CHICAGO CONFLICT & GLACIAL TILL SUMMER BASH

Oh, Jerry, gonna meet Jerry. What's going on? Welcome to the
Crime Pays But Bodany doesn't podcast. The worst science podcast? What was one
of the reviews? Fuck ooh, it was amazing. I just wanted to
listen to a podcast about beans, and instead I left feeling I'm like I
was snugged. It's not for you, pale, stay in academia. No
offense to people in academia. This is for some people in academia, you
know. Just you gotta get loose every once in a while. Don't get
too stiff in there. Remember you're living in a bubble. Anyway. Welcome
to the cry page. Body doesn't podcast. I'm in Chicago. Chicago in
late summer is fucking wonderful. What these goddamn Midwesterners, of which I used
to be one until the tender age of seventeen when I left. What they
think is hot is laughable to me. I'm out there in pants and a
long sleeve pocket tea, sweating my ass off, digging holes in this landscape.
Beg because one of the landscapers for kill your lawn. No offense to
them. Fucked it up so bad. We'll talk about that in a minute
and on what's supposed to the hottest day in the year. Well, it's
probably not the hottest day of the year. It was like the second hottest
day of the year. It was ninety five. You know, I what
I would give for it to be ninety five high of ninety five for one
day in the summer where I live. That's a that's a low. It's
never even gotten. We've never had one high of ninety five degree day in
the last three months where I live. It is just fucking brutal. It's
gonna be too hot for people to live there, you know, in a
decade, maybe even sooner, maybe a decade or two. I don't know.
But it's just that climate change that doesn't exist. It's really doing a
good job of defrauding the public, you know. Anyway, it's those fucking
pesky scientists and they're nefarious, conspiratorial aims. But we're here film and kill
you, lawn. It's been really nice. It's been fun. There's been
a few conflicts. That's always entertaining, I guess to watch, you know.
There's been uh what the ship, Oh yeah, the landscape that I
got to talk about, this landscape design. It was fucking I'm not a
landscaper, obviously, Thank god, everyone thinks they're a landscaper. Everyone thinks
they've got an eye for design, just like I remember, maybe it was
like twenty years ago. You know, everyone thought they were an interior designer.
Well not everyone, but you'd hear like Housewives a lot saying that shit.
You know, everyone's got this design I they're gonna you know. But
but now everyone thinks they're a landscaper. I don't know, man, Well,
I guess they do go to school for that shit. That's probably that's
probably where they're getting all these bad ideas, these formulaic ideas. But I
will say I have not seen this shit in Texas, this kind of shit
in the native plant community. I've only seen it in the Midwest, and
it is very much sticking with the Midwest typical you know, English English aristocratic
idea of what a botanic garden should be. Way of designing landscapes, where
everything is growed together a paint by number scheme, so you got all the
all the same species grouped together. This five by five block of a landscaping
bed, A neatly manicured landscaping bed with a fucking lawn in between, so
you still have the mow. This this is gonna be all one color,
one species. Then this next six by six in section or six six by
six foot section of bed is gonna be all one species. In this next
four by four foot section, the bed is gonna be all one speci.
And then we're gonna have we're gonna get a little a little wild out there.
Okay, we'll break our vanilla edge a little bit. We'll go there.
This this three foot by twenty foot section of the landscaping bed is gonna
be all the same species and so on. I mean, the fucking design
looks like a paint by numbers scheme. It is brutal, and everything is
evenly spaced, you know. It's like it's like everything is evenly two and
a half feet apart, all right. Just it looks fucking goofy. And
that's not what a prairie looks like. Huh. I see that. I
see the people doing that. I say, have you ever you ever take
your four grams dried slossopy in the prairie? I don't think so. It
very very much shows that you have not. Have you ever listened to the
ambiance of all the insects at night as the sun goes down, Well,
you're on four grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms. No, but you should definitely,
you should definitely be forced to do that, because then you'd stopped making
shit like this. It was painful. I showed up to this this quote
unquote homeowner's house and he's the one that hired this landscape. I want to
have the fucking price tag this d paid. It killed me. It was
fucking obscene. Part of the coolest, the coolest part about doing kill your
lawn is showing people how they can dy and how they can do it themselves,
how they don't need a lot of money and landscapers and a fucking worker
landscape. You're just paying for the design and where to source plants. But
you can find out where to source plants anywhere, you know. We found
we heard her this good native nursery called fucking Through And then we heard of
this good native nursery called Pizzo And where's it Leland, Illinois Pizzol Nursery.
Tony and Stevie Pizzol, two brothers. I'm just kidding. I don't know
who the fuck the Pizzows are But I like the name. It sounds funny.
It sounds like they sounds like they'd be in Melrose Park. You know,
maybe that's where they came from, you know, before they came from,
you know, a Bruteci or Sicily or Naples or whatever ship. Anyway,
Pizzow Nursery is a good wholesale nursery. They got, You got all
sorts of backyard growers, Alison slowing up there in Evanston. You got the
best nursery by far, was probably, and I was surprised was Christy Webber.
They got an awesome native plant section, all right, and shut up
the Cooper shut out to JJ over there on a west side twenty eight thirty
three ways Chicago Avenue. There there by the Metro yard, by the Metro
train yard over there where I used to go walk the tracks of pant graffiti
is a young the link went. But Christy Webber, you know, she
does a lot of They gotta these people got to supply with what the customers
want, right, and what the customers want has often been dictated by one
hundred and forty plus years of bad landscaping ideas. So you get a little
bit of Martha Stewart's shit in there, you know, a little bit of
better homes and gardens, the wretched the ship that makes me see I see
it and I get triggered, you know, I get like bad memories of
places I never wanted to be. But but anyway, so Christy Webber her
Nursery, Landscaping, it's Christy Webber Farm and Garden, I guess it's called.
But they got a fucking incredible native plant section because they got a couple
of good people who know what they're doing over there running it. And I
saw, I mean shit they had like you know, eight foot tall redbecky
is in one gallon pots like they're growing their ships so good. They're using
these root pruning pots too, you know. So it's it's layered. It
looks like one of the Devo hats flipped upside on, and then it's got
holes in that little centimeter of ridge that is the segment of the Devo head,
you know, So it looks kind of like a top. The diameter
of the pockets sequentially smaller as you go towards the bottom. But they've got
these holes in there so that you know, when the roots hit that hole.
It air prunes the roots, and I've seen people do this with you
know, tree plugs that they're planting. It's a great You have to end
up having a water more because the thing dries out quicker. But if you
can water more, which in the Midwest is not an issue because you're right
next to, you know, the one of the largest fucking bodies of fresh
water in the world, like Michigan, So it's not like you're wasting water
you're in Phoenix or some shit. I wouldn't use these in Phoenix obvious,
plus you know whatever. Anyway, totally different casts of plants down there.
