty years. Uh. It started on this parcel of

1127
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:55,760
property across from his house. He had a coma centeroxalon selestrinum,

1128
01:03:55,960 --> 01:04:00,880
edible fruit down here, edible fruit producing my of sapotasi

1129
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:03,840
down here, and a couple other you know, pollinator plants.

1130
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,599
We ended up taking a little bit more expanding it.

1131
01:04:07,039 --> 01:04:09,239
We went the Heap's nursery, got a bunch of plugs,

1132
01:04:09,559 --> 01:04:13,760
all the important shrubs, the trixis, the leucophyllum, the skeleton leaf,

1133
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,920
you know, Sidney at tenu Afolio as the raci, got

1134
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,159
a bunch of good stuff, got you know, planted a

1135
01:04:19,159 --> 01:04:22,639
bunch of agave offsets, which we can move later in

1136
01:04:22,679 --> 01:04:24,320
a year or two. Right now, we're just trying to

1137
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,440
get that ground covered and protected from the sun because

1138
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,079
it's so goddamn hot it'll bake the moisture right out

1139
01:04:30,119 --> 01:04:33,480
of it and make it increasingly stressful for anything that's

1140
01:04:33,519 --> 01:04:35,880
growing there. Right and then of course there's this positive

1141
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,000
feedback effect the more shit that you have growing in

1142
01:04:39,039 --> 01:04:41,679
close proximity to each other, not in the even spacing

1143
01:04:41,719 --> 01:04:44,639
with the lines and all that demented shit. These archaic

1144
01:04:44,719 --> 01:04:48,760
horticulture ideas that everybody wants to do, it seems like,

1145
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:51,440
you know, before they actually go out and experience what

1146
01:04:51,599 --> 01:04:55,800
nature is actually like the denture you make it, it becomes

1147
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:59,039
this positive feedback loop where the plants create their own microclimate.

1148
01:04:59,079 --> 01:05:02,039
They retain more humid that suddenly the ground isn't getting

1149
01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:04,960
baked by the sun anymore. You should also be mulching

1150
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,400
as well. We get a truckload of mulch dumped from

1151
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:12,159
one like the Compost Center and in McCallen, which was

1152
01:05:12,239 --> 01:05:14,000
like I think it was like one hundred bucks for

1153
01:05:14,079 --> 01:05:16,760
like six cubic yards. I mean, it's best that you

1154
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:18,440
can get it for free, but we don't got that

1155
01:05:18,519 --> 01:05:20,920
stuff down here. Chip drop doesn't work down here. You

1156
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:25,000
gotta like, you gotta know, like it's so cuddy. You

1157
01:05:25,039 --> 01:05:28,079
gotta know an arborist or something. There was an arborist

1158
01:05:28,119 --> 01:05:29,960
I used to know who would give us free mulch.

1159
01:05:30,039 --> 01:05:33,880
But there, you know, it's it's hit or miss with them.

1160
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,320
So anyway, but it's been good. It's been good planting it,

1161
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:41,639
you know. One of them, the tective Master Naturalists. Somebody

1162
01:05:41,639 --> 01:05:43,760
wrote me, I think I upset them because I was

1163
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,360
making fun of Master Naturalists the Master Gardener programs, And

1164
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:49,400
I'm sorry, but I just think it's I think it's

1165
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:52,000
kind of a sham. At least the Master Naturalist things are.

1166
01:05:52,039 --> 01:05:55,000
I'm glad they exist. They're like a boy Scouts program,

1167
01:05:55,199 --> 01:06:00,360
you know, they wouldn't. They're not for degenerates like me, right,

1168
01:06:00,639 --> 01:06:05,360
the autodtex But and anybody who's in like the Master

1169
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,559
Nationalist program, I'm sorry, no offense. This is you. We

1170
01:06:08,559 --> 01:06:12,159
could agree to disagree. Don't get offended. But anybody who's

1171
01:06:12,159 --> 01:06:15,119
in the Master Nationalists program is always so excited to

1172
01:06:15,199 --> 01:06:17,280
tell you about it too. And it weirds me out

1173
01:06:17,639 --> 01:06:20,400
because I don't care. It doesn't. It's weird. It's a

1174
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:24,000
weird thing, you know. But anyway, one of the Master

1175
01:06:24,039 --> 01:06:26,480
Naturalists ripped out a fucking ebony that was growing. I

1176
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,960
don't know why they left all the Bermuda grass. They

1177
01:06:29,079 --> 01:06:31,679
ripped out a fucking ebony that had been It was

1178
01:06:31,719 --> 01:06:36,119
like an ebony tree Texas ebony ebn apsis a bottle

1179
01:06:36,199 --> 01:06:39,320
that had been repeatedly mowed, you know, just by the

1180
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,639
city that maintains the area for the last five years.

1181
01:06:42,639 --> 01:06:44,480
But it would always come back. So and I've seen

1182
01:06:44,519 --> 01:06:46,719
a lot of plants do this, like shrubs and trees

1183
01:06:47,079 --> 01:06:49,280
miskeat same thing. You can mow it, it'll just reas

1184
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:52,960
brought from the rootstock. The rootstock gets increasingly big or huge,

1185
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:56,719
but it'll stay mode, you know, it'll survive that way,

1186
01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:59,079
and it just becomes like this perpetually bond sied thing.

1187
01:06:59,079 --> 01:07:01,760
You stop mowing it, boom, it's got this big rootstock,

1188
01:07:02,119 --> 01:07:05,079
all this energy stored up. It could shoot up become

1189
01:07:05,119 --> 01:07:07,559
a tree right away. Would have been great to have,

1190
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:12,199
but the master Naturalists ripped it out with their paid expertise.

1191
01:07:13,039 --> 01:07:16,960
Paying someone to teach you how to experience and learn

1192
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:25,039
about nature, all right, and you still destroy native plants

1193
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:30,320
that would be beneficial for for this fucking public garden

1194
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:32,920
that I've especially, like I've been busting my ass, like

1195
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:36,199
planting shit and trying to fucking you know. So that

1196
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:38,920
was depressing. But you got to keep the master Naturalists

1197
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,400
away from the garden. They're good. You want their signs

1198
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,519
in front, you know, so the city doesn't fuck with you.

1199
01:07:43,599 --> 01:07:46,119
It makes you look, you know, more on the square side,

1200
01:07:46,559 --> 01:07:48,519
you know, because if they see me, then they're like, oh,

1201
01:07:48,559 --> 01:07:51,760
this this fucking guy. But you get the Master Naturalist program.

1202
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:53,719
It's like the Fraternal Order of Police sticker on the

1203
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,400
back of a hippie van makes the city think you're okay,

1204
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,239
you want that little sign that says that the pollinator

1205
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,079
garden or whatever to fuck, you know, and but you're

1206
01:08:02,119 --> 01:08:06,079
really trying to recreate habitat, and you know, fight these

1207
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:10,519
deranged horticultural ideas about how nature is messy. Oh it

1208
01:08:10,559 --> 01:08:12,880
looks messy. We don't want it. It's messy. See that's

1209
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:14,400
the kind of shit way that makes me want to

1210
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,279
puke to these ideas are nature being messy. We don't

1211
01:08:17,319 --> 01:08:19,760
want that treat because it's messy. The fuck? What do

1212
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:21,840
you think? What do you think landscaping looks like? You

1213
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,720
think it looks like the fucking the setting of Minecraft.

1214
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,880
It's like sixty four bit video game landscaping. You think

1215
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:31,760
it's supposed to be neat, the even spacing, the fucking lines,

1216
01:08:32,319 --> 01:08:36,039
You deranged pervert. Huh. You need to be treated, You

1217
01:08:36,079 --> 01:08:37,800
need to be dosed. You need to go go to

1218
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:41,079
a therapist. Where does this shit come from? It comes

1219
01:08:41,079 --> 01:08:47,199
from from archaic European nineteenth century European ideals about how

1220
01:08:47,239 --> 01:08:49,600
a landscape should look. It's as fucked up as the lawn.

1221
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:53,239
It's just deranged. Is the lawn planting things in lines?

1222
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:59,399
Even uniformity? You fucking sickos, you sick fucks. Ah, I'll

1223
01:08:59,399 --> 01:09:02,079
pay for your therapy, just kidding. I won't, but you

1224
01:09:02,119 --> 01:09:04,920
know I don't have the money. But if I did, well,

1225
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:06,960
if I did, I still wouldn't pay for your therapy.

1226
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:09,239
I'd probably just slip you some acid in your coffee

1227
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,439
and take you out through a wonderful, you know, parcel

1228
01:09:12,479 --> 01:09:16,119
of actual living habitat so you can experience it and

1229
01:09:16,119 --> 01:09:18,720
see how you've been led astray and doctrinated by the

1230
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:21,560
fucked up society you grew up. And I'm so sorry.

1231
01:09:22,199 --> 01:09:25,119
I am so sorry for being so I get so

1232
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:29,239
turned up. And that's not the Holiday spirit. It's not

1233
01:09:29,239 --> 01:09:34,279
what the Holiday spirit's about. The Holiday spirit says more CEOs.

1234
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:37,279
That's what the Holiday spirit says, says, we need more

1235
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:45,800
CEOs to sacrifice to uh, to our God, to our

1236
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:50,640
son God. Huh more CEOs dot com. They're all scared now,

1237
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:54,479
they're fucking they're scared. They're quivering in their boots. Holy shit.

1238
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:59,159
You see a united people right dropping all this identitarian shit,

1239
01:09:59,199 --> 01:10:02,800
all the left right rhetoric and coming together to fight

1240
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:07,840
back against the extremely grotesquely wealthy and the oligarchs. That's

1241
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:11,439
not what they want. But again, this is America. Will be,

1242
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:18,520
will be, will be squelched soon, squelched and squashed. But anyway,

1243
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,279
this planting, this fucking public garden is therapeutic, all right.

