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<v Speaker 1>Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Crime
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<v Speaker 1>I bet it's a beautiful property. I bet it's like
<v Speaker 1>the good spelled with. I land this altissima, which is
<v Speaker 1>invasive as hell, but it's okay because this is like
<v Speaker 1>a fucking industrial site where the soil is poisoned. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I land this altissimo growing out a maybe
<v Speaker 1>maybe you probably got some milk weeds in the alley
<v Speaker 1>nearby and next to a rusty fence and milkweeds as
<v Speaker 1>sleepy as Syriaca is a pioneer native pioneer species. Probably
<v Speaker 1>got some cottonwoods, some box elders nearby, probably buck thorn
<v Speaker 1>in the woods behind, you know, the the alley or something,
<v Speaker 1>not the woods, but like the alley I grew up in.
<v Speaker 1>I grew up in places like that. Normally I was
<v Speaker 1>in places like that looking for abandoned buildings to do
<v Speaker 1>graffiti in. But we're just looking for fun shit to
<v Speaker 1>get into, old train tracks, that kind of thing. But anyway,
<v Speaker 1>shout out to d Wex learn Son. Anyway, A lot
<v Speaker 1>of stuff to talk about today, A lot of stuff
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to just warn everyone. And the first this
<v Speaker 1>is going to be a rant about permaculture and anything
<v Speaker 1>the words holistic food for or know those red flag
<v Speaker 1>words you see where I shut down. I no judgment
<v Speaker 1>at all, no judgment because that stuff gets some people
<v Speaker 1>into this into this science, all right, or just the
<v Speaker 1>worldview of looking at everything, not just the anthropocentric things
<v Speaker 1>that are immediately beneficial to us, not just the human myopia.
<v Speaker 1>But goddamn, when I see words like food, forest holistic.
<v Speaker 1>Any of that, I just start fucking running for the
<v Speaker 1>hills or I start crying inside. No, no, no, God,
<v Speaker 1>why do I have to be about that? No? You
<v Speaker 1>know what I mean? It's ah. There was a post
<v Speaker 1>that went up that I was, and I went up
<v Speaker 1>with some friends from Symbiosis Texas, which is like a
<v Speaker 1>half permaculture. I think they're slowly moving into just actual
<v Speaker 1>rejuvenating native landscapes, but that permaculture thing is still really big,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the anthropocentric lenses still really big here, and
<v Speaker 1>so Control Texas, even among like plant people like there's
<v Speaker 1>still a lot of it's you know, anyway, there's work
<v Speaker 1>to do, but they also do a lot of cool
<v Speaker 1>native landscape restoration. They took me out to this spot
<v Speaker 1>where they had put a quarry up or not quorey up.
<v Speaker 1>They where they were kind of rejuvenating restoring a spot
<v Speaker 1>that was formerly a quarry and so the property owner
<v Speaker 1>had had them out. The property owner bought this site.
<v Speaker 1>It was heavily degraded, had been scraped clean, bulldozed, It
<v Speaker 1>was a fucking quarry site, and so they were they
<v Speaker 1>were restoring it with native plant species and they had
<v Speaker 1>basically they got like a seed pack from Native American
<v Speaker 1>Seed of Native Texas plants. They got a lot of
<v Speaker 1>cool grasses too. Native American Seeds sells a bunch of stuff,
<v Speaker 1>which again Native American Seed wants no affiliation with me.
<v Speaker 1>I supposedly they like what I do, but they've got
<v Speaker 1>people they work with that would not be happy with
<v Speaker 1>the content of this podcast. And I understand that too.
<v Speaker 1>You know. I'm I was worried when I moved to Texas.
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna it was gonna be too hot. I
<v Speaker 1>had to lay low, you know, because Texas can be
<v Speaker 1>very repressed and keep your head down stake, you know,
<v Speaker 1>as many of you who to live here might imagine.
<v Speaker 1>It's got kind of a dark history here. But anyway,
<v Speaker 1>but I've had a great tim here. I love it.
<v Speaker 1>Only problem with Texas is full of Texans. That's an
<v Speaker 1>old saying. I didn't I didn't make that up. But anyway,
<v Speaker 1>Uh So they had me out to this site and
<v Speaker 1>and just to they wanted to just film some stuff,
<v Speaker 1>and so we did. They made this video and I'll
<v Speaker 1>play it for you right now. I was going on
<v Speaker 1>my rent, the rent I always am. You know, you
<v Speaker 1>if if you're trying to restore land. You use the
<v Speaker 1>plants that came with the land. They fucking evolved here.
<v Speaker 1>It's like if you're if you're trying to put a
<v Speaker 1>machine together, you're not gonna You're gonna use the pieces
<v Speaker 1>that came with the fucking machine in the same box.
<v Speaker 1>You're not gonna use ship from another machine that would
<v Speaker 1>be shipped for braid. Nobody would do that, right, that's
<v Speaker 1>completely idiotic. I mean right, no one would do that.
<v Speaker 1>You'd use what fucking you get a fucking you buy
<v Speaker 1>your kid a Lego set that's overpriced and you wish
<v Speaker 1>you could have you know, would have fallen off a
<v Speaker 1>truck somewhere or maybe you know, did the mafia ever
<v Speaker 1>get into Legos? That's a really that's a market they
<v Speaker 1>could corner. If you start knocking over Lego trucks selling
<v Speaker 1>them at half price at the back door, that's a
<v Speaker 1>fac Anyway, you get your kid a Lego set, you're
<v Speaker 1>gonna use the pieces that came with the fucking life.
<v Speaker 1>You're not gonna use the pieces that came from another
<v Speaker 1>Lego set. That wouldn't make anything. That would be completely moronic,
<v Speaker 1>only a fucking moron. No judgment right, Not everyone's born
<v Speaker 1>with half a batch. You know, only a moron would
<v Speaker 1>use pieces from another Lego set to build the Lego set.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I got her, What did I get her?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. It was a fucking rip off. It
<v Speaker 1>was for her birthday. It was like a Disney princess castle.
<v Speaker 1>And she's not really the Disney princess type. She's more
<v Speaker 1>I mean, she's my kid. She's like more like go
<v Speaker 1>out in the yard and play with bugs type. I
<v Speaker 1>mean yesterday she was I was watering something. She held
<v Speaker 1>lot she's like five. She held the hose up between
<v Speaker 1>her legs and was going, oh, like spring it everywhere,
<v Speaker 1>like I don't know if she was I don't know
<v Speaker 1>if she was trying to be obscene, but it was hilarious,
<v Speaker 1>and uh yeah, I don't know, she's fucking hilarious. She's
<v Speaker 1>wonderful kid. But you know, she was like doing a
<v Speaker 1>thing that like Adam Sandler did with the mop and
<v Speaker 1>one of those you know, one of like the twelve
<v Speaker 1>movies he did twenty years ago. That's o kid, I'm
<v Speaker 1>really aging myself anyway, But you wouldn't use different pieces. Well,
<v Speaker 1>that's what my rant was about. It was about, you know,
<v Speaker 1>use the stuff. I mean, the soil in Texas is
<v Speaker 1>like harsh limestone. There's often no soil there. Look at
<v Speaker 1>the roadside of like any of the the small highways,
<v Speaker 1>not the big ones going out of leaving Austin, right,
<v Speaker 1>it's there's no soil. It's white rock. It's white cretaceous limestone.
<v Speaker 1>Why would you you know? And the stuff that grows
<v Speaker 1>there that's all limestone endemics. That's the thing that blew
<v Speaker 1>my mind is the people who this post upset and
<v Speaker 1>it made far more people happy. I think got like
<v Speaker 1>twelve thousand likes. You know, a bunch of people were like,
<v Speaker 1>this is you're right this the native plants in Texas
<v Speaker 1>are great. They're fucking awesome. But the people who would
<v Speaker 1>upset didn't even understand that, Like what what a dapphic
<v Speaker 1>endemism is that there are plants that are stuck on
<v Speaker 1>this kind of soil, Like you're only you're only going
<v Speaker 1>to encounter these plants in this soil. They don't necessarily
<v Speaker 1>need it, but they can grow on it. They've evolved
<v Speaker 1>tolerance to it because they've literally been selected for and
<v Speaker 1>bred by this this climate, this geology, the whole set
<v Speaker 1>of environmental circumstances over millions of years. That limestone has
<v Speaker 1>been exposed on the service in Texas for millions of years,
<v Speaker 1>so you know, it's had some time to work itself
<v Speaker 1>out what plants are going to work, which ones aren't.
<v Speaker 1>And so you'll find plants that you will never find
<v Speaker 1>on igneous soils or metamorphic soils that grow on limestone.
<v Speaker 1>And so that's like the typical cast of plants. Like
<v Speaker 1>there's plant species where if I can't for whatever reason,
<v Speaker 1>see the soil, but I know that species is growing there.
<v Speaker 1>Or if I'm looking at herbarium sheets and I know
<v Speaker 1>that that species was collected there, I know that's fucking
<v Speaker 1>limestone soil. I can't see it. I'm just reading a
<v Speaker 1>label on an arbarium. But if it's got STILINGI a
<v Speaker 1>Texana on it, If it's got peyote on it, that's
<v Speaker 1>a limestone based soil. That's a calcareous based soil. It's
<v Speaker 1>got high calcium content. It's the remnants of old marine sediments.
<v Speaker 1>This is not fucking rocket science. This is the thing.
<v Speaker 1>This is the thing. And you see this. I've seen
<v Speaker 1>this all go to Mojave desert. There's limestone endemics. Mojave
<v Speaker 1>Desert's a mishmash of limestone and volcanic soil of different ages.
<v Speaker 1>It's all just been it's a clusterfuck of geology because
<v Speaker 1>of all the tectonic action over there. You got faults
<v Speaker 1>running through all through the Mojave Desert, and so you've
<v Speaker 1>got there's a place where you get five hundred million
<v Speaker 1>and limes, five hundred million year old limestone. There's places
<v Speaker 1>where you get twenty million year old volcanics. And guess what,
<v Speaker 1>there's there's a ton of plant species you see on
<v Speaker 1>the limestone you'll never see growing on the volcanics, like
<v Speaker 1>funeral sage Salvia funerea. It's a fucking incredible plant. Whole
<v Speaker 1>thing is white, it's covered in wool. I've rant that
<v Speaker 1>about it enough before. There's i mean Moretnia. That's another
<v Speaker 1>genus limestone endemic. You'll never find that growing on volcanic
<v Speaker 1>But apparently no one knew this, at least not the
<v Speaker 1>people that were that were really upset by this post.
<v Speaker 1>So let's just just this, We'll stop. We'll just play
<v Speaker 1>the post right now. For a state that's always talking
<v Speaker 1>about how proud it is et cetera. Well, then why
<v Speaker 1>do you plant all this non native garbage? Why are
<v Speaker 1>you planting crape birtles? They evolved in, you know, more
<v Speaker 1>music forests in Asia. Why would you plant those here?
<v Speaker 1>Thank you? That's very sweets, sweet dog. But I understand
<v Speaker 1>you know it's and I don't think it's again, it's
<v Speaker 1>not like it's never malicious. It's just it's just ignorance. Okay, Well,
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna tell you why this is cool, Like why
<v Speaker 1>this is cool? This isn't weeds, this isn't brush. This
<v Speaker 1>is stuff that evolved here, that is specialized here. Why
<v Speaker 1>Because it's evolved here over hundreds of thousands of years,
<v Speaker 1>Trying to plant crape myrtles or Kentucky bluegrass or whatever
<v Speaker 1>garbage from somewhere else is an uphill battle. It doesn't
<v Speaker 1>make any sense. Look at this, man, there's no this
<v Speaker 1>is not soil. This is like porous calcareous rock. All right.
<v Speaker 1>So not only is it like mechanically really hard to
<v Speaker 1>grow in because there's no soil, it's chemically really hard
<v Speaker 1>to grow into. It's it's you get calcium. Could use
<v Speaker 1>a vault toilet proper. They really couldn't like, where's shirt
<v Speaker 1>in the ground? Why because it gets one hundred degrees
<v Speaker 1>here and it sometimes won't rain for at everything dies
<v Speaker 1>because you're basically growing on concrete. But this thing has evolved,
<v Speaker 1>this big tuberous root that goes a foot or two
<v Speaker 1>into the ground. And you know, if it gets if
<v Speaker 1>it goes through a drought, it says, all right, whatever
<v Speaker 1>this close up shop, roll down the shutters and and
<v Speaker 1>wait it out. And then it does that and then
<v Speaker 1>it gets more rain. Then it sends these up again.
<v Speaker 1>It's good to go. And also you know like this, this,
<v Speaker 1>this gelfimia, this has specialist bees that pollinated. They're not
<v Speaker 1>getting nectar, they're not getting they're not getting pollen, they're
<v Speaker 1>getting oils. It produces oils in the flowers and the
<v Speaker 1>bees collect oil and feeding to their young. This almost
<v Speaker 1>none of the other plants do that. They're all producing
<v Speaker 1>that are here, even the natives are. They're all producing.
<v Speaker 1>But so so you get rid of this thing because
<v Speaker 1>you know, someone who doesn't know how important it is,
<v Speaker 1>just plot bulldozes the land and wants to put in
<v Speaker 1>Kentucky bluegrass and crape myrtles, and only ad there well,
<v Speaker 1>now you've not only wiped out this planet, they wiped
<v Speaker 1>out the bee that depends on it, and maybe some
<v Speaker 1>other cool insects that depend on that, some parasitoid wasps,
<v Speaker 1>and and maybe some other birds that depend and so
<v Speaker 1>on and so on. It just keeps going up, and
<v Speaker 1>soon you've just created the equivalent of a dollar general,
<v Speaker 1>you know, just this monotonous, homogenize, sterilized store, you know,
<v Speaker 1>in your backyard. And it's all just because people don't
<v Speaker 1>know how to appreciate this. I don't know, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know how you could look at this and think it's
<v Speaker 1>just weeds. But there's people out there that do that,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Whereas I look at like crate myrtles and
<v Speaker 1>most like stripmall landscaping, and I'm like, that's garbage like that.
<v Speaker 1>If a bulldozer one over that, I wouldn't care. I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna get arrested one day. It's doing that. This is
<v Speaker 1>because they're stealing a bulldoze all this stuff and going
<v Speaker 1>over all the landscaping outside the bank, specifically the Edwards play,
<v Speaker 1>maybe the bank too. All right, Sonny, well you've heard
<v Speaker 1>that before. You've heard me ranted about that before, and
<v Speaker 1>uh again, it was just and I'm only talking about
<v Speaker 1>these kinds. I don't want to shut on these guys whatever,
<v Speaker 1>I mean a little bit. They're kind of funny. It's
<v Speaker 1>it's always like the people that had the biggest problem
<v Speaker 1>with this were not surprisingly the same kinds of stodgy
<v Speaker 1>old Caucasian motherfuckers that you know I would just god,
<v Speaker 1>just fuck it. I can see, like, you know, being
<v Speaker 1>introduced to them, it's some sort of fucking meet up
<v Speaker 1>or or or faster conference and just being like, oh god,
<v Speaker 1>fuck me, just you know, arrogant and fucking whatever. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>but they all turned out. One turned out to be
<v Speaker 1>a fucking snake oil salesman who sells like chemicals for
<v Speaker 1>weed bros. To help them improve the quiality of their thrill.
<v Speaker 1>And the other was an older Caucasian man from South Africa.
