Limestone Desert Ferns, Montezuma Cypress on the Border

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nice nice. Hi, welcome to the crime page. But Bodany doesn't podcast.
I don't know, you know, I'm it's fucking It's like eleven o'clock
at night. My schedule's all fucked up, my dopamine levels are all fucked
up. I'm writing this fucking book, which I just if I just put
in twenty minutes a day, as song as I put in twenty minutes.
Sometimes I put in two hours and I'll go sit in the coffee shop like
a shlip, like one of those fucking nerds on a laptop. It's not
a little tablet because I could draw on it to a good little keyboard attachment
for the Samsung. Because I fucking hate Apple. I refuse to I refuse
to buy anything Apple. It's a weird fucking cult and I'm not doing it.
But I'll just go and then I just write. It's gonna be an
autobiographical piece, this book, and through telling my story, my story,
like my story deserves to be telled, Like I'm so fucking self indulgent that
I believe that my shit is important. Well, that's not what happened I
got approached by the publisher. I didn't approach them, motherfucker. I wasn't
pitching this. They approached me. I'm not some you know, I don't.
I'm not some high falutin self indulgent fuck who thinks that my shit is
so important. I gotta tell you anyway, So I'm going through. You
know, I'm writing all this stuff down. It's nice. I used to
write a lot when I was riding trains a lot, when I was like
twenty two. I would write every fucking day. And it was before we
had smartphones around to ruin our lives and thoroughly fuck up our neurochemistry and social
media and all that shit. You know how many times a day you check
it? Be honest. You don't need to tell me, Just be honest
with yourself. You know. I turned off all my notifications, and I
still check the fucking thing because I'm so add that, you know. I
just I can't have a bunch of shit flashing in front of me. It
fucks me up. But anyway, you know, I'm going through. I'm
remembering, you know, all the stuff that happened to me, and it
kind of remembering how I got into this shit, it's kind of cool,
it's kind of weird. But the point is is that writing is an important
mental exercise, and I implore you to do it even if you don't have
anything to say. Just keep a little journal or a log book, keep
a fucking like a Google Docs app on your phone, and just type some
shit with you little tap tap thumbs, you know what I do. Today.
I had thoughts of my old suicide, but only for curiosity, you
know. I had h I wanted to kill my boss. I thought of
clubbing this man that I saw because he said something smarty to me that was
totally unnecessary. Or you could I mean, that's just I don't know why
I went negative. You could be. You know, the sky today was
so beautiful. I like the way that the pollution makes the sun, you
know, the colors and oranges and purples and stuff. You could go there
to just write some shit down. It's good and try to and then read
through it later and try to write, put words together, put thoughts together,
Try to be an eloquent. Fuck. It's not so bad, you
know, eloquent and articulate. Wow, I had no idea you were the
articulate. Ah God, I miss the UH. I missed the sunsets in
the West Oakland train yard. They were so nice. I think it was
the pollution. It was like the water vapor off the ocean eight miles to
the west across the bay. Well, I guess it'll be fourteen because San
Francisco's seven miles wide and then the bay is about six miles anyway to point
is. It was a fucking You get some really nice sunsets out there.
But anyway, so I'm been writing a bunch. It's just driving me fucking
nuts. It fucks me up. My friend Priya, you should read one
of her books. She wrote a book called Your Driver's Waiting about a uh,
a Sri Lankan ride shared driver who ends up blowing up. I don't
want to spoil it. I don't want to spoiler for you, you know,
But anyway, it's a good it's a good book. Only halfway through
it, but it's a good book. But she was telling me because she's
writing another one, and she's like, it fucks me up writing this.
It's like everything is put on hold, like I can't focus on anything.
It's really weird. I'm learning a lot about my own ability or inability to
focus because it's just all consuming. But it should be good and if you
know, if it sucks, then I got still got four hundred photos that
I can put in there. It's gonna be like, you know, a
bunch of photos from all over the world. Anyway, the point is that's
what I've been doing, and I'm still just you know, the video qualities
I'm making are like kind of maybe maybe a little half assed. You know,
they're a little half assed. I'll just say it. And I've still
got a Cowie. I get this Australis those giant, beautiful bastards video to
make that Alan Rockefeller was in Alan Rockefeller, whose last name is not really
Rockefeller. I don't know why he picked that name, because he's you're gonna
make everyone think, You're gonna make everyone think that you're a fucking you know,
rich kid prick, that your dad was an oil magnate. You know,
I don't know why I picked that name. But it's funny though too,
because people, some of the real you know, luxury anarchist types really
get on his ass, you know, your family with responsible affair, and
he just lets him go. I love it. He just lets him spin
their wheels. He doesn't tell him it's not really my real name. I
just made it up. You just lets them go, just lets them get
all angry and shit. It's nice. None of it matters. The comment's
coming soon, anyway, we are the comment. Anyway. I had a
wonderful weekend. My friend Lily came into town from Florida. She finally get
out of Florida. I was proud of her. I think, I think
everyone needs to get out of Florida. And then I love botanis botanizing with
her. It's so fun. She's got good insight to you know, she's
one of those good friends. Good she'll tell you if you got shit on
your face, if you're full of shit, if you're bullshitting yourself. You
know, she's not gonna blow smoke up your ass. But she came into
town, and then I showed her a little bit of South Texas, and
then we drove all the way to fucking Alpine in West Texas. And I
had some friends from Morning Star Conservancy coming into town. Uh, some natives
who were gonna repatriate, rematriate read whatever the fuck? Uh. Doctor Martin
Terry's peyote, which he had under a research permit with a DEAH and so
and so. It's a whole clusterfuck of what happened. But basically they learned
as I already knew that a you know, being a Native American church and
having such and such percentage of Native American blood is not the same as having
an actual DEA permit research permit to possess this, which is the same as
someone would have for ketamine or MDMA or fucking fentanyl or whatever. Actually,
I might be talking out my ass. I texted Hamilton Morris about this.
Felt bad bothering the fucking guy because I'm sure he's swamped with shit. But
I texted him about this and he kind of gave me a little bit of
insight. I don't really understand. I still don't understand how this works.
And then I wrote to this I talked to this guy, David Heldrith about
this as well, about DEA permits and all this shit. It's so confusing.
I mean, it's just, you know, you need a DA permit.