1244
01:10:21,319 --> 01:10:24,239
It's a wonderful, fucking it's it feels so good. It

1245
01:10:24,319 --> 01:10:27,119
makes me feel so much less homicidal, right because I'm

1246
01:10:27,119 --> 01:10:30,039
trying to recreate the places that make me feel less homicidal,

1247
01:10:30,399 --> 01:10:32,439
that make me feel like I don't have to look

1248
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:36,279
at the billboards and the fucking ambulance chasers and the

1249
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,720
smiling politicians with the shit eating grins, et cetera. You know,

1250
01:10:40,199 --> 01:10:43,800
that's what I'm I'm I'm I'm creating my own antidote

1251
01:10:44,199 --> 01:10:46,520
to the poison around me. That's why I do this.

1252
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:50,159
So you create a nice little garden. Six months, year

1253
01:10:50,239 --> 01:10:53,119
goes by. Suddenly you've got spiny lizards and all the

1254
01:10:53,199 --> 01:10:56,359
fucking native and knowles, probably the cuban ones too, some

1255
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:59,000
other stuff you got. You know, the life is coming back.

1256
01:10:59,039 --> 01:11:02,079
You got cool birds, butterflies, cool fucking moss. At night,

1257
01:11:02,359 --> 01:11:05,199
the bats are hanging out. Maybe you see a snake.

1258
01:11:05,239 --> 01:11:08,000
If you see a snake, you've really made it. Gulf

1259
01:11:08,079 --> 01:11:11,720
Coast toads, you're automatically learning more about the land around

1260
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:15,680
you and the life that evolved there. Right, you're getting

1261
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:18,640
a zoomed out perspective on the land and the life

1262
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:21,680
form around you, and you're interacting with it. It feels

1263
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:25,479
really nice. It becomes psychedelic in to itself. But you

1264
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:30,800
start planning shitting lines with even uniform spacing, and that's

1265
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:33,840
when the trip goes bad. That's when you start seeing

1266
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:36,079
the elements of the society that make you want a

1267
01:11:36,119 --> 01:11:40,119
puke in the first place. Coming back right, Yes, when

1268
01:11:40,159 --> 01:11:42,520
you start realizing this is this is what brought us

1269
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,880
the lawn, this is why there's so many fucking parking

1270
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:51,000
lots and malls and commercial centers. Even spacing and uniform

1271
01:11:51,039 --> 01:11:53,479
I'm not talking about just doing pragmatic things like keeping

1272
01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:57,960
branches out of walkways and removing hazardous trees and shit

1273
01:11:58,079 --> 01:12:02,279
like that. I'm talking about they're really shit. The uniform lines,

1274
01:12:02,359 --> 01:12:07,399
the OCD, the fucking sense of control and authority, the fixation,

1275
01:12:08,039 --> 01:12:10,760
That's what I'm talking about. I don't want that stuff

1276
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:14,279
near me. You keep it away, okay. In other news,

1277
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:18,800
my friend Gabriel and Jeremy Spath from Hidden A gave

1278
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:24,000
nursery wonderful breeder of agaves. Okay, the Boutiqua gaves. He

1279
01:12:24,079 --> 01:12:28,960
does the fucking hybrids, the tissue culture. Wonderful man. I

1280
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:35,600
love him uh and gabriel U Diaz daily and Fante fucked.

1281
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,279
I didn't suck up his name. I don't know anyway.

1282
01:12:37,279 --> 01:12:40,359
I love Gabrielle too. But they were down there. They

1283
01:12:40,359 --> 01:12:44,159
were in Pueblo Wahaka border. I had serious fomo seeing

1284
01:12:44,159 --> 01:12:48,319
the shit they're posting. Earlier this month. Fukiria purpussii the

1285
01:12:48,399 --> 01:12:54,640
bottle tree, another species of okatillo, which anybody who's taken

1286
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:58,720
a little waltz throughout the American Southwest is familiar with.

1287
01:12:59,119 --> 01:13:03,760
Fukiria the genus, as well as the twelve species in

1288
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:11,840
a family, Fukiria si, fukiir Fuck your order Eric Kley's

1289
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:16,560
order of blueberries, Fukiria purpussii or purpose i, however you

1290
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:18,359
want to pronounce it, that don't matter. It's Latin. It's

1291
01:13:18,359 --> 01:13:21,079
a dead language. Again. Fuck anybody who's going to really

1292
01:13:21,079 --> 01:13:23,800
mess with you on pronunciation of Latin. It's fucking insane,

1293
01:13:24,279 --> 01:13:28,359
all right. Anyway, this thing was going off. White flowers

1294
01:13:29,119 --> 01:13:34,079
kind of implies moth pollination but apparently they're generalists too,

1295
01:13:34,159 --> 01:13:37,319
because I was told there were butterflies and bees all

1296
01:13:37,319 --> 01:13:40,439
over this thing growing on the limestone, the weathered limestone

1297
01:13:41,119 --> 01:13:46,039
at twenty degrees latitude near the Wajaka Puebla border, and

1298
01:13:46,119 --> 01:13:48,399
I had serious fomo was about the fucking cry. I

1299
01:13:48,399 --> 01:13:51,760
didn't know they flowered in December in the dry season.

1300
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,520
It's like when things are finally starting to really dry out,

1301
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:59,039
maybe get a little rain. In Mexico late summer, early fall.

1302
01:13:59,119 --> 01:14:01,000
I was supposed to beat on there, but I chose

1303
01:14:01,039 --> 01:14:05,479
to teach school instead. The students told me I was

1304
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:09,239
a good teacher. Maybe they were lying. Okay, some of

1305
01:14:09,279 --> 01:14:14,920
the athletes tapered off. They didn't last. You take general botany,

1306
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,720
and fuck you take general botany as a prerequisite. Right,

1307
01:14:19,199 --> 01:14:22,439
I'm here. Who's this guy? Right? Who's this guy that

1308
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:25,199
shows him we got fucking neck tattoos? You know, he's

1309
01:14:25,239 --> 01:14:28,039
cursing a lot. He seems really turned up. He comes

1310
01:14:28,039 --> 01:14:31,039
in with his bottles. He's drinking his forty ounce bottles

1311
01:14:31,279 --> 01:14:34,520
of loose leaf green tea. Okay, one day he came in.

1312
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,479
It was a clear jar. Looked like he was drinking piss.

1313
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:41,359
He's drinking Topo Chico like a madman, and he's cursing,

1314
01:14:42,319 --> 01:14:44,239
and then he says, you know, if he finds out

1315
01:14:44,239 --> 01:14:46,319
any of us snitched on him for cursing too much,

1316
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:50,439
he's gonna fail us. All right, This is what the

1317
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,520
students had to deal with. But still they told me

1318
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,840
I was a good teacher, and I was very thankful

1319
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:57,199
for that. I didn't even memorize a lot of their names, though,

1320
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:00,920
all right, wish I should have. I was bad, but

1321
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:05,520
I wanted them to learn. I chose to teach instead

1322
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:08,720
of going down to Wahaka, all right and looking at

1323
01:15:09,319 --> 01:15:13,800
looking at cool reptiles in Chiappus driving to Chiapas. I

1324
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,039
was supposed to drive down there with my friend Caesar,

1325
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:20,920
whose apartment I filmed in Mexico City. He had a

1326
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,800
massive rattlesnake on his hardwood floor in his apartment in

1327
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:28,960
Mexico City. We filmed the video on it. He's trying

1328
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:31,319
to breed these things to reintroduce them to habitat. I

1329
01:15:31,319 --> 01:15:33,239
don't know how that's gonna go, but it's a noble

1330
01:15:33,319 --> 01:15:35,279
thing that he's trying. And I think he just likes snakes.

1331
01:15:35,279 --> 01:15:39,720
But a definite uh, you know, dedicated conservationist and biologist.

1332
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:43,079
I was supposed to go with him to see Fukiria

1333
01:15:43,199 --> 01:15:46,159
purpose I really want to see. I'm really interested in

1334
01:15:46,199 --> 01:15:48,960
the pollination biology of these things. It's a fucking bottle tree.

1335
01:15:49,279 --> 01:15:54,640
It's got photosynthetic stem one of the some of the ocatillos,

1336
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:57,279
I mean, even on ocatillo. Sometimes you'll see a little

1337
01:15:57,279 --> 01:16:02,079
bit of green in those stems. Okatia, of course, is

1338
01:16:02,199 --> 01:16:07,159
multiple stemmed. This is a single stemmed Okatio relative from

1339
01:16:08,039 --> 01:16:12,720
a dry deciduous thorn forest and the Oajaca Puebla border.

1340
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:20,079
Tons of endemic rare plants, tons of columnar cacti agave oteroi, ogave,

1341
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:25,039
agave titanoa are down there. I was so fucking crushed.

1342
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:27,560
I was happy for them, I was very happy for them.

1343
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:30,199
But at the same time, you know, I wanted a

1344
01:16:30,319 --> 01:16:33,199
chance to commune, commune with those plants, to kiss the

1345
01:16:33,239 --> 01:16:36,640
bark of Fokyria Purpussia. I've got one that i'm slowly

1346
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:42,159
killing that I got from eric at East Austin succulents,

1347
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,000
and I need to repot it. I don't know what

1348
01:16:45,119 --> 01:16:48,560
it needs, if anybody has any. It's so fucking hot

1349
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:52,640
down here, but I think I probably got into organic

1350
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:55,079
of a soil because these things grow on like bare rock.

