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Alexis: 100th episode. I wish I had like some really cool things to play there, but you got my version of that.
Brett: one hundred what what what one hundred like a jock like a DJ yeah crazy Ira
Plant People: A lot of energy.
Jessica : Yeah, I knew what you were doing. Yeah.
Plant People: You were your own soundboard. I appreciate that.
Alexis: but p
Plant People: Yeah, you were the you were the soundboard. I kind of got a parks and rec vibe a little bit to it there when you were making your own soundboard.
Jessica : Oh yeah, Leslie, nope.
Plant People: Yeah. Yeah.
Alexis: I'm here for it. And ah some of you who are maybe used to listening to this podcast via YouTube are noticing that our beautiful faces are now on for the 100th episode.
Plant People: Love it.
Jessica : You can actually see us.
Alexis: You can see us.
Brett: Yes, you can watch as well as listen.
Alexis: These are the ridiculous hand movements that we make during this process.
Brett: Lucky you.
Alexis: For those of you who are listening in the in the old traditional way, ah you know, we promise to make sure to remember that this is a ah audio Uh, thing mostly and not as much visual, but that being said, I want to show you my plan.
Brett: Right.
Alexis: and Okay.
Brett: Yeah, show them off.
Alexis: All right. This is in a Corgi pod.
Jessica : Oh.
Alexis: So I'll ah'll give some description. Uh, this is a Corgi pod, uh, as, as.
Brett: Ceramic?
Alexis: you
Brett: Ceramic corgi?
Alexis: ceramic corgi ah that was given to me. I now have three of them ah because people see them, not all from the same person, all different people, who they see them and they think, this is a pot that is a corgi.
Alexis: Obviously, Alexis needs it. and I'm quite flattered by that. so um I love the fact that I yeah see.
Jessica : Guilty.
Plant People: Winter, winter.
Alexis: um In it is a dragon fruit plant that I started from seed and I'm real proud of it.
Jessica : but
Alexis: so ah This thing in theory should get huge, but right now it's just little and pokey and it sits in my office. And I have like a bunch more at home because I can't let them die.
Alexis: So they just aren't pokey.
Plant People: Is that its name, Pokey, or is that just like a coincidence?
Alexis: No dragon, obviously.
Plant People: Okay. How about Pokey dragon?
Alexis: So anyways, this is my plant and it is the Hort Culture, ah you know, podcast. So that felt and like an appropriate first thing on our first video for the hundredth episode.
Plant People: It's good quality content.
Jessica : Very nice.
Plant People: It's good quality content.
Brett: to to adapt Descartes Corgito ergo es.
Brett: vito area
Alexis: Yes.
Plant People: What he said
Brett: that cogite you think I think therefore I am, you Corgi, therefore you are.
Alexis: Si señor.
Jessica : Yes. Okay.
Brett: I think that's why the that would be the translation from the Latin.
Alexis: Where's the lie?
Brett: So for the 3 % of people who liked what I just said, thank you very much. but I'm going to break a little bit of our ah normal flow here and put this at the beginning to say, if you have if you've been listening for a while or you're relatively new, if you haven't already taken the time to go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever format, whatever place you're listening and give us a ideally a five -star review and leave a comment in the case of Apple Podcasts or wherever you might be.
Brett: It really does help us to justify keep doing justify the keeping doing this to people that we work with and it makes us feel good too as a side benefit.
Alexis: and We also appreciate it.
Brett: um Yeah, yeah. and So we we put it at the end. And i I know sometimes I tend to just once the content is over, I skip past all that stuff. And so this one time, you know, we don't, we know you know, we don't front load asks for, like, subscribe, hit the bell icon, for example, you know, if this were a YouTube channel.
Brett: Oh, wait, it is.
Plant People: Oh, yeah.
Alexis: Oh, wait.
Brett: um But yeah, any any of that feedback, it really does actually help us to keep doing this.
Plant People: Yeah. yeah
Alexis: We do brag about it and how awesome all of you people are and all the places that you're listening from. So ah thank you for giving that to us.
Jessica : Mm hmm.
Brett: Yeah. And so you you mentioned, you mentioned we're coming up on a hundred.
Alexis: We are at a hundred not coming up. We are this is.
Jessica : This is 100.
Plant People: ah
Brett: We've arrived on it.
Plant People: Another, it's a the hundredth episode of the food podcast. It feels like I know to some of you guys, we love introing with food.
Jessica : Do you love talking about food?
Plant People: Yes, I love eating food and I love talking about it.
Alexis: Well, I mean, part of horticulture is food. It's a lot of other things too, but food is part of the culture.
Plant People: That is part of the culture. I like it, Alexis. Yes. Yeah, a big part of it.
Alexis: Duh. That's why I bring it up.
Plant People: with
Alexis: Also, I like cheese. So what? Come at me.
Plant People: you You always have to the s slide into the fact of something with cheese.
Brett: Yeah, it is a theme.
Alexis: Yeah.
Plant People: I mean, cheese is always in season is why I enjoy that. Cheese is always in season. It is.
Alexis: I am so good with that being something people relate to me. She always talks about cheese. Like if that's, that's the vibe, I'm okay with it.
Jessica : That's what I'm known for. I'm fine with that, right?
Plant People: that that's That's pretty strong.
Alexis: That's fine.
Brett: um Some would argue that value and ah one of our former our former host, Josh Knight would would be among this group would argue that value added dairy is perhaps the highest form of human achievement because it's Yeah, it's amazing.
Brett: It's this the opportunity to to capture all of this energy and flavor and delicious stuff, and you can also store it like for a while.
Jessica : It lasts a long time.
Brett: Amazing.
Alexis: I just heard Josh go off in my head all about that. Like I just heard his voice.
Brett: Yeah, yeah. Well, speaking of old Josh, Um, we've obviously kept up with him. He's, he's relocated up to the new England areas.
Brett: We're still working in agriculture up there. Uh, do it seemingly doing well, just drinking his weight in maple syrup, I assume.
Alexis: We know, I personally know a lot more about maple syrup now that he is in that area than I used to, so.
Jessica : as one does up there.
Brett: Uh,
Brett: but this 2024. We celebrated by adding a new, she converted from true leaf and guest to full host.
Jessica : Woo hoo.
Jessica : I did. And it was, ah it's okay.
Brett: Makes it sound like a parasite or something, but it's, you know.
Plant People: You.
Jessica : You know, I'm a bug person, so.
Plant People: She kind of fell for it. she but we We invited her on as a guest, and she did, of course, a great job talking about some things. And we were like, yes, that was the gateway.
Alexis: She's kind of like the only person we thought of.
Plant People: That was the gateway.
Jessica : Well.
Alexis: We were like, Hey, we need a new host. Who do you think would be interested? Like, who would we enjoy? And all of us were gonna like suggest like, suggest that.
Jessica : Oh, they're like gonna make me cry now that like we're being filmed.
