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Speaker 1: I work up to another episode of a crime pace

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that body doesn't podcast. I'm driving north to Dallas through Dallas.

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It's never gonna sound good when you're saying I'm driving

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to Dallas. It's just never. It's never gonna be an

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uppity feeling. It's never gonna feel positive. It's never gonna

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feel like a new day's beginning. That's just those those

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words and that feeling just don't go together. They don't

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go together at all. I just want to get through it.

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I want to stay in a a shitty Best Western,

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or a or a maybe even a Day's Inn if

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my standards. It depends how low my standards are. I

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got my kid with me. You know, she's she can't

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hear me. She can't hear me screaming into the mic

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right now. She got her headphones on, she's insulated from

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the world. She's watching turtle videos on this screen. But

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you know, because of that, because she's with me, maybe

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I would get a Best Western normally, like a Day's In,

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like a like kind of a dump, you know, but

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they got the Texas Toast Machine. But either way, Dallas

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is as far as we're gonna make it tonight, we're

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going to Chicago. Might meet up with my buddy Akash tomorrow,

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who's starting Native Planned Nursery and has been documenting the

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horrific atrocities that have been occurring in the Dallas Fort

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Worth metro area, just leveling what's left of the prairie,

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those beautiful, thin soiled limestone prairies home the species like

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so female befloor them and a host of Dahlia's, including

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that one that was thought to be extinct that was

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just rediscovered a conscience some other guy helped helped the

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because they were the ones that discovered it, rediscovered it,

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and the landowner of that Dahlia actually reached out to me.

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You know. Dahlia's right. They a Morpha tribe. They're in

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the Amorphia tribe, so that means, you know, they smell

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kind of kind of good. They smell kind of like

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they'd be in the citrus family or something. The leaves

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do they got them punk take glanes and and uh,

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they got these fucking drivers. Man, I can't wait to

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be once you leave Texas. You know the phenomenon of

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being tailgated even though you're already going eighty five by

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some massive you know, double DIGITIQ meathead in a giant

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truck that's not you know, is not even halfway paid off?

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Like that phenomenon just fades away, right These trucks are gleaming,

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not a scratch. Ear me rand about this before. I

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think we got a cop. I think we got a

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cop behind me. I don't know anyway, but there was

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a new dahlias. Why can't I kid think of the

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name right now? Oh god, I can't remember the name.

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It was another day anyway, there's like nine thousand Delia species.

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That's not the point. They found a dahlia on this

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private parcela Land and thank god, gahd, I can smell

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Jack's mouth right now. Holy hell. I think he's finally

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going this week. I think he's crossing a rainbow bridge.

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I've been able to do it so I've just been,

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you know, doing weekend at Bernie's with his ass for

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the last six months. You know, he's been ready to

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check out for a while. I think he was looking

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at me Yesterday's saying why won't you just kill me?

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And I said, because I can't let you go that easy.

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We've been together seventeen years and I love you too.

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Much and it sucks and then he just you know,

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I think he cursed me under his rancid doggy breath.

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And anyway, so it was a private parcel of land

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in this Dahlia species was rediscovered after being thought to

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be extinct, and luckily the landowner was cool. They reached

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out to me even and I think a cash collected

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like three pounds of seed from it too, So he's

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gonna get into cultivation. But he's been documenting this. It's crazy, man,

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the amount of racist shit that came out because he's Indian,

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you know, the amount of racist shit. These these fucking

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pasty textan mother, but no offense. I'm friends, listen, I'm

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a hockey. If you call it that, I don't even

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believe there's no race. It's just the human species. We're

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all the ship at it as the other. But you know,

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if I had to again, I'm a hockey, right, So

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I can't be I can't be too racist against white people.

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But I'm just saying, and I'm friends with people that

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burn easy. I got friends that burn you. I got

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friends that gotta wear HISPF fifty, okay, get a lot

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of friends that are real pink Okay, Alan Rockefeller has

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to wear a lot of something. Great man, one of

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my best friends. Rockefeller is not his real last name either,

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so don't go give a him shit about being connected

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to the steel magnate or what was it oil or

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steeling or some fucking prick. He's dead anyway. But the

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with which someone who needs to slather themselves in SPF

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fifty or above to avoid burning at this latitude to

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talk shit on someone who's you know, not who's who's darker,

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who's Indian? I think maybe just because Indian culture gets

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a lot of hate. But a Conscia is like a

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third generation Texan. Yeah, and he knows this shit. He's

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a great fucking botanist, but you know, and I think

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it's just these Rando accounts find they find someone describing

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the destruction that's going on in Texas and what a

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shithold it looks like, and they get upset, they get

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their panties in a bunch, and so they just talk

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shit anyway they can. But it's it is nuts, though,

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because you wouldn't see this shit happen plenty of other

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places I've lived. And I'm not saying there's no racism there,

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but I wouldn't see this happen whereas now, you know,

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in Texas, because I get that's what the algorithm feeds

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my ass. I'm trying to stay off the thing, but

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what it feeds me is Texas based shit. The amount

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of races shit, just like and I think it's just

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because the Trump years too. You know, everyone's out right

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ol racists are out. It's okay, you know, but again

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it's like, it's it's just fucking ridiculous. It's a people

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conflate culture which is not inherited with human phenotype which

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is and they don't understand either one because you know,

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our education system's fucking failing and uh you know the uh,

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no one understands that basic evolutionary biology at all. Oh look,

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here's that spot where Liatris Carizona used to grow until

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it was leveled for a sand quarry. There's the sand quarry.

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There's still some individuals left. I should have trespassed there

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and gotten more seed. God, they really fucked up that

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whole population, man, that's amazing. They leveled the whole population

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of that liattress. James Piece is growing a shit done

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of them at Limestone Tortoise. That reminds me. I got

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Arizona ironwood desert ironwood one a testoda seed. I gotta

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get to Willie. I guess I could give it to

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James too, but I need somebody to grow it. That's

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a great fucking lego, man. And it's edible, you know,

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which is great. You can get in with the permaculture

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people that only pay attention to shit if you can

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put in your ass or eat it. Right. Oh, they

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don't care about the I'm just joking. I'm just joking.

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Ease up. They don't care about the ecology. Tell you

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till you tell them me. If you put in your ass,

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it's here's some ailment, or you can eat this thing

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or something, then they're like okay, right. But again, I'm

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not anti permaculture. I'm just anti non native perma culture. Right,

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work with the tools that came with the land. But anyway,

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Dlia species but it wasn't hally eye. What was the dahlia?

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I forget what the dailia? Let me you know what,

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because it's useless. If I'm telling you there was a

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Dahlia species rediscovered and I'm not telling you what the

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uh what the name was? That's useless to you, and

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it's not. It's not going to help you out right,

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You're you're missed opportunity. Okay, Yeah, it was Dahlia Sabina's

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sab analyis, and I think Eric Knight anyway, was someone

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photographed that on IIGH Naturalist and I think it was

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observed on a ranch by someone who was doing a

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study for quail without knowing what it was. And then

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later I d'd on IIGH Naturalist to be Delia sab Analys,

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which has been thought to be extinct. It's this is

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somewhere near Brackettville. To be honest, I don't even know

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where Bracketville is. I don't know where a lot of

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these central Texas places are. I should, but I don't,

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and I can't tell you any more information because I'm driving.

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Otherwise i'd look it up. But regardless, it's really cool.

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So there was this new not new, but this species

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that was thought to be lost, that an extinct that

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was rediscovered, and so Akasha is going to be growing

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his shit done of it, which is great. Anyway, so

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Akasha was making these videos on the uh complete and

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utter annihilation of the remaining Fort Worth Prairies and any

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this really nice Parcela Prairie that got bulldozed for some development.

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All these fucking developments look the same. That's just what

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they do. It's not even I don't even think it's malicious.

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You want to think it's malicious, but it's just stupidity. Right.

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But you know you're never gonna go wrong overestimating people's

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maliciousness or stupidity, stupidity, at least not in this society.

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So anyway, either way, that said, some people don't like that.

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They think it sounds negative. I don't think it's negative,

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all right. I think of myself as a pretty cheery guy.

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I think a pretty upheat. I'm in a pretty good

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mood most of the time, right. I just I've seen

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a lot of bullshit, and I've seen a lot of phonies,

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and I've seen a lot of They don't worry. The

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kid can't hear this. She got her headphones on. I'm

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about the yank that's screen out away from her in

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about an hour. But you know, on an eight hour

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drive to Dallas, what are you gonna do, right, You're

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taking a kid to Dallas. She's not gonna be excited

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about this. She's gonna be bummed out the minute we

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get within city limits. I would be. My heart hurts

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for myself going to Dallas, Right, it's not a nice

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place to be. The whole for Worth metro READI you

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see what they've done with their their local landscape. Jesus Christ,

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who would do such a thing, those beautiful prairies. Anyway,

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so Akash was filming this, and he filmed this, you know,

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he's he had video at a spot before and it

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was just lit up and looking gorgeous as fuck, and

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then video of it after and it's just these bleak

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fucking houses. And you know these houses. You ever follow

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any of those like home inspection accounts on inter sham,

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it's the same thing. They fail, they they these home

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inspectors filmed just like these crackpot whack job half assed

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complete quack uh quack supply to doctors. Well you know

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what I mean in terms of construction, just like these

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shitty houses just built like you know, like they were

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built by someone no offense, someone who's mentally disabled. Right,

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and when you say retar anymore, all the all the

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like Persnipity Karen's and shit get upset when you say

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retard no whatever, say retard to talk about someone who's

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actually mentally disabled, that would be sociopathic. You say retard

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to talk about people who are fully capable. They're just

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choosing to act like fucking idiots. Right, So now I'll

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say mentally disabled instead and then wait to get lectured

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about how that's inappropriate anyway to point this. So, these

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houses got built on this beautiful praige, just demolishing these

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incredibly beautiful places to build these utter garbage, you know.

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And of course when you when you talk about this

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in any kind of public form, there's always gonna be

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that nitwidth that comes into the common section and says, no,

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I don't think people. You don't think people shill live

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at houses. Huh, you're like people still live at houses.

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Come on, man, you're talking about these places. These houses

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aren't even gonna be standing up in thirty years. I've

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seen videos of the framing blowing down in windstorms. You're

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fucking kidding me. And since when are developers trying to

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be charitable? Right? You're like standing up for developers, just

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like standing up for ambulance chasers and personal injury attorneys,

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right Like they're like, like, these are some of the

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pillars of society got Thank god for these developers, these

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slimebag developers and these ambulance chasers. If it weren't for them,

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society would fall apart. They're right up there with like

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the first responders after COVID. He's fucking not how do

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you get how do you lick boots at heart? He's scumbag, right,

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And not only that, but there's other options for building

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neighborhoods besides somebody's bleak. I'm going off on a tangent,

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you know what I'm saying. These cul de sacts, these

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motherfuckers demolished amazing grasslands and then put in sodbermuda grass

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just completely idiotic, just depressing, like marks of a society

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in decline where the public education systems failed. Everyone's a

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moron and there's no hope. But alas there is SOAI

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guess kash Akash filmed this and the developer actually reached

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out to him and they're gonna try to get him,

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probably just for pr it's phony his help, but whatever,

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better than not doing it at all. They're going to

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reach out to him and see if he wants to

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be the one to install like a native garden right,

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native Prairig. So that's amazing, that's great. Right. Whereas if

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it was me doing it, I probably would have talked

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so much shit they wouldn't have offered me to you know,

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it wouldn't have changed their mind. But Akash was like, well,

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he was a little sarcastic, I think in this post anyway.

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Check him out. He's on Instagram Flora of the American Interior.

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But either way, it's good. It's good. I mean, the

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ship is still sinking. Don't get me wrong. I don't

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want to give you too much hope, but it's good.

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It's better than normally. You know. Part of being alive

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today is just just learning how to accept bad things

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and learning how to make the medicine that makes them

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easy to go down. But the system will write itself eventually.

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I mean, this society can't go on forever. It'll collapse anyway. Okay,

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you know what we're getting a little negative here? Oooh

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what is this? What are these? Is it? There? Rebeccia,

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I gotta go check out what that massive bloom it

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might be with Dilia. No, no, no, it's said Helianthus it

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said rare Heli anthis from the sand it's pretty interesting,

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how about that. So anyway, so you know, the blae

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housing developments still going to be there, but at least

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have native plants around it. That's the best we can

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hope for in this day and age. Right. Anyway, that

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was Helianthus prey cox. By the way, I always got

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to check out what those composits are on the side

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of the road, right because in North America are always

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going to be yellow or orange for the most part.

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But damn, there's a ship ton of it. It's all

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Helianthus prey cocks. Because we're a little bit on the

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sand right now. But we're going up. We're going up

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to the oak woodlands. But anyway, I got back from

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Costa Rica a week ago. It was nice. I was

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getting paid to help out with a tour down there,

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and the whole time we were up in the cloud

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forest except for the last three days I was with

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Allen and we went to we we scale like a Airbnb,

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like the mid elevation forests, hotter and more humid than

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the cloud forest to nine thousand feet. With pectanopots Stanley,

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I got those cloud forests at nine thousand feet. The

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spot we stay at is basically this giant house that

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was built entirely built by this family that moved to

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Costa Rica from Michigan in uh when like the sixties

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or seventies. They're like, they're all ginger. It's like a

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ginger family. They're all like Irish or something, or they're

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northern Northern European. They're sweet fucking people. They moved to

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Costa Rica because they realized the US was just it

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was going into Vietnam and it was going to be

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whack and uh, it was not an ideal place to be.

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They said, fuck this, I'm done, and so they moved

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me turned out of the blues a little bit, and

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so they moved to Costa Rica, learned Spanish, got their

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shit together. They've got you know, they milt their own cows,

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fucking happy cows too, really really kind loving people. I

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don't know if maybe to get like a Quaker or

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a Mennonite background or something, I don't know, but either way,

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pleasant place to be. And so we were posted up there.

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We were set up the mothlight. Every night, wild shit

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we were seeing coming to the moth light, even though

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we're in nine thousand feet and it gets chilly at

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night because the air is thinner, there's still a bunch

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of stuff coming to the mothlight. There was a black

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witch moth there one night, which is some fucking stupid

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it's some stupid superstitions associated with death. Eat my ass,

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No it's not. You're just a fucking idiot. You're afraid

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of You're afraid of nature, superstick, Get shut up. The

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people are afraid of owls too, fucking goofballs. Man never

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understood being afraid of I'm afraid of cities. I'm afraid

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of for Worth. I'm going to Fort Worth. I'm gonna

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see some of the ugliest shit I've seen in a

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long time. You know, I'm thinking my mind is still

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in the cloud forest of the Talamaca Range with massive

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cloud forest oaks and so lamb a bracket klyx and

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Pectanopoties stanley I. This ancient potal carp, this ancient conifer.