<v Speaker 1>Beware be fucking aware that alone right there. My daddy
<v Speaker 1>ran Diamond Minds. Anyway, all Caucasian gentlemen from South Africa,
<v Speaker 1>who who you know is this guy doesn't. I can't
<v Speaker 1>do the South African accident, thank god. I'm not going
<v Speaker 1>to try to punish you with it either, But you know,
<v Speaker 1>claim that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about,
<v Speaker 1>that soil just needs livestock. And then today someone sent
<v Speaker 1>me a reel from this guy's page where he's taught.
<v Speaker 1>He's he's in the fucking Mohave Desert and Berial County, California,
<v Speaker 1>which is one of the hottest driest deserts in the
<v Speaker 1>United States, looking at a fenced in area that says
<v Speaker 1>area closed for rare plant restoration and it's just creoso
<v Speaker 1>bush scrub and he's talking about how idiotic this is
<v Speaker 1>and what they really need is live stock. But it's, man,
<v Speaker 1>it's the fucking it's the Mojave Desert. It's one of
<v Speaker 1>these like these the arrogance. It's fine to be ignorant,
<v Speaker 1>but the arrogance, and again these are old Caucasian guys.
<v Speaker 1>It's not fucking surprising that they're arrogant as fuck, but
<v Speaker 1>the arrogance here is just what astounding. It's like, I
<v Speaker 1>know those deserts, man, it's not it's barren right now,
<v Speaker 1>like because it's a fucking that's everything. There is an
<v Speaker 1>annual almost every every plant. So many plants there in
<v Speaker 1>those basins on those plaias are you know, on those
<v Speaker 1>alluvial fans. The Mojave Desert are annuals. They just are.
<v Speaker 1>That's the strategy because of how intensely hot and dry
<v Speaker 1>it is there the summer the driest season, unlike the
<v Speaker 1>Sonora in Shihuahua Desert, where you get summer rain, and
<v Speaker 1>so there's a soil seed bank that's waiting to come up.
<v Speaker 1>I've seen the Mojave after like a good amount of
<v Speaker 1>winter rain in the spring and it's lit up. It's
<v Speaker 1>fucking intoxicating. It's one of the coolest things. All that
<v Speaker 1>shit is dead except for the kreosote by summer, by
<v Speaker 1>by May. It's all just you know, produces a ton
<v Speaker 1>of seed. That's the annual Habit is dominant in the
<v Speaker 1>Mojave Desert. And so he's looking at this, He's saying,
<v Speaker 1>all we need to do is introduce cattle. What the
<v Speaker 1>fuck are the cattle gonna eat? Sonny, Huh, what are
<v Speaker 1>they gonna eat? It's the fucking Mojave Desert, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Cattle ranching and a desert doesn't work. People have been
<v Speaker 1>trying to do it for hundreds of years in North
<v Speaker 1>America and it's been shipping the bed every time. You
<v Speaker 1>end up having to bring shit in. It's the same thing, man,
<v Speaker 1>like everyone's talking about. Like, I think people just missed
<v Speaker 1>the point completely or they thought I was talking about agriculture. No,
<v Speaker 1>we're not talking about agriculture, you know, and I'm not. Furthermore,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not like a native plant absolute man. I just
<v Speaker 1>if you're talking about restoring the landscape, you're talking about
<v Speaker 1>like the little niche areas, the median strips, the power
<v Speaker 1>line easements, the fucking edges of our miserable consumer parking
<v Speaker 1>lots and consumer retail slums in North America, those should
<v Speaker 1>have native plants on them. I'm not against anything non
<v Speaker 1>native like. That was the other argument some people tried
<v Speaker 1>to make was was, you know, uh so, what about
<v Speaker 1>what about crop plots? They are not gonna eat native crops.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, why, why why are you trying to make
<v Speaker 1>this like it's a fucking church man. I'm not. This
<v Speaker 1>isn't what that's about. This is just about practicality. You
<v Speaker 1>use the pieces that came with the machine, that you
<v Speaker 1>bought or that you inherited, or that you're borrowing in
<v Speaker 1>the case of land, and you don't really own this land,
<v Speaker 1>you're borrowing it. Used the shit that came with it,
<v Speaker 1>that evolved in it. So I don't know. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know what this dude's angle was talking about land, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's these these fucking holistic I don't know, man, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know what it is these fucking dudes who are
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know if I can describe this archetype
<v Speaker 1>of person that again I don't want to sit on,
<v Speaker 1>but I just don't want to be around like the
<v Speaker 1>fucking permaculture bro that everything's got to be edible? Is
<v Speaker 1>it edible? What's the use of this? Or like the
<v Speaker 1>holistic like agriculture ranching guys, you know, and not all
<v Speaker 1>of them. And that's the way. I totally agree with
<v Speaker 1>that mindset, like model crop agricultures fucked. But I think
<v Speaker 1>to understand how to farm, you need to have an
<v Speaker 1>understanding of basic ecological science, not just the shit that
<v Speaker 1>benefits people. All Right, that's my problem. The anthropocentric lens.
<v Speaker 1>It's a myopic lens. It's all you're looking at you're
<v Speaker 1>not looking at the whole system, and you're so you're
<v Speaker 1>so focused on people that you're not realizing that having
<v Speaker 1>the whole system functioning, whether those certain species benefit us
<v Speaker 1>or not in the end that benefits us. You've got
<v Speaker 1>an intact living machine. You're not just focusing on the
<v Speaker 1>pieces that you know most obviously and conspicuously and directly
<v Speaker 1>benefit us. You're focusing it. You want the whole machine
<v Speaker 1>to be intact. You want biodiversity, you want to play
<v Speaker 1>strips of native plants in between your agriculture. That kind
<v Speaker 1>of shit. But I've met so many people in these
<v Speaker 1>communities that are just so laser focused only on human
<v Speaker 1>on human. Yeah, there was like a couple invasive species
<v Speaker 1>deniers too, who just Jesus Christ Man, like, where to
<v Speaker 1>fuck you even start with them? You know, there's no
<v Speaker 1>lens for time, no lens for evolution in place, no
<v Speaker 1>lens for ecology, no ability to zoom out. Everybody's everybody's
<v Speaker 1>invasive somewhere, God fucking shut up. Or the humans are invasive. Well, no,
<v Speaker 1>humans aren't really invasive. It's invasive as a strict definition,
<v Speaker 1>according to the field of ecology is a science, it
<v Speaker 1>doesn't really humans. Not to mention, humans have choice, so
<v Speaker 1>you know, we're not just going on instinct alone. We
<v Speaker 1>have choices we can make regarding how we treat land,
<v Speaker 1>how we behave in an ecosystem, et cetera, Like there's
<v Speaker 1>so much to mess with there to just there's so
<v Speaker 1>much to get into it. It just takes away that shit
<v Speaker 1>for brain what aboutism argument that humans are invasive. But
<v Speaker 1>my point is I've met so many people in these
<v Speaker 1>communities that are just fucking quacks man like and punishers too,
<v Speaker 1>like the arrogance and the fucking lack of you know,
<v Speaker 1>they consider themselves experts because they took a program, they
<v Speaker 1>took a course, they fucking whatever. It was one of
<v Speaker 1>the South African guys like, actually I have a degree,
<v Speaker 1>and I forget what he said, but I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>it's very cool. You went to school for this. That's great.
<v Speaker 1>You know what is that tummy? And it just tells
<v Speaker 1>me you were able to do like the modicum amount
<v Speaker 1>of work available to pass and you had the money
<v Speaker 1>to go. I don't give a fuck. That doesn't mean
<v Speaker 1>shit to me. What are you doing now? But but
<v Speaker 1>I was nice, I was like more or less, well,
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't saying it was nice, but I was polite enough.
<v Speaker 1>But the fucking I just shut down the minute someone's arrogant,
<v Speaker 1>Like if they're asking questions, I'm totally down. I love
<v Speaker 1>people who are genuinely excited. I love interacting with them online.
<v Speaker 1>But the fucking arrogance, like yo, you started off saying
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what I'm talking about. Oh and you
<v Speaker 1>do so uh oh god, you know, I don't take
<v Speaker 1>it personally. It's just it's so frustrating because this is
<v Speaker 1>gonna be such a I feel like I've cleaned most
<v Speaker 1>of these people out, you know, my followers, because I'm
<v Speaker 1>always making fun of this shit. But uh, and I
<v Speaker 1>could make fun of plenty of you know, shit about
<v Speaker 1>myself and shit about other botanists too, all right, believe me,
<v Speaker 1>I could. There's humility in all this. But uh, but
<v Speaker 1>certainly I think with symbiosis because they're like I have
<v Speaker 1>permaculture company, they still had a bunch of you know,
<v Speaker 1>these fucking quacks following them, which is again it's it's
<v Speaker 1>not the ignorance, it's just the arrogance, and like the refusal,
<v Speaker 1>the refusal to try to understand, you know, like they
<v Speaker 1>like thinking native plant people are just about purity or
<v Speaker 1>that you know, we're all absolutists, Like how dare you
<v Speaker 1>have any plant that's not native? Maybe there are people
<v Speaker 1>like that, but fuck those people. They're cunts anyway, they'd
<v Speaker 1>be cunts about something else, non gender specific cunt too, okay,
<v Speaker 1>in case you're getting offended. You know what, Australia they
<v Speaker 1>throw around the word cunt like it's nothing. It's I
<v Speaker 1>love it, it's great. It's a great fucking word. I
<v Speaker 1>call men cunts. I don't even call women cunts, but
<v Speaker 1>but uh anyway, Yeah, so I just I see this
<v Speaker 1>shit out there and I just want to shut down
<v Speaker 1>and fucking run for the hills. I'm just like, God
<v Speaker 1>damn it. And I've heard you know. And that's the
<v Speaker 1>thing too, It's like you that you I've heard these
<v Speaker 1>arguments before nine thousand times, and the people, the people
<v Speaker 1>like this repeat them to me as if I've never
<v Speaker 1>heard them before, as if they're their own thoughts. And
<v Speaker 1>I just think when I hear this, like I listen, man,
<v Speaker 1>I know this isn't your own thought. This thing called
<v Speaker 1>the internet and social media exists, and I've seen this
<v Speaker 1>nine thousand other places, and I know you're just parroting it.
<v Speaker 1>You're not actually thinking for yourself. You're just repeating this
<v Speaker 1>shit about you know, invasive species don't exist, or just
<v Speaker 1>you know, holistic whatever. I don't the holistic you know,
<v Speaker 1>cattle management thing was a little I mean what that means.
<v Speaker 1>I think in most cases rotational grazing, which is just
<v Speaker 1>common sense. You don't let cows graze the fuck out
<v Speaker 1>only had you move them to another spot, just like
<v Speaker 1>bison did, right, I mean, that's just common sense. You
<v Speaker 1>don't want to burn out, you don't want to burn
<v Speaker 1>out the land. It's you need time for the plants
<v Speaker 1>to regrow, et cetera. It doesn't need a technical name.
<v Speaker 1>What what is more mind blowing is that it's how
<v Speaker 1>shit for brained is to just that that what has
<v Speaker 1>been the origin for so long, it's been to just
<v Speaker 1>let them over graze until the land dies, and then
<v Speaker 1>you have to abandon that plot of land for much
<v Speaker 1>longer than you otherwise would have had you moved them earlier.
<v Speaker 1>So I'm not shitting in any of that, but I
<v Speaker 1>just the idea, like this dude was in the Mohave
<v Speaker 1>desert talking about cattle ranching there, What do you are
<v Speaker 1>cattle grazing? What are you going to feed the cows? Buddy?
<v Speaker 1>What are you gonna what are they gonna eat? There's
<v Speaker 1>not for them to eat. They can't eatkreiso. What the
<v Speaker 1>fuck are they gonna eat? Yeah, he's like this, this
<v Speaker 1>land what it needs is manure. It needs manure on
<v Speaker 1>the ground. Okay, well, how the fuck are you gonna
<v Speaker 1>get that in? You got to import all that shit.
<v Speaker 1>You have to import cattle, you have to feed them something.
<v Speaker 1>You have to import alfalfa for them because they can't
<v Speaker 1>eat anything here because it's barren and all the plant
<v Speaker 1>life except for the creoso. It has an end. You
<v Speaker 1>know what I'm going with this, It's just it's maddening, man,
<v Speaker 1>God damn. But again I realize this is what gets
<v Speaker 1>some people in the door of having a lens on
<v Speaker 1>the living world around them. But my hope is just
<v Speaker 1>that they drop all this silly, juvenile shit no offense
<v Speaker 1>later on, or not drop it, but have it not
<v Speaker 1>be the main focus of everything, and move on to
<v Speaker 1>studying the actual living machine that's around them, this living
<v Speaker 1>world that's evolved over millions of years, in which you know,
<v Speaker 1>humanity is currently taking a part piece by piece or
<v Speaker 1>huge junk by huge chunk in the form of land clearance,
<v Speaker 1>so that we can you know, build more of our shit.
<v Speaker 1>The thing with the you know, sodall is like a
<v Speaker 1>big thing in Central Texas now, like sodall distilleries. Like
<v Speaker 1>I fucking hate alcohol. I don't care about it at all.
<v Speaker 1>But the people that are doing that, like I've been
<v Speaker 1>trying to I had mentioned to them, trying to convince them, like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>why don't you guys grow from seed? Dasilerian sodall is
<v Speaker 1>really easy to grow from seed. It's it's a monocot,
<v Speaker 1>It's related to a gave, et cetera. It's really easy
<v Speaker 1>to grow from seed. I germinated a thousand seeds in
<v Speaker 1>a flower pot. I got more than I know what
<v Speaker 1>to do with. If you guys had an attic and
<v Speaker 1>I'm just some you know, backyard schmuck grow If you
<v Speaker 1>guys have you know, you could put some money into
<v Speaker 1>a nursery, hire someone to grow a shit ton for you,
<v Speaker 1>and then even sell them. I mean, it'd be good
<v Speaker 1>pr I'm not a fucking business man. I'm a horrible marketer.
<v Speaker 1>I'm horrible at charging prices for my own shit. Al's
<v Speaker 1>been able to help me with that a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>He's got more of that, like Chicago street hustler vibe.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I'll be like, what should I charge for
<v Speaker 1>this conference? And he's like, no charge more than that, man,
<v Speaker 1>that's your fucking time is valuable. Okay. Uh, But you
<v Speaker 1>know they'd be a good pr move like sell sell
<v Speaker 1>sodall plants, like pump this shit, pump, hype the plant up.
<v Speaker 1>It's a way to give back to the plant, right,
<v Speaker 1>which is you know, because what you guys are doing
<v Speaker 1>is just going out to ranch land and cutting it
<v Speaker 1>and saying it's sustainable, which it may not be and
<v Speaker 1>probably isn't. But and that's that's fine. You have to
<v Speaker 1>you know, you got a business model or whatever it's
<v Speaker 1>you're you're doing it, but give a little bit back, man,
<v Speaker 1>you know, figure out a way to grow this stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Get them into horticulture, sell them, sell individual sodoll plants online,
<v Speaker 1>you know, as part of your fucking marketing scheme or
<v Speaker 1>get you know whatever, man, or just better yet, take
<v Speaker 1>over a piece of degraded property, find a couple of
<v Speaker 1>acres of degraded property, and you know, lay down fucking
<v Speaker 1>mulch and then plant sodall in it. You lay down
<v Speaker 1>the mulch because the sun will just beat the shit
<v Speaker 1>out of the ground, you know what I mean. There's
<v Speaker 1>ways to get around this. Come on, man, anyway, Uh,
<v Speaker 1>I had a really great Now we'll move on to
<v Speaker 1>the podcast. I just had to get that off my chest.
