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mean I didn't dry. I just never know why.

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Speaker 1: Phone, try to not some sense down in my boon.

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Even they don't chill this guy not so And when

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they go, they let Chile. You can't push out or

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out of Emma Ready. You can't push y'b or out

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of Emmons. Ray. You can't put job around Emma Ray.

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Don't try.

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Speaker 2: Don't try. It's the basket chaill.

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Speaker 1: And you got no coach. You living with guare one

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and user. They don't shots, they let Jim.

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Speaker 4: John shop, that's nice. When did Johnny Thunders die? Did

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he die of heroin too? Probably? I don't know. All

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those guys die a heroin. Don't be sticking ship in

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your arm. Don't be fucking with opiates. Real good advice

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for you. Wish some of my friends would have listened

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to that. Anyway, Welcome to another episode of the Cranpasce.

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But he doesn't podcast. Thank you so much for listening.

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I really appreciate it. Just kidding. I don't give a fuck,

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but I'm glad you're here anyway, especially if you're listening

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on the Patreon where there's no ads. The fucking ads

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are really horrible. I've tried to dissuade advertisers from advertising

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on this. I've talked shit numerous times about the advertisers

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here because a lot of them are really it's tacky shit.

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iHeart Radio. They reached out to me and they said,

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you want to come on here, we'll do it. We'll

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give the opportunity to give ads. And I said, okay, fine.

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And I was with Podbean before and I said, can

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I read the ads? And they said no, we just

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do the spoken or the the you know, the automated.

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They're tailored to you specifically. So if you've been looking

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at like butt plugs online, you're gonna get ads for

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adult toys. If you've been looking at lawnmowers online, you

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know they're gonna be You're gonna be getting ads for lawnmowers.

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You've been looking at you know, batch herbicide to go

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spray on the the rich neighborhood lawns. You're gonna be

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getting ads for a batch herbicide, all right, but just

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make sure you're wearing protective gear and proper ppe when

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you go and do that. Not that I would advise that, though.

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I did have someone comment that they were really upset

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that I was advocating vandalizing Craig Myrtles a few weeks ago,

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you know. And I looked at the guy and he

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was a nice He was a nice guy. It was

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a nice John Q taxpayer, someone who looked far too

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genteel to be listening to this podcast. And I just wondered, buddy,

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how the fuck did you end up here, you poor guy?

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is not a nice, professional podcast. This is we get

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into the weeds this in terms of science sometimes, but

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there's a lot of toilet humor and filthy shit that

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goes on in this podcast. This is a room that's

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not for everybody. You're welcome to come if you want,

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But I'm just saying, don't get mad at me when

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you're disgusted, turned off, angry, find something I said problematic,

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or want to leave. Those are the kinds of people

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that I try, like I am actively trying to filter thout,

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like I'm putting little land mines here scattered throughout the podcast,

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you know, blow up in their faces and send them

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running for the hills, you know, or just complaining about me.

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Don't get me wrong, but anybody, anybody's welcome, right, all

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political creeds, all, I don't give a fuck. Don't talk

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to me about whatever you believe in. But you're welcome

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to be here, and we can. I'll try to entertain,

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you'll try to make it fun anyway. Speaking of which,

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speaking of fun, I just had a colonoscopy today. You know,

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my ma, first off, my Italian side of the family,

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mozzarella balls, buffalo mozzarell and fucking red meats and stuff.

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the family, she got she had a polyp when she

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it in time. So I said, what the fuck? You know,

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and I don't drink doing it, and I should meditate. Maybe

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offense to the fatties, love the fatties. But uh but anyway,

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friend Jenna, and her husband dissects stiffs for a living.

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different kind of cancer every week. And uh So I

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fixated on this long enough, and finally I was like,

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insurance unless they have it through their work or something

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like who the fuck's going to pay four hundred and

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fifty bucks and then you only get to pay more? Right,

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that's not what you do. You go to the emergency

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room with a fake name. When they ask for you

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for ID, say I don't have it. You know, you

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have I don't know, twenty thousand dollars in medical debt

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that I'm never gonna pay. I don't know who cares.

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Don't ever if you pay medical debt, we're not friends anymore.

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You're incentivizing a broken system. Okay, anyway, So I don't

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got away with only paying six hundred bucks. And I'm

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gonna skimp out on the last four hundreds. I could

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say this publicly, right, They're not gonna get no one's listen.

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They don't know what are they gonna do come after me, huh.

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don't have health insurance, I always mentioned because the American

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healthcare system is broken and corrupt, and every single one

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nods and says, I know, every single nurse, every single receptionist, everybody,

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everybody knows how the American healthcare system is here, so

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it's like they're kind of everyone's sympathetic to it. You know,

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there's a little bit of free Luigi and everybody. So uh, Anyway,

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hospit I had that you can't eat for a day. Beforehand,

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shit that's like lemon flavored laxative. So I was on

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a toilet every hour. You don't want to hear this.

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hope not. I'm my apologies. So this kind of information

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can't be any worse than the ads they make you

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it's just it's brutal, and then you know you feel

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things a Gatorade, and I actually didn't feel too out

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of my mind, Like I didn't feel like I was

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on drugs like I normally do when I fast. Uh,

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even know what fucking healthcare in the valley is. In

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the Rio Grand Valley is so incompetent, they didn't even know.

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bless their heart's no offense to them, before I found

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out what time I'm actually supposed to be there. And

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so it got to the point where I was like, fuck,

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it's eight thirty in the morning already. I'm just gonna

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fucking show up these fucking morons. You know, I get

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really spicy, but I try to talk to everybody as

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polite as possible. I'm saying this to you, I wouldn't

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actually say this to them. I don't want to hurt

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anybody's feelings. But Jesus Christ, I don't know if there's

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leading the fucking water or what. But I don't know

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how you get these people. The doctors are never like this.

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people you gotta deal with, like at the reception, it's just,

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oh my god. Fuck, I don't know. I don't know,

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I don't know, not my world. Anyway, they finally get

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me in there. They give me the Propo fall, which

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got him to stop touching all those kids. And uh,

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and I shouldn't make jokes about that guy dying. Eh

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he was a millionaireor whatever. No, he was a billionaire.

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How much of money. I don't know who cares. Anyway.

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told me, sir, you don't have any polyps, you don't

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have any ass cancer. I'm good to go, all right.

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lots steak. It was healthy and I got the steak

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just because it's the kite. It's the type of food

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a boost morale among the canine populous. So anyway, but

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on the phone. I had to call them six times,

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six fucking times before I actually got there to figure

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the phone. Nobody knows anything. Everyone's an idiot. You're trying

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to keep your cool. So I was in such a

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bad move. By the time they were actually ready to

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jokes about it. And that was what really hurt, because

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that was that's such a ripe opportunity. You're going to

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get a tube stuck in your ass, and I can

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see if you got you know, colon colon issues, you

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jokes is loaded. And I squandered the opportunity. So anyway, whatever, anyway,

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I don't have ass cancer. That's great. Uh, it's ninety

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five degrees. We got a nice rainstorm here in South Texas.

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I'm headed to Utah, to Washington County, Utah next week

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to go make some videos. Should be fun. I always

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love going through New Mexico. The Land of Enchantment. West

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Texas is nice too, even though you know there's generally

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no public access to much of the land. It should

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be a nice time. I'm really excited for it, and

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I'm bringing my daughter too, so that should be great.

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We have a blast. I wish she would go to

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bed on time. She never does. She wants to wrestle

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and climb on me and punch me in the face

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actively while I'm drawing. But then, you know, it's sorry.

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I'll just be honest with you. I'll be honest with you. Shit,

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they could see that. It's genetic. It's obviously fucking genetic,

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you know. But anyway, Washington County, I'm gonna go see

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the gypsum Arctomicon. What what time of year does the

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arctomcon the Arctomicon? Remember, it's land. It doesn't matter how

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he produced it. Pronounced that the gypsum dwarf poppy. Do

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the central or eastern United States. What a fucking dope genus.

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I've seen all three species Miriamii californica and humorless. Humorless

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poppies and the gypsum bear poppy. Uh shit, it's gonna

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be finishing up now. There still might be some going off. Oh,

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we're gonna have to go. What do you think of

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serpentine gets its own sweet, its own cast of endemic species.

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is geographically endemic to someplace, it only grows in that region.

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or a country or a continent, means it only grows there.

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an a daphic endemic, and in this case you have

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gypsum endemics right town Sendia Gypsyphyla which grows northwest to Albuquerque,

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Nama Carnosa, which grows on the Texas New Mexico border.

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Go to the New Mexico site. It's nicer and gentler,

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and it just feels more mellow, not like Texas. Texas.

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Just out loud whed again, the fuck is you know?

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This drives me fucking n I'm gonna go off on

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a rant here actually because this is ripe. Fuck Dan Patrick,

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I want to say that right now. Fuck Dan Patrick,

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you jowy Colonel Sanders looking motherfucker Lieutenant governor of Texas

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meant the whole who is is this nineteen fifty? What

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other place in the world is trying to ban THCHC

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any kind of THC, even like the low dose stuff.

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There was this stuff called Tehaus Tonic. I think you

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could still get it till September. It was made in Austin.

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It's like a hoppy, five milligram THHC non alcoholic beer.

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Got it's so good. It's carbonated, it's delicious and I

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would drink one of those slowly. I found them at

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the bakery in Alpine in West Texas. I would drink

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one of those slowly and five I don't smoke weeds,

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so five milligrams is enough. Like that is almost too

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much for me. I would drink it slowly at night,

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and it was one of the few things that would

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get me to calm down and turn off my stupid mind,

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my noisy ping pong ball mind. And now that whole

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business is gonna go out it, They're gonna go out

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of business. This is gonna end fifty thousand jobs. There's

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fifty thousand jobs, you know with THHC related products low

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THCHC whatever you know. I think. I don't know what

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else is going to affect low THHC, you know, gummies

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or whatever. And uh, I don't know why they're doing this.

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I don't know. I have no clue why they're doing that.

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What fucking idiot thinks that this is worth doing. And

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not only that, but you're like five hundred million dollars

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worth of tax revenue and Texas doesn't have income tax,

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mind you. This state is just so absolutely fucking moronic.

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Sometimes I don't get it. I don't understand, and they

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want to make the populace dumb too, like that they're

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doing these private school charters. They're defunding public education and

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putting vouchers, taxpayer funded vouchers for essentially rich kids to

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go to private schools. They say it's for everybody, but

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it's mostly going to be rich kids. It's fucking gross.

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You know, you got like one of the unhealthiest, dumbest

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populace is in the United States. No offense, no offense

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to anybody, right, I think what's the dumbest populist, least

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educated populous in the United States? At Mississippi's It's somewhere

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in the south, of course, but uh, but of course,

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but you know the Texas is running up there. I

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mean in healthcare is a fucking huge industry here too.

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A lot of money to be made off people being

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sick and out of shape and pre diabetic and from

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living in you know, a place where where walking has

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been made obsolete and there's not off in any bike lanes.

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You can't get exercise if you want it to unless

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you go to the gym and like you know, smell

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bo and off gassing plastic while you're listening to bad

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techno music. Got the gym. I hate the jim anyway,

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So this is so Dan Patrick's idea. He's gonna save

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the children from the evils of THCHC. Right, And mean,

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why do I care if I don't smoke weed? Well,

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I care because I hate alcohol. I absolutely hate alcohol,

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and I hate what it does to people. I hate

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how stupid it makes people. I hate that it numbs

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people to things they need to otherwise be feeling so

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that they can maybe change their lives, you know. I mean,

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it's it's right up there with coke, like cocaine and

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alcohol are two of them most fucking annoying drugs you

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could put anybody on and then and alcohol is legal.

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Alcohol is very important if you need a populace to

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be dumb and numb to how miserable their life is

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because they're working for too little and they're overworked and

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you don't even allow them, you know, breaks for heat

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at their job, not this fucking backwards ass state. But uh,

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you know, and I'm here because of family. Before you

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give me hell for a movie, I don't want to

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hear it. Shut up, Like the California's got its own

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list of problems. I don't want to hear you like

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your your this liberal elitism. There's nothing more obnoxious and

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Caucasian liberals. But but god, it just blows my fucking mind,

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you know, But you get people stone. I would much

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rather deal with people stoned, you know, especially if they're driving,

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then with with alcohols, with alcoholics, right, I would. I

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would rather be around stoned people. They've got their own

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sense of issues. They're spacey, they forget shit, they're hard

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to talk to, they're a little woo woo, they get

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paranoids times. But I'd rather deal with that because they're

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generally kinder people. Then I would deal with drunks. I

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fucking hate drunks. There's a reason that shit has been

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banned in so many cultures. Right, So if you're gonna

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go that route, ban alcohol then too, and good luck,

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you fucking idiot with that, because we know how well

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that turned out. So Texas is and it's not going

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to stop people from using weed either. Get it's gonna

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make the cops jobs harder because now they got to

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look for this stuff, and it's just gonna enable black

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markets a lot of money to be made. If you're

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growing weed out of state, you can ship it to

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Texas vacuum seal that shit. Make sure you put it

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in a plastic case, like a laptop case or something

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plastic laptop case so that the you know, people at

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the post office can't poke it with h steel rods,

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you know, because then they'll they'll actually take your stuff.

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That was an issue people used to have in California,

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remember hearing people complain about that. Yeah, we're shipping weed

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out of state the places where it's still illegal, and

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the post office has actually been stealing a lot of

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our stuff. They would poke the vacuum. It's just gonna

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mention this in a podcast. This is stuff I heard.

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I'm not telling anybody what to do. This is just

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stuff I heard. I don't advise you to try and

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make money off of these idiots making this law by

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growing weed out of state where it's legal. Weed's a

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very easy plant to grow, too, very very easy. Which

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is so funny because all these weed bros get good

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at growing weed, and then suddenly they think they're botanists

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and they get all these goofy ass theories. No offense

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to them. Love what you're doing. It's great stuff, just

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you know, maybe a little humility. But you know, I'm

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not telling you to do that. I'm not telling you

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to exploit the black market that this idiotic law is creating. Man,

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I know so many people that smoke weed down here too,

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right wing, left wing. They don't give everyone smoke. Everyone's

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smoking weed. It's a pleasant thing, right for some people.

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I don't like. It makes me a little paranoid, makes

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me forgetful. But it makes stretching really fun. It makes

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stretching really nice, and working out too sometimes, right, Moderation's

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key with that everything. But god damn it. I fucking

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hate alcohol and if we if I know people I

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know alcoholics that have said I drink less because I

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can now have easy access to safe, regulated cannabis and

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all that's going away. Listen this fucking guy. Listen to this.

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Speaker 2: Would you buy anything off the shelf?

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Speaker 4: Looks like Colonel Sanders, We'll just get the fucking white

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suit in the.

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Speaker 2: Boat state for the rest of your life. Would you

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want that? Anybody want this bag? Okay, you want it?

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Speaker 4: Theatrics he's a Thespian.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't dare buy it. You wouldn't let your children,

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your grandchildren.

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Speaker 4: What is he holding up? It depends how it tastes and.

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Speaker 3: By the way, and come September all this will be

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illegal anyway, So I'll be turning this over to the

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police before.

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Speaker 2: I leave here.

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Speaker 4: Oh good job, Diane, good job.

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Speaker 2: You don't know what's in it. No one knows what's

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in it. This is not a game.

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Speaker 4: Dose this guy. Dose him. He needs to get dose essence.

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Speaker 3: The loopholes for Delta eight and Delta ten that were

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creative around the natural help hemp of Delta nine.

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Speaker 2: They have come into this state and used our state.

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Speaker 4: It don't get okay.

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Speaker 2: It could be a drug dealer van Delta. We will

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not let the state of Texas, It's great, be in

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the drug.

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Speaker 3: Business of making these products available on the shelves.

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Speaker 2: I want to try any of this.

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Speaker 4: I like this. I like this, though, I do want

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to mention O this is nice the comments section. We

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will not be in the drug business except for alcohol

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and tobacco. Those are fine. Don't ask why people dying

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of fentanyl, but they're talking about CBD products. Looks like

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an snl skit says the man taking millions from pharma

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drug dealer. Yeah, you know, Texas politics being as correct

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as they are, this guy's got to be getting paid

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by someone. He's got to be getting paid. What a

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fucking idiot. You know, So now people are going to

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be getting weed from wherever and there's no measurement of

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how many milligrams or how much is you know. That's

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that was one of the nice things like for me

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occasionally when I would drink these tehostonic things five milligrams.

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I know I'm only getting five milligrams, and it tastes

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good and it's I'll drink it slow because I don't

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want to get ripped. I hate being stoned, but just

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a little bit the right amount of buzz. It's so nice.

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But now that's not you know, now that's impossible because

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there's no way to measure it anymore. It's not regulated.

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This guy, I hope this costs him his political career.

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This guy's a fucking moron. You look at this guy.

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He's a fucking dinosaur. This is a clown. This guy

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is an idiot, you jowly fuck talk about going to

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the gym. Send this guy to the gym, This old bastard.

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How do these guys? How do guys like this live?

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So long? Too? Right? This guy's gotta talk about a colonoscopy.

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This guy's got to get a colonoscopy. He's probably in batch.

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You know, he's eating try tip and all kinds of shit,

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you know, stuff in his coling. With all that, the

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all that pig and cow, he's probably got some polyps

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some you know, none of these pigs ever die from

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from disease. Rush Limbaugh was like the last pig that

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died of a of a disease that was cancer. That

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was only one. Give us another one, Come on, please

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give us one. Huh. Why doesn't it ever happen to

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bad to fucking bad people? Okay, anyway, I digress. Let's

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talk about New Mexico plants. Let's talk about the sand

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hills east, the beautiful Carlsbad, New Mexico. Now, this was

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red sand. It's like an oxidized sand. I assume there's

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a high iron content. I don't know the age. The

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limestone around there is roughly Permian. But this sand, when

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that's this sand obviously was weathered out of sandstone. But

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it's been blown around, you know, it's been blown all around.

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I don't know. I don't know what formation nearby formation

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it came from. If you go to the rock that

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it just says Eolian deposits, which means wind. I'm not

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even sure if I'm pronouncing that right, but I don't

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really give a shit to be honest. Again, who's going

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to correct you on that? Actually, that's not how you

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pronounced that. See what is this Eolien and Piedmont deposits? Yeah,

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it just says place to see into Holo scene points

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seven million years ago to present interlayed Eolien sands and

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Piedmont slope deposits along the eastern flank of the Pecos

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River Valley between Roswell and Carlsbag. God, it's so nice

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going to New Mexico. You step over the border and

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there's BLM land everywhere. You can go anywhere and there's

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no like, mean, jolly fuck, who's gonna yell at you

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or ask you what you're doing or assume the worst.

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It's the thing that Texas landovers, the Texas landowners never

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assume you're just harmlessly looking at stuff. It's always you're

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up to no good, or you're gonna steal their rocks

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because they own the rocks. The rocks and the seeds

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on that land belong to them. You're stealing if you

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take them get the fuck out of here. Oh god,

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what does the rock that say? Yeah, west of Carlsbab,

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it's uh, the Guadalupian. It's the Yates and Tansel formations age.