1351
01:16:55,119 --> 01:16:57,000
I mean, really the thing to figure out how to

1352
01:16:57,039 --> 01:16:58,760
care for a plant, you got to go down and

1353
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:01,359
you got to see it and habitat where it grows.

1354
01:17:01,359 --> 01:17:05,399
And these things are growing on nearly bare rock, a

1355
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:07,880
lot of them barely any soil. But they look amazing.

1356
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:09,960
And this is a rare plant. You know. He said

1357
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:11,840
there was a I talked to gob really said there

1358
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:14,399
was a forest of these fucking things. You know, I

1359
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:16,960
could have been down there with them. That we go

1360
01:17:17,039 --> 01:17:19,079
for ice cream after we go to soft server. Theres

1361
01:17:19,119 --> 01:17:21,680
a little piena. They got a soft served machine. You

1362
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:25,479
get an ice cream cone, right, even though you get

1363
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:27,520
the you're prone to the diabetes. You're a little nervous

1364
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:29,359
about that. You eat a fucking ice cream cone, but

1365
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:33,239
you're enjoying these cast of plants, these members of the

1366
01:17:33,279 --> 01:17:37,880
living world, all right, the living world that you worship.

1367
01:17:39,399 --> 01:17:42,439
But uh yeah, man, fucking the photos he sent me

1368
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:47,000
were fucking nuts, white tube flowers. I don't think there's

1369
01:17:47,079 --> 01:17:49,840
what is what is on iin atrist for Curio Propussia.

1370
01:17:50,119 --> 01:17:54,680
Oh my god, this thing's amazing. Those lance lit hair

1371
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:59,600
like leaves, green leaves on these these stems, these branching

1372
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:04,600
stems that shoot everywhere. What clusters of white flowers. What

1373
01:18:05,159 --> 01:18:09,199
a remarkable beast, a product of natural selection and a

1374
01:18:09,279 --> 01:18:15,319
calcareous soils, remnants of the Western interior seaway the Cretaceous ocean.

1375
01:18:17,079 --> 01:18:19,640
God damn. Look that's like pure white rock. These things

1376
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:22,560
are growing out of and during the dry season it's

1377
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:26,319
just empty. But Mexico has not fucked its land anywhere

1378
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,239
like the United States has. The United States has done

1379
01:18:29,279 --> 01:18:32,720
such a good job of destroying so much of its

1380
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:35,720
land and building some of the absolute dumbest shit. Mexico

1381
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,800
has not done that. Will it come one day, I

1382
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:43,720
don't know. It depends how bad consumer capitalism. Oh agave

1383
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:46,720
Macroacanta is right there, dude, Look at this fucking limestone.

1384
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:50,600
It's like karst. It's like karst. It's like dog tooth karst,

1385
01:18:51,039 --> 01:18:56,119
like I haven't seen since the Dominican Republic. Also some

1386
01:18:56,239 --> 01:19:00,680
incredible habitat. Just don't go touching Comocladia, the genus Coma Cladia,

1387
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:04,000
because it's in the Anacardi a c the poison oak family,

1388
01:19:04,039 --> 01:19:06,479
and you're gonna get an ass rash like you wouldn't believe.

1389
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:12,279
God forbid, you're really gonna be regretting it. Coma cladia

1390
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:16,920
and fucking constelia manila formis a tree? Oh, puncha a tree,

1391
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:19,319
prickly pair. Oh here's a nice money shot. Who took

1392
01:19:19,359 --> 01:19:22,199
this nice money shot of the flowers? Yeah they look

1393
01:19:22,279 --> 01:19:28,800
like okatillo flowers all right, a branching panicle. But they're white,

1394
01:19:29,199 --> 01:19:32,399
which implies to me moth pollination, but probably butterfly too,

1395
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:34,640
since they don't close up at night. You know, they're

1396
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:37,279
not like evening primrose, you know flowers where they open.

1397
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:40,560
They open at six pm and then they shut during

1398
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:44,600
a day. One of the students with this class I taught,

1399
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:47,359
I took the students on a field trip, dragged their

1400
01:19:47,399 --> 01:19:50,279
asses up this hill to go look at plants, and

1401
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,199
there was a what was it? Was it? I think

1402
01:19:53,199 --> 01:19:55,600
it was manda villa, which is another moth polinated plant

1403
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:59,520
at the Shuahua Desert. And I said, yeah, the buds

1404
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,359
were still clothes. And one of the students said, what's

1405
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:03,199
up are these? Is this gonna flower? Yeah, i'll be

1406
01:20:03,199 --> 01:20:05,239
fly would be opening at like six pm. He said,

1407
01:20:05,239 --> 01:20:06,520
how do you know that? I said, because I don't

1408
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:08,840
six pm is about right before dusk that they open

1409
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,479
right before dust. They're moth pollinated, and they all all

1410
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:13,279
the moth poliny plants smell the same. They got the

1411
01:20:13,319 --> 01:20:20,960
same floral chemistry, the same floral scent signature. Wow, these

1412
01:20:21,039 --> 01:20:24,279
fucking things are just this is really something else, man,

1413
01:20:24,399 --> 01:20:28,640
this these fucking flowers. I'm so interested in the pollination biology. Now, Oh,

1414
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:32,079
look at that beautiful trunk with the fucking God damn it,

1415
01:20:32,119 --> 01:20:35,600
look at that thing. I gotta draw this. This is

1416
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:38,359
my next plant I gotta draw. That's one of the

1417
01:20:38,359 --> 01:20:40,000
main reasons I want to go down there and get photos.

1418
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:44,079
Fukiria PURPUSSI have those beautiful green trunks and the tiny stems.

1419
01:20:44,239 --> 01:20:48,359
A bottle tree, A true bottle tree, reminiscent of the

1420
01:20:48,399 --> 01:20:51,560
moringa that I saw in the Mibia. You know, this

1421
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:54,840
is these sarco coalescent plants which you'll see on like

1422
01:20:55,000 --> 01:21:00,560
uh you know boojump trees, which are Fukyia columnaris in Baha. Right,

1423
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,520
this is a that was Maringa of valefolia. How many

1424
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,399
how many Maringa species are there? That was all, but

1425
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:10,199
that Maringo of Lafoia was also a bottle tree looks

1426
01:21:10,239 --> 01:21:13,600
like a bottle and it's probably dropped deciduous too, and

1427
01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:16,079
almost from the leaves, the maringos look like they would

1428
01:21:16,119 --> 01:21:18,279
be in Fabaesi in the pea family. They got this

1429
01:21:18,399 --> 01:21:23,840
pinnate leaves, but they're actually uh, they're actually uh, you know,

1430
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:29,560
related to brassicas. So I'm not familiar. I just know

1431
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:32,159
the ones that the you know, the i willita is

1432
01:21:32,199 --> 01:21:34,520
growing the gardens down here because it's you know, like

1433
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:39,159
in residential gardens, because it's a medicinal plant and as

1434
01:21:39,159 --> 01:21:40,920
you can use it in salads and shit, you put

1435
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:42,880
it in smooth you do it. It's just a superfood.

1436
01:21:43,039 --> 01:21:45,439
They were trying to market as a superfood. But I'm

1437
01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:47,640
not really familiar with the genus or the lineage. I'm

1438
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:51,079
very curious about it. So much good stuff on the

1439
01:21:51,119 --> 01:21:55,840
African continent. One day I'll botanized, I ran without getting

1440
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:59,560
kidnapped and use this leverage, you know, on like a

1441
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:04,479
political called prisoner swapping scheme with the US. Yeah, don't

1442
01:22:04,479 --> 01:22:09,199
get mad at me from my country since all right, okay,

1443
01:22:10,319 --> 01:22:13,560
you know Iran used to be what a wonderful what

1444
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:15,960
a wonderful place that must have been in like the

1445
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:19,359
fifties and sixties, just so culturally risked on the fucking US,

1446
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:22,920
the US, the United States couldn't couldn't let that happen.

1447
01:22:23,159 --> 01:22:25,199
They couldn't let that. They had they had what happened.

1448
01:22:25,239 --> 01:22:28,720
They overthrew it install the US friendly guy who is terrible,

1449
01:22:29,079 --> 01:22:31,760
and then their religious nuts kicked him out and took

1450
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:36,920
over fucking horrible. Lots of great Iranian botanists though I

1451
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:40,800
follow him on Twitter and uh and what else? They

1452
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:45,560
got the integram, now they got the inter gram. Lots

1453
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:49,720
of Iranian botanists on Instagram, and an x Ex's Eloton

1454
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:53,279
calls it Elton. In other news, the verdict is in

1455
01:22:54,159 --> 01:23:00,720
on germinating seeds of Texas Mountain Laurel. Another incredibly stupid name,

1456
01:23:01,520 --> 01:23:04,560
stupid common name for a plant, all right. Used to

1457
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:08,920
be Sephoras sacuna flora. Now it's dermatto phylum secunda florum.

1458
01:23:10,079 --> 01:23:13,800
Just call it dermatophylum. But it's no relation to laurel.