<v Speaker 1>I'm just so sick of like the fucking permaculture whatever.
<v Speaker 1>If you're into that, that's fine, but I just, god, damn,
<v Speaker 1>I just I want people who have a bigger lens,
<v Speaker 1>who are focused on more than just the ship directly
<v Speaker 1>affects people, you know. And again, I'm not sure there's
<v Speaker 1>cool permaculture shit out there. I'm not believe me. I'm
<v Speaker 1>not not attacking permaculture itself. It's just unfortunately there are
<v Speaker 1>a lot of these kinds of people in these communities.
<v Speaker 1>The anthropocentric lens, arrogant, don't know basic ecological or even
<v Speaker 1>biological science, you know, don't understand how evolution or natural
<v Speaker 1>selection works, don't understand how an environment selects and breeds plants.
<v Speaker 1>All the plants that grow in the Edwards Plateau were
<v Speaker 1>bred by the Edwards Plateau by that set of conditions.
<v Speaker 1>There By, the limestone soil, the hottest ball summers, the
<v Speaker 1>intermittent rain, the long occasional long droughts, the cool temperatures
<v Speaker 1>in the winter. It's fucking dope. The more I learn
<v Speaker 1>about the bodany there and the Edwards Plateau, that fucking
<v Speaker 1>little hill, well big hill of limestone in central Texas
<v Speaker 1>where you have the Chihuahua Desert, the dry is hell
<v Speaker 1>Chihahwa does to the west, and the more humid music
<v Speaker 1>environments to the east, and the Blackland Prairie to the northeast.
<v Speaker 1>The more I learn about it and I realize how
<v Speaker 1>cool it is and how many endemics there are. There's
<v Speaker 1>so many plants that only grow on the fucking Edwards Plateau,
<v Speaker 1>and there's so many plants that only grow and you know,
<v Speaker 1>the prairies of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, west through Iowa, whatever, like,
<v Speaker 1>there's every region has this. It has its own list
<v Speaker 1>of endemics of plants that came with the fucking package
<v Speaker 1>of pieces that came with the machine. Quit trying to
<v Speaker 1>use shit that did not come with the machine. All right,
<v Speaker 1>it's fucking shit for brained, Okay, all right? Did we
<v Speaker 1>fix that? I think anyone listening is probably has heard
<v Speaker 1>there's a million times, and I apologize, but I have
<v Speaker 1>to keep saying it because some people are fucking moras.
<v Speaker 1>No offense to them, No offense. No offense to that
<v Speaker 1>South African guy who thinks that all you need to
<v Speaker 1>restore rare annual plants in the Mojave Desert is to
<v Speaker 1>have cows shitting all over the place and fucking what
<v Speaker 1>are they gonna hear? Now you're gonna bring You're gonna
<v Speaker 1>bring bread out for him. You're gonna bring some buckets
<v Speaker 1>of corn. Look what the fuck you're gonna helicopter it
<v Speaker 1>into the remote mountain canyons of Imperial County, California. Good luck,
<v Speaker 1>good luck, buddy. All right, anyway, I was out in
<v Speaker 1>uh had I had a wonderful fucking weekend. Man. I
<v Speaker 1>just was out, took the dogs, went to finally see
<v Speaker 1>their Mattophylum gypsu phylum, which was not growing on gypsum.
<v Speaker 1>It was just growing on limestone. I guess it got
<v Speaker 1>that species name because I think Powell A M. Powell,
<v Speaker 1>A Michael Powell, who I consider a friend. I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I've annoyed him yet with my
<v Speaker 1>herbarium labels that are all over the place. But uh,
<v Speaker 1>but anyway, the curator. It was discovered by the curator
<v Speaker 1>of the herbarium at Sewel Ross University in West Texas.
<v Speaker 1>It was the first population I think was discovered in
<v Speaker 1>Mexico south of Oheinaga and grow on actual gypsum. And
<v Speaker 1>then this one, which is a different subspecies, guadaaloup Heense
<v Speaker 1>I think is a subspecies because it grows near Guadalupe
<v Speaker 1>National Park, but in New Mexico, and it was fucking
<v Speaker 1>remote out there. I finally got to see that plants
<v Speaker 1>were two feet tall at most. We counted like twenty
<v Speaker 1>or thirty plants maybe, but anyway, Yeah, so we finally
<v Speaker 1>got to see this thing and it was everything I
<v Speaker 1>thought it would be. It was so cool, just a
<v Speaker 1>cutty spot, had minimal disturbance because there weren't many roads
<v Speaker 1>in there, and the ones that were were like dirt,
<v Speaker 1>like single lane, dusty dirt roads. Took an hour to
<v Speaker 1>get out there, you know, beat up need high clearance,
<v Speaker 1>you need fucking took an hour to get out there
<v Speaker 1>after we left the pave road, and god, it was
<v Speaker 1>just cool. Yeah. Moretonia scabrella was out there, which was
<v Speaker 1>a species I didn't even know existed. I looked at
<v Speaker 1>it and I said, this looks kind of like more
<v Speaker 1>on you sperverance. But not quiet. The leaves look different.
<v Speaker 1>It's got this white white margin around the leaves. If
<v Speaker 1>you've never seen Mortonia, you should look it up after Morton.
<v Speaker 1>But uh, you got Mortonia utai insis and the Mojave Desert,
<v Speaker 1>Mortonia sperverance in West Texas, Mortonia scabrella here, and Moretonia
<v Speaker 1>gregy i down by where I am. But at the
<v Speaker 1>biggest populations of Mortonia gregory i are in the Sierra
<v Speaker 1>Madre of Nuevo Leone, where it's fucking everywhere. It's grown
<v Speaker 1>with a gave albo pealosa and there's big ass parrots
<v Speaker 1>flying past these uplifted cliffs, these layers of sentimentary rock
<v Speaker 1>that were laid down horizontally and then now are flipped
<v Speaker 1>up nearly vertical. Fucking crazy habitat down there side a
<v Speaker 1>month or eighth. Uh, But Mortonia scabrella was up there
<v Speaker 1>and the leaves, like the leaves on that are like
<v Speaker 1>hard plastic e correaceous kind of folded, and they have
<v Speaker 1>this distinct shape to them, kind of like a like
<v Speaker 1>a Abbo of eight shape, and they're they kind of
<v Speaker 1>like snake scales, like they they're like so perfectly imbricate,
<v Speaker 1>like roofing shingles or snake scales, and they just go
<v Speaker 1>up at pressed almost that pressed up the stem and then
<v Speaker 1>it's got these little five white pedal flowers Cellus tracy
<v Speaker 1>Odd family. But uh so I saw that and then
<v Speaker 1>there was But when I was hiking up this fucking plateau,
<v Speaker 1>there were I mean I was seeing like it kind
<v Speaker 1>of cactus horizontal lonies, which is a plant you see
<v Speaker 1>and you know, we see it's like five or six
<v Speaker 1>inches tall, and I was seeing like foot tall individuals here.
<v Speaker 1>I was seeing glendula cactus on sinatus, really big ones.
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's like that fish hook cactus from West Texas.
<v Speaker 1>Got some seed of that red fruits that was really
<v Speaker 1>fucking wonderful. There was just there was so much cool
<v Speaker 1>shit out there. It was wild. So this this was
<v Speaker 1>definitely one of those sites where you could tell it's
<v Speaker 1>so remote and it's hard to get to and that
<v Speaker 1>lack of human impact is that evident, and how good
<v Speaker 1>everything looks like. It just looks unfucked with. There's been
<v Speaker 1>cattle grazing. I did meet a cool pack of feral horses.
<v Speaker 1>I mean they were they didn't belong, they were just
<v Speaker 1>fucking out there man this because this was open range.
<v Speaker 1>So they were if some if they didn't belong to somebody,
<v Speaker 1>they either busted out or I don't know, maybe they
<v Speaker 1>were abandoned, who knows. But they looked healthy and they
<v Speaker 1>were they were enjoying eating the Techilia hispidissima, which was
<v Speaker 1>dominant there. That's another one of those plants that tells you, okay,
<v Speaker 1>this is a this is a limes. This is a
<v Speaker 1>calcareous based soil, right, like so many of them. So
<v Speaker 1>there's like we we kind of go through these gyps
<v Speaker 1>some flats, these gyps some planes. A lot of gypsum
<v Speaker 1>in New Mexico and West Texas. Wonderful. It's another one
<v Speaker 1>of those daphic endemics. Like if there's plants that you
<v Speaker 1>see that plant, you know it's gyps some soil there.
<v Speaker 1>Nama carnosa is another great one. Gross just over the
<v Speaker 1>border of New Mexico from Texas. Got New Mexico so wonderful.
<v Speaker 1>Like the minute you step over that fucking state line,
<v Speaker 1>it's like there's public land everywhere. People are a little nicer,
<v Speaker 1>not as paranoid, not as suspicious. You know, I don't
<v Speaker 1>mean to knock Texas I like Texas. It's a shithole
<v Speaker 1>in its own way. Don't get me wrong. Fucking confusing state,
<v Speaker 1>all about state pride, but just just lacks any perspective.
<v Speaker 1>So many lack knowledge about the geology and plant life
<v Speaker 1>of their own state. And you know, and then the
<v Speaker 1>yeah they plant crape myrtles and all those horrendous shit
<v Speaker 1>from you know, ten thousand miles away. But the man,
<v Speaker 1>you gotta have spines. You gotta have spines to live
<v Speaker 1>in Texas, you do. You gotta be a little spiny.
<v Speaker 1>But the many you cross over that state line and
<v Speaker 1>there's just public land everywhere, and you're like, holy shit, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>blm land. This is what the West is nice for.
<v Speaker 1>This is what is great about the West. This is
<v Speaker 1>what Trump and all his cronies want to take away
<v Speaker 1>so they can enrich their corporate friends, you know, on mining, gas,
<v Speaker 1>Lias's lumber, whatever the fuck. But but the landscape already
<v Speaker 1>in the lowlands, like in this valley before we got
<v Speaker 1>to the mountains, where this dermatophylum Gypsum philum grew. The
<v Speaker 1>gypsum mountain laurel another stupid common name. No doesn't grow
<v Speaker 1>on the mountains, has no relation to Laurel. Like Dermatophylum
<v Speaker 1>secunda florum is not a mountain plant. It's just just
<v Speaker 1>a fucking legume with glabor sleeves. It's sometimes fuzzy that
<v Speaker 1>that grows throughout Central Texas and Theawhichs Plateau. Anyway, this
<v Speaker 1>is a relative that obviously spaciated for a much drier
<v Speaker 1>environment based on calcareous rock. But these going through these
<v Speaker 1>flats was incredible enough. I saw gay I think it
<v Speaker 1>was Gayardia multi SEPs but it was a Gayardia that
<v Speaker 1>And when I showed it to Powell at the herbaria
<v Speaker 1>and he's like, oh, you were on gypsum, I'm like, yep,
<v Speaker 1>it's like another one of those plants you see, like,
<v Speaker 1>oh shit, that's what this is. That's what this grows on,
<v Speaker 1>you know. And keep in mind to this same day,
<v Speaker 1>this guy, this day was so good. Before that, we've
<v Speaker 1>been on the red dunes east of El Paso, which
<v Speaker 1>has its own I'll get into that later, because that
<v Speaker 1>habitat is fucking wild and a ton of rare plants
<v Speaker 1>and endemics that only grow on those red sand dunes
<v Speaker 1>east of Ville Passo, el Paso County. Who knew huh uh.
<v Speaker 1>You go past all these like, you know, fucking muffler
<v Speaker 1>shops and tire tire shops and like junk yards and shit,
<v Speaker 1>like kind of a rundown in dustry there, and then
<v Speaker 1>it just opens up and there's like limestone on the
<v Speaker 1>left and red sand dunes on the right, and a
<v Speaker 1>ton of cool plants growing on the red sand dunes.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know whose land it is because everything's fucking
<v Speaker 1>private here, but you can just walk out there. You
<v Speaker 1>can just fucking walk out there and go look at
<v Speaker 1>you know, the bushmint grows out there, the El Paso Desert.
<v Speaker 1>The sagebrush grows out there, so much cool shit pins
<v Speaker 1>them in ambiguous moth pollinated pins them in with white
<v Speaker 1>tubular flowers, tubular tarly. Probish city is out there with
<v Speaker 1>those weird ass fruits. I'm gonna get a probish city,
<v Speaker 1>a fruit tet. It was a little fucking horned. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>They're so cool anyway, but it was it was this
<v Speaker 1>gypsum habitat. Going back to the gypsum near the Guadalupees
<v Speaker 1>was like God, it's just it's one of those landscapes
<v Speaker 1>you go to and you're like, man, that's fucking place
<v Speaker 1>was so special, Like I that time I spent there,
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna remember forever. I saw the one of the
<v Speaker 1>dopest sunsets I've ever seen. After I hiked up this
<v Speaker 1>fucking hill because where I where I the point I
<v Speaker 1>had for the the metaphylum. You go there, there's one
<v Speaker 1>plant and it's kind of you could tell it was
<v Speaker 1>maybe a home site or like someone was set up
<v Speaker 1>camping there. There's a big water tank, metal water tank
<v Speaker 1>on its side, but there's one plant, and you're like, damn,
<v Speaker 1>it looks haggard as fuck. It's not happy where it is.
<v Speaker 1>It's in the like this low little valley. But there's
<v Speaker 1>a kind of cactus horizontal lonius everywhere, and a kind
<v Speaker 1>of cactus thing was days. I can't this. I'm not
<v Speaker 1>sure you know those fine spine those little spined uh
<v Speaker 1>where it's like a network of spines. The secon thing
<v Speaker 1>as a shay cloth. All those are kind of serious,
<v Speaker 1>kind of blending with me. I just they're beautiful, but
<v Speaker 1>I just don't whatever anyway, And there's okatillo everywhere, and
<v Speaker 1>so that I saw it on this point, like the
<v Speaker 1>sun was setting, I was like, fuck, it's way up
<v Speaker 1>on that mesa. I got a hike out a mile
<v Speaker 1>and a half. Fuck it, I guess I'll do it,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'll I didn't even think to bring a
<v Speaker 1>flash that I just using the life of my phone.
<v Speaker 1>I just made sure my phone was charged. Hiked up
<v Speaker 1>this fucking mesa. God, you gotta have good boots. It's
<v Speaker 1>like cobbles everywhere, and boulders and that that rough limestone
<v Speaker 1>that just tears the shit out of your your shoes,
<v Speaker 1>your pants, whatever, you know. And I always make sure
<v Speaker 1>I got good boots, steel toe boots. I don't fuck
<v Speaker 1>around like hiking shoes and any good boots. When I
<v Speaker 1>worked for the railroad, that's what we got, you know,
<v Speaker 1>they would they used to split it half with us
<v Speaker 1>now the railroad because of cost cutting and all the
<v Speaker 1>other corporate America shit that has been going on where
<v Speaker 1>they just need the horde more for the shareholders. They don't.
<v Speaker 1>They don't get you to boots anymore. They'll give you
<v Speaker 1>like one hundred dollars vouch your for him or something.
<v Speaker 1>But those boots the last few years, you can get
<v Speaker 1>them resold to like get a new sole in them.
<v Speaker 1>But anyway, so I was hiking hiking up that, and
<v Speaker 1>it's just man, it's exhausting. It's kind of it wasn't
<v Speaker 1>too hot, perfect temperature, really windy, exceptionally dry, the moist
<v Speaker 1>the air just pulls the moisture out of your skin
<v Speaker 1>like nothing. And uh, you know, like a dry sponge
<v Speaker 1>soaking up water on a fucking granite countertop for micah countertop.