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It's Guadalupian two hundred and seventy five million to two

463
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hundred and fifty nine milli years ago, so before the

464
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:08,920
Permian extinction. Sandstone, siltstone, limestone, dolomite, and anhydrite. The lithology

465
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,759
it's mostly sandstone, carbonates and silt stone. Okay, so that's

466
00:25:12,759 --> 00:25:15,319
where it's coming out of. But you get east the

467
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:20,319
Carlsbad and you start seeing these cool sandhills, really cool

468
00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:23,440
sand hills, and they look barren at first. The miskit's

469
00:25:23,519 --> 00:25:26,680
only getting three feet tall. And this is a tree.

470
00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:29,839
This is a tree sized plant where you get water.

471
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,039
Maybe you get next to like a more shady micro site,

472
00:25:33,079 --> 00:25:36,200
next to an arroyo, got like a big piece of

473
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,319
boulder or a piece of a mountain, a little sarrow

474
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,000
or some shit on the west side, so it's blocking

475
00:25:43,039 --> 00:25:46,640
that hot afternoon sun. These miskats will get big, they'll

476
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,319
get tall, but here on these sand deposits, they get

477
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,559
multiple stems, they become multiple stem little shrubs the top

478
00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:56,039
out of three or four feet. But I tell you, man,

479
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,680
the fucking and then I'm editing the video for this

480
00:25:58,799 --> 00:26:03,119
part now. For this habitat, I was surprised at how

481
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:09,160
incredibly diverse and rich this area was. Man, it was incredible.

482
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,799
I mean, the there was so much cool chikro in

483
00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:17,319
there and were the main reason I went there was

484
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,319
because of Po Maria James I the genus PO Maria.

485
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:26,000
It's a cool, cool sace alpinoid. It's a cool sace

486
00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:28,519
alpanoid p It's got a really cool flower shape. You know,

487
00:26:28,519 --> 00:26:30,599
they look kind of like an orchid, and you could

488
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,559
tell they're pollinated by some sort of big ass b

489
00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:35,160
or something. They If it's got a weird shape like that,

490
00:26:35,599 --> 00:26:38,599
there's something weird going on with the pollinator or with

491
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,400
the reward that it's offering the pollinator. And so it

492
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,160
had this It's got this keeled pedal that all these

493
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,200
statements come out of, and it's the whole thing's covered

494
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,960
in glands. But what is a gland? Think of like

495
00:26:49,079 --> 00:26:52,119
the way pot looks, that's a gland. It's a glandular tricombe.

496
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:54,400
It's a hair with the little gland on it a

497
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,359
glandular tricombe. It's a living tricomb because trichombs can be

498
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,279
dead or alive. In the case of wool, I'm like

499
00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:04,759
an oreosirious old man of the Andes cactus. Those tricombes

500
00:27:04,759 --> 00:27:08,079
are dead, it's dead tissue. In the case of cannabis,

501
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,960
it's a living tricombe. It's alive. It's still connected to

502
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,640
the vasculature of the plant. It's still receiving h you know,

503
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,839
sugars and all this shit from the plant. It's actually

504
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:24,039
connected to the plant, still in alive. So anyway, I

505
00:27:24,079 --> 00:27:26,799
don't mean like physically connected, I mean connected to the vasculature.

506
00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,240
So this this po Maria, and it's a cool genus.

507
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,000
Pomria is a cool genus. Ainance says there's fourteen species.

508
00:27:34,039 --> 00:27:37,519
There's probably more, but this is this does not get

509
00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,559
I guess you got some in Nevada. No, you don't.

510
00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:45,440
There's none in Nevada, none in Utah. This is Arizona, Colorado,

511
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,079
New Mexico, West Texas. Oh, you get some in Kansas.

512
00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:51,480
I want to go to fucking Kansas. Kansas seems nice,

513
00:27:51,519 --> 00:27:55,640
you know, Oklahoma seems nice too. Javier got invited to

514
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,960
a payote meeting with the comanches up in Lawton, and

515
00:27:59,079 --> 00:28:00,720
he was gonna go, but I don't think he was

516
00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:02,160
able to make it there. I think he had to work.

517
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:06,599
But uh, law In Oklahoma's nice. Say shut out to

518
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,799
laud in Oklahoma. Shout out to anybody listening in Lawton, Oklahoma.

519
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,599
Shout out to the Wichita Mountains. Shout out to the

520
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:20,880
prairie dog community, the prairie Dog compound near the Plains Museum.

521
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,279
What is the cool museum in Lawton. There's some cool

522
00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:25,119
shit in Lawton, if you get a chance to go there.

523
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:31,039
But uh, anyway, Yeah, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, a little

524
00:28:31,039 --> 00:28:33,599
bit in Kansas. That's an area I have not botanized

525
00:28:33,599 --> 00:28:37,799
a lot. It's like eastern Colorado, Western Kansas, Oklahoma Panhandle.

526
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,319
Fuck the Oklahoma Panhand. God, there's some beautiful stuff there. Man. Oh,

527
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,359
those open plains, those open, windy plains where the bison

528
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:50,039
used to be. I was at who was I visiting.

529
00:28:50,319 --> 00:28:53,240
We were visiting a friend on a reservation in Oklahoma.

530
00:28:54,119 --> 00:28:56,960
I think it was like two thousand and six or something.

531
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:03,119
And yes, she had this horse, this beautiful horse, and

532
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,160
I jumped up on it. It was really nice. Let

533
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,880
me get up on top of it. I was pulling

534
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,200
ticks off of it. I got on top of it

535
00:29:09,279 --> 00:29:11,680
and was just riding it around. And then I thought

536
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,599
it'd be funny if I did it naked. So I

537
00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:18,559
started riding this horse around naked, and uh, I fucking

538
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:21,640
wish I had that picture still. Shit was hilarious. Someone

539
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,920
took a picture of me naked on his horse, riding

540
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,599
this fucking thing around in the sun. Beautiful horse. I

541
00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:29,000
felt so freed it. That was when I was living

542
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,440
my best life. When you're naked riding a horse in

543
00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:35,960
western Oklahoma, you know you've really made it. You could

544
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,920
die happy. You could take a dirt nap the next day,

545
00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:43,160
and you know you could could die satisfied anyway. That

546
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,839
whole area. I haven't spent that much time. Man. You

547
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,400
ever been to Dodge City, Kansas? Got I bet there's

548
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,400
some fucking I bet Dodge City. Like right in Dodge City,

549
00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:53,680
there's a lot of rough culture. You know, a lot

550
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,799
of dollar generals, some rough. But I bet you get

551
00:29:57,839 --> 00:30:01,119
to the areas outside there there's some beautif where's the

552
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,319
nice prairie preserves in Kansas? If you're from eastern Colorado

553
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,000
or Western Kansas or northern Oklahoma, you know that area.

554
00:30:08,079 --> 00:30:10,599
Send me some places to go that you want me

555
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,240
to film plants. Don't make it a long email because

556
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,759
I won't read it. I just don't have the time

557
00:30:14,799 --> 00:30:16,559
and I'm fucking eighty d. But send me a list,

558
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,200
be like you wanted these places. Here's some cool places.

559
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,680
Maybe send a mapplink to if you can, because they

560
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,200
don't make it a lot easier as easy as you

561
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,119
can make it for me. Right, Pretend I'm much older

562
00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:29,960
than I am. Pretend you're emailing and geriatric. Anyway. So

563
00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:32,440
I was going out there for pal Maria in Atlas

564
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,920
fourteen species in the genus po Maria fourteen variations on

565
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,880
a theme. There's probably more holy shit po Maria Sandersonia.

566
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:44,000
There's fucking red ones, Rubikonda. Where's Rubacunda? Oh, they're so cool.

567
00:30:44,039 --> 00:30:47,039
They all look so cool. They look like Gladiola's or

568
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:51,200
something beautiful gladiol like the gladiolas I saw in South Africa.

569
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,720
Where the fuck is this thing from? That's incredible? Po

570
00:30:54,839 --> 00:31:02,440
Maria Rubekunda? Where is this? Oh? Oh oh shit, it's

571
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,960
way down? What the fuck? Uruguay? How to fuck Uruguay

572
00:31:07,039 --> 00:31:11,799
and Paraguay. Damn, well, that's a disjunction. I wonder if

573
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:15,359
that was a bird assisted dispersal. Had to be Ruba Kunda.

574
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,200
I did not know there was po Mario. I thought

575
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,119
this was just central let's see. Yeah, okay, there's a

576
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,160
couple in South America too. I didn't know that Brazil,

577
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,359
Paraguay and Uruguay anyway. So I was going out there

578
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,640
to see Paul Maria because I wanted to see pal Maria,

579
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,119
James the I and I had no idea the amount

580
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,319
of cool stuff I was gonna see. There was an abronia,

581
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,119
there was more That epizifium was life xenii, which is

582
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,960
Mirandia snapdragon vine, big purple flowers. Looks like a purple snapdragon.

583
00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:48,279
But the leaves on this thing are fucking wild, arrowhead shaped,

584
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,920
kinda has state with like a fine pubescent indument on

585
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,880
him that gives them a silvery luster, a silvery luster

586
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,319
with silvery veins. It's a crime, this thing isn't you

587
00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:01,720
know again. James Peace had this, but the nursery that

588
00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:04,279
fired him threw all this shit out because they wanted

589
00:32:04,279 --> 00:32:07,680
to grow bogan V's and all this other garbage. There

590
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:11,759
was Yuka campestris everywhere, little like it's the plains Yuka

591
00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:15,559
they call it. I guess it's endangered species, probably just

592
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:17,559
because all the habitat has been destroyed, because it's readily

593
00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:22,359
abundant where there's still habitat. There was Mimosa cooliada karpa,

594
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,880
a little white mimosa with like big thorns on it,

595
00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:27,599
typical pinnate leaves. You see that, you could say, oh, yeah,

596
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,359
it's some mimoas. I could see that Macaranth tennessee to

597
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,880
folio purple. It's like a little purple daisy, related to

598
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,960
Grendilia and the macaranther and macaranthny tribe. There was a

599
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,400
really cool little grass. I don't give a shit about

600
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,440
most grasses, but I saw the ones I saw here

601
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,759
were fucking phenomenal. I saw Aristota purpoia, which was just beautiful.

602
00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:55,000
All the aristotas are gorgeous. All the Aristota grasses when

603
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,680
they got their seeds on them, they're like blowing in

604
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,559
the wind. They look like these beautiful psychedelic feathers. Almost

605
00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:05,400
really mesmerizing to watch, you know. And it was it

606
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,640
was hot out. It was like ninety degrees. I think

607
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,079
The elevation here was like thirty one hundred feet, but

608
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,279
there was a really nice breeze, so I didn't feel

609
00:33:12,319 --> 00:33:18,240
overheated at all. It was fucking wonderful, man. But that's

610
00:33:18,279 --> 00:33:19,799
the kind of the claim. You gotta watch out because

611
00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:21,720
you can get so stoked, you're so excited because you're

612
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,000
seeing so much cool stuff, you forget that it's you know,

613
00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:28,279
ninety degrees or ninety five, and you could pass out,

614
00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:30,799
you know, but you just keep your song, just keep

615
00:33:30,839 --> 00:33:33,079
yourself in check. I got to get a new cooler too.

616
00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:37,599
The one I have is kind of jinky. Yeah. Monroe

617
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,240
Squarerosa was this little grass and it looked fucking nuts

618
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,279
because it had I didn't know this, and I guess

619
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:47,359
this species doesn't always do this. It's phenotypic depending on

620
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,079
where it's growing as well. It's phenotypic and environmental. The

621
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,559
hotter the climate, you know, and the more exposed. And

622
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,599
this was growing right out in the full sun. I'm

623
00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:57,960
sure if it was in a shadier site it wouldn't

624
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,160
do this. But it was so wool this grass was,

625
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,400
you know, it was just looked like a boring little

626
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:08,360
bunch grass, except that it had these white cobwebs of

627
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,599
wool all over it. You know that are obviously affording

628
00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:16,960
it the longevity. And it's otherwise very hot and especially

629
00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:21,199
windy and arid climate that wind. When it's hot and dry,

630
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,199
that's enough. When you have the wind too, you dry

631
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:27,719
out that much quicker. So that's what all these hairs do.

632
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,760
And this is what I was trying to explain to

633
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,440
some of the you know, permaculture nutjobs and other people

634
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:37,039
that that didn't like my soil post with symbiosis Texas.

635
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,519
Now that soil's fine, it doesn't matter. It's barren limestone.

636
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:43,360
You can you can you can improve it. Yeah, okay,

637
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,960
you can improve it by dumping dump trucks of amendment sun.

638
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,039
It's not the fucking point more on. It's it's a

639
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,599
I got a tone of downe. I get a little

640
00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:51,679
I'm a little hot. I get a little mad. I've

641
00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:53,760
been a little mad. I've been calling people names and shit.

642
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,119
Right when I woke up from the PROPA fault, God,

643
00:34:57,159 --> 00:34:59,559
I was out of it. That sucked. I was so

644
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:01,679
out of it. I hate being drugged. And when I

645
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,679
woke up from the Michael Jackson drugs, I was in

646
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,960
such a great mood. I forgot that. I was angry

647
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,360
about having to deal with the you know, the broken

648
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:14,440
healthcare system and all this stuff. And then and it

649
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:20,280
took like thirty minutes. You know, my daughter's grandpa went

650
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,960
and picked me up. Shout out to Leonardo, thank you.

651
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,719
And he went and picked my ass up and and

652
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,079
uh yeah, and took me home because they won't let

653
00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:33,440
you drive home because you're still in the Michael Jackson drugs.

654
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,320
Why was that guy doing that stuff? I don't understand.

655
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,880
It's not like a recreational thing. I don't know. Maybe

656
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,599
it's just me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make

657
00:35:41,599 --> 00:35:43,320
fun of a guy anymore. He was a king of pop.

658
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,440
But I was in a good mood. And then just

659
00:35:47,519 --> 00:35:50,159
you know, and out like twenty minutes of looking at

660
00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:55,320
the phone or just thinking about the life circumstances of

661
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,119
modern America. It puts you in a bad mood. I

662
00:35:58,159 --> 00:36:00,639
swear to god, if I didn't have botany, I would

663
00:36:00,679 --> 00:36:04,880
be so much angrier and probably actively starting fights with people.

664
00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:08,559
You know, I think a lot of people are like that,

665
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,679
and I don't shame them for it. I just want

666
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,159
I want to help those people, you know, don't drink,

667
00:36:13,639 --> 00:36:17,920
don't don't smoke your pot. Get into the living world right,

668
00:36:18,079 --> 00:36:20,320
find the find the ship that gets you stoked, kill

669
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,159
your lawn and plant some fucking natives, start learning about it.

670
00:36:23,199 --> 00:36:24,920
Just go into it full. You know you gotta go.

671
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,360
I guess you gotta get that dopamine hit every time

672
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,039
you do it, or else you're not gonna be coming back.

673
00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:31,599
But that's what kept me coming back was that dopamine

674
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:34,599
hit changed my life entirely. That and getting sober as well,

675
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,840
doing a recovery thing, being a friend of Bill or

676
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,760
Bob or whatever the fuck is his name of Bill, Bill,

677
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:46,920
It's Bill, right, yeah, you know anyway. Okay, So when

678
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,440
ROAs squarerosa was out there, that's a cool that's a

679
00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:52,559
cool grass to put on your radar. Mu n r

680
00:36:52,679 --> 00:36:57,360
o A squarerosa. But again it's not always. You could

681
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:01,400
see pictures on my I Naturalist. This was May seventeenth.

682
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,039
I was out there, so you could even do it

683
00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,079
by filter. See all this stuff I was checking out

684
00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:11,079
out there. That epiz Ifium epix ifium is like zeni

685
00:37:11,079 --> 00:37:14,199
I as a good one. There was Centabauhinioides everywhere too.

686
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:19,559
That's a cool little son, I want to grow that. Yeah,

687
00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:23,599
So you know, I'm just going through this habitat getting

688
00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:26,360
distracted by all the cool shit I'm seeing while I'm

689
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,519
going to look for this one plant species, which is

690
00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:31,800
the way it's normally done. You know, you go out there,

691
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,519
you just you know how it's going to be. You

692
00:37:33,559 --> 00:37:36,119
got to stop and look at everything, and if you're not,

693
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,239
you're missing out on a lot of stuff. I was

694
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,679
surprised to see a horse crippler out in this habitat too.

695
00:37:42,119 --> 00:37:44,880
Homolocephalitech Census one of the easiest cact i had to

696
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,760
grow from seed. They just need that heat. Really cool.

697
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,519
It looks like a cow patty. It looks like a

698
00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:54,480
cow patty with spines, like a healthy cow patty, not

699
00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:57,199
like the diarrhea cup you don't want to give the

700
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,400
ranchers give the antibiotics. To give a cow too much

701
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,119
antibiotics and it's just like diarrheing all over its ass.

702
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,320
This is really lovely content for this episode. I'm sorry,

703
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,320
I really hope no one's eating this is like a

704
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:13,079
healthy cow patty, like a bison patty, right, wouldn't that

705
00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:16,280
be cool if there were bison instead of cows. This

706
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,239
is like a stoner thought. And I'm not high. I'm

707
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,199
just saying it would wouldn't that be nicer? Bison are

708
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,559
so much cooler. But they're too smart. That's the problem.

709
00:38:24,559 --> 00:38:27,320
They're not as stupid as cows. You know, cows were

710
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,320
actively bred from wild They are ros to be dumb

711
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,320
because they're easier to contain, just like people. You breed

712
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,119
people to be not breed. But you, oh my god,

713
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:39,039
thinking it, Jennitis. They thinking knew it. You. If you

714
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:42,679
make people dumber by defunding education and creating a bleakue

715
00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:46,760
consumer society, they're easier to contain and control. Right, That's

716
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,360
exactly what happened with Texas. So anyway, but this, this

717
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,079
homolocephalo was out there. You only see one, only one,

718
00:38:54,119 --> 00:38:58,239
little horse crippler. What the fuck? But those are self

719
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,000
fertile too. Most cacti are not fertile, so you need

720
00:39:01,079 --> 00:39:07,159
two to cross polonnate peyotes, homolocephala, what else. There's a

721
00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:10,199
couple others. Those are self fertile. So even if you

722
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,000
only have one, you'll still get good seed. You're not

723
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
gonna get a lot of seed per fruit, but you'll

724
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,280
get enough. So but yeah, you can get like a

725
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,719
horse crippler to flowering in like three or four years.

726
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:25,360
Same with astrophyte them too. Just give them a lot

727
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,280
of water whenever it's dry and hot out, and don't

728
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,559
water them if it's if the soil is not dry

729
00:39:31,599 --> 00:39:36,000
and it's below like seventy degrees seventy five. But anyway,

730
00:39:36,199 --> 00:39:38,239
tons of cool shit in this habitat. I saw a

731
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,920
really weird Escobaria vivipara, which is a common cact that's

732
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:47,000
widespread throughout western North America, especially at higher elevations and

733
00:39:47,079 --> 00:39:51,280
higher latitudes. Beautiful pink flowers. This was like a multi

734
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,719
headed one. I almost didn't recognize it as an Escobari

735
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,760
at first. I guess it must be the ecotype from

736
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,639
the lower latitude portions of its range. But Escobaria vivipara,

737
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:04,000
if you see it in like Nevada, or does it

738
00:40:04,039 --> 00:40:06,159
go into Washington. I feel like it goes into Washington.