Like there was a veterinarian I knew who had a DEA the same permit
because he handled ketamine or something I don't know, for horses like he was
like a farm vet. Doesn't make any sense. If you know anything about
this, will you email me and just you know, let me come correct
about this shit. Don't let me put out bad dope. All right,
no pun intended, but uh, anyway, you know, it's a weird
thing because peote, which shouldn't be illegal in the first place, but in
some cases it's good that it is because it protects it from the white drug
bro and no offense that are white's the Caucasians, which I say is a
Caucasian. I'm a Caucasian. How can I be talking shit. I'm not
saying anything, you know what I mean. I'm not saying anything negative,
but I'm just saying, you know, those guys are out there, right,
My great grandpa, those my great grandpa was Cherokee people, right,
my great It's okay, I'm a little bit native. You know. I
supposedly everyone's every fucking white guy who wants to be a shaman says his great
grandpa was Cherokee' some shit. Anyway, whatever, who cares? I
don't. I'm not an identitarian. But you know, this is a plant
that's that's intensely culturally important to a demographic that experienced a whole bunch of bullshit
thrust it upon them, and so you know it's been uh you have to
I want to get a Payot historian in here really to talk about it,
because it's really interesting how Kwana Parker, who was half white himself, started
uh the Native American Church and kind of retired from you know, the whole
being a warrior thing and fighting the US government to uh to basically inventing uh
Peyote religion. I mean, the compound has been used, the paoti has
been used for thousands of years by people. There's you know, there was
a Payote button covered recovered from one of the caves in West Texas and the
on the Pecos River near the cave of a white shaman. Isn't that a
coincidence? Dead dead did like Craco Syrias dude? Anyway, no offense,
So I'm just joking around, you know. That's the thing. Come on,
even if you like, if you'd you're one of those guys, you
know, that's the thing. The Tricho Syrius drug broth thing on Instagram anyway,
or tic tac or whatever the fuck people are using, you know,
but anyway, so, uh, where the hell was I going with this?
It's too late. I got it home. Let me make my Let
me make my little fake coffee here, Okay, made my coffee, made
my coffee. There, we go. Okay. Anyway, So, as
I was saying, in some cases, I guess it's for now, it's
good that it is illegal because it prevents it. It prevents paoty from being
you know, it makes it a little bit more complicated. You know,
for the quote unquote psychedelic revolution, which is a word that makes me want
to puke. I kind of hope, Uh, I think that's over,
the psychedelic Revolution. Is it over? Is it kind of died to the
background with all the other horrible shit, you know, all the other horrible
shit going on in the world right now, like we might be on the
ViRGE of World War three, Maybe it's made the psychedelic revolution kind of died
down. You know, some fucking startup, some like mescalin startup. You're
gonna get start getting ads for, just like you get ads for ketamine therapy
and on instant or some shit. You get ads for fucking paotes ceremony,
just some way to ruin and taint it like every other thing that's that the
American mindset touches, you know, the mainstream American mindset. So anyway,
it's safe from that at least because it is a religion, it's a spiritual
it's a spirituality. I guess there's a lot of spirituality. Anyway. It's
a weird gray area that it exists in because it's a Schedule one substance,
which I think occurred in sixty seven or was it seventy, I forget,
I don't know. Leo knows the details of it. But it's also used.
It's permissible to be used by a demographic, a certain demographic of the
population. And I think most the eagents probably know that it's generally harmless.
I mean, even as a psychedelic it's it's really really subtle, and it's
kind of pointless to do if you're not in an all night meeting, a
payote ceremony with the song and the prayer and all that. It's not you
know, it's I don't know, it's it's anyway, and it is.
It's like a really mellow compound. But anyway, so, and it's also
a plant that exists in a state that doesn't really give a shit about conservation
or protection at all. And in a place where there's a ton of habitat
destruction. It is an orgy of greed. Down here in South Texas.
We were at the West Texas population, which is a very small population in
Percity on Brewster County, and there might be some you know what, there
might be some peyote in Terrell County too, by Sanderson, but there are
who knows. I mean, there's no public land out there. It's just
such large tracts of land, all entirely private owned. That's where I met
the guy that I was collecting seeds and rocks. I was looking for seeds
of Incidius caposa and I was collecting rocks. There's some really cool shirt nodules
there. And this crazy bastard, this crazy motherfucker. Well, first off,
I seen this one guy that looked like Lurch, this big motherfucker.
What he done down here? Like you know, Lerch from the Adams family,
and he's you're younger, you may not know what that is, but
it's a big Frankenstein looking motherfucker. And this guy was just they were curious
what I was doing. They were paranoid, they were suspicious. And then
the other guy went on a goddamn uh. He went on a rantic about
Joe Biden voters. He said, there's Biden people. He was convinced that
cartel was migrating through his land. Motherfucker was out of his mind. But
anyway, I don't know, man, it was weird. It was just
fucking weird. The dude was just he must have been doing blow too.
I mean, this guy looked like straight, you know, as straight laced
as can be. But some of those guys probably got drug habits. I
mean, this guy was smoking whatever Alex Jones was smoking. He was on
the same tip and uh, and I just agreed and pretended to be in
agreement with them, you know. But then after a while he kept punishing
me and just going off about, you know, the the how Joe Biden
voters are moving cartel and migrants through his land. Anyway, the point is
there's some wacky fuckers out there, but uh, and no one knows the
true extent of the West Texas peyote population when the habitat is so much different
to anyway. The point is is, you know, there's this Martin Terry
who studied it at Sewell Ross Uh, he's a retired botany professor at Sewell
Ross and who you know, has written quite a number of papers and uhlfafra
it. You know, he's still got his plants at Sewell Ross under this
DEA permit. They want to get rid of him because it's a pain in
the ass to have and they've you know, it's kind of a burden.
And so there's they've been jumping through all these hoops. The permit is up
in May Martin doesn't have any way to take them, anywhere to put them,
and so Morning Star Conservancy, you know, which is a Native RWN
organization, wanted to basically take them and put them in the ground in Tucson
where they'll do fine. And so everything was set up. They were good
to go. They came over here, you know, everything was talked about
with my friend who's the greenhouse manager there, and they were going to come
take these payotes that are have to be behind three different locks. All right.
There's a lock on the greenhouse, there's a lock on the gate to
the greenhouse, and there's a lock on the greenhouse, and then they're in
a separate welded cage that was built just for them. Series of cages because
there's quite a few plant plants. Uh, and then you know it's just
like that, that's a pain. That's how it's a pain in the ass.