Brett: at the exact same time.
Alexis: Yeah.
Brett: We all said Jessica.
Jessica : Well, thank you.
Brett: Cry for the camera Jessica, it's good for views.
Jessica : I've enjoyed being on here. Right?
Plant People: but But you know, I questioned it. i was um I was the one. I said, but does she like cheese? And the answer was, of course, yes. So it was a lock, 100%.
Jessica : Yes. I do like cheese.
Plant People: It was a lock.
Jessica : Yeah.
Alexis: Obviously in.
Plant People: so
Jessica : That was like the final like interview process. I had to list off a bunch of cheeses that I like and how to prepare them to get onto this.
Alexis: Yeah.
Alexis: cheese advent calendar.
Jessica : Yes. Oh yeah. Cheese advent calendar.
Alexis: ah Those are things.
Jessica : So.
Alexis: And Jessica got me one for Christmas and it was incredible. ah
Jessica : And we would text each day about what cheese did you open today?
Alexis: It was a vibe.
Jessica : And do you like it or not?
Alexis: Yeah. It was, I had pocket cheese because it was like individually wrapped.
Plant People: and
Alexis: So it would go in my pocket and then pocket cheese.
Jessica : Mm hmm.
Plant People: That's like, is it the cheeses that need to be served at room temperature or slightly above?
Jessica : Wonderful.
Alexis: Sure.
Plant People: You put it in your pocket and you want it?
Alexis: We'll say yes.
Jessica : Yeah, they were fine.
Alexis: I was never ill, so that's what matters.
Plant People: Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Jessica : They were good either way.
Brett: Cheese is a dish best served cold.
Alexis: Sorry, I brought it back to cheese. My bad.
Jessica : Back to cheese again.
Brett: Yeah, we can't we can't escape it.
Plant People: It's.
Alexis: This is a plant podcast, I understand.
Brett: Tis the season for cheesin'.
Jessica : Well, I can say that I felt very honored to be asked your podcast because, you know, everybody had talked about how cool you guys were and how cool the podcast was.
Plant People: That's us telling people that we were like, they're so cool.
Jessica : So it should, it was just, it was just, and I would hang out with like the three of you and then you all would just tell me about how cool you were.
Alexis: Yeah.
Brett: Yeah, I'm glad those marketing materials are getting out.
Alexis: It's just, I'll give you five bucks.
Plant People: yeah
Jessica : So I was influenced.
Alexis: like We're like awesome. So you're welcome for being here. um
Plant People: We, we, we've had a truly, we've had a good time with the podcast.
Brett: Yeah.
Plant People: And when you guys say that it's like Alexis, you said it's the a hundredth episode. I really ah can't believe it because it feels like, you know, when we're preparing the show and going over show notes and things we're going to talk about.
Alexis: him
Plant People: You know, during recording sessions, uh, we get to hang out with one another and I enjoy everyone's company here. And I think there's always been this kind of, you know, when we were first conceptualizing this and wondering if we should do it or not, we knew that it had to be something that built our energy up rather than took it down because it does take a lot of time.
Plant People: It takes dedication. I know we're only 100 episodes in, but it's a weekly podcast and and it's on top of all of our regular ah duties that we do otherwise, but this is it's the kind of show that it's been for me.
Brett: Right.
Alexis: Right.
Plant People: it's ah It sort of builds me up to kind of hang out with these folks and and we goof off and then the mic comes on and then we goof off some more. And we talk about really cool things with really cool guests and we do ah you know all these things that that sometimes feels like plant therapy.
Jessica : Yes.
Brett: Right.
Plant People: So it's it's been a really cool experience.
Brett: Yeah.
Jessica : Right.
Plant People: And I just can't believe it's been 100 episodes.
Jessica : You have to learn a lot of things too, right?
Plant People: I really can't.
Alexis: Mm hmm.
Plant People: Yes, I love hearing from you.
Jessica : It was just our guests and from each other and it's been good.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: Yeah, I think, I think for me, you know, the, like any job, the more you do it, the more you get into it, the more that the bureaucracy and everything develops, you start to lose pieces of the reason you got into it, the like actual core of why you were doing it in the first place.
Jessica : So.
Alexis: And.
Brett: Sometimes, especially, you know, other things in life come up. And so for me, this is like, yeah talking about this stuff is at one of the cores of why I got into extension, why I'm interested in this stuff to begin with is,
Brett: this human connection, it's the mission, it's the ideas, it's the things we wanna share with people while also having a good time and ah celebrating just being human and interacting with plants, which is that the culture of horticulture.
Brett: It's just this weird little, weird large group of people who just, they just can't get enough of these photosynthic photosynthetic friends.
Alexis: It's the difference between horticulture and botany because like I think sometimes that people don't grasp.
Jessica : We love plants.
Brett: Yeah.
Alexis: It's like, no, I'm not a botanist. I'm a horticulturist and botanist will say the same thing.
Brett: and Oh, man.
Alexis: And I think it's the the human interaction and the social, yeah, the social and economic side of botany added in.
Plant People: Botany is a science and horticulture is a social way. I mean, I know it's not clear cut like that. Yeah, maybe so.
Brett: You think we could like start a beef with botanists?
Plant People: I like it.
Alexis: Ooh, fight.
Plant People: I think, yeah.
Jessica : Probably.
Alexis: at me. Maybe we should have a botan maybe we should just have a botanist on and then we can bridge those differences.
Jessica : Just
Brett: We can.
Jessica : Look, I, I could start it cause you're just going to give me like plant names that I can't pronounce.
Plant People: We could have like a sing off.
Brett: Okay. Well, I guess.
Jessica : Right.
Brett: Yeah.
Jessica : And then that's going to set some people off like right there.
Brett: Yeah, like Tomato.
Alexis: Listen, as a reminder, Latin is a dead language so who's gonna tell you you're wrong?
Brett: Am I saying that right?
Jessica : Po -tay -toe.
Brett: Ooh.
Jessica : Oh, there you go.
Brett: I did open with Korgito Ergo S, so I might be the one who tells you.
Plant People: we just took his word for it we're like
Alexis: I might be the one offending everyone else, yeah.
Brett: That is an example of something that if I heard it, it would make me chuckle. So I have a feeling it won't make anyone else laugh, which is which is great. what what if what if So we've we've done a lot of episodes in our time here.
Brett: um How many?
Alexis: One would say almost 100.
Brett: Yeah, 99 up till today, and then 100 as of today, just to catch you up to do some quick math.
Alexis: 99, previously.
Brett: I did some more math. went but I went back through all of our episodes and I created a strange little methodology for determining which ones were our most popular while trying to control for the fact that some of these episodes have been out in the ether for a hundred weeks and people can go and they can start from the beginning or they can find it.
Brett: Some of them have been out in the ether for ah you know less than ah less than a week.
Jessica : Mm -hmm.