739
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,239
It goes into the high plains. You know, you'll see

740
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,960
that pink flower, and normally they're short and squat. This

741
00:40:12,119 --> 00:40:15,880
was like a big ten inch tall motherfucker with multiple heads.

742
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,440
There was a really cool carrot I saw too, native

743
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,960
carrot you're a Tania Hinkley. I collected a specimen of

744
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,239
that for the herbarium. That was a fucking dope plant

745
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,920
to see little umbols of flowers, umboles subtanted by these

746
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,719
kind of spiny, white margined bracts. You know, any carrot

747
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,039
you see, you see that compound dumble and or just

748
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,440
that specific umbol inflorescence morphologs. The actual flowers I'll tend

749
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,760
to kind of look the same, the tiny flowers, but

750
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,880
you see that inflorescence morphology, boom, you know it's apac

751
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,239
There was one of the most dominant plant we saw,

752
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,039
Corcus Havardia there too, which is a sand sheet or

753
00:40:56,119 --> 00:40:59,320
not a sandsheet, a sand oak, a sandhill oak, which

754
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,320
forms these mass of colonies that can probably live for

755
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,880
hundreds of years. Tops out at two or three feet.

756
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,840
I guess there's places where they can get taller to

757
00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:10,719
but never taller than eight feet. And that was that

758
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,519
was surprising. I didn't expect to see that there. I

759
00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:15,800
got nice photos that are developing acorns, the tiny acorns,

760
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:19,400
but I started seeing a lot of plants that were

761
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,760
either endemic to these sand hills or they were like

762
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,719
an ecotype that was endemic to these sandhills. Tons of

763
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:32,280
Onnathra too, the evening primroses anglomani I. There was Palletta there,

764
00:41:33,079 --> 00:41:39,760
ananthro Palletta, just a fucking just a plethora of evening primroses.

765
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,599
And they all bloom at night. You know, you see him,

766
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,360
you see them at noon. The flowers are already withering

767
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,639
and limp, the petals are already limp. But I bet,

768
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,920
I bet it's just getting hit by moths at night.

769
00:41:52,039 --> 00:41:54,400
So many cool moths there. Probably. I saw a giant

770
00:41:54,480 --> 00:42:00,440
fucking moth at thornscrub the other day, like hummingbird sized moth. Yeah,

771
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,880
so there was. There was a bunch of Onnathra. There

772
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,360
was a Monarda. I guess it was just punk tata,

773
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,199
but it looked like a slightly different ecotype. There's so

774
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,559
much variation. I just you know, I collected it. I

775
00:42:11,559 --> 00:42:13,960
put it in as punk tata, but man, who the

776
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,519
fuck knows? You know, again, you gotta be loose if

777
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,800
a species is especially widespread, you gotta be somewhat loose

778
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,960
about variations in form, right, And I've been doing this

779
00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:28,639
long enough now that I just accept it, like, Okay,

780
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,719
it's this species or maybe it's you know, CF or AF.

781
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:39,119
You know, but it might be it might be an

782
00:42:39,159 --> 00:42:42,440
affinity with this, It might be just a different ecotype.

783
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,559
At what point does an eco and then, of course,

784
00:42:44,599 --> 00:42:48,079
at what point does an ecotype become a subspecies of variety?

785
00:42:48,159 --> 00:42:51,760
You know? So when you're when you're when I said

786
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,719
a finis or AF or CF. You know, this is

787
00:42:54,719 --> 00:43:00,159
the difference between when you see AF or CF with

788
00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:05,400
a species name. In Latin nomenclature, right like Rebeki a

789
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:12,280
herda aff Rebeccy a herda AF means a finis, which

790
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,960
means related to or neighboring. You know. So in taxonomy,

791
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,880
aff usually indicse that a species has affinity with another

792
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,639
species but is not identical to it, right, so AFF

793
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,519
before a species name in case that the specimen is

794
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:28,719
likely a new species, but there may not be enough

795
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,119
information to describe it formally yet, such is the case

796
00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:34,960
with this Rebeccy a Herda, or such I believe is

797
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,119
the case with this Rebecca Herda from the South Texas sandsheet.

798
00:43:39,159 --> 00:43:41,480
It doesn't look like the Rebecca heard us from up north.

799
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,119
Maybe it's a different ecotype. It should certainly get a

800
00:43:44,119 --> 00:43:47,440
different subspecies name. If it doesn't have it already. And

801
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,559
I looked at Flora of North America and I don't

802
00:43:50,599 --> 00:43:53,000
think it's in there yet. There's no mention of the

803
00:43:53,039 --> 00:43:58,119
counties where it occurs, of those being different. But yeah,

804
00:43:58,119 --> 00:44:01,599
that's one thing I showed tow too Mike Powell at

805
00:44:01,639 --> 00:44:04,280
Sewel ross Orbarium, and he was like, that's not hurd of. Man,

806
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,239
that doesn't look like herd of. He didn't say, man,

807
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,360
he's eighty five. You know, he's an eighty five year

808
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,559
old Caucasian Texas. He's not saying man. I wish he was.

809
00:44:11,639 --> 00:44:14,639
But you know, it's such as like it take people

810
00:44:14,679 --> 00:44:18,480
as they are, right, uh, CF and then anyway, So

811
00:44:18,639 --> 00:44:21,239
back to this, but CF is shortened for the Latin

812
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,440
word confer, which means to compare with. So like you

813
00:44:23,519 --> 00:44:28,199
know in taxonomy you see CF before before a species name.

814
00:44:28,199 --> 00:44:31,440
It usually indicates that a species should be compared with

815
00:44:31,519 --> 00:44:35,119
another species, right, So like CF can be used to

816
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:39,519
indicate that a cited source supports a different claim than

817
00:44:39,559 --> 00:44:41,840
the one just made, and that the two claims should

818
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:46,840
be compared. So anyway, that both terms indicate uncertainty, but

819
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:50,320
at different levels, CF suggests a closer match than AFF,

820
00:44:50,679 --> 00:44:55,920
which implies a more distinct relationship, so uh, you know,

821
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,639
good a again, AFF is like related to her, allied

822
00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:02,559
with and it might be AFF is normally like if

823
00:45:02,559 --> 00:45:05,679
it could be an undescribed species, whereas, uh, you know,

824
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:10,039
CF means compare with, so it's like, you know, especimen

825
00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:13,519
closely resembles an own species, but has some differences that

826
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:16,880
prevent the definitive identification. So if you're unsure because you

827
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,039
just don't know, you could put CF if or you

828
00:45:21,079 --> 00:45:22,559
haven't been able to key it out yet, or if

829
00:45:22,599 --> 00:45:25,039
you're if you're unsure because it might be a new

830
00:45:25,039 --> 00:45:27,800
fucking species and doesn't match anything else from that region,

831
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:31,519
you use AFF And that's another thing for identification. That's

832
00:45:31,519 --> 00:45:35,000
so you know if you're not familiar with the region yet.

833
00:45:35,039 --> 00:45:37,920
That is what the process of elimination is so important

834
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,400
in ID. If you know all the species in a region,

835
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,480
then you would know, uh, if you come across something

836
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:47,079
unusual that it's unusual. Whereas if you're new to a region,

837
00:45:47,199 --> 00:45:49,119
just learning the taxonomy and learning the plants, so you

838
00:45:49,159 --> 00:45:52,280
wouldn't know that this is unusual. That's why it's so

839
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,960
fucking important to get out there and do field botany,

840
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,800
and people who ask me what books can I read? Man,

841
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:01,280
the best thing to do is go out first and

842
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,360
realize you don't know anything about what you're looking at,

843
00:46:04,519 --> 00:46:07,119
but that you're hungry to learn, and you're curious, and

844
00:46:07,159 --> 00:46:09,679
you're asking questions, most importantly, why the fuck is this

845
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,400
growing here? Why does this look like this? Why does

846
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,920
this have hairs? Why does this have spiny leaves? Why

847
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,719
does this I've noticed these only tend to grow on

848
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,039
this site. You write that shit down, take it on

849
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:22,320
a nopad app whatever, or even just record little videos

850
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,519
for yourself, whatever the fuck, and then you you hit

851
00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:30,039
those up later and then look them up actively, look

852
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:32,960
them up, you know, just searching on the internet. Even

853
00:46:33,039 --> 00:46:34,920
use fucking AI if you need to use, but use

854
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,960
deep seek. Don't use chat, GPT or any use deep seek.

855
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,679
Ask you questions. Deep seeks the Chinese one that pissed

856
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,679
off all the American billionaires. Right. God, I meet these

857
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,840
fucking people, man, who just shit on AI so hard,

858
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,719
you know, and they like shame you for using it.

859
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,199
It's like listen, fuck face, and I say, fuck face.

860
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:55,599
Some of these people are dear friends of mine. But

861
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,360
the amount of water or whatever the fuck your beef

862
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,440
is with this. You just want to shame people. Again,

863
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,800
it's like a white This is like a Caucasian liberal thing.

864
00:47:04,039 --> 00:47:06,679
They love shaming and shitting on people. That's how they

865
00:47:06,679 --> 00:47:09,400
helped Trump win, right, That's why some of them are

866
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,800
probably plants from the CIA or from the fucking right

867
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,440
wing whatever. But they love shaming and shitting on people.

868
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,000
So shitting on people for using AI is a great experience.

869
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,599
It's a great way to do it right. It's a

870
00:47:18,599 --> 00:47:20,639
great way to make yourself feel spared. But you're not

871
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,719
using it. I'm not using it to create you know,

872
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,000
those fat baby photos of jd Vance, though I do

873
00:47:27,079 --> 00:47:30,639
appreciate them, thinking fat jd Vance, those memes are one

874
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:33,159
of the only good things to come out of Trump

875
00:47:33,159 --> 00:47:36,679
winning the election, right, those and I can think of

876
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,239
a couple other things, like at least we have fat

877
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,119
Vance and he looks like a happy guy, Like he

878
00:47:42,159 --> 00:47:44,679
doesn't look that bad. There was one with fat Vance.

879
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,800
He had tits and he was shirtless and he was

880
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,199
like bringing you was a POV video and he's like

881
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:53,199
bringing you a breakfast tray, Like you know, it's it's

882
00:47:53,199 --> 00:47:55,559
so lovely to have you here. And then he brings

883
00:47:55,559 --> 00:47:57,639
you a breakfast tray of scrambled eggs and toast. That

884
00:47:57,679 --> 00:47:59,559
was a wonderful meme. I was so happy to see that,

885
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,039
you know. And then there's one where he's like in

886
00:48:02,119 --> 00:48:06,800
space it's great. It's fucking horrible, But I'm not using

887
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,880
it to create those I'm using it occasionally to get

888
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,039
information that would otherwise take me forty minutes to pin

889
00:48:13,199 --> 00:48:16,360
down and require reading ten research papers, and it can

890
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,840
be nice. So I use it occasionally and it's very helpful,

891
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,199
and you should use it too, if you're going to

892
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,119
be forced to deal with all the terrible shit coming

893
00:48:24,119 --> 00:48:26,679
out of this new technology, like the ability to search

894
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:31,599
through massive quantities of information, especially about identity about you. Right,

895
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,760
That's what they're doing with foreign students that are trying

896
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,599
to come in to these elite universities, is they're going

897
00:48:38,639 --> 00:48:41,519
through all their social media posts. This is so fucking

898
00:48:41,559 --> 00:48:44,079
insane too that they're doing this, and they're using AI

899
00:48:44,199 --> 00:48:45,480
to do it, and to find out if have you

900
00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:48,719
ever said anything bad about Israel? Have you ever said

901
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,000
anything bad about this ethno state, this apartheid ethno state?

902
00:48:52,039 --> 00:48:54,320
Have you ever said anything bad about Trump? Have you

903
00:48:54,320 --> 00:49:00,199
ever said anything bad about capitalism. Capitalism is wonderful. Why

904
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,199
would you say anything bad about that? It can never

905
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,960
go wrong, especially when it's unregulated, when all the when

906
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,119
all the fucking chains have come off, and it's just

907
00:49:08,159 --> 00:49:10,599
the corporations can do whatever they want in the court

908
00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:13,239
the country is run by oligarchs. Have you ever said

909
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,719
anything bad? But if you're gonna have to deal with

910
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,960
the bullshit from this technology, you might as well use

911
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,559
a little bit of it for good. And these people

912
00:49:21,599 --> 00:49:27,039
that shame people for using it, you know, again, fat

913
00:49:27,039 --> 00:49:29,679
advance is the only thing that I that I am

914
00:49:29,679 --> 00:49:32,440
behind that this other stuff, I don't using it to

915
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:37,639
create paintings and fucking videos whatever, don't. I'm not for that.

916
00:49:37,639 --> 00:49:39,760
That probably is. That's a massive waste of energy. But

917
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:44,199
fat advance. At least we have fat advance, all right. Anyway,

918
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,280
don't shit, don't shit on people for it, all right,

919
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,400
Go talk to your therapists. You're upset about something, you

920
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,639
want to make people feel you know, making people feel

921
00:49:50,639 --> 00:49:54,159
bad isn't a good way to get get things accomplished, right,

922
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,039
It just doesn't. It's just spreading shit. You're just like

923
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,199
giving people buckets a stale pissed. I encountered what was it.

924
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,000
There was some posts I put in today about I

925
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,480
left the comment. It was about how broken the healthcare

926
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:12,719
system is. I left the comment and it was it

927
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,840
was it was like, oh, the new American dream is

928
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:17,719
to leave, which is something I firmly believe. That's a

929
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,199
dream I speak to every spoke to a friend in Turkey.

930
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,119
She told me she's got they got free health insurance there.

931
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,719
Chile's got free health insurance. People bitch about it, but

932
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:27,320
they say it's way better than what you have in

933
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,920
the United States. Friends in Mexico say, oh, yeah, it's

934
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,440
you know, we have healthcare can be frustrating, but oh,

935
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,559
it's way better than you guys have. Like everyone knows

936
00:50:34,639 --> 00:50:36,880
the US healthcare system is a joke. And I left

937
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:41,320
the comment saying such and and uh, you know, there

938
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,159
were a couple of right wing trolls, but whatever. I mean,

939
00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:45,039
people just talk shit on the internet because they're miserable.

940
00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:49,480
Everyone's miserable and and they're fucking nope happy. People don't

941
00:50:49,559 --> 00:50:54,079
leave shitty comments like this. But uh, but this one

942
00:50:54,159 --> 00:50:56,280
fucking moron. I don't know. I don't know if they ended

943
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:57,960
up blocking me or what. But they left this, and

944
00:50:58,039 --> 00:51:00,920
I know it was someone told them this. I'm like,

945
00:51:01,119 --> 00:51:03,639
they left, they said something, They're like you. I was like,

946
00:51:03,639 --> 00:51:05,679
the new American dream is to leave, and they're like, yeah,

947
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,519
don't come here. Don't come here. You're gonna colonize my hood,

948
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,199
all you fucking Americans with your white supremacy culture. You know,

949
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:18,599
just when people use these academic social justice terms to

950
00:51:18,679 --> 00:51:20,800
just pick fights with people and talk shit online, I

951
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:23,639
have no tolerance for it anymore, especially because I know

952
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,840
that ninety percent of these people are under the age

953
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,960
of twenty five, have the life experience of a fart.

954
00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:32,880
Their their wealth of knowledge about the human condition is

955
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:36,440
is not there. It's the pauperate. It's negligible. They don't

956
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,079
know shit yet they're twenty five. How do I know

957
00:51:38,119 --> 00:51:40,000
because I was twenty five once and thought I knew

958
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,559
everything about the world and talked loads of shit. And

959
00:51:42,639 --> 00:51:44,920
I was just a fucking asshole. And I was miserable too,

960
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,440
That's why I talked shit so much. I was miserable.

961
00:51:47,599 --> 00:51:49,679
I was not happy, right. I had a lot of

962
00:51:49,679 --> 00:51:51,880
things going on in my life. I was very angry

963
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,320
about right, and it's not going to change anything like

964
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,000
it's the proper thing for those people to do. Whites,

965
00:51:59,039 --> 00:52:01,320
that fantasy shit, the white supremacy. What are you talking

966
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:05,280
about white supremacy culture. This is the people commenting they

967
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:07,119
want to leave the US because it's broken. You think

968
00:52:07,119 --> 00:52:11,119
they're fucking Nazisy moron, you know, you just you're parrotting

969
00:52:11,159 --> 00:52:14,440
other people's opinions as if they're your own. There's no

970
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,280
critical thought whatsoever. You're just parroting other people's opinions, and

971
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,719
you're being a dick. Shut the fuck up. I can't

972
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,400
take those people anymore seriously than I would take someone

973
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,119
who's like a QAnon dad or someone's racist angry grandpa.

974
00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:29,480
They're all victims of the algorithm. They're all tools. They

975
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,840
sound like morons, you know, you know, and that's the

976
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,320
thing I mean. I replied to this person, right, I

977
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,159
think they were in Mexico or something. They were just

978
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:43,079
parroting all this stupid buzzwords and slogans. These people talking slogans,

979
00:52:43,559 --> 00:52:47,519
you know, these fucking the academic social justice speak to

980
00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:51,639
shit on and shame people because you're really changing the world.

981
00:52:52,079 --> 00:52:54,320
I said, I got ten bucks on you being under

982
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,920
the age of twenty five, depressed perpetually online, and that

983
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,519
your bank of life experiences is negligible. This is why

984
00:53:01,519 --> 00:53:04,079
you're just parroting other people's slogans like it's your own

985
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,000
and throwing them at anyone who will listen. You're not

986
00:53:07,199 --> 00:53:10,119
changing anything, just being as a stale cup of piss

987
00:53:10,159 --> 00:53:13,360
to yourself and everyone you interact with. Put the phone down,

988
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,000
take a walk outside, and quit feeding into the conflict algorithm.

989
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:18,840
I should have said go talk to a therapist too.

990
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,920
You get how is therapy free in Mexico or cheap?

991
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,599
It's probably a lot more accessible than it is here.

992
00:53:24,599 --> 00:53:27,119
Maybe I don't know. I don't know. How does the

993
00:53:27,159 --> 00:53:29,159
culture feel about therapy? Does it make you a pussy?

994
00:53:29,199 --> 00:53:31,039
If you go to therapy? That's what That's what they

995
00:53:31,039 --> 00:53:33,440
feel like in Texas. That's what the Texas culture tells you.

996
00:53:33,639 --> 00:53:35,960
If you go to therapy, you're a pussy. If you

997
00:53:36,039 --> 00:53:39,239
actually try and deal with your emotions and make yourself

998
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,840
a better person so that you stop hurting people or

999
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:46,239
lashing out of people, you're a pussy. The proper thing

1000
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,880
to do is just drown it all in booze. There

1001
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,840
you go. Don't admit you're wrong, don't say you're sorry.