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The other two species in the genus Swellers, I think

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they're six total. But the other two that I know

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of growing Australia and New Zealand. What does that tell

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you how old that lineage is? Huh, it's a gondwan

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in lineage. And then it migrated up the Andes over

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the last fifty million years or however long to grow

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in Central America. You know, when did Pectanopoties Stanley I

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crossed the equator? When did the distribution shift enough that

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it could cross? These things grow slow as hell. They

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can get incredibly large. They're covered in all kinds of

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cool bromeliads and mosses and ferns. And here we go,

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these fucking idiots. They speed up. There's no concept of

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stopping distance in the mind of the Texas driver. They

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speed up to get to a red light. They speed

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up to get to the car in front of them.

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Now realizing, see I'm thinking like you know, when I

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used to run locomotives, it was restricted speed all the time.

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That was his speed. Restricted speed was a speed there

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was there's no number attached to it, the actual speed.

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The definition in a g CORD, a General Code of

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Operating Rules, the definition was stop within half the range

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of vision. So put it on you. It was your

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responsibility entirely if you hit. If you if you knew

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you're supposed to be going restricted speed in a signal

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block between two different signals, then you know, and you

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come around a curve. You got to bring your speed down. Otherwise,

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if you hit a boulder that fell off the cliff

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into that curve, it's it's on you. It doesn't matter,

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there's no speed limit, it's you. It's your own judgment,

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right anyway, So I I'm always you know, I see

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shit slowing down, I slow down way ahead of time,

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so I have to slam on the brakes. He's fucking

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idiots again. A kid can't hear me. She got her

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headphones on and she's you know, you put these kids

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in front of a screen. It's like they're in a trance, right.

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I normally I'm opposed to that, but in this case,

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it's like a sedative. It's like giving a dog CBD.

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But then I tell her at the same time, the

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screen is poisoned for you. And you know, especially when

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if you're watching like TV and a commercials come on.

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I tell her, these guys are trying to sell you

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stuff you don't need. It's a scam. Right, My six

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year old knows what a scam is already very important.

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If you have kids and they don't know what a

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scam is at the age of six, you failed as

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a parent. I'll go ahead, I'll put that out there.

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You have failed as a parent if your kids don't

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know the concept of a scam right, because they're gonna

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be getting scammed through like you're just raising a patsy.

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You're raising a sucker, a sap. What was I talking about? Oh? Anyway,

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this is that a cloud force was real nice. It

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was real nice. You got these quircous coast the Rikensis

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Quirkus copasis. You're at eight thousand feet, you go up

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to nine thousand feet. There's a bunch of wonderful trees there.

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Cloud Fit's chili. There's Gunnera, which if you don't know

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what that is, I put a video up on it.

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That's a wonderful species, very distinct flower morphology, highly invasive

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in the UK. I can see why there's like fifty

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different species Gunnera sum are tiny like gunner A Monoka.

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I saw on a on Mount Terrriaki. It's uh. I

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forget the actual name of it. It's not Mount Teriyaki.

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I just started calling it that and uh, and now

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I can't remember the actual what the literal name was

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with the with the real name. Anyway, The point is

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Gunnera is it's an old lineage. It's weird, it's cool,

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it's got symbiotic associations with nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria, and uh,

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you know, everybody's happy. There was Nasa speciosa growing under

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the canopy of some of these trees. There was oh god,

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what was it. There was a really cool relative of

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Eugenia in the mertesi. And uh, there was Hediosma mexicanum.

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There were Hediosma is a weird one, many different variocean

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variations on Hediosma opposite leaves. They almost look like they'd

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be in ruby ac They got interpetial or stipules, so

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it looks like, you know, a seam goes across the

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main stem in between the two opposite leaves. Anytime you

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meet a plant, there's no flowers. First thing I always

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look at, but even before leaf shape is are the

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leaves opposite or alternate? Right, That's the first thing you

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look for, because I will tell you a lot, and

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it also if you're later trying to key stuff out,

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that'll be a big thing you look for when you're

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diagnosing to feel anyway. But god, damn, those fourths are amazing.

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I thought I would be bored because I've already been

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to Costa Rica twice to this area, but every time

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you go, just I mean to stand at the foot

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of one of those old Pectanopodes trees and look up

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and see all this cool shit growing up there, and

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then the bark peels off on these things. It flakes

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off to the detriment of some of the epiphytes, and

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it leaves behind this really beautiful red bark with these

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like circular lentiscles them. I don't know if they're old

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branch scars or what, but they're fucking gorgeous. And I

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just I love the Poto carps Man. That's family Poto Carpesi.

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Put that in your vocat bank and learn it. It's

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a really cool family. I think it's the sister family

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to the monkey puzzle family. Eric carry Ace monkey puzzles

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one of the dumbest common names. Just gonna say that.

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Norfolk Island pine, which you could buy in inside the

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drug store on Christmas time, right, they sell them, They wrap,

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they put it in a pot, they wrap it in

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some red tinsil. They say, here, give this to your

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grandma for a house plant. She's gonna like it. And

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then she puts it on top of a heater and

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doesn't water for a week to think dice, right, But

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if you were a plant that in the ground in

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a place like Hawaii where it's not native to, or

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even Oakland, California, it'll get ninety fucking feet tall, which

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eric Carria heterophyla or sometimes eric Carria columnaris both did

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when I lived in West Oakland. They were like ninety

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what Eracarria trees there anyway? So Potocarpesi is sister family

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to that. A lot of really interesting species, a lot

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of really interesting conifers. Decritium pectinatum, which I just saw

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in the Philippines is in that family too. A lot

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of them are bird dispersed, and they're not fruits, remember,

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because it's a naked ovary. A fruit is an ovary

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enclosed or a seed enclosed in an ovary. So these

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are naked seeds, not naked ovaries, you know what I mean,

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naked seeds. They're gymnose sperms, these conifers. But Potocarpus, you know,

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Potocarpus family home to the world's only parasitic conifer species

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Paris to Texas, Usta just south of me on the

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Texas border. There's a Potocarpus is it selignis? Now? What

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is the species that grows in LCLO Biosphere Reserve? And

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tom Alipis? Shit hid in San Antonio traffic, Man, it's

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it's rough going. I just, you know, there's a lot

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of stuff to get distracted by, and I always seem

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to hit rush hour. The kids in an opium. You know,

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she's basically in and out. She's just like opium for toddlers.

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There you go, she's on opum. She's watching the screen.

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I'm a bad parent. It's like an opium. Then you

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go in and you're like what they don't even know

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what time it is anymore? Then I haven't looked up

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in in five hours. They're just where am I? You know,

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they don't even even know what's going on. It's like

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they're on heroin. It's like, could give me a kid?

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Heroin basically is what I'm doing. Why am I doing it?

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Because I'm a bad dad? Only eighteen more hours to

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go to Chicago. No, that's not true. How many is

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he's eighteen or seventeen? We're going to be stopping. Oh,

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I wanted to stop in to the Dallas Fort Worth area.

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Go look at the dinosaur museum there. We're going to

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be doing a lot of dinosaur museums. I can't smell

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Jack's mouth. You know. The nice thing is, like last

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time I drove with Jack, he was getting up a bunch.

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Right now he's laid back. I think he's just because

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he knows he's on a verge of death. God, it's

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so sad just watching him. By the way, it's not sad.

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I've gotten plenty of time with him. I thought he

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was gonna croak. Four months ago. I was crying with him,

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giving him kisses and hugs, and I said, you know,

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you've been the best dog. Thank you. I don't deserve you.

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And then uh, it's you know, after two days of that,

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he wasn't getting up, he wasn't eating. Suddenly he gets

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up and he eats a hot dog. So I fed

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him a bunch of hot dogs. Terrible for the for

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the health. You know, it was not heart healthy, right,

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he's a little blue healer. It's not heart healthy for them.

460
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,759
But it was what what can you do? Right at

461
00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:38,319
that point, he just it's just about the flavor. He

462
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,920
likes that smoky flavor. It doesn't mind all the nitrates.

463
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,400
He just wants that smoky flavor. But anyway, so yeah,

464
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,119
the Costa Rica, the cloud force was great. Then we

465
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,000
came down to like the lower elevations near Santa Sidro.

466
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,640
But you know what blew my mind though, was going

467
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,200
back through the fucking through the airport. It was a ripoff.

468
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,279
Everything's a fucking rip Costa Rican prices. We went to

469
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,240
a grocery store. I should you not? I saw eleven

470
00:26:03,279 --> 00:26:06,759
dollars peanut butter and it's suggusted with the currency that's

471
00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:11,400
from you know, uh, Costa Rican. Uh. I forget the

472
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,559
name of our currency, whatever our currency is over there

473
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,920
that suggested for the US dollar. It was like ten

474
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,440
or eleven bucks. And the name of the supermarket was BM,

475
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,400
which stands for bowel movement which has heavy had one today?

476
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,759
Are you're eating enough fiber? You know? I here cilium

477
00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:32,119
husk is good for cleaning your colon. Uh colonico erbalo.

478
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:37,480
That's how you say herbal colon cleans in Spanish in

479
00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:40,359
case you were wondering. But yeah, the fucking price. It's

480
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,240
an expensive country, man, It's an expensive country. It's a

481
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,000
very very expensive country. And they've got a lot of conservation.

482
00:26:48,079 --> 00:26:50,559
That's kind of wealthy. What is this fucking goofball doing?

483
00:26:50,559 --> 00:26:53,000
What is this guy? What are you doing? God? These

484
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,119
fucking drivers, man, you need like I should, I should

485
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,759
get off this. I'm just I got the my clip

486
00:26:58,799 --> 00:27:05,599
to me, so it's not you know, but uh anyway,

487
00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:08,680
but yeah, and then going through the airport too, it

488
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,319
was crazy. Man, it was fucking crazy the prices there,

489
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,039
and it's all like Americans and tourists and shit that

490
00:27:15,079 --> 00:27:16,599
you know, they're really big on the tours in there,

491
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,319
and I get that that's good, but I don't like

492
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,759
to feel like I'm getting robbed every time I I,

493
00:27:22,839 --> 00:27:26,920
you know, go do something right. The Luckily, for most

494
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,920
of the trip we were just we you know, we

495
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,400
were just up at this little uh, this this lodge

496
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,640
that this family ran up in the cloud for us.

497
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,039
But like, damn man, they really they shake you down.

498
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,920
It is like they will fucking get their little more dta,

499
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,440
they will get a little bite in. It's expensive as hell,

500
00:27:46,519 --> 00:27:48,359
and it's not only the way I travel to like

501
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,119
when I'm you know, I don't normally stay any place

502
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,359
longer than a night unless it's really really good. But

503
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,880
that this tour was fun it was there's so much

504
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,319
stuff to do. You can you can get to the

505
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,039
Paramo from this lodge, so you're it's like cloud forest,

506
00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:03,039
and you go in this hike up you get to

507
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:06,359
the Parmao. You can go past this cool waterfall that

508
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,559
then ends up to some of the lower elevation stuff.

509
00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:11,279
And there's so much diversity you could easily spend three

510
00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:16,240
or four days there. And the fucking stars at night. God,

511
00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:20,119
it was just beautiful. I'm grateful for places like Costa

512
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,759
Rica where they've been doing conservation, where the government will

513
00:28:23,759 --> 00:28:27,920
pay you to conserve land. But I still don't like paying,

514
00:28:28,319 --> 00:28:32,000
you know, twelve dollars for a jar a peanut butter

515
00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:36,079
at the grocery store named Bowel Movement. It just doesn't

516
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:38,200
feel right. I just got an issue with that. You know,

517
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,480
it's not nice. It doesn't make me feel nice. It

518
00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:42,519
makes me feel like I'm getting shut down. Like it's

519
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:46,400
an opportunistic thing, right, Like I haven't gone to a

520
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,079
sports game in a while, but don't they do that's

521
00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:49,920
sports games. They do at the movie theater too. They

522
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,279
rob you. Yeah, we're in san Anto. She wants to

523
00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:57,039
know for Insanta. Say hi, everybody, say hi. Everybody. Yeah,

524
00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:01,680
she says, Hi, she woke up from her beam her

525
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,799
opium slumber. What are you watching? Are you watching something good?

526
00:29:04,839 --> 00:29:07,599
It's not gonna make it stupid, right, it's educational. Are

527
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,160
you watching Turtlevie? You're not watching Where were you watching

528
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:19,759
turtle videos or something? Yeah? The city's cool. You like cities, right,

529
00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:23,440
san Antonio. Yeah, We've been to San Antonio plenty of times.

530
00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:27,039
Say see what what she's doing right now is expressing

531
00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:29,839
hope for the urban condition, which is really you know,

532
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:35,400
we love we love nature. Uh, the living world is

533
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,200
something cult. But we love the city too. The humanity

534
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,680
resultimate hope lies in cities. You gotta bring the nature

535
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:49,359
to the cities, right, what is it, baby? You've been

536
00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:52,319
here before. We've been to San Antonio before. Remember that

537
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,160
Charlie Pride song. She's familiar with Charlie Pride. She could

538
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,160
sing something I'm gonna I'm gonna go, I gotta we

539
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,920
gotta deal with this. Now it's getting a little congested.

540
00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:02,519
I'm gonna turn this off for a second. All right.

541
00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:05,240
It's the next day. We're in the car slum known

542
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:08,799
as for Worth, the for Worth Metrori. It's one of

543
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,640
many many car slums in North America, which are frequently

544
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,960
the subject of angry ranting on this podcast, being that

545
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,119
so much of America looks like an abject shithole, just

546
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:24,880
a spiritually a spiritually dead, soul killing shithole. But I

547
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,920
do have to say the nicest part about staying in

548
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,240
a place like the Scampton Inn, which we did last night.

549
00:30:31,279 --> 00:30:33,960
We got to play in a pool today we uh,

550
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,880
you know, my daughter's again in her in her catatonic

551
00:30:38,039 --> 00:30:42,279
chloroform trance of she's watching Dinah Toopia or something, and

552
00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:44,359
they make you watch ads on it, and so again

553
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,119
I have to explain to her what an ad is,

554
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,680
how it's such a huge part of American society, how

555
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,720
it's basically brainwashing to sell you stuff you don't need,

556
00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:56,240
et cetera. Right, Like, what are they trying to sell you? Now, baby?

557
00:30:56,279 --> 00:30:58,480
Every different you know commercial that comes up where they're

558
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,319
trying to sell you, what is it the t sell

559
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:02,880
you like a sugary juice is gonna give you diabetes? Huh,

560
00:31:03,079 --> 00:31:09,799
give you diabetes, You're gonna die. But anyway, yeah, so,

561
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:12,319
so teach your kids about the advertising and how it's

562
00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:17,000
you know, brainwashing. Anyway, So Okay, so now we're we're

563
00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:19,680
on the road. We fed the dogs a nice breakfast

564
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,880
full of shit I would never put into my own

565
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,200
personal mouth, which is, you know, some of the reconstituted

566
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:30,400
eggs and the what was it all? Yeah, bacon and

567
00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:34,200
other things, and I had some nasty coffee. You know,

568
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,440
this is the hotel breakfast, so really you gotta watch out.