Brett: And so I tried to control for that using a methodology I'm publishing in podcasts, dorks monthly coming out next month. Uh, and I thought maybe, maybe we could run down a top 10 list here, uh, of, of our most popular episodes and see what we can remember, if we can remember anything from them.
Plant People: Sure.
Jessica : right
Plant People: Awesome.
Alexis: Cool.
Brett: Yeah. And so these are, these are so across the gamut all the way ah through 2023 and 2024. We're now in 2025. So none of those are are included. So number 10, like a drum roll, or I need a drum roll or something.
Brett: Fall from from October 23rd, 2023. Fall is for planting.
Alexis: Yeah, that was like a reminder that fall could be a time for planting.
Plant People: ah feel like I feel like anything with the title, I don't know, it's something about Ottoman. I know we've talked a lot about seasonality on this podcast and and how we love the changing of the seasons, it seems like.
Plant People: And everything associated with that, but I think it's an unfair leg up that it's a fall topic because those fall topics, they seem to do pretty well um because that's a fairly, you know, generalized.
Alexis: o
Plant People: That's a, that's a general name for that podcast and people find these things and discover them, you know, multitude of different ways, but.
Alexis: Oh, you're saying the word fall is like like a tag.
Plant People: Yeah, just fall. I mean, so do people search autumn?
Jessica : I feel like it's first fall.
Plant People: Do they search fall? ah Do they search planting? Yeah. I mean, how did how did did it get to the top?
Alexis: Well, yeah, it depends where they're located at.
Plant People: Yeah, but exactly.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: So you bring into geography into that and it kind of confounds it even more, but I feel like those fall episodes, I love them. ah It's a real turning of the seasons here in Kentucky where we're at, you know, zone six and seven or whatever the latest song is going to be in the future.
Plant People: Uh, but, uh, I do love those fall episodes. So it's no surprise to me that that, did you say that was number 10 out of the top 10?
Brett: Number 10. Yeah. And good it's a good ah good ah good observation, Ray, that ah five out of these top 10 were either it were in September, October, or November of one year or the other.
Plant People: Okay. Doesn't that not surprising.
Plant People: You know, we're in a seasonal business. we If we're talking with producers and homeowners, and as yeah I guess that's not surprising. Also, I think about the seasonality and all the discussions we've had, you know, we're going into longer nights, shorter days, maybe people, I don't know, maybe they have more time to do things like listen to podcasts. What do you guys think?
Brett: Could be, could be that. Yeah, I don't know it that maybe we maybe we are on our game then because we've we have shared our summer on we and.
Plant People: I don't know.
Alexis: Could be they just didn't yeah, could be they didn't know
Plant People: I could be.
Plant People: Maybe they sense that energy that we bring when we're talking about fall and the day's getting cooler and we've been sweating out of every open pore in our body.
Brett: Mm hmm.
Plant People: ah For those of you guys, especially those of you guys, I mean, the host here that that produce, you know, food and fiber and fun other fun things ah for the world.
Alexis: dont know
Plant People: ah Yeah. Yeah.
Brett: Yeah. Well, number nine, organic matter, the unsung hero of healthy soil from October 20th, 2024.
Alexis: What's number nine? Yeah.
Jessica : Hmm.
Plant People: OK.
Alexis: Okay, so that one's not been out very long to be in the top ten.
Jessica : That one hasn't been long.
Plant People: That was a good one. That was a really fun one.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: that one's that That one was a fun one and organic matter can be pretty simple to talk about or you can take a super deep dive into organic matter and I think I remember that from that episode that it can be a it can get into complex science, botany level science even if you will.
Jessica : Yeah.
Alexis: Wah!
Plant People: Yeah, that was a good one.
Brett: Hmm.
Plant People: That was a fun episode ah talking about organic matter because it's so critically important to so much of what we talk about and what we do in the field of horticulture.
Brett: The botany discrepancy, it feels like it could be like the parks and rec ah parks department versus libraries, or it's like the botanists like, okay.
Plant People: no then it and and
Plant People: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: This but this is where the subdivisions happen, people who were cultivars and you guys are just like natively occurring.
Brett: You know.
Jessica : Straight
Alexis: Straight species.
Plant People: Yeah.
Jessica : species.
Brett: number eight on the list fall garden and landscape cleanup from august 27th 2023 so so far we got we got some what some that are break the break the pattern coming up but
Plant People: Apparently, we're just going to have to put the word fall on things.
Jessica : It's all all themed.
Plant People: ah Yeah.
Alexis: Well, yeah, do you think, I was wondering, do you think it's because I think people tend to know more about like summer growing a garden and like the flowers, you know, zinnias and the petunias and fall is is still a little unknown for a lot of newer gardeners, like the opportunities and what you should be doing.
Jessica : Right.
Alexis: I like to think it's because they want to learn. Not just because they're like pumpkin spice lattes, but that's okay too.
Plant People: yeah Yeah, probably so, Lexus. That's what I was thinking. ah People are you know getting ready to shut things down. or It's a transition period, so people want to know how to deal with that, maybe.
Jessica : Their gardens are already dead, so what can I do now with it?
Alexis: Yeah, they're like, eh, what do I do now?
Plant People: Yeah. What do we do with this dead garden now? Yeah.
Alexis: By August, yeah.
Plant People: yeah
Jessica : Yeah. Yeah.
Brett: Yeah, I mean, again, and I guess fall is the kind of beginning of the dreaming of the next round.
Jessica : yeah
Brett: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, some of this is again, this isn't like a hardcore methodology. It was just trying to attempt to see episodes that stood out relative to their time peers like around the same time peers like this was most these are the most you know, from their era.
Plant People: No.
Jessica : Mm -hmm.
Brett: These are the most ah most popular episodes. So Next one here from, from January 28th. So breaking the cycle, 2024, Kentucky horticulture economic situation and outlook 2024, which featured Dr.
Alexis: so Did we have Tim on that one?
Jessica : Wow.
Alexis: Yeah.
Brett: Tim woods of agricultural economics at the university of Kentucky.
Alexis: Have we told him he's in top 10 yet?
Jessica : Aw.
Brett: I haven't told him I'm trying to, you know, we're trying to do some ego management. Uh, just, uh, no, I'm just kidding.
Alexis: Oh. He's gonna watch that this and be like, excuse me?
Brett: if You know, Tim, you know, Tim, that's kind of a funny thing.
Alexis: Yeah.
Brett: Yeah.
Jessica : hey
Brett: Uh,
Plant People: that This was great discussion on this one. I mean, ab I particularly like this because I love the econ outlooks and current analysis of the current situation, but it kind of surprised me that it was so high on the list, but I guess that speaks maybe to the fact of the commercial listeners that are on here.
Brett: Yeah.
Plant People: I mean, it's an economic outlook.
Brett: i I think it's also possible that that Tim got very excited about it and like sent it to a bunch of people and then they listened to it because he was on it.