It's the cumbersome pain in the ass for sul Ross and the greenhouse could
use the space because they've got actual plants they want, you know, they
educational plants they need there for the biology department. Stuff like that gave them
a welwitchia. They've got a whole bunch of other shit you know that can
be used by the students there, and so they want to get rid of
these things. Anyways, it long story short. Morning Star, the guy's
Morning Star came in. My friend Leo Rupert, who's uh Autumn that's the
tribe'es in wonderful man to really really kind just good human and h and so
and great singer of all the Payotes songs. Anyway, they came and then
like right before they were supposed to take it, we figured out they didn't
have the certain form that they needed the form to to two and licensed Payo
Tarot's of which I think there's only two and there in South Texas have a
form two two three and so form two two two when I looked it up.
It's something that you know, Schedule one and Schedule two substances. You
know, you need to requite to use to have those in order to be
able to possess these for research or whatever, you know, like maps when
they were doing M D M A trials. I'm sure they probably got a
Johns Hopkins probably has a same permit, you know, to be able to
possess psilocybin when they were doing their psilocybin studies. So anyway, anyway,
so that was kind of a drag, so they couldn't take it. We
had. We have to work things out. We have to figure out how
to do this exchange. Otherwise the plants have to be incinerated when the when
the whole uh when Sewell Ross's permit is up in May and so but luckily
like no one doesn't want the plants to go to the Morning Star. It's
just a way to figure out how to do illegally. Like they were talking
with the guy at the DEA who's trying to help facilitate this. I just
this is a gray area. It's never been done before. And again there's
no other compound that's illegal for the entire United States population except this demographic who's
allowed to use it. And so it's it was just a it's just a
fucking I learned a little bit that was cool about how this stuff works,
but it's very frustrating. And again these you know, the morning Star is
not going to eat these plants. They're trying to put them back in the
ground, uh and save them. They just care about the well being of
the plants because to them, payote is a friend. Payote is a you
know, it's a it's a it is, it's a friend. And then
payote's a friend, it's a I mean it's a living thing. Of course,
it's a living thing. It's a plant. But they got you know,
a special relationship with it. So anyway, and then you know,
once they're in the ground, they can get seeds off them to grow more
what. Anyway, the point is it was kind of a cluster fuck.
But we had a great weekend and uh we explored some land in West Texas.
Uh, private landowner let us out of their ranch. We went and
saw uh some beautiful, beautiful plants and including some very old payotes, some
ariocarpus. We saw a fresh mountain lion kill that was pretty fucking cool.
Was an out ad, which is like a barbary sheep. They're endangered in
Africa where they're native I think northern Africa, but they released them for hunting
here in Texas and they can form. I've seen herds of like three hundred
these fucking things, and they can really fuck up a landscape. You know.
They're like one of those cases where they do so well when they don't
have any of the checks and balances back home, you know. But apparently
this one was not doing so well. This one got marked by a fucking
juvenile mountain lion. It was wild to see too. We were going up
this hill, this steep hill, beautiful, beautiful Cretaceous pre k T extinction,
pre dinosaur extinction, fossils of brachiopods, a beautiful limestone everywhere, and
like mud. We saw some trace fossils too, Like you know, you
could see the it was like foot like not footprints, but tracks like scurry
tracks, and the sand that had once been this calcarious sand that had once
been at the bottom of a shallow ocean eighty million years ago. I need
to find out what actual formation that was that we were on, but it
was it was cretaceous, and then we saw it's just a cool there's these
giant snail fossils from around there too, Like these this calcareous sand has fossilized
these giant snails that are the size of a fucking grapefruit. Michael Easton had
a couple on his porch. I think I stole one. Uh maybe he
told me I could have. Either way, I took one. Where the
fuck did it go? Actually, you know what, I lost it now?
Maybe it's my I don't know anyway. Ah, but it's a really
cool exposure of rock. And so we were going up this hill and I
heard, you know, my friend Kelsey mentioned that there's, oh, there's
a fresh mountain lion killing. I got up and there was this odd dad
this you that had just been killed like that morning, and there was claw
prints. There was like you know, you could see in the video,
there was like a spot where that you could see the cat had like clawed
at the ground. I don't know if it was gonna try and bury it
or what. And this thing had its throat ripped open and there was like
intestines out and a bunch of it was eaten. But there was a little
bit left and it was it didn't even think it wasn't rotten, like it
was so fresh. It smelled like a butcher shop, like the meat market
at the fucking HGB, you know, or to Jewel Osco if you're in
Chicago. And then uh, and then this this gentleman who was with us
saw the thing a couple hills over running away from us. Godess, it
was just such a beautiful day. It was a beautiful day, perfect temperature,
wasn't hot as fuck. Incredible plants. I was really geeked out over
the the Selaginella lepidophilah, which is you know, another plant that's got the
unfortunate colloquial name of resurrection fern, which most most of the time I think
people think of what is it leo Peltis polypodioides, which is like an Eastern
like east the Mississippi plant. But but this is a selage it's a celaginella,
so it's a lycophyte. And and I'd never really looked at the strobol
eye of it, which is the strobell eye. It's just the you know,
the un selaginella. It's how they reproduce. It's a it's a when
they produce their spores. You know, so it's I was mistakenly referring to
it as a sporophill. I forgot it's actually it's called termed a strobolus uh
strobol eye plural, and so that's what that's what the lycophytes do. And
so this thing it was, you know, it's a cool it's a rosette
that can completely dry out and then when it gets wet, it just donefurls
bright green all over it. And you'll see fucking hills of these things,
like five hundred to one thousand of these things just cluttering this this you know,
barren rock exposure in the Chihuahua Desert. It's such a fucking cool plant.
Seen Celaginella gypsicola, or maybe it was Gypsyphyla in the Wavo laone two,
which grows in these bizarre gypsum gyp some exposures, but uh, but
I've never really seen. You know, it's got kind of like flat scales,
but they uh, they're green when they're when they're open, and then
like a palm and then they kind of the fingers curl up, the foliage
scales curl up when it gets drying but they're not dead. They just go
dormant. So you know, the first time I ever saw of those,
it was in a street market in New Orleans being being hawked as a resurrection
fern. But it's not a fern. It's Silajrianella, different lineage of plants.
But anyway, I was geeked out over those. You could see the
reproductive structures putting the spores out there. It was so fucking cool, you
know. And they've probably got a weird micro rhizole thing going on too.
I would imagine, God, that's soil. I'm so curious about some many
of these desert soils, God damn it. And then there was like three
different species in terry they see one of the coolest fern families, which houses
the subfamily kyl Anthoidi. Kyl Anthoidi is all the cool desert ferns, like
the blue ferns, the fuzzy ass ferns, the ferns with the white wax
on the underside, like Natholina and our guyra cosmudg is. These you know,
they don't have that little okay, so ferns got you know, they
got sorry on the undersides of the leaves on the sporophills, and the story
is a cluster of sporangia which produced spores. That's what you would scrape off
if you're trying to grow them at some point. And there's a whole guide
to grow in kylanthoid ferns online. Good luck if you can do it.