1002
00:53:53,519 --> 00:53:56,599
Don't express even a shred of humility. Just drown it

1003
00:53:56,639 --> 00:53:59,719
in booze and get a jacked up truck so you

1004
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:04,440
can down some kids anyway. Okay, I digress him. Sorry,

1005
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,199
here we go. Let's get back to talk about plants.

1006
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,400
So we're on these red rolling sand hills dominated by

1007
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:15,760
quirkush havardii little little Houstonia humafusas Houstonia is a genus

1008
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,840
in Rubiac, the coffee family, very common in the lower

1009
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:23,639
latitude United States. That was everywhere. That was a new species.

1010
00:54:23,639 --> 00:54:25,719
I wonder if that's a sandandemic. The thing I would

1011
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,360
do on Inina whenever I put this stuff on in

1012
00:54:27,679 --> 00:54:29,760
two is go to the species page, click on the

1013
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,880
taxon name, the species name, go to the species page,

1014
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,800
and then look at the distribution. And it was always

1015
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:38,880
in like a north south trending uh distribution, like through

1016
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,760
west Texas up into eastern New Mexico, et cetera. So

1017
00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:44,760
that was really unique to I mean again, this is

1018
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,239
this is just the reason I want to get out

1019
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,199
to these places Western Kansas. Being one who loves dry

1020
00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:54,599
habitats and prairies makes me want to go to Western Kansas.

1021
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:56,639
I don't know when was The last time I was

1022
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:58,639
in Kansas, I wrote a freight tran through there with Benny.

1023
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:03,159
We're stopped in Wellington. We met these rednecks who were

1024
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:08,000
getting us drunk on some hoochs they made, and then

1025
00:55:08,039 --> 00:55:10,159
we got back on the Santa Fe on the train

1026
00:55:10,199 --> 00:55:12,800
there with Wellington's nice. They got some nice thrift stores there,

1027
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,239
nice little main street America town. Not if you're colored,

1028
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,840
though probably not. I don't know what happens if you're

1029
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,079
dark skin you go to Wellington, they fucking cop stop

1030
00:55:22,119 --> 00:55:27,679
you or something. Probably who knows. That's the melonizing of

1031
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,920
America that Trump promised to stop. Good luck, buddy, it's

1032
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:34,960
not happening anyway. Dimorpha Canda cans. That was a cool mustard.

1033
00:55:35,119 --> 00:55:37,480
Some of you might know Dimorpha whiz life zenii, so

1034
00:55:37,519 --> 00:55:41,599
wooly mustard from West Texas, Northwest Texas as well as

1035
00:55:41,679 --> 00:55:44,000
New Mexico. Likes growing on sand. It was on those

1036
00:55:44,079 --> 00:55:48,599
dunes east of El Paso, Canada. Cans had really cool leaves,

1037
00:55:48,639 --> 00:55:51,639
though again variations on a theme. Another cool desert mustard

1038
00:55:51,639 --> 00:55:57,079
with these apt pressed erect upward facing narrow leaves with

1039
00:55:57,199 --> 00:56:00,559
like a unngulate margin. Really dope species almost thought it

1040
00:56:00,599 --> 00:56:02,880
was whiz life zenie it till I realized it's not

1041
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,559
as wooly and the leaves look way different. I wonder

1042
00:56:06,639 --> 00:56:09,679
how these things speciate and how, yeah, how it happens,

1043
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,360
you know, probably a very gradual process unless they're polyploid.

1044
00:56:14,199 --> 00:56:18,480
Let's they have multiple numbers of the chromosomes. Anyway, And

1045
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,639
finally found pal Maria James I. Not very many of

1046
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,800
them though, and they were. This whole area is getting

1047
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:29,960
fucked by oil, oil and geyas and so there's wells

1048
00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:33,800
all over the place, there's rigs all over the place,

1049
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,880
there's pump jacks all over the place. But uh, you know,

1050
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,039
the habitat, it still pockets the habitat. I'm sure it'll

1051
00:56:41,079 --> 00:56:44,760
get fucked one day, but really really cool habitat. I

1052
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:50,800
saw these cool little like sand digging bees Taxisfecs terminatus

1053
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,400
got some of the some of the life here. I mean,

1054
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,480
I hope there's parcels of this preserved somewhere. I really do,

1055
00:56:59,599 --> 00:57:02,760
because this is so unique, this habitat. You know, there

1056
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:06,440
was Arnimsia philifolia there, of course, that Monarda was forming huge,

1057
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:14,280
huge colonies like this, these mint colonies, Citeria lucopyla cool grass.

1058
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:20,440
I saw the bristle grass that was out there, Euphobia Fendler. I, oh,

1059
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:24,039
there's that arrested arrested up properrior. That's beautiful. Yeah, monarda

1060
00:57:24,039 --> 00:57:27,199
punked out. I think that subspecies was Occidentalis. I don't know.

1061
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,960
A Bronia fray grains. That was a fucking dope one.

1062
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,280
The abronia. Shout out to the Abronia's one of the

1063
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:37,840
showiest members of the four o'clock in bougain villa family nictagenac.

1064
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,039
And that was a species I hadn't seen before. There's

1065
00:57:41,079 --> 00:57:45,079
a really cool a bronia that grows in Yellowstone National

1066
00:57:45,079 --> 00:57:49,800
Park that Sheriff Woody and I saw that was. It

1067
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,559
grows on the shores of this lake and it's endangered.

1068
00:57:53,039 --> 00:57:54,920
I don't know why. I don't know. I forget what

1069
00:57:55,079 --> 00:57:57,679
if it's just development or what, because there's development around

1070
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:03,599
Yellowstone Lake. But yeah, that was a Bronia amafola. God damn,

1071
00:58:03,599 --> 00:58:07,159
it was a cool species. I think they're all moth

1072
00:58:07,239 --> 00:58:10,400
pollinated or butterfly pollinated. The white ones are moth pollinated,

1073
00:58:10,679 --> 00:58:13,840
the pink ones are butterfly pollinated. They've all got these

1074
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:18,239
clusters of elongated, tubular flowers with a little hole in

1075
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:23,800
the middle. So many members of the nicktag family, the Nictageneci,

1076
00:58:24,039 --> 00:58:28,719
are lepidopter and pollinated either butterfly or moth. Nictagenia capitata,

1077
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,199
that red flowered bastard. The flowers kind of smell like giz.

1078
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,000
I don't know why. I don't know what that's about.

1079
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,480
Don't ash, don't ash, don't tell, but that's a red

1080
00:58:35,519 --> 00:58:41,239
flowered butterfly pollinated species. Man to go through the South

1081
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:46,280
Texas sandsheet in the spring, when you know the castillea,

1082
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,920
the paintbrush and all this stuff is out and it's

1083
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,599
getting there, there's swallowtail butterflies everywhere. That's the ones that

1084
00:58:53,719 --> 00:58:56,760
use a. Ristolochi as a host plant, and they're just

1085
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,480
hitting everything. It's man, so many black swallowtail out. It's

1086
00:59:00,519 --> 00:59:04,079
so fucking beautiful to see. You realize what important pollinators

1087
00:59:04,079 --> 00:59:07,079
they are too. Because bees can't access a lot of

1088
00:59:07,079 --> 00:59:09,159
these flowers because the hole is too small. You need

1089
00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:12,559
a butterfly that's got that little curled up proboscis to

1090
00:59:12,639 --> 00:59:17,440
hit these things. So uh, I just I just rooted.

1091
00:59:17,519 --> 00:59:22,400
I found them. Speaking of ntangent acy, I found aklyixantes obtusa.

1092
00:59:23,039 --> 00:59:24,719
A Klaisantes is a big g. I don't know any

1093
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:29,280
species of aklaisantes. There are let's see fourteen species of A. Klaisantes.

1094
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:35,480
Are they all Mexican and western North America? I would assume,

1095
00:59:35,559 --> 00:59:40,840
So let's see. Yeah, yeah, they're like down into How

1096
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,920
far south did they go down into? Just a little

1097
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,719
bit north of Mexico City. So what is it? Hidalgo,

1098
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:52,280
No Hidalgo, San Luis Poto c up through the Sierra

1099
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:57,800
Madre east into uh bunch of observations from the board

1100
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:01,639
from around here shit Ton, kind of following the border

1101
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:09,760
west Texas, southern New Mexico. Ooh, and there's a bunch

1102
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:14,960
around northwest Arizona and southern Nevada. You know, there's a

1103
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:19,800
dermatophylum Arizonau, the Arizona Mountain. Laurel one of the dumbest names,

1104
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,679
no relation to laurels. I don't know what that name

1105
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:23,840
is about. Couldn't we have thought of a better common

1106
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:28,360
name for Christ's sakes then one that actively makes people dumber.

1107
01:00:28,719 --> 01:00:33,639
It implies species affiliations that aren't there. It doesn't look

1108
01:00:33,719 --> 01:00:35,880
like a laurel in any way. What idiot. I feel

1109
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:41,000
like Texas common names are purposefully meant to make people dumber,

1110
01:00:41,639 --> 01:00:45,119
to imply relationships that aren't there. Desert pa and e,

1111
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,079
it's not a peenie at all. There's only two native

1112
01:00:48,119 --> 01:00:50,119
pae and ees in the US. They're both in California.

1113
01:00:52,159 --> 01:00:55,559
You know, Mountain Laurel. Then you go to Alabama, completely

1114
01:00:55,599 --> 01:01:00,360
different species from a completely different family, also called mountain Laurel. Don't.

1115
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,360
I don't get where this comes from, but anyway, there's

1116
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,719
an Arizona Mountain Laurel that's super rare. Lives near Yan,

1117
01:01:06,239 --> 01:01:09,039
near where Yan lives. Jan. What's his name? Yan? Jan?

1118
01:01:09,119 --> 01:01:11,119
I don't know. Nice guy, really cool guy. If you know,

1119
01:01:11,199 --> 01:01:14,159
you know, If not, don't worry about it. Uh knows

1120
01:01:14,199 --> 01:01:16,239
his shit too. A good botanist lives in the desert,

1121
01:01:16,239 --> 01:01:20,360
built a home by himself, fucking you know, got relationships

1122
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,039
with all the h some beneficial, some antagonistic, with all

1123
01:01:24,039 --> 01:01:26,039
the wildlife in his little desert. A boat out there

1124
01:01:26,039 --> 01:01:31,280
in northwest Arizona. Tons of experience with desert plants too,

1125
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,239
But there's some dramatifile them up by him. But I

1126
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,199
guess they're on their way out to he told me,

1127
01:01:35,239 --> 01:01:40,360
they're they're dying a drought. They're parched because the deserts

1128
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,199
are drying out. They've been drying out for a long time,

1129
01:01:42,239 --> 01:01:45,119
but now with human accelerated climate change, they're only going

1130
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,000
drying out more so. A khais Antes fourteen species, but

1131
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,000
a kays Antes obtusa is a really cool one that

1132
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,599
is common and can be grown as a groundcover down

1133
01:01:55,599 --> 01:01:57,559
here in South Texas. But I think it likes a

1134
01:01:57,559 --> 01:01:59,800
little more shade. You got to put it on like

1135
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:04,079
an east facing wall, like east facing, you know, so

1136
01:02:04,159 --> 01:02:07,519
that by one or two pm on a hot summer day,

1137
01:02:07,559 --> 01:02:09,480
it's already getting shaded out. It's not getting blasted with

1138
01:02:09,519 --> 01:02:12,400
sun anymore. But I found a nice patch of it.

1139
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,239
Dugs some up. This is just in like someone's alley too.

1140
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,599
It's like all the weeds we get in the native

1141
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,400
in the Rio Grande Valley are native, almost all of them.

1142
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:23,360
Like in areas where it's human developed, I'm not talking

1143
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,599
about like where a rancher seeds buffalgrass, you know, actively

1144
01:02:26,599 --> 01:02:30,119
seeds buffalo grass. Like the in the populated areas, most

1145
01:02:30,119 --> 01:02:32,360
of the weeds are native, which is pretty cool. I

1146
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:36,000
appreciate that lots of euphobias, lots of a claysanthes, lots

1147
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:41,280
of houstasias. Uh. I had carlo Ridia Texana popping up

1148
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:45,760
on the street in front of me. Malpigia what are

1149
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,079
they call Barbados cherry, that malpigious species. I've seen that

1150
01:02:49,119 --> 01:02:51,800
growing as a groundcover. It just gets mode. It just

1151
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,079
gets completely mo This is like a small shrub that

1152
01:02:54,119 --> 01:02:57,800
produces edible berries. But you know, across the street from

1153
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,320
my house, it's growing beneath Aretia and aqua which is

1154
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,280
in Barajinac. Wonderful parrot food by the way, we get

1155
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:04,960
the parrots come in and eating the berries and those.

1156
01:03:05,679 --> 01:03:09,159
But I've seen that Malpigia Barbados cherry, they call it

1157
01:03:09,159 --> 01:03:12,360
growing beneath that already. It just and it just grows

1158
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:14,039
as a groundcover. It gets mot It's like a little

1159
01:03:14,079 --> 01:03:17,239
woody groundcover. It gets consistently mode because I don't owe

1160
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,559
anything down here and takes just themb all over your

1161
01:03:19,559 --> 01:03:21,559
goddamn kids if you don't keep them out of the way,

1162
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,280
and so, but you know, it grows fine as a

1163
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,639
ground It's pretty cool to see. So this this Akla's

1164
01:03:27,679 --> 01:03:29,679
anthes was kind of growing like that. It roots into

1165
01:03:29,719 --> 01:03:31,559
the ground at one spot and then kind of grows

1166
01:03:31,639 --> 01:03:33,599
kind of like frog fruit, like filing out. A flora

1167
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,360
is a groundcover, another great fucking groundcover. But then it

1168
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:38,920
gets these white flowers that pop up at night, and

1169
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:43,440
they've got a red throat, probably to maximize both moth

1170
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:47,400
at night and then butterfly during the day pollination. Fucking

1171
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,880
gorgeous plant. They said, I need some of that, and

1172
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:51,679
it's just gonna get moat here, which it did. I

1173
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:53,440
think the guy saw me digging it up and just

1174
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:56,840
had a spite, like went in weed wet. He looked

1175
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,920
like one of those miserable tehanos. He didn't look like

1176
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:00,880
a happy guy. And I have passion for him because

1177
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,199
it looks he's probably miserable, like a lot of people are,

1178
01:04:03,559 --> 01:04:06,320
you know, and alcoholic. See that's why you got to

1179
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:08,800
legalized pot for that guy. That guy could be chilling

1180
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:12,480
out in the lawnchhare underneath the little pergolis structure, you know,

1181
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:17,760
smoking a big dube, mellowed out, just having a you know,

1182
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:22,199
letting his fizzy water rest on his potbelly, smoking a

1183
01:04:22,239 --> 01:04:24,599
doobie and having a good time. Isn't how you want

1184
01:04:24,639 --> 01:04:28,199
to spend your your your golden years. You don't want

1185
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:31,039
to spend him miserable, yelling at your yelling at your kids,

1186
01:04:31,239 --> 01:04:36,119
arguing about politics and anyway, mowing down native weeds that

1187
01:04:37,159 --> 01:04:39,280
some people in your neighborhood might like having around, like

1188
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,280
mowing them done out of spike. I don't have any

1189
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,400
any idea that he just I don't have any proof

1190
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:44,719
that he did it out of Spike. This is just

1191
01:04:44,719 --> 01:04:47,519
the Chicago and me talking. You know, he probably just

1192
01:04:47,519 --> 01:04:50,039
did it out of Spike. This is the Chicago and

1193
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,039
experiencing me talking. I know he's doing it just to

1194
01:04:53,079 --> 01:04:56,239
fuck with me. Anyway. So I dug up two of

1195
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:59,599
those and I put him. They've got this fleshy root,

1196
01:05:00,719 --> 01:05:02,360
and I probably broke off some of the roots when

1197
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,320
I was digging them up, even though trying to be gentle.

1198
01:05:04,639 --> 01:05:08,039
But they have this fleshy, semi succulent root. They're in Nictagenac,

1199
01:05:08,199 --> 01:05:11,599
which is in Carriophilelees. Lots of members of Carriophi lales

1200
01:05:11,639 --> 01:05:15,880
are succulent or have semi succulents, like you know the missms,

1201
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:22,199
the cactus family, the bitter root family, montiac et cetera. Right,

1202
01:05:22,199 --> 01:05:24,320
So a lot of them have the bayaline pigments and

1203
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:27,800
semi succulents, and so I put them in a bag.

1204
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:30,320
I said, wow, that's a thick root. I bet it'll

1205
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,119
just shoot out new roots. Even though I just traumatized

1206
01:05:33,119 --> 01:05:34,960
it ripped out of the ground. I put it in

1207
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,519
a big one gallon or two gallon if you can

1208
01:05:37,559 --> 01:05:42,039
get them, plastic bag in some soil, and I watered

1209
01:05:42,239 --> 01:05:44,320
just a little bit. Not I didn't want to soak

1210
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:46,679
it because this is a drought adapted plant and it

1211
01:05:46,719 --> 01:05:50,079
will probably rot because it's meant to. It's got you know,

1212
01:05:50,119 --> 01:05:53,440
the it's built for absorbing water quick. So I put

1213
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,079
it in that bag. Just keep the humidity up, put

1214
01:05:55,079 --> 01:05:57,679
it under some lights inside temperatures like seventy five in

1215
01:05:57,719 --> 01:06:01,039
my house. Within a week or two. Uh, you know,

1216
01:06:01,079 --> 01:06:02,840
it didn't wilt because I had the amenity up in

1217
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:04,599
that bag. Within a week or two it had formed

1218
01:06:04,599 --> 01:06:08,039
out new roots. I put it outside under my misting system,

1219
01:06:08,079 --> 01:06:10,679
which you know, waters for ten minutes once a day,

1220
01:06:11,199 --> 01:06:13,119
and it's under a pergola in the shade. It's where

1221
01:06:13,119 --> 01:06:15,719
all the little chirping frogs like to hang out. It's

1222
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:18,960
also where the feral cats come to hunt the chirping frogs, right,

1223
01:06:19,039 --> 01:06:21,039
you got to remove those feral cats, remove them and

1224
01:06:21,119 --> 01:06:26,239
use them as fertilizer and so uh. Anyway, this thing

1225
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,239
rooted within within like two weeks. I had a great

1226
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,679
plant that was already had roots, you know, going around

1227
01:06:31,719 --> 01:06:34,400
the pot. And so then I planted that in the

1228
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,400
ground and I got some I finally put some drip

1229
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,480
irrigation in my yard, which is easy. It takes like

1230
01:06:39,519 --> 01:06:41,199
half an hour to install. If you haven't done it

1231
01:06:41,239 --> 01:06:43,440
you live in a dry climate. I highly recommend doing it.

1232
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,039
The birds and the insects will thank you, and you'll

1233
01:06:46,039 --> 01:06:48,639
thank yourself since you don't have to waste time watering anymore.

1234
01:06:50,119 --> 01:06:51,760
And I put it on a timer. It it's like

1235
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:55,800
twenty minutes because these things drip slowly, twenty minutes a night.

