Easter Brunch With Father Santore Livestream

<v Speaker 1>Hodson here, let's go in here when it costum really
<v Speaker 1>a little too real? You know, you put this on,
<v Speaker 1>we turn this thing out for him. All right, Happy Easter, everybody.
<v Speaker 1>Who's actually who's up right now? It's twelve thirty pm
<v Speaker 1>Central time. All right, let's see what we get going
<v Speaker 1>for your When I do a live stream, it's probably
<v Speaker 1>you know, it'll probably be this is probably more suitable.
<v Speaker 1>I got some books I wanted to share with you. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>father Santorp, hold on, let me let me get some books.
<v Speaker 1>Dystopian Holiday. Okay, there we go. All right, Yeah, Happy Easter.
<v Speaker 1>Happy Easter, everybody. Christ I haven't got so much shit going.
<v Speaker 1>I got so much stuff to do about the heaven Andewism,
<v Speaker 1>fall down, break my neck. I'm going to Atlanta tomorrow.
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to Georgia. I'll be in Georgia Alabama area.
<v Speaker 1>I'm finally gonna see some Northeast Alabama's biodiversity. I'll be
<v Speaker 1>wearing a priest custome. You know, it gets you out
<v Speaker 1>of traffic tickets, It gets you know, both the cops
<v Speaker 1>and and you know the LINKU was to leave you alone.
<v Speaker 1>I was in New Orleans and we were filming to
<v Speaker 1>kill your lawn. We're in a priest costume. Once it
<v Speaker 1>was their Marti grut thing. Some kid hit me in
<v Speaker 1>the head with a ball they were throwing in the street,
<v Speaker 1>and he looked so apologetic afterwards, whereas if I wouldn't
<v Speaker 1>have been wearing this, he probably will just you know,
<v Speaker 1>told me to go fuck myself or something. So anyway,
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, it's four twenty two for all the dopers.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not a doper, but uh, I encourage it. You know,
<v Speaker 1>it's beats booze. Can't fucking stand alcohol. So what do
<v Speaker 1>you mean do We're gonna do a quick live stream.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna talk about some books, some nice books that
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna go. Maybe we'll talk about uh, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know what else. I don't know. I'm out of shit,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I got too much. I got I get
<v Speaker 1>what's what happened, and I get too much shit to
<v Speaker 1>do and then I don't do anything. I just want
<v Speaker 1>to lay down, you know, in the middle of the road.
<v Speaker 1>But we'll, uh, we could talk, you know, we'll see
<v Speaker 1>what uh what's going on with everybody out there? Growing
<v Speaker 1>bockchoy In response to the Chinese thing that's good you
<v Speaker 1>know that's really good. We're we're gonna not gonna ease
<v Speaker 1>the dystopia. Somebody got mad at me for saying the
<v Speaker 1>word retard, which you would never actually say to someone
<v Speaker 1>who's mentally disabled. Retard is only it's reserved for people
<v Speaker 1>who are acting like, you know, retarded. You treat the
<v Speaker 1>mentally disabled the utmost care, respect and compassion. But you know,
<v Speaker 1>everyone's got their fight. They gotta get they gotta get
<v Speaker 1>mad about something. So uh okay, well the fuck I've got,
<v Speaker 1>you know, nineteen videos to edit. Still, I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to do it. I got doing the copy edits. I
<v Speaker 1>gotta get the version of my book. Concrete bought me
<v Speaker 1>back to the copy editor by tuesday. You know, Al see,
<v Speaker 1>Al's like the see I'm the Italian cat. Look, priest,
<v Speaker 1>Ail's the Irish. Can't look priest. You know this fucking thing.
<v Speaker 1>He was laughing his ass off when I had this out.
<v Speaker 1>He said, it looks too real. It's too real, it's
<v Speaker 1>fucking too good. You know, I'm gonna start I should
<v Speaker 1>seriously wear that. You can get away with so much,
<v Speaker 1>so much, right, do you think a cop would if
<v Speaker 1>a cop saw me in this? There's no way he
<v Speaker 1>would write me any kind of fucking ticket, right anyway,
<v Speaker 1>maybe I could read something from this book, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I was. I don't know how I mentally diarrheaed this
<v Speaker 1>book out, but I was going through it yesterday after
<v Speaker 1>the copy had I got it back to me and
<v Speaker 1>it's actually pretty good. That's pretty nice. It's uh, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I forgot I wrote this because I can't remember what
<v Speaker 1>I had for breakfast three days ago. I just fucking
<v Speaker 1>you know, I just bark this shit out and then
<v Speaker 1>people tell me stuff I did, stuff I said, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember that stuff. You know. Okay, books, we
<v Speaker 1>want to talk about Fifth Kingdom. I talked about this
<v Speaker 1>in a podcast. Excellent book on fungi fungi and it
<v Speaker 1>gets into it too. It's not about foraging or edible
<v Speaker 1>It's not that I necessarily not those. It's about the
<v Speaker 1>more in a science, you know, how to fun I bang,
<v Speaker 1>good shit, cool stuff to think about. God damn, this
<v Speaker 1>thing is blowing my mind. By Bryce Kendrick, The Fifth Kingdom.
<v Speaker 1>There was something especially that they got me going, got
<v Speaker 1>me hacked. Oh there's even a chapter on Li Likens.
<v Speaker 1>That's a dope book. Woody Plants of Northwest South America
<v Speaker 1>is a dope book because it's a flora, but it's
<v Speaker 1>written by an actual field botanist. So instead of, you know,
<v Speaker 1>instead of being like a cold, hard, dry flora, it's uh,
<v Speaker 1>you know with the keys that kind of suck and
<v Speaker 1>the key breaks that suck. It's more in depth and
<v Speaker 1>it's got It's like something I would write like just
<v Speaker 1>a and I've been meaning to do something like that
<v Speaker 1>for Texas, where you just explain the difference between this
<v Speaker 1>and you know that, you explain the general instead of
<v Speaker 1>looking for these very subtle, often not in seasoned, morphological
<v Speaker 1>traits about a plant, you actually talk about the gestalt,
<v Speaker 1>you know, where it grows, how it feels that kind
<v Speaker 1>of shit, really good stuff and it look at this.
<v Speaker 1>They got a chapter on a fucking neotropical Eric Casey
<v Speaker 1>and the differences between all the genera, and I will
<v Speaker 1>tell you they are a clusterfuck. I'm gonna try to
<v Speaker 1>do a post about them on the intergram the inter
<v Speaker 1>sham serato stemsteria differences and where the flowers come out
<v Speaker 1>accillaria at the discilline. What but these fucking neotropical blueberries
<v Speaker 1>blew my mind man, because they're they're epiphytes, and they
<v Speaker 1>grow in these incredible forests, generally high elevations. They're neotropical,
<v Speaker 1>not in the sense of hot and humid, only in
<v Speaker 1>the sense that they occur at lott latitudes. But they've
<v Speaker 1>got a lot of them form these woody ligno tubers.
<v Speaker 1>So you'll see this thing that's anchored to it, like
<v Speaker 1>moss bed on a tree, and then it like hooks
<v Speaker 1>down and it's got this big woody knob. It's the
<v Speaker 1>woody ligno tuber. It's like a storage mechanism, you know.
<v Speaker 1>It's like having a little storage container in a back
<v Speaker 1>you know, where you put all your tools and shit,
<v Speaker 1>your tools, your guns, your dildos and uh and then
<v Speaker 1>you know, but it's an epiphyte. So to get around
<v Speaker 1>the fact that it's got this dry season and it's
<v Speaker 1>not going on any fucking soil, it's got this big
<v Speaker 1>woody ligno tuber. So fucking cool to see. And a
<v Speaker 1>lot of them do that, and then a lot of
<v Speaker 1>other ones just grow and they've all produced these delicious
<v Speaker 1>edible fruits. I mean, they're truly neotropical blueberries. You know,
<v Speaker 1>I could take this thing off that this is vibing you,
<v Speaker 1>some of you guys out you know, if you got
<v Speaker 1>like trauma, Catholic trauma, a lot of us have it.
<v Speaker 1>My mom used to take me to the fucking Catholic church.
<v Speaker 1>You know. It was a big it was a big church,
<v Speaker 1>and I would get so bored and I would, but
<v Speaker 1>I liked watching a priest when he would, you know,
<v Speaker 1>hold up the wine and shit, because you could tell
<v Speaker 1>he was already hammered. He'd hold up a little chalice
<v Speaker 1>and eat the bread, you know, you know, you hold
<v Speaker 1>the chalice up and you could just see this big
<v Speaker 1>dumb grin, and you go, heck, guy's fucking hammered already.
<v Speaker 1>Holy shit. He was drinking the wine and the rum,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and then he's probably spilled some them on
<v Speaker 1>his little robe and he had to go change, you know,
<v Speaker 1>through a cursing fit, you know, like Tony soprano and
<v Speaker 1>then had a cursing fit, had to go back change
<v Speaker 1>the rope because he got a big port wine stain
<v Speaker 1>on it. And you know what I mean, Uh, what
<v Speaker 1>the fuck was I talking about? Oh yeah, so neotropical blueberries.
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember, is that what I was saying about
<v Speaker 1>I'm all over the place just like a pink pok bowl.
<v Speaker 1>Try to listen to the podcast. It's even worse. But uh,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, that was. I mean, I've got so much
<v Speaker 1>shit to process. I've got herbarium specimens. Look at this
<v Speaker 1>stuff I got. Oh, this is all our barium specimens here,
<v Speaker 1>ah see, put them in like that, and those these
<v Speaker 1>are the ones I've processed. Ship I've written labels up
<v Speaker 1>for when I keep them. You don't need actual plant
<v Speaker 1>press for herbarium specimens, though it helps you. Just you
<v Speaker 1>get one of these little drawing pads and then I
<v Speaker 1>hold it together with these these straps. You know. I
<v Speaker 1>think these straps were originally made for some kind of
<v Speaker 1>derange sex sling. But you know I'm not into that stuff,
<v Speaker 1>so so I just, oh, god, okay. Anyway, you're like
<v Speaker 1>pee Wee Herman, you know, and the old you ever
<v Speaker 1>watched the old pee Wee shows, when he's just he's
<v Speaker 1>like pulling all this stuff out of a bag. He's
<v Speaker 1>got a bag of gigs. My daughter and I were
<v Speaker 1>watching that. He loves pee Wee. Thank god. You know,
<v Speaker 1>it's a subtle creative messaging in that show. I think
<v Speaker 1>it affected all of us who grew up in that time.
<v Speaker 1>It was a very important show and cultural institution. They
<v Speaker 1>really affected me. They really affected me as a young youngster. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's see when else. I saw another interesting plant in
<v Speaker 1>other news po Maria Ostro, Texana. Super fucking rare. It's
<v Speaker 1>a pee that looks like an orchid right there. And
<v Speaker 1>I just took that using Matt's car instead of Matt's
<v Speaker 1>car as a background. You just gotta get that. To
<v Speaker 1>get that black background, you just need a much darker
<v Speaker 1>uh background that's generally farther away from the lens than
<v Speaker 1>the subject. But it's it's This plant is incredible. I've
<v Speaker 1>been looking for it for a while, never thought I'd
<v Speaker 1>actually come across it, but look at it. Very bizarre
<v Speaker 1>floral morphology with those those stamens that come down probably
<v Speaker 1>to dust, some fucking Xylocopis abdomen with pollen, and the
<v Speaker 1>whole thing's covered in glands. It's in the say cell
<v Speaker 1>penioid subfamily at a pea family, and so uh and
<v Speaker 1>a lot quite a lot of them do that. I
<v Speaker 1>think Hoffman Seggy is a say cell penioid too. Erazorisia
<v Speaker 1>I think that's a say cel penioid, that's a cool
<v Speaker 1>say sell penioid, desert safe cell penioids. Look at a glance.
<v Speaker 1>Huh you prick see that? God, the Internet's a toilet.
<v Speaker 1>Did you know that? Did you know what? The Internet's
<v Speaker 1>a toilet for every rotten sphincter to comment horrible shit,
<v Speaker 1>not horrible. Just you know, there's a lot of unhappy
<v Speaker 1>people because we're living in dystopia, and you know, the
<v Speaker 1>middle class is basically gone and the oligarchs are fucking everybody.
<v Speaker 1>So a lot of people are unhappy and they they
<v Speaker 1>vent it. I can't really blame them. They vent it
<v Speaker 1>by going online and you know, while I taking a ship,
<v Speaker 1>leaving some mean comment, then YouTube. So anyway, picture book
<v Speaker 1>of Unusual Flowers, I'm working on it. Uh but uh
<v Speaker 1>the other book meanwhile on abrams Press has been kind
<v Speaker 1>of abandoned, which is all photos their designer. I sent
<v Speaker 1>some sample images and write ups to their designer to
<v Speaker 1>look at and he got back. He sent that back.
<v Speaker 1>It looked like a fucking health insurance brought sure. I said,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not doing this stuff. I'm gonna do I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>get the InDesign subscription and do it myself, which I did,
<v Speaker 1>but I just haven't gotten around to it. A kind
<v Speaker 1>lady wrote me and said she would help me. She uh,
<v Speaker 1>she's in Minnesota and does it for a living. But
<v Speaker 1>I have not. I just haven't had the time. I
<v Speaker 1>don't have time to do anything. All I want to
<v Speaker 1>do is ride my bike with my kid. I got
<v Speaker 1>this tandem bike. It's a hookup, so she could sit
<v Speaker 1>on the back and put a little helmet on her
<v Speaker 1>and you go ride your bike around. That's a nice time,
<v Speaker 1>you know. And then if you're smoking a stogy too,
<v Speaker 1>you're like five feet above her because it's a cannem
<v Speaker 1>so you're not gonna get blown smoking her face. So
<v Speaker 1>you drive around, You ride around smoking a stogy, drinking
<v Speaker 1>an Na beer. You know, that's a nice time. That's
<v Speaker 1>all I want to do. Yeah, you're If you're unhappy
<v Speaker 1>with things, just dive into, you know, the living world.
<v Speaker 1>Ignore the fucking garbage around you, the human garbage. Okay, wait,
<v Speaker 1>pea flower, nice? What the fuck I had? You know?
<v Speaker 1>I hit a I had a point here. Oh, if
<v Speaker 1>you want to see the cover of a book, Fucking
<v Speaker 1>square Space is fucking me again. I hate them. I
<v Speaker 1>hate them so much. Did you know that? Did you
<v Speaker 1>know that I hate Square Space? Okay, let me go
<v Speaker 1>through these nine thousand unread emails in my email inbox
<v Speaker 1>and show you to cover for Concrete Botany, which I
<v Speaker 1>think came out pretty good. They hired an illustrator, even
<v Speaker 1>though I illustrate because I don't have the fucking time
<v Speaker 1>to do it. The illustrator they're hired isn't isn't too bad?
<v Speaker 1>Not you know, there's look there you go, there's the
<v Speaker 1>kind that'll be and Barnes and Noble so you can
<v Speaker 1>shoplift it. Just kidding, I'm just kidding. That'll be on Amazon,
<v Speaker 1>so you can you can you can order it on
<v Speaker 1>Scamazon and say the package didn't arrive. Just kidding, just kidding,
<v Speaker 1>I'm really just kidding. We don't endorse crime here. Uh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so I don't know that'll be fun. I need to
<v Speaker 1>find someone who's competent and knows knows a thing or
<v Speaker 1>two about plants to do the design or help me
<v Speaker 1>with the design layout for the other book, you know,
<v Speaker 1>because this is what I got. The ship I'm doing
<v Speaker 1>for the other book is uh, I've got a very
<v Speaker 1>specific ship, very specific way I want it done, you know,
<v Speaker 1>for the illustrations, because you're trying to pack a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of images. Where the fuck is this thing? Why is
<v Speaker 1>it so turned up? Why is he so mad? I
<v Speaker 1>don't understand why he's so mad? Poems me and Scott's
<v Speaker 1>own We're supposed to do a podcast on poems, but
<v Speaker 1>he flakes, so we got to reschedule. Let me see this.
<v Speaker 1>I got a nice sample for you. I'll show you. Huh,
<v Speaker 1>your pricks where to go? Ah? Oh, there's a tapoo
<v Speaker 1>book I got? How about that? There's so many good
<v Speaker 1>books on libsin. Let me see if I got this
<v Speaker 1>any meteorology today? Got a meteorology today? Okay, let's see
<v Speaker 1>if we got hold on? Huh, I got it on here?
<v Speaker 1>Making the dog's nervous? Get it here? Come on, noi
<v Speaker 1>Flora del paramo Ecuador. I can't find this thing. Where
<v Speaker 1>this shit? Did this go? I did a nice I
<v Speaker 1>had a nice pdf. Oh you know what, maybe i'll
<v Speaker 1>send it to here. Hold on, you know, I'm I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 1>I'm making you guys wait. You know it's just not
<v Speaker 1>it's an example. What was it? I can't find the
<v Speaker 1>damn I'm so disorganized man, someone helped me. Someone helped me.
<v Speaker 1>I really wanted to share this thing. Where the fuck
<v Speaker 1>did this example go? Let's see, got nine thousand books?