It sounds pretty fucking intense, but god, they're so fucking cool. There's
such a cool group of ferns. I mean, a fern that can live
in the fucking desert, that's adapted to growing in rocky, dry environments.
Pilea the quot quote unquote coffee fern is in that family too. Kylanthes Mariopterus
nolina are guyracosma astraleipis. Oh, the fucking astro alipis. My friend Matt
realogist. Someone in high elevation Costa Rica called Jamis Sonia named that. There's
some guy named James said. We said, I always fucking hate that.
I wish they would stop doing it. Jamison. The fuck was Jamison.
But but anyway, so, uh, you know these you know most ferns
have well all I think all fern I think they're technically you could say most
ferns have sorry, and that's where they produce the sporangia, where the sprangias
producers sorry as a cluster of sperangia, and uh, most ferns will have
uh, you know, an dusium, which is like a little protective bract
terry dec doesn't have indusia, doesn't produce enthusia. It's just got it's got
what's called a pseudo indusium dusium singular, dusia plural, and it's just they
kind of use this revolute margin, this curled over lip margin of their their
leaflets, uh to uh protect their their spores. And so it's you know,
anytime you see that revolute margin on one of those those fern fronds,
those leaflets, it's a good indication. It's probably teradacy, great fucking family
of plants, man, and they're all over. And so there was at
this spot there was Astrolepis coachy census after coachies, Uh there was, and
then there was two species of not Aalena, not Thelena. Always have that
white farina, that white wax and the undersides of of their fronds, and
god is at a fucking cool that's one of my favorite genera, probably astro
lepus and not the lina both. I mean, I like meriaptoris too,
but you know, Mariapterus is just fuzzy, not the Lina's got the white
waxy shit. On the other side, there was not Alena greggy i,
which is like a silver ice colored fern. Again just the result of millions
of years being subjected to the selection pressures in the Chihuahua desert and growing out
of rock. And they got these wiry racus too, this wiry you know,
the wiry central part of the firm front. And then there was not
I think was not the len and neeli. I found one of those last
time I was at that property, got attacked by bees. There was a
fucking beehive in the rock, you know, and those there was that they're
all Africanized one, they're all the Africanized best. They'll come at you if
you're like thirty feet away, they're motherfuckers. Many if they're in their hive
and you get within like thirty feet of their hive or disturbed, God forbid,
disturbed or anything, they come after you. And that's what what happened
to a friend of mine. He just got attacked. I mean just fucking
hundreds of things. And I think he had had prior exposure to bees,
and so they kind of mitigated his his uh, his inflammatory response. And
that was what the doctors told him might have saved him, as he had
had prior experience to bees working in some sort of forget what he was doing.
He told me what it was somewhere in South Texas, but he'd been
stung quite a few times before, and so his immune system didn't react and
his throat didn't close up. He didn't need an epinep from pen but he
was just getting he just you know, he was out in the brush and
he tripped over a log and they were in the log, like a down
log, and they just what a horrible way to go. God, I
don't know what would you do. I would just you know, I don't
know, you're just swatting at everything. You just like fucking a man.
That's a terrible I mean, it's it sucks so bad, it's almost kind
of funny. You're like, that is just the worst, most annoying way
to go out. Oh he's cracking the nabers. Here we go Midnight podcast.
I gotta print fucking T shirts after this too. I'm really burning the
candle here at both ends. But we've raised thirty grand for this nonprofit land
purchase, and we're looking at two different parcels. So either way, we
will get our research center with the nice bathroom, and you will be invited
as long as you're nice. You just be nice. It's like it,
don't be a prick, don't say any fucking smarty comment. Just you know,
keep keep that shit. You know, take your meds, talk to
your therapist, keep it on, you know, keep it on, uh
on lock, you know that self maintenance routine. Anyway, So at this
Propert, yeah, we were at this property for I don't know, three
or four hours. It was great Rupert who's been going to all night Paote
meetings teaching songs. He teaches this stuff in Europe, he teaches in Eastern
Europe. I guess there's a whole bunch of I was in a meeting with
him and there where he had these two ladies from Estonia with him. Uh
and and they knew all the songs, you know, they knew all the
songs. They were amazing singers of the Paote songs. They were. I
mean, it was really cool. It was really I was. I was
impressed. You know. I guess there's a whole there's a whole community of
people in Eastern Europe like the whitest shade of melanin content that you could have,
and that are into Peoti. Rupert goes over there and teaches and stuff.
Anyway, So you know, Rupert had never he had never seen uh
Paotian habitat, so it was cool that he got this. I was able
to be there when he got to see it, and I was, you
know, I was at one point I was filming the really up close cuticle
uh and texture of Aerocarpus phisseratus, and I heard Rupert singing and giving prayer
to these uh these paotes in the ground across this little gully. It was
a beautiful it was a beautiful moment. But uh as I just sat there
staring into the the wardy fissures of of this areocarpus. I wonder if that's
why it's called viziatus, because the the epidermal tissue. And I want to
put a post up about this, but when you really look at the the
up close texture as some of the these plants, it's wild. And there
were a bunch of dead Areocarpus there too, presumably from drought, and they
leave behind that kind of looks like a dirty fingernail. It's like this shell.
Don't know what the material is made of, probably some sort of lipid,
some sort of like waxy structure. It almost looks like keratin. But
uh god, it's a cool I mean, these little they look like these
little star you know, kind of like yellowed star shells all over the desert
and it's just where the Aerocarpus died and it's like this shell that protects the
tissue below, the softer tissue below. You know, parody doesn't have that.
Maybe astrophytem has that. It's got kind of that texture. I don't
know, I don't think so, not as much as as Aerocarpus. Trying
to think of any other cactite species that have that, But I'd love to
know what that compound is. It's really wild. I mean, it's got
to do a fucked on to prevent moisture loss and as well as mitigate uv.
There were some really cool papers I just came across on on Aerocarpus in
the city and how it has these contractile roots. It kind of pulls itself
into the ground, the rocks that Aerocarpus grows in and next to you,
because it's the living rock cact this it's evolved with the selection pressure of these
rocky environments that it grows and that's why it kind of looks like a rock.
