Carlsbad Butt Clinic & Sandhills Plant Life

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<v Speaker 1>mean I didn't dry. I just never know why.
<v Speaker 2>Sup the baby you're not as whole?
<v Speaker 3>Can w.
<v Speaker 2>Big deal, I'm still.
<v Speaker 1>It's a rest your side.
<v Speaker 2>Beat my head against the.
<v Speaker 1>Phone, try to not some sense down in my boon.
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<v Speaker 1>they go, they let Chile. You can't push out or
<v Speaker 1>out of Emma Ready. You can't push y'b or out
<v Speaker 1>of Emmons. Ray. You can't put job around Emma Ray.
<v Speaker 1>Don't try.
<v Speaker 2>Don't try. It's the basket chaill.
<v Speaker 1>And you got no coach. You living with guare one
<v Speaker 1>and user. They don't shots, they let Jim.
<v Speaker 3>I'll tell you.
<v Speaker 4>John shop, that's nice. When did Johnny Thunders die? Did
<v Speaker 4>he die of heroin too? Probably? I don't know. All
<v Speaker 4>those guys die a heroin. Don't be sticking ship in
<v Speaker 4>your arm. Don't be fucking with opiates. Real good advice
<v Speaker 4>for you. Wish some of my friends would have listened
<v Speaker 4>to that. Anyway, Welcome to another episode of the Cranpasce.
<v Speaker 4>But he doesn't podcast. Thank you so much for listening.
<v Speaker 4>I really appreciate it. Just kidding. I don't give a fuck,
<v Speaker 4>but I'm glad you're here anyway, especially if you're listening
<v Speaker 4>on the Patreon where there's no ads. The fucking ads
<v Speaker 4>are really horrible. I've tried to dissuade advertisers from advertising
<v Speaker 4>on this. I've talked shit numerous times about the advertisers
<v Speaker 4>here because a lot of them are really it's tacky shit.
<v Speaker 4>But you know, I think the ads. This is through
<v Speaker 4>iHeart Radio. They reached out to me and they said,
<v Speaker 4>you want to come on here, we'll do it. We'll
<v Speaker 4>give the opportunity to give ads. And I said, okay, fine.
<v Speaker 4>And I was with Podbean before and I said, can
<v Speaker 4>I read the ads? And they said no, we just
<v Speaker 4>do the spoken or the the you know, the automated.
<v Speaker 4>They're tailored to you specifically. So if you've been looking
<v Speaker 4>at like butt plugs online, you're gonna get ads for
<v Speaker 4>adult toys. If you've been looking at lawnmowers online, you
<v Speaker 4>know they're gonna be You're gonna be getting ads for lawnmowers.
<v Speaker 4>You've been looking at you know, batch herbicide to go
<v Speaker 4>spray on the the rich neighborhood lawns. You're gonna be
<v Speaker 4>getting ads for a batch herbicide, all right, but just
<v Speaker 4>make sure you're wearing protective gear and proper ppe when
<v Speaker 4>you go and do that. Not that I would advise that, though.
<v Speaker 4>I did have someone comment that they were really upset
<v Speaker 4>that I was advocating vandalizing Craig Myrtles a few weeks ago,
<v Speaker 4>you know. And I looked at the guy and he
<v Speaker 4>was a nice He was a nice guy. It was
<v Speaker 4>a nice John Q taxpayer, someone who looked far too
<v Speaker 4>genteel to be listening to this podcast. And I just wondered, buddy,
<v Speaker 4>how the fuck did you end up here, you poor guy?
<v Speaker 4>How did you end up listening to this pot This
<v Speaker 4>is not a nice, professional podcast. This is we get
<v Speaker 4>into the weeds this in terms of science sometimes, but
<v Speaker 4>there's a lot of toilet humor and filthy shit that
<v Speaker 4>goes on in this podcast. This is a room that's
<v Speaker 4>not for everybody. You're welcome to come if you want,
<v Speaker 4>But I'm just saying, don't get mad at me when
<v Speaker 4>you're disgusted, turned off, angry, find something I said problematic,
<v Speaker 4>or want to leave. Those are the kinds of people
<v Speaker 4>that I try, like I am actively trying to filter thout,
<v Speaker 4>like I'm putting little land mines here scattered throughout the podcast,
<v Speaker 4>you know, blow up in their faces and send them
<v Speaker 4>running for the hills, you know, or just complaining about me.
<v Speaker 4>Don't get me wrong, but anybody, anybody's welcome, right, all
<v Speaker 4>political creeds, all, I don't give a fuck. Don't talk
<v Speaker 4>to me about whatever you believe in. But you're welcome
<v Speaker 4>to be here, and we can. I'll try to entertain,
<v Speaker 4>you'll try to make it fun anyway. Speaking of which,
<v Speaker 4>speaking of fun, I just had a colonoscopy today. You know,
<v Speaker 4>my ma, first off, my Italian side of the family,
<v Speaker 4>they eat nasty shit. They eat like all this, you know,
<v Speaker 4>mozzarella balls, buffalo mozzarell and fucking red meats and stuff.
<v Speaker 4>They get ass cancer real easy. My ma's side of
<v Speaker 4>the family, she got she had a polyp when she
<v Speaker 4>was like forty five. It could have turned into cancer.
<v Speaker 4>Hand the gut blessed be that it didn't. They caught
<v Speaker 4>it in time. So I said, what the fuck? You know,
<v Speaker 4>because I'm always figuring out, I got a little anxiety.
<v Speaker 4>I'm trying to do too much, burning too hard, don't
<v Speaker 4>take time to chill out. I should smoke weed, but
<v Speaker 4>I don't. I don't really like it, but anyway, uh,
<v Speaker 4>and I don't drink doing it, and I should meditate. Maybe
<v Speaker 4>should meditate. I don't know. I try to get exercise,
<v Speaker 4>but that's hard because I live in Texas and everything's
<v Speaker 4>built for car slim. That's why everyone's fat here. No
<v Speaker 4>offense to the fatties, love the fatties. But uh but anyway,
<v Speaker 4>so you know, I went I figured this was my
<v Speaker 4>thing I was fixating on. I was talking to my
<v Speaker 4>friend Jenna, and her husband dissects stiffs for a living.
<v Speaker 4>He said he's been getting a lot of young people
<v Speaker 4>with colon cancer. I said, oh shit, really, She goes, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>you should get checked. I said, fuck, you're right, I
<v Speaker 4>should because I don't know. I think I got a
<v Speaker 4>different kind of cancer every week. And uh So I
<v Speaker 4>fixated on this long enough, and finally I was like,
<v Speaker 4>I found out I don't have health insurance. Because it's America.
<v Speaker 4>Nobody does. Anyone who's not a SAP doesn't have health
<v Speaker 4>insurance unless they have it through their work or something
<v Speaker 4>like who the fuck's going to pay four hundred and
<v Speaker 4>fifty bucks and then you only get to pay more? Right,
<v Speaker 4>that's not what you do. You go to the emergency
<v Speaker 4>room with a fake name. When they ask for you
<v Speaker 4>for ID, say I don't have it. You know, you
<v Speaker 4>could give him a fake a funny fake name, but
<v Speaker 4>that's more risky because they'll know that it's a lot.
<v Speaker 4>So you can try to make up something that sounds
<v Speaker 4>you know, lots of vowels, you know. For me, I
<v Speaker 4>just make up fake Italian names. I think I probably
<v Speaker 4>have I don't know, twenty thousand dollars in medical debt
<v Speaker 4>that I'm never gonna pay. I don't know who cares.
<v Speaker 4>It's a badge of honor. Don't ever pay your medical debt.
<v Speaker 4>Don't ever if you pay medical debt, we're not friends anymore.
<v Speaker 4>You're incentivizing a broken system. Okay, anyway, So I don't
<v Speaker 4>have health insurance. So I found a place that would
<v Speaker 4>do it for a thousand bucks cash. I said, fuck it, fine,
<v Speaker 4>So once every five years, I'll do it. And I
<v Speaker 4>got away with only paying six hundred bucks. And I'm
<v Speaker 4>gonna skimp out on the last four hundreds. I could
<v Speaker 4>say this publicly, right, They're not gonna get no one's listen.
<v Speaker 4>They don't know what are they gonna do come after me, huh.
<v Speaker 4>Every time I mentioned to a healthcare worker, no I
<v Speaker 4>don't have health insurance, I always mentioned because the American
<v Speaker 4>healthcare system is broken and corrupt, and every single one
<v Speaker 4>nods and says, I know, every single nurse, every single receptionist, everybody,
<v Speaker 4>everybody knows how the American healthcare system is here, so
<v Speaker 4>it's like they're kind of everyone's sympathetic to it. You know,
<v Speaker 4>there's a little bit of free Luigi and everybody. So uh, Anyway,
<v Speaker 4>so I went, I went to the get the colon
<v Speaker 4>hospit I had that you can't eat for a day. Beforehand,
<v Speaker 4>I had to drink this horror, horrendous gallon jug of
<v Speaker 4>shit that's like lemon flavored laxative. So I was on
<v Speaker 4>a toilet every hour. You don't want to hear this.
<v Speaker 4>Do you eat in the salad or scept that? I
<v Speaker 4>hope not. I'm my apologies. So this kind of information
<v Speaker 4>can't be any worse than the ads they make you
<v Speaker 4>listen to on the podcast. So so uh, you know,
<v Speaker 4>it's just it's brutal, and then you know you feel
<v Speaker 4>I feel lighthead. It's super easy. So I was drinking gatorade,
<v Speaker 4>which I never drink because all the sugar in it.
<v Speaker 4>So I was drinking like I went through like six
<v Speaker 4>things a Gatorade, and I actually didn't feel too out
<v Speaker 4>of my mind, Like I didn't feel like I was
<v Speaker 4>on drugs like I normally do when I fast. Uh,
<v Speaker 4>So I go in today, I go in. They don't
<v Speaker 4>even know what fucking healthcare in the valley is. In
<v Speaker 4>the Rio Grand Valley is so incompetent, they didn't even know.
<v Speaker 4>No one there's any clue what I'm doing. It took
<v Speaker 4>me thirty minutes being on the phone with these fucking idiots,
<v Speaker 4>bless their heart's no offense to them, before I found
<v Speaker 4>out what time I'm actually supposed to be there. And
<v Speaker 4>so it got to the point where I was like, fuck,
<v Speaker 4>it's eight thirty in the morning already. I'm just gonna
<v Speaker 4>fucking show up these fucking morons. You know, I get
<v Speaker 4>really spicy, but I try to talk to everybody as
<v Speaker 4>polite as possible. I'm saying this to you, I wouldn't
<v Speaker 4>actually say this to them. I don't want to hurt
<v Speaker 4>anybody's feelings. But Jesus Christ, I don't know if there's
<v Speaker 4>leading the fucking water or what. But I don't know
<v Speaker 4>how you get these people. The doctors are never like this.
<v Speaker 4>The doctors are always generally kind, you know, but the
<v Speaker 4>people you gotta deal with, like at the reception, it's just,
<v Speaker 4>oh my god. Fuck, I don't know. I don't know,
<v Speaker 4>I don't know, not my world. Anyway, they finally get
<v Speaker 4>me in there. They give me the Propo fall, which
<v Speaker 4>is the Michael Jackson Druggs. It's what took out Michael Jackson,
<v Speaker 4>got him to stop touching all those kids. And uh,
<v Speaker 4>and I shouldn't make jokes about that guy dying. Eh
<v Speaker 4>he was a millionaireor whatever. No, he was a billionaire.
<v Speaker 4>How much of money. I don't know who cares. Anyway.
<v Speaker 4>The point is I passed out. I woke up. They
<v Speaker 4>told me, sir, you don't have any polyps, you don't
<v Speaker 4>have any ass cancer. I'm good to go, all right.
<v Speaker 4>But it's probably because I eat healthy, or I mean
<v Speaker 4>I like to think I do. I don't. I had
<v Speaker 4>a steak a week ago. I don't really eat red meat.
<v Speaker 4>I had a steak because it was in West Texas.
<v Speaker 4>It was like, you know, ethically raised. It wasn't feed
<v Speaker 4>lots steak. It was healthy and I got the steak
<v Speaker 4>just because it's the kite. It's the type of food
<v Speaker 4>you can eat with the dogs. You know, you eat it,
<v Speaker 4>you break bread together with the dogs, and then they
<v Speaker 4>feel you know, it's a nice it's it's like a
<v Speaker 4>a boost morale among the canine populous. So anyway, but
<v Speaker 4>I was so miserable from having to deal with people
<v Speaker 4>on the phone. I had to call them six times,
<v Speaker 4>six fucking times before I actually got there to figure
<v Speaker 4>out what time. I kept getting redirected twenty minutes on
<v Speaker 4>the phone. Nobody knows anything. Everyone's an idiot. You're trying
<v Speaker 4>to keep your cool. So I was in such a
<v Speaker 4>bad move. By the time they were actually ready to
<v Speaker 4>stick the camera up my ass, I could even make
<v Speaker 4>jokes about it. And that was what really hurt, because
<v Speaker 4>that was that's such a ripe opportunity. You're going to
<v Speaker 4>get a tube stuck in your ass, and I can
<v Speaker 4>see if you got you know, colon colon issues, you
<v Speaker 4>gotta there's there's the gun is loaded, the gun of
<v Speaker 4>jokes is loaded. And I squandered the opportunity. So anyway, whatever, anyway,
<v Speaker 4>I don't have ass cancer. That's great. Uh, it's ninety
<v Speaker 4>five degrees. We got a nice rainstorm here in South Texas.
<v Speaker 4>I'm headed to Utah, to Washington County, Utah next week
<v Speaker 4>to go make some videos. Should be fun. I always
<v Speaker 4>love going through New Mexico. The Land of Enchantment. West
<v Speaker 4>Texas is nice too, even though you know there's generally
<v Speaker 4>no public access to much of the land. It should
<v Speaker 4>be a nice time. I'm really excited for it, and
<v Speaker 4>I'm bringing my daughter too, so that should be great.
<v Speaker 4>We have a blast. I wish she would go to
<v Speaker 4>bed on time. She never does. She wants to wrestle
<v Speaker 4>and climb on me and punch me in the face
<v Speaker 4>actively while I'm drawing. But then, you know, it's sorry.
<v Speaker 4>You could you could see the eighty these already there.
<v Speaker 4>I'll just be honest with you. I'll be honest with you. Shit,
<v Speaker 4>they could see that. It's genetic. It's obviously fucking genetic,
<v Speaker 4>you know. But anyway, Washington County, I'm gonna go see
<v Speaker 4>the gypsum Arctomicon. What what time of year does the
<v Speaker 4>arctomcon the Arctomicon? Remember, it's land. It doesn't matter how
<v Speaker 4>he produced it. Pronounced that the gypsum dwarf poppy. Do
<v Speaker 4>you know about arctomicon? Probably not if you live in
<v Speaker 4>the central or eastern United States. What a fucking dope genus.
<v Speaker 4>I've seen all three species Miriamii californica and humorless. Humorless
<v Speaker 4>is the dwarf poppy that these are called the bear
<v Speaker 4>poppies and the gypsum bear poppy. Uh shit, it's gonna
<v Speaker 4>be finishing up now. There still might be some going off. Oh,
<v Speaker 4>we're gonna have to go. What do you think of
<v Speaker 4>like a nice gypsum crust soil? Do you know about
<v Speaker 4>the gypsum have I We've talked about this in the
<v Speaker 4>podcast before, having we these cool fucking soils, these edaphic endemics,
<v Speaker 4>gypsum just like limestone, just like sand dunes, just like
<v Speaker 4>serpentine gets its own sweet, its own cast of endemic species.
<v Speaker 4>Endemic means they only grow there. Like if a plant
<v Speaker 4>is geographically endemic to someplace, it only grows in that region.
<v Speaker 4>If it's if it's endemic to a county or a state,
<v Speaker 4>or a country or a continent, means it only grows there.
<v Speaker 4>If it's endemic to a soil type, we call it
<v Speaker 4>an a daphic endemic, and in this case you have
<v Speaker 4>gypsum endemics right town Sendia Gypsyphyla which grows northwest to Albuquerque,
<v Speaker 4>Nama Carnosa, which grows on the Texas New Mexico border.
<v Speaker 4>Go to the New Mexico site. It's nicer and gentler,
<v Speaker 4>and it just feels more mellow, not like Texas. Texas.
<v Speaker 4>Just out loud whed again, the fuck is you know?
<v Speaker 4>This drives me fucking n I'm gonna go off on
<v Speaker 4>a rant here actually because this is ripe. Fuck Dan Patrick,
<v Speaker 4>I want to say that right now. Fuck Dan Patrick,
<v Speaker 4>you jowy Colonel Sanders looking motherfucker Lieutenant governor of Texas
<v Speaker 4>meant the whole who is is this nineteen fifty? What
<v Speaker 4>other place in the world is trying to ban THCHC
<v Speaker 4>any kind of THC, even like the low dose stuff.
<v Speaker 4>There was this stuff called Tehaus Tonic. I think you
<v Speaker 4>could still get it till September. It was made in Austin.
<v Speaker 4>It's like a hoppy, five milligram THHC non alcoholic beer.
<v Speaker 4>Got it's so good. It's carbonated, it's delicious and I
<v Speaker 4>would drink one of those slowly. I found them at
<v Speaker 4>the bakery in Alpine in West Texas. I would drink
<v Speaker 4>one of those slowly and five I don't smoke weeds,
<v Speaker 4>so five milligrams is enough. Like that is almost too
<v Speaker 4>much for me. I would drink it slowly at night,
<v Speaker 4>and it was one of the few things that would
<v Speaker 4>get me to calm down and turn off my stupid mind,
<v Speaker 4>my noisy ping pong ball mind. And now that whole
<v Speaker 4>business is gonna go out it, They're gonna go out
<v Speaker 4>of business. This is gonna end fifty thousand jobs. There's
<v Speaker 4>fifty thousand jobs, you know with THHC related products low
<v Speaker 4>THCHC whatever you know. I think. I don't know what
<v Speaker 4>else is going to affect low THHC, you know, gummies
<v Speaker 4>or whatever. And uh, I don't know why they're doing this.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know. I have no clue why they're doing that.