<v Speaker 1>Oh arach nightis just a total disaster documents. Where was
<v Speaker 1>this plan for Diltrician? Oh? There we go, Okay, let's see.
<v Speaker 1>There we go drinking from the air. Oh wait here, well,
<v Speaker 1>now it's launching in design. I'm all, I'm fucked. I'm
<v Speaker 1>all fucked up over here. Hold on, hang on, hang on,
<v Speaker 1>hang on? Where's this thing? There we go? Okay, there
<v Speaker 1>we go? Nice? All right, Oh, it's trying to launch
<v Speaker 1>in design. No, shut up, now you turn this off.
<v Speaker 1>I can't wait to be old and Italian. Fuck, I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna be so good at it. Give me a second,
<v Speaker 1>hold on, prick, Okay, look here is where to go? Here?
<v Speaker 1>Look see this is what see this is the type
<v Speaker 1>of design style I need. Can help me with this, right,
<v Speaker 1>there's a couple of grammatical errors in the writing because
<v Speaker 1>it hasn't been proof read, so you get the insets
<v Speaker 1>and stuff. Now. I sent this same all the images
<v Speaker 1>in the text to the guy who does a design
<v Speaker 1>for Abrams no offense, and it looks like a damn
<v Speaker 1>health insurance bro shirt. I said, what is this? Huh
<v Speaker 1>look like a fucking design for Uber eats or something.
<v Speaker 1>I don't want that. I don't need that stuff. Oh shit,
<v Speaker 1>just put this down wrong. Okay, anyway, tell mysela, tell
<v Speaker 1>myself how to do the end design. So uh anyway, anyway, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>what the fuck you had the pigs? Yeah, we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>get the pigs actually unpaid assistance. Yeah, maybe maybe you know,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. We'll figure out something now, technologies on
<v Speaker 1>my side. So uh, photos for the cover because I
<v Speaker 1>don't know that for that cover they didn't want it. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>I should send this over there? Did you guys? What
<v Speaker 1>did you guys do for Easter? Did you have a
<v Speaker 1>nice time for Easter? Over there? Let's see this. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I gotta get on that. Damn that in design shit,
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's like if you don't do it every day,
<v Speaker 1>you forget what does what? Because it's in designs like
<v Speaker 1>another like another language. So if you don't do it everything,
<v Speaker 1>then you forget you get rusty fuck up. So there's
<v Speaker 1>got to be more discipline. But I could probably get
<v Speaker 1>this done. I mean, this didn't take me that long
<v Speaker 1>to do this. This is like a two page thing,
<v Speaker 1>and it's gonna have like one hundred of these, probably
<v Speaker 1>one hundred and twenty, one hundred and twenty plants from
<v Speaker 1>all over the world. Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Tasmania, which
<v Speaker 1>is Australia, but it's a little different. It's like a
<v Speaker 1>temper rainforest. New Zealand, those another temper rainforest. Mexico, Chile,
<v Speaker 1>parts of North America. Probably minimal North America stuff though,
<v Speaker 1>because I'm trying to get further out there. Maybe a
<v Speaker 1>little bit, you know, but I've got so many photos
<v Speaker 1>to go through. Oh it's a cluster fuck though. Are
<v Speaker 1>you hanging in there? Everybody hanging in there? I spring
<v Speaker 1>equal Knox. Well, oh, somebody's in Salzburg. Are you filming
<v Speaker 1>another commercial? That mosquito trap is fucking sick? What are
<v Speaker 1>you talking about? This? Amazing? I just killed like sixty
<v Speaker 1>more today. They honestly didn't pay me for that. They should,
<v Speaker 1>but they didn't. I was just happy enough to get
<v Speaker 1>the tramp, yeh, to get the trap because I needed.
<v Speaker 1>I wish they would send me sweet scent packets though,
<v Speaker 1>because I don't want to buy them. Yeah, need a
<v Speaker 1>damn job. Yeah, you do everybody does, bless my eggs.
<v Speaker 1>Lobby's se free. Oh. I actually taught myself that on
<v Speaker 1>the piano a little bit. Here's the thing you got
<v Speaker 1>people in Wales. How'd you get into Bodany. It'll be
<v Speaker 1>in a book. Get the book when it comes out
<v Speaker 1>of April too. That twenty twenty six. Like ten killer Oklahoma,
<v Speaker 1>Oklahoma's nice. Shout out to Lawden, Oklahoma. Shout out to
<v Speaker 1>the Wichita Range the limestones. Well, actually we're Titas granite,
<v Speaker 1>but there's some nice limestones in the on the east
<v Speaker 1>side of Oklahoma. I want to go up there, you know,
<v Speaker 1>just peck to peck the dogs and a kid just drive,
<v Speaker 1>just go. He just left. Well, he was really slamming
<v Speaker 1>those na's. He was slaying eight years so bridey. He
<v Speaker 1>was hitting those na's hard, like he like he was
<v Speaker 1>gonna feel like he was expecting to feel something for him.
<v Speaker 1>A favorite this junk population of his species? Do I
<v Speaker 1>have a favorite disjunk population of his speech? Yes, it'd
<v Speaker 1>be Hissparo, Cyprus, Arizonica north of Deming, New Mexico, and
<v Speaker 1>a Cook range. I met these old rednecks out there.
<v Speaker 1>They were nice, though they were nice. It was in
<v Speaker 1>the middle of nowhere, and they were like, oh, we
<v Speaker 1>came to look at this man that apparently someone threw
<v Speaker 1>some poor old chinamen down there, and ah, someone through
<v Speaker 1>some poor old chinamen down there in the early twentieth century.
<v Speaker 1>And then they shot on Texas for a while. They
<v Speaker 1>went on like a rant about Texas, like there's no
<v Speaker 1>public land in Texas. These were like like died in
<v Speaker 1>the wool, redneck. It was kind of funny. They were
<v Speaker 1>nice guys though, And then you go on this long
<v Speaker 1>hike up this fucking through a lot of cool flora too.
<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of cool It's kind of like a
<v Speaker 1>sky island, the Cook's Range in Deming, New Mexico, and
<v Speaker 1>there's a dis junk population growing on the north side
<v Speaker 1>of the Cook's Range up against the cliff, the north
<v Speaker 1>facing cliff of Arizona, Cyprus, and they're they're like huge trees.
<v Speaker 1>It's it's really fucking cool. There's a couple up on
<v Speaker 1>the cliff too, but there's tons of cool plants. There
<v Speaker 1>a lot of cool native history there too. It was
<v Speaker 1>all Apache and a lot of Apache history. I think
<v Speaker 1>there was during some of the war the Indian Wars.
<v Speaker 1>There was a lot of a patch that was like
<v Speaker 1>a big hideout, you know, as they thought the honky
<v Speaker 1>Deaf cult it was coming west into their lands. A
<v Speaker 1>lot of cool limestone too, ever, finding like cryingoway fossils
<v Speaker 1>and stuff. You gotta go, you know, you gotta go
<v Speaker 1>out there. New Mexico's got a lot of nice stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Me and Alan Rockefeller will be at the the Fungus
<v Speaker 1>Fair in Cloudcroft, New Mexico on July twenty ninth. And
<v Speaker 1>then we were thinking about doing like a tour thing
<v Speaker 1>for Costa Rica, which he was. He invited me to
<v Speaker 1>do that one an Ecuador, and I was like, all right,
<v Speaker 1>this is not really my thing. I don't do tours,
<v Speaker 1>you know, but it could be cool. And I don't
<v Speaker 1>really like having to interact with the public. But this
<v Speaker 1>would all be plant people and nerds and stuff anyway,
<v Speaker 1>so it doesn't sound so bad. But he's offered to
<v Speaker 1>pay for it. So him and Maddy sent me down
<v Speaker 1>there and I said, wow, this is nice. It's just
<v Speaker 1>something else. Everyone was really cool. It was just like
<v Speaker 1>hanging out with a bunch of science nerds and biology
<v Speaker 1>nerds for ten days, you know who, And like there
<v Speaker 1>were some hacker people in her two like these you know,
<v Speaker 1>these tech guys do a lot of stuff, you know,
<v Speaker 1>like hacker stuff. I said, wow, I don't know about
<v Speaker 1>that stuff. And uh, just you know, going around the
<v Speaker 1>Upper Amazon for two weeks, it was ten days, it
<v Speaker 1>was fucking nice. It was really cool. And so you know,
<v Speaker 1>I think they paid like twenty five hundred bucks, but
<v Speaker 1>you get all free meals and lodging and shit. It's
<v Speaker 1>a fucking that's the thing, right, that's the thing, Like
<v Speaker 1>this is it's expensive. Shit, it's the bummer. You know.
<v Speaker 1>I wish we could just knock over a brakes truck
<v Speaker 1>and just like you know, bring a bunch of people,
<v Speaker 1>because there's the people who need it the most, probably
<v Speaker 1>don't have money for it, but whatever. Anyway, but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so we might do that. We've been Costa Rica, which
<v Speaker 1>again Costa Rica, I thought, this is like I've been
<v Speaker 1>around you know, I've heard a lot of lot of
<v Speaker 1>hippie white girls, no offense, talk about how they just
<v Speaker 1>went to Costa Rica and it was still amazing. And
<v Speaker 1>so that was kind of the image I had that
<v Speaker 1>I associated with Costa Rican and indeed that's there and
<v Speaker 1>it's real but no offense to any of them. But damn,
<v Speaker 1>when I got there, I was like, man, it's so divert.
<v Speaker 1>The fucking dry forest. There's cacti, columnar cacti cool of
<v Speaker 1>gaves all the cool dry forests stuff, which dry forests
<v Speaker 1>aren't like deserts. Obviously they're get a lot of rain,
<v Speaker 1>but then they've got a six month dry season. Then
<v Speaker 1>there's the cloud forest, a bunch of cool oak species.
<v Speaker 1>You get the epiphetic blueberries. You get genera that you
<v Speaker 1>more commonly see in the temperate latitudes like you'd see
<v Speaker 1>in the fucking rocky mountains, but at much lower elevations.
<v Speaker 1>But they're going at nine thousand feet or ten thousand
<v Speaker 1>feet in the Paramou or the sub Paramo. Really cool habitat.
<v Speaker 1>And I met a lot of great people and stayed
<v Speaker 1>a couple of days with my friend Harve Thomas, who, uh,
<v Speaker 1>I guess he's from Arkansas. Like I saw, he's like
<v Speaker 1>an old white guy from markets. No fence, no fence,
<v Speaker 1>you gonna piss some people off. Not trying to all right,
<v Speaker 1>go clutching your fucking pearls yet, but uh, you see
<v Speaker 1>all white guy from market, You're like, oh shit, I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna have to like tiptoe around it. That got it,
<v Speaker 1>you know whatever. But he ended up being dope as
<v Speaker 1>really fucking cool guy. Really, I mean he's loose man
<v Speaker 1>and uh And I guess he moved down there in
<v Speaker 1>like the sixties, Like he moved there in the sixties
<v Speaker 1>to get away from Vietnam because he knew it was
<v Speaker 1>a bullshit ass war people were getting, you know, totally exploited.
<v Speaker 1>So he moved down to Uh, he moved down to
<v Speaker 1>Costa Rica and then started like an herb farm. And
<v Speaker 1>that was where I filmed that iboga video. Uh saw
<v Speaker 1>Bannistereopsis flowering the ayahuasca vine. Saw a bunch of a
<v Speaker 1>bunch of great plants. Man gorana, you know the like
<v Speaker 1>the caffeine drink that they sell and energy drinks. Sometimes,
<v Speaker 1>what do I feel as an edible fruiting plant that's
<v Speaker 1>underrated Prunas Texina one hundred percent through some dirt, socks
<v Speaker 1>and mosquitoes. I think that'd be a good idea, Like
<v Speaker 1>work up a sweat, sweat and to the oldies and
<v Speaker 1>then just take a little washcloth and just you know,
<v Speaker 1>like a sponge and just get it smell and rank
<v Speaker 1>as hel and stuff that in the trap. I bet
<v Speaker 1>it would work. You know. I don't want to take
<v Speaker 1>money away from Biogens for their sixty dollars sixty dollars
<v Speaker 1>for three packets of the sweet scent, but you could
<v Speaker 1>probably do that too. But that sweet scent, man, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know how they do it. Seriously, It's like the
<v Speaker 1>size of a silica packet, and it's just fucking god,
<v Speaker 1>it's awful. It literally smells like a stinky Russian no offense.
<v Speaker 1>I only say it because I've got stinky. I got
<v Speaker 1>a Russian friend who smells fucking terrible when he gets sweaty.
<v Speaker 1>And it's not his fault, it's his external flora. But
<v Speaker 1>the guy fucking stinks. I mean, it's a very distinct smell,
<v Speaker 1>you know, those those Russians. Anyway, Okay, shit, what was
<v Speaker 1>I gonna do? Here we go. I can't wait to
<v Speaker 1>be so discombobulated when I've got when I'm older, and
<v Speaker 1>I got like they got to put on a reading glasses.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I could go, shit, what the fucking then
<v Speaker 1>put the glasses on my ice heat. That's some very
<v Speaker 1>but he's wearing a priest costume. Anyway, I got these
<v Speaker 1>se man I got so much ship to ship everywhere.
<v Speaker 1>There's just stuff everywhere. That's my reminder to myself. I
<v Speaker 1>don't put things away until I know I don't need
<v Speaker 1>to be reminded of them anymore. Yeah. Yeah, prunas Techsana
<v Speaker 1>would be uh would be great to see or not
<v Speaker 1>to see, to get at the cultivation more. We went
<v Speaker 1>to go collect seed. It's not ready yet. It's such
<v Speaker 1>a crime that that thing is not grown more. It
<v Speaker 1>would probably do well in Oklahoma, you know, I want to.
<v Speaker 1>I have like visions of some people just growing fields
<v Speaker 1>of all these rare, you know, native plants that nobody
<v Speaker 1>appreciates because the world wants boogaan views and fucking crape myrtles,
<v Speaker 1>which is also what my book is about. Maybe I'll
<v Speaker 1>read from it later, but but it's the book is about,
<v Speaker 1>you know, our relationship with plant life, how fucking deranged
<v Speaker 1>it is as a result of our disconnection, you know,
<v Speaker 1>like how native things being native isn't It's not some
<v Speaker 1>puritanical elitist bit to be on. It's just pragmatic. It's
<v Speaker 1>it's all rooted in ecology and connection and time, you know,
<v Speaker 1>time spent evolving in a place with a cast of
<v Speaker 1>other living organisms that also composed that ecosystem. How everything
<v Speaker 1>has its own segment of native flora. How you know,
<v Speaker 1>the whole idea of like needing to go to national
<v Speaker 1>parks to see incredible things is not real. It's obsolete.
<v Speaker 1>There were incredible things where your house is now, before
<v Speaker 1>it all got destroyed to put up dollar generals, walmarts,
<v Speaker 1>data centers, and et cetera. And you can bring those
<v Speaker 1>things back by killing your fucking lawn. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>hyping these things up in culture and planting them, you know,
<v Speaker 1>going out to like parks, like talking to your city
<v Speaker 1>hall and just advocate. Pretty shit. We had a meeting here.
<v Speaker 1>They brought my house up. They used my house as
<v Speaker 1>an example. These like painted face so much makeup, they
<v Speaker 1>look like a drag queen. God. It's just, you know,
<v Speaker 1>these people, I just spent my whole life trying to
<v Speaker 1>just stay out of their world. They're the people who
<v Speaker 1>go into local politics because they got to get They
<v Speaker 1>got to get their sisters, their sister in law's brother
<v Speaker 1>a construction contractor, or their their uncle's wife's a developer,
<v Speaker 1>and she needs to get a you know, she needs
<v Speaker 1>to make sure her development goes through and it bulldozes
<v Speaker 1>the woodland to put up you know, four hundred ugly
<v Speaker 1>houses or whatever. So that's why people go into city politics.
<v Speaker 1>And anyway, they were talking about native plants, and you know,
<v Speaker 1>they just it's kind of like this thing they say
<v Speaker 1>for the end of the day. There's a small crew
<v Speaker 1>of people that was, you know, organizing for native plants,
<v Speaker 1>and they, you know, they're like, yeah, we have to
<v Speaker 1>hear it. I guess by you know, by law. You
<v Speaker 1>guys filed this thing. We're gonna we'll sit we'll hear
<v Speaker 1>it out. But you could tell us his total irol.
<v Speaker 1>They don't give a shit that probably you know, playing
<v Speaker 1>fucking Candy Crush on their phone while they're sitting up
<v Speaker 1>there listening to people come to the mic and speak
<v Speaker 1>about native plant ordinances and they use my house is
<v Speaker 1>an example of what not to do. It was funny,
<v Speaker 1>But my shit is tidy. I keep it clean, I
<v Speaker 1>keep it pruned. If anyone, you know, if anyone came
<v Speaker 1>to take it away from me, God, you see me
<v Speaker 1>on the news because it's my place of peace. It's
<v Speaker 1>the reason you haven't seen me on the news yet,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Calm me down so much biodiversity in my
<v Speaker 1>fucking year. I got four species of lizards, three species
<v Speaker 1>of amphibians, you know, tons of birds. You look at
<v Speaker 1>my house from a drone zoomed up, it's like the
<v Speaker 1>only green thing in a sea of dead lawn. I
<v Speaker 1>love it when alone looks dead though what it should be,
<v Speaker 1>you know, especially when you live in a place where
<v Speaker 1>it's one hundred and five degrees or six months out
<v Speaker 1>of the year. So anyway, all right, yeah, it's down
<v Speaker 1>here in South Texas. You know, it's a heavily repressed area.