It's you know, it's a result of the environment hand picking as a
figurative figure of speech, the same way a plant breeder would hand picking the
most rock resembling species over a long period of time. Anything it didn't look
like a rock got marked. So anyway, Yeah, the texture of these
fucking plants is not espe anyway, some of the rocks that they grow with,
uh, have to be you have to reach temperatures of like one hundred
and forty degrees in the summer, because I mean they just again, rock
is like asphalt, it's like concrete. It just absorbs heat and then retains
it late in the night. But you know it is it's more of a
true desert out there than it is done here in humid South Texas. So
the air does cool off at night because you don't have that those water molecules
in the air to retain the heat. That's why human areas, of course,
don't cool off at night like the desert does. But but yeah,
I got that fucking I'd never really looked at it up that up close before.
And this was this was a peculiar area too, because it wasn't perfectly
white rock. I got a photo of of an Aerocarpus grown beneath the shrub.
What was the species of shrub? Now, I gotta look this up.
Okay, I'm looking at my photo. I can't even tell what the
hell shrub it is. It was leafless, it was everything was crispy out
there. Oh you know what it looks like. It might be that leucophylum.
Yeah, that was that Leucophylum minus. I'm pretty sure it's it's leafless,
but there's a couple of leaves left, and I remember seeing a few
of those plants. It's a Lucophylums scroll fuelaria a se It's lamey alias is
the order, beautiful plant, very tiny leaves compared to uh uh the other
lucalphylum that we get down here, which, uh, why can't I not
throwing a blank on it? It was, oh yeah, Lucophylum for testings.
Holy shit, I didn't realize there's that many species A Lucophylum Lucophilum pringly
eye Lucophilum coheel ns. Who's going to be the first to get us a
photo of Lucophylum coheel lens, presumably from Cohela. So this is a genus
that's been very successful in the deserts, Lucophylum ultramonticola monte. Where the fuck
is that from? That's incredible. This is why i AD is so nice.
I'm just looking at the taxonomy charts on Ininat. You go to it,
you click on a genus on the tax on page and go to taxonomy,
and and uh, that's I had no idea. There were so many
goddamn species of lucophilem I just know frutessens and and minute them or minus.
Excuse me. Anyway, so lucophile and minus was coming there, minus because
it's got very small leaves. But I guess it was the shrub in the
background of this fucking photo. So anyway, Yeah, it was a good
it was a good It was a good time. Nonetheless, Uh, and
we just we all just kicked it now pine at the house over there,
and then uh, and then they drove back and Uh, I guess we
have to regroup and figure things out. But but it was it was good,
and so yeah, it was nice. I got the show. Got
the show, my friend Lily West, Texas. You know the desert,
which is really the deserts where I learned botany. It's where I when I
got into deserts, is when I really started going deep and branching off,
you know, because when you get into the ship, you start with that
one thing you're obsessed with, whether it's a certain genus or a certain family
or whatever, and then you start branching off, paying attention to other stuff.
And when I started branching off and paying attention just to angiosperms as a
whole, flowering plants as a hole, it was in the deserts. And
the deserts were just always such a pleasant escape because if there weren't any plants,
how you could just look at the rocks and there was fucking no one
around. It was just so nice, and the sky always looks amazing,
and you know, it's Mojave Desert, and uh, are they ever gonna
build Are they ever gonna do what they did to Phoenix to the Mojave Desert?
They're gonna try. The tumor is not gonna stop. Never. My
friend Ken was just up in Austin. He hadn't been up there in years.
He was up there kind of your b cave and just saw which is
like northwest Austin. It's like when you're getting into the Edwards Plateau, which
is an amazing area of endemism, the whole Edwards Plateau. You know,
it's like that Limestone plateau, the hill country as they call it. It's
the fucking Edwards Plateau. It's limestone plateau. It's the transition from the prairies
and the grasslands to the deserts uh. And there's a ton of endemics there,
plants that only grow on the Edwards Plateau. Anyway, Ken hadn't been
there in a while, and he just he just I talked to him today,
asked him about something else, and he was all bummed out, like
it really fucked with him because he's you know, he's like sixty five.
He's seen he remembers that area what it was before it had all this shitty
development on it, and now you've got just all this amazing habitat that's just
been destroyed for the wackiest fucking development. I mean, just this this futureless
car slum. You know, you spent your whole life trapped in a car.
You've ever been rant about it enough, but I mean it's just like
a way of life that's just fucking garbage. Like it's not. It's so
bad for the mental health and the physical health and uh and it's just greed.
It's just money, you know. It's like that fucking money worship is
a it's a disease. It's a cult. It's a fucking disease. And
the collateral damage the health of everything around it. There was remember seeing that
graffiti writer Twist. He had a piece. It was a fucking really well
done airbrushed. It looked like everybody was spray paint, but it looked like
you know that you get that those tones. It was really nice black and
white tones. It was just a white filling with a black outline and really
nice tones like you can get with airbrush and spray paint. Of some guy
in a suit looking really sad with a tie holding the briefcase and it just
said money is your God. Uh. I forget where it was. It
was on like this dirty, fucked up concrete somewhere south of market in San
Francisco, and it just summed everything up so well. I wish I could
find that. I think it was in that book that ESPO put out called
The Art of Getting Over, which is out of print now. I think
I got a copy of my Mom's Basement. I think you can buy it
on Amazon for like two hundred bucks or some ridiculous amount. But it was
a good book. It had a bunch of good photos in it, especially
of San Francisco at a time that is long gone, that is like in
the history books, like before San Francisco got so thoroughly ruined and you know
turned into a spot for the ultra wealthy and the ultra poor and destitute.
Uh anyway, so yeah, it was it was good. But it's just,
you know, the fucking for what, Like what is all this destruction
for? U's just for money to buy ship? But it gets that's all
the money gets spent on stupid ship too, Like dumb ship. Like what
would you if I had that much money, I wouldn't be buying giant fucking
trucks and muscle cars and botox wives and fucking fancy handbags. All this stupid
shit. It just blows my mind. Man, Like there there's a values
thing. I don't you know, it's just a it's just a if I
if I had millions of dollars, I wouldn't buy this dumb shit. It's
gross. It's it signifies a diseased culture to me. It's so weird,
man, it's so fucking weird. Anyway, So how long can it go
on? Probably not that long. It's kind of get especially in twenty years
when it's like Phoenix down here and the water table has kept un dropping and
it's God damn, it's gonna be people are going to be moving north most
likely. But anyway, so today it was, you know, today was
a nice fucking day. I went out to uh, went out to look
at another property. I'm trying to figure out what property we're gonna get.