<v Speaker 4>What fucking idiot thinks that this is worth doing. And
<v Speaker 4>not only that, but you're like five hundred million dollars
<v Speaker 4>worth of tax revenue and Texas doesn't have income tax,
<v Speaker 4>mind you. This state is just so absolutely fucking moronic.
<v Speaker 4>Sometimes I don't get it. I don't understand, and they
<v Speaker 4>want to make the populace dumb too, like that they're
<v Speaker 4>doing these private school charters. They're defunding public education and
<v Speaker 4>putting vouchers, taxpayer funded vouchers for essentially rich kids to
<v Speaker 4>go to private schools. They say it's for everybody, but
<v Speaker 4>it's mostly going to be rich kids. It's fucking gross.
<v Speaker 4>You know, you got like one of the unhealthiest, dumbest
<v Speaker 4>populace is in the United States. No offense, no offense
<v Speaker 4>to anybody, right, I think what's the dumbest populist, least
<v Speaker 4>educated populous in the United States? At Mississippi's It's somewhere
<v Speaker 4>in the south, of course, but uh, but of course,
<v Speaker 4>but you know the Texas is running up there. I
<v Speaker 4>mean in healthcare is a fucking huge industry here too.
<v Speaker 4>A lot of money to be made off people being
<v Speaker 4>sick and out of shape and pre diabetic and from
<v Speaker 4>living in you know, a place where where walking has
<v Speaker 4>been made obsolete and there's not off in any bike lanes.
<v Speaker 4>You can't get exercise if you want it to unless
<v Speaker 4>you go to the gym and like you know, smell
<v Speaker 4>bo and off gassing plastic while you're listening to bad
<v Speaker 4>techno music. Got the gym. I hate the jim anyway,
<v Speaker 4>So this is so Dan Patrick's idea. He's gonna save
<v Speaker 4>the children from the evils of THCHC. Right, And mean,
<v Speaker 4>why do I care if I don't smoke weed? Well,
<v Speaker 4>I care because I hate alcohol. I absolutely hate alcohol,
<v Speaker 4>and I hate what it does to people. I hate
<v Speaker 4>how stupid it makes people. I hate that it numbs
<v Speaker 4>people to things they need to otherwise be feeling so
<v Speaker 4>that they can maybe change their lives, you know. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>it's it's right up there with coke, like cocaine and
<v Speaker 4>alcohol are two of them most fucking annoying drugs you
<v Speaker 4>could put anybody on and then and alcohol is legal.
<v Speaker 4>Alcohol is very important if you need a populace to
<v Speaker 4>be dumb and numb to how miserable their life is
<v Speaker 4>because they're working for too little and they're overworked and
<v Speaker 4>you don't even allow them, you know, breaks for heat
<v Speaker 4>at their job, not this fucking backwards ass state. But uh,
<v Speaker 4>you know, and I'm here because of family. Before you
<v Speaker 4>give me hell for a movie, I don't want to
<v Speaker 4>hear it. Shut up, Like the California's got its own
<v Speaker 4>list of problems. I don't want to hear you like
<v Speaker 4>your your this liberal elitism. There's nothing more obnoxious and
<v Speaker 4>Caucasian liberals. But but god, it just blows my fucking mind,
<v Speaker 4>you know, But you get people stone. I would much
<v Speaker 4>rather deal with people stoned, you know, especially if they're driving,
<v Speaker 4>then with with alcohols, with alcoholics, right, I would. I
<v Speaker 4>would rather be around stoned people. They've got their own
<v Speaker 4>sense of issues. They're spacey, they forget shit, they're hard
<v Speaker 4>to talk to, they're a little woo woo, they get
<v Speaker 4>paranoids times. But I'd rather deal with that because they're
<v Speaker 4>generally kinder people. Then I would deal with drunks. I
<v Speaker 4>fucking hate drunks. There's a reason that shit has been
<v Speaker 4>banned in so many cultures. Right, So if you're gonna
<v Speaker 4>go that route, ban alcohol then too, and good luck,
<v Speaker 4>you fucking idiot with that, because we know how well
<v Speaker 4>that turned out. So Texas is and it's not going
<v Speaker 4>to stop people from using weed either. Get it's gonna
<v Speaker 4>make the cops jobs harder because now they got to
<v Speaker 4>look for this stuff, and it's just gonna enable black
<v Speaker 4>markets a lot of money to be made. If you're
<v Speaker 4>growing weed out of state, you can ship it to
<v Speaker 4>Texas vacuum seal that shit. Make sure you put it
<v Speaker 4>in a plastic case, like a laptop case or something
<v Speaker 4>plastic laptop case so that the you know, people at
<v Speaker 4>the post office can't poke it with h steel rods,
<v Speaker 4>you know, because then they'll they'll actually take your stuff.
<v Speaker 4>That was an issue people used to have in California,
<v Speaker 4>remember hearing people complain about that. Yeah, we're shipping weed
<v Speaker 4>out of state the places where it's still illegal, and
<v Speaker 4>the post office has actually been stealing a lot of
<v Speaker 4>our stuff. They would poke the vacuum. It's just gonna
<v Speaker 4>mention this in a podcast. This is stuff I heard.
<v Speaker 4>I'm not telling anybody what to do. This is just
<v Speaker 4>stuff I heard. I don't advise you to try and
<v Speaker 4>make money off of these idiots making this law by
<v Speaker 4>growing weed out of state where it's legal. Weed's a
<v Speaker 4>very easy plant to grow, too, very very easy. Which
<v Speaker 4>is so funny because all these weed bros get good
<v Speaker 4>at growing weed, and then suddenly they think they're botanists
<v Speaker 4>and they get all these goofy ass theories. No offense
<v Speaker 4>to them. Love what you're doing. It's great stuff, just
<v Speaker 4>you know, maybe a little humility. But you know, I'm
<v Speaker 4>not telling you to do that. I'm not telling you
<v Speaker 4>to exploit the black market that this idiotic law is creating. Man,
<v Speaker 4>I know so many people that smoke weed down here too,
<v Speaker 4>right wing, left wing. They don't give everyone smoke. Everyone's
<v Speaker 4>smoking weed. It's a pleasant thing, right for some people.
<v Speaker 4>I don't like. It makes me a little paranoid, makes
<v Speaker 4>me forgetful. But it makes stretching really fun. It makes
<v Speaker 4>stretching really nice, and working out too sometimes, right, Moderation's
<v Speaker 4>key with that everything. But god damn it. I fucking
<v Speaker 4>hate alcohol and if we if I know people I
<v Speaker 4>know alcoholics that have said I drink less because I
<v Speaker 4>can now have easy access to safe, regulated cannabis and
<v Speaker 4>all that's going away. Listen this fucking guy. Listen to this.
<v Speaker 2>Would you buy anything off the shelf?
<v Speaker 4>Looks like Colonel Sanders, We'll just get the fucking white
<v Speaker 4>suit in the.
<v Speaker 2>Boat state for the rest of your life. Would you
<v Speaker 2>want that? Anybody want this bag? Okay, you want it?
<v Speaker 4>Theatrics he's a Thespian.
<v Speaker 2>You wouldn't dare buy it. You wouldn't let your children,
<v Speaker 2>your grandchildren.
<v Speaker 4>What is he holding up? It depends how it tastes and.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, and come September all this will be
<v Speaker 3>illegal anyway, So I'll be turning this over to the
<v Speaker 3>police before.
<v Speaker 2>I leave here.
<v Speaker 4>Oh good job, Diane, good job.
<v Speaker 2>You don't know what's in it. No one knows what's
<v Speaker 2>in it. This is not a game.
<v Speaker 4>Dose this guy. Dose him. He needs to get dose essence.
<v Speaker 3>The loopholes for Delta eight and Delta ten that were
<v Speaker 3>creative around the natural help hemp of Delta nine.
<v Speaker 2>They have come into this state and used our state.
<v Speaker 4>It don't get okay.
<v Speaker 2>It could be a drug dealer van Delta. We will
<v Speaker 2>not let the state of Texas, It's great, be in
<v Speaker 2>the drug.
<v Speaker 3>Business of making these products available on the shelves.
<v Speaker 2>I want to try any of this.
<v Speaker 4>I like this. I like this, though, I do want
<v Speaker 4>to mention O this is nice the comments section. We
<v Speaker 4>will not be in the drug business except for alcohol
<v Speaker 4>and tobacco. Those are fine. Don't ask why people dying
<v Speaker 4>of fentanyl, but they're talking about CBD products. Looks like
<v Speaker 4>an snl skit says the man taking millions from pharma
<v Speaker 4>drug dealer. Yeah, you know, Texas politics being as correct
<v Speaker 4>as they are, this guy's got to be getting paid
<v Speaker 4>by someone. He's got to be getting paid. What a
<v Speaker 4>fucking idiot. You know, So now people are going to
<v Speaker 4>be getting weed from wherever and there's no measurement of
<v Speaker 4>how many milligrams or how much is you know. That's
<v Speaker 4>that was one of the nice things like for me
<v Speaker 4>occasionally when I would drink these tehostonic things five milligrams.
<v Speaker 4>I know I'm only getting five milligrams, and it tastes
<v Speaker 4>good and it's I'll drink it slow because I don't
<v Speaker 4>want to get ripped. I hate being stoned, but just
<v Speaker 4>a little bit the right amount of buzz. It's so nice.
<v Speaker 4>But now that's not you know, now that's impossible because
<v Speaker 4>there's no way to measure it anymore. It's not regulated.
<v Speaker 4>This guy, I hope this costs him his political career.
<v Speaker 4>This guy's a fucking moron. You look at this guy.
<v Speaker 4>He's a fucking dinosaur. This is a clown. This guy
<v Speaker 4>is an idiot, you jowly fuck talk about going to
<v Speaker 4>the gym. Send this guy to the gym, This old bastard.
<v Speaker 4>How do these guys? How do guys like this live?
<v Speaker 4>So long? Too? Right? This guy's gotta talk about a colonoscopy.
<v Speaker 4>This guy's got to get a colonoscopy. He's probably in batch.
<v Speaker 4>You know, he's eating try tip and all kinds of shit,
<v Speaker 4>you know, stuff in his coling. With all that, the
<v Speaker 4>all that pig and cow, he's probably got some polyps
<v Speaker 4>some you know, none of these pigs ever die from
<v Speaker 4>from disease. Rush Limbaugh was like the last pig that
<v Speaker 4>died of a of a disease that was cancer. That
<v Speaker 4>was only one. Give us another one, Come on, please
<v Speaker 4>give us one. Huh. Why doesn't it ever happen to
<v Speaker 4>bad to fucking bad people? Okay, anyway, I digress. Let's
<v Speaker 4>talk about New Mexico plants. Let's talk about the sand
<v Speaker 4>hills east, the beautiful Carlsbad, New Mexico. Now, this was
<v Speaker 4>red sand. It's like an oxidized sand. I assume there's
<v Speaker 4>a high iron content. I don't know the age. The
<v Speaker 4>limestone around there is roughly Permian. But this sand, when
<v Speaker 4>that's this sand obviously was weathered out of sandstone. But
<v Speaker 4>it's been blown around, you know, it's been blown all around.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know. I don't know what formation nearby formation
<v Speaker 4>it came from. If you go to the rock that
<v Speaker 4>it just says Eolian deposits, which means wind. I'm not
<v Speaker 4>even sure if I'm pronouncing that right, but I don't
<v Speaker 4>really give a shit to be honest. Again, who's going
<v Speaker 4>to correct you on that? Actually, that's not how you
<v Speaker 4>pronounced that. See what is this Eolien and Piedmont deposits? Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it just says place to see into Holo scene points
<v Speaker 4>seven million years ago to present interlayed Eolien sands and
<v Speaker 4>Piedmont slope deposits along the eastern flank of the Pecos
<v Speaker 4>River Valley between Roswell and Carlsbag. God, it's so nice
<v Speaker 4>going to New Mexico. You step over the border and
<v Speaker 4>there's BLM land everywhere. You can go anywhere and there's
<v Speaker 4>no like, mean, jolly fuck, who's gonna yell at you
<v Speaker 4>or ask you what you're doing or assume the worst.
<v Speaker 4>It's the thing that Texas landovers, the Texas landowners never
<v Speaker 4>assume you're just harmlessly looking at stuff. It's always you're
<v Speaker 4>up to no good, or you're gonna steal their rocks
<v Speaker 4>because they own the rocks. The rocks and the seeds
<v Speaker 4>on that land belong to them. You're stealing if you
<v Speaker 4>take them get the fuck out of here. Oh god,
<v Speaker 4>what does the rock that say? Yeah, west of Carlsbab,
<v Speaker 4>it's uh, the Guadalupian. It's the Yates and Tansel formations age.
<v Speaker 4>It's Guadalupian two hundred and seventy five million to two
<v Speaker 4>hundred and fifty nine milli years ago, so before the
<v Speaker 4>Permian extinction. Sandstone, siltstone, limestone, dolomite, and anhydrite. The lithology
<v Speaker 4>it's mostly sandstone, carbonates and silt stone. Okay, so that's
<v Speaker 4>where it's coming out of. But you get east the
<v Speaker 4>Carlsbad and you start seeing these cool sandhills, really cool
<v Speaker 4>sand hills, and they look barren at first. The miskit's
<v Speaker 4>only getting three feet tall. And this is a tree.
<v Speaker 4>This is a tree sized plant where you get water.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe you get next to like a more shady micro site,
<v Speaker 4>next to an arroyo, got like a big piece of
<v Speaker 4>boulder or a piece of a mountain, a little sarrow
<v Speaker 4>or some shit on the west side, so it's blocking
<v Speaker 4>that hot afternoon sun. These miskats will get big, they'll
<v Speaker 4>get tall, but here on these sand deposits, they get
<v Speaker 4>multiple stems, they become multiple stem little shrubs the top
<v Speaker 4>out of three or four feet. But I tell you, man,
<v Speaker 4>the fucking and then I'm editing the video for this
<v Speaker 4>part now. For this habitat, I was surprised at how
<v Speaker 4>incredibly diverse and rich this area was. Man, it was incredible.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, the there was so much cool chikro in
<v Speaker 4>there and were the main reason I went there was
<v Speaker 4>because of Po Maria James I the genus PO Maria.
<v Speaker 4>It's a cool, cool sace alpinoid. It's a cool sace
<v Speaker 4>alpanoid p It's got a really cool flower shape. You know,
<v Speaker 4>they look kind of like an orchid, and you could
<v Speaker 4>tell they're pollinated by some sort of big ass b
<v Speaker 4>or something. They If it's got a weird shape like that,
<v Speaker 4>there's something weird going on with the pollinator or with
<v Speaker 4>the reward that it's offering the pollinator. And so it
<v Speaker 4>had this It's got this keeled pedal that all these
<v Speaker 4>statements come out of, and it's the whole thing's covered
<v Speaker 4>in glands. But what is a gland? Think of like
<v Speaker 4>the way pot looks, that's a gland. It's a glandular tricombe.
<v Speaker 4>It's a hair with the little gland on it a
<v Speaker 4>glandular tricombe. It's a living tricomb because trichombs can be
<v Speaker 4>dead or alive. In the case of wool, I'm like
<v Speaker 4>an oreosirious old man of the Andes cactus. Those tricombes
<v Speaker 4>are dead, it's dead tissue. In the case of cannabis,
<v Speaker 4>it's a living tricombe. It's alive. It's still connected to
<v Speaker 4>the vasculature of the plant. It's still receiving h you know,
<v Speaker 4>sugars and all this shit from the plant. It's actually
<v Speaker 4>connected to the plant, still in alive. So anyway, I
<v Speaker 4>don't mean like physically connected, I mean connected to the vasculature.
<v Speaker 4>So this this po Maria, and it's a cool genus.
<v Speaker 4>Pomria is a cool genus. Ainance says there's fourteen species.
<v Speaker 4>There's probably more, but this is this does not get
<v Speaker 4>I guess you got some in Nevada. No, you don't.
<v Speaker 4>There's none in Nevada, none in Utah. This is Arizona, Colorado,
<v Speaker 4>New Mexico, West Texas. Oh, you get some in Kansas.
<v Speaker 4>I want to go to fucking Kansas. Kansas seems nice,
<v Speaker 4>you know, Oklahoma seems nice too. Javier got invited to
<v Speaker 4>a payote meeting with the comanches up in Lawton, and
<v Speaker 4>he was gonna go, but I don't think he was
<v Speaker 4>able to make it there. I think he had to work.
<v Speaker 4>But uh, law In Oklahoma's nice. Say shut out to
<v Speaker 4>laud in Oklahoma. Shout out to anybody listening in Lawton, Oklahoma.
<v Speaker 4>Shout out to the Wichita Mountains. Shout out to the
<v Speaker 4>prairie dog community, the prairie Dog compound near the Plains Museum.
<v Speaker 4>What is the cool museum in Lawton. There's some cool
<v Speaker 4>shit in Lawton, if you get a chance to go there.
<v Speaker 4>But uh, anyway, Yeah, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, a little
<v Speaker 4>bit in Kansas. That's an area I have not botanized
<v Speaker 4>a lot. It's like eastern Colorado, Western Kansas, Oklahoma Panhandle.
<v Speaker 4>Fuck the Oklahoma Panhand. God, there's some beautiful stuff there. Man. Oh,
<v Speaker 4>those open plains, those open, windy plains where the bison
<v Speaker 4>used to be. I was at who was I visiting.
<v Speaker 4>We were visiting a friend on a reservation in Oklahoma.
<v Speaker 4>I think it was like two thousand and six or something.