But if you're not in the water stressed area, it doesn't matter because you
know these, it's not going to be an issue. And it's worth it
because you get such a great rupole. You don't get roots coiling around the
pot. And you'll see that with backyard growers too. They use a rich
soil. I don't know what they're doing, but they use a soil and
the roots just heads straight down. They don't spread out in the pot.
They just head straight down. Then they circle around the bottom of the root
and coil up. And then when you take the plant out of the pot.
All the soil just falls off, and now you're fucking with the roots.
You know, some of the roots in the shock. It's dangerous.
So you get these incredible root balls that and they had such a high diversity
too. I think they there's a nursery called Possibility Place. I don't know
if that's wholesale two or what, but that's where this Christy Webber nursery got
all their ship from. Heard. Christy Webber's kind of rowdy too. That
she is not a Martha Stewart character. She is like a you know,
you could find her mug shot online character, which endears me in a way.
Oh, she doesn't listen to this podcast and take offense. I never
know who's listening to this. Say. My lack of a built there gets
me in trouble sometimes, and I apologize to anyone I've offended, unless I
meant to offend you. Now I'm just kidding. That's what you can't do,
a conditional apology. That's some neurotic Italian You can't do it. You
gotta just you know, you really got to get out there through that fourth
step and really make you know, really make your amends. No wonder him
what step is? Amen? I don't fucking know. Anyway, The point
is this landscaper had really just brutalized the ship out of this garden. And
the fucking homeowner who I who? I like, he's a cool guy.
He's a fucking nerdy weirdo like the rest of us, didn't like it.
He was he thought, he's like what the fuck? You know he was.
I could tell you he didn't say that because he's you know, he's
not nutty like me. But anyway, he was just I could tell he
was bummed, and he's like, I thought this is really conservative. I
thought this was the even spacing is weird. It's fucking weird. It's like
a drill sergeant went in there and measured the you know, ten inches.
God damn it, let me make when you make your beds. I'm gonna
go in there. I'm gonna make sure that goddamn sheets pulled over ten inches,
no more, no less. Anyone who does not have a set cover
that's pulled over ten inches, we'll be out there in parade formation at five
hundred hours. That's what it felt like. It's weird, you know,
or like some weird neurotic I don't know. It was fucking nuts, and
it just looks so choppy. And I'm like, I'm looking at the cast
of native plants and I'm like, these are all native plants, But why
the fuck does it make me feel bad looking at this? Because oh,
because everything's grouped together and nothing's mixed. Does that will be no mixing of
species? That will be no missing I insisted on no mixing of species.
Nothing's mixed, everything's evenly spaced. It's fucking weird. It's really weird.
I don't know where that could it is. It's like that English aristocratic garden
and then these just whimsical beds, you know, like all curving around and
just what I thought was gonna happen was and this was the big yard,
right, and so like the network wants a big yard, they want the
showy shit, they want to reveal, they want all this dumb shit.
I don't get it, but whatever, that's what they want. I'm just
fucking working here, okay. You know, this is one of the few
things I could probably do without getting kicked out out and even that might happen
anyway. I just work here, so I'm like, whatever the fuck,
All right, Fine, this is what they want. I thought this is
a big yard. I thought they were gonna go in, they were gonna
rip out all the fucking lawn. And then because this is what you do
in Texas, what you do in California, is what you do in places
where there's actual thriving native plant movements, and there is one in Chicago.
But they need to move the fuck away from this goofy ass. You know,
a hundred year old mindset of design. It's you know, you're you're
not. And that's the thing too, is like I could see this working
if you're doing like a retired dentist's house in Highland Park, fancy north shore
suburb. It's fun to shoot on all the time, you know, or
will Met or a fucking lake forest. But this dude, you know,
lives in a semi working class suburb. Way, it's not really it's he
gets a little fancy start going further southwest. But anyway, the guy is
not a fucking retired that the homeowner is not a retired denist. It's like
this cool, you know, kind of quirky couple that's fucking it seems like
they'd be fun to hang out with, you know, afterwards. You know,
I think they their chill. They're nice people, you know, they're
not stiffs. And I just don't know why. God. And the price
tag that that was paid for this ship too, God damn it. It
was insane, just an absolute insanity like price of it, more than the
price of a new car. And I know you're getting plants and ship,
but I could have sourced all those plants for two grand, probably less,
you know, fill it up anyway. So this is you know, this
is already not something that you know, your average layman could do. You
know, your average working class schmuck. Who is the you know, those
are the people that I like that I'm I'm that I'm hoping to earn my
audience, you know, not the stiff academics, not the fucking you know,
angry you know, retired anesthesiologists in Highland Park, you know, with
the face that always looks like they ship themselves a kind of pouty and perpetually
upset, even though they have no real problems type thing aside from the repressed,
unresolved trauma they never dealt with. But that's most of us, right,
you know, this is four people I want to show people all,
they could do it themselves. You know, the only part that might be
tricky is getting that side cutter ripping the lawn out. You don't have to
do that either. You can just you know, cardboard and mulch. Whatever
you mulch is free to get, et cetera. So it just takes you
know, a little little sweat, maybe a little bit of blood. But
anyway, that the fucking landscape design plant was so weird. And then also
to the homeowner is a beekeeper, so he keeps spa. He likes making
honey. Is shit they make honey, they fucking you know, and so
and I think I don't know if the landscaper just wasn't listening when I mean
he I assume he saw the hives. But sixty percent of what these landscapers
used was graminoids, and graminoids are wind pollinated. Almost all of them are
win ponted. They used a bunch of grasses and sedges, and they used
nice grasses. They didn't use you know, Andrew Pogan gerardii are giant,
big blue stem. They didn't use sore gas from the tens. The quote
unquote Indian grass. You know where you get some chicken Berryanni and some fucking
you know, they can make real good food. You know, it's a
lot of rice. It's really just a little oily sometimes, but certainly the
spices are on point. They didn't use any of that. They used like
you know, and they used nice ones. They use like Boodolooo, and
they use carricks Pennsylvanica. But they didn't you know, I would have stopped
at ten, but they didn't. They went for like seventy four, seventy
six actually, and it was just one of those things where I'm like,
what the fuck they didn't use any of the cool you know. There you
go to the prairie and it's just beautiful, intricate chaos, all this shit
just getting where you fit in. It's it's tight, you can't see the
ground. There's all this in a six foot by six foot area of prairie
will have twenty different species growing ass to neck and it pecked in like passengers
on a seven thirty seven of a shitty overpriced airline that's ripping you off,
if you know, like American great example, right, they're terrible fucking airline,
American airlines, you know, But but you'd have like a diverse array
of really you know, uh, really cool species there. And they could
do that because the soil is so rich that that fucking prairie top soil.