Plant People: It usually doesn't evoke really strong passion, econ, but maybe it did in this case. so
Plant People: Oh.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: Yeah, very well.
Brett: I think that's entirely possible.
Jessica : That's sweet.
Plant People: yeah Are you saying he spammed his entire mailing list?
Jessica : And hopefully, you know, that is.
Alexis: I was supposed to say, that's adorable.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: No, I think it's cool.
Alexis: I hope he did.
Brett: yeah i'm i'm not just as if it's It's a funny idea.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: of tip well and it's part of it's that tim Tim and I have worked together for 10 years, and so we know each other very well, and so I'm just teasing.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: and But I do think he was like he was into it, and it was cool, and it was this fun, different thing, which is what we're trying to do with this podcast, ah is is we don't want this to feel like,
Brett: a really dry university output, you know, that we want it to be something that's listenable and fun, but also has some some substance to it.
Jessica : Right.
Brett: and And hopefully that comes through in these topics.
Alexis: worth Worth your time that you might get a giggle out of.
Jessica : Right.
Alexis: That's the goal. That's my goal.
Brett: Yes, exactly. Um, so number, let's see, what am I on seven?
Alexis: Giggles.
Plant People: Great episode.
Alexis: Seven.
Brett: Number seven, let's see, 10, nine, eight, no, number six. Sorry. That number seven was the economic situation, cultivating community, urban and community gardens with Bethany Pratt.
Alexis: Okay.
Brett: That is our most recently featured episode on the list from a November 3rd, 2024.
Jessica : That was... Yeah.
Alexis: top notch.
Jessica : Yeah.
Brett: Yeah.
Alexis: And a cool, yeah, something different to think about like that.
Plant People: and
Jessica : Really cool. Yeah.
Alexis: Well, it just like, you know, if people who maybe aren't involved in like urban community gardens, you know, what is that like, or people who are wanting to start them, you know, certain maybe the search for community garden that popped up and
Plant People: Yeah, the keyword community garden, I mean, yeah.
Jessica : Yeah. Cause she had such a great perspective well you were from where she's been doing it for years, like great perspective on it and all the things that can go right.
Jessica : All the things that can go wrong. You know, um, she could probably talk for another hour about, um, Management and yes.
Plant People: And the complexity behind it, yeah.
Alexis: Yeah, and it's like so much less about the actual garden itself. It's all the rags behind it, too, just like to be able to use a space.
Jessica : Yeah.
Alexis: It's interesting.
Jessica : It's a very,
Brett: You wouldn't, you wouldn't want a botanist in charge of the community garden. You would want a horticulturist, a person who's able to bridge that gap.
Jessica : No, you would.
Alexis: or Or a lawyer who's really good at paperwork.
Plant People: Can work with culture.
Brett: I'm going to just wear that bit out for the rest of the episode. Just so everyone gets strapped in.
Plant People: You're going to ride that pony into the sunset, Brett.
Jessica : Yeah.
Alexis: I'm gonna have like every botanist that is known like emailing me ferociously.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: Yeah.
Alexis: ah How dare you?
Brett: Yeah. at At me, go ahead. At me botanist at horticulture podcast.
Plant People: That just means they're listening.
Jessica : We're just getting us more listens, right?
Brett: Hit me up.
Plant People: I like it.
Brett: I'm in the DMs.
Alexis: Specifically Brett.
Brett: Let me know what's up. I could square off with grafting knives or something. oh Yeah.
Plant People: Oh, those are sharp.
Jessica : Oh, those, yeah, those are, so yes.
Plant People: Be careful.
Alexis: I have those in a lot of places.
Brett: ah Yeah. You don't even feel it.
Alexis: Yeah.
Jessica : Remember, we must always take them out of our bags before we get on an airplane, Alexis, right?
Plant People: Zero.
Alexis: um no
Jessica : We must always do that.
Alexis: there
Plant People: Oh gosh.
Brett: o Oh, wow.
Alexis: They're like they' in a lot of spaces.
Brett: That sounds like a podcast episode.
Plant People: There's a, not only do you have a knife, you have several knives.
Alexis: isn
Jessica : We just have a lot of grafting knives in different places.
Plant People: Okay.
Alexis: I have like one in my car, one in one in my desk.
Brett: TSA, the TSA violations of a horticulturalist.
Alexis: want You never know when you might need to graph something, okay?
Jessica : Right.
Brett: Yeah, well, something you might graft potentially would be a pawpaw tree.
Jessica : Or, you know.
Brett: And number five on our list is the pawpaw primer, which featured Dr. ah Kirk, I forgot his first name, Kirk Pomper.
Plant People: Kirk the Pumper, yeah.
Alexis: pomper.
Jessica : However,
Plant People: I had to think myself. Yeah, I was like, what was it?
Brett: I was like, Dr.
Plant People: What was the name?
Brett: Pomper, what?
Plant People: He's committed.
Brett: dr Dr.
Plant People: What was the name?
Brett: Kirk Pomper sat down with us and pawpaws are always a big draw.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: This was another another relatively recent episode from September 8th, 2024.
Plant People: Yeah.
Plant People: Yeah, that's a unique program.
Brett: And just talking about the amazing pawpaw program that they have at KSU, ah nationally and internationally known for pawpaw genetic research and yeah.
Alexis: and Literally bred pawpaws that people buy now. Like those are KSU pawpaws, which is so cool.
Plant People: Yeah.
Jessica : yeah, so cool.
Plant People: It was such a great, great discussion and learned so much myself personally from hearing from someone like him that is involved on an international level and on a genetics level.
Jessica : Mm hmm.
Plant People: It was so cool. That was a really super cool episode.
Alexis: Literally writing the book.
Jessica : Same.
Plant People: Yeah. Yeah.
Jessica : It's really.
Plant People: So good.
Brett: it's also It's also fun to bring, so so Dr. Pompers, Kirk is another person we've known and worked with for as long as I've been here, and it's fun to bring people you know in these other contexts into this environment.
Alexis: mmm informal yeah oh to be guess yeah
Brett: Where we're like, it's like, this is a little, it's a little more wacky than you're used to.
Jessica : Yes, a little laid back, right?
Brett: Yeah. Informal. Yeah. Yeah.
Jessica : Yeah.
Brett: Like this is chill, man. And I saw us telling, I was, we were at a, at a, at a conference recently, I was trying to explain to people who clearly weren't listeners. Otherwise they would know that we're how we are. Um, but I was trying to try to, try to tell them like, it's pretty chill, but they were all real nervous and they want to know, you know, how to prepare.
Brett: And I was like, well, okay. To be guests. Yeah.
Jessica : Yeah.
Brett: So there'll be some more guests coming up.
Plant People: What do you know about food and cheese?
Brett: Um, but yeah, it's, it's always just fun to be like, yeah.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: And our, the way that we are with, with him was fun.
Jessica : it I could say that from, you know, being a guest the first time I was like, what do you ask me to talk about bees? And then I was like, I know nothing about bees. How many years have I had bees, right?