1459
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,600
It doesn't necessarily grow in mountains. It's got nothing to

1460
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:19,279
do with the mountain. It's a fucking misleading, stupid name,

1461
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,760
all right. If you can, if you can remember Texas

1462
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:26,319
mount Laurel, you could remember Dermatto phylum. Just remember the

1463
01:23:26,399 --> 01:23:30,680
name dermatto phylum phylum is leaf dermato. What does dermato

1464
01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:32,640
mean dermos some something have to do with skin. I

1465
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:36,680
don't know anyway. Mescal beans, all right, the plant, the

1466
01:23:37,159 --> 01:23:40,479
plant that the compound mescaline was named after. It was

1467
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:46,279
confused with peyote in the early twentieth century, late nineteenth century,

1468
01:23:46,319 --> 01:23:48,000
you know, when the Hockey Death Cult was trying to

1469
01:23:48,039 --> 01:23:55,760
persecute natives, they often confused it with peote. The mescal beans,

1470
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:59,880
those hard red seeds, all right, beautiful plant smells kind

1471
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:03,119
of like grape soda when it blooms. Nice shrub. You

1472
01:24:03,199 --> 01:24:08,399
got Dermatophylum arizonicum, which is somewhat rare. It's in uh

1473
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:14,319
northwestern Arizona. You've also got the westernmost locales and ecotypes

1474
01:24:14,359 --> 01:24:17,199
of Dermatophylum secunda fluorum, which are probably a little bit

1475
01:24:17,199 --> 01:24:22,239
more pubescent, that grow in southeastern Arizona. Someone actually emailed

1476
01:24:22,279 --> 01:24:25,800
me with info about that. And even some of the

1477
01:24:26,319 --> 01:24:29,279
ecotypes in West Texas are harry. You get a pubestance

1478
01:24:29,319 --> 01:24:30,840
on them. But then you go to like you know,

1479
01:24:31,079 --> 01:24:34,720
Edwards Plateau, Austin area, and even down here in South Texas,

1480
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,960
and they have glabrous leaves. But anyway, the seeds, it's

1481
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:39,840
a great fucking plant. It takes a long time to

1482
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:45,399
grow nitrogen fixing as it's a legum. Not all legumes,

1483
01:24:45,399 --> 01:24:51,279
but many of them. They harbor that nitrogen fixing Rhizobium bacteria.

1484
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:54,880
And the seed is like a bright red, very hard.

1485
01:24:56,159 --> 01:24:58,560
You know it's toxic too. You don't want to be

1486
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:00,720
eating this stuff, but I'm see if you ate one,

1487
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:02,520
you probably just shit it out because the seed coat

1488
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:07,000
is so hard. I was taking a a uh, what

1489
01:25:07,159 --> 01:25:10,560
is it called? What's the fucking the dremmal? I was

1490
01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:13,560
taking a dremal, same thing I used to cut Jack's

1491
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,079
nails because he doesn't since he's so old, he doesn't

1492
01:25:16,119 --> 01:25:18,279
run on the concrete with me anymore on the bike,

1493
01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:20,319
so he doesn't. You know. That used to be like

1494
01:25:20,359 --> 01:25:22,520
a natural nail trimmer for him. It doesn't do it anymore,

1495
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,520
so I gotta cut him. Use the dremmal for that.

1496
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:28,159
I also use it for scarifying seeds. Very hard seed

1497
01:25:28,159 --> 01:25:31,039
coat here. You just get it a little bit, just

1498
01:25:31,079 --> 01:25:32,960
scarfight it a little bit, because you don't want to

1499
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:36,159
crack him in like a crusher or anything, because you'll

1500
01:25:36,159 --> 01:25:41,880
crush the fucking embryo too, but uh, scarfighted them, soaked

1501
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:43,439
them for a while. That didn't seem to do anything.

1502
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:45,840
All the seeds sank, and then I scarfighted some. I

1503
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:49,239
sewed some in a pot for a control. I'm guessing

1504
01:25:49,239 --> 01:25:51,640
the scarfight seeds should come up with him the next month,

1505
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,199
and the others might take upwards of a year or two,

1506
01:25:54,279 --> 01:25:59,239
because again it's the bacteria, and I would presume bacteria

1507
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:02,399
and fung you have to eat that seed coat and

1508
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:05,079
degrade it first. But everyone I've spoken to is said,

1509
01:26:05,159 --> 01:26:08,720
scarifications what you need, so you know, just for shits

1510
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:11,680
that giggles. I like to grow stuff in big pots

1511
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:15,279
and then separate it later, like a big flower, longitudinal

1512
01:26:15,359 --> 01:26:17,760
flower box, and you put a top dressing of gravel

1513
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:20,399
on it. I use. I like to use more volume

1514
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:22,199
of soil. The more volume of soil, the longer it's

1515
01:26:22,239 --> 01:26:24,840
gonna take for that thing to dry out. The more

1516
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:28,960
forgiving it is. If I don't, you know, water for

1517
01:26:29,039 --> 01:26:31,560
one day, because where I live it's so fucking hot

1518
01:26:31,600 --> 01:26:34,199
during the summer, some of these pots will dry out

1519
01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:37,359
within thirty minutes, even in there a shade cloth. It's

1520
01:26:37,399 --> 01:26:40,119
just so fucking hot, and the Knights don't get cooler

1521
01:26:40,119 --> 01:26:45,880
than eighty two degrees, so intense heat. Right, But I've

1522
01:26:46,239 --> 01:26:48,760
been having a lot of luck germinating stuff. Germinated a

1523
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:53,560
bunch of Liatris punctata, recently germinated aria agonam harass a folium,

1524
01:26:54,199 --> 01:26:57,079
hoping I can keep them going. That top dressing of

1525
01:26:57,119 --> 01:27:00,800
pea gravel is really important, and I noticed this after

1526
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:03,880
seeing how it acts as like a natural rocky mulch,

1527
01:27:04,399 --> 01:27:06,439
and then I don't know what else it is, man,

1528
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:10,720
But seeing that decomposed granite and that Plano prairie garden

1529
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:14,439
video where that guy that lives in Plano, horrible suburban

1530
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:18,199
area like real, you know, just the reek of spiritual

1531
01:27:18,359 --> 01:27:23,600
death everywhere. Wonderful guy. But he created this his yard

1532
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,039
is just fucking amazing. He's created this haven. I almost

1533
01:27:26,119 --> 01:27:28,359
damned near Kraib when I first saw the lyatreus blooming

1534
01:27:28,399 --> 01:27:31,239
in his yard and the monarchs were coming through migration,

1535
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:34,439
you know, the monarch migration and route south. It was

1536
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,640
such a beautiful sight. And he keeps it all orderly

1537
01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:39,479
and tidy and shit, so the city doesn't fuck with him.

1538
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,800
But he put decomposed granite everywhere just did this all himself,

1539
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:48,079
didn't hire any landscapers, was just dumping repeated car loads

1540
01:27:48,119 --> 01:27:50,760
full of decomposed granite, and he would just get all

1541
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:55,439
these cool plants, all these natives volunteering from the seed

1542
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:58,399
that was produced from the few plants he planted. And

1543
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:02,039
I've seen that in other yards too, the decomposed granite,

1544
01:28:02,039 --> 01:28:05,319
that bedding of gravel is so good for germinating shit,

1545
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:07,399
and you really don't want again. It makes sense too,

1546
01:28:07,399 --> 01:28:09,960
because when you've got these pots and the soil is

1547
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:15,079
just exposed, there's no dressing on it, they really fucking bake,

1548
01:28:15,399 --> 01:28:17,880
you know, they dry out too quick. Whereas if that

1549
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,760
dressing of pea gravel prevents the sun, it prevents the

1550
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:28,800
soil beneath it from evaporating moisture too quick. And especially

1551
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:31,600
for things like little cacti, they just pop up, you know,

1552
01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:35,039
they grow in between the gravel. You don't want it

1553
01:28:35,079 --> 01:28:37,880
super thick. You just want one layer with spacing in between,

1554
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:41,359
because stuff still got to pop out, right, But it

1555
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:44,680
really does wonders. I've heard this from multiple sources. Now,

1556
01:28:44,760 --> 01:28:47,159
So this is this is the way I'm growing everything,

1557
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:51,720
sowing natives in those long seventeen inch long flower boxes

1558
01:28:52,319 --> 01:28:56,600
with a nice mixture of ocean forest by fox farm,

1559
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:58,680
maybe with a little bit of pumpice in there, maybe

1560
01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:00,680
a little bit of sand. But again, you got to

1561
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:02,880
make sure it's not the clumping sand. If it's the

1562
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:06,680
sand that stays clumped together, you know, like it's got

1563
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:10,079
too many clay particles in it stays clumped together when

1564
01:29:10,119 --> 01:29:12,760
it's dry, you fuck don't use that stuff. Go to

1565
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:16,760
a golf course, steal some nice, non clumping sand. I

1566
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:19,079
get mine from a pile dumped in a parking lot

1567
01:29:19,079 --> 01:29:21,119
of a golf course. They don't mind. It's just a

1568
01:29:21,159 --> 01:29:23,600
five gallon bucket. Every once in a while, you know,

1569
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:26,840
they're they're gonna complain, you know, you say, I'll say

1570
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:29,119
I did. I'll do something for him. You know, you

1571
01:29:29,159 --> 01:29:31,199
guys don't mind. I talked to the guy said, it's fine.

1572
01:29:31,319 --> 01:29:33,439
One of those things, right. We're not talking about rolling

1573
01:29:33,560 --> 01:29:37,640
up there with a bucket, you know, like a multiple

1574
01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:39,960
buckets in like a tub and fill in the back

1575
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:41,800
of a pickup truck. THO. I wouldn't be opposed that.

1576
01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:44,319
We're not talking about doing that. I'm just saying, you

1577
01:29:44,359 --> 01:29:49,079
know what I mean. But the germinating is really pleasant then,

1578
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:51,880
and of course I always use spider Farmer lights Spider Farmer.

