New Age Massage Parlors, Philosophical Coping, etc

You know. I'm just trying to say, when you got so many tubes
in one spy, you're gonna end up running into problems and in you know,
some of them are gonna get clocked, They're gonna get tangled, and
you're not gonna know what's going to wear. Okay, speaking of which,
I gotta go out to the Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary later and I got a water.
I gotta go over there to Benny's and I gotta turn on a hose.
Some of them plants are getting burned because it's so goddamn hot out.
Got all these star cactus and are gone, all kind of cacti and stuff
in the ground, and they're burning. Gotta light canopy a misquit over him,
but they're still burning. So I gotta go get the tea posts and
the shade cloth and shit bring him over. Welcome to another episode of the
Crime Pacement Body Doesn't Podcast. I got a lot on my plate, so
I'm sorry I haven't been, uh, you know, keeping up with the
podcast too much. But I'm having this guy. I'm supposed to have this
guy. This is the first time he's ever having me. His publicists reached
out to me this guy, Jared Margolis. I wonder if he's related to
Lynn Margolis. Anyway. He he wrote a book called The Cactus Hunters about
the collectors, the cactive collector. This would be great in my collection,
be absolutely. I don't really have any interest in thing any of the other
plants in this habitat, but I did pay seven thousand dollars for the cactus
tour, and I would love to see some of the cactus that you have
here, and if you happen to be felling any of them, I think
some of them would look exceptionally great. And my cactus collection in my greenhouse
in Germany, or in Western Australia, or my greenhouse in England, anywhere
of these plays that I've got greenhouse and anyway, he wrote this book about
people who call you get the fucking point. I don't know that went on
too long, I'm so he went. He wrote this book about people that
collect cactus cacti in succulents, which, uh, you know, I can
get into horticulture, I can get into extra two conservation, but obviously it
gets weird. Hey better collecting cactus than like plastic toys or I don't know,
or drugs. Actually, I've read the collect drugs then cacti. It's
harmful to the environment. Just maybe stay away from the narcotics. I'm saying
that as someone with seven years sober California sober, you know, the hard
stuff, none of that. I just do this occasional psychedelics. Thinking today,
it's been like a good it's been a good couple of years since I
ate acid, you know, because that takes time. Somebody gave me ascid
a while ago and I didn't have any use for it. I just passed
it on, you know, pass it on, pass away to free acid,
because you know, that's a commitment. Man, I can't really respect
anybody who's never dropped acid in their life. And is it any If you're
young and you just haven't had an opportunity yet, that's fine. But if
you're like sixty or seven years old you've never done acid once, you know,
that's weird. It's kind of weird. It's like being forty years old
and never having had sex. Now that there's anything wrong with that either,
you know, if you're a prude or summer you just don't like it.
You got like a phobia, a sux phobia. That's fine. I can
understand that, you know. But anyway, the point is, you gotta
do acid once you gotta you gotta just be in it for the long haul.
You know, sit there for twelve hours, try and do it in
a super bowm if you can do. They have those where you are.
If you're in the eastern United States, maybe not. There's not much a
public land out there. Anyway, we're gonna get going here. Got a
couple of things I want to talk about. I had a nice little trip
to West Texas, had to check on some stuff out there. Stopped in
Austin and hung out with my guy Javier, and that was real nice.
It's always pleasant. He had this uh I talked too much about psychedelics on
his fucking pocket. I mean really, you know, because you lose a
little bit of respect with some of the normies and the gentiles and stuff.
And I really endorsed psychedelics, responsible psychedelic use. But anyway, he had
this resin UH, someone had given him. It was like a It was
a mescalin sourced from Tricho Sirious resin, which was funding. But we just
we took it. We not and it had like it was like bitter taffy,
like vinegar ish taffy, and we not on it and then just had
a nice time listening to some I don't know what we were listening to.
I don't know what his playlist was. Sounded like some weird Peruvian mystic ship.
But it wasn't that bad, you know, didn't feel like something you'd
hear in like a new age massage parlor or something you ever been doing new
age, but massage parlor. I mean. Anyway, we had somebody at
resident we you know, it was at night, Uh, and uh,
we just kind of passed out there. It was it was a good time.
We woke up the next morning and I went to a friend of his
nursery and uh, this guy Micah who's growing a bunch of cool stuff out
there, and uh and then Peru's passed all this cool. Uh. You
know Edwards Plateau Juniper woodland that slated to get the moss for development. Is
the tumor ever going to stop? More importantly, am I ever going to
stop talking about how the tumor is never gonna stop? Probably not. You
should be outraged, everyone should be all right. Just something you keep in
the back of your mind. You always just but don't let it depress you
let it just you know, guide your actions and maybe you make a I
never know that that obnoxious remark you make about how much you hate that shit
while you're in line at the hardware store or something that might convince someone else
to feel that way too, or it might annoy the fuck on them.
Either way. Uh, you know, it's uh, it's to meet it's
a positive effect, but it's it's just nuts. I just see this ship,
this fucking development. It's it's insane, like it's when does it stop?
It's never gonna stop, especially when all the land is private. I
made this argument too, I put I put up something like an Instagram story
about you know, these these states where it's primarily the eastern half of the
country, where you got all this private land, this ship is a lot
more prone to happening when you've got more public land. It's land that can't
really be sold off. It can be sold off if it's like bl lamb
or something, but it's a little bit harder to sell it off in those
lands can be grossly mismanaged to don't get me wrong, all right, Uh,
but uh, you know, a lot of the public lands out west.
But still I missed the days of just being able to roll around.
I spent a good two or three years, probably longer than that, you
know, finagling time off from the railroad, getting people to bump me.
You know friends who that was a fucking that was a good show of working
class, solid everyday right there. You know, you get a friend who's
got more seniority, you say, hey, can you bump me right before
I go on my off days. I'm gonna lay off on a Thursday.
The switch job i'm on has Friday and Saturday off. You bumped me on
that Thursday. I'll ignore the railroad's phone calls until Sunday, buy myself an
extra two days off, because when you get bumped, you got forty eight
hours off, and so when you finally accept the call, it's like the
night before you're supposed to go back to work and the job starts again,
and then you get another two days off, so you get four days off.
So you have to be tied to your phone. You know, you
can't go somewhere where there's no phone service, but which was an issue back
then. Now there's probably fucking cell towers everywhere, but you know, so
we go down to Mojave, fuck around, do bodni down there, look
at all the plants down it is like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. And
then you know, you sleep on top of Where are we going to sleep
tonight? I don't know. We got a fucking truck. You know.