<v Speaker 1>What if ten species of amphibians, now, I would love
<v Speaker 1>to I get chirping frogs, and I get the Gulf
<v Speaker 1>Coast toads, and uh oh, you're someone saying something cool.
<v Speaker 1>If anyone is curious about what you can use as
<v Speaker 1>a DIY a mosquito attract and has a comprehensive list
<v Speaker 1>of different chemicals, it's just lactic acid, man, It's literally
<v Speaker 1>just lactic acid and maybe urea. There's a couple other
<v Speaker 1>things too. Their organic sense. It's not like the stuff
<v Speaker 1>they put in there is toxic. It's just you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's it's lactic acid is basically sweat is that right?
<v Speaker 1>I think so it smells like sweat, I mean, and
<v Speaker 1>that's what's attracted, and that's what kind of clued me
<v Speaker 1>in that that was the main thing that attracted. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>the hummingbird showed up. That's nice. Speaking of speaking of
<v Speaker 1>my think, y know, it's so much fucking life around
<v Speaker 1>my yard is just such a fucking haven. Got I
<v Speaker 1>go out and I go into the world. I want
<v Speaker 1>to puke. I'm looking at like personal injury attorney signs
<v Speaker 1>and you know, car dealerships, all his nauseating shit, idiots
<v Speaker 1>driving around the giant jacked up trucks, no fence. I
<v Speaker 1>know some nice people that have overpriced, you know, oversized
<v Speaker 1>over compensation vehicles, and they're very nice people. But I'm
<v Speaker 1>just saying, right, and I come back and I see
<v Speaker 1>all this stuff. I see money, worshiping, materialism, garbage, lack
<v Speaker 1>of creativity, lack of Then I want a fucking puke.
<v Speaker 1>I come back to my yard and it's like just
<v Speaker 1>cleanses me. It's like an enema of the mind, the
<v Speaker 1>mind and a spirit. You know, It's like someone stuck
<v Speaker 1>a tube and they're flushed all a all the shit
<v Speaker 1>out of there and cleansed it, and then I feel
<v Speaker 1>it's so pleasant, and I just my daughter and I
<v Speaker 1>just put up a purple Martin house. Horribly built, horribly.
<v Speaker 1>It's like cheap plastic. You got it from practice supply.
<v Speaker 1>It's a fucking ripoff. It's like one hundred and fifty
<v Speaker 1>bucks for this thing. And then I found out it's
<v Speaker 1>made out of plastic that's got the density of a
<v Speaker 1>milk carton. The pieces snap off. She was being very
<v Speaker 1>good while I was throwing a fit too, because I
<v Speaker 1>put it on. I put the floor on the wrong
<v Speaker 1>way to second floor and it didn't line up with
<v Speaker 1>the pole. Ah fuck, I gotta throw throwing stuff around,
<v Speaker 1>you know it. It's like a Tony Soprano style temper tantrument. Sorry, baby,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry. Don't don't repeat what I'm saying. You know,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry. I'm acting like a toddler right now. You're
<v Speaker 1>more mature than me. If this went, but that's literally
<v Speaker 1>what happened to me. And then the whole time you're
<v Speaker 1>throwing shit, you're keeping in mind that this is one
<v Speaker 1>hundred This thing costs you one hundred and fifty bucks.
<v Speaker 1>It's made out of plastic. Was probably made by six
<v Speaker 1>year olds in Beijing, and soon we're gonna have six
<v Speaker 1>year olds making those plastic houses. Hero, right, he's gonna
<v Speaker 1>change stuff. Right, We're gonna we're gonna have exploited child labor. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm just kidding. But anyway, we finally got it up,
<v Speaker 1>and so it's fucking nice man. It's you know, you
<v Speaker 1>gotta create a habitat. But I didn't want to put
<v Speaker 1>it up. I got out a year ago, but I
<v Speaker 1>didn't want to put it up then because the trees
<v Speaker 1>weren't big enough. Now I got some tepewahes who came
<v Speaker 1>to pull over a Lenti for Basi that I put up,
<v Speaker 1>and they grow so fast it's like instant shades. So
<v Speaker 1>now I can put that thing up so it's not
<v Speaker 1>just getting blasted by the sun. So we put that up. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's so nice man. And I don't have a big lot.
<v Speaker 1>I've got a tiny lot. It's just dense, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and it's literally blowing the mind. That's breaking the brain
<v Speaker 1>of people at city Hall. They don't they don't understand
<v Speaker 1>why would you not want a lawn? Just crazy crazy.
<v Speaker 1>My yard is so much cooler. It's not like temperature wise,
<v Speaker 1>sounds amazing at night. You know, I've talked about all
<v Speaker 1>this before you get Zip'm not born anybody, but just
<v Speaker 1>in case, sounds amazing. And like the fucking tree crickets,
<v Speaker 1>it's like a oh, it's so pleasant, so pleasant. No,
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to do I can't do life in
<v Speaker 1>my yard. I'm not staying here. But but yeah, but
<v Speaker 1>anybody could do that. And I planted dance and then
<v Speaker 1>you just get those hedge clippers, those head you know
<v Speaker 1>it looks like an alligator guard. Just head it up,
<v Speaker 1>give it a haircut. You gotta go in. You got
<v Speaker 1>to remove some other stuff, you know it. It's like something
<v Speaker 1>is getting now competed by a faster growing plant. You
<v Speaker 1>got to go remove it. But when you're planting a
<v Speaker 1>native plant garden, you're basically doing ecological succession, right, go
<v Speaker 1>look it up. Primary succession, secondary succession. The first things
<v Speaker 1>you plant are things that are not going to be
<v Speaker 1>there in two or three years. That's the best way
<v Speaker 1>to do it. Like you're gonna plant the annuals. Shit,
<v Speaker 1>they can take the full sun. The first year here,
<v Speaker 1>I got so blasted with sun and I was tired
<v Speaker 1>of having the water I just got some of those
<v Speaker 1>sunflower cultivars that grow big as hell, you know. I
<v Speaker 1>bought them a scamazon or some and I put the
<v Speaker 1>seeds directly into the ground, watered it and they they
<v Speaker 1>worked great. They grow fast as hell. They get up
<v Speaker 1>to eight feet tall. Work as a shade screen for
<v Speaker 1>everything else. You gotta water them, but not that much.
<v Speaker 1>They work as a shade screen for everything else. They
<v Speaker 1>you know, which they create like a mini canopy shade structure.
<v Speaker 1>Because before that, I've been putting up little you know,
<v Speaker 1>like t posts and shade cloth because my yard it's
<v Speaker 1>so fucking hot on here. Shit was just getting irradiated,
<v Speaker 1>you know. And so I planted these sunflowers and they
<v Speaker 1>just took over. And and but they're annuals, so they're
<v Speaker 1>not going to be around in a year. And then
<v Speaker 1>I got an infestation. It was so great. I got
<v Speaker 1>an infestation of bordered patch caterpillars, which turned into butterflies.
<v Speaker 1>We had thousands of butterflies flying around, and they destroyed
<v Speaker 1>the sunflowers. They ate the sunflowers because the native ones here.
<v Speaker 1>This was a fancy called the bar bread in the greenhouse.
<v Speaker 1>You know. That's why I had to get the ski
<v Speaker 1>the season scamson. But the native sunflower has evidently evolved
<v Speaker 1>something that keeps those bordered patch caterpillars away, or rather
<v Speaker 1>they've selected for it, because it's the weedy native sunflower.
<v Speaker 1>It's everywhere, and you never see them getting chewed on
<v Speaker 1>by these caterpillars. Well, I had put in this soft,
<v Speaker 1>you know, poodle version of these native plants that just
<v Speaker 1>grows big and puts up a big flower, and it
<v Speaker 1>didn't have those same chemical defenses, probably cesscaterpene lactons, because
<v Speaker 1>that's what a lot of members of ESTRASI have. It
<v Speaker 1>didn't have his strong ciscaterpene lactons, and it wasn't part
<v Speaker 1>of this evolutionary arms race between the local species of
<v Speaker 1>bordered patch butterfly or the local ecotype of border patch
<v Speaker 1>butterfly and that local ecotype of heli anthus anyways, and
<v Speaker 1>so they just got annihilated, and that was good because
<v Speaker 1>they'd already grown up, gotten tall, provided shade for my
<v Speaker 1>other plants, and I would have had to remove them anyway.
<v Speaker 1>And so now all I had to do since all
<v Speaker 1>the leaves and since we're denuded of leaves by the caterpillars.
<v Speaker 1>All I had to go do is take a machety
<v Speaker 1>to the stalks and cut down the stalks. It was great,
<v Speaker 1>worked out great. But that's basically what you're doing when
<v Speaker 1>you're doing a native plant garden ecological succession. If you're
<v Speaker 1>starting from zero, if you're starting from a bare a
<v Speaker 1>bare patch of ground, that's what you need to do,
<v Speaker 1>which is what a lawn is. It's just the barren
<v Speaker 1>patch of ground. The roots barely got into the ground.
<v Speaker 1>The lead. You know, you're keeping the ship bonds eyed.
<v Speaker 1>So if you're keeping if it's that tall, like most
<v Speaker 1>grass is, the roots are only that deep, they're not
<v Speaker 1>doing ship for the soil, which makes them really easy
<v Speaker 1>to kill unless you have bermuda, in which case you
<v Speaker 1>have to go in and hit it with round up,
<v Speaker 1>targeted targeted applications of round up. Right, it's nasty when
<v Speaker 1>they're spraying on crops. You want to eat it. But
<v Speaker 1>it's one of the least toxic herbicides, you know, so
<v Speaker 1>it's kind of a necessary evil. But yeah, but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so that's what you do. So find out what the
<v Speaker 1>pioneer species are. The native pioneer species the weedy quote
<v Speaker 1>wheedy native species in your area, and uh, and then
<v Speaker 1>plant those first. If you're starting with a bear a
<v Speaker 1>bear lawn, if you go trying to plant the shit
<v Speaker 1>that's like third or fourth in line for ecological succession,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the stuff that doesn't get established till later
<v Speaker 1>and it's slow growing and needs a little bit of
<v Speaker 1>shade whatever, And you try planting that first, you can
<v Speaker 1>have a hard time. You know. I had we get
<v Speaker 1>Verbosena and coelioides. It's a great native plant, spreads like
<v Speaker 1>wildfire covered and pollinator is probably invasive as hell on
<v Speaker 1>other continents where there's no checks and balances for it.
<v Speaker 1>And so, but you throw seeds in it, you rip
<v Speaker 1>up a long on throw seeds. You'll have a fucking
<v Speaker 1>thicket of verbsen in celioides. And then the next year
<v Speaker 1>it'll be gone. While it'll recede, but it'll be gone.
<v Speaker 1>And meanwhile, you're protecting that ground from getting beaten, beaten
<v Speaker 1>down by the sun. It's all about protecting the ground,
<v Speaker 1>you know, It's all about protecting that ground from getting
<v Speaker 1>heated by the sun, at least to the latitude that
<v Speaker 1>I live at all right, round up absolutely does kill
<v Speaker 1>bermuda grass. I've done it plenty of times. I don't
<v Speaker 1>have any bermuda grass. And what also kills bermuda grass
<v Speaker 1>is once once shit gets so dense, like this is
<v Speaker 1>outside my window right now, once it gets so dense,
<v Speaker 1>you don't have you know, it's there's no there's no
<v Speaker 1>life for it. That's why I like planting it. This,
<v Speaker 1>I don't like it. I hate fucking hate it when
<v Speaker 1>people do this in a line, even lease spaced with
<v Speaker 1>a diamulch. What is it ship? What's it in doctrinated
<v Speaker 1>which said indoctrinated garbage? You know you're planting like a
<v Speaker 1>fucking like you're planting in front of a CBS pharmacy
<v Speaker 1>or a bank, you know, so what's the fucking landscaping?
<v Speaker 1>Looks like it for the Wells Fargo? So part of
<v Speaker 1>the death cult that brought you to the lawn. Oh god,
<v Speaker 1>I see the name squarespace and I just want to barf.
<v Speaker 1>You know, they they're really they're pushing it. If I
<v Speaker 1>knew a better web hoster for the website, I would
<v Speaker 1>do that instead. All right, what do we want to
<v Speaker 1>talk about? No, I'm not actually a priest. This is
<v Speaker 1>all a joke. Well I shouldn't say that, you never
<v Speaker 1>know I could take address to turn up events and
<v Speaker 1>abandoned the botany thing and just going to you know,
<v Speaker 1>you get all expenses paid, right. Oh god, you see
<v Speaker 1>that Bill Burbert when he was on a he was
<v Speaker 1>on a morning talk show and the talk show host said,
<v Speaker 1>didn't you what I heard? You got in some trouble
<v Speaker 1>for that that those comments? Man, but the Catholic Church,
<v Speaker 1>you think he went a little too far? And his
<v Speaker 1>response was, tell do you think the Catholic Church went
<v Speaker 1>a little too far? Yeah? Oh he's great, all right,
<v Speaker 1>epic stuff. How can I buy prints of your photos?
<v Speaker 1>If you want to buy prints of my photos the
<v Speaker 1>way I've done it before, email me, tell me what
<v Speaker 1>you want. I place an order with easy canvas prints
<v Speaker 1>with the full resolution, like fifteen megabyte version of the photo.
<v Speaker 1>And then and then oh thank you David, and then
<v Speaker 1>you and then I'll send it to you. Then you
<v Speaker 1>get it that way. But I don't you, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I do these canvas things because they're sturdy, and they're easier,
<v Speaker 1>and they look nicer and they don't have that reflective plexiglass.
<v Speaker 1>How do I learn more about my local native species
<v Speaker 1>for planting? Use the app I naturalist. Uh use the
<v Speaker 1>explorer feature type in your county, type in plants in
<v Speaker 1>the what you're looking for. There's one field for what
<v Speaker 1>you're looking for plants, birds, reptiles, whatever, And there's another
<v Speaker 1>field for location. Type in plants, type in your county.
<v Speaker 1>See what comes up. Some of that ship's going to
<v Speaker 1>be in a lot is not. You can find out
<v Speaker 1>whether it's in basive or not when you click on
<v Speaker 1>the tax on name and the species name. Yeah, anyway,
<v Speaker 1>that's the best way. Or join your native Local Native
<v Speaker 1>Plants site. It's the best thing. Autism speaks makes me
<v Speaker 1>want to barf. I don't know what the fuck he's
<v Speaker 1>talking about. Is this like a I can't tell if
<v Speaker 1>it's like someone it's like a ship poster or is
<v Speaker 1>it a or is it I don't know. Maybe he's
<v Speaker 1>talking about his author I don't know. Educate my local
<v Speaker 1>communities that I get off you. You know, that's easier
<v Speaker 1>said than done. Pallet's what I've been trying to do, right,
<v Speaker 1>It's a you know, I stand out down there, really do.
<v Speaker 1>It's a very square community. They can be very nice though.
<v Speaker 1>It's a very square and repressed community, very very string
<v Speaker 1>You know, they want to They want the lawns, even
<v Speaker 1>though we're literally like thirty minutes from the peyote gardens
<v Speaker 1>in a place where you know, plants dominate that have
<v Speaker 1>evolved to store pounds of water and carbohydrates because it's
<v Speaker 1>so goddamn dry, and they want a lawn, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, they got an app called Merlin for birds.
<v Speaker 1>I saw this thing. I saw this thing today. It's
<v Speaker 1>really targeted advertising on social media, which is also terrible,
<v Speaker 1>but they were targeting it towards me because I saw
<v Speaker 1>some cool birds in Costa Rica and I was uploading
<v Speaker 1>photos and whatever, and so they targeted this thing towards me.
<v Speaker 1>That's like a little gadget looks like one of those
<v Speaker 1>little mini speakers you attached to your backpack, and it
<v Speaker 1>records bird noises and then uses AI when you're hooked
<v Speaker 1>up the Internet to tell you what birds were around you,
<v Speaker 1>which is cool, but it's two hundred and fifty bucks.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to fucking pay that. So anyway, growing endemics, now,
<v Speaker 1>that's my carnivorous plants over there. I got some rare
<v Speaker 1>romeliads that a friend grew. I got some horse cripplers
<v Speaker 1>going and uh and then some farroal cactus. That's it.
<v Speaker 1>Not enough. I got some Marcella fern water fern. I'm
<v Speaker 1>not using as much of that space as I need to.