<v Speaker 1>Excuse me, We're not that rich, we're not that fancy.
<v Speaker 1>So uh. And then you get up to the tight
<v Speaker 1>you kind of hike up this man, go up this
<v Speaker 1>sketchy fucking hill of like limestone cobbols, and then clamber
<v Speaker 1>up the limestone and uh, and you're seeing all the
<v Speaker 1>limestone endemic plants. It was barberous trifolio, a lot of that.
<v Speaker 1>It was U. Leucophylum minus the tiny lucophylum with the
<v Speaker 1>tiny siniso with the purple flowers. Beautiful plant. It's another
<v Speaker 1>one that sadly no one grows in Texas. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know why. Uh. And then you get up to the
<v Speaker 1>top and you're like, god damn, you could see everywhere.
<v Speaker 1>You could see way across the gypsum valley you were
<v Speaker 1>just in and there's like fucking mountains way off in
<v Speaker 1>the distance, and the sun is just fucking bruised and
<v Speaker 1>bloody and looks beautiful in the sky it's going down.
<v Speaker 1>And and then I hiked over and I saw this,
<v Speaker 1>that's where I find that Mortonia scabrella. And then there
<v Speaker 1>was I saw that the amount of phylum there, and
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh yeah, shit, that's amazing. And they
<v Speaker 1>looked way healthier. They were green, and they have this
<v Speaker 1>like downy hairs, this fine layer of downy hairs on
<v Speaker 1>these pinnate leaves that give them this silver look. God,
<v Speaker 1>it's such a cool plant. Man. It's same thing when
<v Speaker 1>I I took an urbarium uh specimen. When I brought
<v Speaker 1>it to the herbarium, Powell also was like, did you
<v Speaker 1>get any seed? Like that was the first thing he asked,
<v Speaker 1>because nobody is fucking growing this. It's so it's criminal,
<v Speaker 1>it said in Endangered Plant, it's as hell would probably
<v Speaker 1>do great in cultivation. A lot of these plants that
<v Speaker 1>are so rare and endangered. It's like they'm afula tough
<v Speaker 1>for a Luca the ashy dogweed from Sapata County. Think
<v Speaker 1>this great in cultivation. San Antonio Boutannet garden has a
<v Speaker 1>huge bed of them, Like forty plants. You can go
<v Speaker 1>to a collect seat. I think they want you to
<v Speaker 1>do that, but don't tell them I told you to
<v Speaker 1>do anyway. Ah, you know, but it does great in cultivation.
<v Speaker 1>I bet this thing would do great and cultivation too,
<v Speaker 1>because it's out here struggling in a fucking brutal, extreme site.
<v Speaker 1>You give it water in full sun, you know, it'll
<v Speaker 1>just I'm sure it'll take off. You could probably you know,
<v Speaker 1>what is a two foot tall shrub out there. You
<v Speaker 1>could probably get to grow to six seven feet in cultivation,
<v Speaker 1>but nobody's doing it. Flowers in February, flowers in March.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't see fruit on any of these. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know why. The thing to do would be to collect
<v Speaker 1>cuttings and then bring those back, you know, if you're
<v Speaker 1>assuming it's easy to rule, which it may not be,
<v Speaker 1>and then grow those as stock plants, a couple different individuals,
<v Speaker 1>a couple of different phenotypes, and then use those as
<v Speaker 1>stock plants, because it may not even I don't know
<v Speaker 1>if it's kind of flower. It was a little exceptionally
<v Speaker 1>dry this year, the whole fucking regions drying out more.
<v Speaker 1>But God, there was a there was a gave uh
<v Speaker 1>perry eye up there to beautiful Blue, A gave bunch
<v Speaker 1>of good ship, a bunch of good ship and uh
<v Speaker 1>and coming down was a total pain in the ass,
<v Speaker 1>kind of a knee killer. You gotta be you gotta
<v Speaker 1>be careful because there's the again, it's just like cobbles.
<v Speaker 1>Everywhere you could slip and break your ass. They move,
<v Speaker 1>the ground shifts beneath you. But what a fucking special site.
<v Speaker 1>Someone's got to go out there and get it. Supposedly
<v Speaker 1>there's other places you could, you know, you can. I
<v Speaker 1>think there's easier ways to get it. Maybe if you
<v Speaker 1>look it up on a naturalist you know, the locations
<v Speaker 1>are obscure, but I think there's a few that are
<v Speaker 1>that are the directions were put in there or the
<v Speaker 1>points maybe I don't know. But it's a special Uh,
<v Speaker 1>it's a fucking special plant, really really fucking cool. And
<v Speaker 1>I was stoked to finally see it. And so now
<v Speaker 1>I have to go see the one that the different
<v Speaker 1>subspecies in Chihuahua that gets like five or six feet
<v Speaker 1>tall and does better, and it's probably more adapted to
<v Speaker 1>like the gyps and flats like it grows at a
<v Speaker 1>further south latitude, doesn't. I don't think it's in the mounds.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's just like off the side of the
<v Speaker 1>road the way Powell describe it. It's like right off
<v Speaker 1>the highway in these fucking gyps and mounds, assuming they
<v Speaker 1>haven't been destroyed yet. Mexico does not destroy land anywhere
<v Speaker 1>near the pace that the United States States does. They
<v Speaker 1>still do, but it's not as fast as as the
<v Speaker 1>US does. The US and Texas especially has far more
<v Speaker 1>disregard for land than Mexico. So the plants there are
<v Speaker 1>probably healthier, maybe in better shape, though there is a
<v Speaker 1>lot of poaching going on. God, that's the fucking greenhouse
<v Speaker 1>at seel Ross just got like a shipment of twenty
<v Speaker 1>Fukyria purpussii or it might be fisciculata that were poached
<v Speaker 1>route to Japan. They were going to Japan, which all
<v Speaker 1>these creepy collectors are, and they were like these, you know,
<v Speaker 1>that's that one of those bottle okatillo's bottle shaped trunks.
<v Speaker 1>Beautiful plants and I'm just hoping they can be kept alive,
<v Speaker 1>you know, And the greenhouse customs has to like go
<v Speaker 1>through the case and they just need someone to hold
<v Speaker 1>them and hopefully they'll be given to a greenhouse or something,
<v Speaker 1>because they'll die at szuel Ross. I mean it's the
<v Speaker 1>greenhouse there can be kind of rough shape. Sometimes it's
<v Speaker 1>infested with mites. It's it's uh, the people that work
<v Speaker 1>there are underpaid. You know, it's not the best spot.
<v Speaker 1>But also this is an easy plant to kill. It's
<v Speaker 1>just very easy. And it's not again, it's not from deserts.
<v Speaker 1>It's from sub it's from tropical dry forests, which is
<v Speaker 1>not the Chihuahua the Northern Chihuahua Desert. You know, it's
<v Speaker 1>much more arid in the northern Shihwahwah Desert. So hopefully
<v Speaker 1>they can be kept alive and then given to maybe
<v Speaker 1>Mobot or some conservatory that's got a dope fucking desert house,
<v Speaker 1>or you know, and someone who knows what they're doing.
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you meet people that don't know what they're doing.
<v Speaker 1>They work in these places, they got good intentions, they're
<v Speaker 1>great people, they just don't know what the fuck they're doing.
<v Speaker 1>And especially if they're from areas where they're not researchers,
<v Speaker 1>they're not familiar with the habitat and they're from like
<v Speaker 1>northern latitudes where and they've never had experience with these
<v Speaker 1>kinds of habitats that these plants come from. They're not
<v Speaker 1>gonna have to take care of these things. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how to take care of plants until
<v Speaker 1>I know I see the habitat they grow in and
<v Speaker 1>all the factors in it. You know, like you go
<v Speaker 1>to the tropical dry forest during the dry season, you
<v Speaker 1>think it's a desert. You go there during the summer
<v Speaker 1>rainy season, You're like, oh, it's lush as fuck. This
<v Speaker 1>is not a desert. This is lush. So you know,
<v Speaker 1>and if you don't know, like so many people in
<v Speaker 1>northern latitudes don't even know what that type of climate
<v Speaker 1>is where it's winter dry and summer wet, and it's
<v Speaker 1>because of the itcz the intertropical convergence zone and the
<v Speaker 1>shifting low pressure zones that goes to either side of
<v Speaker 1>the equator. Uh, depending on where Earth's orbit is. You know,
<v Speaker 1>you're not good. You're not gonna not to take care
<v Speaker 1>of it. It's totally understandable. But yeah, there's got those
<v Speaker 1>post plants. We're fucking brutal to see. You look at
<v Speaker 1>this thing that's probably took forty years to reach the
<v Speaker 1>height of like a fucking you know, German shepherd and uh,
<v Speaker 1>and then it just got ripped out by some sleeves
<v Speaker 1>bag and now it's going to Japan to like be
<v Speaker 1>grown in a fucking greenhouse and have like a million
<v Speaker 1>pictures taken of it by someone who doesn't give a
<v Speaker 1>fuck about the habitat at all. It's so sad. It's
<v Speaker 1>so sad. Anyway, moving right along, Okay, I want to
<v Speaker 1>give a shout out to uh to Vinny Silo from
<v Speaker 1>Beautiful wall with Tosa, Wisconsin. Uh. He ordered some stickers
<v Speaker 1>from me, and uh, he's got a wonderful name. Give
<v Speaker 1>it right there, right there, he's put his you know,
<v Speaker 1>for for nine stickers, you Midwestern Italian prick, is what
<v Speaker 1>he said to me, which I that did. It warmed
<v Speaker 1>in my heart. It was a wonderful thing to see.
<v Speaker 1>It gave me a little chuckle, all right. He didn't
<v Speaker 1>tell me to go fuck myself, which I would have appreciated.
<v Speaker 1>The fuck Vinnie Huh, Vinnie Sioncholo. Every time I see
<v Speaker 1>a name with all the vowels in it like that,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Hispanic or Italian. I have to be honest.
<v Speaker 1>I'm I feel good. I feel good. Let's talk about
<v Speaker 1>Skysandra glebra, which I encountered growing. Somebody showed it to me,
<v Speaker 1>very kind woman showed it to me and Josh the
<v Speaker 1>hippie and beautiful Collier Heights, Atlanta. We're gonna we're going
<v Speaker 1>from the Chihuahua Desert. We're gonna come back to the
<v Speaker 1>Chiwawai does it right now? We're going to the fucking
<v Speaker 1>more music woodlands. Average rainfall fifty inches to seventy inches
<v Speaker 1>a year, fucked ton of rainfall. And she showed us
<v Speaker 1>this plant, Skysandra glabro, which is in the more basal
<v Speaker 1>grade of angiosperms. This is an early branching lineage. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>we didn't see any flowers or fruits, but what we
<v Speaker 1>saw was a dominant population of this fucking vine, this
<v Speaker 1>rare vine, growing in degraded woodlands horribly invaded by English ivy.
<v Speaker 1>I left the location open on eye naturalists in case
<v Speaker 1>anybody wants to go out there and do some volunteer cleanup.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna make a short video on this. Added to
<v Speaker 1>the list of like twenty I got so much shit
<v Speaker 1>to do. It's fucking driving me nuts, man, I can't
<v Speaker 1>rest because it's typical near division. I got this neurodivergen shit.
<v Speaker 1>I fucking hate that word, by the way, too, It's stupid.
<v Speaker 1>It just means you get fucking nuts. Everyone's fucking nuts.
<v Speaker 1>Doesn't mean you're neurodiversion. It just means you're fucking nuts.
<v Speaker 1>Everybody's nuts. Anybody who's not nuts today is more nuts
<v Speaker 1>than the people that are. How do you? How are
<v Speaker 1>you not going losing your fucking mind with the way
<v Speaker 1>things are today? Right, biosphere collapse, massive misinformation, people at
<v Speaker 1>each other's throats online, a bunch of sad, isolated, angry
<v Speaker 1>people who don't get outside enough, don't have any hobbies
<v Speaker 1>or passions, just talking shit. How do you do? How
<v Speaker 1>do you? How are you not nuts? Anyway, So, if
<v Speaker 1>anyone wants to go out there, spray some round up
<v Speaker 1>on English IVY, very specific targeted approaches to round up.
<v Speaker 1>I love bringing that up because it always triggers the
<v Speaker 1>fucking I'm thinking idiots and I'm not a round up booster.
<v Speaker 1>That shit is poison. It's a milder poison than it's
<v Speaker 1>made out to be. Just because a bunch of ambulance
<v Speaker 1>chasers want a lawsuit three or four years ago. It
<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean that it is, you know, akin to depleted uranium.
<v Speaker 1>You don't want to drink the shit. But using small
<v Speaker 1>spot applications on invasive weeds that are ruining ecosystems like
<v Speaker 1>English ivy bermuda grass, buffalo grass, et cetera, is not
<v Speaker 1>going to break the fucking ecological bank. It's not gonna
<v Speaker 1>kill the soil food web. There's just so much bullshit.
<v Speaker 1>And this is one of those things. You know, humans
<v Speaker 1>are innately conformist. We don't really think. We just you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's the way we vote. We just do what people
<v Speaker 1>next to us to I'll do. I hate that. I
<v Speaker 1>just know there's unthinking, right, intellect and critical thinking are low.
<v Speaker 1>That's just the modern state, especially in the United States,
<v Speaker 1>where people are you know, the economy causes uh, politicians
<v Speaker 1>and business leaders to try to make people stupid by
<v Speaker 1>defunding education. That kind of shit get to work so
<v Speaker 1>uh anyway, you know, but when people just parrot things
<v Speaker 1>that they heard, like round up is poison. The problem
<v Speaker 1>with round up, I've said this a million times, is
<v Speaker 1>that it's sprayed on crops which is fucking insane, all right.
<v Speaker 1>It shouldn't be sprayed on car, you shouldn't eat it.
<v Speaker 1>But using small spot applications to kill invasive plants in
<v Speaker 1>your yard is not a problem, all right. It's not
<v Speaker 1>that if you as long as you're not being an
<v Speaker 1>idiot about it, as long as you're not being a
<v Speaker 1>goddamn retide is fine. I think that's good, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Some people are like, I'm gonna spray. I've seen comments
<v Speaker 1>where it's like, oh, you can make your old vinegar
<v Speaker 1>or a dish soap. Now you're literally poisoning the ground,
<v Speaker 1>you fucking jag. You're literally poisoning the ground. You're gonna
<v Speaker 1>put vinegar on that? Do you know what vinegar is?
<v Speaker 1>It's an acid. I just this, This is like the
<v Speaker 1>whole chemicals are bad thing now, realizing that chemical plants
<v Speaker 1>produce chemicals it you know what I mean. I don't
<v Speaker 1>need to go on this rant right now. Let's talk
<v Speaker 1>about skyxandric Labra. Okay, wonderful plant, very cool plant, easy
<v Speaker 1>to propagate. I have to go check on the plants
<v Speaker 1>I got underneath the misters, and it's one hundred degree
<v Speaker 1>fucking South Texas heat in a back. You know what
<v Speaker 1>else I got to is a klai Xanthes of tusa Ah.
<v Speaker 1>What a lovely member of nick Tajeneesi, the bougain Via
<v Speaker 1>family to four o'clock family. I saw a uh a
<v Speaker 1>groundcover of it. It's a moth like all the aklaisantes
<v Speaker 1>except for one or two. It's a It's lepidopter and
<v Speaker 1>pollinated namely by moths at night, blooms at night. Beautiful
<v Speaker 1>fucking plant would work great as a groundcover. I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>try to get something James Peace, so we can produce
<v Speaker 1>the fuck out of it. James Peace my partner at
<v Speaker 1>the Native Plant Nursery. It's really his nursery, but I'm
<v Speaker 1>just promoted. I'm just gonna say it's mine because that'll
<v Speaker 1>help promote it. But I don't take any money from it.