That's why so much of it was destroyed. That's why almost all of it
was destroyed for shitty corn and soybean fields. And so, you know,
why not mimic that? Why not mimic that beautiful, intricate cast. Man,
I planted a bunch of shit in my moss, you know, retired
school, retired public school teacher. Okay, bless her heart over there,
and uh, we gotta, I gotta step. You know. The Catholic
thing is a joke we've been running with just because it's like Chicago such a
Catholic. But I think Alice starting to actually go back, Like like at
one point I was like, you know, he's agnostic, but he just
and he's like, I don't know. I was like, what the fuck,
Like that's coming back to you, you know, He's like, no,
there's some good stuff in there. They got some good social justice points
and it was old Catholic, you know. But anyway, and then I
think we just went around, you know, we just turned the next five
minutes of that conversation into making jokes about pedophile priests. But anyway, where
the fuck was I talking about? Anyway? Yeah, so you know that
that beautiful, intricate chaos of the prairie. You can't see the ground,
everything's dense, and I just you miss out on all that, and I
I really was so shocked. I was fucking shocked at what was done.
And this is supposed this is the biggest yard of all four Chicago episodes.
Were doing four episodes here, and so I would not shut the fuck up
about it. I was just constantly just fucking yammering, just annoying, What
the fuck, why would he do that? Why would they do God?
And not only that, but we're working with this landscaper again. Hope he's
not listening to this podcast. I don't think he is, which is funny.
And then I feel like the homeowner was egging me on. He's like,
yeah, the landscaper was telling me, you know, he was saying,
you know, don't let Joey rip out any of my stuff because he
knew I didn't like it. I couldn't fucking hold that back, you know,
the landscape annoyed and like he's like, you know, he's he's like
and then he was going out about how we're amateurs and blah blah, and
I was like, Jesus Christ, this is fucking hilarious. Like the homeowner
was egging me on, you know, he wanted to see me go off.
You know, he was like shaking up the bottle, you know before
he opened the cap, and like the showrunner and ship We're like, no,
no, no, no. They were like trying to tone it down.
It's like, no, down there, I want to know, get
me fired up. It was just so elitist and gross. You know again
this dude, and I get it. This dude. He's probably doing bank
landscaping, uh, you know, landscaping outside the Walgreens, you know,
for the little median strips and the shopping center. Uh, condo landscaping.
And he's using native plants. And that's great, that's great. I'm excited
that that is becoming a thing because they're always gonna be stiffs that want that.
There's always gonna be rich, material, realistic, goofy fucking people who
need that shit. It's a status symbol. They want the prune they want
the prune beds, they want the manicured lawn in between the beds. They're
not ready to fully let go of the lawn yet. They want everything,
you know, high and tight and nice and fucking evenly, spaced perfectly with
you know. Okay, you've got a center tree, and that's gonna be
the highlight of this bed, and then around that it's gonna be fifty of
the same thing, and then we're gonna There's always gonna be people that want
that, but not on a fucking show. I wouldn't care if my name
wasn't attached to it. I don't want to be spreading bad ideas, you
know. I don't want to be responsible for the equivalent of the January sixth
insurrection riot of the plant world, you know, the native plant uh you
know, kill your launching. I don't want to be out there pushing it,
you know, because you get this out there, next thing, you
know, you start seeing that shit popping up everywhere, and instead of the
beautiful chaos at a prairie and all the rich pollinatorship Oh that you know what,
Now, I remember what I was talking about. So I planted.
I gotta kit So I planted a bunch of stuff in my ma's yard,
and I this is like six or seven years ago, like Prairie doc all
these cool silphiums, you know, twelve foot tall inflorescence, twelve foot tall
scape. Remember the sunflower family leaves are three feet big, big basil roseta
leaves lives a hundred years. Roots go deep as hell. I planned all
this stuff, and it's great to see it now because it's she's got like
that bed thing too, because she wasn't ready to let go. You know,
she's steeped in the Midwest landscaping design, which is so fucking weird to
me, because again, you don't see this shit in Texas. No one's
not many people are doing, you know, and then who are doing native
landscaping are trying to grow grass in between the beds and Texas, it's certainly
not in California, all right, because it still looks stiff. It looks
rigid, like like someone's not ready to let go yet. You know,
it looks very conservative anyway. But her, you know, these plants you
had were like spilling out over the beds, like overtaking the lawn. It
was fucking awesome, Like a twelve foot tall wobbly verbicina. You know,
I'll turn a folia, you know, because these are all our baseous perennials,
right, So there's not really any woody, there's no woody. There's
not much woody stuff in the prayer. You get some shrubs, you get
some like corners, some dogwoods and shit, but it's mostly all that perennial
stuff and then it just dives back to the roots in the winter. So
in the winter it almost you know, it's like a foot tall. It's
just all the rotting plant debris that ends up building that rich soil. And
then you know, by August everything's eight feet tall. You can't see through
it. The fucking andropogon the big blue stem grasses are six feet tall.
It's just incredible, just incredible, so lush. But it was just I
love that that look of shit just spilling out, you know, like a
fucking cup overflowing with like diversity and fucking life and just it's it's so good
and it's such a nice antidote to the shit I hate, the strip malls
and the fucking the manicure lawns and the just the the culture of death,
the culture of disconnection from what really matters, and that's what all that that
bank landscaping reminds me of man, it does it? Really, It's just
fucking it ain't right. So anyway I could shut up about this has been
fucking twenty minutes. I apologized, but this needs to get out there.
You know, people need to know that ain't how you do it unless you're
intentionally going for it. There's other options. If you're intentionally going for it,
you know. Fine. But anyway, I was, you know,
so that's what I was doing today. And then we just I gotta stop
eating deep this man, we got it. Part of like the gag was
we polished it off with a deep dish pizza and it was I can't eat
that ship anymore. And furthermore, I know for a fact I'm lactose Tataran.
I didn't make it up. I took one of those genetic tests like
two or three years ago as a joke. Not as a joke, but
I wanted to see like what part of Italy, my you know, diet
side of a family was from, and it was twenty three and me.