I don't know if we're going to get that other one we were getting before,
and now we're gonna look at something else. It's all gonna be thorn
scrub and it's you know, we're looking for a nice spot, ideal spot
to build this research station and whatever. I don't know. I'm so confused
about it. But no immediate rush I suppose. Uh, I'd like to
get it done by the summer anyway. So I was out looking at this
property today and you know, half of it had been clear just like with
the other one. Half of it was cleared. It's so weird down here.
People will clear land, you know, when there's not even a they
don't even have a buyer yet. They're just clearing it because they think it's
a good way to prep the land and that it looks better, you know,
it's somehow more attractive. It's like, why, who the fuck?
I've never been in a place where I'm sure they're out there, you know
where cleared land is more attractive than land with plants on it. It's weird,
but it's again, it's all this thorn scrub stuff out here, and
people kind of hate it. It's got spines that'll poke you. It's fucking
dense. Uh, it's not a tall forest, I mean, I and
there's cacti everywhere, and I think that's it. I think it's just what
it is. It's just like a weird bias towards But I love I mean,
the plants out here are incredible. It's fucking so wild, so cool,
so fucking marvelous. I just but it's funny though, because they clear
the land, they totally scrape it and they root plow it. But then
the blackbrush comes back and the misky comes back, and it eventually you can
see like the different stages of secession down here. But then it makes me
think, well, if these are the stages of succession, then what what
was the quote unquote old growth thorn scrub? Like? Like, what did
it look like? And will we ever know? You know, it's maybe
we won't. I think, like, where are there still parcels where it
hasn't been scraped? It's so wild man, you just scraped Why would we
were you going to scrape the land in an area where it's one hundred and
fifteen degrees for five months? You just expose all that land to the sun.
You dry it out, you parch it, you bake it. It
makes it takes longer to cool down, not as much as it does if
it's asphalt, but still such a weird concept. Anyway, So we went
out to look at this, uh, at this land, and then I
just was with my daughter and Jack and Louis, and then after that we
went to uh, you know, I said, well, we're fucking all
the way out here, why don't we go look at the uh, the
old growth monuzuma cypress its seal it right there on the river where the wall
hasn't fucked anything up yet, though they wanted to god, if they build
the fucking wall right there at seal Anania, that's gonna be such a drag.
It's gonna you have to get through a fucking fence to get to these
old growth monezuma cypresses. So we went there and checked it out, and
there were all these birders. It's so funny to see so many white people
down here, because you rarely see that many white people down here. But
they're the good Caucasians, said, they're like the you know, the naturery
people. They're coming from Canada in the Midwest anyway. So there were all
these old white people birders, you know, taking pictures of birds. I
guess there's some rare bird the what's it called a camp hawk? What does
the thing look like? No? No, no, a crane hawk?
Sound like some fucking what is it? What's the thing called? The confused
geriatric Italian. A crane hawk hasn't been spotted down here since the eighties.
Oh wow, that is a fucking cool bird. Jesus Christ. It's like
a beautiful blue gray goddamn. Okay, I see where they're done here.
Frequents tropical lowlands, especially marches, marshes. Excuse me, variably colored hawk
with a small head and long legs. Yeah, that's a pretty There have
been so many rare birds poking up around uh, South Texas. Le I
wonder if things are just moving north because the ranges because a climate change,
you know, or what. I don't know. God damn. Yeah,
it's gorgeous. We saw an osprey this emboweling a fish. It's funny too.
I went there and like two people knew me just from crime pays.
They were fans, very kind people. I mean, everyone's you know,
it's there, burders. Everyone there is probably gonna be fucking chill. You
know, you're not gonna see they might have some weird nervous ticks or something,
but they're gonna be generally polite. You know, they're they're natury people.
But by anyway, we want to go check out these these monas UMAs
Taxodium mucrenadum, which again goes on all the way up into Austin and has
been completely misidentified by people who should know better as just a different kind of
Taxodium districum, which grows in a completely different habitat a couple hundred miles to
the east, in the swamps of East Texas, the swamps and bayous of
East Texas and Louisiana and on up into southern Illinois. It's a completely different
species, with larger cones and a different growth habit and it produces knees,
those woody aerial roots that project above the water. The Taxodium ucrenadum is only
semi deciduous. It produces tiny cones, it doesn't produce any knees, and
it's from completely different habitat. It's from these you know, fresh water well
swamps are freshwater too, but actually some of the bald ceipers can inhabit saline
areas I think too anyway, And you know these generally cree in limestone limestone
areas, like limestone bedrock, which is what this was. There's limestone bedrock
and sandstone exposed right at the surface. You could see where the Rio grande
is kind of scoured it away, and there's these huge trees. I mean,
these things must have fucking germinated five six hundred, seven hundred years ago,
because you know where they're the level that their trunk is at. You
can see where the river, the soil around it's been kind of scoured away,
but their roots formed these networks, these like rebar like networks that hold
the stream bank together. Oh, just beautiful fucking trees, man, And
the river looked really good today. There's all the arundo that invasive grass all
over the place, and then there was a bunch of you know, clayburg
bluestem and other invasive grass, isn't I I We'd just would have loved to
see what the stream bank looked like before those got there. But these trees
were just fucking massive. I remember stopping headed west on Highway ninety or Uvaldi
once and seeing these same fucking trees with this same I couldn't believe that they
are misidentified as Taxonium districum. They're so fucking different. They're so different,
and every you know, Michael Eson fucking agrees with me on there. I
mean, tiny cones, no knees, that stout, kind of keebler elf
looking habit to them, they look they look worlds apart from Taxdium districum and
growing a different habitat. I mean, Austin and San Antonio are basically the
northern end of that species range, and it goes all the way down into
Guatemala, Wahaka and on into Guatemala. But uh god, it was just
a fucking cool. It's a great population. There's probably like eight to ten
trees there at Salinano and then Chapano, which is north of there. That's
where they want to build the wall, I guess, you know, the
fucking performance wall, which of course doesn't stop drugs, it's you know,
gonna it doesn't even really they stop migrants. They still get through it.
And border patrol will stop migrants. The fucking blimpse they got up in the
air, the surveillance swimps will stop migrants. You know what you should watch
if you get sign up for that Channel five Andrew Callaghan his his patreon Channel
five News. You know, the all gas, no Breaks guy. Sign
up for his Patreon. It's fucking great because you know, I don't know
if I talked about this last podcast, but you know, he started off
wearing that suit get up and fucking interviewing frat boys and just kind of this
you know, despicable Americans and getting him to say dumb shit or rap or
whatever. And then now he's doing this actual solid journalism shit, which is
really good. I just saw the one where he paid a coyote to illegally
cross him, you know, across the border at Eagle Pass, and then
they got stopped by they got stopped and thrown in jail by border patrol.