569
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,839
But uh, just you know we're now we're here in

570
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,640
for Worth. We're gonna go meet up with a cash

571
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,640
and watch this prairie get destroyed. And it's all just

572
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,000
part of dystopia, you know, the American dystopia. But we're

573
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,079
gonna document some cool species too. Why are there? Why

574
00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:55,400
are there so many daily species? I wonder? You know,

575
00:31:55,839 --> 00:32:00,519
my friend Sophie studied that group, the Amorpha tribe, and

576
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:03,359
I think she she was telling me about what Delia

577
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,160
species in uh Nuevo Leone that was getting reclassified as

578
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:15,000
a marianna or no marina. Mike, My brain is just

579
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:18,880
the word CellID. It's just a soup of botanical nomenclature

580
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,440
and genus names. But uh yeah, but so that was

581
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,000
a really cool what was it philiformoius? Was Delia philiformis

582
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:39,119
Art's Mariana. Oh shits sneeze, Oh never mind. Anyway, God,

583
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,079
it's still you know, it's hot as balls during the day,

584
00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:43,160
but it's still not as hot as where I live.

585
00:32:43,799 --> 00:32:46,000
Like you walk outside and it just it doesn't feel

586
00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:48,359
nasty like where I live. You just walk outside and

587
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,720
it feels nasty. It's just so gross and humid. That

588
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,720
humidity is everything. Man. You go west one degree of

589
00:32:57,759 --> 00:33:02,039
longitude and what two degrees of longitude and you start

590
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:05,240
getting dry nights. You know, it's so nice. I got

591
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,400
an alpine West Texas. It cools off at night because

592
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,799
it's it's there's now humidity. Best weather in Texas, not

593
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,160
an alpine. There's still no public land, so you can't,

594
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,599
you know. But it's a little bit different out there.

595
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:22,640
You know, it's kind of nice. Al saw Alpine for

596
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:27,640
the first time two months ago, and I think it

597
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,839
blew his mind. This is so nice. This is such

598
00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:33,720
a nice spot. But anyway, so we're going to this

599
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:38,200
prairie demolition site, gonna check out these Fort Worth limestone

600
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,680
prairies are really cool. There's very thin soil and because

601
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,319
you're right at the part of the content where you're

602
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:49,519
going from the music humid east to the more arid west.

603
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,960
And also you've got the remnants again of that Western

604
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,359
interior seaway that was here during the Cretaceous that left

605
00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:01,119
all those cool ammonite fossils and other other fossils. I

606
00:34:01,599 --> 00:34:05,599
gotta get off here. So but it's really interesting for us.

607
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,079
So when you've got thin soils and lots of rock,

608
00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:12,360
you're gonna have, you know, a convergent trait. You see

609
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,719
among a lot of the plants here are these thick,

610
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:20,559
kind of woody taproots that you know, if it's not

611
00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:22,880
a grass of course, because grasses don't get tab roots.

612
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,320
They've got fibrous roots, you know, being monocots, and all

613
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,119
all monocots have fibrous roots, no tab roots. But I

614
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,239
remember when we were doing I was with the Kash

615
00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:35,840
two years ago and we were doing a plant quote rescue,

616
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,880
just you know, basically picking up the pieces a plant salvage.

617
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:42,880
The rescue is so self gratifying and stelf and does

618
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,800
I don't like that word rescuing, you know, rescuing your

619
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,880
salvaging shit that your your species is destroying, right because

620
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:57,639
it's run by pigs any the remises. But anyway, but yeah,

621
00:34:57,679 --> 00:35:01,079
so I was remember like Dhlia Haley and the stealinge

622
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,880
is and stuff. They've all got the end of course,

623
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,840
the liaddress, they've all got, these thick corms, Jim radfree Way.

624
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,519
Where the fuck where am I going? God damn it,

625
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,679
hold on, I gotta I gotta pull over. This is

626
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,599
this is all a fricking I can't thou the Google lady,

627
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:18,960
she said, I feel like she's intentionally trying to mislead

628
00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:24,360
me here. These Texas drivers are awful too. Just ride

629
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,760
your ass, just ride. Just know where you're going, buddy. Oh,

630
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,320
where you're going so much more important than where I'm going.

631
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,079
I get it, Okay, you gotta get there first. And

632
00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:35,599
your giant oversized truck it's got. Some of these trucks

633
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:39,039
are just hilarious. I like that gender affirming care. Somebody

634
00:35:39,079 --> 00:35:42,840
called it. That's really what. I'm not a pussy. I'm

635
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,519
not a pussy. I'm an alpha. I'm saying that while

636
00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:49,320
you're looking in the mirror with your your truck where

637
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,400
the hood is like six feet tall, It's just like

638
00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:55,880
the hood is taller than you are. How where am

639
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,199
I getting off? Now? God, it's just a mess. I'd

640
00:35:59,199 --> 00:36:02,599
love to meet the endeers at design cities like this,

641
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,639
you know, like with all their maps in front of

642
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:06,400
them on it. Well now they do it on screens,

643
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,119
but you know, back in the day when they were

644
00:36:08,199 --> 00:36:10,239
laying this stuff out with these maps, just showing these

645
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:15,719
spaghetti bowls of freeway overpasses, just an absolute clusterfuck, Like

646
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,719
what made you think this was a reasonable way to live?

647
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,920
The amount of land that's devoted to roads and parking

648
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,239
lots is just fucking nuts. What a miserable way to

649
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,920
I just I get in my car, I immediately want

650
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,639
to get out, right. I like the long drives, well

651
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,920
I don't like them. I like the feeling of going someplace,

652
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,079
but I want to get out of it. I'd rather

653
00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:38,400
be like sitting on a train or something where I

654
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,920
can read. I don't have to they keep my eyes

655
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,519
glued to the road ahead of me. And then people

656
00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:47,280
just become assholes in cars too, you know, even myself.

657
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,440
I just get you just get really impatient. You can't

658
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,559
see somebody. It's not personable anyway. I'm excited to see

659
00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:56,360
these species, so a lot of them are going off.

660
00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:58,800
It's been a while since I've seen Sophia and albfloor

661
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,440
them as well, which is that it looks like Sylphium liciniatum,

662
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,400
Sylphium of course, the genus known as the compass plants

663
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:11,519
and prairie doc. Uh, there's none in the West, but

664
00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:15,519
there's what is the furthest west species of Sylphium, probably

665
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:21,320
liciniatum or maybe even this one Albaflorham, but prairie doc

666
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,280
of course you get in Chicago. It's one of my favorites.

667
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,519
These things are their long lived plants. They get really

668
00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:30,800
deep taproots, sunflower family, astracy, robust root systems of roots,

669
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,239
just like this huge battery. The tops die every year,

670
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:39,119
so there are baceous perennials and you know there's no

671
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,440
woody tissue above ground. God damn, though they're they're such

672
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:48,440
a it's such a cool group. And the Silfia a

673
00:37:48,679 --> 00:37:51,480
form of course, is endemic to Texas. There might be

674
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:54,039
a population in Oklahoma, or at least there should be

675
00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:57,920
because it's so similar. But let's see if I can

676
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,079
grab a coffee and one of the many bleak strip Oh,

677
00:38:01,119 --> 00:38:04,079
look at coals. We have that we have that whereial

678
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:07,400
of the coals with another giant parking Coals. You know,

679
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,079
I'm surprised Coals hasn't gone out of business soon. They should.

680
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,599
It's kind of a bleak play. I mean, the whole

681
00:38:12,639 --> 00:38:17,840
thing's bleak. But it's like it's like the housewife, the

682
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:24,000
housewife center, right, it's like their husbands like, uh, you know,

683
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,320
works doing what's selling insurance or some wife's got to

684
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,400
go get a job at Cole's, you know, doing Amazon returns. Anyway,

685
00:38:32,079 --> 00:38:33,960
I'm so glad that's not my life. No offense to

686
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:39,559
anybody whose life that might be. But but Sylvia malibleflorm

687
00:38:39,599 --> 00:38:42,079
I haven't seen in a while. That's gotten hit hard

688
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,400
with all the development in Texas. Texas and Florida, of course,

689
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,760
are incredibly corrupt. The you know, political the political class

690
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,559
of the state is basically owned by developers. That's mainly

691
00:38:52,559 --> 00:38:56,000
who they serve more than the people. And uh, and

692
00:38:56,079 --> 00:38:58,320
so there's been a huge sell off of a bunch

693
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,920
of land, lots of development lately. Oh, that cough is

694
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,400
worrying me. I don't know what's up with that. That

695
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,199
wasn't going on last night. She can't hear me. She

696
00:39:04,199 --> 00:39:07,360
got her headphones on, right, She's like catatonic in front

697
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,199
of the screen. I'm taking it away to we're going

698
00:39:09,199 --> 00:39:12,000
out into the prairie. I don't do the screen thing

699
00:39:12,039 --> 00:39:14,320
with kids that much. I really don't like it. It's not good.

700
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,320
But on these long drives, I feel like it's torture.

701
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:17,760
But I was proud of her last night. She got

702
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,480
bored with the screen, put it down and just looked

703
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:25,039
out the window for a couple hours. I was like

704
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,559
getting all excited and looking at stuff, and I was like, Yeah,

705
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:29,239
that's right, that's what you should be doing. That's what

706
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:30,760
I had to do. I didn't. I don't get to

707
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,480
just you know, zone out into a screen. It's it's

708
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,599
you do that long enough, it feels I remember that

709
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,559
used to make me feel bleak. It used to even

710
00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:41,159
when I was young. I'd be like, God, I just

711
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:48,039
feel like zonked, you know. So yeah, so Sophia, now

712
00:39:48,079 --> 00:39:49,840
a floor will be great to see again. It's flowering

713
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:54,199
right now, the only white flowered Sylphium, and a lot

714
00:39:54,199 --> 00:39:57,440
of different liatrists. Love all those liatrius, And then the

715
00:39:57,519 --> 00:40:01,440
Dahlias bia. Why is Dahlia so species rich? I wonder

716
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,760
it's insane how species rich it is in Mexico and

717
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:09,400
North America and how many Dahlias do you get in California?

718
00:40:09,519 --> 00:40:12,880
Do you get money out there? I don't remember seeing.

719
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:15,199
I'm sure there's probably a few, but I don't remember seeing.

720
00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:18,760
But you get soorl Famness, which is in the same

721
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,480
tribe as Dahlia. You know, that whole tribe of Morphi

722
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:28,719
has the very fragrant foliage, right, whether it's Issenhardia or Dahlia,

723
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:36,719
or a morpha or or the sorol famness, they've all

724
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,519
got those, you know. Like I said, those punk take

725
00:40:38,559 --> 00:40:40,960
glands that I was talking about that smells so fragrant,

726
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,239
almost like they should be in the citrus family. I

727
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,119
wonder if it's a similar chemistry at all. And I

728
00:40:46,199 --> 00:40:49,639
bet there's a shit ton of butterflies and other lepidoptera

729
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,119
that use them as host plants too, Because if you've

730
00:40:52,119 --> 00:40:55,119
got unique chemistry like that in your leaves, I'm sure

731
00:40:56,039 --> 00:40:58,119
something will have evolved at some point in the last

732
00:40:58,159 --> 00:41:02,239
few million years to exploit it. And you know, bioaccumulated

733
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:07,840
as defense against birds. Got the speaking of lepidopter Holy shit, man,

734
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,280
the moths we saw, well, we came down from the

735
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,119
cloud forest and there were a shit ton of moths

736
00:41:12,199 --> 00:41:15,119
up there. We came down from the cloud forest to

737
00:41:15,159 --> 00:41:19,079
an elevation of like forty five hundred feet just what

738
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:23,719
is it like like fourteen hundred meters we stike the

739
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,360
moth diversity doubled and there were so many moths around.

740
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,360
It was just fucking wild man. And the rhinoceros beetles

741
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,679
showed up one night. He was crawling all over us.

742
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,760
It's a little unnerving at first because you've got an

743
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,719
insect the size of a fist that's just you know,

744
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,079
lurking on you. But they're they're harmless, you know, and

745
00:41:41,079 --> 00:41:46,280
they're kind of fuzzy too, kind of cute. But some

746
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,320
of those some of those moths, there was a moth

747
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:49,880
that showed up, I mean a lot of them just

748
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,559
you know, they've got to find a spot to lurk

749
00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:53,440
during the day and hide out from birds. So a

750
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,280
lot of them, you know, look like tree bark or

751
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,880
they look like a leaf. There was a really odd

752
00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:01,760
one that showed up when you were in the cloud

753
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,519
forest that looked kind of it looked like almost tarantula

754
00:42:04,599 --> 00:42:10,599
hawk mimicry, like orange wings, semi translucent. It looked like

755
00:42:10,679 --> 00:42:13,719
across like the coloration looked like across between a tarantula

756
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,199
hawk and a monarch. It was a fucking beautiful moth.

757
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,480
It was a beautiful creature. Oh my god, looking at

758
00:42:19,519 --> 00:42:22,199
this spot on a map, it's just it's just cancer cells,

759
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:27,639
cancer cells of culd deessects, little pods, concrete pods of living.

760
00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:30,400
But you know, I bet if you did like a

761
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,440
gas chromatography now it's some sort of analysis with the

762
00:42:35,519 --> 00:42:39,000
detect chemicals, chemicals in the water here and the sewage,

763
00:42:39,079 --> 00:42:42,800
you'd come out with a whole host of SSRIs. You

764
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,119
gotta be on some sort of prozac or you know,

765
00:42:46,599 --> 00:42:49,440
prozac analog to tolerate living in a place like this,

766
00:42:49,559 --> 00:42:52,679
because this is fucking bleak man, this is a rough

767
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:57,920
Oh my god, who get that gym membership? That's where

768
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,119
you're gonna get your exercise because there's nowhere else the

769
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,119
walk or or bike or do anything without worrying about

770
00:43:03,159 --> 00:43:08,599
getting killed, get flattened by one of these these oversized

771
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,960
tanks Jesus driven by someone who'd be out of out

772
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,920
of breath going up a couple of flights of stairs. Texas.

773
00:43:19,199 --> 00:43:22,519
Oh nice accident they did, and that they did good work.

774
00:43:23,119 --> 00:43:26,239
So some some truck just got all smashed. It was

775
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,039
a little fender bender. The guys were okayters standing outside.