<v Speaker 4>And yes, she had this horse, this beautiful horse, and
<v Speaker 4>I jumped up on it. It was really nice. Let
<v Speaker 4>me get up on top of it. I was pulling
<v Speaker 4>ticks off of it. I got on top of it
<v Speaker 4>and was just riding it around. And then I thought
<v Speaker 4>it'd be funny if I did it naked. So I
<v Speaker 4>started riding this horse around naked, and uh, I fucking
<v Speaker 4>wish I had that picture still. Shit was hilarious. Someone
<v Speaker 4>took a picture of me naked on his horse, riding
<v Speaker 4>this fucking thing around in the sun. Beautiful horse. I
<v Speaker 4>felt so freed it. That was when I was living
<v Speaker 4>my best life. When you're naked riding a horse in
<v Speaker 4>western Oklahoma, you know you've really made it. You could
<v Speaker 4>die happy. You could take a dirt nap the next day,
<v Speaker 4>and you know you could could die satisfied anyway. That
<v Speaker 4>whole area. I haven't spent that much time. Man. You
<v Speaker 4>ever been to Dodge City, Kansas? Got I bet there's
<v Speaker 4>some fucking I bet Dodge City. Like right in Dodge City,
<v Speaker 4>there's a lot of rough culture. You know, a lot
<v Speaker 4>of dollar generals, some rough. But I bet you get
<v Speaker 4>to the areas outside there there's some beautif where's the
<v Speaker 4>nice prairie preserves in Kansas? If you're from eastern Colorado
<v Speaker 4>or Western Kansas or northern Oklahoma, you know that area.
<v Speaker 4>Send me some places to go that you want me
<v Speaker 4>to film plants. Don't make it a long email because
<v Speaker 4>I won't read it. I just don't have the time
<v Speaker 4>and I'm fucking eighty d. But send me a list,
<v Speaker 4>be like you wanted these places. Here's some cool places.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe send a mapplink to if you can, because they
<v Speaker 4>don't make it a lot easier as easy as you
<v Speaker 4>can make it for me. Right, Pretend I'm much older
<v Speaker 4>than I am. Pretend you're emailing and geriatric. Anyway. So
<v Speaker 4>I was going out there for pal Maria in Atlas
<v Speaker 4>fourteen species in the genus po Maria fourteen variations on
<v Speaker 4>a theme. There's probably more holy shit po Maria Sandersonia.
<v Speaker 4>There's fucking red ones, Rubikonda. Where's Rubacunda? Oh, they're so cool.
<v Speaker 4>They all look so cool. They look like Gladiola's or
<v Speaker 4>something beautiful gladiol like the gladiolas I saw in South Africa.
<v Speaker 4>Where the fuck is this thing from? That's incredible? Po
<v Speaker 4>Maria Rubekunda? Where is this? Oh? Oh oh shit, it's
<v Speaker 4>way down? What the fuck? Uruguay? How to fuck Uruguay
<v Speaker 4>and Paraguay. Damn, well, that's a disjunction. I wonder if
<v Speaker 4>that was a bird assisted dispersal. Had to be Ruba Kunda.
<v Speaker 4>I did not know there was po Mario. I thought
<v Speaker 4>this was just central let's see. Yeah, okay, there's a
<v Speaker 4>couple in South America too. I didn't know that Brazil,
<v Speaker 4>Paraguay and Uruguay anyway. So I was going out there
<v Speaker 4>to see Paul Maria because I wanted to see pal Maria,
<v Speaker 4>James the I and I had no idea the amount
<v Speaker 4>of cool stuff I was gonna see. There was an abronia,
<v Speaker 4>there was more That epizifium was life xenii, which is
<v Speaker 4>Mirandia snapdragon vine, big purple flowers. Looks like a purple snapdragon.
<v Speaker 4>But the leaves on this thing are fucking wild, arrowhead shaped,
<v Speaker 4>kinda has state with like a fine pubescent indument on
<v Speaker 4>him that gives them a silvery luster, a silvery luster
<v Speaker 4>with silvery veins. It's a crime, this thing isn't you
<v Speaker 4>know again. James Peace had this, but the nursery that
<v Speaker 4>fired him threw all this shit out because they wanted
<v Speaker 4>to grow bogan V's and all this other garbage. There
<v Speaker 4>was Yuka campestris everywhere, little like it's the plains Yuka
<v Speaker 4>they call it. I guess it's endangered species, probably just
<v Speaker 4>because all the habitat has been destroyed, because it's readily
<v Speaker 4>abundant where there's still habitat. There was Mimosa cooliada karpa,
<v Speaker 4>a little white mimosa with like big thorns on it,
<v Speaker 4>typical pinnate leaves. You see that, you could say, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's some mimoas. I could see that Macaranth tennessee to
<v Speaker 4>folio purple. It's like a little purple daisy, related to
<v Speaker 4>Grendilia and the macaranther and macaranthny tribe. There was a
<v Speaker 4>really cool little grass. I don't give a shit about
<v Speaker 4>most grasses, but I saw the ones I saw here
<v Speaker 4>were fucking phenomenal. I saw Aristota purpoia, which was just beautiful.
<v Speaker 4>All the aristotas are gorgeous. All the Aristota grasses when
<v Speaker 4>they got their seeds on them, they're like blowing in
<v Speaker 4>the wind. They look like these beautiful psychedelic feathers. Almost
<v Speaker 4>really mesmerizing to watch, you know. And it was it
<v Speaker 4>was hot out. It was like ninety degrees. I think
<v Speaker 4>The elevation here was like thirty one hundred feet, but
<v Speaker 4>there was a really nice breeze, so I didn't feel
<v Speaker 4>overheated at all. It was fucking wonderful, man. But that's
<v Speaker 4>the kind of the claim. You gotta watch out because
<v Speaker 4>you can get so stoked, you're so excited because you're
<v Speaker 4>seeing so much cool stuff, you forget that it's you know,
<v Speaker 4>ninety degrees or ninety five, and you could pass out,
<v Speaker 4>you know, but you just keep your song, just keep
<v Speaker 4>yourself in check. I got to get a new cooler too.
<v Speaker 4>The one I have is kind of jinky. Yeah. Monroe
<v Speaker 4>Squarerosa was this little grass and it looked fucking nuts
<v Speaker 4>because it had I didn't know this, and I guess
<v Speaker 4>this species doesn't always do this. It's phenotypic depending on
<v Speaker 4>where it's growing as well. It's phenotypic and environmental. The
<v Speaker 4>hotter the climate, you know, and the more exposed. And
<v Speaker 4>this was growing right out in the full sun. I'm
<v Speaker 4>sure if it was in a shadier site it wouldn't
<v Speaker 4>do this. But it was so wool this grass was,
<v Speaker 4>you know, it was just looked like a boring little
<v Speaker 4>bunch grass, except that it had these white cobwebs of
<v Speaker 4>wool all over it. You know that are obviously affording
<v Speaker 4>it the longevity. And it's otherwise very hot and especially
<v Speaker 4>windy and arid climate that wind. When it's hot and dry,
<v Speaker 4>that's enough. When you have the wind too, you dry
<v Speaker 4>out that much quicker. So that's what all these hairs do.
<v Speaker 4>And this is what I was trying to explain to
<v Speaker 4>some of the you know, permaculture nutjobs and other people
<v Speaker 4>that that didn't like my soil post with symbiosis Texas.
<v Speaker 4>Now that soil's fine, it doesn't matter. It's barren limestone.
<v Speaker 4>You can you can you can improve it. Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 4>you can improve it by dumping dump trucks of amendment sun.
<v Speaker 4>It's not the fucking point more on. It's it's a
<v Speaker 4>I got a tone of downe. I get a little
<v Speaker 4>I'm a little hot. I get a little mad. I've
<v Speaker 4>been a little mad. I've been calling people names and shit.
<v Speaker 4>Right when I woke up from the PROPA fault, God,
<v Speaker 4>I was out of it. That sucked. I was so
<v Speaker 4>out of it. I hate being drugged. And when I
<v Speaker 4>woke up from the Michael Jackson drugs, I was in
<v Speaker 4>such a great mood. I forgot that. I was angry
<v Speaker 4>about having to deal with the you know, the broken
<v Speaker 4>healthcare system and all this stuff. And then and it
<v Speaker 4>took like thirty minutes. You know, my daughter's grandpa went
<v Speaker 4>and picked me up. Shout out to Leonardo, thank you.
<v Speaker 4>And he went and picked my ass up and and
<v Speaker 4>uh yeah, and took me home because they won't let
<v Speaker 4>you drive home because you're still in the Michael Jackson drugs.
<v Speaker 4>Why was that guy doing that stuff? I don't understand.
<v Speaker 4>It's not like a recreational thing. I don't know. Maybe
<v Speaker 4>it's just me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make
<v Speaker 4>fun of a guy anymore. He was a king of pop.
<v Speaker 4>But I was in a good mood. And then just
<v Speaker 4>you know, and out like twenty minutes of looking at
<v Speaker 4>the phone or just thinking about the life circumstances of
<v Speaker 4>modern America. It puts you in a bad mood. I
<v Speaker 4>swear to god, if I didn't have botany, I would
<v Speaker 4>be so much angrier and probably actively starting fights with people.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I think a lot of people are like that,
<v Speaker 4>and I don't shame them for it. I just want
<v Speaker 4>I want to help those people, you know, don't drink,
<v Speaker 4>don't don't smoke your pot. Get into the living world right,
<v Speaker 4>find the find the ship that gets you stoked, kill
<v Speaker 4>your lawn and plant some fucking natives, start learning about it.
<v Speaker 4>Just go into it full. You know you gotta go.
<v Speaker 4>I guess you gotta get that dopamine hit every time
<v Speaker 4>you do it, or else you're not gonna be coming back.
<v Speaker 4>But that's what kept me coming back was that dopamine
<v Speaker 4>hit changed my life entirely. That and getting sober as well,
<v Speaker 4>doing a recovery thing, being a friend of Bill or
<v Speaker 4>Bob or whatever the fuck is his name of Bill, Bill,
<v Speaker 4>It's Bill, right, yeah, you know anyway. Okay, So when
<v Speaker 4>ROAs squarerosa was out there, that's a cool that's a
<v Speaker 4>cool grass to put on your radar. Mu n r
<v Speaker 4>o A squarerosa. But again it's not always. You could
<v Speaker 4>see pictures on my I Naturalist. This was May seventeenth.
<v Speaker 4>I was out there, so you could even do it
<v Speaker 4>by filter. See all this stuff I was checking out
<v Speaker 4>out there. That epiz Ifium epix ifium is like zeni
<v Speaker 4>I as a good one. There was Centabauhinioides everywhere too.
<v Speaker 4>That's a cool little son, I want to grow that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>So you know, I'm just going through this habitat getting
<v Speaker 4>distracted by all the cool shit I'm seeing while I'm
<v Speaker 4>going to look for this one plant species, which is
<v Speaker 4>the way it's normally done. You know, you go out there,
<v Speaker 4>you just you know how it's going to be. You
<v Speaker 4>got to stop and look at everything, and if you're not,
<v Speaker 4>you're missing out on a lot of stuff. I was
<v Speaker 4>surprised to see a horse crippler out in this habitat too.
<v Speaker 4>Homolocephalitech Census one of the easiest cact i had to
<v Speaker 4>grow from seed. They just need that heat. Really cool.
<v Speaker 4>It looks like a cow patty. It looks like a
<v Speaker 4>cow patty with spines, like a healthy cow patty, not
<v Speaker 4>like the diarrhea cup you don't want to give the
<v Speaker 4>ranchers give the antibiotics. To give a cow too much
<v Speaker 4>antibiotics and it's just like diarrheing all over its ass.
<v Speaker 4>This is really lovely content for this episode. I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 4>I really hope no one's eating this is like a
<v Speaker 4>healthy cow patty, like a bison patty, right, wouldn't that
<v Speaker 4>be cool if there were bison instead of cows. This
<v Speaker 4>is like a stoner thought. And I'm not high. I'm
<v Speaker 4>just saying it would wouldn't that be nicer? Bison are
<v Speaker 4>so much cooler. But they're too smart. That's the problem.
<v Speaker 4>They're not as stupid as cows. You know, cows were
<v Speaker 4>actively bred from wild They are ros to be dumb
<v Speaker 4>because they're easier to contain, just like people. You breed
<v Speaker 4>people to be not breed. But you, oh my god,
<v Speaker 4>thinking it, Jennitis. They thinking knew it. You. If you
<v Speaker 4>make people dumber by defunding education and creating a bleakue
<v Speaker 4>consumer society, they're easier to contain and control. Right, That's
<v Speaker 4>exactly what happened with Texas. So anyway, but this, this
<v Speaker 4>homolocephalo was out there. You only see one, only one,
<v Speaker 4>little horse crippler. What the fuck? But those are self
<v Speaker 4>fertile too. Most cacti are not fertile, so you need
<v Speaker 4>two to cross polonnate peyotes, homolocephala, what else. There's a
<v Speaker 4>couple others. Those are self fertile. So even if you
<v Speaker 4>only have one, you'll still get good seed. You're not
<v Speaker 4>gonna get a lot of seed per fruit, but you'll
<v Speaker 4>get enough. So but yeah, you can get like a
<v Speaker 4>horse crippler to flowering in like three or four years.
<v Speaker 4>Same with astrophyte them too. Just give them a lot
<v Speaker 4>of water whenever it's dry and hot out, and don't
<v Speaker 4>water them if it's if the soil is not dry
<v Speaker 4>and it's below like seventy degrees seventy five. But anyway,
<v Speaker 4>tons of cool shit in this habitat. I saw a
<v Speaker 4>really weird Escobaria vivipara, which is a common cact that's
<v Speaker 4>widespread throughout western North America, especially at higher elevations and
<v Speaker 4>higher latitudes. Beautiful pink flowers. This was like a multi
<v Speaker 4>headed one. I almost didn't recognize it as an Escobari
<v Speaker 4>at first. I guess it must be the ecotype from
<v Speaker 4>the lower latitude portions of its range. But Escobaria vivipara,
<v Speaker 4>if you see it in like Nevada, or does it
<v Speaker 4>go into Washington. I feel like it goes into Washington.
<v Speaker 4>It goes into the high plains. You know, you'll see
<v Speaker 4>that pink flower, and normally they're short and squat. This
<v Speaker 4>was like a big ten inch tall motherfucker with multiple heads.
<v Speaker 4>There was a really cool carrot I saw too, native
<v Speaker 4>carrot you're a Tania Hinkley. I collected a specimen of
<v Speaker 4>that for the herbarium. That was a fucking dope plant
<v Speaker 4>to see little umbols of flowers, umboles subtanted by these
<v Speaker 4>kind of spiny, white margined bracts. You know, any carrot
<v Speaker 4>you see, you see that compound dumble and or just
<v Speaker 4>that specific umbol inflorescence morphologs. The actual flowers I'll tend
<v Speaker 4>to kind of look the same, the tiny flowers, but
<v Speaker 4>you see that inflorescence morphology, boom, you know it's apac
<v Speaker 4>There was one of the most dominant plant we saw,
<v Speaker 4>Corcus Havardia there too, which is a sand sheet or
<v Speaker 4>not a sandsheet, a sand oak, a sandhill oak, which
<v Speaker 4>forms these mass of colonies that can probably live for
<v Speaker 4>hundreds of years. Tops out at two or three feet.
<v Speaker 4>I guess there's places where they can get taller to
<v Speaker 4>but never taller than eight feet. And that was that
<v Speaker 4>was surprising. I didn't expect to see that there. I
<v Speaker 4>got nice photos that are developing acorns, the tiny acorns,
<v Speaker 4>but I started seeing a lot of plants that were
<v Speaker 4>either endemic to these sand hills or they were like
<v Speaker 4>an ecotype that was endemic to these sandhills. Tons of
<v Speaker 4>Onnathra too, the evening primroses anglomani I. There was Palletta there,
<v Speaker 4>ananthro Palletta, just a fucking just a plethora of evening primroses.
<v Speaker 4>And they all bloom at night. You know, you see him,
<v Speaker 4>you see them at noon. The flowers are already withering
<v Speaker 4>and limp, the petals are already limp. But I bet,
<v Speaker 4>I bet it's just getting hit by moths at night.
<v Speaker 4>So many cool moths there. Probably. I saw a giant
<v Speaker 4>fucking moth at thornscrub the other day, like hummingbird sized moth. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>so there was. There was a bunch of Onnathra. There
<v Speaker 4>was a Monarda. I guess it was just punk tata,
<v Speaker 4>but it looked like a slightly different ecotype. There's so
<v Speaker 4>much variation. I just you know, I collected it. I
<v Speaker 4>put it in as punk tata, but man, who the
<v Speaker 4>fuck knows? You know, again, you gotta be loose if
<v Speaker 4>a species is especially widespread, you gotta be somewhat loose
<v Speaker 4>about variations in form, right, And I've been doing this
<v Speaker 4>long enough now that I just accept it, like, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>it's this species or maybe it's you know, CF or AF.
<v Speaker 4>You know, but it might be it might be an
<v Speaker 4>affinity with this, It might be just a different ecotype.
<v Speaker 4>At what point does an eco and then, of course,
<v Speaker 4>at what point does an ecotype become a subspecies of variety?
<v Speaker 4>You know? So when you're when you're when I said
<v Speaker 4>a finis or AF or CF. You know, this is
<v Speaker 4>the difference between when you see AF or CF with
<v Speaker 4>a species name. In Latin nomenclature, right like Rebeki a
<v Speaker 4>herda aff Rebeccy a herda AF means a finis, which
<v Speaker 4>means related to or neighboring. You know. So in taxonomy,
<v Speaker 4>aff usually indicse that a species has affinity with another
<v Speaker 4>species but is not identical to it, right, so AFF
<v Speaker 4>before a species name in case that the specimen is
<v Speaker 4>likely a new species, but there may not be enough
<v Speaker 4>information to describe it formally yet, such is the case
<v Speaker 4>with this Rebeccy a Herda, or such I believe is
<v Speaker 4>the case with this Rebecca Herda from the South Texas sandsheet.