<v Speaker 1>I just give him seeds, he gives me plants, and
<v Speaker 1>then he makes the money, which is the way it
<v Speaker 1>should be. And hopefully because he got fucked by the
<v Speaker 1>garden he used to work for. They want to grow
<v Speaker 1>bogan VIA's and shit. Speaking of bougain vias, they want
<v Speaker 1>to grow all the horticultural atrocities, the shit that's not
<v Speaker 1>adapted to South Texas. He's in San Anton by the way,
<v Speaker 1>that Charlie Pride song. So, uh, we're gonna we're growing
<v Speaker 1>a whole bunch of rare shit. Zinnia Austro Texana, fucking
<v Speaker 1>po Maria Ostro Texana, a bunch of cool, rare shit
<v Speaker 1>that's losing habitat to the human tumor and also not
<v Speaker 1>being grown in gardens like it should be. So hit
<v Speaker 1>me up. We're selling it events right now. I think
<v Speaker 1>he's opened by appointment only. If you want to order
<v Speaker 1>some shit from him, you can email me. Eventually I'll
<v Speaker 1>have contact info for him. But he's grown a lot
<v Speaker 1>of great shit, and he's a good dude, and uh yeah, man,
<v Speaker 1>he's a fucking great He's a solid fucking guy. He's
<v Speaker 1>not some rich fuck either. He's not some rich kid.
<v Speaker 1>He lives in a fucking trailer out in Sageen, Okay.
<v Speaker 1>And he likes turtles. The man likes turtles. Is that
<v Speaker 1>a fucking crime these stands? Could you still like tartoises
<v Speaker 1>without being criminalized for it? What world are we living in?
<v Speaker 1>Getting a little Alex Jones out here? Matt Berger keeps
<v Speaker 1>sending me photos of Alex Jones with tits. I think
<v Speaker 1>because he knows it makes me want to vomit. He
<v Speaker 1>does it like every six months. I got a picture
<v Speaker 1>of Alex Jones with tits, like his shirt off and
<v Speaker 1>with tits, and I don't know what to make of it.
<v Speaker 1>I know he's just doing it to troll me. Okay. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>sky'sander Lebra growing in beautiful Collier Heights neighborhood in Atlanta,
<v Speaker 1>growing in a neighborhood. It's like a black working class neighborhood.
<v Speaker 1>Uh cool neighborhood to fucking Atlanta's nice, man, Atlanta's fucking nice.
<v Speaker 1>I like Atlanta. I don't like being forced to drive where,
<v Speaker 1>but that's just the modern you know, state of the
<v Speaker 1>American sunbuilt the lower latitude the United States. Atlanta's nice, though,
<v Speaker 1>so me. Josh the hippie and uh our tour guide
<v Speaker 1>for that day who was showing us this population she
<v Speaker 1>discovered really cool lady. I can't fucking forget it. I
<v Speaker 1>can't remember her name. I'm so sorry, God, I'm such
<v Speaker 1>an asshole. Anyway, she took us out there and it
<v Speaker 1>was it was toxicodendron and it was English ivy everywhere
<v Speaker 1>growing in the understory of this forest that I guess
<v Speaker 1>is owned by a megachurch. But it's just like a
<v Speaker 1>neglected property. It just looks like the grated woods, like
<v Speaker 1>something you'd see in the Midwest, like in Chicago, you know,
<v Speaker 1>but instead of buck thorn, it's it's heterohelix everywhere English Ivy,
<v Speaker 1>which is in the Gensang family of Raliac. And you
<v Speaker 1>can see it when it when it flowers. God, there's
<v Speaker 1>some cool raliacy in New Caledonia. Just see how fucking
<v Speaker 1>out there I am today. I took my medge today too.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know why I'm like this. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>why I'm like this. I tried not to do this, okay,
<v Speaker 1>but anyway, and so, but this sky Xandra can be
<v Speaker 1>rooted very easily. It's a vine, it can it's kind
<v Speaker 1>of like a scandent vine, like it gets a little
<v Speaker 1>bit of a thick enough stock to grow and it
<v Speaker 1>sound very glaborous leaves because it grows in this music environment.
<v Speaker 1>But I would love to see someone restore this. You know,
<v Speaker 1>it might even be worth contacting the church. I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>you know, what are they like the Megod, you could
<v Speaker 1>go in there and just pretend you're all about the
<v Speaker 1>you know, Saint Paul at the Cross Church. You're all
<v Speaker 1>about the Gees, the Jesus, the Jeebus and uh and
<v Speaker 1>whatever you know and uh, you know, or reach out
<v Speaker 1>to a neighbor and be like, hey man, we want
<v Speaker 1>to there's a really cool plant here where where naturalists.
<v Speaker 1>To make sure you don't say we're natives, because they're
<v Speaker 1>gonna think there's a bunch of goofy you know, naked
<v Speaker 1>fucking you know, nudist coming in there, because people confuse
<v Speaker 1>it to sometimes naturalists natureists, and you know, I don't
<v Speaker 1>want to see some guy out there, you know, with
<v Speaker 1>seventy year old man, you know, with his dog just
<v Speaker 1>swinging around like sometimes you see it hot springs in
<v Speaker 1>the Vada. I've definitely seen that before. It was a
<v Speaker 1>very happy, harmless man with a long beard, you know,
<v Speaker 1>looked like a little short Santa Claus. But you know,
<v Speaker 1>he had a massive hog on him. And I wasn't
<v Speaker 1>prepared to see that. I just wanted to get in
<v Speaker 1>the hot tub. I was there with my girlfriend, it's
<v Speaker 1>like ten years ago. It was an uncomfortable situation because
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't stop looking. I was just so impressed I said,
<v Speaker 1>holy fuck, this guy's seventy. He's got a long that's
<v Speaker 1>a fucking horse hog on there. You know she was
<v Speaker 1>smacking me. She's says, stop talking about this man's wiener.
<v Speaker 1>You're making him uncomfortable. I don't think he could hear
<v Speaker 1>me though, anyway. Yeah, kind of like a I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>like an eighteen fifties gold miner. Looked to him, you know,
<v Speaker 1>he was old. That's what happens in Nevada when you're
<v Speaker 1>out there. It's where Sheriff Woody is too. It's where
<v Speaker 1>Mariella is too. Right now? Who also, Matriela looks like
<v Speaker 1>a fucking cop, Megan, he looks like a hippie. I'm
<v Speaker 1>tired to telling that. I said, you gotta cut your hair.
<v Speaker 1>You get the cops are going to be all over
<v Speaker 1>you right you go into town. They're like a flight
<v Speaker 1>of shit. Okay, I'm sorry, we're going all over the
<v Speaker 1>place here, sky Xandra Leabra. Let's see what is the
<v Speaker 1>what uh? How to fuck up this taxonomy again? You
<v Speaker 1>know a lot of these basil angiosperms, Austro, Bailey, alies
<v Speaker 1>is the order families, skys and racy? What is the
<v Speaker 1>range Where does this go down to? This goes down
<v Speaker 1>to Florida. You got some in Alabama. You got some
<v Speaker 1>in Mississippi. Oh you got to you got some in
<v Speaker 1>Memphis too. Oh Kentucky. Fuck, I want to go to Kentucky.
<v Speaker 1>So many places like one. I wish i could just
<v Speaker 1>go on a road trip. You know, I'm gonna do
<v Speaker 1>that with my Kevin. Take her out of school next year.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna go on on like a spring Bodany road trip.
<v Speaker 1>What the hell? You know what she did? Yesterday? We
<v Speaker 1>were attractor supply. I was getting I was getting corn
<v Speaker 1>for the pigs because we have to. We got to
<v Speaker 1>kill all the feral pigs at the Thorn Scrub, And
<v Speaker 1>I was going to get corn attractor supply. This little turd.
<v Speaker 1>Love her to death, but what is this. She's tried
<v Speaker 1>sneaking one of these stuff damage. She got like nine
<v Speaker 1>stuffed animals. She tried sneaking one on to the cart,
<v Speaker 1>and she put it in front of the stack of
<v Speaker 1>corn that I had to get, Like she knew what
<v Speaker 1>she was doing. It was very intentional, It was very calculated.
<v Speaker 1>It was very intentional. I felt I'm not sure how
<v Speaker 1>I felt about it, but it got wrung up with
<v Speaker 1>all the other and I said, this is I said,
<v Speaker 1>sixty bucks? What the shit? I didn't I didn't been
<v Speaker 1>not buying sixty bucks with the corn. What is this from?
<v Speaker 1>And then I looked and there was like a little
<v Speaker 1>plush cow. And I looked at her and I said,
<v Speaker 1>did you do this? And she said no? And I
<v Speaker 1>said how did it get in there? Then she very
<v Speaker 1>clearly did that. She was very I felt very uh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, she's trying to take my money. Okay, anyway, okay,
<v Speaker 1>But the point is Skyxandra is somewhat somewhat rare, and
<v Speaker 1>this is a Southeast species. Supposed lea, there's a population
<v Speaker 1>in a near Williamston, williamstun uh, North Carolina. I can't
<v Speaker 1>tell this is on Ininet though, so I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>You're better off going to bonap or something b o
<v Speaker 1>nap dot com you want to find a ranger. This
<v Speaker 1>goes in the Florida Panhandle, west to Memphis, north to
<v Speaker 1>Kentucky and east to uh, North Carolina. That might be
<v Speaker 1>bullshit though. Anyway. It's a restricted plant and it's an
<v Speaker 1>Austro bailey elies, which is I think is that right
<v Speaker 1>beneath it's it's is that right beneath the uh let's
<v Speaker 1>look at the angiosperm phylogeny here. Yeah, it's like the
<v Speaker 1>third down the list, right after Nymphiales, which is after
<v Speaker 1>Amberelli Alies, which is the godfather of all flowering plants, Amberrella.
<v Speaker 1>So this is a this is a more basal order.
<v Speaker 1>Three families in Austro Bailey alies Sky's andresi namesake of
<v Speaker 1>Skysandra trimeniac and Austro bailey Ace which uh, austro Balia.
<v Speaker 1>Oh God, I gotta see this. I've never seen this.
<v Speaker 1>I always confuse that with one species austro Baialia scan thens.
<v Speaker 1>Where does this? Where does this? Ocur? I gotta get this?
<v Speaker 1>Have I not covered this yet? This is so important
<v Speaker 1>for the botany textbooks. This is down there in uh
<v Speaker 1>in Australia. God damn it, this is uh. This isn't
<v Speaker 1>North Queensland. I didn't know there was only one species
<v Speaker 1>in austro Baiala ace. No shit, basal angiosperms. You gotta
<v Speaker 1>get in there. God, look at those mountains. There's like
<v Speaker 1>these coastal mountains in northeast Queenland's Queensland that looks fucking great.
<v Speaker 1>Who's out there? Who's that in northeast Queensland? Give me
<v Speaker 1>out there. You got a floor I can sleep on
<v Speaker 1>and go look at some plants. I get the van.
<v Speaker 1>I need a dog too. We'll find a dog. We'll
<v Speaker 1>find a dog. We'll find someone who wants to go
<v Speaker 1>out there too, you know, one of your damn all
<v Speaker 1>caes or something. We'll go out there. We'll fuck around
<v Speaker 1>in Queensland for a week. Ooh, tri Menia looks interesting too.
<v Speaker 1>That's another weird one. One observation on I naturalist Trimnia
<v Speaker 1>neo Caledonica. One observation of this species. There's like six
<v Speaker 1>species in the genus. Got the flowers on it just
<v Speaker 1>look archaic as fuck. Oh my god, Oh that's so
<v Speaker 1>cool Jesus. You could see these just these ancestral forms.
<v Speaker 1>Whereas it that's in like northern New Caledonia. Oh my god,
<v Speaker 1>I gotta go back there. You know, New Caledonia was cool,
<v Speaker 1>but it was expensive as hell, and it's French. I
<v Speaker 1>don't really like the French. I'm kind of prejudiced against
<v Speaker 1>not all French hashtag not all French. But I'm not
<v Speaker 1>talking about kebe Quai. They're cool. I'm talking about like
<v Speaker 1>French French. You know, I just had a bad experience
<v Speaker 1>with a French publisher. Right, I don't know, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know what I'm talking about. I've never been there, right,
<v Speaker 1>typical American. I'm just being you know, racist, prejudiced against
<v Speaker 1>the French, with no prior experience on my just based
<v Speaker 1>on my small, my small depth of experience. Right, Okay, anyway,
<v Speaker 1>fifty nine observations total of the genus tremedia. That's it
<v Speaker 1>all over the world, only fifty nine abs of you.
<v Speaker 1>I gotta see that one too. I really like the
<v Speaker 1>basil Angelo Sperms. Apocarpus usually don't have fused carpals, which
<v Speaker 1>you can see in the fruit dry miss winter eye.
<v Speaker 1>That's a basal angeo sperm that does the same thing.
<v Speaker 1>Look at that. Get that? Where's that plant gateway? You
<v Speaker 1>know what I'm gonna I think they took the plant gateway.
<v Speaker 1>The angiosperm poster done. I'm gonna put it in the
<v Speaker 1>the details of this podcast. If I forget to do it,
<v Speaker 1>leave a comment remind me. I probably will forget. I
<v Speaker 1>can't believe they took plant gatewaight down. Who did this? They?
<v Speaker 1>I guess they're updating. You don't got to take it down,
<v Speaker 1>your asshole. Yeah, it's down, it's down. You know what
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna put that. I got a drive file with
<v Speaker 1>this fucking pdf, this thirty megai megaby pdf attached. I'm gonna,
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna I'll put it in the captions of the podcast.
<v Speaker 1>Anyway to point this look up where that that skysandra
<v Speaker 1>I observed on I natrilist this. Go over there. Take
<v Speaker 1>it cutting sustainably. If you could find enough of it,
<v Speaker 1>there should be a ship tone. There was a ton
<v Speaker 1>when I was there. Okay, all you need is like
<v Speaker 1>it like a little bit of stem node. Okay, when
<v Speaker 1>you take it over. When you take it, put it
<v Speaker 1>in a ziplock bag. Bring a ziplock bag with you.
<v Speaker 1>Keep the humidity up, keep it out of the sun.
<v Speaker 1>Go stick it in some wet soil. You could keep
<v Speaker 1>the bag on there. If it's not humid. You just
<v Speaker 1>just try to keep that humidity up. Because I think
<v Speaker 1>doesn't have roots yet. It's got to reshoot out roots
<v Speaker 1>from dormant root pudds on a vine, which it can
<v Speaker 1>do if you baby it this credit. This is a
<v Speaker 1>critical step. These two weeks, baby this shit out it,
<v Speaker 1>keep it in shade, keep it moist, maybe keep the
<v Speaker 1>bag on for a day or two. Though I realized
<v Speaker 1>you don't really need to do that, depending on how
<v Speaker 1>the humidity is. If you're in you know, if you're
<v Speaker 1>in a dry climate, well you're not going to be dry.
<v Speaker 1>You're in fucking Atlanta anyway. And then just get it
<v Speaker 1>rooted and then everything does phenomenally better when you put
<v Speaker 1>it in the ground. Don't torture it in the fucking pot.