776
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,559
They did a real nice job mashing in that hood though,

777
00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:35,679
and there was cooling fluid, you know, dripping all over

778
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,800
to the pavement. Excellent work, my friends, right in the

779
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,559
middle of the street. Who slows everything down. Now we're

780
00:43:42,639 --> 00:43:45,960
entering some green space they've been they've made with good

781
00:43:46,079 --> 00:43:49,480
use of this, uh, this limestone, right, just like they

782
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:52,960
do in Austin when they're building these fancy new buildings. Right,

783
00:43:53,039 --> 00:43:55,639
if you're gonna build, if you're gonna demolish all the

784
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,719
habitat and just you know, create sprawl and sell everything

785
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,320
to developers because everything's private land anyway, at least you

786
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,920
can use cretaceous limestone the flagstone as they call it

787
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,199
in the Midwest to build your nice walls for your

788
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,119
gated community interests. And you know the buildings, the strip, malls,

789
00:44:13,159 --> 00:44:17,920
et cetera around there. God, I would have loved to

790
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:22,840
see for Worth the region three hundred years ago. I

791
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:27,159
bet it was gorgeous. Man. The fucking prairies here, holy shit.

792
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,239
I love prairies in general, but especially these are hotter,

793
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,159
drier prairies. Well, there's none of them left. But you

794
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,440
know what I mean, the ones that are left. The

795
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,400
plant communities here, I mean, these are really heat and

796
00:44:39,519 --> 00:44:42,440
drought adapted species, but at the same time they need

797
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:46,079
cool winters. It's different from tom leap and thorn scrub

798
00:44:46,159 --> 00:44:48,599
like where I live, where it's just insanely fucking brutally

799
00:44:48,639 --> 00:44:53,360
hot all the time, except well we get chills out

800
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:54,800
in February a little bit. You got to put a

801
00:44:54,840 --> 00:45:00,480
hoodie on. But incredible species and the penstemens that alias

802
00:45:01,199 --> 00:45:04,760
the sylphium. Huh, what's up? I can't see that you

803
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,679
want me to kill I'll kill all of us. But

804
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,920
oh you got to You got toy story on. Good job.

805
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,400
It's okay, you know she's she's six, but she understands

806
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:19,360
the concept of of having the focus on the road.

807
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:26,079
La Frontera. It looks like a bleak gated community anyway.

808
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,880
Uh so, But to see this kind of especially when

809
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,000
they were bison here, can you imagine what that must

810
00:45:33,039 --> 00:45:38,119
have been like? Holy shit, must have been incredible, the big,

811
00:45:38,199 --> 00:45:43,880
wide open blue skies with just the the incredible grasslands

812
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,360
that must have been here. I just don't understand why

813
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,159
you wouldn't want to preserve that and yeah, look there's

814
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,159
limestone right here at the surface, there's like limestone cowls,

815
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:59,880
a very thin layer, a single yucca rupacola, and then

816
00:46:00,199 --> 00:46:03,079
just just standing in the middle of a standing there

817
00:46:03,119 --> 00:46:07,519
in the middle of a mode abutonment to a gated community.

818
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,639
I wonder where they left that single yucka. I'm thankful

819
00:46:10,679 --> 00:46:14,559
that they did. But some oak woodlands. It was like

820
00:46:14,639 --> 00:46:17,079
oak savannah and grassland. This is one of my favorite

821
00:46:17,119 --> 00:46:19,440
habit that time. So oh, look at all that yucka. Oh,

822
00:46:19,559 --> 00:46:26,159
it's beautiful, so much good stuff. Oklahoma, like Western Oklahoma

823
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,480
must have been beautiful too. I'm sure it probably still

824
00:46:28,599 --> 00:46:31,400
is in some places. But the development in Texas has

825
00:46:31,519 --> 00:46:35,039
just been so bad. Man Florida and Texas because they're

826
00:46:35,039 --> 00:46:38,039
so corrupt and owned by developers. The development has just

827
00:46:38,079 --> 00:46:41,360
been off the It's basically redeemable at this point, right,

828
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,519
you need some sort of natural disaster to kind of

829
00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:46,239
I don't want to, I don't want to say anything,

830
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,320
you know, cleanse the development at some point, not now.

831
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:50,920
I don't want anybody get hurt. But I'm just saying,

832
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,800
you know what I mean, this is a reasonable thing, right, right,

833
00:46:55,039 --> 00:46:57,880
don't don't don't what I'm saying is not problematic. This

834
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,199
is something we all agree on and it's just you know,

835
00:47:01,159 --> 00:47:05,480
and also I'm being half facetious at least, but you

836
00:47:05,559 --> 00:47:07,440
know this all this shit, man, this is you know,

837
00:47:07,559 --> 00:47:11,159
this is ephemeral, uh effluent in a long span of

838
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,960
geologic time right now where General's ross dressed for less

839
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,039
aldus crap. These these houses that fall apart, you know,

840
00:47:18,159 --> 00:47:22,079
twenty years after they're built. Amazing work they do on

841
00:47:22,199 --> 00:47:26,280
these I mean amazing incomfidence. It's just it's it's impressive.

842
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,039
It's like they're not like these would they're like gag houses.

843
00:47:29,119 --> 00:47:32,119
They're like if the construction crews were playing gags on people,

844
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,920
you know, right, like you like when you put beef

845
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,559
bullion in the shower head or something. It's it's almost

846
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:44,119
like that, like we're just working like the fucking studs,

847
00:47:44,559 --> 00:47:46,800
Like the studs and the roof dart don't even the

848
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,599
joysts don't even connect. There's nails everywhere. It's like someone

849
00:47:50,679 --> 00:47:52,920
put a blindfold on, got hammered and then was just

850
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,039
shooting nail gun all over the place. You know. It's

851
00:47:55,199 --> 00:47:59,639
it's again, it's it's impressive. Okay, now we're on the outskirts. Oh,

852
00:47:59,679 --> 00:48:02,159
I can see the development from here. They're bulldozing it.

853
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,920
It looks like a landfill. There's some mild topography, some

854
00:48:06,079 --> 00:48:08,960
hills and undulation in the landscape, and then at the

855
00:48:09,039 --> 00:48:12,360
top of this hill they're just bulldozing the hell out

856
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:17,519
of it. And uh, I assume they're creating pads for

857
00:48:18,119 --> 00:48:19,880
some of the cul de sect. So we're gonna pull

858
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,079
over here. Hopefully a casha is here already. We're gonna

859
00:48:23,119 --> 00:48:28,440
see what plants. Oh wow, there's already see anathro A macrocarpa.

860
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,199
That's a wonderful one. Flowers withering at ten am in

861
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,360
a morning. It's redundant. You know what I mean? Ten

862
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,760
am flowers withering. They bloomed last night. Their moth pollinated.

863
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,800
Who's done pollination studies? I know? Nathroa macrocarpa. What the

864
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,400
fuck is the cash? You ain't hear you? Oh, there's

865
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:48,199
Sparky's fireworks. We're gonna post up here for a minute. Oh,

866
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,199
it was brutal to see. So we just just left

867
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,320
for Worth across down to Oklahoma. Spent three hours today

868
00:48:56,039 --> 00:48:59,360
at a really wonderful prairie site that's all being destroyed

869
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:05,280
for these bleak man just bleak housing subdivisions, but they're

870
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:10,480
done in the Texas style with like the limestone gates,

871
00:49:10,679 --> 00:49:14,760
you know, the gated like the limestone Uh. Because all

872
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,719
these bleak you know, the the housing communities, these these developments,

873
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,840
they've all got like the entrance with the name of

874
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,079
the development in the got itself such a fucking horrible

875
00:49:23,159 --> 00:49:26,400
style too, so that these plays aren't even neighborhoods. They're

876
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,960
like anti neighborhoods. So it's got the name of the

877
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:32,840
of the I saw some great hideous shit. I got

878
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,960
stopped at a couple did you know, did a quick

879
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,360
three minute segment for spiritually depraved the misery inducing landscapes

880
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:45,199
of North America. Lots of material, they're horrific landscaping, But

881
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,519
this one that was just being built was just like

882
00:49:48,039 --> 00:49:52,320
god Man. There was Sylphium albiflorum going off. Still, there

883
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:58,320
was two different Delia's. There was a hollyye halle i

884
00:49:58,599 --> 00:50:04,280
and uh tenuous and or was it tenuifolio I forget?

885
00:50:04,639 --> 00:50:08,440
And they were fucking amonite fossils everywhere, like large ammonite

886
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,719
fossils throughout this area, some of them still complete. Really

887
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,760
that was really cool to see. I've never found a

888
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:18,239
complete ammonite before, like the size of a dinner plate.

889
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:22,840
Some of these things wonderful fossil assemblage, remnants of the

890
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,079
Western Interior seaway. But god, the stuff they're building is

891
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,440
just you know, they So you got to tell these

892
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,480
Ponzi scheme developers like you could still you could still

893
00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:35,880
have your this grandiose scam that you're making, but like,

894
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,400
wh why not just leave these native plants in there?

895
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,039
They're dope, right, But you know, if you get there

896
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:45,519
at the wrong time of year, they're not flowering. They're

897
00:50:45,559 --> 00:50:47,000
not at the wrong time of year. Just when they're

898
00:50:47,039 --> 00:50:49,280
not flowering, you would think they're all weeds because we've

899
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,079
all been conditioned to think that land you know, plants

900
00:50:52,119 --> 00:50:54,280
and landscaping have to be flowering all the time, like

901
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,960
all the hideous shit you see in front of you know,

902
00:50:57,039 --> 00:50:59,719
the commercial businesses. And I swear to God man, I

903
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:05,119
hate I hate landscape. I hate most American landscaping more

904
00:51:05,159 --> 00:51:08,119
than I hate the lawn because it conditions people to

905
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,320
hate nature because nature's boring. It doesn't flower, the only

906
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:16,400
thing plants are supposed to do. When you have that worldview,

907
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,159
that modern American landscaping worldview is they're supposed to flower

908
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,159
all the time, and they're supposed to She can't hear

909
00:51:22,199 --> 00:51:23,920
what I'm saying. The worst she got the headphones on.

910
00:51:24,199 --> 00:51:25,920
I don't want her to hear me cust as much,

911
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,480
but it's certainly, you know, whatever it's. The kids have

912
00:51:29,599 --> 00:51:33,159
seen worse things. I don't want her to not know

913
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:34,599
what the words are. I want her to know what

914
00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:36,480
the words are and know that you don't use them.

915
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,159
She did call me a dumbass earlier today though, which

916
00:51:39,199 --> 00:51:46,159
I was quite impressed by. But anyway, so you know,

917
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,400
it's just God. There was some cool stuff. There was

918
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,400
a sleepiat angle Maniana there too, which is like these

919
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:56,840
thin leaved this thin leaved probably like four five feet

920
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:02,199
tall milkweed. There was a sleepiest Stenophila there too. Sleepy

921
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:07,400
is verritis and Verida flora. Verrita flora has axillary flowers.

922
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,719
The inflorescences come out of the leaf axles, and Verritis

923
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:18,519
has appicle inflorescences. It's just flowers at the top, so

924
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:25,280
it's very confusing. Whoever whoever named those two just stopped

925
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,440
to make a mancha. I got some I got some

926
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,679
plant based milk in the back of the the cooler

927
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,480
and I got some fucking mancha and get ripped on

928
00:52:36,559 --> 00:52:38,880
this ship. You know, I can't do coffee because it'll

929
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,920
fuck up my stomach. This is nice. You get the

930
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,960
polyphenols and the gatakins and stuff, so you don't get

931
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,199
the cancer from all this shit they spray out of food.

932
00:52:46,599 --> 00:52:49,599
Everybody gets cancer these days. Boy, this is really a

933
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,880
It's just really an uplifting podcast. You know what you

934
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,400
want cheery, I am a cheery fuck. If you want cheery,

935
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,719
listen to something else. Candy ass you're gonna complain about

936
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:05,440
the anyway. So uh, now we're in Oklahoma, you know,

937
00:53:05,599 --> 00:53:10,920
much respect to the grasslands underappreciated. Really cool to see

938
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,920
what Akasha is doing. He's collecting thousands and thousands of

939
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:17,960
seeds of all these plants and trying to grow them

940
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,559
out in mass I don't know how he's doing it.

941
00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:25,679
I'd love to see his operation, but his main goal.

942
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,880
I mean, you make this stuff available to these landscapers,

943
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,719
even if they're nitwits, then maybe they'll start using it

944
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,320
if the public demands it. The landscapers don't have a choice.

945
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,800
If clients start demanding this stuff, even if some dipshit

946
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,239
was you know, raised to put in crape myrtles. You know,

947
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,480
because people go to horticulture school for this, they get

948
00:53:43,559 --> 00:53:48,000
licenses and shit, right, even if they're taught the horticultural

949
00:53:48,199 --> 00:53:53,199
puke standard, which is vitex and crape myrtles. Maybe if

950
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,719
the public's demanding it, like oh, we want natives, you know,

951
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,760
they'll start using more natives. I mean, you're never going

952
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,559
to recreate what's law, but at least you can keep

953
00:54:01,639 --> 00:54:04,840
some of the life alive, like the insects and other

954
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,920
things that are so integral to these ecosystems. It just

955
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,639
blows my mind. Man. These plants are so robust and

956
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:16,039
so built for this region of the country where you're

957
00:54:16,079 --> 00:54:20,519
going from the music humid East to the arid, hot West.

958
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,199
You know, all of them have like Stelingia, Texana, big

959
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,079
robust tap roots. There was liatrous punk Tata with a

960
00:54:27,639 --> 00:54:30,199
corm the size of a human head. You know, You've

961
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,519
got all these cool plants and that's but they're not

962
00:54:32,599 --> 00:54:35,639
what get planted. They're not what get planted there, and

963
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,079
there's so much beauty in them, but they get discarded

964
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,280
because the idiots that run these well most people just

965
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,360
want they want that horticultural crab. You know, they want

966
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:52,199
that shit. It's criminal, it's just insane. I mean, I'm

967
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,480
driving through Oklahomad and they got fucking crape myrtles plant

968
00:54:54,519 --> 00:54:56,480
that on the side of the road. You have so

969
00:54:56,559 --> 00:54:59,760
many dope plants and they're these crape myrtles and vitex

970
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:02,679
and it flower. I like it's flower. I like how

971
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:07,159
it flowers. I like it's pretty. It flowers. It's not

972
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,840
pretty to me. It looks gaudy. It looks gaudy and cheap.

973
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,400
It looks like a you know, a lady with a

974
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,840
bunch of lip filler and botox, and you know who

975
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,480
fucked up her face? You know what I mean. You've

976
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,519
seen that happen before, right this Jeff Beazles his wife.

977
00:55:18,599 --> 00:55:21,239
No offense to her. She's a wonderful woman. Probably not

978
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,000
that nice. She's a billionaire after all. But you know,

979
00:55:24,519 --> 00:55:26,320
maybe she's I don't know what she's like. Maybe she

980
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,440
works at a shelter with puppies or stuff. I don't know,

981
00:55:29,519 --> 00:55:32,280
but she did. She what she did. People could do

982
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,239
whatever they wanted their face. It's hilarious. So I look

983
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,199
at before and after pictures of that woman, and I

984
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:42,039
fucking crack up. It's it looks it's insane. It looks insane.