<v Speaker 4>It doesn't look like the Rebecca heard us from up north.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe it's a different ecotype. It should certainly get a
<v Speaker 4>different subspecies name. If it doesn't have it already. And
<v Speaker 4>I looked at Flora of North America and I don't
<v Speaker 4>think it's in there yet. There's no mention of the
<v Speaker 4>counties where it occurs, of those being different. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that's one thing I showed tow too Mike Powell at
<v Speaker 4>Sewel ross Orbarium, and he was like, that's not hurd of. Man,
<v Speaker 4>that doesn't look like herd of. He didn't say, man,
<v Speaker 4>he's eighty five. You know, he's an eighty five year
<v Speaker 4>old Caucasian Texas. He's not saying man. I wish he was.
<v Speaker 4>But you know, it's such as like it take people
<v Speaker 4>as they are, right, uh, CF and then anyway, So
<v Speaker 4>back to this, but CF is shortened for the Latin
<v Speaker 4>word confer, which means to compare with. So like you
<v Speaker 4>know in taxonomy you see CF before before a species name.
<v Speaker 4>It usually indicates that a species should be compared with
<v Speaker 4>another species, right, So like CF can be used to
<v Speaker 4>indicate that a cited source supports a different claim than
<v Speaker 4>the one just made, and that the two claims should
<v Speaker 4>be compared. So anyway, that both terms indicate uncertainty, but
<v Speaker 4>at different levels, CF suggests a closer match than AFF,
<v Speaker 4>which implies a more distinct relationship, so uh, you know,
<v Speaker 4>good a again, AFF is like related to her, allied
<v Speaker 4>with and it might be AFF is normally like if
<v Speaker 4>it could be an undescribed species, whereas, uh, you know,
<v Speaker 4>CF means compare with, so it's like, you know, especimen
<v Speaker 4>closely resembles an own species, but has some differences that
<v Speaker 4>prevent the definitive identification. So if you're unsure because you
<v Speaker 4>just don't know, you could put CF if or you
<v Speaker 4>haven't been able to key it out yet, or if
<v Speaker 4>you're if you're unsure because it might be a new
<v Speaker 4>fucking species and doesn't match anything else from that region,
<v Speaker 4>you use AFF And that's another thing for identification. That's
<v Speaker 4>so you know if you're not familiar with the region yet.
<v Speaker 4>That is what the process of elimination is so important
<v Speaker 4>in ID. If you know all the species in a region,
<v Speaker 4>then you would know, uh, if you come across something
<v Speaker 4>unusual that it's unusual. Whereas if you're new to a region,
<v Speaker 4>just learning the taxonomy and learning the plants, so you
<v Speaker 4>wouldn't know that this is unusual. That's why it's so
<v Speaker 4>fucking important to get out there and do field botany,
<v Speaker 4>and people who ask me what books can I read? Man,
<v Speaker 4>the best thing to do is go out first and
<v Speaker 4>realize you don't know anything about what you're looking at,
<v Speaker 4>but that you're hungry to learn, and you're curious, and
<v Speaker 4>you're asking questions, most importantly, why the fuck is this
<v Speaker 4>growing here? Why does this look like this? Why does
<v Speaker 4>this have hairs? Why does this have spiny leaves? Why
<v Speaker 4>does this I've noticed these only tend to grow on
<v Speaker 4>this site. You write that shit down, take it on
<v Speaker 4>a nopad app whatever, or even just record little videos
<v Speaker 4>for yourself, whatever the fuck, and then you you hit
<v Speaker 4>those up later and then look them up actively, look
<v Speaker 4>them up, you know, just searching on the internet. Even
<v Speaker 4>use fucking AI if you need to use, but use
<v Speaker 4>deep seek. Don't use chat, GPT or any use deep seek.
<v Speaker 4>Ask you questions. Deep seeks the Chinese one that pissed
<v Speaker 4>off all the American billionaires. Right. God, I meet these
<v Speaker 4>fucking people, man, who just shit on AI so hard,
<v Speaker 4>you know, and they like shame you for using it.
<v Speaker 4>It's like listen, fuck face, and I say, fuck face.
<v Speaker 4>Some of these people are dear friends of mine. But
<v Speaker 4>the amount of water or whatever the fuck your beef
<v Speaker 4>is with this. You just want to shame people. Again,
<v Speaker 4>it's like a white This is like a Caucasian liberal thing.
<v Speaker 4>They love shaming and shitting on people. That's how they
<v Speaker 4>helped Trump win, right, That's why some of them are
<v Speaker 4>probably plants from the CIA or from the fucking right
<v Speaker 4>wing whatever. But they love shaming and shitting on people.
<v Speaker 4>So shitting on people for using AI is a great experience.
<v Speaker 4>It's a great way to do it right. It's a
<v Speaker 4>great way to make yourself feel spared. But you're not
<v Speaker 4>using it. I'm not using it to create you know,
<v Speaker 4>those fat baby photos of jd Vance, though I do
<v Speaker 4>appreciate them, thinking fat jd Vance, those memes are one
<v Speaker 4>of the only good things to come out of Trump
<v Speaker 4>winning the election, right, those and I can think of
<v Speaker 4>a couple other things, like at least we have fat
<v Speaker 4>Vance and he looks like a happy guy, Like he
<v Speaker 4>doesn't look that bad. There was one with fat Vance.
<v Speaker 4>He had tits and he was shirtless and he was
<v Speaker 4>like bringing you was a POV video and he's like
<v Speaker 4>bringing you a breakfast tray, Like you know, it's it's
<v Speaker 4>so lovely to have you here. And then he brings
<v Speaker 4>you a breakfast tray of scrambled eggs and toast. That
<v Speaker 4>was a wonderful meme. I was so happy to see that,
<v Speaker 4>you know. And then there's one where he's like in
<v Speaker 4>space it's great. It's fucking horrible, But I'm not using
<v Speaker 4>it to create those I'm using it occasionally to get
<v Speaker 4>information that would otherwise take me forty minutes to pin
<v Speaker 4>down and require reading ten research papers, and it can
<v Speaker 4>be nice. So I use it occasionally and it's very helpful,
<v Speaker 4>and you should use it too, if you're going to
<v Speaker 4>be forced to deal with all the terrible shit coming
<v Speaker 4>out of this new technology, like the ability to search
<v Speaker 4>through massive quantities of information, especially about identity about you. Right,
<v Speaker 4>That's what they're doing with foreign students that are trying
<v Speaker 4>to come in to these elite universities, is they're going
<v Speaker 4>through all their social media posts. This is so fucking
<v Speaker 4>insane too that they're doing this, and they're using AI
<v Speaker 4>to do it, and to find out if have you
<v Speaker 4>ever said anything bad about Israel? Have you ever said
<v Speaker 4>anything bad about this ethno state, this apartheid ethno state?
<v Speaker 4>Have you ever said anything bad about Trump? Have you
<v Speaker 4>ever said anything bad about capitalism. Capitalism is wonderful. Why
<v Speaker 4>would you say anything bad about that? It can never
<v Speaker 4>go wrong, especially when it's unregulated, when all the when
<v Speaker 4>all the fucking chains have come off, and it's just
<v Speaker 4>the corporations can do whatever they want in the court
<v Speaker 4>the country is run by oligarchs. Have you ever said
<v Speaker 4>anything bad? But if you're gonna have to deal with
<v Speaker 4>the bullshit from this technology, you might as well use
<v Speaker 4>a little bit of it for good. And these people
<v Speaker 4>that shame people for using it, you know, again, fat
<v Speaker 4>advance is the only thing that I that I am
<v Speaker 4>behind that this other stuff, I don't using it to
<v Speaker 4>create paintings and fucking videos whatever, don't. I'm not for that.
<v Speaker 4>That probably is. That's a massive waste of energy. But
<v Speaker 4>fat advance. At least we have fat advance, all right. Anyway,
<v Speaker 4>don't shit, don't shit on people for it, all right,
<v Speaker 4>Go talk to your therapists. You're upset about something, you
<v Speaker 4>want to make people feel you know, making people feel
<v Speaker 4>bad isn't a good way to get get things accomplished, right,
<v Speaker 4>It just doesn't. It's just spreading shit. You're just like
<v Speaker 4>giving people buckets a stale pissed. I encountered what was it.
<v Speaker 4>There was some posts I put in today about I
<v Speaker 4>left the comment. It was about how broken the healthcare
<v Speaker 4>system is. I left the comment and it was it
<v Speaker 4>was it was like, oh, the new American dream is
<v Speaker 4>to leave, which is something I firmly believe. That's a
<v Speaker 4>dream I speak to every spoke to a friend in Turkey.
<v Speaker 4>She told me she's got they got free health insurance there.
<v Speaker 4>Chile's got free health insurance. People bitch about it, but
<v Speaker 4>they say it's way better than what you have in
<v Speaker 4>the United States. Friends in Mexico say, oh, yeah, it's
<v Speaker 4>you know, we have healthcare can be frustrating, but oh,
<v Speaker 4>it's way better than you guys have. Like everyone knows
<v Speaker 4>the US healthcare system is a joke. And I left
<v Speaker 4>the comment saying such and and uh, you know, there
<v Speaker 4>were a couple of right wing trolls, but whatever. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>people just talk shit on the internet because they're miserable.
<v Speaker 4>Everyone's miserable and and they're fucking nope happy. People don't
<v Speaker 4>leave shitty comments like this. But uh, but this one
<v Speaker 4>fucking moron. I don't know. I don't know if they ended
<v Speaker 4>up blocking me or what. But they left this, and
<v Speaker 4>I know it was someone told them this. I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>they left, they said something, They're like you. I was like,
<v Speaker 4>the new American dream is to leave, and they're like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>don't come here. Don't come here. You're gonna colonize my hood,
<v Speaker 4>all you fucking Americans with your white supremacy culture. You know,
<v Speaker 4>just when people use these academic social justice terms to
<v Speaker 4>just pick fights with people and talk shit online, I
<v Speaker 4>have no tolerance for it anymore, especially because I know
<v Speaker 4>that ninety percent of these people are under the age
<v Speaker 4>of twenty five, have the life experience of a fart.
<v Speaker 4>Their their wealth of knowledge about the human condition is
<v Speaker 4>is not there. It's the pauperate. It's negligible. They don't
<v Speaker 4>know shit yet they're twenty five. How do I know
<v Speaker 4>because I was twenty five once and thought I knew
<v Speaker 4>everything about the world and talked loads of shit. And
<v Speaker 4>I was just a fucking asshole. And I was miserable too,
<v Speaker 4>That's why I talked shit so much. I was miserable.
<v Speaker 4>I was not happy, right. I had a lot of
<v Speaker 4>things going on in my life. I was very angry
<v Speaker 4>about right, and it's not going to change anything like
<v Speaker 4>it's the proper thing for those people to do. Whites,
<v Speaker 4>that fantasy shit, the white supremacy. What are you talking
<v Speaker 4>about white supremacy culture. This is the people commenting they
<v Speaker 4>want to leave the US because it's broken. You think
<v Speaker 4>they're fucking Nazisy moron, you know, you just you're parrotting
<v Speaker 4>other people's opinions as if they're your own. There's no
<v Speaker 4>critical thought whatsoever. You're just parroting other people's opinions, and
<v Speaker 4>you're being a dick. Shut the fuck up. I can't
<v Speaker 4>take those people anymore seriously than I would take someone
<v Speaker 4>who's like a QAnon dad or someone's racist angry grandpa.
<v Speaker 4>They're all victims of the algorithm. They're all tools. They
<v Speaker 4>sound like morons, you know, you know, and that's the
<v Speaker 4>thing I mean. I replied to this person, right, I
<v Speaker 4>think they were in Mexico or something. They were just
<v Speaker 4>parroting all this stupid buzzwords and slogans. These people talking slogans,
<v Speaker 4>you know, these fucking the academic social justice speak to
<v Speaker 4>shit on and shame people because you're really changing the world.
<v Speaker 4>I said, I got ten bucks on you being under
<v Speaker 4>the age of twenty five, depressed perpetually online, and that
<v Speaker 4>your bank of life experiences is negligible. This is why
<v Speaker 4>you're just parroting other people's slogans like it's your own
<v Speaker 4>and throwing them at anyone who will listen. You're not
<v Speaker 4>changing anything, just being as a stale cup of piss
<v Speaker 4>to yourself and everyone you interact with. Put the phone down,
<v Speaker 4>take a walk outside, and quit feeding into the conflict algorithm.
<v Speaker 4>I should have said go talk to a therapist too.
<v Speaker 4>You get how is therapy free in Mexico or cheap?
<v Speaker 4>It's probably a lot more accessible than it is here.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe I don't know. I don't know. How does the
<v Speaker 4>culture feel about therapy? Does it make you a pussy?
<v Speaker 4>If you go to therapy? That's what That's what they
<v Speaker 4>feel like in Texas. That's what the Texas culture tells you.
<v Speaker 4>If you go to therapy, you're a pussy. If you
<v Speaker 4>actually try and deal with your emotions and make yourself
<v Speaker 4>a better person so that you stop hurting people or
<v Speaker 4>lashing out of people, you're a pussy. The proper thing
<v Speaker 4>to do is just drown it all in booze. There
<v Speaker 4>you go. Don't admit you're wrong, don't say you're sorry.
<v Speaker 4>Don't express even a shred of humility. Just drown it
<v Speaker 4>in booze and get a jacked up truck so you
<v Speaker 4>can down some kids anyway. Okay, I digress him. Sorry,
<v Speaker 4>here we go. Let's get back to talk about plants.
<v Speaker 4>So we're on these red rolling sand hills dominated by
<v Speaker 4>quirkush havardii little little Houstonia humafusas Houstonia is a genus
<v Speaker 4>in Rubiac, the coffee family, very common in the lower
<v Speaker 4>latitude United States. That was everywhere. That was a new species.
<v Speaker 4>I wonder if that's a sandandemic. The thing I would
<v Speaker 4>do on Inina whenever I put this stuff on in
<v Speaker 4>two is go to the species page, click on the
<v Speaker 4>taxon name, the species name, go to the species page,
<v Speaker 4>and then look at the distribution. And it was always
<v Speaker 4>in like a north south trending uh distribution, like through
<v Speaker 4>west Texas up into eastern New Mexico, et cetera. So
<v Speaker 4>that was really unique to I mean again, this is
<v Speaker 4>this is just the reason I want to get out
<v Speaker 4>to these places Western Kansas. Being one who loves dry
<v Speaker 4>habitats and prairies makes me want to go to Western Kansas.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know when was The last time I was
<v Speaker 4>in Kansas, I wrote a freight tran through there with Benny.
<v Speaker 4>We're stopped in Wellington. We met these rednecks who were
<v Speaker 4>getting us drunk on some hoochs they made, and then
<v Speaker 4>we got back on the Santa Fe on the train
<v Speaker 4>there with Wellington's nice. They got some nice thrift stores there,
<v Speaker 4>nice little main street America town. Not if you're colored,
<v Speaker 4>though probably not. I don't know what happens if you're
<v Speaker 4>dark skin you go to Wellington, they fucking cop stop
<v Speaker 4>you or something. Probably who knows. That's the melonizing of
<v Speaker 4>America that Trump promised to stop. Good luck, buddy, it's
<v Speaker 4>not happening anyway. Dimorpha Canda cans. That was a cool mustard.
<v Speaker 4>Some of you might know Dimorpha whiz life zenii, so
<v Speaker 4>wooly mustard from West Texas, Northwest Texas as well as
<v Speaker 4>New Mexico. Likes growing on sand. It was on those
<v Speaker 4>dunes east of El Paso, Canada. Cans had really cool leaves,
<v Speaker 4>though again variations on a theme. Another cool desert mustard
<v Speaker 4>with these apt pressed erect upward facing narrow leaves with
<v Speaker 4>like a unngulate margin. Really dope species almost thought it
<v Speaker 4>was whiz life zenie it till I realized it's not
<v Speaker 4>as wooly and the leaves look way different. I wonder
<v Speaker 4>how these things speciate and how, yeah, how it happens,
<v Speaker 4>you know, probably a very gradual process unless they're polyploid.
<v Speaker 4>Let's they have multiple numbers of the chromosomes. Anyway, And
<v Speaker 4>finally found pal Maria James I. Not very many of
<v Speaker 4>them though, and they were. This whole area is getting
<v Speaker 4>fucked by oil, oil and geyas and so there's wells
<v Speaker 4>all over the place, there's rigs all over the place,
<v Speaker 4>there's pump jacks all over the place. But uh, you know,
<v Speaker 4>the habitat, it still pockets the habitat. I'm sure it'll
<v Speaker 4>get fucked one day, but really really cool habitat. I
<v Speaker 4>saw these cool little like sand digging bees Taxisfecs terminatus
<v Speaker 4>got some of the some of the life here. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>I hope there's parcels of this preserved somewhere. I really do,
<v Speaker 4>because this is so unique, this habitat. You know, there
<v Speaker 4>was Arnimsia philifolia there, of course, that Monarda was forming huge,
<v Speaker 4>huge colonies like this, these mint colonies, Citeria lucopyla cool grass.
<v Speaker 4>I saw the bristle grass that was out there, Euphobia Fendler. I, oh,
<v Speaker 4>there's that arrested arrested up properrior. That's beautiful. Yeah, monarda
<v Speaker 4>punked out. I think that subspecies was Occidentalis. I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>A Bronia fray grains. That was a fucking dope one.
<v Speaker 4>The abronia. Shout out to the Abronia's one of the
<v Speaker 4>showiest members of the four o'clock in bougain villa family nictagenac.