So it put all this health this health stuff in there, and I found
out I'm lactose. In town, I got the gene for lactose in tolerance,
and I was like, oh, that makes sense. It's like,
why whenever it'sn't like a big milk drinker, Like whenever I put half and
half of my coffee, my stomach would get a little fucked up, and
I thought it was just the coffee, but but no, once I quit
drinking it. So anyway, but that cheese. You know how much lactose
is still in cheese. I thought the back bacteria broke it down, but
apparently not so. Anyway, when you sink, you know, five pounds
of cheese, it's just like deep dishes, just so gluttonous. It's so
like unrepentantly fucking oh god. Anyway, So but yeah, man, it's
it's been. It's always nice coming back here, and it's nice being here
in the fall and just seeing how green everything is, and uh, yeah,
it was cool. We we did go. We went down to there's
a rare plan here called the Kankakee Mallow, and it's weird because it only
grows in this one little quote unquote island because it's not really it's not really
an island, it's just the hill in the middle of what. When we
crossed, it was like a two and a half foot deep river, a
broad river, the Kankakee River, but still, and it's cool. When
you cross the river, you can see because the river's scoured out all the
soil. You're walking across the bedrock. You're walking gonna cross a pavement of
dolomitic limestone, which is what is that? What is dolomit? Let me,
let me, I gotta put this out there. Yeah, Okay,
there we go. See. I knew this two or three years ago when
I did a bunch of videos and dolomite prairies like ted Stone dolomite prairie over
there in Hodge Kids, which she's definitely fucking go to. The trails are
not even marked. You gotta find them. They're just where the grasses stumped
on. But there is some amazing shit over there, some nice senna hebacarpa.
I don't see much sena heibacarpa in any of the native plant gardens here.
Certainly this fucking landscaper wasn't using no offense to them. Maybe maybe the
landscapers are good. Maybe they're good at pool, you know, I'm sure
they're good at other things. They're nice people, I'm sure despite the somewhat
elitist comments they made. Abobby, that's fine, you know, I could
take it. I can look down upon them by rich times my whole life.
But that you know, that was anyway whatever, But I would they
use senna heibacarpa. Maybe they will one day. Maybe one day, you
know, if there's people can change. So anyway, the difference between limestone
and dolomite. Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate and the main mineral
is calcite. It's calcium carbon and oxygen. And then dolomite is composed mainly
of the mineral dolomite, which is like calcite with magnesium at it. So
it's really that magnesium bath that the sedimentary rock gets and it makes it,
I believe, a little bit harder. I believe dolomite is a little bit,
a little bit more resistant. Dolomite is slightly harder than limestone. You
get really got to keep up with this stuff, you know, It's like
you get really gotta keep up with your inner work on yourself. You gotta
keep up with your geologic awareness. You know, got to meet a refresher
and I need I need a taxonomic refresher for some of the plants too.
I came back, Man, I can remember the genera, I can't remember
the species. I have to like, look at all the observations I made.
I was looking at Solidago yesterday. I made the Solidago video. I
made a solid Ago VideA, and I fucked up Entomophilus deaf And I don't
know what I was thinking. I've been sweating in the sun all day.
Entomo of course insect entomologist, and I put Entomophilus plants wind pollinated. I
didn't catch it. Someone else caught at shit. Yeah, whatever, whatever,
it's fine. I'm not making documentaries for fucking BBS here. If I
was, they'd have a proofreader catch that, you know. I'm just doing
the best I can with the tools I have. But so anyway, we
went and we this Kankakee malow spot was fucking epic. It's such a cool
plant. It's the only place that grows. I'm sure at one point the
Kankakee malo iliam noa ramota. And I love the genus iliam that because you
get you get some, you get a really cool one, the fire dependent
one that pops up after burns. And the seeds can lay dormant in the
soil for a hundred fucking years or more. In northern California and southern Oregon,
Iliam the bakery, And that was the first Iliam I ever saw coming
up on a lava flow after a recent burn at the foot of Shasta Mount
Shasta at one that all those new age weirdos worshiped that they think the aliens
live inside is right right there and that dormant volcano. And so that was
when I fell in love with Iliama. It's got like maple like leaves,
you know, like a lot of the mallows, and it is covered in
these stellate trichomes. So what a hair that's got like kind of it looks
like kind of star shaped as it emanates from the epidermis. Stellate hairs.
You hear that term a lot with the family Malvasia, the cotton family,
the Okra family, the hibiscus family. Iliamna ramota grows on this one island.
Surely it was more widespread at one point before you know, the Death
Cult got here from Europe and and just annihilated everything and turned into into agriculture
or settlement. But this island is the one spot that it still grows,
and it was getting squatched up by amer honeysuckle, you know, which is
an invasive, bad invasive, and the European buckthorn ramnist cathartica, which is
a bad invasive, wonderful native plant in Europe, bad invasive here. Solidago
golden rods are a horrible invasive plant in Europe. I've heard so many Europeans
comment on how they fucking it's everywhere and they hate seeing it, and I
can see how it would be you know, invasive there. It's just like
aser nugundo, the box seller. Those are two native plants that can really
they do well in these urban fucked up settings and hide disturbance environments here,
so it would only make sense that they would thrive, you know, over
there in Europe. So it just goes to show, you know, three
thousand miles of ocean is a good barrier, a good a good way to
ensure genetic isolation between ecosystems, and that of course brings home the idea again,
plants are not autonomous entities. It's everything is part of an ecosystem in
a place where it evolved. It took millions of years for those checks and
balances to evolve, those relationships between all the organisms, the fungi and the
soil bacteria and the insects that keep a certain species in check. And when
you take it out of that ecosystem and transport a three thousand miles across the
fucking ocean or the equator, which is another good barrier to genetic isolation,
overnight, you don't know what's going to happen because none of those checks and
bounces that that plant has at home are there in its new ecosystem, and
so it takes over. There's just elementary fucking ecology. So hopefully invasive species
denihilism is not around so much anymore. Used to see it a bunch of
the perma culture community, which is not not going to perma culture community.
But but it did get a little weird there sometimes. You know, whenever
I would hear I'm into perma culture, I would go, I'd be like,
all right, well, maybe you know, we'll just not talk about
it, but everyone's got to start somewhere. I'm not fucking I'm not trying
to sound elitist. I just you know what I mean, And I'm certainly
not making anybody feel bad because fuck, I mean, that's you know,
they're at least they're in the plants. But but yeah, that's where everyone
started. When I got into this ship, I was just in the fucking
conifers, man of all, you know, And that was I mean,
I was a fucking just nerd, hyper focused on this one thing. I
had no clue I would I would pass by all the native plants were seemingly
boring to me at first, you know, I didn't get it. I
was just a fucking knob. I wasn't you know, I wasn't paying attention
over there. I didn't know what I was doing over there. And then
I started just slowly branching out. So yeah, but the permaculture thing,
I guess it's just that it's just because that is a real thing. Like
you do get a lot of invasive species denihilism. You're like, well,
invasive is you could eat them, and it's like, okay, but did
they taste goody? Actually taste GOODA you just you just want to like go
do the foraging thing like Moonlight for a while was a forger or what I
mean, I don't know anyway, But yeah, whatever, man, that's
cool. Growing plants is cool. It's always cool. So uh But anyway,
so you go to this fucking this small island. It's like a seven
hundred meter long island, so what is that that's like half a mile not
even and it's the dolomite bedrock. It was cool walking across the river too,
because normally it's a lot you know, you'd be underwater. But the
drought and they haven't got much rainier lately, so that the river super lows.