985
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,639
She looks like the Joker, right, Jack Nicholson Circle Batman

986
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,639
Movies nineteen eighties, late nineteen eighties. You know it's there.

987
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:51,320
I grew up in right, they see it's who you

988
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:55,719
gotta get. Oh wow, I think really problematics can't believe

989
00:55:55,719 --> 00:56:00,599
you saying that. So, but yeah, man, it's just this

990
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,679
shit is so gaudy, got I wanted. Someone's got to

991
00:56:02,679 --> 00:56:06,159
go out and I'm just gonna start advocating vandalizing, create

992
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:10,159
myrtles and vitex and shit. Right. And it's like Nandina Domestica.

993
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:15,119
If you see someone getting Nandina Domestica installed by a

994
00:56:15,199 --> 00:56:17,639
landscape or just go saw it down, do it at

995
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,320
night so you don't get caught or shot. Go ahead

996
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,440
and do it. It's fine. Nandina Domestica in Texas invasive

997
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:26,920
as hell. It's it's a highly invasive privet same thing.

998
00:56:27,079 --> 00:56:29,440
Just start. You need these teen vandals. Just go out

999
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:33,480
and start vandalizing this shit, right, You got a responsibility

1000
00:56:33,599 --> 00:56:36,239
to the land you live on to do that right.

1001
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,719
Nobody advocates for these plants. And I think you know

1002
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:41,679
a lot of these native plants that these no offense,

1003
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,280
bless their hearts. But up until you know, recently, it

1004
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,679
was a bunch of like soft spoken old white people,

1005
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,920
which is not what that's not a fucking great advocate

1006
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,559
class no offense. Right, you need people to get loud

1007
00:56:54,599 --> 00:56:57,159
about this stuff and also just be really amped on it,

1008
00:56:57,599 --> 00:57:04,320
not be dicks, you knowrategic, but uh, it's just it's insane, man.

1009
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,000
I mean, I kept I kept looking at like the

1010
00:57:07,119 --> 00:57:10,280
case of mesquites in Texas is a great example. Wonderful

1011
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:15,199
tree food source, uh so good at growing where it grows,

1012
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,480
beautiful when they're full grown, and hate it on for

1013
00:57:19,719 --> 00:57:24,800
no other reason than just cultural stupidity. Right, Ranchers over grays.

1014
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,400
They don't rotate their cattle, and miskeait and prickly pair

1015
00:57:28,079 --> 00:57:30,400
is what dominates. And then they think that, oh, this

1016
00:57:30,559 --> 00:57:32,920
is an invasive tree. I mean, the amount of Texans

1017
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,840
who think miskeat's invasive in crape myrtles are native. I

1018
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,800
don't even know what the concept the native is probably,

1019
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,440
but they think crave myrtles are from here is nuts.

1020
00:57:41,559 --> 00:57:43,960
It's just fucking nuts to me. They've been brainwashing them

1021
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,960
so hard. You got to undo that. But you know again,

1022
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,840
you don't do it by just shitting on people. Shit

1023
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,239
on the crag burdles. But don't don't shit on the people.

1024
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,480
Just point out. You know you've been You've been suckered, man,

1025
00:57:55,119 --> 00:57:57,760
you've been. You've been duped by the landscape industry to

1026
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:02,159
want shit you don't need. Oh, Oklahoma, wasn't it a musical?

1027
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,800
I never actually saw that music? Oklahoma? What's it about

1028
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,320
a whorehouse? That's not that's best little whorehouse in Texas?

1029
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,559
Is that's another musical? Isn't it one? I don't know.

1030
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:12,719
It was never into it was never big into the

1031
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:17,320
musical theater never never was not much of a thespian.

1032
00:58:19,519 --> 00:58:21,719
Oh wow, that looks like a bleak hotel. Guest in.

1033
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:23,679
Got this drive. I've done this drive a couple of

1034
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:30,000
times now. I was gonna stop at U T. Austin

1035
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:32,920
and drop off some herbarius herbarium specimens that we didn't

1036
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,039
have time. I'm trying to make it quick, man, I'm

1037
00:58:35,079 --> 00:58:36,880
trying to like get on the road, get it done.

1038
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:40,639
I got, you know, people I could stop and see

1039
00:58:40,679 --> 00:58:45,639
along the way. My Buddy Brian, Oklahoma City, some people

1040
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:50,519
in Tulsa, Southern Illinois, et cetera, Saint Louis. But no,

1041
00:58:50,639 --> 00:58:53,039
I gotta we gotta get, we gotta get this chicuaggle.

1042
00:58:54,039 --> 00:58:56,639
It's ninety five there, that's nothing. You know, it was

1043
00:58:56,719 --> 00:59:00,159
hot today too, and for worth this prairie site. But

1044
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,920
I got some nice shots that the bulldoze are just

1045
00:59:04,039 --> 00:59:08,440
destroying shit in the background, well a cautious collecting seed, right. So,

1046
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,119
I don't even know what to say anymore. Man, It's

1047
00:59:13,159 --> 00:59:18,840
so the development is just so insane. They're just leveling

1048
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,119
stuff and so and that's the thing too. They got

1049
00:59:21,199 --> 00:59:24,559
to create these retention ponds at these housing subdivisions because

1050
00:59:24,599 --> 00:59:27,639
there's so much runoff, both from the turf grass and

1051
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:31,599
all the pavement. Both of those cause heavy runoff. Turf grass.

1052
00:59:31,679 --> 00:59:34,360
Of course, you know, roots only go down two an

1053
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,639
inch two inches below that, it's just compacted soil. Water hits,

1054
00:59:37,679 --> 00:59:42,440
it runs right off, runs right off. Same thing with pavement,

1055
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,239
and so you get all this runoff, you get flooding.

1056
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,360
So that's why there's retention ponds around all this bleak shit,

1057
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:54,320
whether it's shopping plazas or these or these these housing tracks,

1058
00:59:55,400 --> 01:00:00,920
so it just it boggles the mind. We were in

1059
01:00:01,039 --> 01:00:04,880
this kind of limestone wash. That was the cool thing

1060
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:06,679
with the spot too. It was an ecotone. It was

1061
01:00:06,719 --> 01:00:11,119
a transition from blackland prairie thicker soils with a host

1062
01:00:11,239 --> 01:00:15,519
of little bluestems sky Zachrium scoparium, which looks dope from

1063
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,079
three hundred yards away. It's just like the land is

1064
01:00:18,239 --> 01:00:22,199
just blue like because the blades of the grass are blue.

1065
01:00:22,719 --> 01:00:26,039
So you've just got these like these shimmering waves of

1066
01:00:26,159 --> 01:00:32,920
blue grass. But that's on the Blackland prairie. The blackland soils, darker,

1067
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,800
deeper soils, and then it transitions to the thin, thin

1068
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,800
soiled limestone. And that's when you start seeing the Silphium

1069
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:47,000
albiflorum with one hundred year long, one hundred year lifespan

1070
01:00:47,039 --> 01:00:51,760
taproots probably more, you know, going forty feet into the rock,

1071
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:55,639
not into the soil, into the rock. I mean it's

1072
01:00:55,639 --> 01:00:57,840
a squat little plant that gets two or three feet

1073
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,679
tall max. With you know, giant baseball sized white flowers

1074
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:07,639
on it, sandpaper like leaves. Clearly it's spaciated out of

1075
01:01:07,719 --> 01:01:12,000
Silphium liciniatum. I don't know what would select for the

1076
01:01:12,039 --> 01:01:16,639
white flowers maybe reflecting more heat, but yellow reflects a

1077
01:01:16,719 --> 01:01:18,800
lot of heat too, I feel like, so maybe not,

1078
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,800
I don't know, but these are hot, dry plants. And

1079
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:26,320
again that evolutionarily convergent trait of the large roots right

1080
01:01:26,519 --> 01:01:30,920
like stocky tap roots, right like Salviegomnii, was there too,

1081
01:01:31,159 --> 01:01:35,400
and that was you know, multiple stems rising up from

1082
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,320
this thick woody root, and they'll you know, a plant

1083
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,199
gets about like ten twelve inches tall, but all that

1084
01:01:42,239 --> 01:01:44,239
stuff will die back and then you'll be left over

1085
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:49,119
with the root in the winter. And some of these root,

1086
01:01:49,199 --> 01:01:54,360
these stocky woody roots, I mean there's stem in there too, clearly,

1087
01:01:55,079 --> 01:01:59,800
I would it be a corm. Corms are stems, bulbs

1088
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,000
are leaves or is it the other way around? No,

1089
01:02:03,519 --> 01:02:06,400
I think that's correct. Yeah, corms are stems, bulbs or leaves,

1090
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:11,440
they're both storage mechanisms. In the case of these, I

1091
01:02:11,639 --> 01:02:14,480
guess it would just be yeah, just like a woody taproot.

1092
01:02:15,039 --> 01:02:18,199
It's the thick woody taproot that acts like a battery

1093
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:23,199
and just you know, packs up a bunch of carbohydrates

1094
01:02:23,239 --> 01:02:26,360
in some water. So these things can die die back.

1095
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,559
The herbaceous parts can die back during cold or during drought.

1096
01:02:31,199 --> 01:02:33,480
But you see it in all the plants. There Solnia

1097
01:02:33,559 --> 01:02:42,440
text saying a liatris the all the dahlias. God, it's

1098
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:45,079
just it's a shame. It's it's crazy, so much stuff

1099
01:02:45,119 --> 01:02:47,440
being lost. But you know when, yeah, when you don't whenever,

1100
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,679
all the land is private and there's nothing public anything

1101
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,920
can be sold. So it was probably a ranch or

1102
01:02:54,039 --> 01:02:57,199
farmland for a long time. And then you know, the

1103
01:02:58,679 --> 01:03:01,599
patriarchal family died as the siblings fight over it like

1104
01:03:01,679 --> 01:03:04,880
greedy little bastards, and then whoever gets it sells it off.

1105
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:11,000
That's normally what happens. Driving through the Ordovician limestone of Missouri,

1106
01:03:11,119 --> 01:03:14,440
much older than the limestone that's a remnant of the

1107
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:17,079
Western and theor Seaway This is not Western in theory

1108
01:03:17,199 --> 01:03:21,760
or Seaway limestone. There's a nice junkyard with a bunch

1109
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:25,199
of billboards sticking out of it, and the human scenery

1110
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:29,280
got I miss riding freight trains. That was nice. It

1111
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,360
was so nice. The scenery was so much better competed

1112
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,079
to see any billboards. Didn't see any of this shit.

1113
01:03:34,199 --> 01:03:36,079
You'd see billboards if the train tracks went next to

1114
01:03:36,119 --> 01:03:39,119
a highway. But you wouldn't see. There's just much less

1115
01:03:39,239 --> 01:03:45,159
visual pollution. It's ninety one degrees in central Missouri today. Actually,

1116
01:03:45,159 --> 01:03:51,599
we're getting into Saint Louis. God, it's been a long drive.

1117
01:03:51,679 --> 01:03:56,119
We stayed at a motel last night. You tell them

1118
01:03:56,159 --> 01:03:59,000
they got a dog, it's a service animal, and they

1119
01:03:59,079 --> 01:04:02,880
always give you the uh you know uh, because Louis

1120
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,400
actually is a trained service animal. They got the papers

1121
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,360
and everything, but they always give you the room on

1122
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:10,639
the end that We go to the room in the

1123
01:04:10,719 --> 01:04:12,920
end and it smelled like somebody had been smoking newports

1124
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:14,719
in there for six hours. I was like, man, come on,

1125
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:18,159
what fuck is this? Give me? How about that room

1126
01:04:18,199 --> 01:04:21,159
one twenty nine? Huh, you don't want to put us

1127
01:04:21,199 --> 01:04:23,400
in there? Why is that? It's like in the center

1128
01:04:23,519 --> 01:04:26,719
of the the branch of the motel. You know, It's

1129
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:28,559
like they didn't want to do that because you got

1130
01:04:28,599 --> 01:04:34,000
the dog. They're discriminating. Speaking of dogs, I can smell

1131
01:04:34,119 --> 01:04:38,719
Jack's mouth. But yeah, man, it's a this ortovichy and

1132
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:40,760
limestone here. God, it looks so good on the road

1133
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:44,880
cuts of these hills of central Missouri as you roll

1134
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:48,199
into Saint Louis. This is the first time I've passed

1135
01:04:48,199 --> 01:04:50,920
through Saint Louis and haven't stopped the mobot. We've we've

1136
01:04:51,119 --> 01:04:54,519
broken up temporarily. They told me they didn't want to

1137
01:04:54,559 --> 01:04:58,599
take my specimens anymore. I think, I think because they're

1138
01:04:58,599 --> 01:05:01,280
a little worried about anyway. I don't know, I don't

1139
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:03,719
know what they're upset about. They're worried about heat or

1140
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:05,719
something they got. You know, the people that work there

1141
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:09,119
on a lower, on a lower, you know, echelons, they're

1142
01:05:09,239 --> 01:05:11,519
great people. But you get up into the higher where

1143
01:05:11,519 --> 01:05:13,840
the stiffs are. You know, where it smells like farts

1144
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:17,840
an expensive cologne, steak farts, an expensive cologne. And that's

1145
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,880
when you really run into some undesirable personalities, some characters

1146
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:23,760
you don't want to interact with. You know, it's a bitch,

1147
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,239
bad juju up there. They're all you know, they go

1148
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:30,480
to these dinner parties. They're huffing each other's farts. You know,

1149
01:05:30,559 --> 01:05:33,280
they're talking about what private schools are sending their kids to.

1150
01:05:34,119 --> 01:05:37,079
You know, their their face is probably hurt from doing

1151
01:05:37,159 --> 01:05:39,679
those fake smiles the whole time, because you're using a

1152
01:05:39,719 --> 01:05:42,159
lot of I mean, smiling is nice when it's genuine,

1153
01:05:42,199 --> 01:05:44,920
but when it's forced, which is what you know, a

1154
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,119
lot of those people do for you know, ninety percent

1155
01:05:48,159 --> 01:05:51,079
of their social lives. They're never honest either, right, because

1156
01:05:51,079 --> 01:05:52,559
you don't want to bump people out with the truth.

1157
01:05:52,599 --> 01:05:54,719
You've got to smile and be full of shit all

1158
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,960
the time. When you're doing that all the time, it's

1159
01:05:57,039 --> 01:06:00,360
hard for your muscles, you know, to adjust if you're

1160
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,880
not doing you know, face stretches, because that's what happened.