1236
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,480
I'll turn that down to ten minutes a night. And

1237
01:06:57,519 --> 01:07:01,599
I put like an old molasses bucket for cattle that

1238
01:07:01,639 --> 01:07:03,679
I got from the dump in front of it, and

1239
01:07:03,719 --> 01:07:05,320
then lean the palette over it, just to give it

1240
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:08,119
some shade for the first few weeks till it can

1241
01:07:08,159 --> 01:07:10,159
get established in the ground, which I like to do.

1242
01:07:10,199 --> 01:07:13,159
I recommend doing that too. I'll sometimes build little nests

1243
01:07:13,199 --> 01:07:16,280
of sticks around shit that I just plant. Especially if

1244
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:18,039
it was while it was in a pot, it was

1245
01:07:18,039 --> 01:07:20,000
in the shade, then I'm putting it to a full

1246
01:07:20,039 --> 01:07:22,039
sun spot. Even if it's a full sun plant, it

1247
01:07:22,079 --> 01:07:24,519
needs time to acclimate. Best way to do that is

1248
01:07:24,559 --> 01:07:26,920
just put it in the ground and then put something

1249
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,559
over it. Make like a little nest of like you know,

1250
01:07:30,199 --> 01:07:32,719
firewood around it. These are like branches I cut off

1251
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,199
that I later use for biochar. I'll make a little

1252
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:38,679
tepee around it, something to just so the hot bear

1253
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:41,800
sun is not hitting it, you know, and it gets

1254
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,199
and then like bit by bit you can remove the sticks,

1255
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,719
gradually increase the more sun, and then within a month

1256
01:07:47,719 --> 01:07:50,800
it's fully adapted. And then now it's putting seeds everywhere

1257
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:52,880
and you got new you know, it's fucking great. You

1258
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,440
get to enjoy it. There's cool insects and birds like

1259
01:07:55,519 --> 01:08:02,320
you know, land on it. Whatever. So anyway, so yeah,

1260
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:04,440
I was stoked to get that because that's another you know,

1261
01:08:04,519 --> 01:08:06,960
my intention with doing all this. I want to get

1262
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,239
these species. Once I get in my yard, then they

1263
01:08:09,239 --> 01:08:11,440
get established that I can get seat off of them,

1264
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:13,079
that I can give that seat to James Peace, who's

1265
01:08:13,079 --> 01:08:14,599
going to grow the shit out of it and then

1266
01:08:14,639 --> 01:08:16,960
he can get these into cultivation. And the goal here

1267
01:08:17,039 --> 01:08:19,760
is to get things more common, just as common in

1268
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:23,720
cultivation as they are becoming rare in the wild, as

1269
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:27,399
the habitat gets destroyed. First, I even shouldn't even say wild.

1270
01:08:27,399 --> 01:08:32,079
There's no wild anymore. Everything's human domination everywhere. But you know,

1271
01:08:32,239 --> 01:08:36,520
there's less there's so much human fuckery that you never know.

1272
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:40,239
And especially in Texas, you know, everything's that a landowner's

1273
01:08:40,239 --> 01:08:44,079
whims unless it's in a state park or you know,

1274
01:08:44,239 --> 01:08:46,920
national park whatever, and those are few and far between Texas.

1275
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:50,159
So everything's that a landowner's whims. So if that landowner

1276
01:08:50,159 --> 01:08:52,319
gets a wild hair up, they're ass or a stupid idea,

1277
01:08:52,399 --> 01:08:55,439
like a lot of them do. They can completely destroy

1278
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:57,840
anything that's on their land because they quote own it.

1279
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:02,319
So nothing is ever safer, nothing's ever safe. That's why

1280
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:04,960
I mean they kill your lawn movement here is so important.

1281
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:08,399
Get this ship into native native gardens as much as

1282
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:12,560
as possible, as easy as you can. But uh, you know,

1283
01:09:13,119 --> 01:09:15,960
I've been noticing more pushback among the lawn cult especially

1284
01:09:16,039 --> 01:09:20,920
in Texas. It's so weird against native plant, native plant people.

1285
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,760
That's why it's more it's more important not to and

1286
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,439
I do do this. It's it's so important not to

1287
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,159
shit on and shame people, and I do sh ship

1288
01:09:29,239 --> 01:09:34,600
on lawns a lot. But uh, you know you you

1289
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,039
attract more bees with kindness, is that what it is

1290
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:44,640
than with vinegar anyway? So just you know, you change

1291
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:46,840
people's minds by being stoked about it and being good

1292
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,359
at it and making it look fucking nice than you

1293
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,000
do in dope and exciting and fun than you do

1294
01:09:52,119 --> 01:09:55,479
by just being that gretchen. You know, actually this to

1295
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,800
see now, this is really fucked up. You like, you

1296
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,439
shouldn't be doing this. This is really problematic, Like that's

1297
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:03,199
not doesn't it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It works

1298
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:06,039
for people who are morons and who are afraid and

1299
01:10:06,239 --> 01:10:08,760
don't you know, afraid of being called out. And it's

1300
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:12,800
just using social the social ostracization as a way to

1301
01:10:13,159 --> 01:10:17,159
it doesn't work right, just to show people how cool

1302
01:10:17,199 --> 01:10:20,239
it is or what your don't bother. I don't know,

1303
01:10:21,279 --> 01:10:24,720
but yeah, we need a wholesale We need like a

1304
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:28,439
nice wholesale or that is also open to the public.

1305
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,199
Native plant nursery that just grows dope. Native Texas plants

1306
01:10:31,199 --> 01:10:34,079
and plugs. But you got like five or six bioregions

1307
01:10:34,079 --> 01:10:37,279
across Texas, South Texas Plains, West Texas Transpicos. I woulds

1308
01:10:37,319 --> 01:10:39,760
plant so you know, cross timbers all that, so you

1309
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,960
got a prairies, a bunch of bunch of ground to cover.

1310
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:45,520
You know, that would be a nice thing. If I

1311
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:47,640
had a billion dollars, that's probably what I would do.

1312
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,760
I'd probably sink twenty million into a fucking dope native

1313
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:53,520
plant nursery and then start putting these Because you're not

1314
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,000
going to get rid of the strip malls and shit,

1315
01:10:55,079 --> 01:10:56,920
I love, I love the idea of it. That's not

1316
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:58,760
gonna happen. You're not going to change the culture. You're

1317
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:00,840
not going to make it any less miserb with the

1318
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:03,000
parking lots and the strip malls and the car culture.

1319
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,319
But at least you can get native plants in there, right,

1320
01:11:05,359 --> 01:11:07,159
And if that means like getting him into home despot

1321
01:11:07,239 --> 01:11:09,439
or some shit, too, fuck it, go ahead. That's what

1322
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:11,199
I would do. It start a big ass native plant

1323
01:11:11,239 --> 01:11:13,640
nurse so you just start getting these things out everywhere, right,

1324
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:17,079
grow hundreds of these things. Watch that video on Pizzo

1325
01:11:17,279 --> 01:11:22,640
on Pizzos Wholesale Prairie Nursery Native Native Plant Nursery in

1326
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:26,840
uh In, Illinois. Because that guy man they grow and

1327
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:29,439
everyone who works he must. Everyone who works there seems

1328
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,119
pretty happy and while taking care of seems like a

1329
01:11:32,239 --> 01:11:35,319
really cool place to work. It's fucking they grow amazing

1330
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:39,279
quality plants. Wish we had something like that for Texas,

1331
01:11:39,319 --> 01:11:42,039
for every region in the in the South, the South,

1332
01:11:42,079 --> 01:11:46,720
the southeast, the West, wherever. Anyway, Moving right along, I

1333
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:49,640
want to give another shout out to the d Wexler

1334
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:54,359
d Wexler Steel Warehouse down there on South Aberdeen. And

1335
01:11:54,439 --> 01:12:00,239
the beautiful city is Chicago, Chicago, where they're you know

1336
01:12:00,359 --> 01:12:03,079
what they're doing now with these going on there. You know,

1337
01:12:03,159 --> 01:12:05,760
you know anybody who weld stuff. You gotta weld some stuff.

1338
01:12:06,039 --> 01:12:08,479
Maybe you weld some weld some shit in your backyard.

1339
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,880
You got a backyard. Go weld some ship in the park.

1340
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:14,079
You don't need a permit. Go find a vacant lot somewhere.

1341
01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:16,840
Go get when you do that, go get the steal

1342
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,800
from d Wexler. They sent us a bunch of hats.

1343
01:12:20,119 --> 01:12:22,279
I think this all started because Al found a nice

1344
01:12:22,279 --> 01:12:25,680
hat he found in the thrift store Als a thrift

1345
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:29,119
store prince. He's he's just so good at finding the

1346
01:12:29,119 --> 01:12:31,880
good stuff in there. He just finds these. When when

1347
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:34,039
we were doing the costumes for some of the skits

1348
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:36,720
on Kill Your Lawn, you know, whether it was an

1349
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:40,159
old Italian, you know, Catholic lady, or whether it was

1350
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:45,600
some sleeves bag mafioso or whatever. He nailed the costumes

1351
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:48,319
just from the thrift stores of the Chicago Land area.

1352
01:12:48,319 --> 01:12:51,000
And so he found a d Wexler hat and he

1353
01:12:51,159 --> 01:12:53,560
just wore the shit out of it. It smelled terrible

1354
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:58,000
within a few months. And uh, anyway, d Wexler saw it,

1355
01:12:59,079 --> 01:13:03,239
and they sent us more more merged. They're wonderful people

1356
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:06,319
and so we support them, all right, So go to

1357
01:13:06,399 --> 01:13:08,479
d Wexler. Just go there. He just to say, Hi,

1358
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:10,640
you don't even want to buy steel, Go buy him

1359
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:13,199
a sandwich. Go buy a fucking sandwich for John Wexler.

1360
01:13:14,319 --> 01:13:16,039
I don't know what type of sandwich he wants, but

1361
01:13:16,239 --> 01:13:18,479
pick something that's easy you can't go wrong with. I

1362
01:13:18,479 --> 01:13:22,439
don't know, but it would PISTROMI what is Chicago ins say?

1363
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:25,199
Go go get hi. Gonna tell you beef makes you maybe

1364
01:13:25,239 --> 01:13:27,279
not because those really short in your life. And I

1365
01:13:27,399 --> 01:13:30,319
like the guy, even though I've never met him. I've

1366
01:13:30,399 --> 01:13:34,479
just we've just exchanged mail anyway. Uh okay, So shout

1367
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:37,479
out to d Wexler. I was I found something really cool? Yes,

1368
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:40,000
I said. One of the dominant plants at Thorn Scrub

1369
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:45,119
Sanctuary is uh this plant called Zinnia austro Texana. Zinnia

1370
01:13:45,279 --> 01:13:47,880
is a genus in the sunflower family. You get some

1371
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,279
showy ones. You get some of them are you know,

1372
01:13:50,399 --> 01:13:54,399
really common in uh in cultivation, you know, like old

1373
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:58,119
lady flower beds and stuff like that. You know, it's

1374
01:13:58,159 --> 01:13:59,960
I don't mean any offense by that, and I'm sure

1375
01:14:00,039 --> 01:14:01,720
someone would have a problem with what I just said,

1376
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,960
but you know, old ladies like flowers, and old ladies

1377
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:08,880
like zinias. You get Zenia anomala, which is a cool

1378
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:12,239
orange one from the trans Picos area. You get Zinia aceosa,

1379
01:14:12,319 --> 01:14:16,760
which is very common in central and West Texas. Uh Oh,

1380
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,520
where did I see? Oh? You get Zenia grand of flora.

1381
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:23,159
I've seen that in Marfa too, But grand to flora.

1382
01:14:23,239 --> 01:14:26,119
You got to keep in mind, it's still it's still

1383
01:14:26,159 --> 01:14:29,439
a zinia. They're generally pretty small. I guess I've seen

1384
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,039
Where did I see Zinia elegons. Oh that was in

1385
01:14:32,079 --> 01:14:34,840
the dr that was in the Dominican Republic. Oh, that's

1386
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,279
a fucking invasive I think looks like it anyway. So

1387
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:42,720
Zinia is a genus. They're mostly dry and scrubland plants,

1388
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:47,960
dry scrub grasslands. There's probably the center of diversities in Mexico,

1389
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:52,319
you know, probably higher Mexican Plateau. Most of Mexico is

1390
01:14:52,359 --> 01:14:55,960
at higher elevations, like three thousand feet four thousand feet.

1391
01:14:56,239 --> 01:14:59,119
That's low elevation in Mexico. You get the twenty degrees

1392
01:14:59,239 --> 01:15:02,920
latitude three thousand feet four thousand feet. That's the elevation

1393
01:15:03,079 --> 01:15:06,439
that a lot of the cool cacti like payotes and

1394
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:10,439
Aerocarpus grow at. Okay Uh, this is still hot as fuck,

1395
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:12,880
and it's got a dry season because the you've got

1396
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:16,319
mountains on the east and west side of this Mexican plateau, right,

1397
01:15:16,399 --> 01:15:18,560
So it's like a mesa that's bounded on It's like

1398
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:23,239
a big fucking table of land, of uplifted land that's

1399
01:15:23,239 --> 01:15:26,720
bounded on either side by the Sierra Madre Occidental and

1400
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,960
the Sierra Madre Oriental. And we'll talk about that later,

1401
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:32,399
because I was thinking about the Sierra Madre Oriental today

1402
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:36,560
down there by Monterrey, which is is that's fucking three

1403
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:38,760
hours from me. I gotta stop saying fucking so much.

1404
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:43,319
I'm sorry, and is chef w it's three I'm closer

1405
01:15:43,359 --> 01:15:46,039
to Monterrey and I am from uh than I am

1406
01:15:46,079 --> 01:15:50,079
to San Antonio. But uh, anyway, it's just a pain.

1407
01:15:50,119 --> 01:15:51,960
He asked to go through the border. Now Mexico wants

1408
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:54,159
to Mancy to get a visa, which I understand because

1409
01:15:54,159 --> 01:15:56,960
the US is such a horrible neighbor. But uh, and

1410
01:15:57,039 --> 01:15:59,600
also the cops are so corrupt in Mexico. Mexico's got

1411
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,399
a lot of little Kirk. Cops in Mexico are way

1412
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:05,279
more corrupt than they are in a US. All Right,

1413
01:16:06,079 --> 01:16:10,760
I didn't say abusive, I just said more corrupt. But yes,

1414
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,119
I think there's like thirty species of Zinia, maybe more,

1415
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:19,199
but anyway, Zinnia ostro texano was a species that was

1416
01:16:19,279 --> 01:16:21,840
lumped in with asceosa and then was split I believe

1417
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:26,239
by Billy Turner thirty years ago. All Right. Billy Turner,

1418
01:16:26,399 --> 01:16:30,479
rip well known Texas botanist, died of COVID around twenty twenty,

1419
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:35,840
but did a lot of good work, and I wonder too,

1420
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:37,920
how many other species are like that. You know, we're

1421
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:41,079
lumped in with like this Rudbeccia that I've been talking

1422
01:16:41,079 --> 01:16:43,640
about that has probably been lumped in with herd of

1423
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:47,479
but it's probably distinct. Need someone to do molecular work.

1424
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,319
If anyone listening to this can do molecular work for me,

1425
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:54,039
let me know, because I want to get this thing

1426
01:16:54,119 --> 01:16:58,039
sequenced and see how close it aligns with true Herda.

1427
01:16:59,279 --> 01:17:01,079
Alan used to be able to do that, but he's

1428
01:17:01,079 --> 01:17:03,359
busy as shit lately and he hasn't used to sequence

1429
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:07,640
some stuff for me. But anyway, okay, so, but this

1430
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,119
Zinia is all over thorn scrub and it grows on

1431
01:17:10,159 --> 01:17:15,920
these these hard pan calcareous calichi soils. It's a fucking

1432
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,359
gorgeous plant. It's got like chalky mint green linear leaves.

1433
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:23,840
It forms like this nice compact little mound, like a

1434
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:27,119
little cushion, and then it gets these really beautiful, tiny,

1435
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:31,920
not tiny, they're like marble sized, gumball sized, white flowers.

1436
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:34,399
And because it's asta race, what looks like a single

1437
01:17:34,399 --> 01:17:37,680
flower is actually composed of many flowers. If you don't

1438
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:40,079
quite understand this, that's fine. Just know it's what the

1439
01:17:40,119 --> 01:17:43,279
sunflower family astace does. It's what looks like a single

1440
01:17:43,279 --> 01:17:46,640
flower is composed of many flowers. A sunflower is composed

1441
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:49,439
of three to five hundred individual tiny flowers. If you

1442
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:50,800
actually get up close and look at it, you can

1443
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:54,319
see them. I'm sorry if I'm repeating this for people

1444
01:17:54,359 --> 01:17:57,439
who already know it. Anyway, we try to teach here

1445
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:01,279
at crime pace. So this thing was all over. I

1446
01:18:01,359 --> 01:18:03,199
was walking. Every time I walked through thorn scrub. My

1447
01:18:03,199 --> 01:18:04,880
favorite time to be there is at dusk. That's when

1448
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,359
the rattlesnakes are out. We just have one or two

1449
01:18:07,359 --> 01:18:10,199
that I've seen. Hubert Selby Junior I named them. That's

1450
01:18:10,199 --> 01:18:12,479
when the tortoises are out. That's when life comes out.

1451
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,279
When it's hot as balls. Okay, it's crepuscular, of course.

1452
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:19,279
And so I'll be walking walking around, you know, gun

1453
01:18:19,319 --> 01:18:21,800
on my hip, pope, and I see a pig. Never happens,

1454
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:25,399
because they can normally smell you from a while, you know,

1455
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:28,520
from a mile or two away, my half quarter mile away.

1456
01:18:29,479 --> 01:18:32,800
And so I'll be walking around this wonderful landscape, just

1457
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:35,960
listening to the parakis flying and the wind blowing, and

1458
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:39,640
the singing insects and if there's some cicadas out because

1459
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:42,880
we've had rain and the previous couple months, they'll be

1460
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:46,279
out and I'll every everywhere, I'll see a giant peote

1461
01:18:46,279 --> 01:18:50,600
that I didn't see before, hidden in the under some brush.

1462
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:53,000
And and so I went to go collect some of

1463
01:18:53,039 --> 01:18:56,279
the Zinias seed for James Peace, and I couldn't figure

1464
01:18:56,319 --> 01:18:58,319
out the seeds are tiny there in these flower heads.