Alexis: I was like, Jessica, you know lots of things about bees.
Brett: Yeah.
Plant People: What is your formal training in Jessica again?
Brett: In all of my years of having bees, I've not learned anything.
Jessica : that was like And was like, I need to read everything I know about bees, you know, before I got on here.
Plant People: Yeah.
Alexis: I know nothing.
Alexis: I was like, you
Jessica : And then of course, once I got on here, it was like, super chill.
Alexis: like oh yeah, kind of some bees, some stuff about bees.
Plant People: We luck, honey.
Jessica : And then like, Yeah. And then, you know, it just flows easily and good conversation.
Plant People: Nice. wellde Well played.
Brett: i I think for me for me this this format or this the way that we do this, it feels like the best version of having an after meeting conversation after extension meeting conversation.
Plant People: Well played.
Alexis: The meeting after the meeting, yeah.
Jessica : and so
Brett: Yeah. with like like you go and do like I'll go and do a program about farmer's market prices. and then afterward people come up to me and they ask questions and i'm just myself very similar to the how i am on the podcast social interacting same me with eight with agents like it's just like the best version of that in this podcast form where there's information but it's friendly it's the people or it matters who the people are that are sharing i think that to me is what i really enjoy the most about the vibe that we are able have been able to create is it feels like going into an extension office or going into ah and and talking to somebody about someone who that somebody who cares about this maybe as much as you do, ah maybe more in the case of some of you crazy people.
Jessica : What was that?
Alexis: Spotness.
Brett: Now you're the one.
Plant People: Yeah, yeah.
Brett: Okay, so number number four on the list. About to crack the top three here in a second. ah From the day before Halloween, August 30th, 2023, Fall Vibes.
Alexis: August, September, October.
Brett: What?
Alexis: Did you say August? You said August 30th, the day before Halloween.
Jessica : I guess...
Brett: It's also called October. I mean, it depends on which, you know, if you're on a Gregorian calendar or...
Alexis: but Also known as ah October.
Jessica : I was like, that is not close to Halloween.
Plant People: That's Latin, Alexis. That's Latin. Come on.
Brett: I'll actually listen.
Alexis: My i bet.
Plant People: Nobody's going to know. Nobody's going to know.
Alexis: My bet.
Brett: You listen to me more than I listen to myself, because I...
Plant People: Nobody's going to know.
Jessica : ah just Just let him keep talking, OK?
Alexis: Yeah.
Jessica : Let's just keep going.
Brett: They kind of both start with that ah, that ah sound, you know?
Alexis: My bet. I'm sorry. I threw you off.
Brett: And I i just sound it out on the font, Child of Phonics.
Plant People: Phonetically, it's yeah, it's tough. That was a good one.
Brett: October.
Plant People: I love the spooky vibes of that one. It was kind of of you.
Alexis: Did you say the name?
Brett: Fall vibes in plant folklore.
Jessica : Yeah, what was the name?
Brett: Fall vibes in plant folklore.
Alexis: Yeah.
Jessica : Ray's just looking at his own list over there.
Plant People: Yeah, I'm looking at my own.
Alexis: He's like, I remember the folklore.
Plant People: I print, I print everything, but I liked that because it was a little different and plants are, you know, that's one of those things we came up with the ideal, however, and we got to thinking, well, could we have enough material for that?
Plant People: But it turns out we did because plants being a part of culture and culture having its own ethos and kind of its own folklore was not a terribly hard one to do, but it was a terribly fun one to do.
Plant People: So that was a good one.
Brett: Yeah, do you all do you remember offhand any like I think we talked maybe about the turnip to but ah turn up the pumpkin jack -o'-lantern pipeline?
Plant People: that Like.
Plant People: Yeah, we talked about divining for water on that one.
Jessica : Ooh!
Plant People: we Yeah, we talked, a very interesting discussion on that one.
Brett: Oh, yeah, the divining rods. Oh, man, that was so fun.
Plant People: Yeah, there was a lot of a discussion like you know that was regional based.
Brett: Is there another word besides divining?
Plant People: Well, I guess I've heard it called many, like the water witching, or there's several different terms I've heard it called, so.
Brett: Like a more folksy word?
Alexis: yeah uh water witching i've heard what is that word uh something rod like isn't it like yeah but there's another we all need to go back and listen to them so
Brett: It's a word.
Plant People: Yeah, yeah Alexis needs to look that up for us.
Brett: There's another word that.
Plant People: and
Brett: What the divining rod, but I thought I would have to go back and listen to that episode and and see if we.
Plant People: Yeah, that's the stakes.
Brett: many of women should to shouldn't Yeah,
Plant People: yeah Yeah, that was a fun one though. I mean, it had that creepy plant vibe and know that was really, really good stuff. And we talked about creepy plants, I believe like not shade and some of the ones that have a well -deserved reputation for you know nefarious thing reasons.
Brett: Mm hmm.
Plant People: So yeah, was that that was ah that was a fun one.
Brett: yeah Yeah, I think in general, we've done we've done some episodes that have a little more of a cult cultural human cultural flavor than the the plant side. Some of those you know performed okay. as as far as i mean they All of them do ah do fine and we really appreciate all of our listeners, but as far as pulling out what we do, this was one of them that had that porch that culture of horticulture feel, I thought, a which was really fun.
Brett: I'm glad it was in and this top little bit.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: So number three on our list comes from the third month of the year, May, ah no, sorry, March.
Alexis: I was like, May is not.
Jessica : I was like, uh, my birthday's in March.
Alexis: Oh, they're in my ear. Brett, get it together!
Brett: ah you didn't call the call Call the gas company, my house, call help.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: Oxygen's being depleted.
Brett: March 10th, 2023, so you bought a farm.
Plant People: Was that our very first episode?
Brett: It was our very first episode.
Plant People: Yeah, I thought so, yeah.
Alexis: Aww!
Jessica : Oh.
Brett: March 10th, 2023.
Alexis: The very first episode, pop three.
Plant People: You can tell because we didn't talk about a food as much on the intro.
Brett: Yeah.
Plant People: You can tell it was the first episode.
Brett: I actually do kind of want to go back and listen to that one and just hear how so how stiff and nervous we might've been.
Alexis: There was no cheese involved.
Alexis: no
Brett: And just like, ah.
Alexis: We had like um like, I still have ah my um ah notebook that I wrote a bunch of stuff down in and like the the intro and what I was going to say on the out, which is, and you know, how I outlined every episode.
Alexis: I still have all those like random notes with doodles all over them.
Plant People: I don't even know if we had the intro jingle and the outro jingle.
Alexis: And yeah,
Jessica : Which now, yeah, now you can just like repeat that anywhere, right?
Plant People: I don't think we had any of that. Yeah.
Jessica : You're international.
Alexis: yes.
Plant People: In your sleep.
Brett: Burned into our brains.