1161
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:06,719
You do this. You wear that shit eating grin all

1162
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,840
the time, that fake smile, that phony smile, and it's

1163
01:06:10,079 --> 01:06:13,519
it ends up you end up getting cramps, face cramps.

1164
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:15,559
So I think that's right. I got to go on

1165
01:06:15,599 --> 01:06:17,800
the boatox too. It's because it relieves some of that

1166
01:06:18,119 --> 01:06:21,280
the stress from the face cramps, from those shit eating

1167
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:26,000
grins they're always wearing. Yeah, Oh that'll be lovely, that'll

1168
01:06:26,079 --> 01:06:30,880
be great. You know, how do you know how to talk? Oh? God?

1169
01:06:31,039 --> 01:06:33,559
But this fucking limestone looks wonderful and it's got this

1170
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,599
dark gray patina on it, and then places where it

1171
01:06:36,719 --> 01:06:40,119
was recently weathered and fractured, it's you know, a brighter

1172
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:44,559
white revealing the calcium carbonate. What's the kel here? Here's

1173
01:06:44,599 --> 01:06:47,239
a quere's a quiz for you. What's the calcium carbonate

1174
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,679
compensation depth? You know what that is? Off? And if

1175
01:06:50,719 --> 01:06:52,639
you do, I'm really impressed. If you don't, you need

1176
01:06:52,719 --> 01:06:57,320
to look it up right and what type of what

1177
01:06:57,519 --> 01:07:04,599
type of oohs muddy ooze lithifies in the oceans below

1178
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:10,480
the calcium carbonate compensation depth. It's a really nice rock

1179
01:07:10,559 --> 01:07:12,719
that it makes too where you end up getting into it,

1180
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:14,239
you know, you get it. Part of It's part of

1181
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,599
the Franciscan complex. The rock that I have in mind,

1182
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:22,599
part of the Franciscan complex out there, you know in

1183
01:07:22,719 --> 01:07:27,199
San Francisco, like in the Oakland Hills. You got some

1184
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:30,039
of them marine headlands too, right, And that's all that's

1185
01:07:30,079 --> 01:07:36,840
all deeper. That's an ooze. That in ooze, it's an ooh.

1186
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,360
I used to not know how to pronounce ooh my seats.

1187
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:45,519
Apparently I still don't know how to pronounce it. I

1188
01:07:45,559 --> 01:07:48,360
would always pronounce it ooh, ooh my seats. You know.

1189
01:07:48,519 --> 01:07:52,760
The like what fight top three is water molds as

1190
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:55,039
they call them, but they're not actually molds. They're more

1191
01:07:55,119 --> 01:08:00,440
closely related to brown algae, but they're there. You know.

1192
01:08:00,639 --> 01:08:05,639
Irish potato blight sudden oak death FIGHTAFTRA there ooh ooh

1193
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:11,800
mice seats. How how do he actually pronounces oh oh

1194
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:15,360
ooh oh mice. I don't fucking know. Leave it into

1195
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:18,000
comments if you're if you're listening to this podcast, if

1196
01:08:18,039 --> 01:08:21,000
they allow commenting, because it would be great to you know,

1197
01:08:21,199 --> 01:08:23,079
let everybody else know so they're not they don't end

1198
01:08:23,119 --> 01:08:25,359
up pronouncing it the way I did for several years.

1199
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:30,920
Ooh my seats. But the calcium carbonate compensation death. The

1200
01:08:31,159 --> 01:08:35,039
rock I'm talking about is radiolarian shirt. And I was

1201
01:08:35,119 --> 01:08:37,840
so impressed with radiolarians when I first learned about them

1202
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,439
that I got a tattoo one. They're these beautiful little,

1203
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,760
single celled plankton that build their shells out of silica.

1204
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:48,880
You have some organisms that build their shells out of

1205
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,399
silica and other organisms that build their shells out of

1206
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:56,439
calcium carbonate, both of which are diluted in ocean water.

1207
01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:03,560
Now we're getting into your headphones off. I'm just spitball

1208
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,479
in here. Where do you take your headphones off for? Wait?

1209
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:10,479
Watch your show? Wa'ts your PBS kids? What are you doing? Hey?

1210
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:13,039
Come on, we're gonna cross some Mississippi river soon. Put

1211
01:09:13,039 --> 01:09:16,159
your headphones back on. We're watching watch PBS. Kids. What

1212
01:09:16,239 --> 01:09:20,399
are you doing? Why do you look at me like that? Say? Hi?

1213
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:21,960
What do you want to say to everybody? Say something?

1214
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:28,079
Leave and like what leave? Like, don't do that, don't

1215
01:09:28,159 --> 01:09:30,640
don't don't don't don't leave a like, we don't care

1216
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:33,640
if people like this or not. We're just doing our thing.

1217
01:09:34,319 --> 01:09:37,359
Never tell people like and subscribe? That's bad. Where'd you

1218
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:40,159
hear that? You see that in somewhere? Oh? Yeah, she

1219
01:09:40,279 --> 01:09:41,920
saw it on the YouTube. She said. I let her

1220
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:45,800
watch this YouTube show of this guy that collects tortoises

1221
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:53,680
and bugs and stuff. I love you say something. Hey,

1222
01:09:55,119 --> 01:09:58,560
all right, she's not feeling very extroverted now only she's

1223
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:08,279
pretty extroverted. But uh, but yeah it was so you know, yeah, radiolarians, diatoms,

1224
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:14,880
cocoa lithophores for a manifer, two of those. Uh normally

1225
01:10:15,119 --> 01:10:17,479
you know, mostly built out of calcium carbonate and in

1226
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,000
the artitude build out of silica. I gotta put this

1227
01:10:20,119 --> 01:10:21,960
down from it. I gotta pay attention here and be

1228
01:10:22,079 --> 01:10:26,000
a dad. Okay, good good. We're gonna cross the Mississippi

1229
01:10:26,079 --> 01:10:28,439
River here soon. It's gonna be nice. You're not gonna

1230
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:30,079
be want to be looking at a screen. Matter of fact,

1231
01:10:30,159 --> 01:10:33,880
let me take that away from you as we gently

1232
01:10:34,039 --> 01:10:38,279
cross into the state of Illinois and a monoculture of

1233
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:43,800
corn drenched in pesticides that will be used to feed, uh,

1234
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:51,479
the animal slaves of the modern American consumer farm consumer civilization,

1235
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:57,600
so that you know it's a It's amazing how much

1236
01:10:57,680 --> 01:10:59,840
corn and soy there is, all of it nasty. You

1237
01:11:00,079 --> 01:11:02,359
want to eat that stuff. It's all going to feed

1238
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:04,720
animals too. It's all drenched in fucking what was it?

1239
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:08,840
The Iowa has the highest cancer rates in the United States.

1240
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:13,880
Now good for Iowa. Gotta be first in something. Got corporate,

1241
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:17,840
the corporate farming. Man. I remember where was I think

1242
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,520
it was a South Texas It was site Where was

1243
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:23,319
it Camera County or something somewhere east, you know, east

1244
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:29,960
South Texas, like more towards the Gulf. And I remember, God,

1245
01:11:30,039 --> 01:11:31,479
I was looking what was it? Looking for one of

1246
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:34,520
these rare aquatic plants Casey Williams told me about. It

1247
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,479
was a really cool one. I have to gotta look

1248
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:38,359
it up again. I can't remember the name of it.

1249
01:11:39,359 --> 01:11:43,279
It was in pontadierri Ace, but I remember it was

1250
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:45,880
near you know that whole place has been just wiped out.

1251
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:49,319
There's like little pockets of habitat left, but it's mostly

1252
01:11:49,359 --> 01:11:53,199
all destroyed for agriculture. And there was a cotton farm

1253
01:11:53,239 --> 01:11:56,000
and man, it's just stank, like oh god, it just

1254
01:11:56,079 --> 01:11:58,920
smelled so nasty and toxic. It was like they had

1255
01:11:59,039 --> 01:12:02,199
just sprayed the round up, they'd just done an initial spraying.

1256
01:12:03,159 --> 01:12:07,159
It was one of the foulest, most toxic smells it,

1257
01:12:07,359 --> 01:12:09,479
you know, and it was all over. It was because

1258
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,520
this cotton, I guess, takes a lot of water, you know.

1259
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,720
Was what was nice to see is Guycipium therbrie when

1260
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:20,199
I was doing U Brad Lancaster videos. That's a really

1261
01:12:20,319 --> 01:12:24,119
common plant that they plant a lot in his neighborhood

1262
01:12:24,119 --> 01:12:27,199
in Tucson. It's a native cotton species and you know,

1263
01:12:27,279 --> 01:12:30,640
the fruits have those little I hadn't looked up close

1264
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:32,760
at the fruits. I don't know what the cotton that's

1265
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:38,000
in the quote husk and the fruit is if I think,

1266
01:12:38,039 --> 01:12:41,079
I imagine it evolved to act as some dispersal mechanism

1267
01:12:41,159 --> 01:12:44,800
and then just was selectively bred. You know, the species

1268
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:49,159
was selectively bred for more you know, for a for

1269
01:12:49,279 --> 01:12:54,840
a higher production of those the material. I guess it's

1270
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,319
tricomb's what would it be? What's what is? What is

1271
01:12:57,399 --> 01:12:59,399
the origins of kind? It's a good thing, you know what?

1272
01:13:00,079 --> 01:13:04,760
Should look that up? Actually what cotton is those fibers?

1273
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,640
Where do they occur in the fruit? And is it

1274
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:12,239
just dispersal or what? And how many species are in

1275
01:13:12,279 --> 01:13:16,680
the genus Cucipium. Anyway, it was a real nasty smell

1276
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:21,600
down there and those cotton fields. Yeah, you could smell

1277
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,359
the lymphoma you'd be ginning in ten or twenty years.

1278
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:29,159
It's very, very impressive when it's that toxic. Holy h Okay.

1279
01:13:29,199 --> 01:13:33,000
I looked it up. Hetererantha mexicana was the species, the

1280
01:13:33,119 --> 01:13:37,279
aquatic plant species with the purple flowers in pontidiy a

1281
01:13:37,399 --> 01:13:40,159
seed that I was looking for down there. Had to

1282
01:13:40,239 --> 01:13:42,479
get some nice, you know, waiter boots to get out

1283
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:44,279
there and see, especially in that water. You don't want

1284
01:13:44,319 --> 01:13:47,319
that water's probably got so much toxic affluent in its

1285
01:13:47,359 --> 01:13:51,359
South Texas is heavily polluted, man partially because you know,

1286
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:55,760
the ruling elite overlords know they can get away with

1287
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:59,760
it because it's just a bunch of poor Mexicans. Fucking

1288
01:14:00,079 --> 01:14:02,720
Shit's these pigs. You know, you got to create checks

1289
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:05,720
and balances again, you know, I mean it's just we're

1290
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:08,039
we're in the new Gilded Age where these corporate overlords

1291
01:14:08,079 --> 01:14:10,720
get away with anything. There was you know, there was

1292
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,079
a big problem with woke identity politics. It was such

1293
01:14:13,079 --> 01:14:17,439
a distraction from class and it just was so good

1294
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:21,399
at just making people be insufferable plots. And then of

1295
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:24,920
course people that aren't that smart, you know, they're easily

1296
01:14:25,239 --> 01:14:27,159
pulled over to the right. You've heard me rant about

1297
01:14:27,199 --> 01:14:30,119
this before. It just kind of breeds fashion. It was

1298
01:14:30,199 --> 01:14:32,119
probably a SI up to be you know, to be honest,

1299
01:14:32,159 --> 01:14:34,840
I think it was quite quite literally a good site.

1300
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:37,600
It was a great cia distraction that she laughing and

1301
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:44,079
she's watching the thing. But yes, had her anthems kind

1302
01:14:44,079 --> 01:14:47,119
of It's got a really that aquatic plant that I

1303
01:14:47,239 --> 01:14:51,520
was speaking of, which and in pontidiirri ac, it's got

1304
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:57,079
a really interesting flower morphology. It's a nantio stylist, which

1305
01:14:57,199 --> 01:15:00,239
is those mirror image flowers. You know, it's it's way

1306
01:15:00,279 --> 01:15:02,399
to promote outcrossing, because if you've got a style that

1307
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:04,680
swings to the left rather than being in the center

1308
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:07,159
of the flower, then it's got to pick up pollen

1309
01:15:07,279 --> 01:15:10,880
that's on the left side of a bee's body, and

1310
01:15:11,279 --> 01:15:14,319
if that bee was hitting a flower, you know the

1311
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:18,239
styles on the left, the stamens are on the right,

1312
01:15:20,119 --> 01:15:22,119
and so if the if that bee was hitting a

1313
01:15:22,199 --> 01:15:28,239
flower that had stamens on the right side of the

1314
01:15:28,319 --> 01:15:30,720
bee's body, then it's not going to come into contact

1315
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:36,119
with that style. So it's it's a way to promote outcrossing.

1316
01:15:36,199 --> 01:15:39,760
Walkin' doorfia does it too. Again, that's in nantio styley

1317
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,920
e n A N T I O S T y

1318
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:48,640
l O U S And it's a product of selection

1319
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:54,439
for outcrossing, which is more advantageous than pollinating yourself, right,

1320
01:15:55,039 --> 01:15:57,600
we understand it. I talk about this all the time.

1321
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:01,199
You don't want those recessive alleles stacking up up and

1322
01:16:01,319 --> 01:16:05,600
causing inbreeding depression. Though there are benefits to both. There's

1323
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:09,960
benefits to outcrossing, and there's benefits especially during high stress

1324
01:16:10,039 --> 01:16:12,840
situations like a mass extinction event or you know, a

1325
01:16:13,039 --> 01:16:17,720
reduction and population. There's benefits to being able to self pollinate,

1326
01:16:18,279 --> 01:16:20,600
even though there's not going to be that much genetic

1327
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:26,640
diversity in the resulting seed getting tailgated by a chevy

1328
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:30,000
Right now, looks like a kind of beat up paint job.

1329
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:34,840
You know, that's what you got to do if you're

1330
01:16:35,039 --> 01:16:37,399
if you're trying to convince convince members of a square

1331
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:41,399
community to plant trees in your lower latitude United States

1332
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:46,960
or Mexican neighborhood, like in the state in the country

1333
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,560
of Mexico, there's all low latitude where you get much

1334
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:55,319
more solar installation, you know, telling them, it's telling people

1335
01:16:55,399 --> 01:16:58,439
that it's gonna shade the street. They don't get and

1336
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:00,159
they don't understand that. But when you start talking talking

1337
01:17:00,159 --> 01:17:01,640
about it's going to fuck up the paint job on

1338
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:04,840
your car, which ultra violet lights certainly does, then they

1339
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:08,359
start listening and you're like, you know what's gonna be.