<v Speaker 4>And that was a species I hadn't seen before. There's
<v Speaker 4>a really cool a bronia that grows in Yellowstone National
<v Speaker 4>Park that Sheriff Woody and I saw that was. It
<v Speaker 4>grows on the shores of this lake and it's endangered.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know why. I don't know. I forget what
<v Speaker 4>if it's just development or what, because there's development around
<v Speaker 4>Yellowstone Lake. But yeah, that was a Bronia amafola. God damn,
<v Speaker 4>it was a cool species. I think they're all moth
<v Speaker 4>pollinated or butterfly pollinated. The white ones are moth pollinated,
<v Speaker 4>the pink ones are butterfly pollinated. They've all got these
<v Speaker 4>clusters of elongated, tubular flowers with a little hole in
<v Speaker 4>the middle. So many members of the nicktag family, the Nictageneci,
<v Speaker 4>are lepidopter and pollinated either butterfly or moth. Nictagenia capitata,
<v Speaker 4>that red flowered bastard. The flowers kind of smell like giz.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know why. I don't know what that's about.
<v Speaker 4>Don't ash, don't ash, don't tell, but that's a red
<v Speaker 4>flowered butterfly pollinated species. Man to go through the South
<v Speaker 4>Texas sandsheet in the spring, when you know the castillea,
<v Speaker 4>the paintbrush and all this stuff is out and it's
<v Speaker 4>getting there, there's swallowtail butterflies everywhere. That's the ones that
<v Speaker 4>use a. Ristolochi as a host plant, and they're just
<v Speaker 4>hitting everything. It's man, so many black swallowtail out. It's
<v Speaker 4>so fucking beautiful to see. You realize what important pollinators
<v Speaker 4>they are too. Because bees can't access a lot of
<v Speaker 4>these flowers because the hole is too small. You need
<v Speaker 4>a butterfly that's got that little curled up proboscis to
<v Speaker 4>hit these things. So uh, I just I just rooted.
<v Speaker 4>I found them. Speaking of ntangent acy, I found aklyixantes obtusa.
<v Speaker 4>A Klaisantes is a big g. I don't know any
<v Speaker 4>species of aklaisantes. There are let's see fourteen species of A. Klaisantes.
<v Speaker 4>Are they all Mexican and western North America? I would assume,
<v Speaker 4>So let's see. Yeah, yeah, they're like down into How
<v Speaker 4>far south did they go down into? Just a little
<v Speaker 4>bit north of Mexico City. So what is it? Hidalgo,
<v Speaker 4>No Hidalgo, San Luis Poto c up through the Sierra
<v Speaker 4>Madre east into uh bunch of observations from the board
<v Speaker 4>from around here shit Ton, kind of following the border
<v Speaker 4>west Texas, southern New Mexico. Ooh, and there's a bunch
<v Speaker 4>around northwest Arizona and southern Nevada. You know, there's a
<v Speaker 4>dermatophylum Arizonau, the Arizona Mountain. Laurel one of the dumbest names,
<v Speaker 4>no relation to laurels. I don't know what that name
<v Speaker 4>is about. Couldn't we have thought of a better common
<v Speaker 4>name for Christ's sakes then one that actively makes people dumber.
<v Speaker 4>It implies species affiliations that aren't there. It doesn't look
<v Speaker 4>like a laurel in any way. What idiot. I feel
<v Speaker 4>like Texas common names are purposefully meant to make people dumber,
<v Speaker 4>to imply relationships that aren't there. Desert pa and e,
<v Speaker 4>it's not a peenie at all. There's only two native
<v Speaker 4>pae and ees in the US. They're both in California.
<v Speaker 4>You know, Mountain Laurel. Then you go to Alabama, completely
<v Speaker 4>different species from a completely different family, also called mountain Laurel. Don't.
<v Speaker 4>I don't get where this comes from, but anyway, there's
<v Speaker 4>an Arizona Mountain Laurel that's super rare. Lives near Yan,
<v Speaker 4>near where Yan lives. Jan. What's his name? Yan? Jan?
<v Speaker 4>I don't know. Nice guy, really cool guy. If you know,
<v Speaker 4>you know, If not, don't worry about it. Uh knows
<v Speaker 4>his shit too. A good botanist lives in the desert,
<v Speaker 4>built a home by himself, fucking you know, got relationships
<v Speaker 4>with all the h some beneficial, some antagonistic, with all
<v Speaker 4>the wildlife in his little desert. A boat out there
<v Speaker 4>in northwest Arizona. Tons of experience with desert plants too,
<v Speaker 4>But there's some dramatifile them up by him. But I
<v Speaker 4>guess they're on their way out to he told me,
<v Speaker 4>they're they're dying a drought. They're parched because the deserts
<v Speaker 4>are drying out. They've been drying out for a long time,
<v Speaker 4>but now with human accelerated climate change, they're only going
<v Speaker 4>drying out more so. A khais Antes fourteen species, but
<v Speaker 4>a kays Antes obtusa is a really cool one that
<v Speaker 4>is common and can be grown as a groundcover down
<v Speaker 4>here in South Texas. But I think it likes a
<v Speaker 4>little more shade. You got to put it on like
<v Speaker 4>an east facing wall, like east facing, you know, so
<v Speaker 4>that by one or two pm on a hot summer day,
<v Speaker 4>it's already getting shaded out. It's not getting blasted with
<v Speaker 4>sun anymore. But I found a nice patch of it.
<v Speaker 4>Dugs some up. This is just in like someone's alley too.
<v Speaker 4>It's like all the weeds we get in the native
<v Speaker 4>in the Rio Grande Valley are native, almost all of them.
<v Speaker 4>Like in areas where it's human developed, I'm not talking
<v Speaker 4>about like where a rancher seeds buffalgrass, you know, actively
<v Speaker 4>seeds buffalo grass. Like the in the populated areas, most
<v Speaker 4>of the weeds are native, which is pretty cool. I
<v Speaker 4>appreciate that lots of euphobias, lots of a claysanthes, lots
<v Speaker 4>of houstasias. Uh. I had carlo Ridia Texana popping up
<v Speaker 4>on the street in front of me. Malpigia what are
<v Speaker 4>they call Barbados cherry, that malpigious species. I've seen that
<v Speaker 4>growing as a groundcover. It just gets mode. It just
<v Speaker 4>gets completely mo This is like a small shrub that
<v Speaker 4>produces edible berries. But you know, across the street from
<v Speaker 4>my house, it's growing beneath Aretia and aqua which is
<v Speaker 4>in Barajinac. Wonderful parrot food by the way, we get
<v Speaker 4>the parrots come in and eating the berries and those.
<v Speaker 4>But I've seen that Malpigia Barbados cherry, they call it
<v Speaker 4>growing beneath that already. It just and it just grows
<v Speaker 4>as a groundcover. It gets mot It's like a little
<v Speaker 4>woody groundcover. It gets consistently mode because I don't owe
<v Speaker 4>anything down here and takes just themb all over your
<v Speaker 4>goddamn kids if you don't keep them out of the way,
<v Speaker 4>and so, but you know, it grows fine as a
<v Speaker 4>ground It's pretty cool to see. So this this Akla's
<v Speaker 4>anthes was kind of growing like that. It roots into
<v Speaker 4>the ground at one spot and then kind of grows
<v Speaker 4>kind of like frog fruit, like filing out. A flora
<v Speaker 4>is a groundcover, another great fucking groundcover. But then it
<v Speaker 4>gets these white flowers that pop up at night, and
<v Speaker 4>they've got a red throat, probably to maximize both moth
<v Speaker 4>at night and then butterfly during the day pollination. Fucking
<v Speaker 4>gorgeous plant. They said, I need some of that, and
<v Speaker 4>it's just gonna get moat here, which it did. I
<v Speaker 4>think the guy saw me digging it up and just
<v Speaker 4>had a spite, like went in weed wet. He looked
<v Speaker 4>like one of those miserable tehanos. He didn't look like
<v Speaker 4>a happy guy. And I have passion for him because
<v Speaker 4>it looks he's probably miserable, like a lot of people are,
<v Speaker 4>you know, and alcoholic. See that's why you got to
<v Speaker 4>legalized pot for that guy. That guy could be chilling
<v Speaker 4>out in the lawnchhare underneath the little pergolis structure, you know,
<v Speaker 4>smoking a big dube, mellowed out, just having a you know,
<v Speaker 4>letting his fizzy water rest on his potbelly, smoking a
<v Speaker 4>doobie and having a good time. Isn't how you want
<v Speaker 4>to spend your your your golden years. You don't want
<v Speaker 4>to spend him miserable, yelling at your yelling at your kids,
<v Speaker 4>arguing about politics and anyway, mowing down native weeds that
<v Speaker 4>some people in your neighborhood might like having around, like
<v Speaker 4>mowing them done out of spike. I don't have any
<v Speaker 4>any idea that he just I don't have any proof
<v Speaker 4>that he did it out of Spike. This is just
<v Speaker 4>the Chicago and me talking. You know, he probably just
<v Speaker 4>did it out of Spike. This is the Chicago and
<v Speaker 4>experiencing me talking. I know he's doing it just to
<v Speaker 4>fuck with me. Anyway. So I dug up two of
<v Speaker 4>those and I put him. They've got this fleshy root,
<v Speaker 4>and I probably broke off some of the roots when
<v Speaker 4>I was digging them up, even though trying to be gentle.
<v Speaker 4>But they have this fleshy, semi succulent root. They're in Nictagenac,
<v Speaker 4>which is in Carriophilelees. Lots of members of Carriophi lales
<v Speaker 4>are succulent or have semi succulents, like you know the missms,
<v Speaker 4>the cactus family, the bitter root family, montiac et cetera. Right,
<v Speaker 4>So a lot of them have the bayaline pigments and
<v Speaker 4>semi succulents, and so I put them in a bag.
<v Speaker 4>I said, wow, that's a thick root. I bet it'll
<v Speaker 4>just shoot out new roots. Even though I just traumatized
<v Speaker 4>it ripped out of the ground. I put it in
<v Speaker 4>a big one gallon or two gallon if you can
<v Speaker 4>get them, plastic bag in some soil, and I watered
<v Speaker 4>just a little bit. Not I didn't want to soak
<v Speaker 4>it because this is a drought adapted plant and it
<v Speaker 4>will probably rot because it's meant to. It's got you know,
<v Speaker 4>the it's built for absorbing water quick. So I put
<v Speaker 4>it in that bag. Just keep the humidity up, put
<v Speaker 4>it under some lights inside temperatures like seventy five in
<v Speaker 4>my house. Within a week or two. Uh, you know,
<v Speaker 4>it didn't wilt because I had the amenity up in
<v Speaker 4>that bag. Within a week or two it had formed
<v Speaker 4>out new roots. I put it outside under my misting system,
<v Speaker 4>which you know, waters for ten minutes once a day,
<v Speaker 4>and it's under a pergola in the shade. It's where
<v Speaker 4>all the little chirping frogs like to hang out. It's
<v Speaker 4>also where the feral cats come to hunt the chirping frogs, right,
<v Speaker 4>you got to remove those feral cats, remove them and
<v Speaker 4>use them as fertilizer and so uh. Anyway, this thing
<v Speaker 4>rooted within within like two weeks. I had a great
<v Speaker 4>plant that was already had roots, you know, going around
<v Speaker 4>the pot. And so then I planted that in the
<v Speaker 4>ground and I got some I finally put some drip
<v Speaker 4>irrigation in my yard, which is easy. It takes like
<v Speaker 4>half an hour to install. If you haven't done it
<v Speaker 4>you live in a dry climate. I highly recommend doing it.
<v Speaker 4>The birds and the insects will thank you, and you'll
<v Speaker 4>thank yourself since you don't have to waste time watering anymore.
<v Speaker 4>And I put it on a timer. It it's like
<v Speaker 4>twenty minutes because these things drip slowly, twenty minutes a night.
<v Speaker 4>I'll turn that down to ten minutes a night. And
<v Speaker 4>I put like an old molasses bucket for cattle that
<v Speaker 4>I got from the dump in front of it, and
<v Speaker 4>then lean the palette over it, just to give it
<v Speaker 4>some shade for the first few weeks till it can
<v Speaker 4>get established in the ground, which I like to do.
<v Speaker 4>I recommend doing that too. I'll sometimes build little nests
<v Speaker 4>of sticks around shit that I just plant. Especially if
<v Speaker 4>it was while it was in a pot, it was
<v Speaker 4>in the shade, then I'm putting it to a full
<v Speaker 4>sun spot. Even if it's a full sun plant, it
<v Speaker 4>needs time to acclimate. Best way to do that is
<v Speaker 4>just put it in the ground and then put something
<v Speaker 4>over it. Make like a little nest of like you know,
<v Speaker 4>firewood around it. These are like branches I cut off
<v Speaker 4>that I later use for biochar. I'll make a little
<v Speaker 4>tepee around it, something to just so the hot bear
<v Speaker 4>sun is not hitting it, you know, and it gets
<v Speaker 4>and then like bit by bit you can remove the sticks,
<v Speaker 4>gradually increase the more sun, and then within a month
<v Speaker 4>it's fully adapted. And then now it's putting seeds everywhere
<v Speaker 4>and you got new you know, it's fucking great. You
<v Speaker 4>get to enjoy it. There's cool insects and birds like
<v Speaker 4>you know, land on it. Whatever. So anyway, so yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I was stoked to get that because that's another you know,
<v Speaker 4>my intention with doing all this. I want to get
<v Speaker 4>these species. Once I get in my yard, then they
<v Speaker 4>get established that I can get seat off of them,
<v Speaker 4>that I can give that seat to James Peace, who's
<v Speaker 4>going to grow the shit out of it and then
<v Speaker 4>he can get these into cultivation. And the goal here
<v Speaker 4>is to get things more common, just as common in
<v Speaker 4>cultivation as they are becoming rare in the wild, as
<v Speaker 4>the habitat gets destroyed. First, I even shouldn't even say wild.
<v Speaker 4>There's no wild anymore. Everything's human domination everywhere. But you know,
<v Speaker 4>there's less there's so much human fuckery that you never know.
<v Speaker 4>And especially in Texas, you know, everything's that a landowner's
<v Speaker 4>whims unless it's in a state park or you know,
<v Speaker 4>national park whatever, and those are few and far between Texas.
<v Speaker 4>So everything's that a landowner's whims. So if that landowner
<v Speaker 4>gets a wild hair up, they're ass or a stupid idea,
<v Speaker 4>like a lot of them do. They can completely destroy
<v Speaker 4>anything that's on their land because they quote own it.
<v Speaker 4>So nothing is ever safer, nothing's ever safe. That's why
<v Speaker 4>I mean they kill your lawn movement here is so important.
<v Speaker 4>Get this ship into native native gardens as much as
<v Speaker 4>as possible, as easy as you can. But uh, you know,
<v Speaker 4>I've been noticing more pushback among the lawn cult especially
<v Speaker 4>in Texas. It's so weird against native plant, native plant people.
<v Speaker 4>That's why it's more it's more important not to and
<v Speaker 4>I do do this. It's it's so important not to
<v Speaker 4>shit on and shame people, and I do sh ship
<v Speaker 4>on lawns a lot. But uh, you know you you
<v Speaker 4>attract more bees with kindness, is that what it is
<v Speaker 4>than with vinegar anyway? So just you know, you change
<v Speaker 4>people's minds by being stoked about it and being good
<v Speaker 4>at it and making it look fucking nice than you
<v Speaker 4>do in dope and exciting and fun than you do
<v Speaker 4>by just being that gretchen. You know, actually this to
<v Speaker 4>see now, this is really fucked up. You like, you
<v Speaker 4>shouldn't be doing this. This is really problematic, Like that's
<v Speaker 4>not doesn't it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It works
<v Speaker 4>for people who are morons and who are afraid and
<v Speaker 4>don't you know, afraid of being called out. And it's
<v Speaker 4>just using social the social ostracization as a way to
<v Speaker 4>it doesn't work right, just to show people how cool
<v Speaker 4>it is or what your don't bother. I don't know,
<v Speaker 4>but yeah, we need a wholesale We need like a
<v Speaker 4>nice wholesale or that is also open to the public.
<v Speaker 4>Native plant nursery that just grows dope. Native Texas plants
<v Speaker 4>and plugs. But you got like five or six bioregions
<v Speaker 4>across Texas, South Texas Plains, West Texas Transpicos. I woulds
<v Speaker 4>plant so you know, cross timbers all that, so you
<v Speaker 4>got a prairies, a bunch of bunch of ground to cover.
<v Speaker 4>You know, that would be a nice thing. If I
<v Speaker 4>had a billion dollars, that's probably what I would do.
<v Speaker 4>I'd probably sink twenty million into a fucking dope native
<v Speaker 4>plant nursery and then start putting these Because you're not
<v Speaker 4>going to get rid of the strip malls and shit,
<v Speaker 4>I love, I love the idea of it. That's not
<v Speaker 4>gonna happen. You're not going to change the culture. You're
<v Speaker 4>not going to make it any less miserb with the
<v Speaker 4>parking lots and the strip malls and the car culture.
<v Speaker 4>But at least you can get native plants in there, right,
<v Speaker 4>And if that means like getting him into home despot
<v Speaker 4>or some shit, too, fuck it, go ahead. That's what
<v Speaker 4>I would do. It start a big ass native plant
<v Speaker 4>nurse so you just start getting these things out everywhere, right,
<v Speaker 4>grow hundreds of these things. Watch that video on Pizzo
<v Speaker 4>on Pizzos Wholesale Prairie Nursery Native Native Plant Nursery in
<v Speaker 4>uh In, Illinois. Because that guy man they grow and
<v Speaker 4>everyone who works he must. Everyone who works there seems
<v Speaker 4>pretty happy and while taking care of seems like a
<v Speaker 4>really cool place to work. It's fucking they grow amazing
<v Speaker 4>quality plants. Wish we had something like that for Texas,
<v Speaker 4>for every region in the in the South, the South,
<v Speaker 4>the southeast, the West, wherever. Anyway, Moving right along, I
<v Speaker 4>want to give another shout out to the d Wexler
<v Speaker 4>d Wexler Steel Warehouse down there on South Aberdeen. And
<v Speaker 4>the beautiful city is Chicago, Chicago, where they're you know
<v Speaker 4>what they're doing now with these going on there. You know,
<v Speaker 4>you know anybody who weld stuff. You gotta weld some stuff.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe you weld some weld some shit in your backyard.