Alexis: Just like I can still do the radio.
Jessica : So if you want, if you want some entertainment, listen to like the little episodes that Ray and I did for Christmas. And we were like, yeah yeah, check us out on Instagram and all the things and, and, and yeah, grow with us.
Plant People: We're on there and stuff and grow something with this. Yeah.
Alexis: I don't always say that.
Jessica : Thank you.
Alexis: Sometimes I forget.
Jessica : Well, we think you always say it, okay?
Alexis: My bad.
Brett: yeah
Jessica : Just let it live like that in our heads that you always say it.
Plant People: Yeah. if you But that that that was something that sort of developed and then Alexa standardized it by actually recording it. We were able to inject that into the podcast program and it became our thing, our intro and our exit jingle is just the jingle.
Plant People: But yeah, things like that you pick up over time, you pick up a rhythm and that's part of getting to know you guys and knowing, you know, what we can talk about and kind of, you know, kind of our vibe.
Alexis: And apparently, a lot of people have bought a farm and they don't know what to do with it.
Plant People: yeah And that was a really good discussion.
Brett: Yes.
Plant People: We talked about some of our classic tools.
Jessica : there are lots of people
Plant People: Yeah. I mean, because that that's one of the biggest questions we get is, you know, folks that are new to farming, they're like, well, what's the practicality?
Jessica : um so
Plant People: We have 10 -tilibor acres, you know, and then they start from scratch. And that's a common scenario we have. And that's why I enjoyed that discussion so much. And hearing, you know, your guys take Uh, at that time it was, uh, Josh, Brett and Alexis, but hearing everyone's take on things that you need to focus on first when you're answering that question.
Jessica : There are lots of people.
Plant People: So what do I do now that I have a farm and thinking there is so that it was a really great structured discussion. So is the base ground.
Jessica : Oh, that's right.
Alexis: .EDU.
Jessica : I was going to say go through the CCD website, take the work quiz, or I can't say it the best quiz.
Brett: hord mithqui
Alexis: but m quiz It's just fun to say.
Brett: Yeah, see.
Jessica : Yeah.
Alexis: What's number two?
Jessica : Never to. Yeah.
Brett: I somehow closed out. Ray, do you have number two over there?
Alexis: Oh, my gosh.
Plant People: Uh, I think that was, uh, yeah, we are up to number two, how to grow more in less space. The secrets of interplanting and companion planting.
Alexis: and
Jessica : Wow.
Plant People: So ah basically intensive growing in small spaces, sort of a, we talked ah about like raised raised bed garden spaces and interplanting and a lot of the, a lot of the concepts of intensive planning.
Alexis: The nuances, and that was from April of 23, so only about a month after we first got started.
Plant People: Yeah.
Plant People: Yeah.
Brett: Yeah, we hit our stride early it seems.
Alexis: Just downhill from there, baby.
Plant People: We did. But yeah and but that once again, that's a common question we get is ah these intensive gardening or intensive space, small space gardening, all of these things are are super common things that we see on a weekly basis in county offices, especially during like April, May and June, the you know the growing months and the getting started months of growing things.
Alexis: And just like the, uh, I think companion planting, if you're new can be like a super hyped up thing, but kind of being realistic about what that means and what benefits are there versus what people think are there, uh, is an important distinction that hopefully those of you who listen, learn.
Plant People: yeah
Jessica : Right.
Brett: So before before we reveal number one, I wanted to just invite you all to if you had one that we haven't talked about that jumps out in your mind or that you remember that you enjoyed and and really liked.
Plant People: This is a good one.
Brett: Yeah, do you have do you have one and if the answer is no, that's okay.
Alexis: Well, Jessica has less to pick from unless she wants to talk about one she wasn't on.
Brett: I'll go.
Brett: Well, and I'll let I'll give you guys a chance to think and I'll go ahead and share.
Alexis: She just loved.
Alexis: Yeah.
Brett: So mine, which happens to be the very worst performing episode that we have done.
Brett: Is reasons we grow other than money, which was from June 4th, 2023.
Plant People: I enjoyed that one. That was one of my favorites. Yeah.
Alexis: Yeah, that was a good one to record.
Brett: Yeah. And when I would not say worst, the gap between first and worst is not like so big that it's, you know, forget about it altogether. But um I just really liked that because it just, I think it is an example of how our podcast is maybe a little bit different.
Alexis: Mm hmm.
Brett: that we have this range all the way from companion planting and interplanting and soil ah you know organic soil or sorry organic matter soil all the way through to inspiration and folklore and and all that kind of stuff.
Alexis: Mm hmm.
Jessica : Is it on?
Brett: That that range it it and and has underscored to me how much of human activity in life is impacted by plants and our interactions and relationships with them.
Brett: And it was cool because at that point you know this was again three months into us doing the podcast and I think all of you all were a little bit like. What is this idea for this episode like what can we talk about we can just you know should we just talk about like being human with plants and of course now we've leaned in that into that altogether but we were just figuring it out.
Brett: So yeah, absolutely dead last. um And just to add insult to injury, the second to worst was one of the early episodes, Strategies for Pricing Your Hort Crops, which was another one that was featured in stuff that I'm interested in.
Jessica : you I don't...
Plant People: Well, it's probably because we laid in with the term strategies and people were like, no, no, thank you.
Brett: We have fun. Yeah. but
Plant People: No, thank you.
Alexis: out.
Brett: a
Plant People: We are not, we're not here to strategize. We're here for the culture. Maybe that's what it was, Brad.
Brett: we like We like the other people. Shut that Brett guy up.
Jessica : i I don't know my exact favorite one because it's hard for me to think about like how many I've done with you all already. like like Earlier I was like, when did I officially start? Because I did the beekeeping one and I did one with like right after the beekeeping one with you all. and um But just like when I look back at the list, like I don't know why this pops up my head. When we did the like terrarium one, I just remember Brett and that episode being like, wow,
Jessica : You all are like plant, plant people. Like, and I don't know why that sticks out to me that moment when he was just like, like, I realized like, you're just like on a different.
Alexis: It took all those episodes for you to figure that out.
Jessica : Like now that we're on a different level, cause I mean, you're a bonsai master.
Alexis: Just different type of plant people.
Jessica : Like. That is so cool that you are a bonsai master. I had a bonsai once and I killed it instantly. Um, but it was just, I don't know that comment when you were like, you all like really love plants.
Plant People: More of a kamikaze.
Jessica : Cause we just like, yeah, we just said like deep dive and we're like naming off all these things.
Alexis: Oh, plants in general. Yeah. Yeah.
Jessica : And yeah.
Alexis: We're just like na name it and we're, yeah, we're into it.
Plant People: these niche topics,
Brett: I think it's like if it's a plant, you all are going to love it.
Jessica : And I've had other episodes.
Brett: And for me, I'm like, there's some of them that y 'all could just keep.
Jessica : Yeah. Yeah. It was like kind of that. I know.