1579
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:55,119
I guess sun blastered too, but those LEDs the hot

1580
01:29:55,159 --> 01:30:01,159
shit really wonderful, bright enough, you know. And then you

1581
01:30:01,199 --> 01:30:04,000
increase humidity if you're indoors too. If you're doing this indoors,

1582
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:06,680
you need to increase humidity, cover them, use a bag

1583
01:30:07,159 --> 01:30:09,600
or like a little clear humidity. Though, but I'm growing

1584
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:15,640
outside and there's so much ambient humidity anyway. I got

1585
01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:18,800
a little mister system I rigged up for all the

1586
01:30:18,840 --> 01:30:21,960
mammalaria and thelocactus and other stuff I'm growing, because again,

1587
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:25,680
even though it's still so hot here, even in the winter,

1588
01:30:25,760 --> 01:30:28,199
it's still eighty five, you know. And then I'll turn

1589
01:30:28,239 --> 01:30:30,079
the mister system off if we're gonna get like a

1590
01:30:30,119 --> 01:30:33,359
week of like sixty degree temperatures or fifty degree temperatures,

1591
01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:37,439
which we might get in January February. Very easy, you know,

1592
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:43,159
to just murk an entire seedling collection. But yeah, most

1593
01:30:43,159 --> 01:30:45,800
of this stuff is gonna go in native plant gardens

1594
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:52,439
or to thorn Scrub Sanctuary. When we actually have it

1595
01:30:52,520 --> 01:30:54,960
set up and have controlled the pig problem, we're probably

1596
01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:57,239
gonna have to get some hog panel and fence some

1597
01:30:57,319 --> 01:31:01,000
areas off because the fucking I mean, even if you

1598
01:31:01,039 --> 01:31:03,079
get all of them, there's still gonna be more. There's

1599
01:31:03,119 --> 01:31:06,319
so many goddamn pigs in the brush here in the

1600
01:31:06,359 --> 01:31:10,039
South Texas brush. I tell you, though, you can really

1601
01:31:10,119 --> 01:31:13,840
become a master of soil mixing, all right. You could

1602
01:31:14,079 --> 01:31:16,720
experiment with all your different ingredients. It's all soil is.

1603
01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:20,439
It's just organics and minerals. It's a mixture of both

1604
01:31:20,479 --> 01:31:23,920
in different ratios. Then you got to think about porous spaces,

1605
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:29,560
grain size, drainage, and nutrients and that kind of stuff.

1606
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:34,439
Where I'd been fucking out with biochar like I mentioned. Okay,

1607
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:37,840
another good source of the material for the organics is

1608
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:40,159
like the bottom of a huge woodship pile. If you

1609
01:31:40,199 --> 01:31:42,439
have any of those in a municipal yard that you

1610
01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:44,960
have access to or can sneak into, the stuff on

1611
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:48,600
the bottom is going to be really well decomposed in compost,

1612
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:50,680
so you can put composts in there too. But I

1613
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,159
always have trouble with composts. It gets fucking nasty, it

1614
01:31:53,199 --> 01:31:56,199
takes forever. It's too hot where I live to use earthworms,

1615
01:31:56,520 --> 01:31:59,399
so we get soldier fly larvae. Those are the big

1616
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:06,000
dec composers, you know, but just become your own master

1617
01:32:06,199 --> 01:32:09,640
of a mixing soil creating substrates to gross shit in

1618
01:32:10,159 --> 01:32:15,640
biochar good for drainage, good, uh, you know, for making

1619
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:18,840
the soil less dense, more puffy. You should be able

1620
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:22,119
to feel in your hand, you know, stick your hand

1621
01:32:22,119 --> 01:32:24,640
into a into a big tub of soil that you

1622
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:27,479
just mixed and feel how it feels. Right. You could

1623
01:32:27,560 --> 01:32:30,520
use pine barque finds too. We use those soil conditioner

1624
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:32,319
and we get them at a place down here in

1625
01:32:32,359 --> 01:32:35,119
South Texas. I think it's just pine bark finds right.

1626
01:32:35,159 --> 01:32:38,960
It's resistant to rot, so it doesn't cultivate the fungus

1627
01:32:39,039 --> 01:32:42,439
because a lot of fungi that are pathogenic to plants

1628
01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:44,800
and cause damping off and rots start off as being

1629
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:48,640
saparotrophic and just decomposing dead material and then they move

1630
01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:50,640
to living later on. But if you've got you know,

1631
01:32:51,119 --> 01:32:56,119
organic material that's resistant to fungi, you know, it's it's

1632
01:32:56,199 --> 01:32:59,479
it serves a little better. Even juniper bark, juniper bits,

1633
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:03,199
any organic materials. Stay away from cocoa corlough because sometimes

1634
01:33:03,199 --> 01:33:08,039
that shit has salt in it, you know. But anyway, anyway,

1635
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:12,199
so yesterday was really nice too. I went out to

1636
01:33:12,640 --> 01:33:16,039
South Texas, went herping with some reptile nerves. I know.

1637
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:22,119
Found twelve Lampropeltis aulata, the toma leap and milk snakes,

1638
01:33:22,439 --> 01:33:27,520
six giant indigo snakes. Beautiful, all right, the enemies of rattlesnakes.

1639
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:29,239
I would have liked to find rattlesnakes too, but we

1640
01:33:29,279 --> 01:33:31,640
were not in dry areas. We were in more humid

1641
01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:36,000
areas with a lot of undergrowth Bicellia farnesiana, the huisace,

1642
01:33:37,039 --> 01:33:40,960
lots of misky Prosopis glandulosa are now it's now Tuma glandulosa.

1643
01:33:41,159 --> 01:33:44,760
Basically the elements of the native landscape that were able

1644
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:47,239
to come back in and recognize once all the land

1645
01:33:47,279 --> 01:33:49,479
had been scraped away. Because all the land has been

1646
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:52,359
disturbed and scraped away here in South Texas, there's a

1647
01:33:52,399 --> 01:33:58,159
couple patches, a couple crumbs, but mirror crumbs compared to

1648
01:33:58,199 --> 01:34:00,279
what once was. I mean, when you know, when the

1649
01:34:00,279 --> 01:34:02,159
death cult came in, it really took everything. They didn't

1650
01:34:02,239 --> 01:34:06,119
leave anything, not even fucking margins. There's margins on the uh,

1651
01:34:06,199 --> 01:34:09,359
you know, on this agriculture where things can get on,

1652
01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:13,760
but even that is disturbed. I saw Heteranthra limosa. Is

1653
01:34:13,800 --> 01:34:15,920
it limosa or linos? I forget, but either way it's

1654
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:18,159
an aquatic. So these were all ephemeral wetlands. We were

1655
01:34:18,159 --> 01:34:22,600
closer to the coast, closer to the gulf, and so

1656
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:25,800
you know, I'm sure this area seeing that plant, since

1657
01:34:25,800 --> 01:34:30,199
that's an aquatic, very cool aquatic, very cool uh staining morphology,

1658
01:34:30,279 --> 01:34:34,840
very cool flower morphology. The whole genus heteranth is pretty dope.

1659
01:34:35,399 --> 01:34:38,520
And it said it's in Comaaliniales. It's in pontadiri ace

1660
01:34:39,479 --> 01:34:43,560
uh in the order Comaliniales. Comaalinealies, of course, is the

1661
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:47,359
namesake order of Comalinaes, the family which is a family

1662
01:34:47,720 --> 01:34:52,359
of plants filled with monocots that have very fucking weird

1663
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:55,640
flower morphology, Like you know, some of these, some of

1664
01:34:55,640 --> 01:35:00,600
the Comalinas and trati Scotti has got those feeder anthers

1665
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:03,239
that have that are just big yellow and showy, and

1666
01:35:03,279 --> 01:35:05,720
then the bees are attracted to those. And then when

1667
01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:07,960
they go for the feeder anthras which are above the

1668
01:35:08,199 --> 01:35:11,800
sickle shaped anthers in the style, then those sickle shaped

1669
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,319
ants anthers dust the bees abdom and the underside of

1670
01:35:14,319 --> 01:35:17,520
the bees adom with pollen et cetera. So they've got

1671
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:20,760
you know, dimorphic anthras. Some some species of Comolina and

1672
01:35:20,800 --> 01:35:25,239
Tretiscenta have trimorphic anthors, three different anthra types, three different

1673
01:35:25,279 --> 01:35:30,520
stamen types. So it's a fucking cool family. I mean,

1674
01:35:31,359 --> 01:35:35,640
I love seeing Casey Williams got me into Heteranthra because

1675
01:35:36,119 --> 01:35:37,960
I was when I was doing the aquatic videos with them,

1676
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,079
we saw Heteranthra A Dubia and then he had just

1677
01:35:40,119 --> 01:35:47,439
collected Heterantheum Heteranthram mexicana for the herbarium, which I think

1678
01:35:47,479 --> 01:35:50,399
Mexican is an annual. But it's super rare, really cool species.

1679
01:35:50,399 --> 01:35:54,079
And I'm such a fiend for flower morphology. I really am,

1680
01:35:54,520 --> 01:35:58,479
especially flowers that have cool puzzle like morphology. You know,

1681
01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:01,399
like I say so many times, in pop culture, our

1682
01:36:01,439 --> 01:36:04,600
opinions of flowers have been ruined by the fucking greeting

1683
01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:07,399
card industry and Valentine's Day and all this shit that

1684
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:12,279
the representation of flowers, and you know, pop culture that's

1685
01:36:12,359 --> 01:36:16,840
rooted in European or Eurasian histories. Whereas you get away

1686
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,199
from all that corny shit and you get into the

1687
01:36:19,199 --> 01:36:23,199
actual pollination biology and pollination ecology and what these plants

1688
01:36:23,239 --> 01:36:27,960
are doing to dupe insects into pollinating them, insects, birds,

1689
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:31,720
and even wind in some cases. Then it gets really interesting.

