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Hey, so in episode five, we talked about a lot of stuff, right?
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We talked about no mess, bird seed.
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We talked about moms sordid.
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Past as an operator of a garden chatline, but we were chatting about all that stuff
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while we were doing one major thing.
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And that was spritzing the weeds in mom's yard with this secret recipe for
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this non-toxic weed spray that we have.
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Um, so not everything that we were chatting about ended up in the episode.
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You know, there's a lot of conversation.
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There were a lot of weeds, but there was one moment actually that I really
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loved and it kind of didn't fit in the episode, but I wanted to share
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it with you here just as a little extra, a little, thanks for listening.
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Um, it's not a full episode and, and of itself, it's a sober reminder of the power
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of nature, and I thought you might enjoy so without further ado, let's get into it.
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Enjoy this little, uh, behind the scenes, extra little clippings tidbit.
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oh, my gosh, being out here in the front now just makes me remember the time when.
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thought I was really smart.
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yeah.
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And they are, have I told you how they do their seed dispersal?
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So this is, we're looking at a really beautiful Bush over here.
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Describe this Bush for us.
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I think it's called the Mexican bird of paradise and it blossoms,
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it just looks so tropical.
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It has these yellow blossoms.
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And then when they start to open these vibrant red.
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Um, what would you call 'em almost strings.
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Yeah.
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They almost look like saffron.
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Yes.
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You know, like those like long strings of saffron, it's really true.
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And the, the cluster of gold and saffrons probably like
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six by four inches, you know?
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Yeah.
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Pretty big, yeah.
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Size of a, a, you know, a thumb and a finger each blossom.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, um, yeah.
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You, you had a up close and experience once they bloom, then they, you
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know, put out little seed pods.
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Yeah.
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So, and then the seed pods.
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I had no idea.
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I could not figure out why I had so many pods, um, at a certain
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time of year in my driveway.
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And they were scattered all over the driveway and I was
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like, how does this happen?
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And I was out weeding in the front and I heard.
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And I was like, what the heck?
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And then I saw this pod come flying at me.
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Oh.
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So they pop, they explode.
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That's cool.
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Think so cool with the heat.
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Oh, so they grow and then once the summer sort of end of summer heat hits them.
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Yes, yes.
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And you just hear this well, and then clunk.
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Yeah.
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Well the, so the, the paws themselves look very appealing.
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They look like edamame mm-hmm and I was.
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I was at a, like a desert museum a long time ago.
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And they had this whole exhibit about how native and indigenous
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populations in the deserts found out that you could eat Mesquite beans.
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Right.
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And it was a good source of protein.
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And I went on a run and I came back and I was like, why not?
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I've just been to the desert.
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I'm a Hardy desert boy.
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I deserve some desert protein.
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And I mistook this Bush.
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For a Mesquite Bush, which it is not.
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Yep.
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And, uh, so I ate about four pods of these little Edam bees.
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I thought it was more than that.
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Yeah.
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Was it?
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Yeah.
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And we actually had to call poison control because the effects, the
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effects were rather dramatic.
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Yeah.
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So we say, well, I, uh, it was funny cuz it was the night of the debates
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between Biden and Trump and I had a very.
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Reaction digestive reaction and we thought it was just that.
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Yeah.
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But, uh, but come to find out, you know, oh my gosh.
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Three hours later, you were still having that reaction.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's you had to get poisoned light poison control said,
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uh, it can actually be fatal.
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I didn't eat that much.
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Right, right.
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Word to the wise.
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it's funny.
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Cuz I had posted, I was so proud of myself.
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after my run, I came out and I took a picture.
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And I posted the pods on Instagram and said like little known fact
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blah, blah, blah . And then I had to go back and like screencap it
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and then be like, do not do this.
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do not even think about, try, do not do this at home or add anybody else's home.
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Yeah.
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And now that I think about it, I don't know why I'm telling every.
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Why they should not listen to me at all, but , this has been
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an episode about retractions.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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This is not retractions.
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This is about constant learning and that's what garden, a lifetime of
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learning that is really what gardening is.
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And that's how we, that of course is how we have found out what
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speeds, what types of plants are okay to eat and what are not.
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yeah, you need like me, you feed 'em to neighbors that you don't care for
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and say, Hey, how are you feeling?
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yeah.
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Okay.
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Well, you've been warned.
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This has been clippings.
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Thanks so much for joining us on plant time.
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Check us out on Instagram at fresh clippings and we'll
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catch you in episode six.
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See?