<v Speaker 1>It should be growing more so. Anyway, Uh, yeah you too. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>have a good four twenty bird call app anyway. No,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not in Costa Rica. I'm at home. I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to Atlanta tomorrow and might go to you know, I
<v Speaker 1>might go to fucking Turkey and Jim and then I
<v Speaker 1>think I might go to New Mexico and in May,
<v Speaker 1>and then we might and then I'm gonna go to
<v Speaker 1>New Mexico again the cloud Craft with Allen at the
<v Speaker 1>Mycology Fair. Ah in Cloudcraft, New Mexico. Yeah, but I
<v Speaker 1>got a bunch of stuff. I got it. Man. I
<v Speaker 1>need like a fucking you know, I need an I
<v Speaker 1>need a kind of a system or something. I'm losing,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I lose my shit. I gotta start taking notes,
<v Speaker 1>writing stuff down. But I can't do it because I
<v Speaker 1>have you know, I have one thought and then five
<v Speaker 1>seconds later I got another one. Lose it too much. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>we'll look through this. We're gonna go over here. Well
<v Speaker 1>see if we can read a little bit. Where did
<v Speaker 1>this thing go? Read a little bit from this book.
<v Speaker 1>There were some good sections. I was reading parts of
<v Speaker 1>it last night. I gotta finish this fucking thing by tuesday. Damn, man,
<v Speaker 1>that's crazy. There's no time to do anything, right. I
<v Speaker 1>gotta get this back to the copy editor by tuesday.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's go. Okay, Yeah, you gotta get that
<v Speaker 1>ro unit. You know, you can get ro units for
<v Speaker 1>like one hundred and fifty bucks and then you can
<v Speaker 1>try to install them yourself. It's a pain in the ass. See,
<v Speaker 1>it's not a pan the ass. You just you got
<v Speaker 1>to drill into the pipe a little bit, you know,
<v Speaker 1>but you need room under your sink. But an RO
<v Speaker 1>unit is great. That's what I water all the carnivorous
<v Speaker 1>plants with because you know, those those guys at Carnivoral
<v Speaker 1>really got me in to thinking about water, you know,
<v Speaker 1>for the fluoridation of the water supply. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>have you ever seen a COMMI drinking tap water? And
<v Speaker 1>they got me thinking about particulates in the water, which
<v Speaker 1>is really bad, especially in a lot of Texas because
<v Speaker 1>how easily limestone dissolves. Probably not as it's probably cleaner
<v Speaker 1>in areas where there's more granite or a volcanic rock. Well,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know about that, because West Texas is a
<v Speaker 1>lot of volcanic and they have ship tapwater too. Well,
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't taste bad, it tastes good, but it's still
<v Speaker 1>got high ppms. All those minerals that are good. You
<v Speaker 1>just want to make sure it's minerals and not like
<v Speaker 1>petroleum petroleum byproducts fucking West Texas. Not fine, Ray, what
<v Speaker 1>are you talking about? Middlando desk is not polluted? So
<v Speaker 1>the ppms. You get a tag like a tapwater meter
<v Speaker 1>which is like fifteen bucks, not meter, a reader you know,
<v Speaker 1>probably made in Shina by six year olds, and and
<v Speaker 1>you put it in the tap water, and I'll give
<v Speaker 1>you a rough estimate of what your ppms are here,
<v Speaker 1>it's like five point fifty. I got the r the
<v Speaker 1>ro thing for like one hundred and fifty bucks. Somebody,
<v Speaker 1>these fucking companies wild charge your nine hundred bucks total
<v Speaker 1>scam artists such a scam. You don't need to pay
<v Speaker 1>that to get it for one hundred and fifty. If
<v Speaker 1>you got it and put it under your sink, if
<v Speaker 1>you need to hire a plumber, they're gonna rip you
<v Speaker 1>off to but you could probably figure out how to
<v Speaker 1>do it yourself. Just take a day set a day's sight.
<v Speaker 1>And after I put the ro in, the ppms were
<v Speaker 1>like fourteen and I could It was cool to be
<v Speaker 1>able to see it with the tapwater meter. You know,
<v Speaker 1>it's got two prongs in there and it measures the current.
<v Speaker 1>So anyway, you got to get that ro man. You
<v Speaker 1>gotta get You can't be messing around with this shit.
<v Speaker 1>You get kidney. I mean, we're all gonna get cancer eventually,
<v Speaker 1>you know. See that's part of the crime pay optimistic
<v Speaker 1>ethos here. We're all gonna cancer in messy. But if
<v Speaker 1>you could stave it off a few years by not
<v Speaker 1>drinking poisoned water, why not? You know? Thoughts on poison
<v Speaker 1>ivy I love it. I got a video on poison
<v Speaker 1>ivy I still have to do for the for the
<v Speaker 1>YouTube over there. You know Anacardi a C. Let's talk
<v Speaker 1>about Anacardi ac Okay, wonderful family, like one third of
<v Speaker 1>the plants of allergenic compounds in them, I had. I
<v Speaker 1>did a podcast with Susan Bell Nopelu. I always do that,
<v Speaker 1>Who's from the US Botanic Garden. Awesome lady studies antacardiac
<v Speaker 1>and there's a lot of neotropical members of Anacardia ace
<v Speaker 1>that are incredible, like amphipterigium and uh, oh god, what's
<v Speaker 1>the other one. I have to look it up on
<v Speaker 1>I D I saw some really cool ones growing with
<v Speaker 1>laf difusa, the false peote and correct the row. But anyway,
<v Speaker 1>there's really there's a lot of really cool members of
<v Speaker 1>this family. But yeah, one third have the the genic compounds,
<v Speaker 1>which will is horrible. As rash Man, you will just
<v Speaker 1>you know, you will get I said, wow, really we
<v Speaker 1>have some issues. You touch that stuff and it oxidizes
<v Speaker 1>to black. At least you rush you all does. But
<v Speaker 1>then there's other compounds too, Lithrea costica and Chile produces litriol,
<v Speaker 1>which I think you need to be sensitized to. Cash shoes.
<v Speaker 1>Of course this will be in an upcoming video because
<v Speaker 1>they're naturalized. They're not native, but they're naturalized in Costa Rica.
<v Speaker 1>Cash shoes. The fruit is toxic. It's well, it's not toxic,
<v Speaker 1>it's allergenic. So uh and that's not you rush you all.
<v Speaker 1>It's a different compound. I don't know what compound that is.
<v Speaker 1>You could ask deepseek AI is generally terrible, but I've
<v Speaker 1>been using it to ask some questions because it's very helpful.
<v Speaker 1>It'll save AI will answer shit for me that would
<v Speaker 1>have taken me forty minutes to you know, parse through
<v Speaker 1>research papers and read right. But again, I'm not using
<v Speaker 1>it to like make songs for me, your videos or
<v Speaker 1>anyth to. So it's you know, still probably using up
<v Speaker 1>a lot of energy from data centers, and it's terrible,
<v Speaker 1>but uh, you know it's gonna be doing horrible things regardless,
<v Speaker 1>I might as well use it for good things like education. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>why is this thing coming up? How do I turn
<v Speaker 1>this out? There? We go all right? No, I use
<v Speaker 1>deep Seat because it was the ones it's the one
<v Speaker 1>that pissed off all the American oligarchs, and it's free.
<v Speaker 1>I'm really curious about China, man. I know it's an
<v Speaker 1>authoritarian state, but we're headed there too, so you know
<v Speaker 1>what the fun But I'm curious about China because they
<v Speaker 1>put money in there's so much anti China propaganda, but
<v Speaker 1>also China seems to actually be putting money into education,
<v Speaker 1>and not just education that's going to benefit them. For
<v Speaker 1>private corporations like this can be you know, monetized somehow
<v Speaker 1>are used this this the research that comes from you know,
<v Speaker 1>the research that comes from this science, from funding this
<v Speaker 1>science can be used to benefit corporations or whatever, or
<v Speaker 1>you just anthropersentaer But they're actually putting money into biological
<v Speaker 1>sciences and earth sciences too, like they fund botany over there.
<v Speaker 1>Like that's crazy, Like this is you know, we live
<v Speaker 1>in a country where senators mock learning about the fucking
<v Speaker 1>living machine that is the ecosystem around you because they're
<v Speaker 1>too shit for brain to see. Why it's important? What
<v Speaker 1>does that do? It doesn't do anything. Why are we
<v Speaker 1>studying the sex laves of quail? You know? That's like
<v Speaker 1>a fucking car mechanic voicing a strong opinion on neurosurgery.
<v Speaker 1>You're a fucking idiot. Just don't say anything. I'm not
<v Speaker 1>saying car mechanics areus, but no, when it's your place.
<v Speaker 1>There's plenty of things I shouldn't voice a strong opinion
<v Speaker 1>about because I don't know shit, and I would say
<v Speaker 1>that I wouldn't voice an opinion on them. You have
<v Speaker 1>like a fucking Republican senator voicing voicing opinions on you know,
<v Speaker 1>why study the fucking reproductive cycles of a certain mammal
<v Speaker 1>or a reptile or a shuit. The fuck up and
<v Speaker 1>sit down. Stick to what you know, right, nethotism and
<v Speaker 1>fucking rewarding. Uh, you know the corporations that pay you.
<v Speaker 1>You're sleazy. Okay, anyway, let's go back to you know,
<v Speaker 1>that's why people go into politics, right, you say what
<v Speaker 1>they do? Over? You say what they're doing. Oh wow,
<v Speaker 1>you got a lot of astrophy him see Uh is
<v Speaker 1>that from then? Oh? No, I hope it's not from
<v Speaker 1>the wild. Uh? Hold on, hold, just give me a second, right,
<v Speaker 1>holld on a second? Okay? Anyway, Oh god, what is
<v Speaker 1>the maybe like right now? Oh? You know what my
<v Speaker 1>friend Mackenzie, who studies, what is she studying? She's studying
<v Speaker 1>brass casey. I don't know. She's an academic. She's She's
<v Speaker 1>not some bum like me. She's actually an academia. Over
<v Speaker 1>she's she was just in the maybe looking at the
<v Speaker 1>Titano fighting and Cara sense that fucking mono, you know,
<v Speaker 1>the only species in his family that grows in in
<v Speaker 1>these like saltpan deserts. God, you gotta look at this
<v Speaker 1>fucking thing, man, Hold on, you pull this up. Let
<v Speaker 1>me pull this up on the phone. See this is
<v Speaker 1>more personal. It's like we're sitting on a porch right
<v Speaker 1>or in a confession booth. But I don't want to
<v Speaker 1>hear any of your ship. I don't want to hear
<v Speaker 1>all the bad stuff you done because it probably freaked
<v Speaker 1>me out. You know, this is I could just show
<v Speaker 1>you stuff on my phone. It's you know, it's it's
<v Speaker 1>really it's you know. I said, what they're doing now
<v Speaker 1>is pretty pretty impressive. Where's the ship posters? You know,
<v Speaker 1>if anyone's been ship posting, I haven't seen it. I'm
<v Speaker 1>sure there's been a couple shitty comments in there, you know,
<v Speaker 1>because everyone's mentally ill now and emotionally ill, which I
<v Speaker 1>have full full sympathy. I'm there too, you know, but
<v Speaker 1>it causes people to, you know, leave some shitty comments
<v Speaker 1>every once in a while. And I haven't seen any yet.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know why somebody's not trying our greetings still
<v Speaker 1>we got we got a guy from India watching greetings
<v Speaker 1>greetings over there. You guys got some nice botany classes online.
<v Speaker 1>I've seen that. Oh you know what what is that company?
<v Speaker 1>Some company hit me up. They were nice guys. Let
<v Speaker 1>me find this. There's there's bodany classes online based on
<v Speaker 1>the crime pays, some of the videos that you can take.
<v Speaker 1>Where the funck was this? What was this guy's name? Gwang?
<v Speaker 1>Here we go, Miyagi Labs, There we go. Nice guys
<v Speaker 1>seen him and his friend. I did a video call
<v Speaker 1>with them and they got Yeah, Gwang and Tyrone from
<v Speaker 1>Miyagi Labs. I should I should promote this because it's
<v Speaker 1>pretty cool. Miyagi Lab dot com and they like a
<v Speaker 1>little curriculum so you could test your botany knowledge. And
<v Speaker 1>I looked over it and I was like, this is
<v Speaker 1>fucking nice. You guys done a good job. It's really good.
<v Speaker 1>You know, systematics, phylogeny, plant id all that stuff. Mayagi Labs.
<v Speaker 1>What was I looking at? What was I gonna look up?
<v Speaker 1>Oh Christ Jesus, when I was I gonna look up?
<v Speaker 1>Before I got the strength to talk about Mayagi Labs?
<v Speaker 1>Who was Oh Tigana fighting right? I don't know why
<v Speaker 1>you guys are watching it. You just want to see me,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Okay, let's see where are the Oh yeah, Christ,
<v Speaker 1>look at this thing. This is a fucking weird plan.
<v Speaker 1>So this thing was only discovered maybe six or seven
<v Speaker 1>years ago. And it's so weird. It's so weird that
<v Speaker 1>it's in its own family and Brassic Kayley's the mustard order. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>she don't got any big, any bigger foam those death sets.
<v Speaker 1>So that's in the salt pan deserts of Namibia. So
<v Speaker 1>and I was gonna go see it with my friend Russell,
<v Speaker 1>but you know, my daughter, being diagnosed with leukinia, got
<v Speaker 1>in the way. Whoa shit, really dropped the fucking downer
<v Speaker 1>right there. Uh, she's okay. Two years later, she's okay.
<v Speaker 1>She finished treatment in July. That was a horrible fucking
<v Speaker 1>time period, though. God, I wanted to die. Okay, Let's
<v Speaker 1>look at titana fighting again. Where's this said, Let's look look,
<v Speaker 1>let's look it up on a naturalist over there. All right, Uh,
<v Speaker 1>you gotta see this thing. God, it's so weird. It's
<v Speaker 1>such a weird form, and it's got to be such
<v Speaker 1>a fucking insanely stressful environment for any plant to grow in.
<v Speaker 1>So here's an arbarium collection of this titani fighting Paris sense.
<v Speaker 1>That's a branch. You can see the leaves are extremely
<v Speaker 1>attenuated and they just was like these waxy rosette leaves
<v Speaker 1>on these branches, and uh that was I took that
<v Speaker 1>photo at their burium ah and wind hook, but uh
<v Speaker 1>to see it in habitat, God damn. Yeah, look at
<v Speaker 1>that thing like that. That's a cluster of leaves on
<v Speaker 1>this thing. To Gatto fighting caras sense And at the time,
<v Speaker 1>that was the time I took that. That was the
<v Speaker 1>only observation on nine Ashlarists. But people have been out
<v Speaker 1>there and gotten better photos of it, which somebody should
<v Speaker 1>really put up because no wait, view observations. M M
<v Speaker 1>my ahead, thank you, Okay, cool? Look at this? God,
<v Speaker 1>Oh what a cool jeez. The habitat must be fucking
<v Speaker 1>insane too. That's the thing I always want to say
<v Speaker 1>when I when I see a cool plant, I always
<v Speaker 1>want to see the habitatic growsing. You have to see
<v Speaker 1>the habitat. It's nothing without the habitat. There's no context,
<v Speaker 1>there's no you know. When you see the habitat, then
<v Speaker 1>you can start to imagine how this thing evolved, what's
<v Speaker 1>selected for it. There's there's a picture of habitat. Who
<v Speaker 1>is this this Mackenzie? No, someone else? Oh that's a
<v Speaker 1>guy gotten a tiff with he he's kind of a prick.
<v Speaker 1>He's fine. Okay, there you go. Yeah, what a weird man?
<v Speaker 1>What a god? What a word? All? Okay, we're hitting that.
<v Speaker 1>We're hitting an hour here, I might might dibove, so God,
<v Speaker 1>that is just so fucking wild man. Yeah. So that habitat,
<v Speaker 1>this extreme habitat where not much can grow, very salty, soil,
<v Speaker 1>very dry. I don't know what the annual rainfall is
<v Speaker 1>like has produced this plant? That? And and what's weirder too,
<v Speaker 1>is how is this thing not discovered to science until
<v Speaker 1>why does it describe twenty fourteen? I think crazy? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>in the mid desert is Arizona without cactus, but you
<v Speaker 1>got plenty of miss Sims, plenty of isoace. The hell
<v Speaker 1>that I walk in through, I don't know, buddy, what
<v Speaker 1>did you walk in through? What do you? What are you?
<v Speaker 1>You're getting a stiffy or something? What you Relax? Okay?
<v Speaker 1>I got shit, I gotta do today. So I do
<v Speaker 1>have to go in like ten minutes. But uh uh,
<v Speaker 1>let's see any preference in stogies. Yeah, go for what
<v Speaker 1>is the company that makes the fat bottom Betty? Those
<v Speaker 1>are nice, those are very nice, you know, but again,
<v Speaker 1>you don't actually, hey, just you know, let it sit.
<v Speaker 1>Go visit Volcanoes of elt seat or I'd love to.
<v Speaker 1>I just don't want to be thrown a concentration camp.