1465
01:18:58,359 --> 01:19:00,479
I said, fuck it. The whole flower heads dry already,

1466
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:04,359
but the rays what look like the petals, these white rays,

1467
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:08,119
are are still on the flower head. The capitulum is

1468
01:19:08,159 --> 01:19:10,520
the technical term for it. So I'll just take the

1469
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:12,279
whole thing. So I just took my hand and ran

1470
01:19:12,319 --> 01:19:14,680
along the stem, pulled off all these old flower heads,

1471
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:16,880
threw them in a bag. Fuck it, I'll let them

1472
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:19,600
dry out sort them out later. And so I did that,

1473
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:23,000
and I was sorting them through yesterday and trying to

1474
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,119
find the seeds and splitting these in vulcars open, which

1475
01:19:26,159 --> 01:19:28,560
is like the kind of the same as a capitulum

1476
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:32,399
and vulcar capitulum. These are all asta racy vocab words

1477
01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:38,520
right specific to the sunflower family. And so in doing that,

1478
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:41,279
I realized I didn't need to split them open. The

1479
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:45,239
entire ray what looks like that white petal comes out

1480
01:19:45,359 --> 01:19:49,359
and is attached still attached to the seed. So only

1481
01:19:49,399 --> 01:19:52,960
the marginal florets around the ring around the circumference of

1482
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:56,680
that flower head seem to be fertile. Maybe the disc

1483
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:59,800
florets are too. Like an Asta raci. You got disc florets,

1484
01:20:00,039 --> 01:20:02,479
you've got ray florets. The rays are attached to the

1485
01:20:02,520 --> 01:20:05,119
petals what look like the petals. The rays and the

1486
01:20:05,159 --> 01:20:08,520
disc florets are in the center right. And some flower

1487
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:13,000
heads don't have any rays. They're just entirely discoid, all right.

1488
01:20:14,039 --> 01:20:16,920
It just looks there's no daisy petals, if you want

1489
01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:20,279
to call them that. But Zinny of course has those

1490
01:20:20,319 --> 01:20:22,239
daisy petals, those rais. And so I was pulling these

1491
01:20:22,319 --> 01:20:25,199
rays off and the seed, these tiny seeds are attached

1492
01:20:25,199 --> 01:20:27,199
to it, and then I realize they stay attached to

1493
01:20:27,239 --> 01:20:31,680
the ray. And this is really unusual for most I

1494
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:33,760
don't think I've seen this in any other members of

1495
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:36,560
the sunflower family, which has got to be twenty eight

1496
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:39,840
thousand species strong. There have to be twenty eight thousand

1497
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:45,159
species in this family easily. It's like second most you know,

1498
01:20:45,319 --> 01:20:50,199
species dense most populated, most most the largest plant family

1499
01:20:50,239 --> 01:20:52,359
after orchids. And so I've got these things on a

1500
01:20:52,359 --> 01:20:54,000
piece of paper and I'm just pulling them out, and

1501
01:20:54,039 --> 01:20:56,199
I realize I can just easily lift I just grab

1502
01:20:56,279 --> 01:21:00,960
the ray, the entire dried ray, white dry, and pull

1503
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:02,560
it out and the seat is attached to it. And

1504
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:05,600
then I realized, Wow, this is an an ingenious dispersal mechanism.

1505
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:08,800
If these things are just sitting, you know, these clumps,

1506
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,399
these little cushions that are maybe eight inches tall max.

1507
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:15,159
Ten inches tall max. On the floor, the otherwise barren floor,

1508
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:18,880
barren and rocky. There's pebbles everywhere from the you know,

1509
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:22,920
ancestral Rio Grande running back and forth over here over

1510
01:21:22,920 --> 01:21:26,119
the last five six million years, maybe longer, you know,

1511
01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:30,760
draining the mountains of West Texas and southern New Mexico.

1512
01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:36,279
It's the landscape. It's just so intoxicating. And and then

1513
01:21:36,319 --> 01:21:38,359
I realized that these things will just sit here in

1514
01:21:38,399 --> 01:21:40,399
the wind. And you get a lot of winds. It

1515
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,760
can be south, text can be very windy. There's why.

1516
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:44,520
There's one of the reasons there's so many damn wind

1517
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:48,600
farms here, and that wind will just pick up. It'll

1518
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,640
just lift those rays out of the involacar, out of

1519
01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:54,119
the flower head, just like a flower being lifted out

1520
01:21:54,159 --> 01:21:55,920
of a vase. But in this case, the flower has

1521
01:21:55,920 --> 01:22:01,399
a little sail attached to it, and that seed is

1522
01:22:01,399 --> 01:22:03,439
at the base of that ray, at the base of

1523
01:22:03,479 --> 01:22:05,560
that sale, and that just that's how they get everywhere.

1524
01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:10,039
So it's ingenious dispersal mechanism. And like many desert plants,

1525
01:22:10,079 --> 01:22:13,039
the seeds are probably somewhat long lived. They can last

1526
01:22:13,039 --> 01:22:15,279
a year or two at least, if not longer. Some

1527
01:22:15,359 --> 01:22:18,520
desert plants can last super long. That's an adaptive benefit

1528
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,640
that the environment is going to select for, is long

1529
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:24,439
lived seeds. If something doesn't have long lived seeds and

1530
01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:27,159
you grow in a place where you'll have six months

1531
01:22:27,159 --> 01:22:29,239
with no rain, it'll be really hot and the seed

1532
01:22:29,279 --> 01:22:32,520
can't take that. That species will die out unless it

1533
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:36,560
finds some other way to cope. So anyway, this was

1534
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:40,279
really fucking cool, And you know this is one of

1535
01:22:40,279 --> 01:22:42,319
the reasons because you're not going to find this in

1536
01:22:42,359 --> 01:22:45,159
a book. You're not going to find this in a paper.

1537
01:22:46,319 --> 01:22:49,199
You're only going to find this type of information like

1538
01:22:49,239 --> 01:22:53,079
this dispersal strategy of this rare plant species. It only

1539
01:22:53,079 --> 01:22:54,800
grows in South Texas. You're only going to find that

1540
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:56,560
by doing field bottony. You're only going to find that

1541
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:59,560
by getting your ass out there, sweating, crouching down, taking

1542
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:02,319
the time to look closer, taking the time to gather

1543
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:05,760
some seeds, by really immersing yourself in the landscape and

1544
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,199
the life forms and studying the plants. That's why people

1545
01:23:09,239 --> 01:23:11,520
when people ask me, well, what books should I read? Well,

1546
01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:14,399
I guess I mean, you really just got to get

1547
01:23:14,399 --> 01:23:15,920
out there. Man. You got to get out there. You

1548
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:17,439
got to pay attention, you got to take notes, you

1549
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:20,359
got to take pictures, and you got to think it's

1550
01:23:20,399 --> 01:23:22,520
the most important thing. Think about what is in front

1551
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:25,439
of you. Okay, don't just We're so often in life

1552
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:29,279
we're taught to just follow instructions. There's no actual critical thinking.

1553
01:23:29,279 --> 01:23:32,520
There's no taking in the information, digesting it, thinking about

1554
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:35,119
how this would work, trying to picture it in your head.

1555
01:23:36,399 --> 01:23:39,119
Maybe weed is good for this sometimes too, I don't know.

1556
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:42,880
You have to picture it in your head, imagine it literally,

1557
01:23:43,119 --> 01:23:46,640
visualize this in your head. How would this work? And

1558
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:49,079
then if something doesn't compute when you're visualizing it, then

1559
01:23:49,119 --> 01:23:52,920
you ask questions, doesn't make sense? And then you look

1560
01:23:53,239 --> 01:23:56,720
harder and further. This is why books are not the

1561
01:23:57,119 --> 01:24:00,640
end all be all the book. You need books, that's

1562
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:02,760
where you're gonna get information. You need the Internet. That's

1563
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:05,319
where you're gonna get information. But you need that time.

1564
01:24:05,359 --> 01:24:07,159
You can have all the information in the world. You

1565
01:24:07,199 --> 01:24:08,840
could be sitting in front of a bookshelf. You can

1566
01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:10,520
be sitting in a library. If you don't have if

1567
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,399
you have not trained your mind, if you've not exercised

1568
01:24:13,399 --> 01:24:16,359
your mind to think about things in this way, to

1569
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:21,680
visualize things, to think about, Uh, walk through the steps

1570
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,840
of how something might happen, and how something might get pollinated,

1571
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:28,720
and how something might the seed might get dispersed. Why

1572
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,119
what is going on with the flower? When you look

1573
01:24:31,159 --> 01:24:33,199
at it, like what are the different fucking parts? What

1574
01:24:33,319 --> 01:24:36,479
is actually going on there? Like? What am I looking at?

1575
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:38,319
It's like it's like opening up a hood of a

1576
01:24:38,359 --> 01:24:40,159
car and wondering, what the fuck does this do? What

1577
01:24:40,199 --> 01:24:42,680
does this do? What does this do? Oh? This pumps

1578
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:44,760
this to this? Well, how does that work? What power

1579
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:47,359
is that? You got to think about it. That's how

1580
01:24:47,399 --> 01:24:51,319
you understand what is around you. It's how you understand

1581
01:24:51,359 --> 01:24:53,760
the life that's around you. And with plants, it's especially

1582
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:58,199
important because plants are what enable all terrestrial life. Okay,

1583
01:24:58,199 --> 01:25:01,239
in the ocean it's a different story, but plants are

1584
01:25:01,279 --> 01:25:05,439
what enable all terrestrial life. Everybody should know a little

1585
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:08,439
something about them, and stuff should be taught. Some of

1586
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:11,720
this stuff like elementary botany should be taught in grade school,

1587
01:25:12,079 --> 01:25:15,920
no joke, like elementary botany, maybe a little like an

1588
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:21,239
elementary entomology course. Not just science class, but actual courses

1589
01:25:21,279 --> 01:25:24,920
that teach this shit, you know, instead of the indoctrination

1590
01:25:25,039 --> 01:25:28,720
you might get in like civic studies or social studies

1591
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,439
or whatever dumb shit, got it. They would have taught

1592
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:35,199
us this, you know, and not only taught us it,

1593
01:25:35,239 --> 01:25:37,760
but taught us not just to memorize it, not about that,

1594
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:39,720
but to understand it. You don't even need to memorize,

1595
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,039
you just need to understand the basic principles of how

1596
01:25:42,079 --> 01:25:44,359
this works and think. You have to be taught to

1597
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:48,119
actually think, to visualize things. That's my main beef with

1598
01:25:48,199 --> 01:25:52,079
school too, is the memorization. God, it's just just making

1599
01:25:52,079 --> 01:25:56,560
good little obedient workers memorize and follow rules, right, What

1600
01:25:56,680 --> 01:26:00,600
a waste of human potential? Anyway, That's all this one

1601
01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:03,800
I was Uh yeah, I saw it and was just like, man,

1602
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,960
that's brilliant. I was just sitting here at my desk

1603
01:26:06,039 --> 01:26:08,359
looking at these things taking these seeds out to get

1604
01:26:08,399 --> 01:26:12,680
him to James, and uh, I was just like, huh,

1605
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:16,720
that's fucking cool. Wow, this is this evolved, this is

1606
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:18,560
how it does it. And it's so rare for the

1607
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:22,199
family too, that that ray, that that pedal stays attached

1608
01:26:22,239 --> 01:26:24,720
to the seed, and the seed's literally using that pedal

1609
01:26:25,199 --> 01:26:28,439
like a little sail for the wind to take it off.

1610
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:31,640
So hopefully we can get this thing into cultivation. It

1611
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:34,920
needs to get fucking blasted with heat. It needs heat.

1612
01:26:35,119 --> 01:26:37,560
Like it would look great up against like a sidewalk,

1613
01:26:38,159 --> 01:26:40,359
you know, or a curb or something. It's like a

1614
01:26:40,399 --> 01:26:43,840
great fucking little mounding groundcover. Zenia austro texta and a

1615
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:47,800
Zenia acerosa is another one. And there's Zenia grande flora

1616
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,279
and Zenia anomala, which was one of the dopest of all.

1617
01:26:50,359 --> 01:26:52,760
So I think there's like four or five species in Texas.

1618
01:26:53,279 --> 01:26:55,640
I don't know, but I think most of the species

1619
01:26:55,680 --> 01:27:00,279
are pretty small, well some of them are, some of

1620
01:27:00,279 --> 01:27:03,399
them are bigger. I guess for some reason I thought

1621
01:27:03,399 --> 01:27:07,760
I had seen another one, uh in Uh. I saw

1622
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:09,600
something in the cloud forest of Wahaka, but I think

1623
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:11,680
it was another genus. You know, these are these are

1624
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:14,439
those genera names that I'm like, you're familiar with before

1625
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:16,560
you really get into botany, because again you've heard it,

1626
01:27:17,079 --> 01:27:19,680
you've heard it mentioned in like the old Lady. Botanic

1627
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:22,800
gardens are like it a flower shop or something, you know,

1628
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:28,279
lacking any ecological context. So but I was stoked to

1629
01:27:28,319 --> 01:27:30,760
see this. This was a really cool phenomenon to observe.

1630
01:27:31,399 --> 01:27:35,760
And I saw a similar thing with uh Frankena JOHNSTONI

1631
01:27:36,159 --> 01:27:39,680
this is another rare plant from South Texas where the

1632
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,079
whole you know, the flowers are at the end of

1633
01:27:42,399 --> 01:27:45,840
these branches. It's a little shrub and then the whole

1634
01:27:46,079 --> 01:27:49,840
distal like inch or half inch of the branch comes

1635
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:53,960
off and the leaves that subtend the flowers. It's got

1636
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,840
this whirl of leaves that subten the flowers. Those turn

1637
01:27:56,960 --> 01:28:00,359
yellow and fall off too, and act as a little

1638
01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:04,279
helicopter to help the to help the seed just you know,

1639
01:28:05,039 --> 01:28:07,359
take off and get a get a little wind dispersal

1640
01:28:07,399 --> 01:28:12,600
assist out to colonize new habitats, colonize new territories. And

1641
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:16,000
frank Kenya is another that's another cool desert genus. You

1642
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:19,479
get him in Chile. I've seen him in Baja. I

1643
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:22,000
just saw a cool one in Mexico. It was Frankenya

1644
01:28:22,119 --> 01:28:26,000
james I. Order is carryo Philelees, so order of cactus

1645
01:28:26,079 --> 01:28:32,840
and spinach and beats and quineois and h bitter root,

1646
01:28:33,199 --> 01:28:41,000
MONTIECEI and miners lettuce, Claytonia and so. But it's in

1647
01:28:41,039 --> 01:28:44,680
its own family, frankini Ac. It's a weird one, but

1648
01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:47,399
it's really a lot of them are really salt tolerant

1649
01:28:47,399 --> 01:28:49,560
and they like deserts. They can grow and you get

1650
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:51,600
a lot of salt in deserts, of course, because you've

1651
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:54,880
got high evaporation rates, lots of heat, and lots of

1652
01:28:54,920 --> 01:28:58,880
exposed rock. If there's mountains around that that water washes

1653
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:02,159
all those you know, chemically weathers and then washes all

1654
01:29:02,199 --> 01:29:04,560
those solutes into the basin and then the water just

1655
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,159
evaporates before it can carry it out to a creek

1656
01:29:07,199 --> 01:29:10,199
that carries it out to an ocean, et cetera. But anyway,

1657
01:29:10,279 --> 01:29:14,479
so speaking of but speaking of these these cool you know,

1658
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:24,520
arid land deserts, and speaking of Monterrey, Monterrey, which is yeah,

1659
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:26,760
again like a three hour drive from me. If you

1660
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:28,720
get a chance to go down there, it's nice. The

1661
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:31,800
city is kind of gross, not gross, but it's just

1662
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:36,560
like you know, like smiling shit eating grins billboards, smiling

1663
01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:40,000
shit eating grins on the billboards, money worship, you know,

1664
01:29:40,039 --> 01:29:42,079
a lot of stuff that you encounter in like more

1665
01:29:42,119 --> 01:29:48,479
fancy cities. But uh, Huasteca Canyon. Like you look at

1666
01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:51,479
a topographic map of Mexico, if you look at a

1667
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:54,600
topographic map of Monterey specifically, you'll see it's got this

1668
01:29:54,800 --> 01:29:57,800
huge mountain range to the west of it. You know,

1669
01:29:57,880 --> 01:30:03,720
with these these fold thrust faults caused the originally horizontal

1670
01:30:04,159 --> 01:30:08,760
limestone bedrock to be flipped up drastically like a like

1671
01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:11,560
a rug, like a like a rug, like a throw

1672
01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:15,159
rug on a hardwood floor. You know, like if the

1673
01:30:15,239 --> 01:30:17,920
dog is running to get out the door and slips

1674
01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:20,600
on this throw rug and then bunches it up against

1675
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:22,279
the door jam or something, you know, that kind of thing.

1676
01:30:22,319 --> 01:30:25,760
That's what the rock did over a series of however,

1677
01:30:25,760 --> 01:30:29,159
many million years, due to compressional forces coming from the west,

1678
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:34,399
and so it's created some drastically incredible and cool and

1679
01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:37,960
uplifted and very steep plant habitat where these horizontal limestone

1680
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:42,960
beds are literally almost vertical, and they've created and they're

1681
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:46,560
eroding these these bedding planes are eroding it uneven layers,

1682
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:49,760
so it almost looks like steps like pyramids have been

1683
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:53,159
created in some places. And there's so many cool endemic

1684
01:30:53,239 --> 01:30:56,159
plants there. And I started thinking about this today because

1685
01:30:56,600 --> 01:31:00,520
Houstasius spicigara, which is an orange. I don't know the

1686
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:03,960
common name for it, it's probably something stupid, but it's

1687
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:06,439
a common plant. It's easy to root from cuttings here

1688
01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:10,880
in South Texas, and it gets planted in native plant gardens.

1689
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:12,640
It takes a couple of years to get established and

1690
01:31:12,680 --> 01:31:16,039
look good, but mine are finally looking great after two

1691
01:31:16,119 --> 01:31:18,960
years in the ground. And it's how many bird pollen it.

1692
01:31:19,039 --> 01:31:21,039
It's got these orange flowers. And the only place I've

1693
01:31:21,119 --> 01:31:25,079
encountered it in the wild was in these dry forests

1694
01:31:25,119 --> 01:31:28,520
beneath these really steep cliffs that are just covered in

1695
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:32,399
all these cool rock wall plants, like these hanging rock gardens.

1696
01:31:33,399 --> 01:31:37,920
It's so it's so cool, these hanging rock gardens of

1697
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:41,119
incredible plant species, and there's so many of them that

1698
01:31:41,159 --> 01:31:43,399
aren't growing and soil. They're just growing out of these

1699
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:49,439
limestone cliffs, these cracks in these limestone cliffs, and that's

1700
01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:51,920
where a gave albo palosa grows, which is a really

1701
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:55,359
weird and rare at gave. It's got these little white

1702
01:31:55,399 --> 01:31:58,560
tufts at the distal ends of the leaf blades and

1703
01:31:58,680 --> 01:32:00,880
just looks like this. I don't know how you would

1704
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:03,960
describe it, like a pin cushion that can be up

1705
01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:08,880
to a foot tall in some cases, perfectly spherical with

1706
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:14,199
little white tufts on the ends. It's the Acaragma. Really

1707
01:32:14,279 --> 01:32:19,479
rare cactus is there as well, Decatropis, which is a species.

1708
01:32:19,520 --> 01:32:22,159
And Rutasi. That's another one I wish people grew, and

1709
01:32:22,640 --> 01:32:25,119
I'd love to get my hands on some seed grew

1710
01:32:25,119 --> 01:32:33,239
in South Texas. Rutasi. It's the citrus family. I guess

1711
01:32:33,239 --> 01:32:37,199
they changed the name from a gave alba pilosa to

1712
01:32:37,279 --> 01:32:39,319
a kind of a gave Alba pulosa. I guess it

1713
01:32:39,359 --> 01:32:42,039
came out on the other side of Manfreda. In that phylogeny.