Uh, because it's still illegal to cross that way even if you're citizens.
You know, you have to go through fucking a port of entry. You
can't just cross the river. Uh. Anyway, So he's done some really
good stuff, but he would in that that documentary or that series, he
raises the points like I was, I was curious why people still wanted to
come here, Like where were they getting this idea that the dream? I
mean, yeah, that American wages pay better than you know, a number
of other poorer countries. But the cost of living is so inflated here now,
especially you know, after the inflation caused by COVID and then the inflation
caused by just our corporate overlords and the oligarchy that runs this country price gouging
and keeping it high. That it's kind of a shithole, not to mention
it's increasingly polarized and divided. We don't have healthcare, we don't we've got
shitty education. Uh, and it's just a giant carsel, Like you've got
to have a car to get everywhere, which is a huge inconvenience. Like
why the people still want to come here? Like do they? You know,
I don't know. It's it was, it's good. There's some good
commentary in there. He's got some real and then you know he's saying this
too after filming and all these other ship hole Well I love the cities.
I love shit holds, but they're shipthold cities that have, you know,
have these huge fentanyl problems and homeless problems, and you know, housing costs
are through the roof because of investors, and ah, what a fucking mess.
Man. I think everyone kind of agrees America's done for for for whatever,
you know, whatever you wherever you coming at this from, Like,
America's kind of done and for the time being, maybe it'll come back,
you never know. I doubt it. We're never gonna have affordable healthcare.
The political division is just insane. I mean, everyone's so fucked up on
these phones and you can just you get people that you know, you just
need someone to like, bang up fucking a special line of pod and just
say, everybody, shut the fuck up and calm down. There's just you're
getting all worked up. Be nice to each other. You can agree to
disagree. Stop. You know, it's just it's anyway, so uh but
anyway, So the mono zomo cypress fuck, I just germinated a bunch too
that I got from the population in Brownsville east to hear. I would have
loved it again. I know I keep going back to this, but I
would have loved to be here five hundred years ago and just see what it
looked like like. The fucking cypresses alone would have been amazing. This huge
cypresses on the river, just massive fucking trees must have been here so incredible
back when the peote gardens were just oceans of peyote and other cool cac die
before the invasive grasses got here and the fucking cattle ranchers, which you know,
cleared so much land, I mean, god damn, and now you
got the whole onslaught of sprawl and the fucking card death cult coming too,
which is gonna pave everything because no one likes to walk. Never mind the
fact that it's you know, obesity and diabetes are through the roof, especially
in this region. Holy shit. Anyway, Yeah, so I'm keeping it
positive today today. You know, God, I gotta fucking go to bed.
It's so what am I doing up this this lake? Oh, by
the way, for anybody who wanted that Systematics, Evolution and Ecology of Melostomatas
book, a little known family of plants to those in the northern temperate latitudes.
Of course, most of the genera and species are uh, lower latitude,
if not, you know, tropical or subtropical. That book that's seven
hundred and eighty or whatever the fuck page book that was on Springer. I
put a call out. Someone sent it to me, which was so kind
of you. Whoever did I had like ten different people send it to me,
maybe more, but either way, I really appreciate it. Because someone
sent it to me that I forgot to take the story down after it had
already been sent, but it was so kind and so then I read it
and then now it's up on libgen dot i s, which if you don't
know how to use he really should get yourself a little tablet and read lib
Gen. Use libgen using the uh the I use the app read Era.
I think I mentioned this before read Era even bought like the premium one.
It was like ten bucks, totally worth it. Great fucking app and uh
you can read all about this weird fucking family. You can read about polysporangian
anthers and all these genera that no one else has ever heard of. There's
Jack just walking out into the middle of the floor. He doesn't even know
where Jack, do you know where you are? God? It's so weird.
You have a dog with dementia. He really does have dementia. He
can't hear anymore. So if he wanders off too far, I need to
clap because that's all he can hear. If I call his name, he
doesn't hear it. And here's a little tap this a little tap tap of
nails on the the floor. Anyway, I guess I'll wrap it up.
Was there anything else I want to? Oh? You know what? This
is? What kind of drove me nuts? Was there was? I guess
Texas not only has the pro development people being against conservation, but it's got
some of the own some of like the fucking state botanists and biologists working against
conservation too, because I guess there's some for all the fuck ups that Texas
does with. You know, if it plants in danger, there's no protection
for it, there's not. I mean, they'll still develop things, they'll
still build a road through there. They just have to have someone come through
text that will and they'll they'll try to move them, which you can't really
move plants. It doesn't really work. That's the cacti maybe, But even
then, you know, there was a bunch of plants that this fucking shitty
company that was building the solar project and Star a bunch of plants that they
wanted to move, a astrophyt and mysterious, you know, And I told
the fucking guy, you can't do this. I got a hold of the
main guy that was in charge of this project, who was just some you
know, I think it's BP that owns the British Petroleum. Such a fucking
scam. I can't believe they did this, the Star Solar project on Loma
Blanca Road, motherfuckers. And there was a shit ton of astrophy it them
there. And I told him, you can't move it, we'll take it.
We have a preserve we can put these things at. And he's he's
like, well, how are you you know, I didn't have any degree
of course, I'm not affiliated with any official organization. And he they They're
like, oh, we will just move them. And I think they I
think partly they wanted to do like a public relations thing, so they moved
these things. This is in July. All the fucking plants died and it
was just it was a joke, man, it was I was so pissed.
I couldn't believe so many plants, so many cool plants got fucking destroyed,
so many cool and rare plants that could have been saved. But anyway,
the point is is that, you know, you can't really move plants
unless they're cacti maybe, but even then, if it's the middle of summer,
you can't. They got to go under shade, they have to go
into spot where they can get watered. Uh. So that was a fucking
royal disaster. And now there's a solar project that, you know, a
solar farm there to give energy to the tumor, and of course all those
solar panels should be above parking lots. Among the you know, the fucking
end to end retail strip of parking lots that cover McCallan and you know,
most of Hidalgo County along the freeway there. God, it's such an ugly
it's so sad. Billboards for personal injury attorneys and strip mall parking lots.
What a what a great and that's like all of I thirty five up into
Dallas. What a great culture we have here in Texas. Anyway, so
the fucking I guess someone had been talking about they'd mentioned though, maybe we'll
make peyote endangered. We'll list it is endangered, which is a horrible idea
because it's one, it's Texas. It's not going to offer any protections to
the plant. I mean, we saw Ken Paxton built the fucking wall through
here through Star County, despite any rush it through, probably somewhat illegally.