<v Speaker 4>You got a backyard. Go weld some ship in the park.
<v Speaker 4>You don't need a permit. Go find a vacant lot somewhere.
<v Speaker 4>Go get when you do that, go get the steal
<v Speaker 4>from d Wexler. They sent us a bunch of hats.
<v Speaker 4>I think this all started because Al found a nice
<v Speaker 4>hat he found in the thrift store Als a thrift
<v Speaker 4>store prince. He's he's just so good at finding the
<v Speaker 4>good stuff in there. He just finds these. When when
<v Speaker 4>we were doing the costumes for some of the skits
<v Speaker 4>on Kill Your Lawn, you know, whether it was an
<v Speaker 4>old Italian, you know, Catholic lady, or whether it was
<v Speaker 4>some sleeves bag mafioso or whatever. He nailed the costumes
<v Speaker 4>just from the thrift stores of the Chicago Land area.
<v Speaker 4>And so he found a d Wexler hat and he
<v Speaker 4>just wore the shit out of it. It smelled terrible
<v Speaker 4>within a few months. And uh, anyway, d Wexler saw it,
<v Speaker 4>and they sent us more more merged. They're wonderful people
<v Speaker 4>and so we support them, all right, So go to
<v Speaker 4>d Wexler. Just go there. He just to say, Hi,
<v Speaker 4>you don't even want to buy steel, Go buy him
<v Speaker 4>a sandwich. Go buy a fucking sandwich for John Wexler.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what type of sandwich he wants, but
<v Speaker 4>pick something that's easy you can't go wrong with. I
<v Speaker 4>don't know, but it would PISTROMI what is Chicago ins say?
<v Speaker 4>Go go get hi. Gonna tell you beef makes you maybe
<v Speaker 4>not because those really short in your life. And I
<v Speaker 4>like the guy, even though I've never met him. I've
<v Speaker 4>just we've just exchanged mail anyway. Uh okay, So shout
<v Speaker 4>out to d Wexler. I was I found something really cool? Yes,
<v Speaker 4>I said. One of the dominant plants at Thorn Scrub
<v Speaker 4>Sanctuary is uh this plant called Zinnia austro Texana. Zinnia
<v Speaker 4>is a genus in the sunflower family. You get some
<v Speaker 4>showy ones. You get some of them are you know,
<v Speaker 4>really common in uh in cultivation, you know, like old
<v Speaker 4>lady flower beds and stuff like that. You know, it's
<v Speaker 4>I don't mean any offense by that, and I'm sure
<v Speaker 4>someone would have a problem with what I just said,
<v Speaker 4>but you know, old ladies like flowers, and old ladies
<v Speaker 4>like zinias. You get Zenia anomala, which is a cool
<v Speaker 4>orange one from the trans Picos area. You get Zinia aceosa,
<v Speaker 4>which is very common in central and West Texas. Uh Oh,
<v Speaker 4>where did I see? Oh? You get Zenia grand of flora.
<v Speaker 4>I've seen that in Marfa too, But grand to flora.
<v Speaker 4>You got to keep in mind, it's still it's still
<v Speaker 4>a zinia. They're generally pretty small. I guess I've seen
<v Speaker 4>Where did I see Zinia elegons. Oh that was in
<v Speaker 4>the dr that was in the Dominican Republic. Oh, that's
<v Speaker 4>a fucking invasive I think looks like it anyway. So
<v Speaker 4>Zinia is a genus. They're mostly dry and scrubland plants,
<v Speaker 4>dry scrub grasslands. There's probably the center of diversities in Mexico,
<v Speaker 4>you know, probably higher Mexican Plateau. Most of Mexico is
<v Speaker 4>at higher elevations, like three thousand feet four thousand feet.
<v Speaker 4>That's low elevation in Mexico. You get the twenty degrees
<v Speaker 4>latitude three thousand feet four thousand feet. That's the elevation
<v Speaker 4>that a lot of the cool cacti like payotes and
<v Speaker 4>Aerocarpus grow at. Okay Uh, this is still hot as fuck,
<v Speaker 4>and it's got a dry season because the you've got
<v Speaker 4>mountains on the east and west side of this Mexican plateau, right,
<v Speaker 4>So it's like a mesa that's bounded on It's like
<v Speaker 4>a big fucking table of land, of uplifted land that's
<v Speaker 4>bounded on either side by the Sierra Madre Occidental and
<v Speaker 4>the Sierra Madre Oriental. And we'll talk about that later,
<v Speaker 4>because I was thinking about the Sierra Madre Oriental today
<v Speaker 4>down there by Monterrey, which is is that's fucking three
<v Speaker 4>hours from me. I gotta stop saying fucking so much.
<v Speaker 4>I'm sorry, and is chef w it's three I'm closer
<v Speaker 4>to Monterrey and I am from uh than I am
<v Speaker 4>to San Antonio. But uh, anyway, it's just a pain.
<v Speaker 4>He asked to go through the border. Now Mexico wants
<v Speaker 4>to Mancy to get a visa, which I understand because
<v Speaker 4>the US is such a horrible neighbor. But uh, and
<v Speaker 4>also the cops are so corrupt in Mexico. Mexico's got
<v Speaker 4>a lot of little Kirk. Cops in Mexico are way
<v Speaker 4>more corrupt than they are in a US. All Right,
<v Speaker 4>I didn't say abusive, I just said more corrupt. But yes,
<v Speaker 4>I think there's like thirty species of Zinia, maybe more,
<v Speaker 4>but anyway, Zinnia ostro texano was a species that was
<v Speaker 4>lumped in with asceosa and then was split I believe
<v Speaker 4>by Billy Turner thirty years ago. All Right. Billy Turner,
<v Speaker 4>rip well known Texas botanist, died of COVID around twenty twenty,
<v Speaker 4>but did a lot of good work, and I wonder too,
<v Speaker 4>how many other species are like that. You know, we're
<v Speaker 4>lumped in with like this Rudbeccia that I've been talking
<v Speaker 4>about that has probably been lumped in with herd of
<v Speaker 4>but it's probably distinct. Need someone to do molecular work.
<v Speaker 4>If anyone listening to this can do molecular work for me,
<v Speaker 4>let me know, because I want to get this thing
<v Speaker 4>sequenced and see how close it aligns with true Herda.
<v Speaker 4>Alan used to be able to do that, but he's
<v Speaker 4>busy as shit lately and he hasn't used to sequence
<v Speaker 4>some stuff for me. But anyway, okay, so, but this
<v Speaker 4>Zinia is all over thorn scrub and it grows on
<v Speaker 4>these these hard pan calcareous calichi soils. It's a fucking
<v Speaker 4>gorgeous plant. It's got like chalky mint green linear leaves.
<v Speaker 4>It forms like this nice compact little mound, like a
<v Speaker 4>little cushion, and then it gets these really beautiful, tiny,
<v Speaker 4>not tiny, they're like marble sized, gumball sized, white flowers.
<v Speaker 4>And because it's asta race, what looks like a single
<v Speaker 4>flower is actually composed of many flowers. If you don't
<v Speaker 4>quite understand this, that's fine. Just know it's what the
<v Speaker 4>sunflower family astace does. It's what looks like a single
<v Speaker 4>flower is composed of many flowers. A sunflower is composed
<v Speaker 4>of three to five hundred individual tiny flowers. If you
<v Speaker 4>actually get up close and look at it, you can
<v Speaker 4>see them. I'm sorry if I'm repeating this for people
<v Speaker 4>who already know it. Anyway, we try to teach here
<v Speaker 4>at crime pace. So this thing was all over. I
<v Speaker 4>was walking. Every time I walked through thorn scrub. My
<v Speaker 4>favorite time to be there is at dusk. That's when
<v Speaker 4>the rattlesnakes are out. We just have one or two
<v Speaker 4>that I've seen. Hubert Selby Junior I named them. That's
<v Speaker 4>when the tortoises are out. That's when life comes out.
<v Speaker 4>When it's hot as balls. Okay, it's crepuscular, of course.
<v Speaker 4>And so I'll be walking walking around, you know, gun
<v Speaker 4>on my hip, pope, and I see a pig. Never happens,
<v Speaker 4>because they can normally smell you from a while, you know,
<v Speaker 4>from a mile or two away, my half quarter mile away.
<v Speaker 4>And so I'll be walking around this wonderful landscape, just
<v Speaker 4>listening to the parakis flying and the wind blowing, and
<v Speaker 4>the singing insects and if there's some cicadas out because
<v Speaker 4>we've had rain and the previous couple months, they'll be
<v Speaker 4>out and I'll every everywhere, I'll see a giant peote
<v Speaker 4>that I didn't see before, hidden in the under some brush.
<v Speaker 4>And and so I went to go collect some of
<v Speaker 4>the Zinias seed for James Peace, and I couldn't figure
<v Speaker 4>out the seeds are tiny there in these flower heads.
<v Speaker 4>I said, fuck it. The whole flower heads dry already,
<v Speaker 4>but the rays what look like the petals, these white rays,
<v Speaker 4>are are still on the flower head. The capitulum is
<v Speaker 4>the technical term for it. So I'll just take the
<v Speaker 4>whole thing. So I just took my hand and ran
<v Speaker 4>along the stem, pulled off all these old flower heads,
<v Speaker 4>threw them in a bag. Fuck it, I'll let them
<v Speaker 4>dry out sort them out later. And so I did that,
<v Speaker 4>and I was sorting them through yesterday and trying to
<v Speaker 4>find the seeds and splitting these in vulcars open, which
<v Speaker 4>is like the kind of the same as a capitulum
<v Speaker 4>and vulcar capitulum. These are all asta racy vocab words
<v Speaker 4>right specific to the sunflower family. And so in doing that,
<v Speaker 4>I realized I didn't need to split them open. The
<v Speaker 4>entire ray what looks like that white petal comes out
<v Speaker 4>and is attached still attached to the seed. So only
<v Speaker 4>the marginal florets around the ring around the circumference of
<v Speaker 4>that flower head seem to be fertile. Maybe the disc
<v Speaker 4>florets are too. Like an Asta raci. You got disc florets,
<v Speaker 4>you've got ray florets. The rays are attached to the
<v Speaker 4>petals what look like the petals. The rays and the
<v Speaker 4>disc florets are in the center right. And some flower
<v Speaker 4>heads don't have any rays. They're just entirely discoid, all right.
<v Speaker 4>It just looks there's no daisy petals, if you want
<v Speaker 4>to call them that. But Zinny of course has those
<v Speaker 4>daisy petals, those rais. And so I was pulling these
<v Speaker 4>rays off and the seed, these tiny seeds are attached
<v Speaker 4>to it, and then I realize they stay attached to
<v Speaker 4>the ray. And this is really unusual for most I
<v Speaker 4>don't think I've seen this in any other members of
<v Speaker 4>the sunflower family, which has got to be twenty eight
<v Speaker 4>thousand species strong. There have to be twenty eight thousand
<v Speaker 4>species in this family easily. It's like second most you know,
<v Speaker 4>species dense most populated, most most the largest plant family
<v Speaker 4>after orchids. And so I've got these things on a
<v Speaker 4>piece of paper and I'm just pulling them out, and
<v Speaker 4>I realize I can just easily lift I just grab
<v Speaker 4>the ray, the entire dried ray, white dry, and pull
<v Speaker 4>it out and the seat is attached to it. And
<v Speaker 4>then I realized, Wow, this is an an ingenious dispersal mechanism.
<v Speaker 4>If these things are just sitting, you know, these clumps,
<v Speaker 4>these little cushions that are maybe eight inches tall max.
<v Speaker 4>Ten inches tall max. On the floor, the otherwise barren floor,
<v Speaker 4>barren and rocky. There's pebbles everywhere from the you know,
<v Speaker 4>ancestral Rio Grande running back and forth over here over
<v Speaker 4>the last five six million years, maybe longer, you know,
<v Speaker 4>draining the mountains of West Texas and southern New Mexico.
<v Speaker 4>It's the landscape. It's just so intoxicating. And and then
<v Speaker 4>I realized that these things will just sit here in
<v Speaker 4>the wind. And you get a lot of winds. It
<v Speaker 4>can be south, text can be very windy. There's why.
<v Speaker 4>There's one of the reasons there's so many damn wind
<v Speaker 4>farms here, and that wind will just pick up. It'll
<v Speaker 4>just lift those rays out of the involacar, out of
<v Speaker 4>the flower head, just like a flower being lifted out
<v Speaker 4>of a vase. But in this case, the flower has
<v Speaker 4>a little sail attached to it, and that seed is
<v Speaker 4>at the base of that ray, at the base of
<v Speaker 4>that sale, and that just that's how they get everywhere.
<v Speaker 4>So it's ingenious dispersal mechanism. And like many desert plants,
<v Speaker 4>the seeds are probably somewhat long lived. They can last
<v Speaker 4>a year or two at least, if not longer. Some
<v Speaker 4>desert plants can last super long. That's an adaptive benefit
<v Speaker 4>that the environment is going to select for, is long
<v Speaker 4>lived seeds. If something doesn't have long lived seeds and
<v Speaker 4>you grow in a place where you'll have six months
<v Speaker 4>with no rain, it'll be really hot and the seed
<v Speaker 4>can't take that. That species will die out unless it
<v Speaker 4>finds some other way to cope. So anyway, this was
<v Speaker 4>really fucking cool, And you know this is one of
<v Speaker 4>the reasons because you're not going to find this in
<v Speaker 4>a book. You're not going to find this in a paper.
<v Speaker 4>You're only going to find this type of information like
<v Speaker 4>this dispersal strategy of this rare plant species. It only
<v Speaker 4>grows in South Texas. You're only going to find that
<v Speaker 4>by doing field bottony. You're only going to find that
<v Speaker 4>by getting your ass out there, sweating, crouching down, taking
<v Speaker 4>the time to look closer, taking the time to gather
<v Speaker 4>some seeds, by really immersing yourself in the landscape and
<v Speaker 4>the life forms and studying the plants. That's why people
<v Speaker 4>when people ask me, well, what books should I read? Well,
<v Speaker 4>I guess I mean, you really just got to get
<v Speaker 4>out there. Man. You got to get out there. You
<v Speaker 4>got to pay attention, you got to take notes, you
<v Speaker 4>got to take pictures, and you got to think it's
<v Speaker 4>the most important thing. Think about what is in front
<v Speaker 4>of you. Okay, don't just We're so often in life
<v Speaker 4>we're taught to just follow instructions. There's no actual critical thinking.
<v Speaker 4>There's no taking in the information, digesting it, thinking about
<v Speaker 4>how this would work, trying to picture it in your head.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe weed is good for this sometimes too, I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>You have to picture it in your head, imagine it literally,
<v Speaker 4>visualize this in your head. How would this work? And
<v Speaker 4>then if something doesn't compute when you're visualizing it, then
<v Speaker 4>you ask questions, doesn't make sense? And then you look
<v Speaker 4>harder and further. This is why books are not the
<v Speaker 4>end all be all the book. You need books, that's
<v Speaker 4>where you're gonna get information. You need the Internet. That's
<v Speaker 4>where you're gonna get information. But you need that time.
<v Speaker 4>You can have all the information in the world. You
<v Speaker 4>could be sitting in front of a bookshelf. You can
<v Speaker 4>be sitting in a library. If you don't have if
<v Speaker 4>you have not trained your mind, if you've not exercised
<v Speaker 4>your mind to think about things in this way, to
<v Speaker 4>visualize things, to think about, Uh, walk through the steps
<v Speaker 4>of how something might happen, and how something might get pollinated,
<v Speaker 4>and how something might the seed might get dispersed. Why
<v Speaker 4>what is going on with the flower? When you look
<v Speaker 4>at it, like what are the different fucking parts? What
<v Speaker 4>is actually going on there? Like? What am I looking at?
<v Speaker 4>It's like it's like opening up a hood of a
<v Speaker 4>car and wondering, what the fuck does this do? What
<v Speaker 4>does this do? What does this do? Oh? This pumps
<v Speaker 4>this to this? Well, how does that work? What power
<v Speaker 4>is that? You got to think about it. That's how
<v Speaker 4>you understand what is around you. It's how you understand
<v Speaker 4>the life that's around you. And with plants, it's especially
<v Speaker 4>important because plants are what enable all terrestrial life. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>in the ocean it's a different story, but plants are
<v Speaker 4>what enable all terrestrial life. Everybody should know a little
<v Speaker 4>something about them, and stuff should be taught. Some of
<v Speaker 4>this stuff like elementary botany should be taught in grade school,
<v Speaker 4>no joke, like elementary botany, maybe a little like an
<v Speaker 4>elementary entomology course. Not just science class, but actual courses
<v Speaker 4>that teach this shit, you know, instead of the indoctrination
<v Speaker 4>you might get in like civic studies or social studies
<v Speaker 4>or whatever dumb shit, got it. They would have taught
<v Speaker 4>us this, you know, and not only taught us it,
<v Speaker 4>but taught us not just to memorize it, not about that,
<v Speaker 4>but to understand it. You don't even need to memorize,
<v Speaker 4>you just need to understand the basic principles of how
<v Speaker 4>this works and think. You have to be taught to
<v Speaker 4>actually think, to visualize things. That's my main beef with
<v Speaker 4>school too, is the memorization. God, it's just just making
<v Speaker 4>good little obedient workers memorize and follow rules, right, What
<v Speaker 4>a waste of human potential? Anyway, That's all this one
<v Speaker 4>I was Uh yeah, I saw it and was just like, man,
<v Speaker 4>that's brilliant. I was just sitting here at my desk
<v Speaker 4>looking at these things taking these seeds out to get
<v Speaker 4>him to James, and uh, I was just like, huh,
<v Speaker 4>that's fucking cool. Wow, this is this evolved, this is
<v Speaker 4>how it does it. And it's so rare for the
<v Speaker 4>family too, that that ray, that that pedal stays attached
<v Speaker 4>to the seed, and the seed's literally using that pedal
<v Speaker 4>like a little sail for the wind to take it off.