1690
01:36:31,760 --> 01:36:33,680
Every flower is a puzzle. You start looking at some

1691
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:38,279
of the orchids that are duping horny male insects into

1692
01:36:38,319 --> 01:36:42,319
pollinating them without offering any reward, just having these you know,

1693
01:36:42,439 --> 01:36:46,720
fancy labellums, these fancy shaped labellums that act like a

1694
01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:49,840
look like a goddamn fly fishing lure you talk about,

1695
01:36:50,399 --> 01:36:56,399
you know, the cape bfly in South Africa. And Gorteria

1696
01:36:56,520 --> 01:37:03,199
diffusa Gorteria difusa, really cool orange member of the composite family,

1697
01:37:03,239 --> 01:37:06,600
the sunflower family ast racy it it's got those lgules

1698
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:10,720
that are embossed and black and resemble female beeflies. That's

1699
01:37:10,760 --> 01:37:15,600
when the flower shit gets interesting. I love I love

1700
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:18,000
looking at that. I love trying to figure out what

1701
01:37:18,079 --> 01:37:21,319
pollinates this thing, how does this evolve? Every flower is

1702
01:37:21,359 --> 01:37:24,479
a fucking puzzle. But anyway, so that was that was

1703
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:28,479
really nice to see. The huisace the Vicelia farnesiana legume family,

1704
01:37:28,479 --> 01:37:31,479
it's a spiny legume. It's a pioneer species, first to

1705
01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:36,000
colonize disturbed land. I imagine it's invasive as hell on

1706
01:37:36,039 --> 01:37:40,199
the African continent or Australia, probably India too, but here

1707
01:37:40,239 --> 01:37:42,960
it's native and it smells really good. It's a huge,

1708
01:37:43,079 --> 01:37:46,279
you know, source of food for pollinators, great habitat for

1709
01:37:46,359 --> 01:37:50,000
birds and sprouts like a fucking weed, and it's one

1710
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:53,239
of the few things that's able to outcompete the invasive grasses.

1711
01:37:53,279 --> 01:37:56,119
There's like four different species of invasive grass, guinea grass,

1712
01:37:56,119 --> 01:37:59,479
bermuda grass, Johnson grass, buffalo grass, all this invasive shit

1713
01:38:00,159 --> 01:38:04,680
from from Africa basically that have co evolved with large megafauna.

1714
01:38:05,279 --> 01:38:08,119
So I'm exploring these disturbed landscapes and those are the

1715
01:38:08,279 --> 01:38:11,039
type types of landscapes where you look for snakes whatever

1716
01:38:11,079 --> 01:38:14,680
snakes are able to still exist, uh in these human

1717
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:19,279
dominated even though it's still just low density. It's mostly agriculture,

1718
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:24,000
these human dominated landscapes, and so you know, all the

1719
01:38:24,039 --> 01:38:29,279
herpers go out and put ten out for for the reptiles,

1720
01:38:29,760 --> 01:38:32,600
right because that's what they're creating habitat you put. My

1721
01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:38,960
biogeography textbook just came in a Biogeography Biological Diversity Across

1722
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:43,520
Space and Time, fifth Edition by Mark V. Lomolino. This

1723
01:38:43,640 --> 01:38:45,680
is niceyeat, I got I got in PDF form. I

1724
01:38:45,720 --> 01:38:48,720
think I got the fourth edition, but uh, this is

1725
01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:51,600
this is you always gotta have a hard copy, especially

1726
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:53,640
when you're going to be teaching this ship. Oh they

1727
01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:56,560
got photos, they got diagrams in a western interior seaway.

1728
01:38:56,600 --> 01:39:02,079
It's nice. The breakup of Pangaea. This, that's nice. Biogeography,

1729
01:39:02,720 --> 01:39:06,800
Chapter seven right there, Speciation and extinction, How life evolves,

1730
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:09,720
how it moves. Why does certain things occur where they do,

1731
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:14,359
and why does every different continent have its own continental

1732
01:39:14,439 --> 01:39:21,159
biome with little ecosystems. There's hundreds of little ecosystems in between.

1733
01:39:21,199 --> 01:39:23,359
What's the living skin of the earth. And don't pay

1734
01:39:23,359 --> 01:39:26,880
attention to that. Just go shopping and drink yourself to

1735
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:29,680
numb your feelings from the spiritual emptiness and pain that

1736
01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:35,479
you feel in the American consumer death cult landscape trademark

1737
01:39:35,560 --> 01:39:42,119
hashtag Live, Laugh, Love anyway, So this all the cool

1738
01:39:42,359 --> 01:39:46,199
reptiles live on the margins that these agricultural fields will

1739
01:39:46,239 --> 01:39:50,680
go out and create little basically habitat to go see that.

1740
01:39:50,840 --> 01:39:55,359
My fear comes when the tumor grows. The human tumor grows,

1741
01:39:55,399 --> 01:39:58,159
and is happening already in place like Fort Worth. The

1742
01:39:58,199 --> 01:40:01,399
agriculture is not now on the chopping block to get

1743
01:40:01,399 --> 01:40:04,520
turned into housing. It doesn't matter that these places won't

1744
01:40:04,560 --> 01:40:06,840
be livable in forty years because there's no water and

1745
01:40:06,880 --> 01:40:11,239
there's increasing summer heat. Don't think about that. And also

1746
01:40:11,279 --> 01:40:14,560
you're building shitholes too. I mean you can't. There's no walking,

1747
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:16,960
there's no you have to You're trapped in a car.

1748
01:40:17,079 --> 01:40:18,640
Your whole life is trapped in a car. It's a

1749
01:40:19,039 --> 01:40:23,359
it's a dreadfully spiritually, you know, empty lifestyle. There's no

1750
01:40:23,600 --> 01:40:26,960
bonding with the living world. There's no going outside. It's

1751
01:40:27,039 --> 01:40:28,960
just the only reason you go outside is to mow

1752
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:31,840
your lawn if you have one, or go to walk

1753
01:40:31,880 --> 01:40:34,439
to your car and then drive somewhere else. So these

1754
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:37,000
are you might as well be on the service of Mars.

1755
01:40:37,119 --> 01:40:38,800
But it's going to come at some point and this

1756
01:40:38,920 --> 01:40:44,399
agriculture will be on the chopping block and these these

1757
01:40:44,399 --> 01:40:48,119
marginal spaces will too, so and I would have loved

1758
01:40:48,119 --> 01:40:49,560
to see all these That's what I kept thinking the

1759
01:40:49,560 --> 01:40:51,239
whole time I was there. I was like, this, we're

1760
01:40:51,279 --> 01:40:54,720
seeing a fraction of the native flora that is left

1761
01:40:54,760 --> 01:40:57,720
over because a lot of stuff was not able to

1762
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:01,640
cling to the edge of it existence on these margins

1763
01:41:02,079 --> 01:41:04,720
or be able to thrive in disturbance once the landscape

1764
01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:07,880
had been bulldozed and grated and plowed. So we're seeing

1765
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:10,399
a fraction of what was here. I wonder, you know,

1766
01:41:10,439 --> 01:41:14,039
in the species that are more ruteral, like fast, you know,

1767
01:41:14,119 --> 01:41:18,920
able to thrive in disturbance, grow fast, produce tons of seed.

1768
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:21,239
What about the stuff that wasn't What about the longer

1769
01:41:21,399 --> 01:41:26,239
lived doesn't produce as much seed? What about that stuff

1770
01:41:26,279 --> 01:41:27,960
like the climb, the stuff you would see in a

1771
01:41:27,960 --> 01:41:33,039
climax setting, an ecological climax community, right, Like, what about

1772
01:41:33,079 --> 01:41:37,159
that stuff? We'll never know unless there were records kept,

1773
01:41:37,439 --> 01:41:40,119
you know, from one hundred and fifty two hundred years ago.

1774
01:41:40,279 --> 01:41:43,239
So you know, bitch said, it's a's a paucity of

1775
01:41:43,239 --> 01:41:46,199
what's there. But again, just you know, you got to

1776
01:41:46,239 --> 01:41:49,520
find a way to philosophically deal with this if you care.

1777
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:52,279
A lot of people don't. Just you know, just buy

1778
01:41:52,279 --> 01:41:54,279
a pair of new shoes and stare at tik tok

1779
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:58,119
more and fucking you know, have a cocktail in the

1780
01:41:58,159 --> 01:42:01,399
evening to forget how much you hate your life. I'm sorry,

1781
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:04,279
you know, I always go there I always do. But

1782
01:42:04,319 --> 01:42:06,720
there's an answer. It's just it's the living world and

1783
01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:08,640
its art, and it's science, and it's learning, and it's

1784
01:42:08,680 --> 01:42:11,560
mental exercise, and it's taking a fucking walk outside and

1785
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:14,239
getting off the internet and stopping, you know, stopping the

1786
01:42:14,399 --> 01:42:21,399
shit posting and fighting with people anyway, Okay, So it was. Yeah,

1787
01:42:21,439 --> 01:42:24,199
it was a really fucking wonderful experience to see indigo snakes,

1788
01:42:24,239 --> 01:42:27,880
of course, predators of rattlesnakes so friendly. We saw mostly

1789
01:42:27,960 --> 01:42:29,920
young ones, but they can get upwards his six feet

1790
01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:32,880
long for reports of seven foot long ones. They look

1791
01:42:32,960 --> 01:42:35,680
scary as hell, but they're friendly. They never bite you.