<v Speaker 1>As soon as it's got roots and you can tell,
<v Speaker 1>you know, give it like little tungue on. It doesn't
<v Speaker 1>come out as you stick that shit in the ground
<v Speaker 1>in a shady spot, this plant like shade, and uh
<v Speaker 1>in your garden and get it going. I hate to
<v Speaker 1>say this, I hate that. I hate that. Conserving plants is,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the best hope for many of these things,
<v Speaker 1>especially where I am in Texas, wherever all the land
<v Speaker 1>is private and tech nobody gives a fuck. The best
<v Speaker 1>option is getting these things in a garden and sharing
<v Speaker 1>this shit among a community of people which hopefully grows.
<v Speaker 1>Who cares about this stuff, who realizes that it's the
<v Speaker 1>antidote to the puke that you encounter in modern civilization
<v Speaker 1>and the antid to the make believe human world, which
<v Speaker 1>is all bullshit and it's bad for you. With that,
<v Speaker 1>let's listen to a clip of George Curlin talking about
<v Speaker 1>doing acid and realized that he was full of shit
<v Speaker 1>and didn't want what he had prior to thought that
<v Speaker 1>he wanted.
<v Speaker 2>The hardest years of my life for the three or
<v Speaker 2>four years when I was doing straight mainstream book television shows,
<v Speaker 2>because I thought I wanted to be like a Danny
<v Speaker 2>Kay or someone. My dream from a kid was still
<v Speaker 2>like that. I wanted to be in the movies and.
<v Speaker 1>Go like this for people. And I didn't know that
<v Speaker 1>my right like this. I didn't know my head was different.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't understand that.
<v Speaker 2>I thought if I thought about it at nine years
<v Speaker 2>of age, it must still be valid when I'm twenty one.
<v Speaker 1>But it wasn't.
<v Speaker 2>And and I finally boom that clicked in from the acid,
<v Speaker 2>Thank god for I asked they that's why they put
<v Speaker 2>it on that list of a bad drugs.
<v Speaker 1>Because they know it opens up the mind, the heart.
<v Speaker 1>What he's saying, you can't see this when he's saying
<v Speaker 1>when I wanted to be like this, when I wanted
<v Speaker 1>to be like Danny Kay and go like this for people.
<v Speaker 1>He's patting his head and rubbing his stomach at the
<v Speaker 1>same thing. He's talking about fluff. He's talking about most
<v Speaker 1>mainstream television programming, you know, just the little show, show
<v Speaker 1>tunes show, you know, totally safe, right, government music, corporate music,
<v Speaker 1>nothing nothing too controversial in there, you know, kind of
<v Speaker 1>like a lot of content that still gets produced. Right
<v Speaker 1>if it's not full of crazy bullshit misinformation like people
<v Speaker 1>denying and invasion biology, then it's a fluffy shit, you know,
<v Speaker 1>It's like feel good fluffy shit. Okay, coming coming back
<v Speaker 1>around to Texas. Okay, we're leaving Atlanta now they're setting
<v Speaker 1>is Texas. We're in the red sand dunes east of Vilpasso.
<v Speaker 1>Because Texas is fucked and everything is privately owned. Keep
<v Speaker 1>in mind, this beautiful plant community I'm about to describe
<v Speaker 1>to you could be destroyed at any minute if the owner,
<v Speaker 1>which is some LLC. I'm looking at onyx hunt right now.
<v Speaker 1>To thank you whoever who signed me up for this.
<v Speaker 1>Someone gave me a free onyx account couple of years ago.
<v Speaker 1>Very kind, very very kind for them. Oh what is this?
<v Speaker 1>This was like a foreign investor said, dotka abdul Karim,
<v Speaker 1>where is this? It lives in El Paso or some
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what they're gonna do with that. You're
<v Speaker 1>going to turn it into a fucking off road park.
<v Speaker 1>And then over to the left of it, it's all
<v Speaker 1>divided up into small lots, probably to get turned into
<v Speaker 1>condos at some point. But it's all fucking sand. Oh god,
<v Speaker 1>this state, man, I tell you it really is. You know,
<v Speaker 1>I ain't here for the culture. I'll tell you that,
<v Speaker 1>no offense. It's just the plants and geology are so incredible. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>The red sand dunes east of El Paso are fucking phenomenal.
<v Speaker 1>Let me see what what is the geologic formation that
<v Speaker 1>this is? Because you get you know, like any just
<v Speaker 1>like limestone, just like serpentine, just like lateritic soils, just
<v Speaker 1>like gypsum. You get your own cast of endemic speed
<v Speaker 1>that is, species that only grow on sand dunes, a
<v Speaker 1>daphic endemism. Nice. Okay, well this is obnoxious. You can't
<v Speaker 1>search by GPS coordinates on the Rocked app, but you
<v Speaker 1>can search by mountain meadows, colonial estates. Fucking they must
<v Speaker 1>just be using a Google Maps interface or some but
<v Speaker 1>you can't search by that's a bummer. Okay. So right
<v Speaker 1>in there here is the Jaco Limestone. But what is
<v Speaker 1>this sand? Bolson deposits, lack of strine and fluviatile deposits
<v Speaker 1>of clay, silt, sand and gypsum and bolsons. It's just
<v Speaker 1>saying alluvium dune, sand sheet deposits, Holocene stabilized sand deposits,
<v Speaker 1>Van Horn, El Paso sheet, lithology, major sand, incidental silt. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>that doesn't tell me anything about where this red sand
<v Speaker 1>weathered from or what formation it is, but evidently it's
<v Speaker 1>just weathered from red sandstone, which is probably very old.
<v Speaker 1>How's the Jaco Limestone two hundred and ninety eight million
<v Speaker 1>years so permian permian permian age. Anyway, this was a
<v Speaker 1>fucking incredible spot, and if you live in El Pesso,
<v Speaker 1>it's definitely someplace you should go check out because there's
<v Speaker 1>a whole shit done of cool plants over there. The
<v Speaker 1>most coolest that I was most taken with is something
<v Speaker 1>James Peace has been growing for a year or two,
<v Speaker 1>poliomintha in Cana and he gave me like two or
<v Speaker 1>three of these, and I was like, all right, what
<v Speaker 1>do I do with these? Are cool? But you know
<v Speaker 1>when you see it in a one gallon pot, and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it looks cool. It's got these tiny little mint flowers,
<v Speaker 1>and it's the leaves are linear and white, typical desert plant,
<v Speaker 1>you know, covered in hairs, reduced surface area. But I've
<v Speaker 1>planted it in the ground and it was happy. He's
<v Speaker 1>a pig, and shit, it didn't flinch. It was loving
<v Speaker 1>the heat. That's I got one in South Texas. I
<v Speaker 1>got one in West Texas. It doesn't seem to be
<v Speaker 1>bothered by the humidity of South Texas. But seeing it
<v Speaker 1>in habitat, it's like anything seeing in habitat is way
<v Speaker 1>way cooler. It's a whole different experience. And when I
<v Speaker 1>saw it as the dominant plant here on these sand
<v Speaker 1>dunes east of Vilpasso, I gave it the common name
<v Speaker 1>a Passo bushman, because that's essentially what it is. Some
<v Speaker 1>of these colonies were fucking six feet tall by eight
<v Speaker 1>feet wide. I didn't realize that the shrub could get
<v Speaker 1>that big. And he'll be selling this to We got
<v Speaker 1>to get these fucking plants out there. You want to
<v Speaker 1>buy some plants. Support James Peace and support them to
<v Speaker 1>keep growing more of these. But he uh, yeah, it's
<v Speaker 1>a fucking great plant. I mean, I'm sure would do
<v Speaker 1>great in fucking Tucson, southern Arizona, probably southern California, if
<v Speaker 1>it's not too near the coast. Might be fine near
<v Speaker 1>the coast too, which is that seems to really thrive
<v Speaker 1>like a pig and shit in the heat and the sun.
<v Speaker 1>But I got some in West Texas. I got I
<v Speaker 1>planted some in West Texas. I planted some down here.
<v Speaker 1>Like I said, it's doing fucking great. We got some
<v Speaker 1>at the unauthorized garden we just started. It's it's like
<v Speaker 1>semi authorized down here in the Rio Grande Valley where
<v Speaker 1>we have a scleepist prostrata to the prostrate, milkweed visariat amnaphilus,
<v Speaker 1>a pot of bladder pod, bunch of good shit. We
<v Speaker 1>just got a truckload. I was just over there shoveling
<v Speaker 1>mulch today and not shoveling, but I use like a big,
<v Speaker 1>you know bin, like you know, probably weighs thirty pounds full.
<v Speaker 1>It's a nice workout, wonderful morning workup, you know, before
<v Speaker 1>the sun really starts to cook your ass. And I
<v Speaker 1>moved like twenty loads of this stuff, just carrying it
<v Speaker 1>in this you know, thirty gallon container and just just
<v Speaker 1>so what is it? Yeah, twenty times thirty six hundred
<v Speaker 1>gallons worth of mulch I moved today. But these dunes
<v Speaker 1>have so many fucking cool plant I couldn't believe how
<v Speaker 1>many cool plants that were on it. Pence them in ambiguous,
<v Speaker 1>which is a white flowered, moth pollinated pins them in
<v Speaker 1>long floral tube with a narrow opening, way too small
<v Speaker 1>for beata crawl in there, and I'm sure it smells good.
<v Speaker 1>Didn't smell good now, but a lot of these desert
<v Speaker 1>plants that are moth pollinated don't start emanating scent until night.
<v Speaker 1>I was at thorn scrub, I was at our conservation
<v Speaker 1>property yesterday. I saw a fucking massive moth was bigger
<v Speaker 1>than a hummingbird. But I digress. We'll talk about that later.
<v Speaker 1>Pence them in ambiguous, it's a bush. Pens them in
<v Speaker 1>am Sonia er in area. That was a cool one too.
<v Speaker 1>Am Sonia has those like these pinkish, white funnel formed
<v Speaker 1>moth pollinated flowers. All this shit is moth pollinated. I
<v Speaker 1>would love to come out to these dunes that again
<v Speaker 1>are privately owned and could be destroyed at any time.
<v Speaker 1>We were technically trespassing, but the owner doesn't give a shit.
<v Speaker 1>They didn't fence it. I mean, what are you gonna
<v Speaker 1>do out there. It's owned by a company. It's not
<v Speaker 1>like it's an individual. It was an individual probably, you know,
<v Speaker 1>be some nut job coming out there threatening you, you know,
<v Speaker 1>calling the sheriff or whatever. But it's owned by some
<v Speaker 1>company that's probably gonna destroy it at some point. Texas
<v Speaker 1>is just going to destroy. Texas gonna destroy all of
<v Speaker 1>its natural heritage at some point. There's no value on
<v Speaker 1>any of this. It's just weed. It's just brush. It's
<v Speaker 1>fucking mind boggling, like anything that's not in a conservation
<v Speaker 1>heasement or or you know, public well, Texas doesn't have
<v Speaker 1>any public land. State land can get destroyed at any moment. Anything.
<v Speaker 1>If the landowner that owns these dunes decides he wants
<v Speaker 1>to fucking waste a bunch of money to hire a
<v Speaker 1>bunch of mouth breeders to come in there with skids
<v Speaker 1>theers and rearrange the dunes to make a fucking mini
<v Speaker 1>golf course or some OHV area. He could do it
<v Speaker 1>it's private land. Is nothing anybody could do about it
<v Speaker 1>if they were federally endangered plants. Here, there's nothing anybody
<v Speaker 1>can do about it. It's so unbelievably fucked here, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure it's like this in many other places in
<v Speaker 1>the world. So you're just relying on the goodwill of landowners,
<v Speaker 1>which they might have. But then when they die and
<v Speaker 1>their kids want to fucking sell it and make a
<v Speaker 1>quick buck so they can, you know, buy a sports
<v Speaker 1>car or a you know, Tachi house. It's going to
<v Speaker 1>cost six thousand dollars a month to air condition. They
<v Speaker 1>can do it, right, They just piss it away and
<v Speaker 1>squander it, and then they're broke again in ten years
<v Speaker 1>because they bought a bunch of stupid shit with it,
<v Speaker 1>and now they've got to come up with some other
<v Speaker 1>Ponzi scheme to make money. Wonderful culture we have here anyway.
<v Speaker 1>So poliominta in Cana, fucking dope bush mint big is
<v Speaker 1>held grows on these sand du these red sand dunes
<v Speaker 1>am Sonia erinaria. And that thing looked like a that's
<v Speaker 1>a really easy plant to walk by and not give
<v Speaker 1>a shit about, because it does it looks like it's
<v Speaker 1>some sort of composite like Goody or Reazi, Like maybe
<v Speaker 1>it's some some brushy asta seed. It's just got linear leaves,
<v Speaker 1>nothing really notable about it. But when you see it
<v Speaker 1>in flower then you're like, goddamn, this thing is amazing.
<v Speaker 1>And also it's everywhere in this habitat and it's going
<v Speaker 1>for moth pollination. I would love to spend a night
<v Speaker 1>out there looking at what maw that's come by and
<v Speaker 1>hit these things. There's got to be you know, is
<v Speaker 1>it one or two species? Is it a diversity of
<v Speaker 1>moth pollinators? What's the most predominant moth polinators? It highly's lineata?
<v Speaker 1>Is it the you know, the sphinx moth? What is it? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Dieteria asteroid? He is? Somebody identified this. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>what the fuck this thing was. So thankfully somebody, uh,
<v Speaker 1>somebody got this. It's hard because there wasn't any flowers
<v Speaker 1>on it. Now let's go. I think the AI just
<v Speaker 1>got that. That's nice. Oh, we're having a slow cursor
<v Speaker 1>the windows slow cursor of death. What a pain in
<v Speaker 1>the ass? Got windows? Is a virus? Ugh? Microflift. Another
<v Speaker 1>really cool plant was a Epizifium. How to fuck do
<v Speaker 1>you pronounce it episipium with an x epizifium, wizly Zenia,
<v Speaker 1>which is a snapdragon vine Mirandia. I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>you can get mirandias in California, probably in the desert.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think they're two widespread. First time I saw mirandia,
<v Speaker 1>even though I lived in California for twenty years, was
<v Speaker 1>in Arizona, was in the Sonoran desert. But Morandi is
<v Speaker 1>a cool vine, purple bilatterally symmetrical snap dragon like flowers.
<v Speaker 1>This thing with his lizenii is a dounandemic. I think
<v Speaker 1>James was growing some. But the garden center he had
<v Speaker 1>worked at such a tragic story. His friend, wonderful woman
<v Speaker 1>ran the garden center. She passed away. It got inherited.
<v Speaker 1>They threw out a whole bunch of his shit, really
<v Speaker 1>wonderful native plants so that they could grow boogain vas
<v Speaker 1>and all this other fucking garbage that you know, basically
<v Speaker 1>is what the suburbs looks like. And anyway, but he
<v Speaker 1>had this there and they threw it out. But it's
<v Speaker 1>the leaves on this fucking thing. The flowers look really cool,
<v Speaker 1>of course, but the leaves on this thing are fucking
<v Speaker 1>my I saw it. When I first saw it, I
<v Speaker 1>thought it was like convolvuoles. But then I said, these
<v Speaker 1>leaves kind of look like a mirandi or something, but
<v Speaker 1>they're way bigger, and they're covered in this iridescent fuzzs,
<v Speaker 1>like these tricombes that give it this shimmery ass look
<v Speaker 1>to the leaves with these really cool white veins. It's
<v Speaker 1>like a chalky mint color with these really cool white veins,
<v Speaker 1>and it's just popping out of the fucking you know.