<v Speaker 1>Botany YouTubers Learn your Land is good. A lot of
<v Speaker 1>botany programs I honestly can't stand. And they just they
<v Speaker 1>fucking bore me to tears. I can't do I can't
<v Speaker 1>do it, you know. And they're overproduced, and crime pays
<v Speaker 1>will never be overproduced. I've thought about it. The closest
<v Speaker 1>I got was drone footage and fucking stock music, but
<v Speaker 1>that was when I still had a free subscription through
<v Speaker 1>the company that originally tried to monetize the Facebook page.
<v Speaker 1>How well that work out for them? Ah? Where do
<v Speaker 1>you get free stock music? That's what I want to
<v Speaker 1>Who knows where I can get free stocking? Somebody got
<v Speaker 1>a password that could let me have for free stock music.
<v Speaker 1>We won't use it that much, just me and Al.
<v Speaker 1>I won't share it. I'll send you stickers or something.
<v Speaker 1>Does anybody have that I shouldn't put that out there?
<v Speaker 1>Does anybody have a password for a stock for an
<v Speaker 1>unlicensed stock photo or stock music website? You know the
<v Speaker 1>YouTube stock music? Nah? This was nice. The one I
<v Speaker 1>used to have. You could type in like a mood
<v Speaker 1>and it would describe it, you know, for you instrumentals.
<v Speaker 1>I just want instrumental. You know what's his? Hunter from
<v Speaker 1>Cactus Quest makes his own music. I'm not I'm not
<v Speaker 1>that talented. I don't know how to do that stuff.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how he does it. He made me
<v Speaker 1>a little something once, but I fucking lost that. I
<v Speaker 1>bet it's probably in an email or something. You know, Hunter,
<v Speaker 1>Go check out Hunter at Cactus Quest. He's a wonderful man,
<v Speaker 1>really nice guy. Get Ai to make you some stock music?
<v Speaker 1>How do you do that? Uh? Oh? You know mention
<v Speaker 1>an Ai pisses some people off. It really does. Email
<v Speaker 1>for music crime pays, but body doesn't you know if
<v Speaker 1>you get something instrumental, you know he did with the
<v Speaker 1>ship that uh you know what I've been listening to
<v Speaker 1>a bunch is god, man, there's been some great ship.
<v Speaker 1>What is some of the I can't even remember the
<v Speaker 1>a lot of I've been listening to a lot of jazz.
<v Speaker 1>There's a great album called Blue Break Beats, and it's
<v Speaker 1>more of that blue not stuff. This there's like four volumes.
<v Speaker 1>That's fucking great. That solid music. It's so good. Been
<v Speaker 1>listening to uh oh yeah, Bobby Humphrey, that's a great
<v Speaker 1>she's great. Ah, Grant Green, it's all black music, you know,
<v Speaker 1>really good shit. Grant Green. Uh oh, who's that organist?
<v Speaker 1>The electric organ? Fucking a oh the meters. I've been
<v Speaker 1>listening to a lot of meters. Yeah, Jimmy Smith. This
<v Speaker 1>dude's fucking this guy's great. Man, Oh my god, it's
<v Speaker 1>like that electric organ that like, you know, seventies rust
<v Speaker 1>belt electric organs sound Oh so good man. You know
<v Speaker 1>what else recently played some blues emotion. This is you know,
<v Speaker 1>we're getting a little distracted here, but there's a lot
<v Speaker 1>of good shit there is. I've been using it. It's
<v Speaker 1>so good. I've been using it for some of the podcasts.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, Lobby's to free. He's good. It's where I'm
<v Speaker 1>and I'm sampled that slim shady bit from Yeah. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. I've really gotten into a lot of that shit.
<v Speaker 1>Herbie Hancock, of course, fucking solid great stuff. Nice nice
<v Speaker 1>You put that on and you could do anything, so
<v Speaker 1>it helps you focus. Solid shit. Oh, Tommy Guerrero, he's
<v Speaker 1>a nice guy. That's some nice instrumental stuff. Anyway, all right,
<v Speaker 1>Chile was uh like two weeks more than two weeks,
<v Speaker 1>and it's I start missing my girl. It sucks, I
<v Speaker 1>start missing my little girl. How's Al doing. He's doing
<v Speaker 1>really good. You know. He's doing public bathroom reviews, you know,
<v Speaker 1>in the field House bathrooms in Chicago, doing some great stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Really got really gotten onto, you know tile we me
<v Speaker 1>and Al did if you go far enough back on
<v Speaker 1>YouTube channel, we did a we did. We tried to
<v Speaker 1>get into the Sloan Ural Factory on Mannheim Road. You know,
<v Speaker 1>this is like two thousand and nine or ten, and
<v Speaker 1>uh may it's twenty ten, and they wouldn't let us in,
<v Speaker 1>you know, because we're just a couple of yahoos. But
<v Speaker 1>he just got invited to actually do what is this?
<v Speaker 1>It's a dead roach? Jesus Christ, Where the fuck did
<v Speaker 1>that come from? Looks like it's just the characters that
<v Speaker 1>lost the abdomen. Anyway, I don't really get roaches here
<v Speaker 1>anymore because the lizards. Uh. But we got invited to
<v Speaker 1>the Sloan Urinal Company, the Sloan Valve Company. You know,
<v Speaker 1>we'll see journal. It's just a jurnal company. They make
<v Speaker 1>valves too. That's what they want to be know for.
<v Speaker 1>I they want to be known for the vale. I
<v Speaker 1>like them for the journals. You know, you go any
<v Speaker 1>and you go to the bedroom anywhere in a tri
<v Speaker 1>state area and you're gonna be you know, pissing in
<v Speaker 1>a Sloan valve, slong ural. So they invited us on
<v Speaker 1>Mannheim Road, which is a fucking which is a piece
<v Speaker 1>of Illinois culture right there. But yeah, so we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>we might, we might. There might be an upcoming video
<v Speaker 1>out of at a Sloan valve. Yeah, you're no factory.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they actually you know, forge the
<v Speaker 1>valves there. I don't know. Maybe how do they make
<v Speaker 1>the porcelain, but maybe Wayne Shorter Miles Davis. Yeah, Man,
<v Speaker 1>if you got music recommendations, you could email them to me.
<v Speaker 1>You could put them, comment them on a YouTube video
<v Speaker 1>and I'll probably see it in screenshot it because I
<v Speaker 1>read comments, you know, I will. I'll go through them.
<v Speaker 1>But all that, all that shit is good. That jazz
<v Speaker 1>that like funked. Oh there was a fucking great man.
<v Speaker 1>There was a there's a really good uh let's see
<v Speaker 1>where was it. There's a band out of England. War
<v Speaker 1>is good too, old war you know, why can't we
<v Speaker 1>be friends? God damn it. Oh. Ezel's got a new
<v Speaker 1>record out too. He's a rapper from Oakland, completely unrelated
<v Speaker 1>to this musical style that we're talking about right now,
<v Speaker 1>but he's good, easy a l E. Oh the three Sounds,
<v Speaker 1>that's been some good ship. Three Sounds and uh what else?
<v Speaker 1>What's that other? God damn it? Man? Where does this one?
<v Speaker 1>What is it? R v A Ronnie listen Smith, that's
<v Speaker 1>a good one. Uh, I gotta make a listen to
<v Speaker 1>this because I forget this stuff. Yeah, Ronnie Foster's always solid.
<v Speaker 1>Damn I gotta I got a piss and I don't
<v Speaker 1>even have the jar under the desk right now. You know.
<v Speaker 1>If they're gonna get off soon, where does shit did
<v Speaker 1>it go? I can't find it? Oh? This this band
<v Speaker 1>is so great. This group is so great. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, they're from the seventies early seventies England. I
<v Speaker 1>can't find it. My daughter likes the ojs. Yeah no,
<v Speaker 1>I can't find it anyway. Oh yeah, old you like
<v Speaker 1>all blues JB Huddle, old Chicago electric use like like
<v Speaker 1>smoky west Side dive bar blues. I don't drink. But
<v Speaker 1>I remember the days, you know, Magic Sam all that
<v Speaker 1>shit man. Anyway, Yeah, I can't find this stuff. It's
<v Speaker 1>got it. Such a good such a good song. Though.
<v Speaker 1>I did it as the intro for the for the
<v Speaker 1>Adam Black, the podcast I did with Adam Black. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>Ammel and the Sniffers, Oh yeah, they're great. All right.
<v Speaker 1>Anybody got any other questions pertinent to the field of botany. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>let's see. Yeah, I don't know. Exercise to protect your back? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you got to. You gotta protect you do kettlebell swings.
<v Speaker 1>Ship otherwise your backs. You gotta keep that ship in shape.
<v Speaker 1>You don't get your heart rate up. Uh, enormous kind
<v Speaker 1>of serious. What's enormous is kind of serious. Hold on,
<v Speaker 1>I gotta piss. That can take a lead real quick.
<v Speaker 1>H h all right, okay, I'm big. You know. The
<v Speaker 1>funnest part about getting the colonoscopy is getting to getting
<v Speaker 1>to getting you know, clown around with the doctors and nurses.
<v Speaker 1>You know, given the sensitive nature of the uh, the
<v Speaker 1>sensitive nature of the procedure being performed. Is it true?
<v Speaker 1>P is good for plants? Hey, you gotta diluted with
<v Speaker 1>water though, you know, it's nitrogen, you really do, Damon ty,
<v Speaker 1>he's always recommending pissing on his tricho. Serious, especially since
<v Speaker 1>so many cacti have have evolved tolerance to salty soils.
<v Speaker 1>Why would cacti evolve tolerance to salty soils? Why would
<v Speaker 1>cacti be more uh uh provision evolutionarily speaking for tolerance
<v Speaker 1>to salty soils. Who wants to take a StEB at
<v Speaker 1>that way? Why? Because there's salty soil is more common
<v Speaker 1>in deserts because of the higher evaporation rates from the
<v Speaker 1>heat and the over rainfall. So anyway, So deserts have
<v Speaker 1>evolutionary evolutionarily selected for more salt tolerance, at least compared
<v Speaker 1>to other plants. In cacti, there's smoking things arsenic in
<v Speaker 1>their water. Yeah, plants can do anything. It's just good
<v Speaker 1>old natural selection. Yeah, nine part station two to one
<v Speaker 1>part piss. Wow, that's right. Someone else was saying seven
<v Speaker 1>parts water to one part piss. What am I filming
<v Speaker 1>with Samsung? You gotta get off Apple, They're terrible. Get
<v Speaker 1>off you know. I don't have I have very little
<v Speaker 1>brand allegiance, but with Samsung, I they definitely trust them
<v Speaker 1>a lot more. I wish I could remember. It's goddamn music. God,
<v Speaker 1>it was so good anyway, all right, well, I think
<v Speaker 1>we're almost about done. Who wants to get off? Who's
<v Speaker 1>gotta go? It's already one forty five native mosses. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I would especially desert mosses because I think they're fascinating.
<v Speaker 1>There's there's a couple that have beard There's like a
<v Speaker 1>bearded moss that grows in West Texas. This fucking I
<v Speaker 1>gotta take this vibing myself on now with this priest outfit,
<v Speaker 1>you get a shirt or some ship. I thought it'd
<v Speaker 1>be funny. I'm giving myself PTSD. I was raised Catholic.
<v Speaker 1>Huh yeah, there's a bearded moss in West Texas, which
<v Speaker 1>it's hilarious, but it's you know, it's again of just
<v Speaker 1>natural selection in the desert where this ship was the
<v Speaker 1>song I'm still looking for. I'm fixated on this. I'm pissed.
<v Speaker 1>If I don't find this thing, I'm gonna start throwing ship.
<v Speaker 1>You know, this's it's really it's no way to be
<v Speaker 1>all right, we'll leave, we'll we'll leave it when we
<v Speaker 1>find what this? Oh was it the a one soul
<v Speaker 1>playlist I made? Oh? Gil Scott hearing the Budos band.
<v Speaker 1>Baby Oh, sugary Otis it's another great one. The original
<v Speaker 1>writer of Strawberry Letter twenty three, that was it, simanned, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's a great fucking bit. This, this is some good shit.
<v Speaker 1>That's a fucking great record. Holy hell, Oh it's good.
<v Speaker 1>I forgot I make these playlists and I forget about
<v Speaker 1>a one. So oh yeah, p funk anyway or fucking deelic?
<v Speaker 1>I think it was anyway? All right? Cool, Well, we're
<v Speaker 1>gonna leave soon. Ever, think of coming to the Carpathian
<v Speaker 1>Mountains of Romania. Lorenzo's deleting his message. What was that now?
<v Speaker 1>I wonder, huh was it a ship posted dick pic?
<v Speaker 1>Or I'm just kidding. You can't post dick pics in
<v Speaker 1>a chant? Oh there you go. Yeah, Carpathian Mountains. Wasn't
<v Speaker 1>it where Vigo was from? Did you see Ghostbusters too?
<v Speaker 1>Wasn't Vigo from Carpathia? I can't remember Romania? Yeah I
<v Speaker 1>probably would. There's some cool mountains there. I want to
<v Speaker 1>go to Turkey. Eastern Turkey seems fucking wild. Used to
<v Speaker 1>be a little hot, you know, in terms of you
<v Speaker 1>might end up in an orange jumpsuit, getting your headsowt
<v Speaker 1>off on video, but you know, because it's but there's
<v Speaker 1>some really cool stuff there. There's some really cool botanists
<v Speaker 1>that I ran, that I followed. They're posting wild shit
<v Speaker 1>all the time, just crazy species in genera, in well
<v Speaker 1>known genera. But they're you know, anyway, look what I
<v Speaker 1>had to make for the Jehovah's witnesses. See that. You know,
<v Speaker 1>they're predatory here, they come here and they prey on
<v Speaker 1>poor people. And so I put this up there. I said, no,
<v Speaker 1>I stopped stuffing pamphlets in my door. Stop coming to
<v Speaker 1>my door. It's creepy, it's weird. I don't want it.
<v Speaker 1>Please please go away, please, eh, you gotta leave, sir, sir,
<v Speaker 1>excuse me, sir. And then look it's fruits of uh.
<v Speaker 1>This is castilla and MORII. I think these seeds will
<v Speaker 1>probably the last one hundred years. Crucifixion throwing great desert plant.
<v Speaker 1>I think I got one coming up in a pot outside.
<v Speaker 1>I got these big terra cotta pots. One's got an
<v Speaker 1>okatio in it for Carrie mcdou lie and some other ones.
<v Speaker 1>And I'll just throw seeds in there, you know, because
<v Speaker 1>that shit's gonna take a long time at Germany. A
<v Speaker 1>lot of desert seeds take a long time in Germany.
<v Speaker 1>If you don't you know, or if you unless you've
<v Speaker 1>cracked the coat on pre treating them or scarfying or
<v Speaker 1>hot water or smoke or whatever the fuck it is,
<v Speaker 1>way you wouldn't be smoke creaming in the desert. But
<v Speaker 1>and so the best way to grow some of them
<v Speaker 1>is just get big pots and throw seeds in it
<v Speaker 1>and forget about it, and maybe put like a top
<v Speaker 1>dressing of gravels. It's a lot of people grow cacti
<v Speaker 1>just straight sewing cacti outside morning sun or like a
<v Speaker 1>shade cloth under the maybe probably in my climate because
<v Speaker 1>it's so high, you probably need to sew them under
<v Speaker 1>the canopy of a tree, like a light shade tree
<v Speaker 1>like tepewahe or any of the memosoid a misquit would
<v Speaker 1>be great, like if you have a big miskuit mesquite.
<v Speaker 1>Some people really trip. They don't like the way I
<v Speaker 1>pronounced it. I said, hey, you know what, it's tough.
<v Speaker 1>You don't have to figure out a way around that,
<v Speaker 1>because I'm not going to start not going to change
<v Speaker 1>my pronunciation for you. Oh here's Banistereops this CAPII and
<v Speaker 1>or barium specimen. It's a cool vine malpigiaceous. All the
<v Speaker 1>malpiggy as have the same flower structure. It's wild. But
<v Speaker 1>look it's got like little maple tomorrows. I need to
<v Speaker 1>put that in your barium. I need to type up
<v Speaker 1>a label for that and put that in your barium.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, so you get like a big clay pot,
<v Speaker 1>you know, like a long one, like flower box style,
<v Speaker 1>throw some a nice mixture of large grained sand. You
<v Speaker 1>want the large grained sand, not the small grain sand
<v Speaker 1>because that shit holds water and it will clump. And
<v Speaker 1>then you put maybe some you know, bark fines whatever,
<v Speaker 1>fine grain. You want fine grain. If you're doing seedlings,
<v Speaker 1>you put in a big pot and then you get
<v Speaker 1>some of that. They call it pea gravel. You can
<v Speaker 1>get it from any of the big box home despot
<v Speaker 1>or whatever the shit. And it's a little gravel bit
<v Speaker 1>and you put one layer there's one pebble full layer,
<v Speaker 1>like one pebble deep layer on top of that and
<v Speaker 1>it's the most and you could sprinkle cac dice, seeds,
<v Speaker 1>astrophytem the barrel, cact die whatever over that, but it
<v Speaker 1>can't be in full sun if you're in a hot climate,
<v Speaker 1>because it'll just it gets too hot and then just
<v Speaker 1>water as is and they'll come up on their own.