1792
01:42:36,079 --> 01:42:42,319
There was a king snake, milk snake, excuse me, lampropeltasanulata

1793
01:42:42,319 --> 01:42:46,960
that we encountered. Most were docile and chill. One kept

1794
01:42:47,079 --> 01:42:50,079
biting A friend of a friend had his six year

1795
01:42:50,119 --> 01:42:53,199
old son with him and one kept He was holding

1796
01:42:53,199 --> 01:42:55,319
this really aggressive one and it kept biting him. It

1797
01:42:55,319 --> 01:42:57,840
doesn't do anything, of course, they're not venomous. They barely

1798
01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:00,560
have teeth. What you know, when I looked at his

1799
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:03,119
hand afterwards where it had bit him, this thing was

1800
01:43:03,119 --> 01:43:04,680
pissed off. It didn't want to be bothered. It was

1801
01:43:04,720 --> 01:43:06,680
an older milksnck. You know, they get they get just

1802
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:10,199
like us. They get a little cranky in their old age, right,

1803
01:43:10,399 --> 01:43:13,840
Jack doesn't. My dog, he's fifteen, he's a senior citizen.

1804
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:16,159
Now he's got a very low tolerance compared to what

1805
01:43:16,239 --> 01:43:20,239
he used to have. But this, this milksneck was biting

1806
01:43:20,279 --> 01:43:21,800
this kid. And I looked and it would just look

1807
01:43:21,920 --> 01:43:25,199
like a scrape like it was. The teeth were nothing.

1808
01:43:25,279 --> 01:43:28,520
It was very funny. And then he was you know,

1809
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:30,239
he was like, why would you do? Then you started

1810
01:43:30,239 --> 01:43:32,399
crying a little bit, and and then I was like, oh,

1811
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:34,399
it's good. It's yeah, it looks good. You're fine. It's

1812
01:43:34,600 --> 01:43:37,720
you know, don't worry about it. You're tough, You'll be fine.

1813
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:39,479
I know it's a little alarming when they bite you.

1814
01:43:39,600 --> 01:43:41,039
I got bit by a lizard I had when I

1815
01:43:41,079 --> 01:43:44,199
was a kid, but I was also being a shit

1816
01:43:44,319 --> 01:43:46,359
and you know, a little shit that a little shit

1817
01:43:46,439 --> 01:43:49,399
ass and messing with it. But so I deserved it.

1818
01:43:49,479 --> 01:43:51,880
But he was fine, and I said, yeah, it it

1819
01:43:51,920 --> 01:43:54,000
looks good. You know. It says you got to wear

1820
01:43:54,039 --> 01:43:57,319
those scars with pride. And also it'll heal in three days,

1821
01:43:57,319 --> 01:43:59,399
it'll be gone in like two days, it's nothing, so

1822
01:43:59,800 --> 01:44:03,359
and then he was like a two minutes later he

1823
01:44:03,399 --> 01:44:07,119
was looking under rocks for early pollis and laughing and stuff.

1824
01:44:07,159 --> 01:44:09,000
So it was always always nice to bring the kids

1825
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:15,119
out to go snaking. So anyway, so that was a

1826
01:44:15,159 --> 01:44:17,720
fucking god. It was such a nice day. My daughter

1827
01:44:17,760 --> 01:44:23,840
got to hold an indigo snake and was really into it.

1828
01:44:23,960 --> 01:44:25,920
And then, you know, but she's got a low tolerance

1829
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:28,520
for the heat. It was still it's here. It's late

1830
01:44:28,520 --> 01:44:30,399
this summer. It's still like I think it got up

1831
01:44:30,399 --> 01:44:34,319
to like eighty four eighty five yesterday, perfect weather, but

1832
01:44:34,439 --> 01:44:36,319
you know, humid. And then we got a little closer

1833
01:44:36,359 --> 01:44:40,079
to the Gulf. I saw a rare plant, Neptunia plena.

1834
01:44:40,319 --> 01:44:44,960
It's an aquatic mimosa crazy. It's an aquatic mimosa relative

1835
01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:50,800
mimosidi subfamily of the pea family for basy and yeah,

1836
01:44:51,279 --> 01:44:53,359
I had never seen it before. I saw this thing

1837
01:44:53,520 --> 01:44:58,000
growing with a bunch of what is that polygonacy thing?

1838
01:44:58,039 --> 01:45:00,359
I always I just fucking forgot the genus. There's a

1839
01:45:00,359 --> 01:45:03,039
lot of wheaty species. This might have been a native one,

1840
01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:07,479
but I saw it growing in this you know, I

1841
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:09,199
was on the margins of this wetland and it was

1842
01:45:09,239 --> 01:45:10,760
growing out in the center and so I was like, fuck,

1843
01:45:10,760 --> 01:45:13,640
I just walked out boots and all, you know, into

1844
01:45:13,680 --> 01:45:15,920
like twenty four inches of water, go look at this plant,

1845
01:45:15,920 --> 01:45:19,479
because there was none growing anywhere else. And I was stoked.

1846
01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:21,479
I was like, this is a fucking mimosa. It's got

1847
01:45:21,680 --> 01:45:25,720
mimosa relative, it's mimo soidy. It looks almost like a

1848
01:45:25,800 --> 01:45:28,680
nel tuma or something. It's got those you know, powder

1849
01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:33,439
puff yellow in fluorescence flowers, pinnate leaves, and then it

1850
01:45:33,479 --> 01:45:36,720
had these kind of like glands, these almost looking like

1851
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:40,840
extra floral nectaries at the petioles, which Ken King told

1852
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:47,479
me was the key break between what a Neptunia pubescents

1853
01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:51,199
and Neptunia plana. And so this was a new county record,

1854
01:45:51,479 --> 01:45:52,920
or actually I think it was in it's the first

1855
01:45:53,079 --> 01:45:55,960
eye naturalist observation in the United States. I think I'm

1856
01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:58,199
pretty sure it's much further south. But it was an

1857
01:45:58,199 --> 01:46:01,119
aquatic mimosoid. It really cool to see. So I made

1858
01:46:01,119 --> 01:46:03,840
a collection. I'll be putting that in the r barium,

1859
01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:08,079
and uh, it's gonna be fucking ninety today in South

1860
01:46:08,159 --> 01:46:10,439
Texas a day before New Year's one of the most

1861
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:12,720
you know, unpleasant holidays. For me, if there's really a

1862
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:16,199
time to like hide, it's it's on New Year's you know,

1863
01:46:16,239 --> 01:46:21,079
people are shooting off firecrackers, getting hammered. Many DUIs will

1864
01:46:21,119 --> 01:46:24,680
be uh will be given out handed out over the

1865
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:30,239
New Year's Eve holiday, right, many people will be waking

1866
01:46:30,319 --> 01:46:32,800
up in the drunk tank on New Year's Day. Right.

1867
01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:36,039
It's alcohol is what makes the whole system flow smoothly.

1868
01:46:36,079 --> 01:46:39,319
It's what makes people tolerate things that they shouldn't. Also

1869
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:41,760
causes them to say things that make them think they're

1870
01:46:41,800 --> 01:46:44,840
more important than their Not all, not everybody, right, just

1871
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:50,079
the majority of human beings. That's the majority of human beings. Ah,

1872
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:53,760
there's few people that don't get dumber on alcohol. You

1873
01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:55,800
may not be an alcoholic, but it's certainly gonna make

1874
01:46:55,840 --> 01:46:59,439
you do stupid shit. So anyway, I don't know, maybe

1875
01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:01,439
I'll drive up the fucking thorn scrub or something. I

1876
01:47:01,439 --> 01:47:03,479
don't I don't know, I need to. I fucking hate

1877
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:07,319
New Years Jesus Christ want to be away from it all.

1878
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:10,039
But uh, I hope you have a good New Year's

1879
01:47:10,039 --> 01:47:13,640
and I hope you have a wonderful time doing whatever

1880
01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:17,439
you're doing over there right. I know, in the northern latitudes,

1881
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:20,880
it's not chili, it's not too chilly, and there probably

1882
01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:24,520
won't be snow for most of you. But uh, you know,

1883
01:47:24,640 --> 01:47:27,039
because snow's becoming a thing of the past. But there's

1884
01:47:27,039 --> 01:47:30,920
something you can do. But I just I think what

1885
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:34,000
was really cool for me yesterday was to see a

1886
01:47:34,119 --> 01:47:37,560
landscape that I well, I was just with these herpers

1887
01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:40,279
these these reptile nerds. To see a landscape that I

1888
01:47:40,279 --> 01:47:43,199
would normally not be botanizing in because it looks barren

1889
01:47:43,239 --> 01:47:47,439
and devoid of diversity, but then finding approaching it instead

1890
01:47:47,439 --> 01:47:49,760
of looking for rare plant species or focusing on a

1891
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:53,720
plant species, looking at it from the perspective of studying

1892
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:56,520
ecosystem dynamics and the perspective of looking at what's been

1893
01:47:56,560 --> 01:48:01,319
able to survive the human bullshit, the bulldozing the agriculture,

1894
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:05,560
the fucking spraying of all the herbicides and pesticides and

1895
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:09,279
other garbage because it's mostly cotton fields here, and kind

1896
01:48:09,359 --> 01:48:11,560
of looking at it from that perspective where this land

1897
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:13,680
has been there for a long time, it was once

1898
01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:16,560
more diverse and covered with this this probably what was

1899
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:18,840
a very cool ecosystem that's gone now, But then there's

1900
01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:22,359
these little pieces that are able to survive, and and

1901
01:48:22,479 --> 01:48:24,840
studying what is able to survive and then kind of

1902
01:48:24,840 --> 01:48:27,800
trying to figure out why, like what makes the plant

1903
01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:32,920
able to tolerate the human bullshit and the constant disturbance

1904
01:48:32,960 --> 01:48:35,319
and the grating and being able to grow on the

1905
01:48:35,359 --> 01:48:41,000
margins of of of agricultural fields. And you know what

1906
01:48:41,399 --> 01:48:46,439
human impacts even like feral pigs and feral cats. You know,

1907
01:48:46,479 --> 01:48:49,319
I hope they all, you know, end up as fertilizer,

1908
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:51,560
every one of them, all the feral pigs, allll of

1909
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:54,159
feral cats. Turn them into the fertilizer, or bring them

1910
01:48:54,159 --> 01:48:57,159
into your home, give them a home. If they're cold,

1911
01:48:57,199 --> 01:49:00,439
you're cold. If they're hot, you're hot. No, if you're hot,

1912
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:03,319
there you know what I mean, bring them inside. But

1913
01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:05,119
take a feral you know what you know you don't

1914
01:49:05,119 --> 01:49:08,840
want it to be turned into fertilizer. Give it a home, right,

1915
01:49:09,039 --> 01:49:10,800
be the change you wish to see in the world.