1340
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:10,279
You're gonna get some leaves on your car. They can

1341
01:17:10,319 --> 01:17:14,680
be washed off. You get that paint, beating the paint,

1342
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:16,439
getting the shit beat out of it by the sun.

1343
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,720
You know, two or three years, you've just lost half

1344
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:23,000
that car's value. Just talk to them in words. They understand.

1345
01:17:23,279 --> 01:17:26,079
You got to think strategically like a criminal, right, even

1346
01:17:26,119 --> 01:17:28,359
if you personally don't give a shit what the paint

1347
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:31,159
job looks like you got, you're just trying to manipulate

1348
01:17:31,199 --> 01:17:33,680
people into caring and doing the right thing, which is

1349
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:36,119
sadly what you have to do, because we don't live

1350
01:17:36,159 --> 01:17:41,840
in a society full of intelligent people, intelligent empathetic people.

1351
01:17:42,039 --> 01:17:44,800
They're out there, but the society is certainly not dominated

1352
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:47,319
by them. Not yet. We're not at that point in

1353
01:17:47,479 --> 01:17:49,760
human history yet. Maybe we will be at some point

1354
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:51,479
if we don't knock ourselves out. But in the meantime,

1355
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,600
you've got to manipulate people. That's fine. Manipulate them by

1356
01:17:54,720 --> 01:17:56,840
talking about the things they give a shit about, which

1357
01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,279
is the paint job on their car. They don't give

1358
01:17:59,319 --> 01:18:00,880
a shit at the time. They live in looks like

1359
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:05,239
a bleak shithole. That's just concrete an asphalt, But some

1360
01:18:05,399 --> 01:18:09,000
people do. I'm kidding. I'm kidding around. Okay, God, these

1361
01:18:09,079 --> 01:18:15,560
clouds look lovely, don't they. Okay, Anyway, the genus Gucipium.

1362
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,199
Back to cotton, which we were talking about. Here's fifty

1363
01:18:18,239 --> 01:18:23,720
one to fifty five species in it, and those those here,

1364
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:28,279
I just looked this up. Actually, the cotton fibers are

1365
01:18:28,319 --> 01:18:31,960
actually single celled trichomes that occur on the outer layer

1366
01:18:32,039 --> 01:18:36,680
of the seed. Yeah, So anyway, cotton fibers are single

1367
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:40,600
celled seed hairs. Again, this tricombs, and they grow in

1368
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:44,640
the outer layer of seeds, and there's many seeds inside

1369
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:50,079
an ovary a fruit capsule of any of the cotton species.

1370
01:18:50,119 --> 01:18:51,960
I remember there was a cool Goucipium my son the

1371
01:18:52,039 --> 01:18:55,880
Dominican Republic in the dry Force. There wonderful habitat. It's

1372
01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:58,399
amazing how much diversity of habitat there is in the

1373
01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:01,680
dr I really love. I would fucking move there. That's

1374
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:06,319
a wonderful country. People drive like fucking maniacs. Everyone's chill otherwise.

1375
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:10,079
They got good food. It's affordable. I like the Minnicans,

1376
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:12,680
you know, they're personable. When I lived in New York,

1377
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:14,119
I got along with a lot of them. I worked

1378
01:19:14,159 --> 01:19:16,399
for a messenger company out there in early two thousands.

1379
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:21,359
A lot of Dominican guys, real chill, good vibes. They

1380
01:19:21,399 --> 01:19:24,760
got cloud forests, they got dry forests, they got massive iguanas,

1381
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,600
they got all that lowland tropical shit. I fucking hate

1382
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:30,479
the beach, but I would go there occasionally if there

1383
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:32,720
were cool plants. You know, I wants to go sit

1384
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:34,680
on a beach. That's what I want. I want about

1385
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:37,720
these people that. I want to just go sit on

1386
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:39,600
the beach. You travel somewhere to go sit on your

1387
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:41,880
ass on a beach. You could do that anywhere, go

1388
01:19:42,039 --> 01:19:45,880
sit on the beach. Gotta get a tan. I don't

1389
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:49,159
want to go sit on a beach. There's no plants there. Maybe,

1390
01:19:49,239 --> 01:19:51,199
you know what, Sometimes there's plants on a beach, maybe

1391
01:19:51,239 --> 01:19:56,960
in the dunes and stuff. Ah. God, all this prairie

1392
01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:58,960
that used to exist in Illinois and it is now

1393
01:19:59,199 --> 01:20:05,920
just bleak, genetically modified corn. It's round up, ready, it's

1394
01:20:06,079 --> 01:20:13,159
round the ready. Where is arnoglossom? Where's the nearest patch

1395
01:20:13,239 --> 01:20:20,720
of arnoglossom? That's a wonderful asteraceous sanesioid sinesio relative. You know,

1396
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:25,560
a genus Aenesia, right, you filthy fuck arnoglossoms, a wonderful

1397
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:32,000
senesio genus in the prairies. Yes. Anyway, So those the

1398
01:20:32,119 --> 01:20:34,399
cotton fibers, so they've just they've just been bred. I

1399
01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:37,479
think the ancestral species of cotton is mostly an Old

1400
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:40,479
World species. It's not just a New World genus through

1401
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:48,119
its Old World as well, both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah,

1402
01:20:48,159 --> 01:20:51,159
but every every single strand of cotton fiber is just

1403
01:20:51,279 --> 01:20:55,319
a dramatically elongated single plant cell. It's a single cell,

1404
01:20:55,880 --> 01:21:00,840
single celled tricombes. Remember, tricombs can be lived or dead.

1405
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,119
In the case of a plant like cannabis, those tricombes

1406
01:21:04,159 --> 01:21:09,000
are mostly alive. In the case of cotton, those fibers

1407
01:21:09,039 --> 01:21:14,119
are dead. It's dead tissue. When the tricombes are dead,

1408
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:16,720
they're dead tissue. When the seed is well, the seed

1409
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:22,600
is still alive. So really interesting. Man. Gucipium therbriize a

1410
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:26,039
banger though, and they, you know, a really easy volunteer plant.

1411
01:21:26,399 --> 01:21:28,840
I haven't seen it in situ in you know, in

1412
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:32,119
what kind of how it grows in a wild setting,

1413
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:36,960
only in the rain gardens of Brad Lancaster's work in Tucson.

1414
01:21:37,279 --> 01:21:40,640
Some permaculture guy, and perma culture is not that thirty

1415
01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:43,159
of a worth them anymore. It just depends whether they're

1416
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:47,680
ecologically literate or not, whether they believe in invasion biology

1417
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:49,840
or not, or whether they have more of an anthropocentric

1418
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:52,720
lens where they don't care whether something's native or invasive

1419
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:59,960
as long as it's got used to humans. It's youthful anyway.

1420
01:22:00,199 --> 01:22:03,319
So uh, but yeah, some perma culture guy just came

1421
01:22:03,359 --> 01:22:04,960
out with a really good video. I forget the name,

1422
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:06,439
and I wish I could tell you so you could

1423
01:22:06,479 --> 01:22:09,119
go look it up. Maybe I can find it. But

1424
01:22:09,239 --> 01:22:11,800
he did a really you know, it's not like the

1425
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:15,600
kind of videos I do is like over It's produced,

1426
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:20,600
not overproduced, it's produced a really good production value. I

1427
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,439
don't do that. I'm just I'm just some you know,

1428
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:27,159
lone angry guy ranting and screaming at the excitedly about things.

1429
01:22:28,159 --> 01:22:30,039
But let me see if I can find the name

1430
01:22:30,199 --> 01:22:32,239
of it for you, so you can go look it up. Nice,

1431
01:22:32,399 --> 01:22:34,159
you know, you go look it up, you figure out

1432
01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:39,439
what channel was this the perma culture. I ever thought

1433
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:45,920
i'd be watching permaculture if Andrew Millicine Andrew Millicine from Oregon,

1434
01:22:46,239 --> 01:22:48,039
and I guess he filmed this. He must have filmed

1435
01:22:48,039 --> 01:22:52,880
it last year because he's filmed some of the gardens

1436
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:55,000
that I filmed when I was filming Brad, but they

1437
01:22:55,039 --> 01:22:58,479
hadn't filled in yet. They were fresh. It's so cool, man.

1438
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:02,439
Those those they're like these pit gardens in between the

1439
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:04,760
sidewalk and the street. I mean, if you didn't see

1440
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:08,239
the video, they're like pits in the ground. But you

1441
01:23:08,319 --> 01:23:11,439
know they'll go three feet down, but they're staggered like steps,

1442
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:13,399
so it's not just a straight drop off like you

1443
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:15,880
could fall in. You know, some old lady falls into

1444
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:18,760
a pit in the ground. Well, she's walking, you know,

1445
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,279
with a cane or a walker down a sidewalk. You're

1446
01:23:21,319 --> 01:23:23,760
gonna have a liability issue in your case, my friend,

1447
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:28,560
you're gonna be getting sued, buddy. But yeah, then they're

1448
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:30,800
just filled in with plants. It's fucking beautiful, but it's

1449
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:33,640
you know, obviously, in a climate that's that hot and

1450
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:36,520
where rainfalls that sparse, you want the water to pool

1451
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:39,800
up and form ephemeral ponds that last for a day

1452
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:43,720
and then I don't even think they last that long, honestly,

1453
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:46,800
it probably drains pretty quick once it stops raining. But

1454
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:49,520
that's kind of similar to what we need in South Texas.

1455
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:54,079
But South Texas is fucking decades behind. Shit. South Texas

1456
01:23:54,159 --> 01:23:56,640
decades behind the rest of the country, and even you know,

1457
01:23:56,720 --> 01:24:00,479
probably a century behind what Tucson's doing. And then you know,

1458
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:05,079
society won't even be around anymore because we will have uh,

1459
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:08,159
probably exterminate ourselves or been merged into some sort of

1460
01:24:08,319 --> 01:24:14,560
synthetic AI thing that's been shoved down our throats. But

1461
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:16,720
the pit'st those pit gardens and two you gotta swing

1462
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:19,760
through two cent checkout dunbar Spring neighborhood man, please check

1463
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:21,680
it out. It's God, it's so cool what he did.

1464
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:24,640
And he's he's got before or after photos in this video,

1465
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:27,560
which is really cool too. Like the dude, I guess

1466
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:29,960
Brad must have given him photographs of what the neighborhood

1467
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,800
looked like before, when it had no trees and it

1468
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:34,560
was just a heat island. It looks like where I

1469
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:37,880
live now. Uh, and then went after he transformed it.

1470
01:24:38,399 --> 01:24:43,039
But you know, as again as happens though, then when

1471
01:24:43,079 --> 01:24:45,720
you make a neighborhood nice, now that the pig developers

1472
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:49,239
and vultures swing in and turn everything into airbnbs and

1473
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:55,079
sell it out, you know, unless you got regulations in

1474
01:24:55,119 --> 01:24:57,399
place to prevent that this way, you need that, you

1475
01:24:57,520 --> 01:25:06,079
need you need regulations. Anyway, that was such a wonderful experience.

1476
01:25:06,159 --> 01:25:09,520
What a nice you know, your miskeuats everywhere shade walking

1477
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:13,640
through a shade canopy of trees on the sidewalk, even

1478
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:15,479
though you're in one what's supposed to be one of

1479
01:25:15,520 --> 01:25:18,399
the hottest cities in the United States. Why couldn't l

1480
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:21,600
Passo do that. You've been to l Passo recently? Holy shit,

1481
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:24,760
is that a bleak down? God damn it. They got

1482
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,079
the if you go through town, check out the university

1483
01:25:27,119 --> 01:25:29,479
and the little like Native Botanica, And they got there.

1484
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:35,039
They got some cool stuff, including one of those shrubby

1485
01:25:35,119 --> 01:25:38,079
peas that's relatively rare in the Chihuahua Desert, at least

1486
01:25:38,119 --> 01:25:41,479
on the on the United States side. And they got

1487
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:43,399
a cool museum in El Paso too. But the rest

1488
01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:45,279
of the town kind of looks like shit, no offense,

1489
01:25:45,359 --> 01:25:48,319
you know, there's there was an Italian restaurant I went

1490
01:25:48,399 --> 01:25:51,119
to in a El Paso I remember they had the

1491
01:25:51,199 --> 01:25:55,079
nice red checkerboard table cloths. L Passos where I filmed

1492
01:25:55,119 --> 01:25:58,079
that Wired Plant video. I did well. I guess Wired

1493
01:25:58,119 --> 01:26:02,920
rented out a studio and that was nearest where I

1494
01:26:03,079 --> 01:26:04,720
was living at the time, so I went out there

1495
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:07,880
and did it. So I got a little taste of Opasso,

1496
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:12,920
my friend. But but god damn when you're driving through it.

1497
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:16,279
Used to ride trains through Elpasso two thousand and four,

1498
01:26:16,359 --> 01:26:20,239
two thousand and five Sunset Route, riding trains along the

1499
01:26:20,319 --> 01:26:25,760
Texas border, doing crew changes. San Antonio del Rio, Eagle

1500
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:30,359
Pass Alpine, El Paso. Remember I'd always be worried about

1501
01:26:30,359 --> 01:26:33,319
getting pulled off. I never got pulled off, though. I

1502
01:26:33,399 --> 01:26:35,520
got pulled off in Yuma by some dude that looked

1503
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:37,600
like the Pillsbury dough boy. It looked like he burned

1504
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:40,680
very easily, speaking of you know, light skinned, low melon

1505
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:45,640
and phenotypes. And he asked to see my identification. I

1506
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:47,279
gave it to him, and then he ran off. He's

1507
01:26:47,319 --> 01:26:49,760
excuse me, I've got illegal iLiads to catch. You could

1508
01:26:49,800 --> 01:26:52,439
tell this guy was living the dream. He was living

1509
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:55,880
for that border patrol job, where he could, you know,

1510
01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:58,640
go get some little brown guys and put handcuffs on

1511
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:01,079
him and feel like he did his job to protect America.

1512
01:27:02,119 --> 01:27:03,680
He was funny. I think he had one of those

1513
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:07,560
Hitler mustaches too. He's like a Pilly Pillbury dough boy

1514
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:09,800
with a Hitler mustache. Somebody go out and draw that

1515
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:11,560
for me. Could you go out and draw a little

1516
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:16,039
picture of Pillsbury dough boy with one of those uh uh,

1517
01:27:16,279 --> 01:27:19,079
you know, sergeant slaughter hats on, you know, those wide

1518
01:27:19,079 --> 01:27:22,000
brimmed hats these fucking goofballs were, and put a little

1519
01:27:22,079 --> 01:27:24,960
Hitler mustache on him, you know, just for shits and giggles.