<v Speaker 4>So hopefully we can get this thing into cultivation. It
<v Speaker 4>needs to get fucking blasted with heat. It needs heat.
<v Speaker 4>Like it would look great up against like a sidewalk,
<v Speaker 4>you know, or a curb or something. It's like a
<v Speaker 4>great fucking little mounding groundcover. Zenia austro texta and a
<v Speaker 4>Zenia acerosa is another one. And there's Zenia grande flora
<v Speaker 4>and Zenia anomala, which was one of the dopest of all.
<v Speaker 4>So I think there's like four or five species in Texas.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know, but I think most of the species
<v Speaker 4>are pretty small, well some of them are, some of
<v Speaker 4>them are bigger. I guess for some reason I thought
<v Speaker 4>I had seen another one, uh in Uh. I saw
<v Speaker 4>something in the cloud forest of Wahaka, but I think
<v Speaker 4>it was another genus. You know, these are these are
<v Speaker 4>those genera names that I'm like, you're familiar with before
<v Speaker 4>you really get into botany, because again you've heard it,
<v Speaker 4>you've heard it mentioned in like the old Lady. Botanic
<v Speaker 4>gardens are like it a flower shop or something, you know,
<v Speaker 4>lacking any ecological context. So but I was stoked to
<v Speaker 4>see this. This was a really cool phenomenon to observe.
<v Speaker 4>And I saw a similar thing with uh Frankena JOHNSTONI
<v Speaker 4>this is another rare plant from South Texas where the
<v Speaker 4>whole you know, the flowers are at the end of
<v Speaker 4>these branches. It's a little shrub and then the whole
<v Speaker 4>distal like inch or half inch of the branch comes
<v Speaker 4>off and the leaves that subtend the flowers. It's got
<v Speaker 4>this whirl of leaves that subten the flowers. Those turn
<v Speaker 4>yellow and fall off too, and act as a little
<v Speaker 4>helicopter to help the to help the seed just you know,
<v Speaker 4>take off and get a get a little wind dispersal
<v Speaker 4>assist out to colonize new habitats, colonize new territories. And
<v Speaker 4>frank Kenya is another that's another cool desert genus. You
<v Speaker 4>get him in Chile. I've seen him in Baja. I
<v Speaker 4>just saw a cool one in Mexico. It was Frankenya
<v Speaker 4>james I. Order is carryo Philelees, so order of cactus
<v Speaker 4>and spinach and beats and quineois and h bitter root,
<v Speaker 4>MONTIECEI and miners lettuce, Claytonia and so. But it's in
<v Speaker 4>its own family, frankini Ac. It's a weird one, but
<v Speaker 4>it's really a lot of them are really salt tolerant
<v Speaker 4>and they like deserts. They can grow and you get
<v Speaker 4>a lot of salt in deserts, of course, because you've
<v Speaker 4>got high evaporation rates, lots of heat, and lots of
<v Speaker 4>exposed rock. If there's mountains around that that water washes
<v Speaker 4>all those you know, chemically weathers and then washes all
<v Speaker 4>those solutes into the basin and then the water just
<v Speaker 4>evaporates before it can carry it out to a creek
<v Speaker 4>that carries it out to an ocean, et cetera. But anyway,
<v Speaker 4>so speaking of but speaking of these these cool you know,
<v Speaker 4>arid land deserts, and speaking of Monterrey, Monterrey, which is yeah,
<v Speaker 4>again like a three hour drive from me. If you
<v Speaker 4>get a chance to go down there, it's nice. The
<v Speaker 4>city is kind of gross, not gross, but it's just
<v Speaker 4>like you know, like smiling shit eating grins billboards, smiling
<v Speaker 4>shit eating grins on the billboards, money worship, you know,
<v Speaker 4>a lot of stuff that you encounter in like more
<v Speaker 4>fancy cities. But uh, Huasteca Canyon. Like you look at
<v Speaker 4>a topographic map of Mexico, if you look at a
<v Speaker 4>topographic map of Monterey specifically, you'll see it's got this
<v Speaker 4>huge mountain range to the west of it. You know,
<v Speaker 4>with these these fold thrust faults caused the originally horizontal
<v Speaker 4>limestone bedrock to be flipped up drastically like a like
<v Speaker 4>a rug, like a like a rug, like a throw
<v Speaker 4>rug on a hardwood floor. You know, like if the
<v Speaker 4>dog is running to get out the door and slips
<v Speaker 4>on this throw rug and then bunches it up against
<v Speaker 4>the door jam or something, you know, that kind of thing.
<v Speaker 4>That's what the rock did over a series of however,
<v Speaker 4>many million years, due to compressional forces coming from the west,
<v Speaker 4>and so it's created some drastically incredible and cool and
<v Speaker 4>uplifted and very steep plant habitat where these horizontal limestone
<v Speaker 4>beds are literally almost vertical, and they've created and they're
<v Speaker 4>eroding these these bedding planes are eroding it uneven layers,
<v Speaker 4>so it almost looks like steps like pyramids have been
<v Speaker 4>created in some places. And there's so many cool endemic
<v Speaker 4>plants there. And I started thinking about this today because
<v Speaker 4>Houstasius spicigara, which is an orange. I don't know the
<v Speaker 4>common name for it, it's probably something stupid, but it's
<v Speaker 4>a common plant. It's easy to root from cuttings here
<v Speaker 4>in South Texas, and it gets planted in native plant gardens.
<v Speaker 4>It takes a couple of years to get established and
<v Speaker 4>look good, but mine are finally looking great after two
<v Speaker 4>years in the ground. And it's how many bird pollen it.
<v Speaker 4>It's got these orange flowers. And the only place I've
<v Speaker 4>encountered it in the wild was in these dry forests
<v Speaker 4>beneath these really steep cliffs that are just covered in
<v Speaker 4>all these cool rock wall plants, like these hanging rock gardens.
<v Speaker 4>It's so it's so cool, these hanging rock gardens of
<v Speaker 4>incredible plant species, and there's so many of them that
<v Speaker 4>aren't growing and soil. They're just growing out of these
<v Speaker 4>limestone cliffs, these cracks in these limestone cliffs, and that's
<v Speaker 4>where a gave albo palosa grows, which is a really
<v Speaker 4>weird and rare at gave. It's got these little white
<v Speaker 4>tufts at the distal ends of the leaf blades and
<v Speaker 4>just looks like this. I don't know how you would
<v Speaker 4>describe it, like a pin cushion that can be up
<v Speaker 4>to a foot tall in some cases, perfectly spherical with
<v Speaker 4>little white tufts on the ends. It's the Acaragma. Really
<v Speaker 4>rare cactus is there as well, Decatropis, which is a species.
<v Speaker 4>And Rutasi. That's another one I wish people grew, and
<v Speaker 4>I'd love to get my hands on some seed grew
<v Speaker 4>in South Texas. Rutasi. It's the citrus family. I guess
<v Speaker 4>they changed the name from a gave alba pilosa to
<v Speaker 4>a kind of a gave Alba pulosa. I guess it
<v Speaker 4>came out on the other side of Manfreda. In that phylogeny.
<v Speaker 4>If you look at a clatagram, there was like a
<v Speaker 4>big chunk of a gave species that were all genetically
<v Speaker 4>closely related on one side, and then there was the
<v Speaker 4>genus man Freda in the middle, and then there was
<v Speaker 4>a few agave species which were weird outliers, like a
<v Speaker 4>Gave strayata, which is I guess now, I know, a
<v Speaker 4>Gave striata and a Gave bractiosa, which is now paleo
<v Speaker 4>a gave bractiosa. But they were on the other side
<v Speaker 4>of Manfreda, and Manfreda was in the middle, and some
<v Speaker 4>idiot had the idea that they were just gonna lump
<v Speaker 4>Manfreda into a gave rather than split out the other
<v Speaker 4>a gave species, you know, in order to make it monophyletic,
<v Speaker 4>which is what you want any taxononic clade to be.
<v Speaker 4>You want it to be monophyletic. And so that didn't
<v Speaker 4>make any sense because Manfreda is so different from a
<v Speaker 4>gave ecologically speaking and morphologically speaking, you know, they can
<v Speaker 4>dive back to roots. It's like a perennial, herbaceous perennial agave.
<v Speaker 4>It didn't make any sense to do that. That would
<v Speaker 4>have been a stupid move. And so they just split
<v Speaker 4>up the other side of a gave too. Because Manfreda
<v Speaker 4>was nested within a gave. We'd had a gaves on
<v Speaker 4>the left of it and the right of it on
<v Speaker 4>a cladogram on a phylogeny on a evolutionary tree. If
<v Speaker 4>you look at it, if you visualize this again, you
<v Speaker 4>have to visualize it. Don't just memorize it. Visualize it.
<v Speaker 4>It makes sense. Forget what the paper was. But I'm
<v Speaker 4>sure if you google, like you know, phylogeny, A gave
<v Speaker 4>a gave cladogram, you'll pull up the evolutionary tree where
<v Speaker 4>you could see it, so it makes sense. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>kind of a gave albo palosa. These these this is
<v Speaker 4>some of one of my favorite places in the world
<v Speaker 4>is these mountains just west of Montterey. There are so
<v Speaker 4>many cool plants there, and so many of them. I've
<v Speaker 4>just adapted to growing in these rock walls because those
<v Speaker 4>rock walls have been there for millions of years since
<v Speaker 4>these these mountains were uplifted. There's it's just full of
<v Speaker 4>cool fucking plants. Man, holy shit. Uh oh mesdenas Polyanthus,
<v Speaker 4>what is this? Did they is that another name change?
<v Speaker 4>What is it? No? This is uh oh god, no, No,
<v Speaker 4>that's a that was an orchid. Okay, that's like a
<v Speaker 4>dryland orchid. Jesus looks like it's in the it's in
<v Speaker 4>the Sporanthe group. Yeah, okay, the ladies Tresses. I don't
<v Speaker 4>know where to hell that name, that common name came from.
<v Speaker 4>It's another stupid common name. But I highly suggest you know,
<v Speaker 4>getting out there, and you need a you need a
<v Speaker 4>four wheel drive of some kind to get out there anyway.
<v Speaker 4>I mean you can. There's some places you can explore
<v Speaker 4>with just a little sedan. But then there's a spot
<v Speaker 4>we have to drive through this like dam, drive up
<v Speaker 4>above this dam, and then it opens up into the
<v Speaker 4>some of the other little these little nooks and crannies.
<v Speaker 4>You know. It's so many micro habitats in this in
<v Speaker 4>this mountain range too, And that's where you kind of
<v Speaker 4>got it. I was there with my friend Carlos and
<v Speaker 4>Andre San Alan rockefs Is in twenty twenty two. That
<v Speaker 4>was like the second or third time i'd been there.
<v Speaker 4>Mammalaria plumosa is all over that canyon too, just growing
<v Speaker 4>out of rock walls. I mean, this is a mammalariat.
<v Speaker 4>It's just like a little looks like a little marshmallow.
<v Speaker 4>Can't even see any of the epidermal tissue. You can't
<v Speaker 4>see any green unless you peel these tricombes. It's got
<v Speaker 4>these like feathery the spines and tricombs. It doesn't really
<v Speaker 4>have any spines. It's mostly tricombs, but the tricombes are
<v Speaker 4>like feathery. They're like plumos, and they kind of block
<v Speaker 4>entirely block the epidermal tissue from the sun. So it's
<v Speaker 4>made its own it's made its own shade cloth. Essentially.
<v Speaker 4>This is a This is a species. It's pretty common
<v Speaker 4>in cultivation. You can buy them pretty easily, and they
<v Speaker 4>form clumps. I've got one in my yard. Never flinches
<v Speaker 4>in the full sun. Really easy to grow. Not super
<v Speaker 4>picky about soil mix. I mean, it needs fast training soil,
<v Speaker 4>but it's not gonna shit the bed if you don't
<v Speaker 4>get the soil just right. It kind of a gave.
<v Speaker 4>Oh this is cryptica. I forgot about that. That was
<v Speaker 4>there too, Yeah, and cylindro puns you tu Nakata was
<v Speaker 4>there too. No shit, that's a West I've seen that
<v Speaker 4>West Texas. Oh, but I wonder if it's the same
<v Speaker 4>ecotype or what God I forgot. I got to go
<v Speaker 4>back there, man and monster guya come a gusta Folium
<v Speaker 4>that's the uh they call it ironwood or what's what's
<v Speaker 4>the other common name, but Guyacum it's got purple flowers.
<v Speaker 4>They get tall, they get like Guya Khan is another
<v Speaker 4>is the common name. Guyacum is the genus name they
<v Speaker 4>can get. You know, you'll see him in West Texas.
<v Speaker 4>You see him down here in South Texas. They can
<v Speaker 4>get you know, twelve feet by twelve feet tall, but
<v Speaker 4>you rarely see them like that because they grow immensely slowly.
<v Speaker 4>I've got one in my yard. I started some from seed.
<v Speaker 4>They're two years older, like eight inches tall. There's so
<v Speaker 4>many good plants, don it is? It is so worth
<v Speaker 4>going if you can, uh, you know, if you could
<v Speaker 4>swing it, just spend a fucking couple of days, and
<v Speaker 4>you know there's people like biking there and it's a
<v Speaker 4>popular spot. Suppose it there used to be peyote there.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe there still is hidden in some areas, but there's
<v Speaker 4>no isn't it shouldn't be there. It's just been poached,
<v Speaker 4>you know, it's been It's it should be fucking everywhere
<v Speaker 4>in that habitat because it's just so adaptable and it
<v Speaker 4>does so well. So it's kind of sad. That makes
<v Speaker 4>me sad thinking about that. You know, ooh Lynn Leah
<v Speaker 4>mess Piloides from Rosecey, I forgot I saw that down there. Wow,
<v Speaker 4>that's a cool one. What the fuck is the range
<v Speaker 4>on this? That is an odd member of rose Cy.
<v Speaker 4>It'd be another cool one to grow God and you
<v Speaker 4>go to those mountains when it's misty out and it's
<v Speaker 4>just they you feel like you're in a fucking it's
<v Speaker 4>it's it's feels otherworldly. You feel like you're like in
<v Speaker 4>a sci fi movie about what was that movie with
<v Speaker 4>the Blue People? I forget the fucking name Avatar, Like
<v Speaker 4>it looks like the landscape and Avatar with these misty
<v Speaker 4>mountains that these towering spires and just so incredible, so
<v Speaker 4>fucking cool. There's so much amazing shit in Mexico, so many,
<v Speaker 4>so much amazing geology and botany, and uh Sadly, just
<v Speaker 4>like South Texas, the native plant movement is somewhat lacking.
<v Speaker 4>There's not enough people studying this or just obsessing about
<v Speaker 4>it outside of the universities. Like my friend Carlos when
<v Speaker 4>I was when I first met him, he was like
<v Speaker 4>he was so excited to see that there were people
<v Speaker 4>that were into this shit. He's like, no one cares.
<v Speaker 4>Like where I live, no one cares. So I'm sure
<v Speaker 4>that's changed out. That was like five, five or six
<v Speaker 4>years ago, So I'm sure there's I think this is growing.
<v Speaker 4>I think it's especially as more people realize how fucking
<v Speaker 4>bleak the modern world is and how empty human society
<v Speaker 4>will leave you feeling, because it just gets you chasing material,
<v Speaker 4>shiny shit, and you know stuff that like it's like
<v Speaker 4>a temporary it's like coke, like the things that that
<v Speaker 4>human society offers. He was like cocaine. It feels good
<v Speaker 4>for a very short burst of time, but then you
<v Speaker 4>need more and you get addicted to it, and it's
<v Speaker 4>never enough. It's like the same thing with the primate
<v Speaker 4>hoarding complex. You want the shiny shit, the fucking muscle
<v Speaker 4>cars or the fancy technology or whatever, and it feels
<v Speaker 4>good for a second, but after a while it's man,
<v Speaker 4>you don't care anymore, and it's it's never like that
<v Speaker 4>with the living world. You get in the living world,
<v Speaker 4>it'll get addicted to that. It'll that dopamine hit keeps coming,
<v Speaker 4>keeps coming. Every time I walk out into my fucking
<v Speaker 4>yard and see some cool bugs or see a new
<v Speaker 4>plant that I plant to do in something I didn't
<v Speaker 4>notice before. I learned something new I learned, Just like
<v Speaker 4>with the Zinniostro text on I Wow, I learned, this
<v Speaker 4>thing is making sales for its seeds. Holy shit, it
<v Speaker 4>that it never gets old. You never run out of things.
<v Speaker 4>But the material world, the human material world, all the bullshit,
<v Speaker 4>the you know, these these dopamine hits that the human
<v Speaker 4>world makes. It's like cocaine. It's it's cheap, it's fucking garbage.
<v Speaker 4>It doesn't last, and it doesn't like it doesn't make
<v Speaker 4>you a better person either, like having a bunch of
<v Speaker 4>shiny shit and fucking pool and fancy cars and all
<v Speaker 4>the time shit, It doesn't make you a better person.
<v Speaker 4>You need to be comfortable, you need good equipment, you
<v Speaker 4>need shit that works. But but that primate hoarding complex
<v Speaker 4>is just it's it's it's unfulfilling. It's a hole. It's
<v Speaker 4>a void. It's not gonna fill the void within you.
<v Speaker 4>That was cool. Chrisick Tinia, Panada was another interesting camp.
<v Speaker 4>Another interesting composite I saw down there. We get chrisic
<v Speaker 4>Tinia Mexicana common named Domianita, smells amazing marigold. Tried the
<v Speaker 4>leaves smell fucking ripe. You get Domianita around Austin and
<v Speaker 4>Edwards Plateau. Chrysik Tinia Panada has a much different leaf
<v Speaker 4>shape and is a little bit larger of a shrub.