It's something like a you know, lady I was dating at the time,
or a friend or fucking whatever. You know, we're always you know,
if you're lucky enough to be in a relationship with someone that has the same
interests as you, I guess that's pertinent. But otherwise it's just still friends
will do. Friends will always be more fun. And so we you know
where we're gonna where we're gonna sleep down I don't know. We'll sleep in
the back of a truck, roll the food time out. I did this
ship with Alan a lot. Actually, we would go down to the fucking
desert, spend four days down there, five five days down there, and
uh, you know, just roll out wherever there's so much public land,
and you just go explore where we're gonna explore tomorrow. Let's go look at
its mountaintop over there. I was looking at that on the map on a
satellite map, the terrain map that looks good. I was following some points
for some rare plants. We're gonna go there. That was so fulfilling.
So many people will never know that, that feeling. I don't know.
What is it like in the Southeast that where everything's private, you gotta find,
you gotta find areas to sleep, you know, to roll around.
It's that's what's so nice about the public land thing. But anyway, nothing
that's nice about it is a lot of that land can't get so whereas if
everything's private like it is in Texas, everything is a fucking opportunity to make
a ship ton of money. And maybe the person who owns that land now
might be cool, but their kids are probably twats. That's a non gender
specific twat that anyone who might get offended, you know, just a twat,
the kind of a bitpi twat, like a dummy, you know.
And the kids probably want muscle cars and a fancy handbags and all that materialistic
shit. They're gonna sell the land off next thing, you know, there's
a fucking Walgreens or a CVS or a goddamn Ross dressed for us going up
there and everything's tacky as fucking h get some track housing. I read a
comment yesterday. I forget where it was. It was on a social media
page. It was some European making fun of America, which can also be
somewhat cringe because you know a lot of those Europeans they get a little bit
you know, hoity toity elitish making fun of us Yankees. But you know
it was actually putting on point and a comment they're making fun of us for
the landscape we have, which admittedly is hideous. You know, que that
George Carlin bit up and what a great piece that was that like seven minute
PC had about how embarrassing the American landscape has become a coast to coast commercial
cesspool. And the comment said, uh, it said, the American landscape
is uh is the type of landscape like a nine year old would develop in
Sims, Like a Sims landscape. Where the fuck was this? God?
It was so good? Yeah, here it is. To be honest,
American cities look like what a three year old would come up with in Sims,
which is hilarious and so on point. You know what is Sims?
It's a video game? Wasn't there I had it. There was a Sims
computer game I used to play when I was like nine. You know,
but I don't play video games now, I Blus's that true? I play
Zelda sometimes. I had a Nintendo switch. My kid left, you know,
Luca left. But h and it's don't tell nobody that because I don't,
you know, video games. I don't get time for that ship black
Forge it plays Zelda. Though we actually we bonded about it. She approved.
She said, of course you play Zelda, because she was all excited
about the there's a Kingdom game coming out. I said, yet, you're
you're damn right, I do you know? It was it was like a
nod in agreement, the show of Solid thirty. But anyway, uh yeah,
the parking lot ships nuts. It's it's I wonder what people are going
to do in some of these places where it's just so fucking hot. I
mean where I live, it was it was verifiably ten degrees hotter than it's
been for a longer period, like a longer stint than it's been at any
point in recorded history. I think in Hidalgo County, Star County, Texas,
like one hundred and fifteen degrees in June for three weeks, and you
could check temperature records if you go to like weather Underground that Cam and I
went and looked back every month of June that it was recorded that they had
records for, and there was no there was one hundred and ten. There
was like one hundred degree days, but there wasn't three weeks of one ten.
So I don't know what people are gonna do. I mean, I'm
sure some people will be fine, you know, to just just lurk inside,
hang out, you know, hang out inside during the day, or
your job when it blasting the fucking ac, which seems totally in saying,
because the power goes out, you're fucked, you know, or driving around
in your little bubble, your glass bubble blast in the air. You know,
but that's not a very fun way to live either. You know,
you'd like to get physical exercise. You know, the human body evolved for
movement, not sitting inside in the ac. So yeah, it's you know,
you would daft. I had to get I got a gym membership down
here. It was like ten bucks. It wasn't that bad. I go
to Planet Fitness down there. You know, we're to pink, tight iron
a short shorts, vibout all of the tejanos, you know, because you
get a little you get some of the macho stuff down here. People don't
know what to make of it, you know, don't got many at the
open gaze. Every time I see a at the closet gate down here,
I get excited, you know, need a little bit of need a little
bit more of that down here. You know, love the gaze, love
the gays anyway, So, uh, what the fuckx Edwards? Yeah,
Edwards Plateau was always so nice to go to. I drove out the West
Texas. Then it was how the fuck down there too? And up with
the doctor Martin Terry and d his wife, doctor Martin Terry to Peyote researcher
Cacti Conservation Institute board member. Uh and because we're talking about forming a nonprofit
and I know Cactus Conservation Institute became a nonprofit I think in like twenty eighteen,
but we're trying to get, uh, you know, a nonprofit status.
So all the cactus rescue we've been doing from places like the border wall
and the fucking solar farm in Star County, which was one of the most
prest that is so insane. Speaking of development, it was this huge uh
god, it must have been a few hundred acres, this few hundred acre
parcel privately owned in Star County by someone who was a politician in Star County
and and their son was well we will talk about people's personal drug issues,
but regardless, it's being sold for a solar farm, and had it had
the Star County location of Euphorbia anti syphilitica on it, which is actually a
different species than the one you get in West Texas. The flowers are totally
different. Nathan Taylor, who studies euphobia, had talked with me about this
and actually mapped it out. He created a nice map on I naturalist.
The population in the wave of Leone and tom Elipis and then this population in
Stark County have much different psi athea, that is inflorescences, you know psiathea.
Of course we're specific to the genus Euphorbia. It's a type of inflorescence
that looks like a flower, but it's actually you know, like five or
six flowers altogether, but it just looks like a I still really understand.
I just go with that. It's one of those things in Badi. You
just kind of like nod, yeah, okay, okay, still just looks
like a fucking flower to me. But if you say so, you know
there's guys who studied this stuff. I don't study euphorbia. I just like
seeing him. But you see those little flower hours on a on a candelilah
or candelaria or whatever the fuck they call it, those on those succulent straws,
which uh, speaking of wish euphobia Outostoma in Brazil has the same form.
Uh, it's just you know, little little green, succulent, leafless
straws that blee latex. But they have they have red flowers. I put
a post up on Instagram. I put a post up on the blog on
a website too, trying to get better at that. But this parcel head
you fbi antisepolytica on it. The only population in Stark County which has only
been collected twice, once by me the Irberian butchers at Seul Ross and another
time in the seventies by Ken King told me the guy's name, I forget
his name, fuck, but I've seen the Irberium collection. It was at
the pan Am now ut Rio Grand valley in uh in far but uh but
yeah, only two collections. This plant super rare only place the United States.