You just walk across and just being able to see the bedrock, You're
like, oh, that's what's there beneath the eight feet of top soil and
vegetation cover that I can see on a river bank. This is what's This
is what's here beneath the surface. That's cool. It's so easy to forget
in the Midwest, as opposed to you know, dryer environments out west where
the rock is closer to the surface. It's so easy to forget because you
know, there's so much top soil here, that prairie top soil. Man,
it's real nice, especially the stuff that the glaciers bulldozed, you know,
and we're gonna talk about that. So what is a moraine huh.
A moraine. The way I like to think of it, it's like,
imagine a snowplow hitting a driveway and the moraine would be like when the snowplow
stops, the moraine would be what's there? They'd be that pile of snow
at the end. After that that you know, your friend who's got the
snowplow company, who's doing you a favor because you did him a favor four
months back, Uh, you know, letting them slash something in your garage
that might have been stolen from a large chain store. I'm purely being hypothetical.
Uh you know. So now he's gonna plow your driveway and that big
moraine at the end of snow where at a snow plow stops, that's that's
the moraine. So imagine a glacier in this case would be the snowplow,
you know, a mile thick sheet of ice plowing all that till and fucking
sand, you all that stuff. And so in Kankakee, in the outer
ring suburbs of Chicago down south, you get that moraine of glacial till and
sand. And so there was a moraine holding up acting like an earthen levee
holding up a dam of glacial melt water. At one point that broke and
nineteen thousand years ago, I think it's when it's estimated. And when all
that water flowed out, it took all this shit that the Great Glacier had
bought brought with it and just dumped it. And so that's why we got
these big sand depots at south the Chicago, and that's where you get the
Illinois native prickly pear Opuntia human fusa, which also grows in Massachusetts. I
mean, it's a pretty widespread fucking cactus, but it is definitely I remember
when I first went down there and seen it was like ten years ago,
maybe a little less, and I was just so fucking blown away. A
sand prairie that's a habitat type of sand prairie. And one of the yards
we did on the north side, wonderful Catholic couple, little caramelized onion,
Italian like me, similar complexion. We bonded over it at, you know,
And one of the yards we did, they god, they had a
fucking this was kind of funny too. They had a Virgin Mary statue,
which is such a thing where I live now, where there are no white
people, where it's all the hanos they got. That's the thing you see
in the abilite yards, you know, a little the shrine to the mutter,
to the virgin mutter, the blessed and mutter of like a virgin Mary
statue with like a piece of plexic glass in front of it, a little
flipped over bathtub like vertical, you know, shielding it, you know,
so the kids can't get in there and mess with it, and some plastic
flowers. They had a virgin Mary statue that was left over from I think
it was the lady's mom, mother or something. And it was cool.
It was cool to see because I was like, damn, that is such
a thing in Chicago. And then maybe you'd have like the landscape the rock
bed, the rock mulch of white quartz around the shrine in the front yard,
and so we had to do a bit about that, like putting that
back in the native plant garden. So h and the landscape or there was
fucking wonderful, like just adorable fucking human, you know, just the great
fucking human. And so yeah, it was cool. It was cool.
And him and I'm sucking his husband's like a well known paleobotanist at the Field
Museum too said I was fucking you know, I was stoked to meet them.
I was like, oh god, this is great. But so anyway,
so how the fuck did I get? Oh yeah, gotta keep up
with myself. Sometimes the soil. It was cool to see the soil there,
because when we ripped up that lawn it was all sand because they're only
like a mile in from the lake. Not even they were up there.
They're up there in Edgewater, up there on a north say say, and
so you know, I'm looking at that sand. You could see all these
little quartz bits in there, and I'm like, where the fuck did that
come from? Is that it either came from sandstone that was of course a
sedimentary rock which was then later ground up by the glaciers, or it came
from way far up north where you get all that granite, all that really
old granite in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula Michigan got the geology up there.
You want to fucking geologic or bash, you go to the Upper Peninsula Michigan.
Right now. It's a good time to go too, because the mosquitoes
have died off. But it hasn't gotten fridgid as hell yet. I'm convinced
the Midwest is going to be a climate refuge. Man. I just seen
a Hank Green. He's got a channel called Hanks Channel on YouTube. He'd
just beat cancer, I guess too. He's in remission now, which is
good, thank god, because that guy's a fucking great science educator, much
more, much better than I'll ever be, and much more acceptable by the
masses. And I'll ever beat two, which is nice. He's doing a
lot of good work. So you know, the p B one of the
pbscons guys like the original anyway, and he was talking about climate denihilism and
how he rolls with it, you know, like philosophically, like he doesn't
fight it anymore. He doesn't argue with these people, which is kind of
my take two. And I'm sorry to go off in this weird tangent,
but it's just it's like it's like trying to argue with someone when you can
see that the sky is blue and they're telling you that it's it's orange or
something. You know, like you just all right man, whatever, you
know, same way you'd see like some like religious extremists freak you know,
holding a sign on the corner and screaming about horrors or something. You know,
say, I don't know, Homo six years it's god damn, Homo
sexuels. You know, I don't know, so you just don't. But
it was a really good, like six minutes spoken bit about it. So
anyway, but anyway, so they're going to this going to this yard and
looking in the in the looking in the ground and seeing this, you know,
the sand down there, and there was all these grubs too. I
think it was a European I think it was a beetle called the European chafer,
which liked a chafer, you know, like when you're doing a jag
and you're wearing some of those euro tights, you know, and it kind
of ride up your backside and you end up getting sweating and you get a
rash. Next thing, you gotta put the A and D ointment out.
It's what you call a European chafer. But there were all these grubs in
the soil too, which is funny. They were just feasting on the lawn,
just slowly killing it. But the soil was the sandy. Low Man,
I couldn't believe. I was like, fuck, this is this is
so rich because I know from living in Oakland, sand is great. The
growing if you got and it was like blacks. It had like kind of
blackish material in it too, So a lot of rich organics, you know
a few hundreds of thousands of years of plants, you know, growing and
dying, growing and dying, forming a rich black homus mixed in with that
sand. But there were these quartz sand grains that just must have gotten It's
those ground up granite plutons moving, you know, getting pushed down by the
glaciers. That's where you got all the sand, you know, encircling Lake
Michigan. So yeah, I was. Then we went to visit that same
sand you see in Evanston, like, which is also close to the lake
where Allison Sloane's nursery was, and she's like, oh, I just like
she was talking about how she's like I don't know this sand. I don't
really like it, blah blah. And I was like, oh my god,
sand is amazing. You can grow anything, and you can grow you
can grow you know, pinus strobus, the white pine and sand like such
a great tree. You can't really growing clay. They just they just end
up rotting. The clay is the clay can be very problematic. It's the
very problematic. Oh fucking we're whatever your problemat Whenever you say somebody say problematic,
especially if it's a Caucasian, I just cringe. Just oh god,
fuck so uh yeah that was a weird thing to him. Man, Just
I gotta say that because I don't. Race doesn't exist, right, It's
just phenotypic variation among us crazy monkeys, which is what we are. We're
fucking crazy apes, We're monkeys, we're crazy primates. Race doesn't exist,
which is like, it makes racism all the more such a fucking unenlightened,
anti intellectual, idiotic, mythical view of the world. But on the same
hand, when you say, when I just see like the self flagellating,
guilty white liberal either lecturing someone else about race or like beating themselves up,
well yeah, you know, the white people were white, and we're really
we have to be problematic, we have to apologize. It's like, oh
God Jesus, now, stuff, you're good intention but just stop. I
just gotta get away from this because it's not you know, it's about the
mindset now, especially historical context. Is important, but it's about the mindset.