<v Speaker 1>I've seen it happen through a ton of Hamado cactus
<v Speaker 1>Hamata cantas. Here the Rio Grand Valley barrow, which I
<v Speaker 1>would love to see. I mean, if I have to
<v Speaker 1>go to a shopping center, I'd love to at least
<v Speaker 1>see native plants, not even go to it. If I
<v Speaker 1>have to drive, at least see native plants there instead
<v Speaker 1>of horticultural atrocities that crape myrtles. Why are people why
<v Speaker 1>do you plant crpe myrtles in South Texas? Huh? Did
<v Speaker 1>you eat paint chips as a kid? You got hit
<v Speaker 1>on the head or something? What the hell? It's a
<v Speaker 1>totally different climate from where it evolved, right, and just
<v Speaker 1>so hot, requires so much irrigation, total nightmare. Okay, should
<v Speaker 1>we go? Are we done? Here? Are we done? I
<v Speaker 1>think this is done well? Whichie Mirablis and the habitat
<v Speaker 1>very dry habitat's the fog desert only grows with one
<v Speaker 1>or two other plants. Ar three rura, which is like
<v Speaker 1>a shrubby member of Amaranthesy and h and olated autistic
<v Speaker 1>disregard Tony's earlier tantrum. No, don't don't disregard, you get disregard.
<v Speaker 1>Actually Australia, Yeah, I got I gotta get in there.
<v Speaker 1>I gottae into the Pilborough in Australia. Oh, the habitat
<v Speaker 1>is getting fucked there too. It's not surprising. It's all
<v Speaker 1>anthropossetrism everywhere. There's no reverence or respect for the living world. Zujin.
<v Speaker 1>I'm still gonna nag you on some of those questions
<v Speaker 1>when we're I don't know, I didn't see. What are
<v Speaker 1>you teaching at SUOS next year? No, I think they
<v Speaker 1>got I was only doing that because they didn't. They
<v Speaker 1>couldn't find anyone for their body department, and so I
<v Speaker 1>said I would do it. I'd cover it. And it
<v Speaker 1>was fun. I enjoyed it. I love teaching. It's great.
<v Speaker 1>It didn't pay anything, but you know, it didn't feel
<v Speaker 1>like I was working either. It felt like this. But
<v Speaker 1>you have to stay more on topic. I can't go
<v Speaker 1>into like a rant about you know about how I
<v Speaker 1>hate the fucking healthy chair. Well, I'm sure you could,
<v Speaker 1>but you got to keep it short. If you do
<v Speaker 1>I want to make sure to say free Luigi with
<v Speaker 1>like the Super Mario Turtle nice. It would be nice
<v Speaker 1>regardless of your opinions on it. You know, if you
<v Speaker 1>really want to defend the health insurance coming to regardless
<v Speaker 1>of your opinion, you got to appreciate that Super Mario
<v Speaker 1>character the turtles, right anyway? Uh Oh, the mounta Laurel
<v Speaker 1>band in Texas didn't go through. I guess the CPA,
<v Speaker 1>like once again, an accountant has no business writing legislation
<v Speaker 1>on banning plans. It's idiotic. It's like a it's like
<v Speaker 1>an auto mechanic crafting legislation that governs how someone should
<v Speaker 1>do neurosurgery. That uh that, I don't want to be
<v Speaker 1>diddled again. So I'm out someone's got some real cantic trauma.
<v Speaker 1>Ah oh the Mountain Laurel banned. Yeah. So there was
<v Speaker 1>a list of like forty or fifty different species of plants,
<v Speaker 1>half of which are native to Texas that this guy
<v Speaker 1>who's a CPA in the world needs CPAs. I'm not
<v Speaker 1>saying it, but CPAs have no fucking business crafting legislation
<v Speaker 1>about plants, and these plants were due to get banned
<v Speaker 1>because like Mountain laurel mescal beans is is. I guess
<v Speaker 1>it's technically psychoactive, but it's really a poison. And so
<v Speaker 1>probably before you you know, bleed internally or whatever, you
<v Speaker 1>have maybe a hallucination. But this fucking idiot read It's
<v Speaker 1>like he just read like plants are the gods. You
<v Speaker 1>know that book that came out in the seventies about
<v Speaker 1>hallucinogenic plants, but how you can smoke banana peels or something.
<v Speaker 1>And I mean, he wrote this law that was banning
<v Speaker 1>all these all these plant species that I'm sure he
<v Speaker 1>didn't even know what the hell any of them were.
<v Speaker 1>It was fucking idiotic. It would have made it illegal
<v Speaker 1>to grow or possess any of these native plants. Heimius lissifolia.
<v Speaker 1>That's a another one. Supposedly it's native here in South Texas.
<v Speaker 1>Supposedly if you make a tea, you can, uh, you
<v Speaker 1>feel something. I don't know what it's like. I don't
<v Speaker 1>want to try. I'm a fucking grown ass man. I
<v Speaker 1>don't need that. I'm not like in high school trying
<v Speaker 1>to get fucked up. But also that's the idiotic thing
<v Speaker 1>is when you make these things illegal, you make them
<v Speaker 1>more desirable. If it's legal like peote is in Canada.
<v Speaker 1>No one's dying to try it. They're just like, yeah, okay, cool,
<v Speaker 1>cool to know you could feel something if you eat this.
<v Speaker 1>But you know, if once you put it once, you
<v Speaker 1>make it taboo. Now you've made a desire for it,
<v Speaker 1>you've made it a hot item, and you've you've you know,
<v Speaker 1>if it actually is like a usable drug like weed,
<v Speaker 1>like something that people would actually use. No one's gonna
<v Speaker 1>use heimia. None of these things are addictive. How someone's
<v Speaker 1>gonna eat mescal beans? Like, yeah, maybe the same fucking jackasses,
<v Speaker 1>same same the people at the same mental level as
<v Speaker 1>the fucking idiot who wrote this legislation. Maybe they would
<v Speaker 1>eat eat it. But it's a toxic plant. That tura,
<v Speaker 1>that turro is supposed to be illegal. Great plant moth
<v Speaker 1>dollinated big white flowers does well. And you know, uh
<v Speaker 1>disturbed thereas that was on the list they I guess
<v Speaker 1>they took it all down. Someone talks some sense into
<v Speaker 1>this fucking Yahoo and told them, you know, these are
<v Speaker 1>native plants. You can't really legislate this. Not only that,
<v Speaker 1>but no one's going out of their way. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know why this guy did this I think. I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I mean Texas has still got some They've got some
<v Speaker 1>weird hang ups. It's culture warshit, It's what I think
<v Speaker 1>it is. It's not logic, like they've still got weird
<v Speaker 1>hang ups about pot, Like there's these these drinks they're
<v Speaker 1>trying to legislate pot. I think it started about kratam,
<v Speaker 1>which is actually a cool plants, the ground up leaf
<v Speaker 1>Matrogena speciosa ruby ac. It's a tree. I saw it
<v Speaker 1>when I was in Costa Rica wasn't doing too well.
<v Speaker 1>It's not healthy. It was being grown in botanic garden.
<v Speaker 1>It's native to Southeast Asia, coffee family Rubac. It's got
<v Speaker 1>the same flower structure as the plant they call button
<v Speaker 1>willow here, which is also a ruby ac. It's like
<v Speaker 1>a little globe of kin flowers and it plugs into
<v Speaker 1>opioid receptors, but it's not it's not an opiate. It doesn't.
<v Speaker 1>If you have too much kratam, you're going to vomit.
<v Speaker 1>And that's it, all right, Just the same thing happens
<v Speaker 1>if you have too much peyoti. All right, it's basically harmless.
<v Speaker 1>It's highly addictive, like coffee can be. But you're not
<v Speaker 1>gonna harm yourself on it, and it lower doses. It's
<v Speaker 1>a stimulant and it hide doses. It feels just like opiates.
<v Speaker 1>It's it. That's what sucks about it, because I hate
<v Speaker 1>the way opiates feel. They get me the lauded when
<v Speaker 1>I ripped my shoulder out in the hospital. I fucking
<v Speaker 1>hate opiates. It also, it's opiates have killed a lot
<v Speaker 1>of friends of mine. But but kratam junkies will use
<v Speaker 1>it to help get off opiates because it feels like
<v Speaker 1>op It feels like opiates if you have a lot.
<v Speaker 1>But again, if you have too much, you will just vomit.
<v Speaker 1>It's totally harmless in that regard. And so that was
<v Speaker 1>what the legislation was about. And I think what they did.
<v Speaker 1>They're not even trying to ban it now, which would
<v Speaker 1>be completely tarted, but but they're trying to regulate it,
<v Speaker 1>which makes sense, like you should be able to regulate it.
<v Speaker 1>That's fine. I think that's mean, But trying to ban something,
<v Speaker 1>it's just it doesn't work. It doesn't we it because
<v Speaker 1>the first drug war worked so great, right, right, that's
<v Speaker 1>the fucking logic here. Just the first you know, the
<v Speaker 1>goal is to have an educated citizenry that's not so
<v Speaker 1>stupid that they want to go eat the matter phylum,
<v Speaker 1>Mountain Laurel or de Tura or anything else. You know, like,
<v Speaker 1>if people are you want to have a populace, it's
<v Speaker 1>educated and provided for it. They're not trying to look
<v Speaker 1>for some way to fuck themselves up. All right. The
<v Speaker 1>drug war was one of the dumbest things America has
<v Speaker 1>ever done, next to the Vietnam War. I mean, it
<v Speaker 1>was also part of a culture war too. I think
<v Speaker 1>that's what the drug war was ridly about. It was
<v Speaker 1>a culture work. It was about protecting the public. It
<v Speaker 1>was racism initially for things like we eat and peote,
<v Speaker 1>and then it was culture war against the hippies. Nixon
<v Speaker 1>had a heart on for the hippies. And so anyway,
<v Speaker 1>after fifty years of giving the cops an impossible job
<v Speaker 1>creating a black market for illegal businesses and you know,
<v Speaker 1>and boldening cartels, et cetera. After fifty years of that,
<v Speaker 1>suddenly the prescription pharmaceutical companies move in and start actually
<v Speaker 1>getting in on the heroin market and make a complete
<v Speaker 1>mockery of the whole drug war that so many people
<v Speaker 1>died for. It have been imprisoned for over the previous
<v Speaker 1>fifty years and then annihilated more people than drugs have
<v Speaker 1>ever killed in the fifty years previous, which is and
<v Speaker 1>it was all legal, and so it kind of made
<v Speaker 1>a mockery of it. So I think, to like be
<v Speaker 1>a de agent still you have to I mean you've
<v Speaker 1>got to. I don't know how you could do your
<v Speaker 1>job if you are sent out to like persecute someone
<v Speaker 1>for Mountain Laurel or even pot or anything. Like the
<v Speaker 1>cops here don't even care about pot anymore. I knew
<v Speaker 1>someone who was a company. Yeah, they told us not
<v Speaker 1>to even bother people for small amounts, as they should.
<v Speaker 1>It's not a dangerous drug heroin Coco. This easy shit
<v Speaker 1>meant stuff that like makes people behave like total assholes
<v Speaker 1>and rob people. That should be something that that is
<v Speaker 1>regulated and litigated. I don't, you know, I don't. I
<v Speaker 1>don't have any problem with that, you know, and put
<v Speaker 1>funds in that getting people clean. But this guy, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know what this dude was thinking. I mean the
<v Speaker 1>list of plants, I read through them and I was like,
<v Speaker 1>half of these are native. You're trying to make these illegal?
<v Speaker 1>You fucking kid just the money this is going to
<v Speaker 1>cost the state is completely idiotic. You know, like there's
<v Speaker 1>no income tax in texts. All the revenue comes from
<v Speaker 1>property taxes, which are really high. Where the fuck are
<v Speaker 1>you gonna get the money to enforce this? This is
<v Speaker 1>completely idiotic, and you're a fucking idiot. Go back to
<v Speaker 1>the you know, taking bribes from developers and you know,
<v Speaker 1>doing people's taxes whatever. This guy does. No offense to
<v Speaker 1>this guy forget his name, Perry, Charles Perry. I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>but luckily someone talked. I don't know if someone talks
<v Speaker 1>sensing to him or what, but I guess they downgraded
<v Speaker 1>this bill. It was eight building was eighteen sixty eight,
<v Speaker 1>SB eighteen sixty eight. So now it just regulates for
<v Speaker 1>tom and like Delta nine, Delta eight whatever, what's the
<v Speaker 1>illegal the legal one? You know? That feels terrible anyway
<v Speaker 1>to do. Someone gave me Delta eight gummies four years ago.
<v Speaker 1>It was just it was horrible. It felt it made
<v Speaker 1>me nauseous and just made me feel out of it.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I don't even smoke we to begin with,
<v Speaker 1>but once in a while we will be nice because
<v Speaker 1>it will help you stretch or something. You can go
<v Speaker 1>on a run, you get you go get a little tight.
<v Speaker 1>You know, you'd smoke a joint late at night, do
<v Speaker 1>some yoga on your floor, start talking to the dogs.
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's great once in a while. This is
<v Speaker 1>about how much I can tower it with pot yeah,
<v Speaker 1>delta a right. Yeah. So they're trying think that they
<v Speaker 1>were trying to make that illegal or whatever. But there's
<v Speaker 1>there's a company that makes these THC like fizzy waters
<v Speaker 1>that taste really good, taste like hops. Forget the name
<v Speaker 1>of them, but it's it's like five milligrams THHC and
<v Speaker 1>are able to do it because it's less than point
<v Speaker 1>three percent by volume, and like five milligrams TC is
<v Speaker 1>not going to send you to the moon. That's great,
<v Speaker 1>that's fine. I think that I'd much rather see people
<v Speaker 1>doing that than getting hammerd because Texas has a big
<v Speaker 1>alcohol problem, a lot of alcoholics, you know, especially when
<v Speaker 1>you're taught to numb your feelings and care so much
<v Speaker 1>what other people thinking. You gotta you gotta drown it shit,
<v Speaker 1>you know, so you know, tell you alcohol is very
<v Speaker 1>important to the culture of Texas and enabling the repression
<v Speaker 1>that the state is so well known for. No offense.
<v Speaker 1>I love it. I'm just saying they really should legalize
<v Speaker 1>just legalize weed here. Don't make it a political thing anyway. Man.
<v Speaker 1>They could make so much revenue too. If you saw
<v Speaker 1>all these like jacked up truck rednecks smoking blunts instead
<v Speaker 1>of you know, drinking, uh fucking Keystone light, and you
<v Speaker 1>see the bottles all over the place, all around the roads.
<v Speaker 1>You know they're drinking and driving. We live in a
<v Speaker 1>safer a safer state. People might wait at stop lights
<v Speaker 1>longer than they other wise would, but they're not going
<v Speaker 1>to be drunk driving. Got the du there's duy's man.
<v Speaker 1>I see everybody here gets a duy because it's Texas
<v Speaker 1>is unwalkable too, so you've got to drive everywhere, even
<v Speaker 1>if it's to the store, it's like five blocks away,
<v Speaker 1>and you know, so you're stuck driving, but you want
<v Speaker 1>to drink. You want to drink it home. So everyone's
<v Speaker 1>getting it's crazy, man, the fucking duys. But one of
<v Speaker 1>what the du i rate is for Texas compared to
<v Speaker 1>other states, you'll get it. You'll get hammered. Another state
<v Speaker 1>that's got bike lanes, you can ride your bike to
<v Speaker 1>the bar. You know, then you're just gonna fuck yourself
<v Speaker 1>up if you crash into a light pole or something.
<v Speaker 1>You're not gonna kill a family of four or something.
<v Speaker 1>You know, take it from father santor got It's okay.
<v Speaker 1>We're at an hour and a half. We got six
<v Speaker 1>hundred and sixty six followers right now. I think that's good.
<v Speaker 1>We'll go for another ten minutes. You've got someone they
<v Speaker 1>want to talk about. Oh, he got T two Dewey's
<v Speaker 1>twenty years ago, the uber back then? Did you quit
<v Speaker 1>drinking or what? Did you read the writing on the
<v Speaker 1>wall or you're still hitting it now? You know. Before
<v Speaker 1>I got sober, I used to carry a h a
<v Speaker 1>breathalyzer with me because if I had gotten a duy,
<v Speaker 1>I didn't. I didn't want to fucking risk it because
<v Speaker 1>if I got a DUY, I'd lose my locomotive license.
<v Speaker 1>I was working for the railroad at this time. If
<v Speaker 1>you get a duy, you're fucked. And you're working for
<v Speaker 1>the railroad as an engineer, which I never should have
<v Speaker 1>gotten the engineer license to shape. Should have stayed a
<v Speaker 1>conductor and a braakman forever. Those were the days, my friend,
<v Speaker 1>you could get out, you could walk, you weren't tied
<v Speaker 1>to the engine, right, You're waiting at a red signal
<v Speaker 1>for the dispatcher to let you out for an hour
<v Speaker 1>and a half, losing your mind. If you're an engineer,
<v Speaker 1>you're stuck in that seat. That's so bad metabolically for you.