It grows as far as I know, there's probably on a I have
a ranch somewhere in Star County. There's probably more of this euphorbia. But
it was fucking cool. It was so different. You know eupourbie anti seltica
you see in West Texas. It's like a bunch of blue straws. You'll
find payotes hiding in them sometimes along with other cacti. It looks like someone
upturned a broom, like if the bristles of the broom were blue and just
stuck it in the ground. Really cool fucking plant. This one is more
green, just like the fucking payotes are here you saw Texas to West Texas,
they're more green, not as blue. Doesn't have as much farina on
it that blue wakes, not then as farina. Not the Italian American actor
who was also a Chicago copp for seventeen years. It's a fucking weird one.
But that guy was a prick. He might have been nice. He's
dead now, but if maybe he was, maybe he was a nice guy.
Probably not, though he might have been a schmuck who knows, probably
hit some funny joke though. Anyway, So this Euphorbia, there's probably more.
It's some ranch there and I had collected cuttings. Benny collected a bunch
of cuttings of it. We've got it in cultivation. It's not growing that
fast. But the habitat was just insane. I think I spoke about this
in a podcast. If I didn't, I'm a prick. But I'm a
prick anyway. So there's a video about it I did a year ago.
It's called The Long Lost Candelaria. We went out there in July, me
my friend Rachel, who writes for New Yorker Benny. It was like one
hundred and seven degrees. Oh, and a dog, Mike too. He's
got a real nice dog named Mike. We went out there. I'm serious.
Mike's like a fucking human. It's it's weird. It's like a what
a Belgian malonmoir some shit. I don't know. It's some some fancy dog
breed. But Mike is like, got a big old pair of nuts too.
All right. It's one of the most And I'm not being crude.
I'm just saying it's one of the something you notice about this dog, this
is the balls is you know, it's an intelligent it's he's an intelligent man.
He's an intelligent man dog Mike. Anyway, So it was me,
Benny, Mike and Rachel. We went out there. It's like one hundred
and seven degrees. Benny's wearing his full fucking chafts, like just I don't
know, man, this guy's like a beast. He's out there, he's
we're fucking digging up. Uh, Condelaria Delilah. You fob anti cyphiliticas.
Some of them are like two or three feet tall, and it's just growing
in with the thorn scrub. It was such cool fucking habitat. And everywhere
that I filmed. You should go watch the video. Actually it's really good.
Everywhere that I filmed is now gone. It's completely paved, not paved,
cleared. Met this dude, this guy who was working out, the
nice guy. We call him Thor colloquially because he looks like Thor. He's
a white dude with long hair and uh. And he was out there and
he was he filmed a bunch of it, and he made these he made
some are actually really nice videos. His Instagram is Jace Parkey j A y
Ce. I don't fucking I forget whatever he's uh, you have to check
my instagram to see it. I forget. I forget. Sorry, Jas,
I forget your fucking Instagram. Anyway, he made a nice video about
all the destruction going on out there, had some really nice drone footage,
and it's fucking obscene, like whole plots of land being cleared for solar for
a solar farm owned by British Petroleum, and he was he was working at
the time for a surveyor a contract or. You know, they were out
there looking for desert tortoises because I guess a bunch got killed. Texas is
so fucking obscene, man, It's just nuts, and it's I don't think
it's ever going to change ecologically. It's just really shitty here, Like there's
just so little awareness and it's like people are proud of how much they don't
give a fuck about the plants. I wish. That's why I think that
the shit that like Kyle Eibarger is doing, you know, Native Habitat project
is so important because he's reaching out to all those fucking hunters and generally people
that are on the right and getting you know, land conservation and plant awareness
to not be a political thing, which it shouldn't be, you know.
And obviously I'm on I'm not you know, I'm pretty fucking progressive and pretty
on, pretty far on the left, but this shouldn't be. I don't
give a fuck what someone's beliefs. I don't even care if someone's a climate
denier or any of that shit, or a fucking trump or when it comes
down to it, if they care about the land and they care about maintaining
it and they care about native plants, you know, I don't need someone
to agree with me and all the other shit. I don't give a fuck.
This is the thing I care about the most, is conservation, is
species and preventing the six mass extinction, slowing it down, you know,
restoring habitat, having awareness for the rest of the biosphere, the other plants
and animals that lively. That's what I give a fuck about, all right,
And it shouldn't be a political thing. If some of these like right
wing people, all they see are people will sept them sept them rings in
blue hair, you know, with the pronouns in their bio, no offense,
you know, ranting about this shit. It shouldn't be a political thing,
you know, it really shouldn't. It shouldn't be. And I'm not
knocking anyone who's got all that stuff in their bio, just like I'm not
knocking anyone on the right who's got like Second Amendment, you know, faith,
family freedom, all that shit, and they're by whatever. I don't
give a fuck. Social media is all about social signaling and you know,
virtue signaling. Whatever you're about anyway, right, that's it's about being a
poser basically in a lot of ways. Sorry, a little cynical, but
it should This land conservation shouldn't be a you know, caring about other life
forms shouldn't be a political thing. But I just don't think Texas is ever
going to be any different. You know, I'm still gonna keep doing what
I'm doing. But you know, I just because I don't care whether I
won or lose. I just do it because it's fun. I believe in
it. But but it's just the amount of shit I've seen here. It's
just nuts. I mean, it's I remember when I first got here,
you know, I had friends that worked for Native plant project there, and
they would go dig up plants like they dig up guck Nadia now in the
Huatalia and all these other plants and use them as stock plants for seed.
Now. They weren't selling, and they weren't doing anything sleazy with them,
and I was like, you know, coming from California, I was like,
God, it's fucked, it's offensive. But I wouldn't say anything,
right, I just kind of hold my tongue and be like, oh and
observe. A few months later, after seeing the way ship goes down here
and seeing how so many of these plants get this droid, I really realized,
thank god, people did that. The right people did that, people
who weren't collect There's people who were doing it for conservation. You know.
I got a friend up in Austin who digs up well, he saved a
bunch of Silphia melbafloram that was going to get destroyed for what is now an
office park with like you know, green grass landscaping and fucking Bradford Paris List
tacky shit, and uh, anyway, I would see people doing that,
but thank god, you know, thank god they did because they kept those
plants alive. The habitat later got destroyed, and now they have seed sources.
A friend of mine, gros Astro, fight them by a hundreds,
not the fancy, not the fancy lad cultivars, the real species for the
that he got from a private ranch. He dug up like three or four
plants, brought him home, seated the shit out of him, pollinated him,
and then now has hundreds of seedlings and gives them, gave them back
to the landowner. The landowner planted them. And it's just that shit is
so important. I mean, like I've always said, this native plant movement,
the foundation of the native plant movement is backyard growers. You could do
so much, you know, at these people whining all the time about how
fuck the world is, we can't do anything, you can't do anything,
But you could start a garden, all right. And it's not just it's
not just whimsical plants are pretty shit. That's actually change begins at home.