<v Speaker 1>Ninety five degree hot sand Actually wasn't too hot. The
<v Speaker 1>sand was probably one hundred degrees or more, but when
<v Speaker 1>I was there, there was a nice breeze. Wasn't too hot.
<v Speaker 1>Epic Epizifium, epicsiphium, epic sifium, epizifium that extually fucks me up.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not used to seeing it. Epizifium whizle zenia. What
<v Speaker 1>an amazing plant. Get this into cultivation for fock's sake.
<v Speaker 1>The leaves are just incredible. Any of these heat tolerant plants. See,
<v Speaker 1>this is the thing that bugs me about the fucking
<v Speaker 1>this permaculture. Shit, no offense. I'm going off on a
<v Speaker 1>right here again. We're gonna green the desert. We're gonna
<v Speaker 1>green the desert. You're gonna green the desert. All these
<v Speaker 1>fucking turds that talk about greening desert. No offense to
<v Speaker 1>any of them, Actually, no one or two. They're not
<v Speaker 1>bad people. They're just totally fucking lost. They never talk
<v Speaker 1>about greening the desert with native plants, with the plants
<v Speaker 1>that are literally built for this fucking climate. Right. These
<v Speaker 1>things have hairs on their leaves, they've got strategies that
<v Speaker 1>they've evolved over millions of years to deal with these climates.
<v Speaker 1>And you're trying to plant non native garbage or shit
<v Speaker 1>that's from another part of the continent that gets much
<v Speaker 1>higher rainfall. I just like the simple understanding of how
<v Speaker 1>air sucks moisture out of leaves depending on the humidity.
<v Speaker 1>All plants love humidity. They all do they no matter
<v Speaker 1>what you might have heard. They all love humidity. Cacti
<v Speaker 1>love humidity when they're young. The problem with desert plants
<v Speaker 1>and humidity is that, because they have these adaptations, when
<v Speaker 1>you raise the humidity, you know you're trying to grow
<v Speaker 1>something from an arid climate in a more humid climate.
<v Speaker 1>The problem is, you know, they would love that humidity.
<v Speaker 1>But the problem is is the adaptations they have that
<v Speaker 1>enable them to grow in aridity also make them prone
<v Speaker 1>to fungus. Right, that reduced airflow across the leaf because
<v Speaker 1>of the leaf hair's succulents whatever, you know, roots that
<v Speaker 1>rapidly suck up moisture from the ground like a dry sponge.
<v Speaker 1>And then once they've sucked up all they could suck up,
<v Speaker 1>now they're just sitting in wet soil because the humidity
<v Speaker 1>prevents the soil from draining as fast. You know, that
<v Speaker 1>kind of thing. And it's the same thing with humid
<v Speaker 1>plants moved to dry areas. Even if you can put
<v Speaker 1>them on drip irrigation constant, they can't transpire or they're
<v Speaker 1>transpiring moisture rather too quickly because their stomata in their
<v Speaker 1>leaves are way too numerous or too large, and their
<v Speaker 1>leaf size is too large, and the leaves just end
<v Speaker 1>up being stressed, just perpetually stressed, even though there's enough
<v Speaker 1>water for them. They're constantly transparted. I saw that with
<v Speaker 1>American chestnuts in California, you know, and a very arid
<v Speaker 1>region of California. They got very hot, dry summers and
<v Speaker 1>So the plant survived because it got water, but it
<v Speaker 1>grew incredibly slowly a tent as fast as it did
<v Speaker 1>in its native habitat, and the leaves were very reduced. Right,
<v Speaker 1>because a humid plant, a humid adapted plant is going
<v Speaker 1>to produce, it's going to compensate for that that the
<v Speaker 1>arid climate. It's now growing a by producing shorter leaves,
<v Speaker 1>all triggered by hormones and stress responses whatever anyway, So
<v Speaker 1>just the moral is just it's just pragmatic to just
<v Speaker 1>use what's fucking came with the land again. Again, I
<v Speaker 1>can't can't, I can't stop throwing this out there because
<v Speaker 1>people just don't get it. There's so many factors. You
<v Speaker 1>have to think about nighttime temperatures as well. Right, how
<v Speaker 1>does humidity affect nighttime temperatures. Nighttime temperatures don't drop as
<v Speaker 1>much in humid regions compared to arid ones, right, or
<v Speaker 1>at higher elevations because the air is thinner. Nighttime temperatures
<v Speaker 1>drop a lot more at higher elevations than they would otherwise.
<v Speaker 1>Because the air is thinner, it's not as dense, it
<v Speaker 1>doesn't hold on to heat as well, So it plays
<v Speaker 1>like the paramo in Costa Rica, summer, every day, winter,
<v Speaker 1>every night. Right, you're in the tropics, Why is it
<v Speaker 1>getting so cold because you're so high up and the
<v Speaker 1>air cannot hold Right, It's like the same reason fucking space,
<v Speaker 1>like its drastic temperature swings, Like the surface of a
<v Speaker 1>comet can go once it's in the sun fucking heats up.
<v Speaker 1>Then when it is you know, the turning whatever. Maybe
<v Speaker 1>this is about. You know, I'm really outside of my
<v Speaker 1>league here talking about space. Okay, I'm not a fucking
<v Speaker 1>I'm not an astronomer. I'm just saying, right, there's a
<v Speaker 1>vacuum there, there's no air to hold up, so you
<v Speaker 1>get drastic temperature swings when the same thing when the
<v Speaker 1>air is less dense, right, which it is at higher elevations.
<v Speaker 1>So even though you're in the tropics and you're still
<v Speaker 1>at eleven thousand feet, it'll be eighty degrees during the
<v Speaker 1>day and then it'll cool down to thirty five or
<v Speaker 1>forty at night because that air is just so much
<v Speaker 1>less dense. And because of that less density at higher elevations,
<v Speaker 1>there's also less air to break up the UV rays,
<v Speaker 1>so UV intensity is either all these factors. You know,
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of shit that people just aren't thinking about. Man,
<v Speaker 1>a lot of stuff, you know. Okay, moving right along.
<v Speaker 1>We're still in the red sand dunes east of El Paso. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>Punthia tortoise spina, which was kind of growing laterally. It's
<v Speaker 1>a prickly pair of whatever. It looks like a mean one, right,
<v Speaker 1>it's growing on the sand. It's fucking some of these temperatures.
<v Speaker 1>Opuntias especially can tolerate very I think they're one of
<v Speaker 1>the most heat tolerant plants. I think it was an
<v Speaker 1>opuntia that was clocked to tolerating temperatures of one hundred
<v Speaker 1>and thirty degrees fahrenheit or more without cell death, which
<v Speaker 1>is incredible. This wild maybe even higher than that. What
<v Speaker 1>else was out there? Probacitia, Althia, folia probacity. Of course
<v Speaker 1>lamey ales used to be grouped in the Sesame family.
<v Speaker 1>But I think the Sesame family, what was it pidali ace.
<v Speaker 1>I think that is primarily an old world family. Now, uh,
<v Speaker 1>what what family is probacity in? This is this is
<v Speaker 1>new text on This is some new shit. Martini ac Marty,
<v Speaker 1>like Martyn Ace, you know anybody named Marty. I knew
<v Speaker 1>a guy named Marty. He lived on the southwest side
<v Speaker 1>of Chicago off of uh uh oh. Fuck. I can't
<v Speaker 1>believe I forgot the name of the street. He lived
<v Speaker 1>off Archer. He was a polock. He lived off Archer.
<v Speaker 1>Nice guy, Martini Acei, but they used to be in
<v Speaker 1>Pindale Ac I believe anyway. Provacity, of course, has those
<v Speaker 1>really cool fruits. Almost I think I want to get
<v Speaker 1>that too, of a Proba city of fruit, because there's
<v Speaker 1>such cool, such an iconic desert species too that it's
<v Speaker 1>got these like hooks, and it's the whole theory is
<v Speaker 1>that it was, you know, the dispersal agent for these
<v Speaker 1>fruits was ground sloths or some sort of other megafun
<v Speaker 1>And it goes right around like a human leg perfectly
<v Speaker 1>doesn't hurt, but it definitely does look like it's meant
<v Speaker 1>to attach to something, and that's its dispersal mechanism. And
<v Speaker 1>it's just a fucking great plant. The flowers look cool.
<v Speaker 1>They're big, bilatterally symmetrical order lamy alies. Of course, then
<v Speaker 1>there was russ microfilt. I saw these shrubs dot on
<v Speaker 1>the fucking sides of the dunes and they were dominant,
<v Speaker 1>and I said, that's pretty cool, noting noting that that's
<v Speaker 1>a unique, probably an important plant here. They're dominant, it's
<v Speaker 1>a big. One of the largest plants here was a
<v Speaker 1>woody shrub probably you know. Some of these were twelve
<v Speaker 1>feet wide by by eight feet tall. I said, I
<v Speaker 1>gotta go look at that, and it was russ microphilet.
<v Speaker 1>It was little leaf sumac, which is weedy in West Texas,
<v Speaker 1>very common comes up in alpine Marfa uh fucking forestock
<v Speaker 1>then right spread by birds got those little uh sumac fruits,
<v Speaker 1>those little sumac berries which are actually droops, I believe,
<v Speaker 1>because they've only got a single seed in them, not
<v Speaker 1>the many seeds. So I was in love with these
<v Speaker 1>dunes once I was there and I realized, Wow, there's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of cool shit grown here that's not common
<v Speaker 1>in other places. I was hooked. And we saw the
<v Speaker 1>same red sand. I encountered the same red sand in
<v Speaker 1>New Mexico a few days later. A couple of days later,
<v Speaker 1>when I was looking for Pomaria James the eye, which
<v Speaker 1>is a rare little uh spreading say sell pinioid legume
<v Speaker 1>saycell pinioid, meaning it's got a say sell pinia like
<v Speaker 1>flower like Senna or any of those, like really cool
<v Speaker 1>bilatterally symmetrical, unique flower structure, and it was covered in
<v Speaker 1>these glands, these little sticky red glands. I love all
<v Speaker 1>that shit. I love all the sayceel pinioids. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's a not as new, nowhere near as numerous in species,
<v Speaker 1>nowhere near as species rich as Faboidi the subfamily, or
<v Speaker 1>especially Mimo soidy the Mimosa and Acacia subfamily. So uh Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>what else am I missing anything from these fucking dunes?
<v Speaker 1>Because that was that was such a wonderful Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Dalia lenata, that was a cool one. There was a
<v Speaker 1>Dahlia lenada I encountered, but it was I think it
<v Speaker 1>was terminalyis. It was a different subspecies. It wasn't lenada
<v Speaker 1>normally means wool covered. This was not woolf covered. This
<v Speaker 1>was very glabrous. But it was a cool, little kind
<v Speaker 1>of semi sticky Dahlia smelled good. Uh speaking of peace,
<v Speaker 1>that was just sprawled out on these dunes. God, the
<v Speaker 1>fucking dunes were so cool. Lorandersonia pulchella, which is uh
<v Speaker 1>uh used to it used to be chrysol faminists. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know another cool rabbit brush common name. So anyway
<v Speaker 1>head and east of El Paso, it's thought that a
<v Speaker 1>cool little diner, cool little roadside diner. They're off Highway
<v Speaker 1>sixty two in Cornudis. Beautiful cornudis where there's a little
<v Speaker 1>forest of yucca alatta just west of this spot. And
<v Speaker 1>then I stopped to lurk, and so there's coyote melon
<v Speaker 1>going off. It was a wonderful fucking time for plants.
<v Speaker 1>I had to stop and look at all this shit
<v Speaker 1>on the side of the road while these massive trucks,
<v Speaker 1>you know, filled with the truckers in their giant one
<v Speaker 1>gallon bottles of urine are blazoned by me at eighty
<v Speaker 1>miles per hour, probably cursing me, saying what the fuck
<v Speaker 1>is this guy doing? Right? What is he doing? What's
<v Speaker 1>the world come to? This guy's parked on the side
<v Speaker 1>of the road staring at the ground. So anyway, but
<v Speaker 1>Cornutis we ever go through Cornudas. It's a nice little
<v Speaker 1>diner there. It's real nice. They got a little shop.
<v Speaker 1>I bought like a blanket for like fifteen bucks. Beautiful blanket.
<v Speaker 1>You know. They got some knives and shit in there,
<v Speaker 1>like artisanal knives. Nice stuff, little hats. They got a hat?
<v Speaker 1>I forget, what the fuck? I don't think they had.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't buy a hat. I don't think they had
<v Speaker 1>a hat. Maybe it didn't, never had, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>It seems like a place they would have a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of little fucking headware and a nice bandana or something.
<v Speaker 1>It's a cute little shop, and they've got some heart
<v Speaker 1>attack food in there that probably tastes really good. Core neudis,
<v Speaker 1>beautiful core nudis. You know, you're in oil field territory,
<v Speaker 1>but you're not near the oil fields, so you don't
<v Speaker 1>have to deal with all the syphilism, methamphetamine and shit alcoholism,
<v Speaker 1>and you're only the best thing about this area is
<v Speaker 1>you're only fifteen miles from the New Mexico state line.
<v Speaker 1>And hoo doesn't love New Mexico. That's really where a
<v Speaker 1>heart is. Beautiful New Mexico. Right, you cross that state
<v Speaker 1>border as public land, people are nicer, not as many
<v Speaker 1>paranoid dipshits, you know, ready to yell at you. People
<v Speaker 1>can be polite in Texas, but they're not nice. You
<v Speaker 1>go to New Mexico. They're actually nice over there. Right.
<v Speaker 1>The geriatrics in New Mexico are always They're a lot
<v Speaker 1>happier too, which is good. It's good for them, it's
<v Speaker 1>good for me. When I ca to interact with them.
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't help when I was noticing coucurbative feted diysm
<v Speaker 1>of the coyote melon, which is a really common place.
<v Speaker 1>This thing sprawled out. It's the native cucurbet desert cucurbit.
<v Speaker 1>Love to see the root on these things. I think
<v Speaker 1>they're perennial, uh, And they just form these massive, fucking,
<v Speaker 1>you know, twenty foot long vines sprawled out on the
<v Speaker 1>ground in some cases. But I guess they've got a specialist.
<v Speaker 1>Beetle atka Liema trivitatum. Let me see this thing? Is this?
<v Speaker 1>Is it? It was in the flower and it probably
<v Speaker 1>pollinates the flower. But I'm sure it's eating pollen. Two
<v Speaker 1>you'd have to look up. It's a cute little fucking beetle.
<v Speaker 1>I'll give it that. So you know, coyote, coyote melon
<v Speaker 1>cucurbative feeded. This, which is a very widespread plant you
<v Speaker 1>get in California too, is primarily be pollinated. The flowers
<v Speaker 1>are huge. The melons look like they look like little
<v Speaker 1>round melons. They're fun to throw out your friends, but
<v Speaker 1>they don't taste good. They're very bitter. They have to be.
<v Speaker 1>They live in the desert. If they, you know, the
<v Speaker 1>do coyotes. I think coyotes do eat them. I think
<v Speaker 1>coyotes do disperse the seeds. I think the main dispersers
<v Speaker 1>were by some probably because these these fucking fruits taste terrible.
<v Speaker 1>But if you're a large animal, it's not going to
<v Speaker 1>bother you too much. And also a large animal is
<v Speaker 1>going to be I think more unlikely to actually destroy
<v Speaker 1>all of the seeds when chewing. So anyway, but these
<v Speaker 1>things don't open without the fruits that these like a
<v Speaker 1>little bit bigger than a baseball, don't open without being
<v Speaker 1>cracked open. They can all that's another way. They can
<v Speaker 1>also dry out and the sun sit there for a
<v Speaker 1>while and then they just end up just the seed
<v Speaker 1>coat dicinegrade, so they become hard like a gourd, you know.