The mindset is that disconnection and that entitlement, and that the supposed superiority,
whether it's racial or human superiority, you know, not recognizing yourself as
a part of a living biosphere, living fabric and so everything belongs to you.
Just gotta take it that. I could go off on a million fucking
tangents because I just this just made me think of that podcast episode I did
with Keeper Trout where he's talking about Native American Church and Payote and how you
know a lot of members of the Native American Church are actually you know,
evangelical Christians, which a lot of people don't realize. It's like so weird
it was. I think they just had to throw you know, the Natives
just had to throw a little bit of Christian stuff in here. So,
you know, the Honkey death Cult people wouldn't keep sucking with them for using
their medicine, for using payote, which again is totally harmless. And so
I don't know, but I think some of them, you know, along
the lines, people started taking a little too seriously and you get some evangelism,
and the only part that bums me out with all that is that fatalistic
shit. The peyote will take care of itself. The world is gonna end
God. If anything happens, it's because God wants it. It's fucking weird,
man, It's really really weird, and it's going to lead to lots
of extirpation and possible extinction of peyote and many other plants inhabit that. It's
a weird mindset, you know. It's God is coming, Like Heaven is
up there. Heaven isn't down here. So I don't take care of this.
This is just the machine to get us to heaven. Earth is just
a machine to get us to Heaven. Let's take what we need about this
vending machine. Will wreck this bitch. If we have to, We'll crack
the damn window or to vending machine. Reach in there, get all the
Hershey's bars and and you know, Granola's and peanuts and stuff, because it's
just the Earth is just the vending machine to get us to heaven. Anyway,
What am I talking about? But anyway, so that was anyway.
I'm in there, you know, while we're killing this lawn and Edgewater,
I'm in there, digging in the soil, hands and knees, smelling the
soil. It was just such a rich that's sand man, that fucking sand.
And then later on we went up to you know, see this lady
Alice in Sloane, who's you know, really really wonderful, kind kind of
soft spoken hippie lady. I guess she's a wizard the saxophone too. She
plays like a mean fucking saxophone, which is pretty cool, you know,
just like Lisa from the Simpsons. And and she just started growing all these
plants in her backyard. And that's what I love to focus on, especially
for a show like this, because I think a lot of people don't get
it. They don't realize how native plant movements work. They don't realize that
native plant movements are kind of inherently anti capitalist. They're kind of inherently or
they start off that way. They're kind of inherently grassroots, all right,
you know. And uh, I just you know, it starts off with
people just loving this ship, getting that dopamine shot from being in nature,
from spending time in nature, from spending time in nature is because listen,
spending time and go out to these fucking places and spend time in nature.
You go to Wolf Road Prairie. Park your car and a Mariano's parking lot
so the fucking cops don't mess with you. You walk across to the prairie
because you're supposed to be there after night, they will stop you and say
what is your car doing here? And right north the wolf Rold Prairie is
a lay ass housing subdivision that I'm sure as full as stiffs and squares,
probably some really really wonderful people too. I shouldn't be judgmental, but you
know, it's in my nature. No, I'm just kidding. It's not
my nature to be just mine's my nature to be cynical. Anyway, you
get the point, park your car and a Mariano's parking lot. Maybe go
in there and get a juice or something so you could say actually paid,
And then you take your four grams a dried psilocybin, mushrooms in the prairie
and our fourth sunset, and you just marinate in that and you take it
all in. Those are the people who should be designing landscaping beds. You
pay attention to everything. Your senses are heightened, your senses are more keen.
You're taking in that the sound of all the insects you're taking in the
smells of all the all the volatile secondary metabolites, the terpenes and whatnot leaking
out of those stomata of Helianthus grocers serratus and solidago and liatris and and silphium
porfoliateum and Sylphium u parabinthinaceum and all the other stuff, and the pygnanthemum and
the eupatorium, the bone set, the white eupatorium that smells in fucking incredible.
Go ahead and take that in and then, you know, and then
you'll have some emotional reprieve for another week or so probably. I mean that
adds really a fucking that is a that's a healing experience, my friend.
Go in there and do that, you know, and see see what you
come out with a few days later. If you have a bad trip,
don't blame me. Blame your therapist who's obviously not helping you move through your
past trauma. And I'm just kidding. If you have a bad trip,
I'm really sorry, but you know, we all got shipped to work through.
I've had many bad trips. I've had quite a few, not bad,
just it's fucking work you're like, oh shit, I forgot about that.
So but yeah, this is it's been great being here. We got
two more yards through lagrange and then uh, we're doing another house on the
north side. The house on the north side I'm stoked for because it's got
a big gass yard. It's a fucking huge Chicago backyard with just nothing in
it, just just green. And so I just we're just gonna pack it
tight, keep it tense, and pack it thense the ten The tension just
comes from me and Al being sort of neurodivergent, and then the density comes
from just having a good plant list and a landscape or that knows what the
fuck they're doing. And actually, you know, did that thing in a
prairie I was just talking about. So what was I talking about? Kankakee
Malow originally like fifteen minutes ago. Yeah, So Kankakee Malo aliena remote It
was all in seed. It's got these little dehiscent capsules, you know,
each one the size of a marble. Each capsule has about I don't know,
eighty to one hundred and forty seeds inside. Maybe not. That made
me give or take a few dozen, so, you know, and they
were all mostly done flowering. But I snag some seed. They don't want
you to do that, but I'll say it on the podcast. Whatever they
bammy, snag some seed and gave it to a friend to grow. They're
gonna grow it. And you know most malvasly are self fertile, so hopefully,
you know, you gotta get these plants established in gardens and you get
them full sun and you water them and they're just they'll just fucking take off.
And so you need stock plants. We need more people grow on that
Kankakee mallet in the Chicago area. It is such a fucking cool one and
it's so rare and it just be great. You know, you're like driving
down a Chicago boulevard and they got just a fucking the whole thing is just
flanked by by Iliama ramota. You know, little little member of the hibiscus
fan with the five pink pink petals and the cool looking leaves, gets about
three or four feet tall. But you know, you get two stock plants,
I mean mal ourself for us, you could really just do it with
one, but you get two stock plants, grow them in a garden.