Face. That's something you can do. It's actually proactive and cool and very
good. So you know, that's where you got So that's where you could
flex a little bit, all right, instead of just talking shit online and
ranting. Because you know, we are on a train wreck right now ahead
of for the cliff. There have been many over the course of geologic history,
many much worse than what humanity is doing. Okay, you wouldn't want
to You wouldn't have wanted to be around for the Permian extinction, I'll tell
you that. But there's still a lot you can do. Anyway. To
go back to what I was talking about, this this fucking uh was that
what I was talking I get so lost, dude. You've gotta keep notes
or something, you know, I'll keep a schedule another the Solar project.
The Solar project thing was fucking insane. I didn't think it would actually go
through. Almost when we were there, I was. It was hard to
believe because the this parcel in Star County was so pristine. There was peyote,
there was astrophytum, there was that euphorbia, a ton of cool plants,
there were there were archaeological artifacts all over the place, tons of points.
I'd be out there with Benny that day we found we were looking at
these, you know, three foot long logs of petrified palm and cypress would
when the area was a swamp in the e scene fifty million years ago.
You know about the e scene. You should. I've probably rant that about
it enough. You gotta have those those chronological markers right like kat extinction,
permian extinction, misa zoic scene, as zoic uh. You know what the
you know what kind of plants were doing? What you know, evolution of
flowering plants. Second, think you got you gotta know those geologic landmarks,
chronological landmarks, excuse me, geologic time scale landmarks. But we were out
there looking at all this easne petrified palm and cypress would and Benny's finding points
all over the place. It was nuts. He's found like four points and
we saw astraphightum and some loafs and and all that stuff is gone. Now
it's just leveled. It's crazy, man. You know, as do as
you please, and what point does it stop? I mean, nothing's preserved
that here. You've got a couple of fish and wildlife tracks, but nothing.
So that's why we're doing Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary is to have a place for
these cacty to go, you know, from the fucking horse cripplers to the
astraphight them, to the kino serious Posselgarai to the Ibervilia Lindheimerai that's not a
cactus, that's a co curb it. But it's fucking cool regardless. We
saved some of those from the wall project. The only reason we saw it
was because those bright orange, marble sized fruits were going off. Otherwise you
can't see it because these things just you got this big cautex in the ground,
this tuberous it's not even a caut x, it's like a fucking bowling
ball sized root in the ground. And then it sends up these vines.
And so I got those in ponts right now. I'm trying to figure out
where to put them. Will probably put them, put him into the Thorn
Scrub Sanctuary. So you know, anyway, we got to get nonprofit status.
That's what I was talking to Martin Terry and the about an Alpine.
Once we get nonprofit status, we can get more donations, or we can
have a fiscal sponsor. Someone who's who's a fiscal sponsor, who's already nonprofit
work is our fiscal sponsor. We get a bank account, get the money
to go into there. It's all traceable, trackable, and then we you
know, actually work it out with the IRS to get a nonprofit. But
once we can do that because I've met so many people that will be done
to donate already, you know, and I don't know. We're trying to
get board members and more people involved. You know. It's me and me
and Javier right now, and h and uncle Rick, who's a Navajo who
lives that goes back and forth between Star Country and I think New Mexico and
anyway. I gotta get more people. I didn't realize what a pain the
ass is. You gotta get a bunch of people on the board. Anybody
out there know anything about nonprofits? If you do, could you send me
an email? Crime pays, but botany doesn't at gmail dot com anything I
need to know because I don't know anything about this and I'm juggling too much
already, burning a candle at both ends, and this stuff seems like a
pain in the ass, all right. My friend Leo, my old Chicano
hippie friend, was telling me he was on the board of Morning Star Conservancy
because they're nonprofit, and he was excited to get off of it because it
sucked, because being a board member sucked. But once we do that,
we can get fencing, we can get a waterline hooked up, we can
potentially purchase more parcels of property down here and conserve more land. And the
end goal would be having an education center, a visitor center, a visitor
center with some nice bathrooms, maybe a vault poilet if need be. I'm
just kidding. I mean, not a post to get in a vault toilet,
but I just wanted to throw it in there because it sounds ridiculous.
Vault toilet. What is a vault toilet? You know, it's like a
vote, is it like a It's like when you just got a latrine.
Let they just call it a latrine anyway, And having you know, given
tours and using it to educate people, and we'll have a well, I
want to have a website dedicated just to thorn scrub plants. It'll be like
an online equivalent of Ken King's book Plants of Deep South Texas. You know,
if there's one good thing born out of me living down here forever many
years, it'll be you know, if there's one thing I can do at
least, it will be to form, you know, some sort of nonprofit
that gets shit done and educates people, because there's not really anything like that
down here now, at least not on a large scale. There's a couple
of people doing important work. But I want to get something big and centralized
in a website, even with a bunch of you know, species, a
page for each species, it would be fucking cool. So anyway, we're
still working that out, still working out the kinks. But once it comes
to gut Or, it's gonna be real nice. Okay, but yeah,
but the fucking the habitat destruction is going on everywhere. Luke, who does
the Peyote gardens at Gee Page, sent me a bunch of videos he recorded
in San Louis Potosi where he lives, and uh down here in Mexico and
they just demolished like these fucking like old girl stands of cacti to put up
like tourists. I don't know what they're putting in there, some like some
tourism shit, just like hideous fucking It doesn't at what point does It's there's
no point at which it stops, Like why there should be a moratorium on
all fucking development on land that's not already developed, you know, if it's
an old if it's like old agricultural land or a vacant lot. That's what
we should be going. There's got there should be regulations and rules about that,
you know, some sort of law that prohibits development on developed land and
views how important it is to have that shit not just for open space but
for intact biosphere. But that's that's a little bit more advanced than our civilization
currently is at the moment. You know, us fucking bipedal primates. We
haven't got there yet. It's just nuts. Who does that? Like,
who does that shit? I just I can't. I can't like like being
the one that that orders the bulldozer, you know, to do that shit,
that knows what it's so fucking crazy and just constantly putting up the dumbest
shit again. So I know he, I guess he was gonna He's got
a little parcel of land on there, him and his family, and they're
they're you know, gonna be protecting a lot of plants, you know,
moving stuff that's slated for development. But it's none of the ship should have
to be moved, period. And that's where that's what really gets me,
because that's what no one talks Everyone talks about climate change, but no one
talks about the habitat clearance, which is going on all over the world,
and it's just it's just de facto behavior. It's just what we do.