1520
01:27:25,039 --> 01:27:28,359
Pillsbury dough boy with a would a Sergeant Slaughter had

1521
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:31,000
one of those wide brim teddy Roosevelt hats and a

1522
01:27:31,039 --> 01:27:35,319
little uh Hitler mustache. Maybe just put an ice vest

1523
01:27:35,359 --> 01:27:39,560
on him for shits and giggles too. Yeah, there was

1524
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:41,520
a long time ago, and I remember the helicopter kept

1525
01:27:42,159 --> 01:27:45,560
it kept coming. That the way they would flush people

1526
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:48,159
off these double stack trains, because that's what we were riding,

1527
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:51,119
is the helicopter would come down and it would like

1528
01:27:51,279 --> 01:27:52,840
swing kind of low to the ground and kick up

1529
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:56,279
a bunch of dust, both making it obvious that they

1530
01:27:56,359 --> 01:27:58,439
had spotted you and also kicking up dust so it

1531
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:01,239
would make it uncomfortable for you to breath, and then

1532
01:28:01,239 --> 01:28:06,640
they'd wrangle you off. And god damn. That was a

1533
01:28:06,680 --> 01:28:09,600
long time ago, you know. I used to lift speaking

1534
01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:13,239
of Mississippi River which I just which we just drove over. Remember,

1535
01:28:13,319 --> 01:28:15,119
I used to take just for ships and giggles. I

1536
01:28:15,159 --> 01:28:20,960
would go to Willow Springs Freight Yard in Chicago and

1537
01:28:21,039 --> 01:28:23,359
there was a I think it was like a six

1538
01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:27,039
pm train you could catch right at dusk and it

1539
01:28:27,039 --> 01:28:29,239
would and I'd ride at the Fort Madison, Iowa, which

1540
01:28:29,319 --> 01:28:31,520
is the next crew change point. I'd get off in

1541
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:35,520
Fort Madison. Sometimes I'd have enough time left over to

1542
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:37,840
catch one of the late movies at the five dollars

1543
01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:40,840
movie theater they had there. You go to Fort Madison,

1544
01:28:40,880 --> 01:28:43,640
Iowa for a movie, they'd go sleep in the bushes

1545
01:28:44,119 --> 01:28:46,199
and then come back. Oh shit, there was just that

1546
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:49,159
urra growing on the side of the road in fucking Illinois.

1547
01:28:49,640 --> 01:28:53,199
That's impressive. I wonder how the seeds got out there. Nice.

1548
01:28:54,079 --> 01:28:57,399
It look like that urre righty eye. Those things will

1549
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,239
go ape. Shit. Man, if you grow those in l On,

1550
01:28:59,279 --> 01:29:02,319
you can grow that turrighty in Illinois. Just keep those

1551
01:29:03,159 --> 01:29:05,920
you know, toxic and hallucinogenic seeds away from the high

1552
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:07,840
school kids because they'll try and get far out. And

1553
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:10,560
you know, shamans back in the day used to take

1554
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,319
one or two seeds. These high school kids take a

1555
01:29:13,359 --> 01:29:16,399
whole fruit capsule full of like sixty seeds. Then they

1556
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:18,880
find themselves walking half naked down a freeway at three

1557
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:20,720
in the morning, got to go. You know, they have

1558
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:22,840
a really bad time. They lose their minds. You don't

1559
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:26,920
want to be doing that tura, right, Maybe eat one

1560
01:29:27,039 --> 01:29:29,159
or two seeds. I've never done it, so don't actually,

1561
01:29:29,199 --> 01:29:35,279
don't do that. I'll get sued. Anyway. I'm so excited

1562
01:29:35,279 --> 01:29:37,119
at to be in Chicago again. I mean, I can't,

1563
01:29:37,359 --> 01:29:41,159
I can't. I can't explain how happy I am. It's

1564
01:29:41,199 --> 01:29:44,960
gonna be so nice. Museums, tall buildings, a bunch of

1565
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:47,520
different kinds of people to shoot the shit with. It's

1566
01:29:47,800 --> 01:29:52,720
so fun. The museums especially, you can just go lurk

1567
01:29:52,760 --> 01:29:54,520
in the library. You don't even need to spend money.

1568
01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:56,479
I think I get into the museum for free, to

1569
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:59,560
Field Museum, and then I know somebody who can get

1570
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:02,119
us into the Shed Aquarium for free, because all these

1571
01:30:02,199 --> 01:30:04,680
museums been tired. I've ranted about this last time. I'm sorry.

1572
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:07,159
I'm kind of being redundant here, but fuck it. Whatever

1573
01:30:07,199 --> 01:30:08,760
you do. What are you're doing, You're working or driving,

1574
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:11,000
or somebody's listening to this podcast for ships and gigas anyway,

1575
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:15,159
what do you care? But uh, you know, all these

1576
01:30:15,239 --> 01:30:17,640
museums are like theme parks. Man are charged at thirty

1577
01:30:17,680 --> 01:30:20,159
bucks admission. Who the Fox's gonna pay that? They're supposed

1578
01:30:20,159 --> 01:30:23,399
to be like the library, open source education. Oh, I

1579
01:30:23,399 --> 01:30:27,159
should go to the herbarium at the at the Field Museum. Again.

1580
01:30:27,159 --> 01:30:30,000
I'm trying to go to Bolivia in September, and I

1581
01:30:30,119 --> 01:30:32,159
reached out to a guy I know who lives down there,

1582
01:30:32,239 --> 01:30:36,039
who actually works at the herbarium in Bolivia. In La Pause,

1583
01:30:37,399 --> 01:30:40,680
Lapause is high up. Like you know, you basically you fly,

1584
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:43,119
you land in town at the airport. You can immediately

1585
01:30:43,119 --> 01:30:49,279
get altitude sickness, start puking. Just you land and I

1586
01:30:49,399 --> 01:30:51,720
open the door. You just start puking everywhere, Just start

1587
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:55,760
throwing up because it Lapase is fucking high up. It's

1588
01:30:55,760 --> 01:30:58,840
like thirty five hundred meters. Man, it's like eleven thousand

1589
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:06,000
feet high up. I love the exasperated sixty year old

1590
01:31:06,039 --> 01:31:09,159
West side Chicago Italian just comes out sometimes, you know,

1591
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:14,800
in moments of heat and stress, Tony Centaurro comes out.

1592
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:20,199
It's my old to ego. God, it's so green and

1593
01:31:20,359 --> 01:31:23,560
nice here, but you come, you come through Iowa and

1594
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:26,880
Illinois and the Midwest in the fall when they're plowing

1595
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:32,159
everything and it's just particulates everywhere. I can't believe plowing

1596
01:31:32,239 --> 01:31:35,560
is actually a thing is shipped for brain. It's just

1597
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:40,159
it's just this, there goes your top soil, especially everything

1598
01:31:40,199 --> 01:31:44,560
I know about botany and plants now and soils and

1599
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:48,840
just plowing this. But I guess you gotta you gotta

1600
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:50,760
sew a bunch of seeds and plant the you know,

1601
01:31:51,079 --> 01:31:54,159
thousands of plants at once. Plowing makes it easier. I

1602
01:31:54,239 --> 01:31:58,399
guess seems pretty shit for brain, honestly, because I'm everything

1603
01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:00,920
I'm trying to do. I plants and cover that soil

1604
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:04,359
with mulch immediately so it doesn't get baked a shit.

1605
01:32:05,399 --> 01:32:11,520
Shut up? You know this? Uh this this collision alert.

1606
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:14,840
It sees the shadows on the bridges and overpasses and

1607
01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:18,319
it thinks I'm hitting gonna drive into somebody. I think

1608
01:32:18,359 --> 01:32:21,000
they put that on there for the old people. Now

1609
01:32:21,039 --> 01:32:22,920
you get someone who's seventy five. They should have had

1610
01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:26,039
their license taken away five years ago. And next thing

1611
01:32:26,119 --> 01:32:29,479
you know, you know, they're plowing through a deli or something.

1612
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,920
They kept stepping on the breaking it. The car would

1613
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:35,840
just keep going forward. You were stepping on the gas.

1614
01:32:38,079 --> 01:32:40,800
My grandma was like that lovely woman, she should have

1615
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:44,720
had her license taken away. Anyway, where were we I

1616
01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:47,560
think we're basically done. I'm just rambling here, and I apologize.

1617
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:51,039
This has been a long painful drive. My kid's been

1618
01:32:51,119 --> 01:32:55,600
really good. I really I gotta get her back for

1619
01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:59,359
this somehow. Maybe we'll I'll, I don't know, we'll figure

1620
01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:01,800
we'll figure something out of way to compensate her for

1621
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:05,720
her the emotional suffering she's been through the last two

1622
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:10,960
days on this long ass car ride. Anyway, I'll be

1623
01:33:11,560 --> 01:33:14,039
what am I doing. I'm gonna be in Kuliwi Native

1624
01:33:14,119 --> 01:33:17,039
for speaking of Chulowe Native Plant Conference in mid July.

1625
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:23,079
I'm going to be in Columbia, South Carolina on July eighteenth,

1626
01:33:24,159 --> 01:33:26,159
is it the eighteenth or whatever, whatever the Sunday is,

1627
01:33:26,239 --> 01:33:27,840
I'm gonna beat her on a Sunday. I'm doing something

1628
01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:31,319
on a Sunday. I'll post about it on the social media,

1629
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:37,279
the Insta sham and the facecrook stories I'm going to

1630
01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:42,279
I'm doing a show in Chicago July fifth, which is shit.

1631
01:33:42,359 --> 01:33:46,720
That's three days away. It's this Sunday, and then I'll

1632
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:49,279
be in Milwaukee on the seventh at Cactus Club. You

1633
01:33:49,319 --> 01:33:52,199
can buy tickets for both those on the crime Pace

1634
01:33:52,319 --> 01:33:57,920
website under events, where you can also get a file

1635
01:33:58,039 --> 01:34:02,119
folder access to a file full of free downloadable PDFs.

1636
01:34:03,039 --> 01:34:05,000
Why He's this guy? Where's this guy going this slow?

1637
01:34:05,199 --> 01:34:09,800
This guy's killing me. He was just being extra cautious.

1638
01:34:11,239 --> 01:34:14,560
And then I'm gonna be in Denver August fourteenth. I'll

1639
01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:16,399
be around there for a week. I'm speaking to Denver

1640
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:19,479
Botanic Garden. I think on the fourteenth. It's a Saturday

1641
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:22,039
or a Sunday. I don't know, because I stopped giving

1642
01:34:22,079 --> 01:34:24,079
a shit. I just I'm so overwhelmed my band with

1643
01:34:24,199 --> 01:34:28,560
this so blown, I probably need an agent. But who

1644
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:30,600
wants to be an agent? I'll see if al Scorch

1645
01:34:30,680 --> 01:34:32,640
can do it. He'll be my agent. He's easy to

1646
01:34:32,680 --> 01:34:34,640
work with. He knows I'm fucking nuts. He knows how

1647
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:38,079
to work with me. Damn, it's ninety seven for real.

1648
01:34:38,960 --> 01:34:43,720
Whoa buddy get a new muffler. Guy looks like this

1649
01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:45,960
guy that this guy just passed on a freeway. I'm

1650
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:48,000
driving his beat up van. He looks like this uh

1651
01:34:49,159 --> 01:34:52,840
guy who picked me and my buddy Liam up hitchhikinging Gary, Indiana.

1652
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:56,640
Once this guy picked us up. He was an off

1653
01:34:56,720 --> 01:34:59,119
duty sheriff. He was racist as hell. He had a

1654
01:34:59,199 --> 01:35:03,840
damn mustache that looked like a fucking broom above his mouth.

1655
01:35:05,119 --> 01:35:07,560
He was you know, he was in his van. He

1656
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,840
was packing heat. He picked us up, said you gotta

1657
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:14,359
get out of Gary Man, and then said some racist

1658
01:35:14,359 --> 01:35:16,680
shit about how we were gonna get murdered for being

1659
01:35:16,760 --> 01:35:20,279
white or something, and you know, we were so desperate

1660
01:35:20,319 --> 01:35:22,199
at that point we said no, I fucking we gotten

1661
01:35:22,239 --> 01:35:24,760
this guy's van and realized he's just a fucking loose

1662
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:27,479
cannon man. He's probably not alive anymore because he was

1663
01:35:27,560 --> 01:35:30,840
hammered too. Amount of times I got picked up hitchhiking

1664
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:35,760
by drunks or you know, just alcoholics was I don't

1665
01:35:35,840 --> 01:35:38,560
recommend it. That's why I hate hitchhiking too. I don't

1666
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:40,600
want to hitchhike. That's why. That's why I used to

1667
01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:42,720
ride trains everywhere so I didn't have to, you know,

1668
01:35:43,119 --> 01:35:46,439
do the greyhound bus scam or hitchhike because you never know.

1669
01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:49,680
You could meet really cool people hitchhiking. You can also

1670
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:52,399
meet some real nut jobs. And though the nut jobs

1671
01:35:52,439 --> 01:35:55,680
are fun for a little bit taken in context, all

1672
01:35:55,760 --> 01:36:01,159
due respect, you know, there's sometimes collateral damage just being

1673
01:36:01,199 --> 01:36:02,880
around him. So this guy picked us up. I forget

1674
01:36:02,880 --> 01:36:05,399
where he left us up. I think, you know, after

1675
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:07,399
twenty minutes of being in the van, with this guy.

1676
01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:08,800
We were just like, you know what, he's an off

1677
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:11,239
duty cop. He's drunk a shit, he's saying a bunch

1678
01:36:11,279 --> 01:36:16,680
of creepy racist shit. He's packing heat. Just let us anywhorse, Fine, buddy,

1679
01:36:16,760 --> 01:36:19,960
thanks a lot, Thank you, thank you. Don't want to

1680
01:36:20,039 --> 01:36:24,279
offend him. You know, I had like a damn cold

1681
01:36:24,359 --> 01:36:27,039
forty five on his hip or something. I don't know.

1682
01:36:27,399 --> 01:36:29,119
I had to move a bunch of fishing poles out

1683
01:36:29,119 --> 01:36:33,600
of the way to sit down in the back. Anyway,

1684
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:35,399
he just looked at this guy passed on a freeway. Anyway,

1685
01:36:35,399 --> 01:36:38,079
So that's my schedule, and I'm gonna try to go

1686
01:36:38,159 --> 01:36:42,439
to Bolivia in September and maybe Mexico again. You know,

1687
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:48,079
my buddy Sezar, and you know some other people, nice people. Shit,

1688
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:52,960
I'm missing my turn. There we go, here we go.

1689
01:36:53,399 --> 01:36:56,960
He's a little Yeah, we're just stepping over here. Some

1690
01:36:57,119 --> 01:36:59,119
guy dragging a boat. God, I can't wait to get

1691
01:36:59,119 --> 01:37:03,880
off the road. Man. Who and uh, I think that's it.

1692
01:37:04,279 --> 01:37:05,960
I think that's it. And you just have a grocery day.

1693
01:37:06,039 --> 01:37:06,800
Go fuck your up. Body,