They get pollinated collect all that seat at the end of the air and then
just start giving it away, grows some yourself whatever, you know, and
then you don't you don't need someone going out there and breaking the rules and
you know, taking a couple of seeds from habitat like I did. But
but the fucking yeah, man, the the the buckthorn, the hook thorn,
and the honeysuckle are bad out there. And there you could see a
line where they stopped burning and managing it and it's just dense. It's like
a thicket. You can't walk through it. It's hell. The ticks are
probably terrible too, so they burn, They burn every few years. And
you know you also got to go in there and probably just you know,
change, so a bunch of shit down. But that's part of management,
right. If you don't manage it, you know, you're gonna lose all
that diversity. You got to be the disturbance that enables the diversity, like
Martin Grantham used to say. And so that's part of the fun of having
a native plant gardens. You know, some people just want a hands off
approach. I want the hands on approach. I want it to be like
a like a game of sims like, I'm in there paying attention to what's
thriving, seeing what needs to be cut back. I'll go in there,
you know, cut a bunch of ship back during the dormant season so the
new stuff can grow. I mean, it's it's really a hands on approach
and you're getting you're getting out there. You're getting to spend time with these
plants, see what's pollinating them. It's fucking enjoyable, it's soothing. Some
people don't want that. That's fine too. You could do a native plant
garden too. You hire a fucking landscape if you get the money, you
know, if you're you know, wealthy, but it's definitely more fun than
you know, doing a bunch of circles with a lawnmower once a week.
You know. And if you don't have a house, you got an apartment,
figure out a spot where you can take over, you know, figure
out you know, maybe your apartment owner's got a fucking place. I was
staying at AIRBNBA was staying at in Chicago. It's got a big grass lawn
in front of it. You know. See if you can talk some about
putting a garden in managing and taking care of it. Whatever, Maybe they're
siff, maybe they won't let you. Whatever. Find a park, you
know, there's spots, there's public space, find a vacant line, find
a railroad embatement, find a power linings. But find something where you can
clear the invasives away. Get some bear soil, just throw seeds on the
ground, plant shit, water or whatever. You know, there's there's ways
around it. You gotta be creative, all right. You don't need to,
you know, you don't need to be a victim of today's over priced
and ridiculously gouged real estate market. And I hope collapses soon. Anyway,
that said, I took my daughter of the artans dude before we started filming.
I came here with my daughter and a mom and we went to the
artems. Dude was fucking It was hilarious because it's like I hadn't been there
and so long. It used to be free. Now they're charging like thirty
five bucks, which is insane and offensive. Frankly, again, all these
museums just become theme parks for rich suburban tourists. That's what they want.
They want, they want, like the mostly Caucasian suburban tourists. How that
was a ranther I was gonna go out, go off on, forgot about
It was just weird to be around, you know, people of most the
European ethnicity, not mostly there's a there's a lot of black and brown of
Chicago, fucking course, but I'm used to you know, I live with
I live in a brown area, so to be around you know people,
I felt like I was in Norway. As certain parts of Chicago, it
is like whoa, hey, shit, I forgot about that. But that's
good. I like, I just wish it's been always been the issue in
Chicago, that voluntary segregation. Studs Turkle wrote about this ship thirty fucking years
ago, that kind of voluntary segregation again, that people just voluntarily segregating if
not, you know, if it's not enforced by fucking police or freeways or
you know, it's Chicago is a lot more loose and progressive now, which
is good, but still still can be pretty segregated. Race doesn't exist,
all right, learn about evolution. Race don't exist. But anyway, we
went to the Art Institute and I will say it was mostly suburban Caucasian tourists
or just cares. Mostly there was a demographic man it was like the NPR
listener, you know, mostly waiting to get into the the fucking artists to
do it. And we go in there and I was like, we got
him for free. We had a little gimmick site hustle thing, but that
aside just looking at the prices, I was offended, you know, I
was like, God, damn thirty, it used to be free. How
you supposed to go in and enjoy this stuff and bathe in the ambiance?
Bathe and I mean to see like a Domier, the Domier French lithographers,
one of my favorites, did all those good satirical works making fun of the
fucking aristocracy and the political class, and god, it's so good. That
guy was the original Ogi camp. I don't how did that guy not get
decapitated by the by the authorities, I don't know. On your Domier read
read about that guy if you haven't heard him. H O N O R
E d A U M I E er. But they got a bunch of
Domi a stuff too, and he just does these these cast molds of these
these rich pricks and these political just you know, fucking gross humans looking all
saggy faced and just like I was he's awesome, He's so good, He's
so good. And then there's a lot of you know, lame shit too,
like a lot of weird. They got like a weird a lot of
weird you know, religious renaissance ship, which is totally creepy. Like everyone,
I feel like everyone who paid to that stuff was just you know,
held to the painting at the point of a sword or something like like paint,
paint this, or we'll decapitate you. This is all this is all
you're allowed to make art about is the passion at a Christ's. And meanwhile,
I will totally forget the message at a christ you know, Christian supremacy.
But we we got in there regardless. Yeah, used to be free.
We got into regardless, and we're you know, I was CC was
the god. She got so it got so fucking boring for her. Man,
my daughter got so she got so bored, which I don't blame her,
because she's like three. She's gotten no way to no context for for
art, you know. So I was just in there kind of explain it
to her and having fun with it. And then I was having I had
on my shoulders and security guards kept yelling as for me having her on my
shoulders. I don't know why they're worried. It's a liability. So that
I would just go to the next room and when they weren't around, I
put her back up there because easy way to carry her. She wanted to
be carried, so and it just you know, we got like we got
yelled at like nine times. One point she gots she threw a tantrum,
was pissed off, and I was like, all right, I'm just gonna
let a roll because this is gonna bum. This is gonna like, you
know, I don't feel too bad about it. This is the art Institute.
It just kind of left the sour taste in my mouth. But then
we found we found like a little there's an area where like they can you
can let kids like paint on the walls and ship. It was like a
it was like a family craft area or something or it's for school kids,
and that was pretty cool. We just we were drawing pictures of the Lorex
and the window and and scribbling and stuff and that was fun. And then
we left and yeah, we met up with my front Oscar too, and
Oscar knows everyone. He's like it, dude, it is like a Wizard
of Chicago, you know, got like tons of connections, knows all these
cool people. But he's not a snob at all. He's like he works
at the library. You know, it's just totally cool. I met his
brother before him. His brother was a graffiti guy. Guatemalan dude, it
writes Pollock, which I love. It's hilarious, but so u or used
to write pole. You don't do graffite anymore. He's got kids, but
you know, but h but anyway, Yeah, so we hung out with
the Oscar and I was great. He knows all the good spots to lurk,
like the cool little you know, Buffet cafe and the Loop that's got
the basement seating area where you could just hang out. There's no one down
there, just like you know, places like that used to hang out when
I was a teenager, like Ronnie's Steakhouse in the South Loop on Wabash.