There's like, there's no let's save this, let's protect this. Let's only
you know, we've taken enough. Let's not take anymore. Let's not you
know, we've already taken. We've taken enough land for ourselves to put up
all our dumb bullshit. Let's leave some for everything else, you know,
some real lorax style shit. There's none of that. There's there's no there's
no no mentality that that does that. Yet whereas like I feel like,
god, I don't know, maybe people, it just seems like I used
to be such a common thing, you know, at least twenty years ago,
thirty years ago, at least in like the zeitgeist of American culture,
that development sucks. We build hideous shit. It's so much nicer to have
quote unquote nature in open space, whereas now it seems like everyone's just forgotten
that. And fuck it, let's just you know, who cares. It's
land's just sitting there doing nothing like there if it's not serving us, there's
no innate purpose for it, what's it doing. It's it's a fucking diseased
mentality. It's a death cult mentality. I call it all the time,
the death cult. You see it all over the world too. God,
Brazil was nuts, man. He just Rio State, Rio de Janeiro,
driving north from Rio through Minas, your ice, going through all the fucking
wasted agricultural land, just pines and eucalyptus planet on those hillsides, invasive grasses,
all that Atlantic forest gone. You know, it's the same down,
it's the same everywhere. That's that's why, That's what was the meaning behind
all that stop humanity ship, that I was all that propaganda that'd stop humanity
propaganda I was putting out putting out there three or four years ago, and
so yeah, it was I don't know, I still could have been I
guess I could have been a little bit more articulate. But also it was
kind of a joke due to the fact that was written in eccentric, beautifully
beautifully scripted cursive handwriting. You know, that kind of brings home the sarcasm
factor. Uh. You know, I thought about maybe doing like a drawing
of like the earth with like a hand putting a cigarette butt out in it,
you know, just looking all parched and brown and fucking it'd be a
nice it'd be a nice uh illustration to a company the logo. Thanks to
Ken Davis again for doing the lettering on that. I can't I don't have
a steady hand like that. I can't do beautiful sign paint their style lettering
like that. But uh yeah, the fucking climate change shit is not necessar
too. But I think people should definitely, you gotta, you gotta focus
on the development and the habitat destruction because that's huge. It's everywhere all right,
and the climated thing is really there's no stopping it. I think we
definitely think it's worth than ever. But the oil companies are strong. They
got a lot of good they got a lot of good propaganda out there.
I wonder if they're actually hiring bots too, because some of these comments you
see, like a Vice News will post something about how it's you know,
hotter, the hottest recorded temperature. It's just the typical shit. Every year
it's the new hottest recorded temperature, and the ship that pops up in the
comments. I mean, some of the comments are just so fucking dumb.
I can't believe. It's hard for me to believe they're written by real people,
like they gotta be bossed. Well, it's America. I'm sure there's
there's a lot of dummies there. There's probably people out there that I actually
believe that shit, but they just you know, it's just total denialist stuff.
It's not happening. Climate has always changed, it's not that hot,
you know, blah blah blah. It's motherfucker. It's you know, you
understand how measurements work, right, you understand how data works, like this
is verifiable, like you can't. This isn't just personal anecdote. It's not
like the journalists just said, oh, it's pretty hot today, must be
climate change like it's it's this is all quantifiable data. But you know,
I guess if you fucking I don't know, if you're probably believing all the
shit the oil companies are putting out there, you're probably not too much of
an intellectual thinker. Anyway. That's said, I know that, you know,
people will sometimes blame shit on climate change. It isn't you know.
I think like like a Native Habitat project puts them up about fire suppression yesterday,
and he had my and uh, you know, people are saying it's
climate change when it's fire suppression. I was like, well, actually it's
probably both. But in the southeastern United States, which gets a lot more
rainfall, it does seem a little bit preemptive to blame fires on climate change.
It probably blame the hurricanes on climate change. The uptick in hurricane You
know, oceans get more heat, gives them more energy for hurricanes. Water
holds on the heat energy much longer than air, of course, But uh,
anyway, I don't know, you know, but I do see sometimes
people just blaming it's you don't want to cry wolf. You know, shit's
happening, but you don't want to cry wolf. The fucking wolf's in the
theater, but you don't want to cry wolf. No, no, no,
that's that's when you're crying. That's when you're crying. You're screaming fire
in a crowd a theater. I'm getting my analogy is confused, but you
know what I mean. I was in Miami when I got back from Brazil,
and uh, because that was just the cheapest place to fly out of
it. And I got some friends there and I was hanging out with one
of him and he's like, you want let's go to the ocean. Let's
go to the all these all these you know, these cubans, like all
these all these cuban guys, go fish on this one, this one peer,
let's go not peer. But like this uh, you know this little
uh what is it is? It like a fucking it's like a little you
know jetty that like juts out into the ocean. And we went in the
ocean and we were swimming around and it was it felt like swimming the water
was so warm. It was fucking startling to me. It was because you
know, I lived in California twenty years from the West coast, twenty years
where it's all cold ocean water. To be in in ocean water that's warmer
than the human body, it felt like it felt like I was standing in
like a bathtub full of piss, you know, like warm piss, like
fresh piss. You know it. It was like fucking it wasn't comfortable,
like it wasn't refreshing at all. And I was like, is this normal?
And it's this warm and he's like, nah, yeah, you grew
up there, grew up in Miami, Like nah, this isn't normal.
So you know, there's no uh anyway there's fucking arguing with it. Well,
we'll see what happens. But I do wonder, like what are people
are gonna have to just end up leaving like the sun belt, you know,
just like living on the surface of mar you just stay inside the whole
time, blast the AC and then you know what's the cost of that,
the fucking energy bills. I don't know. God damn it. You could
could live underground. You'll be fine. Yeah, there was a fucking there
was a case here. I'll stop talking about this, and there's a case
here. This twenty four year old kid, Gabriel and Fante was his name.
I think it was in San Antonio. He worked for a construction company.
He died last year in Texas. His internal body temperature reached one hundred
and ten degrees. That's insane. Fucking poor kid man, that's awful.
Like that's so sad to think about too, And like why I don't know,
you know, I don't know, I don't know, Like why not
just fuck this job goes somewhere? I mean, people are just you know,
you don't know, there's obviously a lot of limitations to doing to doing
that. You know, your boss, you get that mentality where you're lucky
to have this job. It's fucked steal from your job if your boss treats
you like that, if your boss ever says you're lucky to have this job
or implies that, just start taking ship, just stationary supplies. Start with
stationary supplies, take bigger stuff eventually, you know whatever you think you can
get away with, all right. It's like, I just don't get some
of these fucking companies. It's it's it's nuts man, it's I watch the
just the fucking still can't believe the minimum wage is so low here. There
was something that always I always every time I go to like New Zealand or
Australia or Australia. I only been in New Zealand once, but every time
I go there, I'm always blown away at how even service industry workers get
paid really well. Like if you tip in Australia, people are offended.
You're not supposed to tip there. It's like it's offensive to tip and people
will say, you don't need to do that. We pay our people,
well, we don't fucking skimp. You're not you know, the customer is
not not it's not understood that the customer will will, you know, compensate
for the bosses shitty wages, you know, so fucking anyway, whatever,
I'm still having the key out plants from Brazil. Moving on, moving on
to let's let's say negative topics, will be a little bit more, a
little bit more excitable here, still having a key out plants from Brazil.