<v Speaker 1>But a conductor can go take a fucking walk or
<v Speaker 1>you know, do whatever, go look at stuff on the side,
<v Speaker 1>you can do. You can botanize at work. I used
<v Speaker 1>to botanize at work when I was a conductor. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>this guy's saying that fucking chiggers. Oh my god, I
<v Speaker 1>forgot there's chiggers in the southeast. Holy shit. What do
<v Speaker 1>you do for chiggers? I don't Oh god, damn it. There.
<v Speaker 1>I would rather take ticks all over my nuts than
<v Speaker 1>deal with chiggers. They're horrible. Spray permethron. Now, yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna have to treat my pants permethron. And then is
<v Speaker 1>there like a sulfur spray you can put on your
<v Speaker 1>ankles for siggers? Oh my god, this is why they
<v Speaker 1>gotta burn. This is what fire suppression's done, right, Learn
<v Speaker 1>your land. Did a video on that fire suppression was
<v Speaker 1>man when all these tribes were burning in North America
<v Speaker 1>five or six hundred years ago. I'm convinced the main
<v Speaker 1>reason wasn't to improve hunting grounds. It was to kill
<v Speaker 1>all the ticks and the chiggers. If you could talk
<v Speaker 1>to some of them, go back in time, say what
<v Speaker 1>do you guys do this stuff? Burn of force. It
<v Speaker 1>makes it look nicer. It's the way to maintain the landscape.
<v Speaker 1>And they did this in the southeast. They did in California.
<v Speaker 1>They were these indigenous groups. They did burn the prairie.
<v Speaker 1>But I bet if you could ask them, why do
<v Speaker 1>you do this, they'd say, because these fucking tics are
<v Speaker 1>out of control, because these parasites, these scum, these fucking
<v Speaker 1>these chiggers are terrible. I got bites all up and
<v Speaker 1>down my leg. I got a rash so bad in
<v Speaker 1>my I got a rash so bad in my ears. No, seriously,
<v Speaker 1>the worst I've ever had, the worst to kind of
<v Speaker 1>ever had with with any parasitic insect, was in Florida
<v Speaker 1>and the sand scrub, which is incredible habitat. So you know,
<v Speaker 1>I was crouching down, enjoying myself looking at stuff, taking
<v Speaker 1>macro shots. Gotta change the lens, take a habitat shot.
<v Speaker 1>Taking my time filming stuff. And I just that night
<v Speaker 1>in the motel, I was just destroyed. I had seventy
<v Speaker 1>siggar bikees all up and down my ankles. Suppose you
<v Speaker 1>get sulfur for them? What do you do you get sulfur?
<v Speaker 1>What do you get for chiggers? This is way you
<v Speaker 1>got to burn everything. I go to the Southeast. I
<v Speaker 1>want to burn everything in the right season, right. I
<v Speaker 1>want to do it in an educated fashion that way.
<v Speaker 1>Oh maybe I'll see Kyle Eiberger. He's up there now.
<v Speaker 1>I'd love to see him. He's a friend. How far
<v Speaker 1>is Kyle Eiberger from Atlanta? I don't think it's too far.
<v Speaker 1>Maytive had that project. What do you do you get sulfur? Oh, yes, sulfur.
<v Speaker 1>Oh it's a plain funer said, fuck, oh no, no,
<v Speaker 1>that's not what you want. I don't know what do
<v Speaker 1>you do for chiggers? Although we SASA have my property
<v Speaker 1>limit up and enjoy the smell, that's great. What do
<v Speaker 1>you gotta get rid of all the usache limit up?
<v Speaker 1>Make biochar out of the small lambs? Because when you're
<v Speaker 1>making biochart, you only want stuff that's like that big,
<v Speaker 1>that big at least I do you know, make biochar.
<v Speaker 1>Just burn it, you know, let it burn for a while.
<v Speaker 1>Once it turns into like the white like very thin
<v Speaker 1>low density ash, that's when you dump water on it.
<v Speaker 1>And no, how do you kill them? How do you
<v Speaker 1>keep them off of you? How do you find pockets
<v Speaker 1>and native plants and destroy agricultural healthscapes? Go to Google Maps,
<v Speaker 1>look at green areas on Google Maps in the regular layer.
<v Speaker 1>Go to satellite images. Look at pockets of of greenery
<v Speaker 1>on the satellite images that don't seem in super developed areas. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>and then drive around, go out there. That's how you
<v Speaker 1>find little pockets of native plants and looks the destruction
<v Speaker 1>of the anthropocy Yeah, for the for the wisace. Just man,
<v Speaker 1>appreciate the ship out of it. You want to you
<v Speaker 1>want to reduce it. While you want to reduce it,
<v Speaker 1>I mean you can cut it down. I love that plant.
<v Speaker 1>I got one. I got one at this public garden
<v Speaker 1>we started. It's a great plant. Musace is a great
<v Speaker 1>example of a pioneer species. If you do and kill
<v Speaker 1>your lawn, if you're killing your law plant in the
<v Speaker 1>plant garden, plant can take full sun nitrogen fixing bacteria
<v Speaker 1>in the roots, grows fast as hell, smells fucking delightful
<v Speaker 1>when it flowers. It's been it used to be used
<v Speaker 1>in French perfume. That's scent. The fruits look like dog turts.
<v Speaker 1>It's kind of weird, but you know, I could roll
<v Speaker 1>with it. Not like, what's the the ebony species Epinopsis
<v Speaker 1>from Baja that produces dog shit looking fruits. That's great.
<v Speaker 1>I would appreciate that. So what is that Eponopsis confinance?
<v Speaker 1>I think? Yeah? Yeah, wait, wait, wait, Jacob, wait, you
<v Speaker 1>want to get rid of the wsace? Is it just
<v Speaker 1>too much? Okay, it just got a pathway. It's just
<v Speaker 1>cut it and take a paint brush with some round
<v Speaker 1>up and after a fresh cut, paint the roundup on there. Right,
<v Speaker 1>you're not broadcasting it over the whole landscape. You're just
<v Speaker 1>using it on the stump. Is that what the issue is?
<v Speaker 1>Is it re sprouting or what? Look at a paras,
<v Speaker 1>the Paris of Texas. Where is it there? Yeah? The
<v Speaker 1>Paris of Texas. Aaron Forceth, my friend Aaron Forceth from
<v Speaker 1>the Zealand paint at that. She's the best botanical artist
<v Speaker 1>I know. Anyway. Campophinique liquid works Oh yeah, Melo Luca oil. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>tea tree oil would work for chiggers. Maybe. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know though, man native Chicago groundcover. Oh, that's out of
<v Speaker 1>my lead. I don't think frogford would survive up there.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see. Okay, we're gonna end this soon, all right.
<v Speaker 1>You're making the dog's nervous when you throw these tantrums.
<v Speaker 1>You're making the dog's nervous. You're flipping on. Uh. How
<v Speaker 1>do you recommend starting to learn taxonomy? Biplant Systematics by
<v Speaker 1>Michael Simpson. It's a fucking it support. It's like eighty bucks.
<v Speaker 1>Get it. You'll use it for the next ten years
<v Speaker 1>of your life. And then just start reading it and
<v Speaker 1>don't read it front to back because that sucks. It's
<v Speaker 1>not a fun way to read. Just crack it up
<v Speaker 1>in the middle of nowhere and look at the pictures
<v Speaker 1>you like and start reading the captions for those and
<v Speaker 1>they'll start catching on. Right. Well, I'll do a reading
<v Speaker 1>of an audio book reading of Plant Systematics. It's the
<v Speaker 1>best fucking book. It was a real life changer for me.
<v Speaker 1>It's not even here. Where the fuck did I put
<v Speaker 1>it in? No worry, I think it's in the other room.
<v Speaker 1>I got like three bookshelves, right, that's the best way
<v Speaker 1>starting to learn taxonomy. If that's too much for you,
<v Speaker 1>have Plant Systematics by Michael Simpson, who's a friend of mine.
<v Speaker 1>Is too much for you, and it is. It's you're
<v Speaker 1>going to have to be using the vocabulary in the
<v Speaker 1>back of the book when you're reading that. But that's
<v Speaker 1>how you learn. That's how you teach yourself. If that's
<v Speaker 1>too much for you. A simpler the children's book version
<v Speaker 1>of that, it's not really a children's book, but it's
<v Speaker 1>like hits the concept homeharder is Bony in the Day
<v Speaker 1>by h. Thomas Elpel Bonnie in the Day, and it's
<v Speaker 1>just it just rams home the idea that the key
<v Speaker 1>traits that you're looking for, the synapomorphies you're looking for
<v Speaker 1>when you're trying to figure out what family something's in,
<v Speaker 1>And you should always be asking what family it's in
<v Speaker 1>when you're looking at a plant, because that will tell
<v Speaker 1>you so much, what chemicals it might have, whether it's
<v Speaker 1>poisonous or not, what pollinates it, because these are all
<v Speaker 1>shared traits that plants share as a result of shared ancestry,
<v Speaker 1>of it, of fucking inheritance, right, that's why we ask
<v Speaker 1>what family something's and that's why we study taxonomy. That's
<v Speaker 1>why genus and species names are important because they will
<v Speaker 1>tell you that which is something. I remember when these
<v Speaker 1>fucking idiots were attacking taxonomy. H five years ago, I
<v Speaker 1>got into a Twitter fight with some white lady. No
<v Speaker 1>fence to her. I'm not gonna bring it up. I'm
<v Speaker 1>not gonna bring it up. So she looked that she
<v Speaker 1>had a pouty fish. She looked very unhappy. She was mean,
<v Speaker 1>she really mean, no fense to her. Blessed making cakes
<v Speaker 1>for a fish anyway. And she was saying, all taxonomy,
<v Speaker 1>it's colonial, you know, one of these like moralizing it.
<v Speaker 1>I said it, shut up, shut up, No, it's not,
<v Speaker 1>it's not. Did you know that If you go to Iran,
<v Speaker 1>it's like an Ian botanists doing botany there. If you
<v Speaker 1>go to China, it's Chinese bonuses or not. All because
<v Speaker 1>the system was invented by European white guys doesn't mean
<v Speaker 1>it's a bad system. You don't have to You're not
<v Speaker 1>like signing off on everything that these fucking you know,
<v Speaker 1>hooligans believed in. You're not signing off on like Linnaeus's
<v Speaker 1>eugenics quasi eugenics theories by embracing taxonomic nomenclature. That's the
<v Speaker 1>most fucking idiotic take, right if like if a if someone,
<v Speaker 1>if someone you didn't like invented the wheel, would you
<v Speaker 1>not use wheels? Like? What the fuck? It's a great
<v Speaker 1>system genus and species. You learn the genus name. You
<v Speaker 1>don't have to know the whole species, and just just
<v Speaker 1>learn the genus, right. If Homo sapiens is too much
<v Speaker 1>for you, just learn the word homo. You know, well
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. But uh but you know,
<v Speaker 1>that's why it's like some of these worried. What I
<v Speaker 1>got into was some guy down here, he's a friend,
<v Speaker 1>but he was calling there's a plant called ameless bush sunflower.
<v Speaker 1>That's the common name, completely ridiculous. It's not a sunflower
<v Speaker 1>and uh oh god, what was that? What is on?
<v Speaker 1>Is it simsia or is it? And I think it's simsia,
<v Speaker 1>And so, you know, I was like, well, don you
<v Speaker 1>just call it simsa Colvo like why are you using
<v Speaker 1>common names? Like well, because the Latin names are gatekeeping.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, no, they're not gatekeeping anything. Give people a
<v Speaker 1>benefit of the doubt teach them the fucking genus name.
<v Speaker 1>You normalize using the genus name, people will pick up
<v Speaker 1>on it. On this bush sunflower, it's not even a
<v Speaker 1>sunflower that that's got five times as many letters in
<v Speaker 1>it as the word simsa does. Just you simsia, And
<v Speaker 1>then you know what, if you know that's a simsia,
<v Speaker 1>you'll see other species of Simsia and you'll know they're
<v Speaker 1>simsias too. If you know the traits that put something
<v Speaker 1>in the genus simsia, you know the filery orientation, the
<v Speaker 1>fucking way the seeds look, whatever. So God, it just
<v Speaker 1>drives me nuts. The insistence on using common names, and
<v Speaker 1>that is some shit I was not prepared for when
<v Speaker 1>I moved to Texas. So many people in Texas native
<v Speaker 1>plants and no beef with any of them. I just
<v Speaker 1>think this is stupid, and I wish they would start
<v Speaker 1>embracing taxonomic nomenclature like professionals or people that respect the science.
<v Speaker 1>So many people here just use common names, and so
<v Speaker 1>many of the common names are completely ridiculous, like they
<v Speaker 1>just know they bear no resemblance to the plants they're
<v Speaker 1>talking about. There's other plants that have the same common name.
<v Speaker 1>Do we really want to go this? I've ranted about
<v Speaker 1>there's so many fucking times, right, and then when you
<v Speaker 1>try to be like, let's use the genus name, they
<v Speaker 1>get defensive and they start fighting with you on it.
<v Speaker 1>I'm just trying to help you learn this is there's
<v Speaker 1>a method to the magnus. Don't you want to do that?
<v Speaker 1>Why are you gonna Why are you gonna fucking fight me?
<v Speaker 1>It's like you're driving a car with square wheels and
<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to give you a round one. Why would
<v Speaker 1>you insist on driving a car with square wheels. It's
<v Speaker 1>fucking idiotic. You know. This is not like about superiority,
<v Speaker 1>It's just this thing works. So anyway, learn the genius
<v Speaker 1>and the species names. Learn the genus name. You don't
<v Speaker 1>want to learn the species name. You don't know how
<v Speaker 1>to pronounce it a genus name. You're worried it sounds stupid.
<v Speaker 1>You're not gonna pronounce it right. Who gives a shit?
<v Speaker 1>Anyone who's gonna correct the way you pronounced Latin deserves
<v Speaker 1>a kick in the balls, and they probably will have balls.
<v Speaker 1>It will probably be a fucking man because anyone who's
<v Speaker 1>ever done it to me has been a man. It's
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's you go to Mexico. My friends that
<v Speaker 1>speak Spanish, they don't pronounce it the same way. I
<v Speaker 1>don't what am I gonna do it? It's not how
<v Speaker 1>you pronounce it. Actually, it's not oster acey, it's astor
<v Speaker 1>acy ostacia. I know what the fucking means. Huh pronounced Latin.
<v Speaker 1>It said that, like, get the fuck out of here.
<v Speaker 1>Where do you find something to get a hobby? Take
<v Speaker 1>your medge stuck to your fucking shrink? And they said,
<v Speaker 1>now you're getting me mad. Now I'm getting mad. Common
<v Speaker 1>names come. I see. If you know, every plant that's
<v Speaker 1>called cedar in North America isn't a cedar. There's no
<v Speaker 1>true cedars native to North America. Whether it's Thuia, whether
<v Speaker 1>it's camisit ris dioides, whether it's Juniperus, which is always
<v Speaker 1>called cedar, none of none, None of them are true seders.
<v Speaker 1>Seed dress only exists in northern Africa. You're up in
<v Speaker 1>the Middle East, and I think, as maybe don't. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna come down a little bit. Mhm Okay. He's
<v Speaker 1>raised up on an easter sun and that's right, he
<v Speaker 1>got he's you got him hated. See, you triggered his neuroses.
<v Speaker 1>I gotta get I gotta fucking I gotta go plant
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of cat guy that were dug up by
<v Speaker 1>feral pigs. We got a bunch of ancestral cactus. We're
<v Speaker 1>planning to get this public garden. God, the fucking hate
<v Speaker 1>I feel for an animal, it's crazy. It's personal hate.
<v Speaker 1>It's hate. It's butter fight hate. It's not just like well,
<v Speaker 1>I don't hate him, I just gotta know, I fucking
<v Speaker 1>hate him. I got a purple Air fifteen and anadized
<v Speaker 1>paint that's got there. He's got bullets with the fucking
<v Speaker 1>names of the pigs on them. We've named them. I
<v Speaker 1>have not heavy here because he's not fucking the head
<v Speaker 1>like me. I've named these fucking pigs and to kill him.
<v Speaker 1>They've just destroyed ninety percent of the populations of Mammalaria sphirica.
<v Speaker 1>I understand why he's rednecks shoot him from helicopters. I
<v Speaker 1>would if I had that kind, if I had money,
<v Speaker 1>I would put it into fueling a helicopter to go
<v Speaker 1>shoot pigs. As much as it's how much I hate him. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I did know there's an Oklahoma population of mammalaria. That's crazy, man,
<v Speaker 1>that's definitely got to be a different ecotype. But it
<v Speaker 1>is a bird dispersed cactus. The seeds are at least
<v Speaker 1>you know you see the red fruits. O what a
<v Speaker 1>what am I? You know we're going too long? We
<v Speaker 1>could we could shoot the ship all day here. You know,
<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed talking to you guys at seven hundred and
<v Speaker 1>fifteen people watching this, So we'll keep going. Chill out,
<v Speaker 1>Fire and you chill out, Marty. I want you go
<v Speaker 1>take a fucking chill. He'll go s freaking at a
<v Speaker 1>have a chocolate bunny. That'd be nice. I would like
<v Speaker 1>a chocolate bunny. No, I'm not ordained. Yeah, I know.