I think that place has gone, but we used to hang out. And
Ronnie's you get like a god. It was amazing. You get like a
cheap meal, like somewhat healthy meal, like mashed potatoes and broccoli, and
like I wasn't eating meat at the time. But you know, something like
that, and then you just go lurk in the basement. We draw,
I hang out there. We just drawn, shoot the ship, maybe drink
a tall can we snuck because we were like that back then, and just
hang out and draw. And then it was so nice. Man. It
was before these phones took up everyone's attention too, so you know, people
still daydreamed. It was a really nice time. But but on the way
out of the Orang Institute, we gave our tickets, which we got for
free to uh, you know, some working class family that was going in
there, and that felt good too. I was like, good, don't
give these fox money. Let them get money from the rich people. They're
they're directing, they're you know, advertising for the rich people, they're lobbying
to pay. Let them get it from the city whatever. But don't don't
pay thirty five bucks for this this shit. It's so weird, man,
I just I don't get it. But anyway, so I'm gonna wrap it
up here because we're almost that an hour, and uh, what else did
I have to talk about? I think that's yeah, I don't know,
it was weird. Oh you know what was weird? Those seeing all the
Venezuelan refugees. They're living in the police station, like in the lobby area
of the police station. We went by this police station on the north side,
and these are the ones that that Abbott's dumbass Governor Abbott from Texas UH
sent up sent up here as part of his political stunts. I can't imagine
like the money that they spend on these political stunts. And it's so transparent
too. It's it's just for show. It's like Governor Abbot's making a TikTok
video, you know, trying to get his trying to get his voters all
horny, showing that he's not he's not touched. We'll say on these to
these Democrat run cities. It's such a thing, man, Democrat run cities,
Like what the you know, it's just so fucking weird. It's so
delusional, you know, And it's like, wouldn't you want like do you
have any sense of like collective good for everybody? No you don't, of
course not no, because it's party, it's not part of your m O.
But it's just where do you think that's gonna end up? Dummy,
Like for the whole nation? Where do you think that's gonna go. Not
only are you using human beings as pawns, and you're just being a phony,
you're being a fake. You know you're doing this for sure, you're
putting out a performance. It's political theater, you fucking fraud. But where
do you think this is all going to go? You think that's really a
solution to a problem. No, you're you're just doing it for sure.
You're doing it to win people already, get people horny about it, to
play with people's anger. And meanwhile you're just fucking over a lot of people
in the process. And you know whatever, Yeah good, yeah good,
Bring bring refugees in. Fuck, you know, they're fucking refugees, man,
Like they're not. Do you think they're trying to invade? Like you
have no idea what kind of shit they went through. And I hope you,
I hope you, you know, would have gotten a chance to go
through and you're life. Maybe you'd be a little humbled. But but it
was nuts, man, it's right there in your face. I mean,
it's just people. I don't know why they're at the cop shop. I
don't know what they're doing. They're like living outside the cop shop. They're
got, you know, they got all their shit out there, and it's
just sad. You know, it's just fucking sad. And it's everyman being
deserves a fucking opportunity and an education in a safe place to be, and
the right to live their fucking lives without without getting you know, harassed or
or intimidated by criminal gangs or subject to all the political disruption that was created
by the people in power in their countries, and the right to not get
used as a as a pawn for some rich fox political theater. It's just
nuts. It's so fucking sad, man, Like what about Like how many
kids they're just want to go hang out in the library and draw pictures,
man, you know, or read a book or something, and they can't.
Instead, you know, they should be spending their lives running around on
playgrounds and you know, learning about nature or drawn pictures, laughing with their
friends, getting into trouble, you know, ethical trouble, and instead they're
you know, they had the uproot where they live, travel fucking you know,
three thousand miles on foot, you know, to just go get used
by some some rich funck who's running for office, wants to be wants to
keep his place as governor. You know, it's just nuts. I just
it's just such a fucking deranged mindset. Man. But that's Texas for you.
That shit, that's a lot of the US for you, I guess.
Anyway, that's not like God. You have a good rest of your
day and you read about those glacial moraines and tills and all that stuff.
Download the app rocked roc KD and you can learn about the displains meteor crater.
It's some real ship man. Two hundred and eighty million years ago,
a meteorites slammed into displays Illinois and uh it's you know, the crater is
still there. It was only detected, you know what. I'm not gonna
end this yet because this is a really good piece, but it was it
was only discovered, I think because people that were drilling for wells. This
is like a five mile wide crater. It's all filled in with glacial till.
You can't detect it on the service. You could probably detect it with
gravity anomalies. But it was originally detected because when they were drilling for wells.
People were drilling for wells back then, they were just going super deep
and not finding anything. Yeah, they wouldn't, they wouldn't hit water.
And where's the water tables a lot closer with the surface outside of the ring
of this crater. And this that forms Displays, Illinois, like a near
suburb of Chicago. And so that was when they started to pick up on
it. And sure enough, if you go to like the rocked app roc
k the wonderful fucking app no ads just a geologic map overlay of the entire
United States in Mexico and any any country that's contributed its data. You know
where they can map it. You could see it. There's a there's an
anomaly. There's like a little circle where Displays is that's about five miles wide,
and it is a Displays impact crater from two hundred and eighty million years
ago. Okay, was that the Permian still a Permian? Remember you got
to have your your chronological landmarks for your geology, right, remember that think
of that timeline right, you got your got your you know, age of
the year at four point six billion years old as fossils three point eight billion
years, Great oxygenation event two billion years, banded iron formations, et cetera.
Evolution of eukaryotic life multicellular life one billion years Cambrian explosion five hundred and
forty million years Then you got the evolutional land plants four hundred and forty million
years ago, permanent extinction two hundred and fifty million years ago, carboniferous just
before that, when all the coal swamps are getting form, et cetera,
et cetera, missazoic kat extinction, dinosaurs and ammonites get get knocked out,
they go extinct, et cetera. So kind of gotta have to memorize that
geologic timeline, you fuck you that. There's one service you could do yourself,
memorize those landmarks along the geologic timeline. But it was cool to know.
I didn't know about that Displains Impact crater until a few weeks ago.
Actually, I saw it on the map and I was like, what the
fuck is that? Then I read about it and I said, holy shit.
I said, Displaines was the spot to beat twitter and eighty million years
ago if you wanted to get you know, categorically annihilated by a giant space
rock. So anyway, all right, well that's really all I got.
Have a good rest of your evening afternoon morning, My motherfucker fuck is the bike