And it is a fucking process and I have trouble sitting still, so I'll
just go to the fucking gym and get on the treadmill and do it,
which has been very nice. You walk, you put it like three point
six miles per hour with its slight incline, and uh, what have I?
What have I come down to? You know? What is it like
I used to do? I would edit videos walking around Oakland at fucking one
in the morning. Now I'm I'm on a treadmill all right in South Texas
on a fucking you know What's what's happening to me? Ten bucks a month
ain't bad though, for for a membership fee. You know, I think
because it's just so hot you can't I mean, you can't be outside here
during the day and summer for any prolonged amount of time. That won't stop
me from doing shit in the garden and uh, you know, building shit
whatever. But I always it's brutal, you know, like you I come
back in and I'm just fucking drenched in sweat, have a headache, you
know, need to replenish some salts and electro lights and the amount of caffeine
I drink. I'm drinking half a gallon of gunpowder green the loose leaf that
I brewed right now. I'm kind of keep yourself wired with the anti accidents
and stuff. But but I'll go, yeah, I'll just go to the
fucking gym. And it's probably pretty bad for my eyes because I'm like staring
at a screen, just doing all this shit on the phone, looking up
papers, trying to figure out what species and what genus. I can get
most of the stuff down to genus, but the information in Brazil on the
plants out there is just it's there, It's nailed. There's there's so little,
you know, I'm going to reach out the researchers. I've emailed somebody
fucking researchers. The ones that have written back have been super helpful, but
not everyone writes. I wrote it to some guy, you know, I
wrote to some guy about Velozi a state it's super cool family of resurrection plants,
drought teller monocots. Never heard back from him. I wrote to some
lady about Cama Christa, which is super species rich down are you know here
in North America? Cama Christa are like these little aurbacious things, and of
them get very big down there. They're they're shrubs. You know. Some
are super glandular and sticky. We're talking like, you know, mid nineteen
nineties High Times magazine style of glands. Uh. Some just have typical sclerophil
foliage. It's you know, plastic key, leathery, glabrous, little sessile
leaves. But I found a key for meanness, which was cool. And
there's no keys. I don't I couldn't find any keys. Some guy wrote
me yesterday on Instagram telling me about a website where you can download let's see
where the fuck? Uh? Where the fuck was that? Because I should
mention this on there, because anyone who's looking up Brazil plants, this would
be super helpful. It was I think it was South Polo University. It's
https uh www dot vistas that usp that br forward slash bol Bot forward slash
issue forward Slash archive. It was let's see botanical bulletin of I think we
have but Bodney bulletin at a University of South Polo published by Department of Bonnie,
University of South Polo, and they've got archives of all these different keys.
And this was like a flora of minesha rice or maybe it was ground
mogul, ground mogul, ground mogole. But some of the ship is just
really you know, it's fucking it's hard. I think I saw we saw
another cool trixis on this skyland area where we saw the orthophight. I'm really
wild romeliad. It was so cool. The sky island blew my fucking mind.
I think I might have talked about it in previous podcast, so forgive
me if I did. But it was a mountain that rose up above this
forest of seasonally dry tropical forest. And this mountain of course because it was
higher elevation and it got more fog, and it was a small mountain too,
It wasn't that large. It was just literally like a little tower,
little tower of quartzite sandstone metamorphous sandstone maybe with some calcium carbonated it, which
I could kind of got that impression from the way that it weathered, you
know, like with you could tell it was the rock with some of water
soluble, because there were all these cavities in the rock and whatnot. It
felt like jumping on large gravestones from gravestone to gravestone, like ten foot tall
gravestone to ten foot tall gravestone, and the gravestones are covered and lichen and
acn Thera, terrez lithophittic orchid and by Regia's you know, all these cool
you know, rock rock hugging bromeliads and Thematophyllum eighty and tynum, which is
it used to be a philodendron. Some of these fucking aeroids were just insane,
these fucking full sun exposed aeroids clinging to rocks. And then there was
potocarpus. I think it was lambertie i, so Lamberti I or Lambertiana,
But there was a cool podocarpus up there that we never saw. We never
saw anywhere else. It was the only spot we saw it on top of
this this tower of rock. There was so much cool shit there and uh
so little of it been able to identify we were up there. The frogs
came out at night. That was so fucking pleasant. What a beautiful spot,
you know, watch the sun set up there. There was a Clusia
too, you know, with those opposite rubbery leaves clusiac. No. So
I took a little break because you know, we hit that. I took
my daughter up to San Antonio. It's somebody you go to it. You
go to a big city where they got well, that's a big city compared
to where I lived. And uh, you know, instead of it being
a retail slum and and even just being able to like that you're sitting outside,
you go to like a tak where you get something to eat. Sitting
outside, you're sitting next to a two lane road, maybe a four lane
road, instead of like a ten lane mega highway highway with eighty mile pour
traffic and just that constant cacophony, that fucking annoying cacophony of you know,
a thousand times a minute from all the cars. It's so pleasant. I
forgot what it's like. Tree lined streets, old style houses, you know,
fucking museums and stuff. We went at a dinosaur museum in San Antono.
We didn't make it to the Alamo, which I only want to go
to because if it's appearance and Pewee's Big adventure, especially that scene that's such
a great scene where he's going to get his bike and he has to sit
through the whole tour and uh, I forget the lady's name, but she's
the tour guy. She's fucking hilarious, and uh she ends up by going
still here. There's no basement in the Alamo, did you know? Well,
you didn't notice because I haven't told you yet, but I'm about to
tell you. My friend Rosendo, who's a tattoo in San Antonio, his
granny worked at the Alamo. She called the cops on Ozzy Osbourne for pissing
on the Alamo. Now, I'm not knocking her for being a snitch because
back then, you know, it was seventies or eighties, you know,
you couldn't just go around willy nilly pissing on on on stuff like that,
you know, especially being in old laces. He was freaked her out.
You know, it's weird. You don't want to go see some English rockers,
don you know? And if you're gonna piss, I mean, granted
Ozzy was probably hammer, but if you're gonna piss in the Alamo. You
gotta do you gotta be a little you gotta be a little uh, you
know, discreet about it. I pissed on the California State Capitol Building while
staring through the window at a at a at a picture of Ronald Reagan,
and that was like two thousand and five or something nice. Then I slept
in the bushes, not where I peete, but down the way a little
bit, you know, against between the edifice of the building in the bush,
you know, because I couldn't fin anywhere else to sleep. I wrote
it. I wrote into town on a train and just needed to spot the
crash for a while. And I like old style Sacramento, old old town
Sacramento, kind of pretty in its own way. Probably got a lot of
tweakers. Uh Now, I think it's always I think I think Sachs always
had kind of a meth. Probably it's northern California, let's be honest,
there's meth everywhere. But uh, you know, you think, like the
Greyhound station, the payday loan places a little bit rough, but at the
time it had this kind of it's still it's kind of an old town feeling.