<v Speaker 1>I right next shoot the coyotes too. I love the
<v Speaker 1>I love the coyotes. You know we'll go feed them
<v Speaker 1>feral cats, you know? Oh god? Uh? Plant breeding, No,
<v Speaker 1>don't have time for it. Through us on caribrey cream eggs, diabetes,
<v Speaker 1>stay away, trye and green tea. Would you be interested
<v Speaker 1>in anyone volunteering with you at Thorn Scrub. No. Some
<v Speaker 1>ladies said she was going to get us a grant,
<v Speaker 1>but then I never heard of her again. So I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. You know, we've got to apply for some grants.
<v Speaker 1>We've just everything on Thorn Scrub has been individual donations.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, why sure, hold on, let me go get
<v Speaker 1>them mhm. And now we're really gonna wrap it up.
<v Speaker 1>Buy a shirt, okay. See drawing by me of one
<v Speaker 1>of the old growth payotes. That's all one plant, based
<v Speaker 1>on a real life specimen at Thorn Scrub. It's like
<v Speaker 1>seeing coast redwoods that are two hundred years old. Things
<v Speaker 1>got to be two hundred years old. Easy, buy a shirt.
<v Speaker 1>They're forty two bucks. I don't sell my own shirts
<v Speaker 1>for forty two bucks. I sell them for like thirty two,
<v Speaker 1>thirty five whatever. Okay, but this dead money just goes
<v Speaker 1>to me. All the money from these goes to Thorn
<v Speaker 1>Scrub Sanctuary. We need to get pig fencing. We're fencing
<v Speaker 1>off another little portion of the land because we can't
<v Speaker 1>fence the whole thing. That will cost proably twenty five grand.
<v Speaker 1>We got one hundred and fifty acres. We're gonna need
<v Speaker 1>to drill. We're gonna need to drill. Well, we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>need another shade structure. We have one, but it's not enough,
<v Speaker 1>and it's kind of high, and it's one hundred and
<v Speaker 1>five degrees out there for six months out of the year.
<v Speaker 1>So but the fencing, if you buy a shirt, the
<v Speaker 1>money will go directly towards building fencing for some of
<v Speaker 1>these old growth payotes. And there's there's and why be
<v Speaker 1>fencing because of the pigs, right, Like we've already found
<v Speaker 1>clusters of these Grandpa's knocked over. The pigs mostly go
<v Speaker 1>for Mammalaria spherica because it doesn't have alkaloids in those
<v Speaker 1>big juicy tap roots. They'll go for peyote when there's
<v Speaker 1>nothing else to eat and they're curious and they'll like
<v Speaker 1>bite into it, but then they'll just leave it. They've
<v Speaker 1>caused massive amounts of damage, all right, And there's other
<v Speaker 1>properties of budding ours that they're probably just eradicating, you
<v Speaker 1>know where like the guys will shoot them, but uh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, but there's there's I'm sure there's payota on
<v Speaker 1>their land too, and Mammalaria spherica on their land too,
<v Speaker 1>And all these cactus populations have experienced drastic reductions, ninety
<v Speaker 1>percent reductions due to these feral pigs. And you see
<v Speaker 1>the evidence all the time like we're you know, Mammalarias spherica.
<v Speaker 1>You find all the time uprooted. They eat the root,
<v Speaker 1>they can't eat the top because it's spiny, and then
<v Speaker 1>they leave it. And then you can reroot the mammillary
<v Speaker 1>sphere if you put it in the ground. I put
<v Speaker 1>it in like a fine grained soil mix. So any
<v Speaker 1>any money we make from that, I'm not taking any
<v Speaker 1>money from this. Any money you make forty two bucks.
<v Speaker 1>It's a five colored shirt printed by a company in Austin,
<v Speaker 1>free shipping. If you want for the two we self,
<v Speaker 1>for the fatties, you gotta pay an extra two bucks
<v Speaker 1>because that's what the shirts cost. Two XL is an
<v Speaker 1>extra two bucks. I'm sorry, but then I'll throw a
<v Speaker 1>sticker too, And I got thorn scrub stickers, thorn scrub
<v Speaker 1>Sanctuary stickers, nice vinyl stickers. They'll come with it too.
<v Speaker 1>So the venmo is thorn Scrubs Sanctuary all one word.
<v Speaker 1>It'll say hobvier when you donate, and then just leave
<v Speaker 1>your full name and your address and your size, full name.
<v Speaker 1>Don't forget that, don't forget your name. Don't forget the
<v Speaker 1>zip codes. People forget the zip code that's a pain
<v Speaker 1>in the ass and I have to look it up
<v Speaker 1>and uh yeah, we'll mail them, know. So yeah, but
<v Speaker 1>that's what we're doing to raise money right now, and
<v Speaker 1>then that and just relying on individual donations. I guess
<v Speaker 1>there's grants too, but I don't, man, I don't have time.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like writing two books I've got I've got so
<v Speaker 1>much time to learn how to write grants. If you
<v Speaker 1>want a description of what Thorn Script Sanctuary is doing,
<v Speaker 1>I think I put one on the website and the
<v Speaker 1>Crime Pays website. But yeah, I mean, what we want
<v Speaker 1>to do eventually is have a full fledged research station
<v Speaker 1>bunk house, little, you know, mini lab, nothing big, but
<v Speaker 1>something where people can do microscopy and DNA sequencing. The
<v Speaker 1>soil communities that I'm especially interested in because they're probably
<v Speaker 1>rich with unidentified species of fungi and bacteria. I mean
<v Speaker 1>a lot of these plants they're growing and such. There's
<v Speaker 1>such a it's such an extreme climate, especially like we've
<v Speaker 1>got a section of the land that sell colleche a
<v Speaker 1>barns so well collechi and volcanic ash, and that is
<v Speaker 1>very thin, so wiled hard, it's got the conglomerate rock
<v Speaker 1>the pebbles that have been cemented together with calich that
<v Speaker 1>are so characteristic of the Goliad formation, and that's got
<v Speaker 1>some really interesting plant diversity on it. No Moretonia gregy I,
<v Speaker 1>but which is surprising because Mortonia gregy is a cool
<v Speaker 1>member of cellustration, much more common in Wuevo Lanone area
<v Speaker 1>in Monterey, like you know, the mountains outside of Monterrey.
<v Speaker 1>But it only grows in a few places, always on
<v Speaker 1>top of these rocky, thin soiled areas in Starr County.
<v Speaker 1>But there's none on our land. But I'm sure we
<v Speaker 1>could just throw seeds and see a few a couple
<v Speaker 1>of years. But but yeah, but we got to raise money.
<v Speaker 1>So you know, if you want to buy a shirt
<v Speaker 1>through it once again, the venmo is Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary.
<v Speaker 1>If you want to donate, it's Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary at gmail.
<v Speaker 1>Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary at gmail, and you can email. You
<v Speaker 1>can write us a emailing that too if you are
<v Speaker 1>international and want to order a shirt. But if your
<v Speaker 1>international is gonna cost another ten bucks for shipping, I
<v Speaker 1>don't write them. I don't do don't get mad at
<v Speaker 1>me and I don't set the postal rates. Okay, all right,
<v Speaker 1>I think we'll end it. M Oh, your mother in
<v Speaker 1>law is possessed. Oh yeah, you gotta do something about that. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>No bunk house, bunk No bunk house like a spot
<v Speaker 1>like if researchers come to visit us, they will have
<v Speaker 1>a place to sleep inside, preferably in an air conditioned
<v Speaker 1>research station because it's so brutal and hot. Oh oh,
<v Speaker 1>you just saw a handling you give a presentation on
<v Speaker 1>u V fluoresce and funkie. Oh that was nice. That's nice.
<v Speaker 1>He gives really good presentations. Yeah. We don't need to
<v Speaker 1>agree on everything. That's okay. See that's what a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people forgot to do us. I just agree to disagree.
<v Speaker 1>I don't care. You know, I won't talk to you
<v Speaker 1>about the stuff you don't want to hear me. Don't
<v Speaker 1>talk about the same you know you do the same
<v Speaker 1>for me anyway. What parts of the water hemlock is
<v Speaker 1>poisons the whole thing? All right? Quite a few members
<v Speaker 1>of the Carrat family APAC are very poisonous, but obviously
<v Speaker 1>some are edible too. Pictures of thorn scrubs sanction wary. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I go to the Instagram. Uh what else misclosed with
<v Speaker 1>vinegar for chiggers. I don't know, man, that sounds like
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't sound like that's gonna work. Going to Europe
<v Speaker 1>if someone sends me there, yeah, not for the time being.
<v Speaker 1>I'd love to go to Q I'd love to go
<v Speaker 1>to the Jurassic Coast and the UK. I'd love to
<v Speaker 1>go to Italy to see if my ancestors are as
<v Speaker 1>fucking nuts as I am. This is genetic. The shirts
<v Speaker 1>are forty two dollars shipping included, all right, free shipping.
<v Speaker 1>You know, this is just I'm not really a Catholic priest.
<v Speaker 1>It's just something festive for Easter, you know, I just
<v Speaker 1>read the writing on a wall. That's all, you know,
<v Speaker 1>in a whole the whole Italian thing and being a Catholic,
<v Speaker 1>you know, they go together. They go together like honey
<v Speaker 1>and peanut butter. Right, Yeah, So anyway, forty two books
<v Speaker 1>support us Thornscript Sanctuary Venmo. We don't have a PayPal
<v Speaker 1>yet and the zealous Thorn Scrub Sanctuary at Gmail, but
<v Speaker 1>every every bit of revenue we make from that goes
<v Speaker 1>towards defencing right now and then after that, I think
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna have to probably try to get a well
<v Speaker 1>for the critters. We need to. There's no water out
<v Speaker 1>there now. But we did get we did. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>we did get our five oh one C three nonprofit status,
<v Speaker 1>which is great too. So we're official, it's recognized, the
<v Speaker 1>tax deductible if you want to donate. I forgot to
<v Speaker 1>say that too. I'm bad at I'm bad at it's
<v Speaker 1>self promotion. But we are tax deductible, so we're recognized
<v Speaker 1>by the I R S is a five out one
<v Speaker 1>C three nonprofit. We don't pay ourselves. We just do
<v Speaker 1>it for the love and because being out there is incredible.
<v Speaker 1>And we had the comanches come down, was it three
<v Speaker 1>weeks ago? That was cool. Quanta Parker's grandson came down
<v Speaker 1>because they wanted to look at they wanted to prey
<v Speaker 1>at the gardens. There's a lot of peyote parts of
<v Speaker 1>the land, so that was great to have them. Really
<v Speaker 1>cool guys. They gave us a blanket like a Filson's
<v Speaker 1>blanket with the Comanche emblem on them. Sanctuary, It's our
<v Speaker 1>The Thorn Scrub Sanctuary is O one hundred and fifty
<v Speaker 1>eight or nonprofit conservation Property and Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary is
<v Speaker 1>a is a nonprofit that we started, So what is
<v Speaker 1>this guy? Random? But they destroyed the pre Columbian Americas.
<v Speaker 1>I thought you support a pre What are you talking about?
<v Speaker 1>Who destroyed them? Mister Rogers the irs? What are you
<v Speaker 1>talking about? I don't know a website for the sanctuary yet. No,
<v Speaker 1>we don't, and I we We're not probably gonna put
<v Speaker 1>money into that unless if someone wants to help us
<v Speaker 1>out and knows a way to set up a cheap website,
<v Speaker 1>that would be great. But I'm already the square space
<v Speaker 1>site that I have to work with with crime pays.
<v Speaker 1>I get mad every time I see the name squares Space.
<v Speaker 1>They rob me. It's a scam and I hate them,
<v Speaker 1>so I don't want to have to deal with I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, I know the thought of how do you
<v Speaker 1>do you do a cheap website? You know? How do
<v Speaker 1>you do that? I don't know because any who knows
<v Speaker 1>about that. That's what I rely on you guys for.
<v Speaker 1>If someone wants to set up a simple website for
<v Speaker 1>Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary that gives about us, description and gives
<v Speaker 1>a place to donate and photos of the land, that
<v Speaker 1>would be amazing, but I don't want to. I fucking
<v Speaker 1>hate squares space with a passion. I want to get
<v Speaker 1>away from them so bad. I'm feeling my blood pressure
<v Speaker 1>race now that I'm even thinking about them. I fucking
<v Speaker 1>hate sports space. I hate squares space so much, you
<v Speaker 1>know that. God that terrible. Ah. There're all about selling
<v Speaker 1>shit too. I go to like it's just there. Everything
<v Speaker 1>about using the app as a headache, everything is a
<v Speaker 1>nightmare having to interact with them. You can get away
<v Speaker 1>from squarespace to do it if you If you know
<v Speaker 1>how to help us with a website for Thorn Scrub,
<v Speaker 1>send us an email at Thorn Scrubs Sanctuary at gmail. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I really got to go, I should do. This's been
<v Speaker 1>two hours. Thanks a lot for watching us. I really
<v Speaker 1>appre you all are so nice, even as ship posters.
<v Speaker 1>You guys are so sweet, the ship posters that take
<v Speaker 1>the time every once in a while to tell me
<v Speaker 1>go fuck myself, or says you know, thank you. I
<v Speaker 1>appreciate that. I'm not I'm not ignoring the time you
<v Speaker 1>put into thinking about me. It's spending on me. I'm flattered.
<v Speaker 1>Gives me a little stiffy. Quite about that. Okay, thank
<v Speaker 1>you everybody, and uh yeah, look for the book Concrete Botany.
<v Speaker 1>In a year, I'll probably be talking about it a
<v Speaker 1>bunch or some guy was asking about, uh, shade or
<v Speaker 1>Midwest groundcovers, carre ex Pennsylvanica. If you're into the whole
<v Speaker 1>wind pollination thing, Pennsylvania said wild strawberry Fregaria Virginiana. That's
<v Speaker 1>probably good and it'll actually produce some food for pollinators.
<v Speaker 1>Wild ginger Asterom canadense. But that is gonna like shade
<v Speaker 1>that's in the aristolochiac that's in the pipeline. Really cool.
<v Speaker 1>You know, look at two or three videos back. It's
<v Speaker 1>in the pipeline family. Wild Ginger asarum again common names. Shit,
<v Speaker 1>it's not a ginger at all, no relation to ginger.
<v Speaker 1>It's got a funky smell of the leaves. That's why
<v Speaker 1>they That's why they called it wild ginger. You know what,
<v Speaker 1>The dog freaked me out last night because he was
<v Speaker 1>in the middle of the night and I heard that,
<v Speaker 1>and I just you jump out of bed. Oh shit,
<v Speaker 1>get him outside before he pukes all over the floor
<v Speaker 1>and I have to clean it up so much. Would
<v Speaker 1>make an alarm clock with that, that noise with the
<v Speaker 1>dog pew, the dog heating like pre vomit sound. Because
<v Speaker 1>nothing will get your ass out of bed faster moss flocks,
<v Speaker 1>flocks subulata juniperus horizontalis. These are all kind of shit,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, not shit, but they're not gonna Nothing grows
<v Speaker 1>as aggressively as frog fruit. If you could grow frog
<v Speaker 1>fruit filing out of flora in Chicago, that's what someone
<v Speaker 1>should do. Breed a cold tolerant filing out of flora.
<v Speaker 1>That thing is fucking indestructible. God, that's one of the
<v Speaker 1>best things about Texas, seriously, is filing out of flora.
<v Speaker 1>And did you know there's a variety in the Auta
<v Speaker 1>coamma desert. Probably a result of a bird dispersal, because
<v Speaker 1>those are migration patterns from north to south. Probably a
<v Speaker 1>result of a bird dispersal. That's way more hairer than
<v Speaker 1>the uh than the Texas won and the Texas, you know,
<v Speaker 1>because the hair is protected against strout moisture lost in
<v Speaker 1>the leaves, and the Auta comma since it's so much drier,
<v Speaker 1>not quite as hot as Texas, but because it's so
<v Speaker 1>much drier. You look at this, it's like chalky mint
<v Speaker 1>green leaves. That's that's the Chilean ecotype of filing out
<v Speaker 1>of flora. It's called filing out of flora reptanes. That's
<v Speaker 1>in northern Chile. Crazy, so cool. Well, you could see
<v Speaker 1>how the environment is selected for a hair plant because
<v Speaker 1>it's so much drier, it's so much more intense, and
<v Speaker 1>there was the habitat that it was growing on. Look,
<v Speaker 1>get that cracked mud and that things happy as a
<v Speaker 1>pig and shit and no die back. The filing out
<v Speaker 1>of flora ecotype, the ecotype in Chile, the Audacama desert
<v Speaker 1>ecotype of frog fruit. Crazy. I still got some from Brazil.
<v Speaker 1>We me and Dylan treated ourselves with ivermectin when we got, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the chiggers in Brazil. I should bring some for when
<v Speaker 1>I get schiggers in Georgia now, because that's gonna suck horrible. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I gotta go. Everybody have aggression. Digo picks it back