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Another good reason for killing your lawn is that once you've done so, you can turn your yard into a literal classroom in order to study things like plant identification and the ecology of the native habitat that once stood where your house is.
In some ways, planting native plant gardens (which can sometimes include non-native, non-invasive species of plants) are small acts habitat restoration in miniature, sure.
Equally (if not more) rewarding however is the ability to learn about the plants that together compose your native ecosystem by growing them right in front of you. Grow them throughout their entire life cycle - observe what pollinates them, what disperses the fruits and seeds, what eats them. The rewards from this kind of sh*t can't be overstated.
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[@OkNoBigDeal]

It warms my thorax that you appreciate arthropods.

[@rafaelcostadematos5806]

Becoming hugely interested in bugs (mainly local species) is the true sign that a person really cultivates plants (and a variety of them). Great content, love your perspectives.

[@dopey_duck_944]

what if it goes the other way?

[@GlucoseBoo]

Satoshi Tagiri loved bugs as a child. Pokemon started from a love of local wildlife.

[@j0.ZEF-Who]

check his pocket CHECK his pockets - seeds

[@chineserockethands4578]

I live in an urban environment that fortunately or unfortunately has a lot of non-native plants as part of commercial and city landscaping. Some of these would fall into the “horticultural atrocity” category, but there’s so much variety in just an hour walk around downtown I’m able to see plants from parts of the world I’ll never visit. I started getting into this last year after watching Crime Pays and I think I identified about 150 species last summer through fall (I use PlantNet). Excited to be getting out again and start identifying winter/early spring stuff that I didn’t get last year. I was out for a walk the other day and two women were looking at a tree that’s just starting to bloom, wondering what it was. I yelled out “Magnolia soulangeana!” as I walked past and they laughed and said “Oh thanks!” Maybe that one’s a “horticultural atrocity,” but gotta start somewhere.

[@eliasross4576]

I’m in Seattle and as long as it’s not some shitty landscaping plants from the Home Despot I’m okay for the most part. My neighbors have palms and Magnolias (me too) but if I see plenty of natives around too I’m okay.

[@residentenigma7141]

Keep going and learn well !

[@OUSurf2]

Tony you're great ❤thankyou for teaching , our kids need more examples of how to fix our thought processes on plants and fungi. I believe they were deemed as kingdoms for a reason.

[@kahnfu-zhin8627]

I live in a small clearing in the great coastal redwoods and grow everything I can “steal” (clone) wherever it can get a little sun. The redwoods and doug firs are fabulous in their own right, harvesting the fog and supporting the understory through the hot-ass dry summers.

[@noblefir9106]

I love your channel! Thank you so much for mentioning being educated by native plants. I feel like they have, to your point, taught me more than any book or study every could. I have worked up to 77 native plant species in my yard and I too have become facinated with native insect diversity as the diversity and numbers of native visitors continues to rise. All the shapes and patterns and colors, I am just facinated and amazed, calm and happy when I commune with the plants and the bugs. I killed most of my lawn in the back (and I don't water or weed or mow what little is left) and now it is on to the front yard.

[@Master-Wanderer]

Infinitely more interesting than one single plot of grass for sure

[@bigtsperspective5831]

Talk to the city where I live . I never planted anything in my yard and I don’t water it, yet the city is mad cus the wild flowers grow taller than code …. Wtf

[@absurdistsloth]

yikes, it’s fuckin bananas that there’s a “code” in the first place.

[@pony3284]

Got my stickers the other day- big thanks. I'll slap the "kill your lawn" one on my school laptop to spread the word around campus!

[@fuckboi_killa]

You got one of the coolest channels on this site

[@liamarcher8795]

You should try and contact Alveus sanctuary! It's around Austin and you could probably help with educating them on invasive and native plants.

[@sommelierofstench]

a collab with alveus would rule

[@Megaghost_]

Glad to see a Toothpick Cactus! I didn't know that about the roots (that they grow laterally). Useful knowledge, thanks. I have a few and some aloe vera was growing next to them, at that point they were pushing the cacti and throwing shade so I had to remove the aloe to give the cactus some space, there I found out that aloe vera roots grow laterally too.

[@fuxan]

For those of you in Florida join the "Florida Native Gardening" group and if you are in South Carolina join the "South Carolina Native Plant Group" group The yard we steward is only 0.12 acres with over 300 species Native to the southeast US in SC and almost zero non-natives. It is definitely a living classroom and sancturary.

[@toanao1]

Finally got to watch KYL thanks to a kind gent on a certain video platform 👀 was a good laugh and cool to see! Hope there’s more to come

[@Aldolador1]

I love the garden you've cultivated for so long ❤

[@LeslieBernard222]

Irish Catholic escape here...lol...you're fucking hilarious!!

[@CBroPhotography]

Started last year with da plants. Now I have gone crazy crawling around the yard photographing all the new insects that come around. Neighbors definitely think I'm weirder than before. Think I have atleast 100 unique species as I slowly ID them all. Makes me wonder what I could have become if my teachers had used vulgar language while diverting to occasional rants about our BS society. Thanks!

[@grannyplants1764]

Bugs are just so cool, especially when seen close up…one of the fun perks of looking closely at flowers! 🦗🌻

[@CBroPhotography]

​@grannyplants1764 indeed. High magnification photography reveals a whole new world of crazy structures.