<v Speaker 1>But it was probably bison, probably mammoths, deer, coyotes I
<v Speaker 1>guess eat buffalo gourds. Khukur would feeded disma as well,
<v Speaker 1>but the main polinator of bees and these but these
<v Speaker 1>little beetles probably have to be doing some pollination too.
<v Speaker 1>They're most the beetles are mostly eating pollen. Beetles are
<v Speaker 1>not attracted to nectar in most plants as so far
<v Speaker 1>as they know. They're mostly eating pollen or they're going
<v Speaker 1>for some sort of starch, but they're probably doing some
<v Speaker 1>incidental pollination. There was that beetle Acmeodera opunti that I
<v Speaker 1>documented inside peyote flowers at Santa Margarita Ranch before it
<v Speaker 1>all got destroyed for the border wall and then by
<v Speaker 1>the owner's shit for brain no offense, uh idea to
<v Speaker 1>just bulldoze strips in his land and then seed it
<v Speaker 1>with buffalo grass, invasive buffalo grass the grays cattle in
<v Speaker 1>the desert. So it's anyway, my whole time in Texas,
<v Speaker 1>I feel like it's gonna be me watching everything here
<v Speaker 1>get destroyed, right like it's been doing for years, but
<v Speaker 1>now it's really ramped up with the population boom that's
<v Speaker 1>arrived here in developers, and it's just the conditions are right,
<v Speaker 1>everything's private. No, not a lot of people know about
<v Speaker 1>the native plants here. Fuck, the botanists don't often even
<v Speaker 1>use you know, Latin nomenclature for the plants just common names.
<v Speaker 1>So there's there's the plants don't have a high spot
<v Speaker 1>and much of Texas culture right now. And of course
<v Speaker 1>everything's private, so anything get destroyed at any time by
<v Speaker 1>private landowners. So I feel like by the time I'm
<v Speaker 1>finally ready to move, assuming I eventually make it out
<v Speaker 1>of here, I don't know where I go, hopefully out
<v Speaker 1>of the country, somewhere, I will have just watched so
<v Speaker 1>many places. I've already watched so many places get destroyed.
<v Speaker 1>Oh look, you go there. I'm gonna go check on
<v Speaker 1>this planet. Oh, it's not there anymore. The whole fucking
<v Speaker 1>habitat's not there anymore. Oh wow, happened to a spot
<v Speaker 1>in Pleasanton, Texas, just south of San Antonio. It was
<v Speaker 1>a grove of prunesce Taxana. Happened to Santa Margarita, happened.
<v Speaker 1>It happens so much. It's such a common thing, just
<v Speaker 1>destruction and then sowing invasive garbage intentionally, or building suburbs
<v Speaker 1>even though there's no water. Yeah, look what they did
<v Speaker 1>to Austin. Holy shit, the area around Austin is just
<v Speaker 1>fucking absurd. You tuck that beautiful Edwards Plateau and you
<v Speaker 1>turned it into a car slum suburb that's gonna make
<v Speaker 1>it like living there is gonna be bad for your
<v Speaker 1>health because you can't walk anywhere. There's nowhere to go.
<v Speaker 1>There's no bike paths, there's no fucking sidewalks on half
<v Speaker 1>the blocks. You know, like a fucking bike path would
<v Speaker 1>be I'd love to be able to take even though
<v Speaker 1>it's one hundred degrees, take a bike path from here,
<v Speaker 1>like a safe way where you can know you're not
<v Speaker 1>going to get mowed down by some fatty and a
<v Speaker 1>Yukon or a fucking lifted truck, no offense to them.
<v Speaker 1>You know, you're not going to get mowed down by
<v Speaker 1>some young kid who's like speeding in a sports car
<v Speaker 1>or whatever. You could just bike from here all the
<v Speaker 1>way to Brownsville on a shaded bike path, shaded by
<v Speaker 1>like ebonies, maybe some corcous fusiformists, some cool beautiful misgats.
<v Speaker 1>You know, like, shit could be so different if people tried,
<v Speaker 1>But nobody's trying because they want the shiny stuff. So
<v Speaker 1>let's you know, maybe you try to enlighten the culture.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, Austin probably has bike paths, right, probably
<v Speaker 1>a lot. You know, you get used to the heat.
<v Speaker 1>You're fine. You just gotta make sure you don't drop,
<v Speaker 1>monitor your heart rate or something. Anyway. So buffalo, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the buffalo. Gorg's the coyote melon, same thing. Kukerber defeated
<v Speaker 1>this sima. But I didn't realize that megafaunal connection earlier,
<v Speaker 1>because yeah, that's probably what it was. I think I
<v Speaker 1>came across a paper is there a is there? What
<v Speaker 1>does the science say? Is it enough? Is it like
<v Speaker 1>Osa George, like mcluropumme and itp for it Like there's
<v Speaker 1>a link between megafauna now extinct megafauna and seed dispersal
<v Speaker 1>in this plant. Probably another cool plant I saw in
<v Speaker 1>this habit. I want to give a shout out to
<v Speaker 1>dimorpho karpa whiz like ZENII. I don't know what the
<v Speaker 1>common name is. Don't ask me. I don't pay attention
<v Speaker 1>to that kind of thing. It's just a wooly ass mustard.
<v Speaker 1>It'll always be a wooly ass mustard to me able
<v Speaker 1>to grow, able to thrive in hot as balls conditions,
<v Speaker 1>very windy. The wind here alone, like the heat is bad,
<v Speaker 1>but you mix that wind with it, that West Texas wind,
<v Speaker 1>and it's amazing. Anything can grow out here at all.
<v Speaker 1>That wind dry shit out so quick. It's just I mean,
<v Speaker 1>you've got really really dry air that could just suck
<v Speaker 1>moisture out of leafs domata. And then you've got the
<v Speaker 1>wind two like forcefully moving this dry air past a leaf.
<v Speaker 1>Holy shit. Yeah, you gotta have hair, hairs or wax
<v Speaker 1>pal so dimorpho carpo whiz Lyzenia, not to be confused
<v Speaker 1>with Neriisyrenia camporum, another cool wooly desert mustard. But they've
<v Speaker 1>got much different fruit shape, right, dimorpho carpa dimorpho carpo,
<v Speaker 1>apparently referring to the carpals dimrpho. I only see one.
<v Speaker 1>There are two different kinds of two different shapes, two
<v Speaker 1>different morphologies of carpals here. I only see one. Looks
<v Speaker 1>like a little ass. It's kind of funny, looks like
<v Speaker 1>it does. It literally looks like a butt, like a
<v Speaker 1>two dimensional butt, like a flattened butt. Four white petal
<v Speaker 1>brassicacious flowers. You know, a morphology to the sepals and
<v Speaker 1>the petals, and then of course you got six stamens
<v Speaker 1>in there. Snapomorphis that has shared traits of the mustard
<v Speaker 1>family to brass Casey also saw dimorpho karpa. What was it,
<v Speaker 1>lenniers A dimorpho karpa canda cans. That thing was fucking cool.
<v Speaker 1>Look and the leaves on that little sawtooth margin to
<v Speaker 1>the leaf and they're all pointing directly up like a
<v Speaker 1>oppressed to the stem. That was at the sand dunes
<v Speaker 1>in New Mexico, east of Carl's Bed. A lot of
<v Speaker 1>cool shit east the Carl's bed. Carl's Bed is an
<v Speaker 1>interesting town. You could see the economy took a shit there.
<v Speaker 1>I went to a taco shop. It was very expensive
<v Speaker 1>for what it was, but I was happy to support
<v Speaker 1>it because there's not a lot of business in Carl's Bed.
<v Speaker 1>It's kind of rough in Carl's Bed. But these flood
<v Speaker 1>the flowers on Dimorpho karpa when you really look up close.
<v Speaker 1>I took a picture with the one hundred and five
<v Speaker 1>millimeters macro lens, and the fucking filaments are pink. The
<v Speaker 1>anthers are yell. Anthers of mustards have a really unique
<v Speaker 1>look to them too, kind of like this curved banana
<v Speaker 1>shape right. The thiki each lobe of the anther. Each
<v Speaker 1>anther on any plant has two thicky THCA singular have
<v Speaker 1>this like bent They've got a really unique shape, really
<v Speaker 1>fun to draw. Then the stigma is like this pink
<v Speaker 1>fuzzy thing in the center, but six stamens. And then
<v Speaker 1>those cupped sepals all fucking mustards look like that. Look
<v Speaker 1>at like kale flowers. Next time you'll see those kind
<v Speaker 1>of like cupped sepals. And then what flower? What color?
<v Speaker 1>What flow? What flower? What's the flower color on kale?
<v Speaker 1>Like a yellow? Unrelated, but I got I guess there's
<v Speaker 1>a long lost population of lofafra of peyote in Dryden,
<v Speaker 1>which is in Terrell County, which is far outside of
<v Speaker 1>the listed range that's listed in most books of PETI
<v Speaker 1>and I got access to I know exactly where it is,
<v Speaker 1>which is cool. It's on private land twenty miles off
<v Speaker 1>the main road, but it represents like an intermediate population
<v Speaker 1>between South and West Texas, and that would be a
<v Speaker 1>population worth collecting a little tissue sample from getting DNA sequencing,
<v Speaker 1>which would be amazing to do. I guess it's still
<v Speaker 1>technically illegal, but hopefully somebody does it. I love to
<v Speaker 1>find a way to reach out to the landowner and
<v Speaker 1>see because that would be cool. To map, like the
<v Speaker 1>genetic difference is I hope gets some fucking research student
<v Speaker 1>do this. You know, what are you guys going to
<v Speaker 1>college for someone's doing it? Is there still anyone listening
<v Speaker 1>to this podcast that I haven't offended or turned off?
<v Speaker 1>Who's is in academia? Like young people in academia? Because
<v Speaker 1>it was the young people in academia that were problem
<v Speaker 1>with older people were cool. I thought they were going
<v Speaker 1>to be squares. They were actually pretty cool. Was the
<v Speaker 1>younger people that maybe had a problem with me? I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. They took out all those student loans that
<v Speaker 1>I don't have. Maybe earn better about that anyway, A
<v Speaker 1>lot of cool There's a lot of cool people in
<v Speaker 1>academia though, But someone should study that and you could
<v Speaker 1>make a whole paper out of it out of because
<v Speaker 1>it is such a wild spot this area of the country,
<v Speaker 1>going from South Texas to West Texas, it is literally
<v Speaker 1>on the transition zone from humidity to aridity and the
<v Speaker 1>habitat changes. You could see it on a fucking satellite
<v Speaker 1>map for christ Sex. You could see the change from
<v Speaker 1>green to beije. Anywhere at any latitude along that hundredth meridian,
<v Speaker 1>you can see the change, and so, you know, like
<v Speaker 1>the so many plants Payota, like so many plants that
<v Speaker 1>share a distribution between West and South Texas, grows completely
<v Speaker 1>differently in a completely different habitat in West Texas than
<v Speaker 1>it does in South. Right, whether it's Jetrophi, Diaheka or
<v Speaker 1>sydney Attenua Folia or Lucophylum, you got Lucophylum minus. Different
<v Speaker 1>species out there in the drier areas of West Texas,
<v Speaker 1>but you know, not as hot, lower nighttime temps, cooler winters,
<v Speaker 1>and much more arid. So anyway, but this Terrell County
<v Speaker 1>population represents a really interesting I would love to just
<v Speaker 1>check out the habitat there, and Terry I think was
<v Speaker 1>the only person to go. He went out there in
<v Speaker 1>twenty ten. And supposedly there's another long lost population of
<v Speaker 1>Peyote la Fafa near lang Tree, which if you ever
<v Speaker 1>passed through lang Tree, please visit the Judge Roy Beam Museum.
<v Speaker 1>It's a wonderful, wonderful place to hide out from the
<v Speaker 1>one hundred and five degree heat, and they've got some
<v Speaker 1>brochures and stuff in here. You know, I think it's
<v Speaker 1>privately funded, so it's not going to be shut down
<v Speaker 1>by our corrupt government. You know it's gonna be a
<v Speaker 1>You have a nice time out there. They got a
<v Speaker 1>Texas pistache in a courtyard there, Texas pistachio, which of
<v Speaker 1>course got flooded, the only one of the only populations
<v Speaker 1>got flooded during the building of a reservoir on a
<v Speaker 1>Pecos River. I believe all right that, So I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>cut it off there. That's been an hour forty minutes.
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully you got something out of that. I'll do another
<v Speaker 1>podcaster soon. I've been I've been traveling a lot. I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna be traveling again. I don't I don't find time
<v Speaker 1>to do these. I don't get enough time to do
<v Speaker 1>these when I'm on the road, though I should. I need,
<v Speaker 1>like anybody got a recommendation on like a easy podcasting setup,
<v Speaker 1>portable podcasting setup that doesn't sound like shit. I used
<v Speaker 1>to just record these talking straight into the mic on
<v Speaker 1>the phone, and that wasn't that bad, you know, But
<v Speaker 1>I guess I shouldn't be. I shouldn't be such a
<v Speaker 1>princess about recording quote. It don't matter as long as
<v Speaker 1>you can hear me and it's audible, and there's not
<v Speaker 1>like a toilet flushing in a background or a bad event.
<v Speaker 1>It's not that bad anyway, I know. Let me know
<v Speaker 1>what you think, right, I just fucking sent me an
<v Speaker 1>email or something. Okay, we could do it. You want
<v Speaker 1>to get ask me life advice too. I'll get for
<v Speaker 1>what it's worth. It's not worth much, but I'll give
<v Speaker 1>you what I got. You know, I'll give you some
<v Speaker 1>advice you wants. You want advice, Okay. If you want
<v Speaker 1>to order stickers, they're twenty bucks now. This is a
<v Speaker 1>new inflation pricing. But I threw an extra one in there,
<v Speaker 1>two of which are color. Those color stickers cost a lot.
<v Speaker 1>All the designs are by me except by the except
<v Speaker 1>the crime page logo, which was done by the lovely
<v Speaker 1>Ken Davis, who just moved to Albuquerque. Shout out to
<v Speaker 1>Ken Davis over there in Albuquerque. He's a new Mexico
<v Speaker 1>resident in the land of Enchantment. Already have a lovely
<v Speaker 1>rescued day. Go fuck yourself, body. I'm walking down the
<v Speaker 1>street like Lucky the roof, got my hand in my
<v Speaker 1>pocket thinking by you. I ain't hurting nobody. I ain't
<v Speaker 1>a hurt no one. There's three hundred men in the
<v Speaker 1>state of Tennessee. They're waiting to die. They won't never
<v Speaker 1>be free. I ain't hurting nobody. I ain't a hurting
<v Speaker 1>no wine six million, seven hundred thousand and thirty.
<v Speaker 3>Three lights solid.
<v Speaker 1>You think someone could take the time that you sit
<v Speaker 1>down and listen to the words of my song. At
<v Speaker 1>the beach in Indiana, I was nine years old, heard
<v Speaker 1>little Richard singing Tute Corudie from the top of a telephone. Poak,
<v Speaker 1>I was nobody. I wasn't hurting no one. There's roosters
<v Speaker 1>laying chickens, and chickens laying eggs, farm machinery eating people's
<v Speaker 1>arms and legs. I ate hurt nobody hurt no one.
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<v Speaker 1>You'd think that waitress could get.
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<v Speaker 1>She's sitting on the back steps, just shucking that corn
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