1714
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:44,600
If you look at a clatagram, there was like a

1715
01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,520
big chunk of a gave species that were all genetically

1716
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:51,680
closely related on one side, and then there was the

1717
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:53,880
genus man Freda in the middle, and then there was

1718
01:32:54,079 --> 01:32:57,720
a few agave species which were weird outliers, like a

1719
01:32:57,760 --> 01:33:00,319
Gave strayata, which is I guess now, I know, a

1720
01:33:00,359 --> 01:33:05,079
Gave striata and a Gave bractiosa, which is now paleo

1721
01:33:05,119 --> 01:33:07,439
a gave bractiosa. But they were on the other side

1722
01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:10,920
of Manfreda, and Manfreda was in the middle, and some

1723
01:33:11,159 --> 01:33:13,199
idiot had the idea that they were just gonna lump

1724
01:33:13,199 --> 01:33:16,640
Manfreda into a gave rather than split out the other

1725
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:19,560
a gave species, you know, in order to make it monophyletic,

1726
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:23,039
which is what you want any taxononic clade to be.

1727
01:33:23,159 --> 01:33:25,439
You want it to be monophyletic. And so that didn't

1728
01:33:25,439 --> 01:33:27,880
make any sense because Manfreda is so different from a

1729
01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:32,399
gave ecologically speaking and morphologically speaking, you know, they can

1730
01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:36,920
dive back to roots. It's like a perennial, herbaceous perennial agave.

1731
01:33:37,720 --> 01:33:39,680
It didn't make any sense to do that. That would

1732
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:42,399
have been a stupid move. And so they just split

1733
01:33:42,520 --> 01:33:46,640
up the other side of a gave too. Because Manfreda

1734
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:50,119
was nested within a gave. We'd had a gaves on

1735
01:33:50,159 --> 01:33:52,239
the left of it and the right of it on

1736
01:33:52,319 --> 01:33:56,439
a cladogram on a phylogeny on a evolutionary tree. If

1737
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:58,439
you look at it, if you visualize this again, you

1738
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:01,880
have to visualize it. Don't just memorize it. Visualize it.

1739
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:04,359
It makes sense. Forget what the paper was. But I'm

1740
01:34:04,399 --> 01:34:07,680
sure if you google, like you know, phylogeny, A gave

1741
01:34:08,399 --> 01:34:12,560
a gave cladogram, you'll pull up the evolutionary tree where

1742
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:14,079
you could see it, so it makes sense. But yeah,

1743
01:34:14,199 --> 01:34:17,560
kind of a gave albo palosa. These these this is

1744
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:19,640
some of one of my favorite places in the world

1745
01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:24,079
is these mountains just west of Montterey. There are so

1746
01:34:24,199 --> 01:34:27,640
many cool plants there, and so many of them. I've

1747
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:30,479
just adapted to growing in these rock walls because those

1748
01:34:30,560 --> 01:34:32,600
rock walls have been there for millions of years since

1749
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:38,079
these these mountains were uplifted. There's it's just full of

1750
01:34:38,159 --> 01:34:43,600
cool fucking plants. Man, holy shit. Uh oh mesdenas Polyanthus,

1751
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:47,039
what is this? Did they is that another name change?

1752
01:34:47,039 --> 01:34:53,159
What is it? No? This is uh oh god, no, No,

1753
01:34:53,279 --> 01:34:56,880
that's a that was an orchid. Okay, that's like a

1754
01:34:56,960 --> 01:35:00,800
dryland orchid. Jesus looks like it's in the it's in

1755
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:04,399
the Sporanthe group. Yeah, okay, the ladies Tresses. I don't

1756
01:35:04,399 --> 01:35:06,600
know where to hell that name, that common name came from.

1757
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:12,760
It's another stupid common name. But I highly suggest you know,

1758
01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:14,600
getting out there, and you need a you need a

1759
01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:18,279
four wheel drive of some kind to get out there anyway.

1760
01:35:18,279 --> 01:35:20,760
I mean you can. There's some places you can explore

1761
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:24,760
with just a little sedan. But then there's a spot

1762
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:28,479
we have to drive through this like dam, drive up

1763
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:30,600
above this dam, and then it opens up into the

1764
01:35:31,079 --> 01:35:34,000
some of the other little these little nooks and crannies.

1765
01:35:35,159 --> 01:35:38,800
You know. It's so many micro habitats in this in

1766
01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:42,000
this mountain range too, And that's where you kind of

1767
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:44,159
got it. I was there with my friend Carlos and

1768
01:35:44,159 --> 01:35:47,800
Andre San Alan rockefs Is in twenty twenty two. That

1769
01:35:47,920 --> 01:35:49,720
was like the second or third time i'd been there.

1770
01:35:50,079 --> 01:35:53,640
Mammalaria plumosa is all over that canyon too, just growing

1771
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:55,880
out of rock walls. I mean, this is a mammalariat.

1772
01:35:55,920 --> 01:35:59,119
It's just like a little looks like a little marshmallow.

1773
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:02,199
Can't even see any of the epidermal tissue. You can't

1774
01:36:02,199 --> 01:36:04,520
see any green unless you peel these tricombes. It's got

1775
01:36:04,560 --> 01:36:08,279
these like feathery the spines and tricombs. It doesn't really

1776
01:36:08,279 --> 01:36:14,039
have any spines. It's mostly tricombs, but the tricombes are

1777
01:36:14,039 --> 01:36:16,239
like feathery. They're like plumos, and they kind of block

1778
01:36:17,079 --> 01:36:22,359
entirely block the epidermal tissue from the sun. So it's

1779
01:36:22,399 --> 01:36:25,560
made its own it's made its own shade cloth. Essentially.

1780
01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:28,640
This is a This is a species. It's pretty common

1781
01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:30,680
in cultivation. You can buy them pretty easily, and they

1782
01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:33,640
form clumps. I've got one in my yard. Never flinches

1783
01:36:33,680 --> 01:36:37,199
in the full sun. Really easy to grow. Not super

1784
01:36:37,199 --> 01:36:40,199
picky about soil mix. I mean, it needs fast training soil,

1785
01:36:40,279 --> 01:36:42,479
but it's not gonna shit the bed if you don't

1786
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:46,479
get the soil just right. It kind of a gave.

1787
01:36:46,720 --> 01:36:50,079
Oh this is cryptica. I forgot about that. That was

1788
01:36:50,119 --> 01:36:52,760
there too, Yeah, and cylindro puns you tu Nakata was

1789
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:54,560
there too. No shit, that's a West I've seen that

1790
01:36:54,640 --> 01:37:00,000
West Texas. Oh, but I wonder if it's the same

1791
01:37:00,079 --> 01:37:01,840
ecotype or what God I forgot. I got to go

1792
01:37:01,920 --> 01:37:05,680
back there, man and monster guya come a gusta Folium

1793
01:37:05,840 --> 01:37:11,119
that's the uh they call it ironwood or what's what's

1794
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:14,840
the other common name, but Guyacum it's got purple flowers.

1795
01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:18,600
They get tall, they get like Guya Khan is another

1796
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,640
is the common name. Guyacum is the genus name they

1797
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:24,560
can get. You know, you'll see him in West Texas.

1798
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:27,039
You see him down here in South Texas. They can

1799
01:37:27,079 --> 01:37:30,560
get you know, twelve feet by twelve feet tall, but

1800
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:34,000
you rarely see them like that because they grow immensely slowly.

1801
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:36,319
I've got one in my yard. I started some from seed.

1802
01:37:36,319 --> 01:37:40,079
They're two years older, like eight inches tall. There's so

1803
01:37:40,119 --> 01:37:42,399
many good plants, don it is? It is so worth

1804
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:45,800
going if you can, uh, you know, if you could

1805
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:50,600
swing it, just spend a fucking couple of days, and

1806
01:37:50,680 --> 01:37:52,840
you know there's people like biking there and it's a

1807
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:55,199
popular spot. Suppose it there used to be peyote there.

1808
01:37:55,279 --> 01:37:59,720
Maybe there still is hidden in some areas, but there's

1809
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:02,199
no isn't it shouldn't be there. It's just been poached,

1810
01:38:02,319 --> 01:38:05,640
you know, it's been It's it should be fucking everywhere

1811
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,319
in that habitat because it's just so adaptable and it

1812
01:38:09,359 --> 01:38:13,600
does so well. So it's kind of sad. That makes

1813
01:38:13,600 --> 01:38:16,600
me sad thinking about that. You know, ooh Lynn Leah

1814
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:21,760
mess Piloides from Rosecey, I forgot I saw that down there. Wow,

1815
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:23,640
that's a cool one. What the fuck is the range

1816
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:26,520
on this? That is an odd member of rose Cy.

1817
01:38:26,600 --> 01:38:31,239
It'd be another cool one to grow God and you

1818
01:38:31,319 --> 01:38:33,600
go to those mountains when it's misty out and it's

1819
01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:37,119
just they you feel like you're in a fucking it's

1820
01:38:37,159 --> 01:38:39,720
it's it's feels otherworldly. You feel like you're like in

1821
01:38:39,720 --> 01:38:41,800
a sci fi movie about what was that movie with

1822
01:38:41,840 --> 01:38:44,800
the Blue People? I forget the fucking name Avatar, Like

1823
01:38:45,159 --> 01:38:48,239
it looks like the landscape and Avatar with these misty

1824
01:38:48,319 --> 01:38:53,720
mountains that these towering spires and just so incredible, so

1825
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:58,000
fucking cool. There's so much amazing shit in Mexico, so many,

1826
01:38:58,159 --> 01:39:03,680
so much amazing geology and botany, and uh Sadly, just

1827
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:06,439
like South Texas, the native plant movement is somewhat lacking.

1828
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:10,880
There's not enough people studying this or just obsessing about

1829
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:14,359
it outside of the universities. Like my friend Carlos when

1830
01:39:14,399 --> 01:39:16,199
I was when I first met him, he was like

1831
01:39:16,319 --> 01:39:18,560
he was so excited to see that there were people

1832
01:39:19,279 --> 01:39:21,319
that were into this shit. He's like, no one cares.

1833
01:39:21,359 --> 01:39:25,720
Like where I live, no one cares. So I'm sure

1834
01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:27,640
that's changed out. That was like five, five or six

1835
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:30,560
years ago, So I'm sure there's I think this is growing.

1836
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:32,840
I think it's especially as more people realize how fucking

1837
01:39:32,840 --> 01:39:36,520
bleak the modern world is and how empty human society

1838
01:39:36,520 --> 01:39:39,399
will leave you feeling, because it just gets you chasing material,

1839
01:39:39,479 --> 01:39:42,840
shiny shit, and you know stuff that like it's like

1840
01:39:42,880 --> 01:39:45,840
a temporary it's like coke, like the things that that

1841
01:39:45,960 --> 01:39:48,359
human society offers. He was like cocaine. It feels good

1842
01:39:48,399 --> 01:39:50,920
for a very short burst of time, but then you

1843
01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:53,399
need more and you get addicted to it, and it's

1844
01:39:53,439 --> 01:39:55,880
never enough. It's like the same thing with the primate

1845
01:39:55,920 --> 01:39:58,439
hoarding complex. You want the shiny shit, the fucking muscle

1846
01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:02,000
cars or the fancy technology or whatever, and it feels

1847
01:40:02,039 --> 01:40:05,119
good for a second, but after a while it's man,

1848
01:40:05,159 --> 01:40:07,680
you don't care anymore, and it's it's never like that

1849
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:09,880
with the living world. You get in the living world,

1850
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:14,760
it'll get addicted to that. It'll that dopamine hit keeps coming,

1851
01:40:15,399 --> 01:40:17,479
keeps coming. Every time I walk out into my fucking

1852
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:19,960
yard and see some cool bugs or see a new

1853
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:23,119
plant that I plant to do in something I didn't

1854
01:40:23,159 --> 01:40:25,800
notice before. I learned something new I learned, Just like

1855
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:27,840
with the Zinniostro text on I Wow, I learned, this

1856
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:31,640
thing is making sales for its seeds. Holy shit, it

1857
01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:34,680
that it never gets old. You never run out of things.

1858
01:40:35,319 --> 01:40:39,079
But the material world, the human material world, all the bullshit,

1859
01:40:39,159 --> 01:40:42,319
the you know, these these dopamine hits that the human

1860
01:40:42,359 --> 01:40:45,800
world makes. It's like cocaine. It's it's cheap, it's fucking garbage.

1861
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:48,680
It doesn't last, and it doesn't like it doesn't make

1862
01:40:48,680 --> 01:40:51,039
you a better person either, like having a bunch of

1863
01:40:51,119 --> 01:40:53,600
shiny shit and fucking pool and fancy cars and all

1864
01:40:53,640 --> 01:40:55,239
the time shit, It doesn't make you a better person.

1865
01:40:56,079 --> 01:40:58,600
You need to be comfortable, you need good equipment, you

1866
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:02,439
need shit that works. But but that primate hoarding complex

1867
01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:06,600
is just it's it's it's unfulfilling. It's a hole. It's

1868
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:08,880
a void. It's not gonna fill the void within you.

1869
01:41:09,199 --> 01:41:12,840
That was cool. Chrisick Tinia, Panada was another interesting camp.

1870
01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:15,680
Another interesting composite I saw down there. We get chrisic

1871
01:41:15,760 --> 01:41:20,600
Tinia Mexicana common named Domianita, smells amazing marigold. Tried the

1872
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:24,359
leaves smell fucking ripe. You get Domianita around Austin and

1873
01:41:24,520 --> 01:41:28,560
Edwards Plateau. Chrysik Tinia Panada has a much different leaf

1874
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:32,560
shape and is a little bit larger of a shrub.

1875
01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:36,600
Is it? I can't tell, ah, what did I see?

1876
01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:39,479
The photos I have are three or four years old,

1877
01:41:40,159 --> 01:41:42,479
but now it's still a little herbaceous thing. But god,

1878
01:41:42,520 --> 01:41:46,079
it's got cool looking leaves. Now I see wood in there.

1879
01:41:46,199 --> 01:41:52,640
It's it's got some it's it's sufferutescent. Maybe there is

1880
01:41:53,079 --> 01:41:55,960
the bummer was there's s. Photolus everywhere, which is a

1881
01:41:56,000 --> 01:42:00,000
horticultural atrocity from where is it Mediterranean region or South Afria?

1882
01:42:00,199 --> 01:42:03,640
Super invasive. It's in the alo family S. Photo Lacey,

1883
01:42:06,399 --> 01:42:10,279
which is another family monocut, a family of monosucculent monocuts.

1884
01:42:10,319 --> 01:42:13,880
But uh, yeah it was. It was really invasive there.

1885
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:15,880
It was a bad invasive. I remember seeing it everywhere

1886
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:17,840
and this is like some shit. I think they still

1887
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:21,359
plant this. I saw this plant that around Austin, around

1888
01:42:21,359 --> 01:42:24,560
one of these new these hideous new housing developments out

1889
01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:28,279
by Lakeway, one of the rich neighborhoods. Just garbage, man,

1890
01:42:28,439 --> 01:42:31,359
fucking garbage. They were planting this, and then there was

1891
01:42:31,399 --> 01:42:37,159
like a Texas madrone and Verbusina LINDHEIMERI growing like thirty

1892
01:42:37,159 --> 01:42:40,000
feet away in a in like off the property of

1893
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:42,359
this development. I'm just like, it was absurd. So you've

1894
01:42:42,399 --> 01:42:45,439
got these wonderful natives that are built for this environment,

1895
01:42:45,680 --> 01:42:50,279
and you've created this blant, bleak, bland ass shopping, you know,

1896
01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:56,199
shopping culture. Fucking just the landscaping bed of these these

1897
01:42:56,359 --> 01:42:59,239
non native this non native bullshit that's gonna die without

1898
01:42:59,239 --> 01:43:02,880
irrigation or escape and become invasive as fuck. Ooh. Another

1899
01:43:03,119 --> 01:43:06,439
a member of the willow family, a dry tropical forest

1900
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:11,600
member of the willow family neo Pringlia integrifolia order a

1901
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:14,439
malpiggy a lea same order as euphobias in points status.

1902
01:43:14,479 --> 01:43:15,960
Did you know it? Did you know that willows are

1903
01:43:16,039 --> 01:43:20,159
related to euphobias and this thing is just growing on that.

1904
01:43:20,399 --> 01:43:22,279
It was really dry we went there, I mean it

1905
01:43:22,319 --> 01:43:24,439
was spring. It's you know, most of the rainy season

1906
01:43:24,479 --> 01:43:29,399
here is primarily in in uh. I guess they can

1907
01:43:29,439 --> 01:43:31,840
get rain. They just got some rain now, actually, but

1908
01:43:31,880 --> 01:43:35,600
the big rainy season is in the summer, and dry

1909
01:43:35,640 --> 01:43:43,239
tropical forests Mammillaria is everywhere. Uh ooh, Mammialaria prolifera was

1910
01:43:43,279 --> 01:43:46,560
done there. Mammialaria prolifera multi steps in those little canyons.

1911
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:50,520
I mean, these these mountains are just wrinkled the fuck

1912
01:43:50,600 --> 01:43:53,600
up and like like clothing would wrinkle, and it's created

1913
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:58,199
these just such cool little microhabit It's such a diverse area.

1914
01:43:58,239 --> 01:44:02,760
It's so fucking cool. Tons of choyas cylindra putia in Braccata.

1915
01:44:02,840 --> 01:44:07,479
Where do I see that? Tu Nakata? That that's icicle choya.

1916
01:44:07,560 --> 01:44:11,199
Oh that was in. Uh, that was in. That was

1917
01:44:11,279 --> 01:44:13,680
kind of outside. That was not in the mountains. That

1918
01:44:13,760 --> 01:44:16,760
was outside. Got a nice picture of Allen with feral

1919
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:21,560
cactus pelosis too. It's like eight headed, six foot tall

1920
01:44:21,880 --> 01:44:25,680
barrel cactus. I gotta get the fuck down there.

1921
01:44:25,680 --> 01:44:25,880
Speaker 3: Oh.

1922
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:30,920
Speaker 4: Pain Teria elastical filo, what the fuck ella kisto phila?

1923
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:35,399
Oh I shut I thought that was a mimosa. What

1924
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:40,840
the fuck? What is this? Oh it's from the Inga tribe.