This you know, right after a sleepy ass prostrada got listed as federally endangered
fysariat mnophlow that as a pot of bladder pod was there that you know that
got fucking murked too, Frankinea jeh Stony, I I guess that just got
delisted, but it was listed. Is endangered at one point, none of
that matters. Texas doesn't give a shit, it's not going to do anything.
But if you list something, you know, there's so many dummies here
that will that are so paranoid that if there's an endangered plant on their land
that they're just going to destroy it anyway because they think the government's going to
come and take their fucking land from them, which will never happen, especially
in Texas. You know, it's just listing peyote would be a terrible I
mean, I it seems at first glance to be great, but then it's
it's the blowback would be so terrible, and it doesn't endangered plants don't have
any protections in this state anyway, if anything, that makes them more likely
to get plowed over and bulldozed and destroyed intentionally because they're endangered. And then
also the you know, once you do that, it's like with it with
astrophight them, if they were to do that with astrophying, which is a
rare plant, then now these states, it's fucking nuts, like these spectrum
level I don't know if they're fucking like and I'm not punching down on autistic
people, but Jesus Christ. Some of these fucking the state botanists, the
people that are like to work in government here in state government. You know,
I just wonder, I'm like, the are they so disconnected reality?
They just spend that much time in school that they don't you know, they
they fuck with people for growing endangered plants from seed. It's insane, Like
I don't, I mean, I don't, They've never done it to me.
But there's people that I know that are like, they're growing astrophyt them,
They're growing as sleepy as prostrata, and they're like, don't tell anyone
I'm doing this because I can get hassled for doing this. You're increasing the
population of a plant. You're not poaching plants. You're growing them from seed
so that you can then have stock plants to grow more plants from seed.
Why are these people still fucking with you? Like, why are they messing
with you? It's crazy? Like there was once they Bonans I heard she
was actually hassling, harassing someone for growing astrophytem asterious from seed like species plants,
and he got he got the seed legally from a landowner who's really cool
and supportive of conservation and he was growing a bunch of them like doesen't and
then you breeding those and creating more seed. He was doing really good work
all for being able to plant it out, you know, for conservation,
and this lady just was just fucking up his ass. Man. It was
crazy, just crazy. I mean, they're just so buy the book,
Like why would there be restrictions on growing rare plants, not poaching rare plants,
not collecting rare plants, but growing them from seed. That's fucking nuts.
So again you've got only the people who are supposed to be for conservation
and are getting paid to do that are actively working against conservation here. Fucking
nuts. It's so nuts. This state is so backwards. It's it really
is just up to individuals. It's really just up to private individuals to do
what they can to conserve land here and conserve you know, we're living through
this mass extinction. Maybe when the dust settles, when we finally get our
you know, whatever checks us, hopefully we don't go extinct. Like I
like people, I like humans. I'd like them to keep doing what they're
doing. But you know, when the dust settles, maybe there'll be something
left to like build populations of plants back from But that's really all it is
right now. I mean, like the Edwards Plateau getting turned into tracked housing
and a car slum. I mean, that's that's You're not getting any of
that land back. That's all gone. All that you know, juniper woodland
and all those cool endemics that's gone. They're fucking gone. There was a
really man but one video I did. I think it was. I forget
when it was. Maybe it was in June or something where it was.
I was on a hill above a fucking bleak traffic circle, looking out of
a field of tract houses, standing next to a Texas madrone our bautists helapensis.
It's actually a Mexican madrone our bautists helapensis, and Vernonia lindheimuri and tetrainers
and a whole bunch of other cool limestone lever plants just looking out over this
bleak, fucked up traffic circle. And then thirty yards away there was landscaping
that the housing development that put in of a bunch of non native shit.
I think it was like a ass photo. What is it? I forget
the fuck? It's like a South African as Photoaci it's a member of the
alo family, but it's they're just you know, overused in horticulture, like
garbage plants. Here and there was a euphorbia like one of the Mediterranean euphobias,
and a bunch of shit and it was all planted neatly in uniform rows.
Half of it was dead already with the plastic trim around it, and
the dyed mulch looked fucking hideous. I mean, it made me feel like
I was standing in a strip mall parking lot in front of a fucking Wells
Fargo or something, just a garbage fucking lance. Just it makes me mad
thinking about this, like the fucking vibe I get, you know, like
you know, like there's like just a form of decoor, whether it's like
a house or a fucking whatever, and it just makes you feel rotten inside
because it brings up memories of just terrible places and terrible values and terrible maybe
terrible people whatever. You know. That's kind of how this made me feel.
It. And I was just looking at this cool native landscape, this
little crumb that was left the head and for whatever reason, hadn't been mowed
down or brush hooged or whatever with this real the fucking Texas madrone. What
a cool tree. And I'm like, these motherfuckers have the coolest plants that
require no maintenance and are already right here, and they're planting this shit,
Like, where the fuck did we go wrong as a species of sentient ape?
How the fuck did we get here? This is the dumbest shit.
And then everyone is just you know, fucking when you see it's just fucking
looks so unhealthy driving these I ain't fucking tanks around, You're like, oh,
God, like, you know, as opposed to having like physical activity,
just be a part of your daily life just by walking, you know,
having walkable streets, walkable communities, you know where it feels nice to
be outside. I'm just like, how the fuck do we get here?
Anyway? All right, well I'll wrap it up with that. I'm printing
shirts. I got God's True Form is a horned Lizard shirts. I got
some killer lawn shirts, and I got the dolphin saying your species is a
fucking cancer on a purple I got purple shirts by accident they shipped in to
me, and I figured, why not, We'll make it festive, you
know, so any prince fans out there, We'll get you a purple shirt
with a fucking dolphin saying your speech is a fucking cancer. And I got
a couple other Oh I got a blackbrush screen too, so I'm gonna be
screen printing up up late tonight. But if you want to order those,
just dmmy the thirty five bucks shipping included thirty bucks if you buy them in
person. Still got stickers. This book should be good if I can actually
get it done by the time it's due. And I'll be giving a presentation
in San Diego on the seventeenth or eighteenth or something at the Ententiogen which is
the entiogen which an entheogen they just mean psychoactive plants, I mean plants to
get you goofy, And I'll be doing a seed sewing workshop and showing some
photos and talking about the plight of Payota and all the other rare plants down
here and what people can do individually to grow more of them and save them
and confer habitat whether it's you know, preferably plants that are native to your
area, but whatever whatever floats your boat. So anyway, that's all I
got. Have a good recer Dygo fuck your updy