You go to, like the different museums and ship in Sacramento. But
but that's all I've pissed that. I I didn't actually pissed on the Alimo.
I just pissed on the California State Capitol building. So, you know,
chock one up for Ozzie, and chuck one up for Rosendo's granny,
you know, for having a role in a pivotal moment in Texas history.
And that's a pivotal moment in Texas history. Is is when Ozzy Osbourne got
arrested for urinating on the Alimo. Anyway, Uh, I wanted to finish
up well, probably finished with the podcast, they assume, but there was
a couple other things I wanted to talk about. This thing's kind of depressing.
I gotta someone gave me a box of Corafanta solcata that had been dug
up from an area where they're destroying, destroying a bunch of habitat north of
Austin and Williamson County, Texas, to build more of this bleak, depressing,
cracked house car car culture, retail slum shit which is gonna be obsolete
in twenty or thirty years. Fuck it's absolute now, it's such a it's
such a horrible way to live. Obviously, I talked about this all the
time, but it's it's so bad for human health to be stuck in a
fucking vehicle for sometimes four hours a day, you know, in terms of
a commute. But this landscape is just trash too. I mean, obviously
it's it's depressing and it's not stopping anytime soon. So if you live,
if you know how to take care of these, and you live in I've
only got I mean, I got like a dozen. But if you if
you live somewhere and it can go, I don't want it in a fucking
pot. I want it in like a native ardens somewhere. I would I
would possibly reach out there and give you one Corfanta solcata, really cool little
cactus grows and those limestone, those thin soiled limestone escarpments Juniper woodland escarpments of
juniper and grassland uh areas of of the eastern part of the Edwards Plateau in
Central Texas. But I'm certainly not gonna give it if you just gonna torture
it in the pot. And I really want to see them in the ground.
But the person who gave to me, I mean they had way too
many. I mean there were there were hundreds, and so a couple one
to botanic gardens and a couple one other places. But it's you know,
it's it's depressing, it's it's sad. So some people will probably see that
and be like, oh, well, look, luth great, I love
to have all those cacti. They want that for my collection. I see
that, and I get depressed because I realized what that symbolizes. It's all
that fucking habitat that was lost, and then all the plants that couldn't be
saved because they're not caced. You know, they don't take well to being
dug up in the middle of summer and and and then rerouted. So anyway,
so much of that going on in Texas stuff, I mean all over
the sun Belt, which uh yeah, people are gonna have to move away
once climate change really ramps up. Once it's you know, we're seeing it's
a it's a common thing that summer temperatures are like ten degrees hotter for three
weeks longer than they used to be or what. I don't know, man,
But anyway, but yeah, San Antonio was nice. It was cool
to go up there. I went on the train I took the They got
this little train for kids they used to have on a Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.
It's like a little you know, the track is. It's a super
narrow gage railroad. It just goes in a circle around this little park near
the Witt Museum or Whitty out how they pronounced that the Dinosaur Museum, which
is a really nice Pecos River exhibit. Uh, Native people of the Pecos
River, you know all the it's got all the rock paintings and cave paintings
and ship on there. It's and if you've never been to the Pecos River,
at least by the border, by the Mexican border, I highly suggest
making time to go. Maybe not when it's one hundred and fifteen degrees,
maybe maybe in November. You know, take some mushrooms or something with you,
go have a nice time out there. Go see the cave with a
white Shaman. The white Shaman. But uh, but they have a really
cool exhibit at the Wit Museum there. I fucking love going to museums,
man, I always have. I love lurking. You learn so much.
It's a nice ambiance, you know, them the dim lighting, the nice
the way things are put on exhibit. It's works out real well. You
know, I could fucking look at museums. So I always try to go
to museums. Whatever city, go to the museums and libraries very important.
They hit the central library and whatever museums they got. Even go to the
art museum or something, you know, they got a lapidary museum or some
kind of boring something like that. I'll go do that, though. I'll
just get into the muse especially if I can get in for free. All
right, you get like a reciprocal admissions. You get a pass some of
these. A lot of the museums, you get a pass to one,
you get reciprocal admissions to the other. But but I mean, we were
on this train going in a circle around this park with my daughter, and
it was me and my daughter and the fucking that the guy driving the train,
he's like sitting in this tiny locomotive. To it looks comical, but
he kept We went by a golf course at some point and he's fucking roasting
the golfers. And he went on for like three or four minutes. It
was hilarious. I was sitting there cracking up and clapping and ship, and
you could tell some people were visibly annoyed. They were probably you know,
they were probably golfers, uh you know who thought they were just taking our
kids out of family, outing a little nice family adventure, and instead they
were just being slandered. But yeah, I don't know, it was pretty
funny. I forgot I should have told the dude driving a locomotive, the
toy locomotive, that I appreciated it. You know, incur incurse so I
can encourage more of that behavior. You never know the little effects you might
have just by talking to a stranger. In other news, this is this
is kind of cool. It's worth this is worth mentioning. When I was
in South Africa, I fell in love with this genus called Melanthus, which
is that it's like a shrub basically a shrub to a relatively small shrub.
Some can be upwards of like five feet tall, some can be only two
or three feet tall. It's I think there's a hot many species are There's
four or five species maybe more in South Africa. The leaves are pinnate and
kind of have a dent tape margin on them, and they stink something awful.
They smell very chemical, very very thick, toxic, like some of
you wouldn't want to eat, you know, like obvious obviously trying to discourage
your bivory, and probably evolved in reaction to being non on. But the
flowers of all the Melianthus species are red color, they're bird pollinated, and
interestingly, they produce black ink. It's one of the only plants I've ever
seen, not black ink, black nectar. Excuse me, so the only
plants I've seen produce black nectar. And I got a nice money shut of
it. I should actually make a post about it, because it's pretty cool.
I put a post on Twitter, which now must scoofy ask calls X
or whatever. The fuck. I don't know. That's such a shit show,
people, I why don't you move? I'm like, I don't know,
because I'm not then invested in it. I just post interesting stuff here.
And also I don't want to I don't need multiple platforms and I've got
enough shit already. Anyway, I posted something on on Twitter about it,
but it's a really interesting phenomenon. I've still got to I've still gotta There's
so many South Africa videos I never edited or put together. I gotta get
I gotta get on. I just refound all the footage that I had lost.
But anyway, all that aside paper just came out about what makes the
ink black, and it's it's pretty similar in chemical composition to gall ink like
on oaks, which is you know, historically been used at least in Europe
for for for ink, you know, for ink for penning. So it's
that's a pretty cool fucking it's a pretty cool discovery. So this black nectar
on these bird pollinated flowers, I guess the black color is highly conspicuous.
That's why it's stuck around evolutionarily and why it evolved. But what's what's in
it is is uh iron and then this compound called it lagic acid, which
is a polyphenolis and antioxid and you can find in walnuts, pecans, raspberries,
et cetera. I think it's probably been marketed as a snake oil too.