1916
01:49:10,840 --> 01:49:17,720
Bring somebody's horrible spraying, mean intact with big balls, feral

1917
01:49:17,800 --> 01:49:21,000
cats or feral pigs into your home and give them

1918
01:49:21,039 --> 01:49:24,319
a nice cuddly place so that the because every life

1919
01:49:24,359 --> 01:49:27,439
is precious and we need to save everything despite the

1920
01:49:27,520 --> 01:49:30,359
damage they're doing to other life forms and the degradation

1921
01:49:30,399 --> 01:49:32,880
they're causing on habitats. Right, bring them into your home,

1922
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:36,000
be be the change you wish to see in the world.

1923
01:49:37,239 --> 01:49:39,920
But those are of course human impacts, and it's it's

1924
01:49:40,560 --> 01:49:45,760
you know, having the outlook I have now, having the philosophy,

1925
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:48,159
the perspective on the land around me, which I didn't

1926
01:49:48,159 --> 01:49:50,359
have when I was coming up. I had no context

1927
01:49:50,399 --> 01:49:52,680
for it. I mean, even the herpers I was with yesterday,

1928
01:49:53,079 --> 01:49:54,600
like I was in a spot that I could tell

1929
01:49:54,600 --> 01:49:56,920
this is all obviously second growth, Like this is not

1930
01:49:57,319 --> 01:50:00,560
what the land looked like. It's vicelia and misky species,

1931
01:50:00,560 --> 01:50:03,359
but this is not what the land looked like. It's

1932
01:50:02,960 --> 01:50:06,560
so it's a massive understory of invasive guinea grass which

1933
01:50:06,560 --> 01:50:08,359
didn't even exist here one hundred and fifty years ago.

1934
01:50:08,359 --> 01:50:11,359
He probably even one hundred years ago, Johnson grass, all

1935
01:50:11,359 --> 01:50:15,000
this other shit, these invasive grasses like these, we are

1936
01:50:15,079 --> 01:50:18,399
seeing a fraction of the native plant species that were

1937
01:50:18,439 --> 01:50:21,920
here one hundred and fifty years ago, Like this is

1938
01:50:21,960 --> 01:50:25,079
not It might be look somewhat native or natural, it's not.

1939
01:50:25,239 --> 01:50:27,119
This is all second growth. This is stuff that's come

1940
01:50:27,159 --> 01:50:30,960
back to recolonize disturbed land, you know, and I like

1941
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:32,439
they were saying, Wow, this is what it must have

1942
01:50:32,479 --> 01:50:34,479
looked like. It's like, now I don't this is very

1943
01:50:34,479 --> 01:50:36,159
clearly not like you want to see what it looks like.

1944
01:50:36,199 --> 01:50:39,039
Go to like the crumbs of fish and wildlife land

1945
01:50:39,039 --> 01:50:41,960
that are left when which are still filled with a

1946
01:50:42,039 --> 01:50:45,800
number of invasive species. Go to those crumbs of fish

1947
01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:48,359
and wildlife land, these crumbs of habitat, and then you'll

1948
01:50:48,359 --> 01:50:51,159
get an idea of what was here, a better idea.

1949
01:50:51,199 --> 01:50:53,159
There's still going to be plenty of plant species that

1950
01:50:53,199 --> 01:50:56,880
are probably gone, that have been extirpated, made locally extinct.

1951
01:50:57,199 --> 01:51:00,439
But going back to these landscapes with that perspective and mind,

1952
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:02,560
and also keeping in mind so that I don't get

1953
01:51:02,600 --> 01:51:04,199
depressed about it. This is a blink of an eye

1954
01:51:04,239 --> 01:51:06,840
on geologic time. We are living in the mass extinction.

1955
01:51:07,199 --> 01:51:10,399
But also you know, we're either going We're gonna get

1956
01:51:10,399 --> 01:51:14,159
what's coming to us, and then either change is a

1957
01:51:14,199 --> 01:51:16,840
result of it, right, just like an alcoholic or a

1958
01:51:16,880 --> 01:51:20,840
fucking addict, like know one changes willingly. They hit rock bottom.

1959
01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:23,600
They it gets so bad and they either die or

1960
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:25,640
they fucking go in recovery. You know that we're the

1961
01:51:25,720 --> 01:51:28,880
same way as a civilization. That's what's gonna happen to us.

1962
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:31,800
And I keep that perspective. It's still a blink of

1963
01:51:31,840 --> 01:51:35,560
an eye that you know, there's still joy and fucking

1964
01:51:35,680 --> 01:51:39,439
creativity and all these wonderful things about humans and people

1965
01:51:39,920 --> 01:51:42,840
and living in the world that are worth embracing. It's

1966
01:51:42,920 --> 01:51:46,600
I don't you know, it doesn't need to be this horrible, empty,

1967
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:50,039
depressing thing. Right. You certainly need humor, and you certainly

1968
01:51:50,079 --> 01:51:53,439
need a little bit of perspective, but it doesn't need

1969
01:51:53,439 --> 01:51:54,760
to be that bad. But I like going into these

1970
01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:57,960
landscapes and looking at them from that these are disturbed landscapes.

1971
01:51:58,000 --> 01:52:00,920
We're looking at the ecology of disturbed landscape. We're looking

1972
01:52:00,920 --> 01:52:05,079
at the plant species that grow here, and uh, we're

1973
01:52:05,119 --> 01:52:08,159
going to study what's actually living. And then there's also,

1974
01:52:08,399 --> 01:52:12,479
of course restoration, because these plants that used to grow here,

1975
01:52:12,560 --> 01:52:15,800
they're not extinct, they're just extirpated. There's the possibility of

1976
01:52:15,880 --> 01:52:19,199
restoration should we ever get our shit together as a civilization,

1977
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:22,920
as a society, the possibility of restoration will always be there, right,

1978
01:52:22,960 --> 01:52:25,960
But we need to bring awareness to these things. Right

1979
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:29,199
to their existence by studying them, appreciating them, growing them.

1980
01:52:29,279 --> 01:52:32,680
That's the key fucking point to this. That's how you

1981
01:52:32,720 --> 01:52:35,439
bring it. That's how you bring it back eventually or

1982
01:52:35,479 --> 01:52:38,119
at least you know, keep little pockets of it alive

1983
01:52:38,159 --> 01:52:42,680
to act as seed banks whatever, right, And that's what

1984
01:52:42,800 --> 01:52:46,680
these kids are with. These guys are doing with the snakes,

1985
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:51,239
providing habitat for them. So you know, I don't know

1986
01:52:51,680 --> 01:52:53,720
there's other species that have been so lucky, like the

1987
01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:57,199
Texas horned lizard, et cetera. But you know it's all connected,

1988
01:52:57,239 --> 01:53:00,359
So study it from that perspective. Even in like urban

1989
01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:03,640
shithole community, there's go find a power line easement. There's

1990
01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:06,840
got to be some cool shit there, you know, convince

1991
01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:08,760
other people to kill their lawn and plan nate of

1992
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:10,439
all that thing. But there's still there's still got to

1993
01:53:10,439 --> 01:53:12,720
be irrigation ditches, power line easement. It's places you're not

1994
01:53:12,720 --> 01:53:15,000
supposed to go, where you could get maybe get a

1995
01:53:15,039 --> 01:53:17,079
criminal trespass miss to meet it for doing. Just keep

1996
01:53:17,079 --> 01:53:18,479
it and that's fine. Just keep in mind you're not

1997
01:53:18,479 --> 01:53:21,279
doing anything wrong. You're not. It might be against thought,

1998
01:53:21,279 --> 01:53:23,800
it's not wrong, it's not ethically wrong. Go fucking hang

1999
01:53:23,840 --> 01:53:26,319
out in these spots and see what's growing there. And

2000
01:53:26,359 --> 01:53:29,000
if people get mad at you for doing it, just

2001
01:53:29,079 --> 01:53:32,279
explain to them you know what you're doing. Or get mad,

2002
01:53:32,359 --> 01:53:34,119
stay pull out, and then they keep doing it. You know,

2003
01:53:34,159 --> 01:53:35,359
as long as you can get away with it, don't

2004
01:53:35,359 --> 01:53:37,439
get caught next time. All right, On that note, it's

2005
01:53:37,479 --> 01:53:38,640
time for me to dip out. I got a bunch

2006
01:53:38,640 --> 01:53:40,479
of shit to do. I gotta finish working on this book,

2007
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:44,279
and the book is coincidentally about some of the things

2008
01:53:44,279 --> 01:53:46,520
I just talked about. So on that note, have a

2009
01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:48,800
good rest of your day, evening, afternoon, whatever, Go fuck

2010
01:53:48,800 --> 01:53:49,279
yourself by