Alexis: No.
Plant People: Poison Ivy and places, we don't like those itches. Yeah, yeah.
Jessica : But I've had, you know, there's been quite a few that I've really enjoyed. And then like other ones, like the Paw Paw one we mentioned, that was like one of the first ones where people were like, Hey, I listened to you on, you know, those podcasts or like firefighters at my husband's station, like said that they had started like listening.
Brett: Oh.
Brett: ah
Jessica : And I was like, Oh, and I was like, well better not talk bad about my husband on here.
Brett: Oh man, that's awesome.
Jessica : like
Alexis: like
Jessica : yeah she
Plant People: People are listening.
Alexis: Trash.
Plant People: People are listening.
Jessica : people are listening.
Brett: Yeah, so do you feel that that do you feel that fame has changed you, Jessica?
Jessica : Yeah.
Jessica : I mean, I do already do local radio. So yeah, for the local area, this is all, you know, boosted me up.
Brett: So you kind of had already made it before we found you late in your career. I gotcha. So we're we're sort of like rejuvenating your career.
Plant People: We're a bid market.
Brett: This is your stuck yeah second I gotcha.
Jessica : Right, right.
Alexis: We're just adding to her, yeah, to her market.
Jessica : yeah
Jessica : To my resume of radio podcasting.
Alexis: I think it's obvious I probably like all of the ah like in -depth production style ones where we get like sciency on you. I get really excited about talking about soil and know me.
Jessica : No you don't.
Alexis: And of course like flowers, we have a couple flower focused episodes which are always fun and makes me feel like I know a bunch of things. ah but I think beyond those obvious ones, I like really liked the myth busting one we did where we kind of each came up with, you know, a few myths that we've heard, ah you know, come into the office or we see on social media all the time where people are like, oh, if a bell pepper has four lobes on the bottom, it has no seeds.
Jessica : Oh.
Alexis: And you're like, that's not that's.
Brett: If you if you get water on the leaves of a plant in the sunshine, it will act as a magnifying glass that will blast the laser through it.
Alexis: Mm hmm.
Plant People: burn it up, never going to happen.
Alexis: Yeah.
Brett: Yeah.
Alexis: So, so that was fun.
Jessica : That's a good one.
Alexis: Oh, we're like, if you plan to marry gold, but never, ever.
Jessica : Yeah.
Brett: Hope it doesn't rain during the daytime. Ever.
Alexis: Yeah, that wasn't pre -programmed into nature. Uh, so that one, that one was pretty fun just because we see so many of these and we're like, who came up with this?
Jessica : Alright.
Alexis: Who, what?
Jessica : all the things on Facebook that are just so, it's like, I say that.
Brett: Yeah.
Alexis: the My dev like the ones that my dad will randomly call me he'd be like hey So I saw and I'm like no the answers. No, no, no, no, you you're not doing that.
Jessica : Yeah.
Alexis: No Let me stop you right there Yeah, yeah
Brett: Let's stop you right there.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: but's ah Let's cut this conversation short.
Brett: What about you, Ray?
Plant People: I guess ah not ah not so much a favorite episode, but a favorite type of episode. And it's one you've already mentioned. is it's the And I realize that episodes where we do self -reflections, I really enjoy those.
Plant People: I like episodes where we acknowledge the changing of seasons, you know leaves dropping.
Alexis: Ray wants therapy when he comes here.
Plant People: its I do.
Brett: Yeah.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: I come for the garden therapy.
Brett: Human connection.
Alexis: I'm good with that.
Plant People: I want a therapy garden you know when I retire.
Jessica : You share stories from the yield and days.
Plant People: Ye olden days, yeah.
Alexis: From the 1800s.
Plant People: But I enjoy those, ah even though it's a different sort of thing, it's just sort of not on the opposite end of what Alexis just mentioned, but instead of like conveying a certain subject matter topic, it's more looking inward, ah you know, while we do things, who we are, you know, while we do what we do.
Plant People: sort of reflection pieces in some cases but i really like those and i particularly like all of those episodes whatever episodes we're doing in the fall it's my favorite time of the year uh whatever topic even lawns i know that we don't always have lawn fans on here but even lawn episodes even lawn topic i heard somebody groan i heard that i heard that but no yeah even those but i have clover in my backyard okay i seeded that in the fall i'm gonna send you
Alexis: pumpkin spice latte season.
Alexis: but
Jessica : Uh That's me It's fine it's fine it's green
Brett: um I support you Ray.
Brett: Yeah.
Alexis: I don't like the other guys.
Brett: Yeah.
Plant People: It's not, it's it's white clover, it's pure clover.
Brett: Yeah. yeah
Alexis: Yeah.
Plant People: But yeah, I like the fall topics and the reflection pieces. All the topics are great, whether we're talking about the hardcore econ subject matter stuff, or you know we're talking about you know organic matter deep dives or the reflection pieces, but I tend to like the fall themed topics, yeah.
Brett: Yeah, well, I think you each of each of you all bring this, their shared experience, but there's such a different ah vantage point of how all this stuff works, and and how you interact with it, that I think
Alexis: Mm.
Brett: To me, is really it's really awesome that, like for instance, like Jessica has both the agent perspective, but also has has been doing this farming thing with mixed vegetables as well as as livestock and then entomology background and all the other, and then Alexis being kind of like, I think, just this pure plant person who's like the most passionate about plants, if anyone that I know.
Jessica : yeah
Plant People: Don't call it dirt.
Brett: And then, and then Ray, like, I mean, it I don't choose favorites and you know, you all know how much I love myself just so to say that you might be my favorite hort culture host is really saying, I mean, it's close between me and you, but I'm just teasing.
Jessica : It's
Alexis: honestly fair
Jessica : true.
Plant People: That's honestly a little shocking, but yeah.
Brett: But the the you have had a very Kentucky agricultural life, I feel. like You have these things that you talk about that are just perspectives that I would never have thought of.
Jessica : Mm hmm.
Brett: I've already talked about it many times, but what you introduced me to the term blue side of the mountain was like a formative moment in my life, ah just as a beautiful like experiencing beautiful things in ways of same beautiful things.
Alexis: Fair. It's honestly fair.
Brett: so I don't know, it's just been really fun to work through these, these things together and and share and just have these different, yeah, different human, weird human experiences that we bring together and mash together and call it a podcast.
Plant People: Yeah we have a theme and you know we each have our own culture culture that we you know kind of surrounded us when we grew up and that's one of the absolute coolest things you know no matter where you go.
Alexis: Well, so when you leave a review, make sure you put who your favorite host is.
Brett: So
Brett: Yeah.
Plant People: Oh yeah we'll put us yeah that's right wolf w oh yeah yeah and
Brett: It's Brett with two T's.
Alexis: and one
Brett: Brett with two T's.
Alexis: There's two F's, two, two F's.
Brett: o two Brett with two T's, Wolf with two F's.