<v Speaker 4>Is it? I can't tell, ah, what did I see?
<v Speaker 4>The photos I have are three or four years old,
<v Speaker 4>but now it's still a little herbaceous thing. But god,
<v Speaker 4>it's got cool looking leaves. Now I see wood in there.
<v Speaker 4>It's it's got some it's it's sufferutescent. Maybe there is
<v Speaker 4>the bummer was there's s. Photolus everywhere, which is a
<v Speaker 4>horticultural atrocity from where is it Mediterranean region or South Afria?
<v Speaker 4>Super invasive. It's in the alo family S. Photo Lacey,
<v Speaker 4>which is another family monocut, a family of monosucculent monocuts.
<v Speaker 4>But uh, yeah it was. It was really invasive there.
<v Speaker 4>It was a bad invasive. I remember seeing it everywhere
<v Speaker 4>and this is like some shit. I think they still
<v Speaker 4>plant this. I saw this plant that around Austin, around
<v Speaker 4>one of these new these hideous new housing developments out
<v Speaker 4>by Lakeway, one of the rich neighborhoods. Just garbage, man,
<v Speaker 4>fucking garbage. They were planting this, and then there was
<v Speaker 4>like a Texas madrone and Verbusina LINDHEIMERI growing like thirty
<v Speaker 4>feet away in a in like off the property of
<v Speaker 4>this development. I'm just like, it was absurd. So you've
<v Speaker 4>got these wonderful natives that are built for this environment,
<v Speaker 4>and you've created this blant, bleak, bland ass shopping, you know,
<v Speaker 4>shopping culture. Fucking just the landscaping bed of these these
<v Speaker 4>non native this non native bullshit that's gonna die without
<v Speaker 4>irrigation or escape and become invasive as fuck. Ooh. Another
<v Speaker 4>a member of the willow family, a dry tropical forest
<v Speaker 4>member of the willow family neo Pringlia integrifolia order a
<v Speaker 4>malpiggy a lea same order as euphobias in points status.
<v Speaker 4>Did you know it? Did you know that willows are
<v Speaker 4>related to euphobias and this thing is just growing on that.
<v Speaker 4>It was really dry we went there, I mean it
<v Speaker 4>was spring. It's you know, most of the rainy season
<v Speaker 4>here is primarily in in uh. I guess they can
<v Speaker 4>get rain. They just got some rain now, actually, but
<v Speaker 4>the big rainy season is in the summer, and dry
<v Speaker 4>tropical forests Mammillaria is everywhere. Uh ooh, Mammialaria prolifera was
<v Speaker 4>done there. Mammialaria prolifera multi steps in those little canyons.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, these these mountains are just wrinkled the fuck
<v Speaker 4>up and like like clothing would wrinkle, and it's created
<v Speaker 4>these just such cool little microhabit It's such a diverse area.
<v Speaker 4>It's so fucking cool. Tons of choyas cylindra putia in Braccata.
<v Speaker 4>Where do I see that? Tu Nakata? That that's icicle choya.
<v Speaker 4>Oh that was in. Uh, that was in. That was
<v Speaker 4>kind of outside. That was not in the mountains. That
<v Speaker 4>was outside. Got a nice picture of Allen with feral
<v Speaker 4>cactus pelosis too. It's like eight headed, six foot tall
<v Speaker 4>barrel cactus. I gotta get the fuck down there.
<v Speaker 3>Oh.
<v Speaker 4>Pain Teria elastical filo, what the fuck ella kisto phila?
<v Speaker 4>Oh I shut I thought that was a mimosa. What
<v Speaker 4>the fuck? What is this? Oh it's from the Inga tribe.
<v Speaker 4>It is in Mimo Soudy. But the Painteria where I've
<v Speaker 4>not seen that legume. I don't think that gets into Texas. Oh,
<v Speaker 4>there's so much cool shit there all this stuff that
<v Speaker 4>just the northern end is like up by Monterey. It
<v Speaker 4>doesn't get into Texas, but it would probably grow here. Fine,
<v Speaker 4>there's so much cool stuff. All you gotta do is
<v Speaker 4>cross that border. You see so much cool shit growing
<v Speaker 4>on their Paleo gave bractiosa of course, Acharagma huasteca really
<v Speaker 4>cool little cactus with yellow flowers dah oh yeah. And
<v Speaker 4>bud Lea cordatta of course is everywhere too. That's a
<v Speaker 4>common that's like one of those those rather aggressive native
<v Speaker 4>quote weeds of Mexico that can be a tree. It's
<v Speaker 4>got multiple different ecotypes. It's got like really some with
<v Speaker 4>really kanniescent white leaves, like chalky mint leaves covered in
<v Speaker 4>these tiny little hairs. And then there's ones that are
<v Speaker 4>more music adapted to a more music climate, that don't
<v Speaker 4>have the hairs and are more green and the leaves
<v Speaker 4>are bigger and broad leaved, you know, from a more
<v Speaker 4>mild climate, higher elevation climate. It's like like you'd see
<v Speaker 4>around Mexico City where it's like seven thousand foot elevation
<v Speaker 4>and you know, right down on the campus of yunam
<v Speaker 4>You ever been to Unam, UNA's the way to the
<v Speaker 4>correct pronunciation. You go to Mexico City, you take the
<v Speaker 4>little subway down there, wonderful experience. Just hold onto your shit, pickpocket.
<v Speaker 4>It's a fucking subway and uh, and then you take
<v Speaker 4>it down it's like a half hour or maybe forty
<v Speaker 4>minute subway ride. They got good subways down there too.
<v Speaker 4>They got good public transportation. Mexico City's fucking dope. It
<v Speaker 4>smells like a parking garage because all the fucking automobile
<v Speaker 4>traffic is terrible. You have black bookers. But for a
<v Speaker 4>week or two you hang out there, it's so cool.
<v Speaker 4>There's so much cool shit to see. But they I
<v Speaker 4>basically I think they've been getting a lot of gringo tourists.
<v Speaker 4>I had. My friend Priyo was just down there for uh.
<v Speaker 4>She lived there for six months, and she said, the
<v Speaker 4>amount of obnoxious fucking honkys just the fucking oh my god,
<v Speaker 4>like I like the day I've had, it's fucking sick.
<v Speaker 4>I love it, like I got such a day out
<v Speaker 4>on a part of that. And then that's pissing off
<v Speaker 4>a lot of people that live there too. So now
<v Speaker 4>there's all this fucking you know, this pushback where they're
<v Speaker 4>just like any fucking gringo that comes down here. Fuck
<v Speaker 4>you fuck you know, it's just it's so now, it's tense,
<v Speaker 4>and it's just all the stupid shit people do when
<v Speaker 4>they start shitting on each other and lobbing turds. You know.
<v Speaker 4>I like that. I like that term lobbing turds, you know,
<v Speaker 4>just like especially with when it gets like this. It's
<v Speaker 4>just treating race like it's sports teams. Don't it's not
<v Speaker 4>about class. No, God, we can't pay attention to that.
<v Speaker 4>Don't look any deeper, look at the first two dimensional
<v Speaker 4>defining factor, like these white people like, no, there's fucking
<v Speaker 4>cool you know, pasty honkeys that grew up in trailer
<v Speaker 4>parks or whatever. They are working class. It's the haves
<v Speaker 4>and the have nots. Motherfucker. Quit Quit treating race like
<v Speaker 4>it's sports teams, you fucking morons. I get a little
<v Speaker 4>too indignant. I get turned up you. I gotta stay
<v Speaker 4>out of the Instagram comments section, I really do. And
<v Speaker 4>that was one of the bummers of identitarianism too. It's
<v Speaker 4>just just made class completely tone deaf, and it just
<v Speaker 4>made it about race. The most basal, bottom of the
<v Speaker 4>brain stem thing to attached to whether you're a racist
<v Speaker 4>or whether you're an identitarian, just like sports teams like
<v Speaker 4>what flag are you wearing? What jersey are you wearing?
<v Speaker 4>And everyone who attaches this to this shit is totally
<v Speaker 4>ignorant of the biological premise of race two, which I've
<v Speaker 4>talked about this so many times, which is just melanine
<v Speaker 4>content based on latitude, on phenotypic variation in a latitude,
<v Speaker 4>brown and black skin tones have evolved independently multiple times,
<v Speaker 4>the same way that pasty skin tones have. Right when
<v Speaker 4>do we get to snap out of this bottom of
<v Speaker 4>the brainstem primate mindset? Huh, fucking morons? I understand it.
<v Speaker 4>I understand it, but forgive the indignant tone. But I
<v Speaker 4>just you know, the education, the potential, it's the twenty
<v Speaker 4>first century man. This information is out there. Like you
<v Speaker 4>can read about vitamin B deficiency and vitamin D deficiency,
<v Speaker 4>each one according to different latitudes. You know, your high latitudes,
<v Speaker 4>you're gonna get vitamin D deficiency if you're too brown,
<v Speaker 4>low latitudes, you're gonna get vitamin B deficiency, if you're
<v Speaker 4>too pink or pasty. This is just basic science. Race
<v Speaker 4>doesn't exist. It's a human construct, and and especially with
<v Speaker 4>the ease with which so many idiots confused race and culture.
<v Speaker 4>Quote race melanin content and culture. You know. Anyway, I'll
<v Speaker 4>end that rant. But yeah, Mexico City, man, you got it.
<v Speaker 4>It's it's nice. It's nice for a little while, you know,
<v Speaker 4>again the black boggers. But anyway, I gotta go down there,
<v Speaker 4>just to go down there again. I thought Marco. I
<v Speaker 4>thought Marco and his dad and all his friends and
<v Speaker 4>shit and his brothers were gonna go down there. And
<v Speaker 4>I had such a great time with them last June.
<v Speaker 4>That was so great. You know, his dad was hilarious,
<v Speaker 4>his uh, his dad's friend was hilarious. Like these the
<v Speaker 4>two old Mexican guys that were just fucking like, you know,
<v Speaker 4>just like totally loose, you know, going on. They were
<v Speaker 4>fucking great to be around. It was just a really
<v Speaker 4>good vibe. Marco's into plants. You know, he's not a
<v Speaker 4>super nerd like me, but he's he knows his ship
<v Speaker 4>and it's excited about it. He's fucking such a good
<v Speaker 4>vibe man, totally good sense of humor, joking around and
<v Speaker 4>fucking ah.
<v Speaker 3>Man.
<v Speaker 4>It was a really nice They invited me to come with.
<v Speaker 4>I was I was honored. I was honored, and it's
<v Speaker 4>because we were We were rolling deep too. There were
<v Speaker 4>like seven of us, you know, I think I was
<v Speaker 4>the only one that didn't speak Spanish, didn't feak, didn't
<v Speaker 4>speak fluid Spanish. But because we're rolling deep, everything was
<v Speaker 4>cheap too. We had like this big ass yukon they rented,
<v Speaker 4>and you know, we would get like airbn b's and
<v Speaker 4>then just go to all these different habitats and just
<v Speaker 4>fucking nerd out and with my friend Gabriel too, you know,
<v Speaker 4>Mexican metal head, uh Cactus nerd. It was such a
<v Speaker 4>good time, so fucking I should have him on the podcast.
<v Speaker 4>Actually I should have. I should have Gabriel Diaz and
<v Speaker 4>Fonte on it daily daily, Diaz in Fante. Well, we're hitting,
<v Speaker 4>we're hitting an hour and fifteen minutes again. Check out
<v Speaker 4>some of these plants though, man, And if you get
<v Speaker 4>a chance to just go to Mantharay, that's a really
<v Speaker 4>nice spot, just even you know, if you're looking for
<v Speaker 4>some sort of fucking getaway plant getaway with to rent
<v Speaker 4>the car, you know you need you gotta you got
<v Speaker 4>like a week or two off vacation flying a Monterey,
<v Speaker 4>rent a car, and fucking you know, go to the
<v Speaker 4>go to the go to those mountains. Man, there's so there, guy,
<v Speaker 4>there's so much good ship. You'll never get tired of
<v Speaker 4>clambering around those mountains. Just don't fall and break your ass, right,
<v Speaker 4>so much good ship. Iris scene Eriscene, that's another cool one.
<v Speaker 4>That one kind of blew my mind. Amarant thesy, which
<v Speaker 4>is does not have the most charismatic flowers. Oh, this
<v Speaker 4>was Eroscene orientalis. I thought it was Erosne the fuse
<v Speaker 4>Josh with Texas on in it. Shut out to Josh.
<v Speaker 4>You know, he's one of these. He's one of the
<v Speaker 4>people that's doing a lot of the identifications on inad
<v Speaker 4>for Texas and does a does a really good job.
<v Speaker 4>Good solid dude. Former skater too. I think he's still skates.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know. He came to my San Antonio presentation
<v Speaker 4>that did last year and he's corrected a lot of
<v Speaker 4>my identifications that especially ones that I don't have the
<v Speaker 4>time for. I'll just oh, it's this, I'll put the
<v Speaker 4>genus down and then he'll go look it up and
<v Speaker 4>get it down to species. He's really good. He knows
<v Speaker 4>his shit, you know, he knows he's really good. I'm
<v Speaker 4>thankful for people like that. I wish every region on
<v Speaker 4>Ininat had people that would go through and identify stuff.
<v Speaker 4>I certainly don't want to do it, but you know,
<v Speaker 4>whad other people go, Oh, Moretonia, Greggy. I was everywhere.
<v Speaker 4>That is a really cool shrub we get in South Texas,
<v Speaker 4>but it only grows on these these lomas, these little
<v Speaker 4>hills full of conglomerate pebbles. But down there it was everywhere.
<v Speaker 4>I was scaling up this sketchy rock face to try
<v Speaker 4>and get a photo of it, kind of a guy
<v Speaker 4>ve albo pealosa, you know, because most of the ones
<v Speaker 4>at lower elevation have all been poached by these fucking nerds.
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, you know, it was sketchy because
<v Speaker 4>this limestone is falling apart this old ocean floor basically.
<v Speaker 4>And I looked to my right and there was like
<v Speaker 4>a giant Moretonia. You could tell if it's got these
<v Speaker 4>red stems, these smooth red stems. It's like a multi
<v Speaker 4>branch shrub, tiny white flowers. But Mortonia is a really
<v Speaker 4>cool genius. I was talking about that last podcast, like
<v Speaker 4>four or five species in North America, all of them
<v Speaker 4>are limestone endemics. All have cool leaves that are imbricate,
<v Speaker 4>like roofing shingles or snake scales. And and I looked
<v Speaker 4>at yea, it was Mortonia Gregory and then I realized
<v Speaker 4>it was everywhere like which, this is a kind of
<v Speaker 4>a rare plant in South Texas. I'd love to see
<v Speaker 4>it grown more in horticulture. I'm trying to I'm trying
<v Speaker 4>to get on it. Mike Easton at San Antonio got
<v Speaker 4>some cuttings and seeds. I need to go collect some
<v Speaker 4>more seeds from the places the few places I know
<v Speaker 4>where it grows in South Texas. But you know, in
<v Speaker 4>horticulture would be fucking great. It would be such a
<v Speaker 4>great plant for landscaping. And it's covered in insects and
<v Speaker 4>cool bees when it's blooming. But but it's still kind
<v Speaker 4>of rare. But down there it was everywhere. Oh god,
<v Speaker 4>there's so there's so much good shit everywhere you look.
<v Speaker 4>Are so much diversity, you know, Yeah, go to Hosteca Canyon.
<v Speaker 4>You know, you got a couple of days just go
<v Speaker 4>down there and take a look at the deca Tropis
<v Speaker 4>bicolor and Neo pringlia and tigrifolio that's the the willow family.
<v Speaker 4>That's salacacious thing. Sala casey, go find some cool mammalarias.
<v Speaker 4>Why is nobody growing deca tropis? That's what I want
<v Speaker 4>to know. That's a really cool it's a really cool rue.
<v Speaker 4>I only took one photo. What the fuck? Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 4>got like this rusty, it's got this. I saw it
<v Speaker 4>at UC Berkeley Botanic Garden the first time I saw it,
<v Speaker 4>and so I knew what it was when I encountered
<v Speaker 4>it in habitat. But oh, the fucking flowers are incredible.
<v Speaker 4>I bet they got some cool oil glands on them too,
<v Speaker 4>like quite a few members of Rutasi. Goddamn. Oh, it's
<v Speaker 4>it's related to xanthoxilum. It's in the xanthoxloidy. Oh, there's
<v Speaker 4>some nice money shots somebody put up on an I
<v Speaker 4>how about that. What is the range of this? I
<v Speaker 4>think it's mostly I've only seen it. I've seen in
<v Speaker 4>Tamilpis too. But how far south does it go? It
<v Speaker 4>gets into just north of Mexico City a little bit. Yeah. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's just Sierra Madre. Man, it's just Sierra Madre Oriental.
<v Speaker 4>What a fucking cool plant that thing needs to be
<v Speaker 4>grown too. I wonder if it's frost. It's gotta be
<v Speaker 4>frost tower. It's growing because those mountains, what elevation is
<v Speaker 4>not the red it's like three or four thousand feet
<v Speaker 4>or something. It's higher than here. They got to get
<v Speaker 4>frost on there occasionally, you know, once in a blue moon,
<v Speaker 4>but it happens. So this thing's been through the filter
<v Speaker 4>over the last how many hundreds of thousands, millions of years. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's got that orange indument. Those new leaves coming out
<v Speaker 4>are just oh god, it's beautiful. It's like fuzzy and orange. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>well we'll call it quits there. Have a good rest
<v Speaker 4>of your day. If you want to order stickers, they're
<v Speaker 4>twenty bucks. You can venmo me as hell all one word.
<v Speaker 4>I'll send you nine stickers, two of them multicolored. They're
<v Speaker 4>real nice and uh yeah, I don't know. I forget
<v Speaker 4>where I'll be speaking, so I can't tell you right now.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe I'll do it next episode. All right, have a
<v Speaker 4>good rest of the day. Go yourself by