1925
01:44:40,880 --> 01:44:45,199
It is in Mimo Soudy. But the Painteria where I've

1926
01:44:45,239 --> 01:44:49,000
not seen that legume. I don't think that gets into Texas. Oh,

1927
01:44:49,039 --> 01:44:51,399
there's so much cool shit there all this stuff that

1928
01:44:51,560 --> 01:44:55,960
just the northern end is like up by Monterey. It

1929
01:44:55,960 --> 01:44:58,760
doesn't get into Texas, but it would probably grow here. Fine,

1930
01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:00,680
there's so much cool stuff. All you gotta do is

1931
01:45:00,720 --> 01:45:03,279
cross that border. You see so much cool shit growing

1932
01:45:03,319 --> 01:45:07,720
on their Paleo gave bractiosa of course, Acharagma huasteca really

1933
01:45:07,720 --> 01:45:14,560
cool little cactus with yellow flowers dah oh yeah. And

1934
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:17,279
bud Lea cordatta of course is everywhere too. That's a

1935
01:45:17,319 --> 01:45:20,800
common that's like one of those those rather aggressive native

1936
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:24,039
quote weeds of Mexico that can be a tree. It's

1937
01:45:24,039 --> 01:45:26,680
got multiple different ecotypes. It's got like really some with

1938
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:30,039
really kanniescent white leaves, like chalky mint leaves covered in

1939
01:45:30,079 --> 01:45:32,960
these tiny little hairs. And then there's ones that are

1940
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:36,439
more music adapted to a more music climate, that don't

1941
01:45:36,439 --> 01:45:38,640
have the hairs and are more green and the leaves

1942
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:40,680
are bigger and broad leaved, you know, from a more

1943
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:44,439
mild climate, higher elevation climate. It's like like you'd see

1944
01:45:44,439 --> 01:45:47,239
around Mexico City where it's like seven thousand foot elevation

1945
01:45:47,439 --> 01:45:50,359
and you know, right down on the campus of yunam

1946
01:45:50,840 --> 01:45:53,800
You ever been to Unam, UNA's the way to the

1947
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:56,560
correct pronunciation. You go to Mexico City, you take the

1948
01:45:56,560 --> 01:46:00,640
little subway down there, wonderful experience. Just hold onto your shit, pickpocket.

1949
01:46:00,680 --> 01:46:04,439
It's a fucking subway and uh, and then you take

1950
01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:06,319
it down it's like a half hour or maybe forty

1951
01:46:06,399 --> 01:46:09,439
minute subway ride. They got good subways down there too.

1952
01:46:09,479 --> 01:46:12,119
They got good public transportation. Mexico City's fucking dope. It

1953
01:46:12,119 --> 01:46:14,439
smells like a parking garage because all the fucking automobile

1954
01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:17,560
traffic is terrible. You have black bookers. But for a

1955
01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:20,600
week or two you hang out there, it's so cool.

1956
01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:22,239
There's so much cool shit to see. But they I

1957
01:46:22,279 --> 01:46:25,159
basically I think they've been getting a lot of gringo tourists.

1958
01:46:25,159 --> 01:46:29,479
I had. My friend Priyo was just down there for uh.

1959
01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:31,479
She lived there for six months, and she said, the

1960
01:46:31,520 --> 01:46:38,800
amount of obnoxious fucking honkys just the fucking oh my god,

1961
01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:42,359
like I like the day I've had, it's fucking sick.

1962
01:46:42,520 --> 01:46:45,279
I love it, like I got such a day out

1963
01:46:45,279 --> 01:46:47,880
on a part of that. And then that's pissing off

1964
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:49,720
a lot of people that live there too. So now

1965
01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:53,279
there's all this fucking you know, this pushback where they're

1966
01:46:53,359 --> 01:46:55,840
just like any fucking gringo that comes down here. Fuck

1967
01:46:55,920 --> 01:46:58,039
you fuck you know, it's just it's so now, it's tense,

1968
01:46:58,079 --> 01:47:00,520
and it's just all the stupid shit people do when

1969
01:47:00,520 --> 01:47:02,880
they start shitting on each other and lobbing turds. You know.

1970
01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:06,720
I like that. I like that term lobbing turds, you know,

1971
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:10,119
just like especially with when it gets like this. It's

1972
01:47:10,159 --> 01:47:12,520
just treating race like it's sports teams. Don't it's not

1973
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:15,119
about class. No, God, we can't pay attention to that.

1974
01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:18,479
Don't look any deeper, look at the first two dimensional

1975
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:22,840
defining factor, like these white people like, no, there's fucking

1976
01:47:23,199 --> 01:47:27,439
cool you know, pasty honkeys that grew up in trailer

1977
01:47:27,479 --> 01:47:29,840
parks or whatever. They are working class. It's the haves

1978
01:47:29,840 --> 01:47:32,600
and the have nots. Motherfucker. Quit Quit treating race like

1979
01:47:32,640 --> 01:47:36,039
it's sports teams, you fucking morons. I get a little

1980
01:47:36,079 --> 01:47:37,960
too indignant. I get turned up you. I gotta stay

1981
01:47:37,960 --> 01:47:41,520
out of the Instagram comments section, I really do. And

1982
01:47:41,560 --> 01:47:44,000
that was one of the bummers of identitarianism too. It's

1983
01:47:44,079 --> 01:47:48,760
just just made class completely tone deaf, and it just

1984
01:47:48,840 --> 01:47:51,880
made it about race. The most basal, bottom of the

1985
01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:55,159
brain stem thing to attached to whether you're a racist

1986
01:47:55,279 --> 01:47:58,920
or whether you're an identitarian, just like sports teams like

1987
01:47:58,920 --> 01:48:01,600
what flag are you wearing? What jersey are you wearing?

1988
01:48:03,039 --> 01:48:05,560
And everyone who attaches this to this shit is totally

1989
01:48:06,239 --> 01:48:09,840
ignorant of the biological premise of race two, which I've

1990
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:12,479
talked about this so many times, which is just melanine

1991
01:48:12,520 --> 01:48:17,319
content based on latitude, on phenotypic variation in a latitude,

1992
01:48:17,560 --> 01:48:21,760
brown and black skin tones have evolved independently multiple times,

1993
01:48:21,800 --> 01:48:25,039
the same way that pasty skin tones have. Right when

1994
01:48:25,039 --> 01:48:26,560
do we get to snap out of this bottom of

1995
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:31,520
the brainstem primate mindset? Huh, fucking morons? I understand it.

1996
01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:35,680
I understand it, but forgive the indignant tone. But I

1997
01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:39,359
just you know, the education, the potential, it's the twenty

1998
01:48:39,359 --> 01:48:41,399
first century man. This information is out there. Like you

1999
01:48:41,399 --> 01:48:44,520
can read about vitamin B deficiency and vitamin D deficiency,

2000
01:48:45,039 --> 01:48:49,640
each one according to different latitudes. You know, your high latitudes,

2001
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:52,880
you're gonna get vitamin D deficiency if you're too brown,

2002
01:48:53,119 --> 01:48:56,159
low latitudes, you're gonna get vitamin B deficiency, if you're

2003
01:48:56,199 --> 01:49:00,640
too pink or pasty. This is just basic science. Race

2004
01:49:00,720 --> 01:49:04,800
doesn't exist. It's a human construct, and and especially with

2005
01:49:05,039 --> 01:49:08,760
the ease with which so many idiots confused race and culture.

2006
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:16,199
Quote race melanin content and culture. You know. Anyway, I'll

2007
01:49:16,279 --> 01:49:18,840
end that rant. But yeah, Mexico City, man, you got it.

2008
01:49:18,840 --> 01:49:21,319
It's it's nice. It's nice for a little while, you know,

2009
01:49:21,720 --> 01:49:25,720
again the black boggers. But anyway, I gotta go down there,

2010
01:49:25,800 --> 01:49:27,760
just to go down there again. I thought Marco. I

2011
01:49:27,800 --> 01:49:30,199
thought Marco and his dad and all his friends and

2012
01:49:30,239 --> 01:49:31,840
shit and his brothers were gonna go down there. And

2013
01:49:31,840 --> 01:49:33,640
I had such a great time with them last June.

2014
01:49:34,399 --> 01:49:38,399
That was so great. You know, his dad was hilarious,

2015
01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:42,760
his uh, his dad's friend was hilarious. Like these the

2016
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:46,000
two old Mexican guys that were just fucking like, you know,

2017
01:49:47,680 --> 01:49:52,119
just like totally loose, you know, going on. They were

2018
01:49:52,159 --> 01:49:53,760
fucking great to be around. It was just a really

2019
01:49:53,840 --> 01:49:57,359
good vibe. Marco's into plants. You know, he's not a

2020
01:49:57,479 --> 01:49:59,680
super nerd like me, but he's he knows his ship

2021
01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:02,359
and it's excited about it. He's fucking such a good

2022
01:50:02,439 --> 01:50:06,359
vibe man, totally good sense of humor, joking around and

2023
01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:08,399
fucking ah.

2024
01:50:08,439 --> 01:50:08,560
Speaker 3: Man.

2025
01:50:08,640 --> 01:50:10,960
Speaker 4: It was a really nice They invited me to come with.

2026
01:50:11,039 --> 01:50:13,399
I was I was honored. I was honored, and it's

2027
01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:15,640
because we were We were rolling deep too. There were

2028
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:20,119
like seven of us, you know, I think I was

2029
01:50:20,199 --> 01:50:23,520
the only one that didn't speak Spanish, didn't feak, didn't

2030
01:50:23,520 --> 01:50:26,560
speak fluid Spanish. But because we're rolling deep, everything was

2031
01:50:26,640 --> 01:50:29,520
cheap too. We had like this big ass yukon they rented,

2032
01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:33,239
and you know, we would get like airbn b's and

2033
01:50:33,239 --> 01:50:35,399
then just go to all these different habitats and just

2034
01:50:35,479 --> 01:50:39,159
fucking nerd out and with my friend Gabriel too, you know,

2035
01:50:40,319 --> 01:50:44,439
Mexican metal head, uh Cactus nerd. It was such a

2036
01:50:44,439 --> 01:50:48,119
good time, so fucking I should have him on the podcast.

2037
01:50:48,159 --> 01:50:51,359
Actually I should have. I should have Gabriel Diaz and

2038
01:50:51,439 --> 01:50:57,960
Fonte on it daily daily, Diaz in Fante. Well, we're hitting,

2039
01:50:58,159 --> 01:51:00,640
we're hitting an hour and fifteen minutes again. Check out

2040
01:51:00,720 --> 01:51:02,479
some of these plants though, man, And if you get

2041
01:51:02,479 --> 01:51:04,439
a chance to just go to Mantharay, that's a really

2042
01:51:04,560 --> 01:51:07,880
nice spot, just even you know, if you're looking for

2043
01:51:07,960 --> 01:51:10,439
some sort of fucking getaway plant getaway with to rent

2044
01:51:10,439 --> 01:51:12,840
the car, you know you need you gotta you got

2045
01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:16,399
like a week or two off vacation flying a Monterey,

2046
01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:20,399
rent a car, and fucking you know, go to the

2047
01:51:20,520 --> 01:51:24,279
go to the go to those mountains. Man, there's so there, guy,

2048
01:51:24,319 --> 01:51:26,199
there's so much good ship. You'll never get tired of

2049
01:51:26,239 --> 01:51:29,000
clambering around those mountains. Just don't fall and break your ass, right,

2050
01:51:29,640 --> 01:51:34,000
so much good ship. Iris scene Eriscene, that's another cool one.

2051
01:51:34,039 --> 01:51:37,359
That one kind of blew my mind. Amarant thesy, which

2052
01:51:37,399 --> 01:51:42,399
is does not have the most charismatic flowers. Oh, this

2053
01:51:42,520 --> 01:51:45,159
was Eroscene orientalis. I thought it was Erosne the fuse

2054
01:51:45,399 --> 01:51:49,119
Josh with Texas on in it. Shut out to Josh.

2055
01:51:49,199 --> 01:51:51,000
You know, he's one of these. He's one of the

2056
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:53,680
people that's doing a lot of the identifications on inad

2057
01:51:53,720 --> 01:51:55,800
for Texas and does a does a really good job.

2058
01:51:55,920 --> 01:51:59,680
Good solid dude. Former skater too. I think he's still skates.

2059
01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:02,920
I don't know. He came to my San Antonio presentation

2060
01:52:03,039 --> 01:52:06,359
that did last year and he's corrected a lot of

2061
01:52:06,359 --> 01:52:08,680
my identifications that especially ones that I don't have the

2062
01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:10,479
time for. I'll just oh, it's this, I'll put the

2063
01:52:10,520 --> 01:52:13,079
genus down and then he'll go look it up and

2064
01:52:13,119 --> 01:52:15,239
get it down to species. He's really good. He knows

2065
01:52:15,239 --> 01:52:17,920
his shit, you know, he knows he's really good. I'm

2066
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:20,760
thankful for people like that. I wish every region on

2067
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:23,600
Ininat had people that would go through and identify stuff.

2068
01:52:24,119 --> 01:52:27,079
I certainly don't want to do it, but you know,

2069
01:52:28,000 --> 01:52:31,960
whad other people go, Oh, Moretonia, Greggy. I was everywhere.

2070
01:52:32,439 --> 01:52:34,720
That is a really cool shrub we get in South Texas,

2071
01:52:34,760 --> 01:52:37,239
but it only grows on these these lomas, these little

2072
01:52:37,319 --> 01:52:41,000
hills full of conglomerate pebbles. But down there it was everywhere.

2073
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:43,600
I was scaling up this sketchy rock face to try

2074
01:52:43,600 --> 01:52:45,720
and get a photo of it, kind of a guy

2075
01:52:45,800 --> 01:52:48,479
ve albo pealosa, you know, because most of the ones

2076
01:52:48,520 --> 01:52:51,600
at lower elevation have all been poached by these fucking nerds.

2077
01:52:52,399 --> 01:52:56,560
And I was like, you know, it was sketchy because

2078
01:52:56,600 --> 01:53:00,159
this limestone is falling apart this old ocean floor basically.

2079
01:53:00,600 --> 01:53:02,239
And I looked to my right and there was like

2080
01:53:02,239 --> 01:53:04,520
a giant Moretonia. You could tell if it's got these

2081
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:07,000
red stems, these smooth red stems. It's like a multi

2082
01:53:07,079 --> 01:53:10,239
branch shrub, tiny white flowers. But Mortonia is a really

2083
01:53:10,239 --> 01:53:14,439
cool genius. I was talking about that last podcast, like

2084
01:53:14,520 --> 01:53:16,800
four or five species in North America, all of them

2085
01:53:16,800 --> 01:53:20,000
are limestone endemics. All have cool leaves that are imbricate,

2086
01:53:20,159 --> 01:53:24,319
like roofing shingles or snake scales. And and I looked

2087
01:53:24,319 --> 01:53:26,359
at yea, it was Mortonia Gregory and then I realized

2088
01:53:26,359 --> 01:53:28,239
it was everywhere like which, this is a kind of

2089
01:53:28,319 --> 01:53:30,800
a rare plant in South Texas. I'd love to see

2090
01:53:30,800 --> 01:53:33,960
it grown more in horticulture. I'm trying to I'm trying

2091
01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:36,800
to get on it. Mike Easton at San Antonio got

2092
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:39,239
some cuttings and seeds. I need to go collect some

2093
01:53:39,279 --> 01:53:42,800
more seeds from the places the few places I know

2094
01:53:42,800 --> 01:53:45,239
where it grows in South Texas. But you know, in

2095
01:53:45,960 --> 01:53:48,239
horticulture would be fucking great. It would be such a

2096
01:53:48,279 --> 01:53:52,760
great plant for landscaping. And it's covered in insects and

2097
01:53:52,800 --> 01:53:56,640
cool bees when it's blooming. But but it's still kind

2098
01:53:56,640 --> 01:53:59,399
of rare. But down there it was everywhere. Oh god,

2099
01:53:59,600 --> 01:54:02,199
there's so there's so much good shit everywhere you look.

2100
01:54:02,520 --> 01:54:06,039
Are so much diversity, you know, Yeah, go to Hosteca Canyon.

2101
01:54:06,159 --> 01:54:08,159
You know, you got a couple of days just go

2102
01:54:08,239 --> 01:54:10,680
down there and take a look at the deca Tropis

2103
01:54:10,720 --> 01:54:15,359
bicolor and Neo pringlia and tigrifolio that's the the willow family.

2104
01:54:15,439 --> 01:54:20,800
That's salacacious thing. Sala casey, go find some cool mammalarias.

2105
01:54:20,840 --> 01:54:23,079
Why is nobody growing deca tropis? That's what I want

2106
01:54:23,119 --> 01:54:27,800
to know. That's a really cool it's a really cool rue.

2107
01:54:28,479 --> 01:54:30,479
I only took one photo. What the fuck? Yeah, it's

2108
01:54:30,479 --> 01:54:33,560
got like this rusty, it's got this. I saw it

2109
01:54:33,560 --> 01:54:35,880
at UC Berkeley Botanic Garden the first time I saw it,

2110
01:54:36,359 --> 01:54:38,159
and so I knew what it was when I encountered

2111
01:54:38,199 --> 01:54:41,000
it in habitat. But oh, the fucking flowers are incredible.

2112
01:54:41,319 --> 01:54:43,880
I bet they got some cool oil glands on them too,

2113
01:54:43,960 --> 01:54:51,159
like quite a few members of Rutasi. Goddamn. Oh, it's

2114
01:54:51,239 --> 01:54:57,359
it's related to xanthoxilum. It's in the xanthoxloidy. Oh, there's

2115
01:54:57,359 --> 01:55:00,039
some nice money shots somebody put up on an I

2116
01:55:00,600 --> 01:55:03,680
how about that. What is the range of this? I

2117
01:55:03,720 --> 01:55:06,039
think it's mostly I've only seen it. I've seen in

2118
01:55:06,079 --> 01:55:10,880
Tamilpis too. But how far south does it go? It

2119
01:55:10,920 --> 01:55:15,239
gets into just north of Mexico City a little bit. Yeah. Yeah,

2120
01:55:15,279 --> 01:55:18,560
it's just Sierra Madre. Man, it's just Sierra Madre Oriental.

2121
01:55:20,119 --> 01:55:22,359
What a fucking cool plant that thing needs to be

2122
01:55:22,399 --> 01:55:24,840
grown too. I wonder if it's frost. It's gotta be

2123
01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:28,520
frost tower. It's growing because those mountains, what elevation is

2124
01:55:28,560 --> 01:55:31,279
not the red it's like three or four thousand feet

2125
01:55:31,399 --> 01:55:33,600
or something. It's higher than here. They got to get

2126
01:55:33,600 --> 01:55:37,239
frost on there occasionally, you know, once in a blue moon,

2127
01:55:37,359 --> 01:55:40,000
but it happens. So this thing's been through the filter

2128
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:45,159
over the last how many hundreds of thousands, millions of years. Yeah,

2129
01:55:45,159 --> 01:55:48,439
it's got that orange indument. Those new leaves coming out

2130
01:55:48,479 --> 01:55:53,039
are just oh god, it's beautiful. It's like fuzzy and orange. Okay,

2131
01:55:53,079 --> 01:55:55,239
well we'll call it quits there. Have a good rest

2132
01:55:55,239 --> 01:55:56,920
of your day. If you want to order stickers, they're

2133
01:55:56,960 --> 01:56:01,319
twenty bucks. You can venmo me as hell all one word.

2134
01:56:01,319 --> 01:56:04,399
I'll send you nine stickers, two of them multicolored. They're

2135
01:56:04,439 --> 01:56:08,159
real nice and uh yeah, I don't know. I forget

2136
01:56:08,199 --> 01:56:09,880
where I'll be speaking, so I can't tell you right now.

2137
01:56:09,920 --> 01:56:11,600
Maybe I'll do it next episode. All right, have a

2138
01:56:11,600 --> 01:56:12,920
good rest of the day. Go yourself by