Plant People: oh It's hard to compete with a game, with it with a name like Brett Wolf.
Brett: No eating.
Plant People: I'm just going to say that's unfair.
Alexis: Honestly, you know?
Jessica : That's true Leave me alone
Plant People: I mean, we had before, I feel like two names that were so good, they sounded fake. Josh Knight, which superhero status name, and Brett Wolf, another superhero status name. Not fair.
Plant People: How are you going to compete with that?
Brett: when when i When I was a child, someone said, you sound like you were an author. I was like, I'm a child, okay?
Plant People: Yes. like Yes, Virginia Wolf.
Alexis: I am a child.
Brett: A child author.
Plant People: Yes, child author.
Brett: Well, so we got one more left here on here, and I think it's an appropriate connection point for all of us, actually, for different in different ways. From January 19th, 2024, almost exactly a year ago, from when we're recording at least, it was garden layout and design.
Brett: And isn't that what we're all really doing here?
Alexis: Has little pieces of all of us in it, that's true.
Jessica : Yep.
Plant People: It's the junction of art and science, and because that is landscaping in a nutshell. You've got the art on one side, the science on the other, and it kind of is that Venn diagram that blends somewhere in the middle, so love it.
Brett: It's the Thomas Jefferson, I am an old man, but I am but a young gardener.
Plant People: The young gardener, yeah, I've got that on my refrigerator, yeah.
Brett: Oh.
Alexis: Oh, Jessica and I throw in like, like a production at you.
Plant People: Love it, love it.
Alexis: We're like, okay, but like, make sure your peppers, make sure tomatoes are trellis.
Plant People: But how are we making money off this?
Jessica : Yes.
Plant People: How are we making them dollars?
Alexis: All right.
Jessica : Yes. Yep.
Alexis: Like that's good.
Jessica : Yep.
Brett: Well, yeah, I think it's been a crazy hundred episodes. Pretty fun. i It has been so much more fun than I even expected. I knew with interacting with you all would be fun, but the actual doing of the podcast and bringing in the guests has been.
Alexis: Fills my bucket.
Brett: Yeah, it's just been awesome.
Jessica : Yeah.
Brett: I like actually look forward to recording and I think it comes across from from all of us. I think we feel that way. It comes across in the in the product.
Plant People: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Plant People: The radio boy.
Brett: Well, do you have any other any other thoughts about 100 episodes? Anything to...
Plant People: Cheers to 100 more.
Alexis: I what literally was going to say that word for word, right?
Jessica : yeah
Brett: Oh, wow.
Alexis: Like I can't, you took it right out of my brain.
Brett: On second thought, maybe we're hanging out too much.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: Maybe this could be an indicator.
Alexis: um i see I see Brett a lot these days, guys. When we first started this episode, it was like an occasional Brett moment, which was cool, you know? And now I see and talk to him legitimately, I think, every day.
Plant People: Wolf sighting daily.
Jessica : Hey, Lou, right?
Brett: Yeah, which is terrible.
Alexis: that it is it's It's a vibe.
Jessica : Yeah.
Plant People: and
Brett: For her, not for me. For me, it's wonderful. Every day every day is a new blessing.
Plant People: I'm glad you clarified, Brett. That could have went terribly sideways.
Brett: Yeah.
Brett: I was completing her her statement.
Alexis: iron
Plant People: You're filling her bucket or something.
Brett: You think used to get just a little taste, and that was that was good. and It's not something I would want every day.
Alexis: Listen, you all hired me. All right, so.
Brett: Yeah.
Alexis: Well, cool. We hope you enjoy. I mean, I think if you've made it this far to in this type of episode, you probably enjoy hearing from us um because, you know, there wasn't a whole lot of content today other than we think we're great.
Alexis: and We think you all are great. So.
Jessica : reflecting.
Brett: But I do hope, maybe you bookmarked a couple of the episodes that we mentioned to go back and check out because it is easy.
Alexis: Yeah, yeah.
Jessica : Yeah.
Brett: I know it's easy to, you if you don't if you aren't a completionist that wants to start at one and listen all the way through, there might be some in between that are of note for you and yeah, you can go back and check them out.
Alexis: Just start.
Alexis: Mm hmm.
Alexis: There's 99 out there for you.
Plant People: And also there's a lot of good content. And also keep in mind that was mentioned earlier that this is the first time that we are trying ah the addition of the video format over on YouTube.
Plant People: So you just simply go to YouTube and type in hot space culture.
Alexis: Mm hmm.
Alexis: Mm hmm.
Plant People: And it should be the the first hit that comes up. You'll know us by the blue logo. So look for that if you want to put a name with a face and a face with a voice.
Alexis: If you're like me and every time I listen to a podcast, I'm like, what do these people look like? I need to put a face to this voice.
Jessica : So I can picture them, yeah.
Plant People: Yeah.
Alexis: Here you go.
Plant People: Yeah.
Alexis: We don't always look this way. At least I don't. Sometimes I'm a goblin. So that's, that's fun.
Plant People: um Okay.
Brett: I am, I'm always bald.
Jessica : That does not change.
Alexis: And bald boy, singular bald boy is always bald.
Plant People: and I just going to say that.
Brett: Always, always a bald boy.
Alexis: Yes. Yes.
Brett: Sad.
Alexis: That is, that is true. Oh, unfortunately we'll have to have Josh back on with a video so that people can see what he looks like.
Plant People: Yeah.
Alexis: Yeah.
Plant People: The reunion of the ball boys.
Alexis: Boom. Took it from you.
Brett: You just get a picture of him have like over my shoulder, you know, like, ah hu Oh, yeah, it kind of feels a little like, like, like Vladimir Lenin, like ah the leader.
Plant People: Yeah.
Plant People: Perfect.
Jessica : I cut out.
Alexis: Ooh, that can be Jessica's backdrop, just like a giant Josh face, ah a fat head.
Plant People: Just clue the thing.
Jessica : ah cutout poster looking over my shoulder
Plant People: then yeah
Alexis: ah ah All right. Well, we've already talked about leaving us a review. We'd love if you did that. Tell us why you enjoy it. Tell us your favorite episode. Tell us your favorite host and why it's Ray.
Alexis: ah That's all good. You can check us out on Instagram. You can leave us messages there. Always shoot us an email. We put all that down in there in the show notes.
Plant People: Yeah.
Alexis: ah So it's easy for you to click on and you don't have to write it down if your hands are dirty or on a steering wheel because some of you, that is the case.
Plant People: Yeah.
Alexis: Uh, but if you've got some ideas or if you want to be featured, you want to be a guest, you got something to say, let us know. We want to hear from it. Uh, but sorry, I had to swallow there and remember that I was on video and I did a lot of weird hand things just now, but we ah hope you keep listening.
Brett: That was so good. Oh, that was so good.
Jessica : Um,
Alexis: We're thankful for you, true leaves out there. And then we hope you will join us next time. Have a good one.