I mean, all this stuff is these compounds. Of course, these
antioxen compounds are healthy when you consume them in the naturally occurring foods that they
eat. Now when you take it in a fucking supplement form that all aside,
I was stoked to read about this because melely anthis is a really cool
fucking genus. I should have looked up how many species there are. I
remember seeing two or three when I was in South Africa, but but pretty
remarkable. There's a paper that just came out on it. It's a it's
on New Phytologists. I think it's it's open access so you can download a
PDS a PDF of it. Posts secretory synthesis of a natural analog of iron
gall ink in the black nectar of mele Antis species. So that's pretty weird
and pretty notable. It's not as cool, in my opinion as the red
nectar of that plant nessa coat on any s O C O D O N,
which is in companielacy and is uh supposedly pollinated by geckos and grows on
the cliff walls of its habitat and mauritius. But it's still pretty fucking cool.
If we asked me that that plantnessa coat on. I think they've they've
got it at Missouri but tent of a garden they might have it on display
there. Yeah, I've only seen it in like the bad greenhouses. I've
never seen it. Then, I've never seen it in Man. You know
what, they probably have it on display. And what's it called? The
Climatron, the the what's what is the thing they got the Metrion. No,
that's that's the movie theater we sneak into in San Francisco. The Climate
tru Climate truck. I think that's it. I know what it's called.
I'm just snaking a joke, but h yeah, I'm gonna be stopping at
Mobot on my way up to Chicago. I gotta drop off some orberium orberium
vouchers, and uh, I have to type off the fucking labels for those
two. That's gonna be a bummer. That shit is never fun. Why
is it always so hard? It's it's so hard, especially for me with
the fucking rapping add and all the shit I gotta do to type out or
barium labels like the type out or Bariamuch. I've still got shit that I
assessioned at a university in Texas that I haven't typed up labels for. It's
just sitting in the cabinet. It's already been frozen overnight to kill any bugs.
It's dried, it's it's a it's done. But I just can't.
It's just God, it sucks. It's so time consuming. I really need
to just do Maybe you could go you go do it on a treadmill or
something. You go get on a treadmill at the fitness center. You know
your ten dollars gym members. I didn't realize how how speaking to the talk
about the gym again, I'm sorry, but like how that's so cheap ten
bucks for a gym, like so many gyms are fucking rip off. Ten
bucks is what a gym should cost, you know. Anyway, remember going
to the twenty four hour Fitness in Oakland and you'd see a bag lady in
there on the uh no offense to bag ladies. Just you know what it
is, what it is on the on a on a stir machine. You
know, she's wearing like three layers and seems like she's little off, but
she's doing her thing and having a time. So you know, he's wearing
like a winter coat and a nit hat and it's like seventy five degrees.
It's like right on, you know, like it when she gets a little
weird, like when you're day to day reality gets a little weird sometimes.
So anyway, yeah, that meli antis. Article is fucking cool. And
uh, if you get a chance, if you're a mo about to see
this nessa coat on, look into it. It's a really cool, really
cool plant species with literally blood red nectar. Anyway, I'm gonna I'm gonna
leave it there because uh, I get shit to doing plenty of plenty enough
to talk about already. I could do another one of these fucking next week.
Anyway, if you want to order a book, I'm still doing books
twenty bucks, No twenty five because of shipping. If you want me to
draw in it or do a little doodle, they'll do a colored pencils nice.
Uh, fifty five or fifty five bucks. We could venmo me society
as hell. Leave your address and what is for in the comments and if
you insist on using that purchase protection throwing you know, five to six extra
bucks for a for the venmo fees, but don't use purchase. But I'm
not gonna I gonna rob you, Like what am I gonna take the money
and not give it. You know, it's not like I'm I'm not traceable.
You know, I'm out there. Man. You could come after me,
but please don't. But anyway, yeah, just uh, you know,
do what you feel. But regardless, uh, those books are fifty
five bucks. And uh, I should have a new book out next year.
I'm working on that now, and it's gonna be a ship ton of
photos and writings and a little bit autobiographical. And then I was talking about
with the dudes from Cactus Store about maybe putting out like a photo book.
I don't know, like a like a small photo book, limited run photo
book. But I don't really have time to handle the shipping and the printing
and all that ship But I've got I've just got, like, you know,
two terabytes worth of plant photos that would be cool to share with people.
I mean, like the shit I post on Instagram is a tiny fraction
of what I've got and all the photos I've got, And so if you
really want to see photos, the best place to do it is probably a
naturalist. But even there, I don't, you know, I upload a
lot of ship I naturals. Like every taxon I upload, you know,
has nine to ten photos on it. I wonder if they're gonna ever,
you know, gag me at some point with the amount of shit I can
upload, you know, like censure me, say that's enough. You're posting
too much shit. We don't have, you know, no one individual has
allowed that much server space. But anyway, that's probably the best best spot
to see what I've what i've the photos I've taken and stuff I've observed,
but those are low quality and you can only zoom in so much. And
there's still a ton that I don't put up there because there's just you know,
it'd be multiple observations. So yeah, i'd be cool to do a
photo book out there, like an annotated photo book of plants from all over
the world, every place I've been habitat photos, money shots, macro photos,
and then you know, uh this genus, species and then family in
order too. It would be nice maybe one day. That's there's gonna be
a lot of that in the book that's coming out, but the book that's
coming out on Abram's Press. But yeah, I might do a little limited
run anyway, you know, I don't know anyway, So that's it.
I got, Uh than that, What am I doing? Yeah, I
stick I still do stickers, and if you want stickers, just to email
me. They're fifteen bucks for eight of them, eight different stickers, and
uh, the same thing. I feel me to draw some money envelope or
do your name up real nice and the letters and stuff. You just just
go ahead and send me not five bucks and uh and I'll do it.
So thanks for your support. I really appreciate this. All the podcasts are
ad free on the Patreon and I'll be talking in Ithaca on September eighteenth at
Cornell University. I'm amazed they even letting me on there. I'll be giving
a presentation on dry land of plants and just shooting the ship. You know.
It'll be like a nice blend of comedy and plant education. And then
I'm doing a talk in Lower Manhattan a cactus store on one of the September
twentieth God September, and New York is so nice, man, late September,
perfect perfect climate. The sun's already at a lower wrangle in the sky
at that latitude, but the fucking climate is perfect. The New York is
just it's a great fucking city. Man. I don't know if I could
ever live there. It'll be a little too intense. Plus it's it's expensive
as balls, But is that it does that work? Expensive as balls?
I don't think that's actually a thing. Well it is now, I guess,
but yeah, I'm stuck to be there. So and then in October
we're gonna be filming four more episodes to Kill Your Lawn in Atlanta. So
I don't know, yeah, hopefully, hopefully life slows down a little bit
at some point. All Right, that's all. I gotta have a grocerday,
go fick some pay.