[@grannyplants1764]

@@CBroPhotography Ages ago I used to use an Olympus slr with screw on close up lenses for flowers and insects, now I’m old and lazy so I just use my iPhone SE. Yes, the colors and patterns are amazing! I always have a small magnifying glass with me walking in the garden too..While praying mantis ( Chinese and South Carolinian) are my general favorites insects, I think for patterns- seeing the striped chevrons on grasshoppers’ legs up close is the current winner. Same with flowers, it’s another world seeing them magnified. I’m so happy that Joey does a lot of close ups too 🌸

[@petercactus6637]

Great video! Have you ever heard of the 'Homegrown National Park' movement? It is all about connecting the fragmented land by growing natives in residential landscapes.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Interviewed Doug Tallamy on the podcast, yes

[@lillith665]

Aaaah, leezards!! 🦎 love it!

[@natewhelden4463]

part of learning botany - weirding out the squares. touch native plants!

[@evilsharkey8954]

Thank you for this. I needed a break from my own brain during these trying political times. Plants are so much nicer than politicians, even nasty plants.

[@theplacebeyondspacetime]

Really love this channel. I learn a lot on here.

[@Welcometomyworld4754]

Ha! I live in a latin community in FL, and I have always noticed how it's not just a nativity scene at christmas time, the virgin mary is a year round front lawn superstar in this neighborhood! Hey, they might believe in ridiculous things, but they are good people!

[@kso808]

I have a pink mimosa tree that blooms in the summer - looks like the one behind you at the intro. Is yours related to a mimosa? All of your plants are so fascinating!

[@erikjohnson9223]

Albizia julibrisson is called "mimosa" in the Southeast USA. It is mildly invasive (spreads easily, but short-lived and won't persist in the dense shade of "bay"/"hammock" (moist woods, no fire) hardwoods like live oak and magnolia; probably more a problem in fire-suppressed pinelands and of course urban areas where not uprooted/controlled). Both it and his Senegalia (formerly known as Acacia), as well as some cool (but prickly) native groundcovers that actually are in the genus Mimosa, are in the "mimosid" clade of legumes. This used to be a subfamily, but molecular phyllogeny might have nestled it within one of the Caesalpinoid groups. Anyway, the mimosids are considered monophylletic. Most have pinnate or bipinnate foliage (some Australian Acacia quickly lose their true leaves and use leaf-like stem branches instead, and those are often shaped like undivided leaves) and compound flowerheads that are usually a ball or cylinder shaped umbel (or cluster? I never had the cylindrical ones where I have lived, so haven't dissected them) of flowers with reduced tepals and very long sexual parts (stamen filaments etc), looking like fuzzballs. I think they all nodulate (fix nitrogen by feeding symbiotic bacteria, mostly in the Rhizobium group), which isn't true of all Caesalpinoids. Mesquite and Illinois bundleflower are also mimosids.

[@labzee7855]

Would love to see an hour of this

[@jamiev4310]

💚

[@user-vk7cp1op9p]

You are a treasure!

[@lostasfk]

awesome garden please make a part 2

[@lyndafjellman3315]

I planted lots of "weeds" in my lawn when I put in a new backyard. There isn't any way to keep grass from growing around here, and I need to have pasture.

[@notstrong5789]

Need advice for uncompacting my soil. House has lot of landscaping fabric w mulch, im working to remove it all but its very compacted soil. Any resources appreciated

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Wow that Palo verde is so cool! It's so green right now it's like if a tree was the hulk or the jolly green giant or something

[@lillith665]

Ooooh! Eocene saaaaannnddsss!!! Are there Eocene alluvial layers? There gotta be.

[@tkarcher940]

Is that yard in Chicago? Provide information, jagoff.

[@SpecialSoldier109]

I have a HUGE Palo verde in my yard(mojave desert) sadly the lard branches have been falling with windstorms each year

[@grannyplants1764]

Loved those trees when I saw them in Mesa, Arizona…🌳

[@SpecialSoldier109]

they are beautiful but it breaks my heart seeing such a big tree in the desert fall apart. i do my best to trim up it up so its not a hazard

[@grannyplants1764]

@@SpecialSoldier109 nice i wonder if it’s true wind causes the branches to grow stronger? Heard houseplant folks talk about putting a fan on them to do that. I think if the Palo Verde is growing ok it will eventually adapt…Joey talks about adaption a lot, but over a long time. Will be interesting for you to see how it does! 🤔🌿

[@BB-xm8jc]

Hey, I'm in Miami and want some nice green on my balcony. Gets an average of 5 hours of direct sun, any recommendations?

[@fernandofigueroa2553]

Hey Budd, can u talk about the Huitlacoche, i know you know. Tnx

[@erikjohnson9223]

Do we need more smut on the internet? In this case, yes.

[@26hurban]

I’m going to do this exact thing. I don’t even have a “lawn”😂

[@absurdistsloth]

peas be witchoo 🫛

[@TheWastedAccount12]

Well if it ain't my internet crush uploading again :) thanks for your vids, they're pleasantness in a bleak world.

[@markae0]

came for the ending and was not disappointed

[@georgepointer1127]

An astute galute.

[@mooonie6634]

80 m yrs of Evolution- which came first, the Rock or the Plant ;)

[@zanewalsh1812]

🕊️ be wichoo... Asylum I likem...

[@The_k81]

" not religious but I did steal this statue" 😂

[@junkettarp8942]

Oh Joey.💗💗

[@caidenmurphy9486]

Thats so cool!

[@44nobody]

How do you feel about vegetable gardens?

[@redbloodedbutterfly]

Joey is likely fine with them as long as they're done responsibility. For example, don't plant an invasive plant even if it's edible, don't use pesticides, don't destroy a native ecosystem to create the vegetable garden, etc. Joey's gotta eat, just like the rest of us. :-)

[@erikjohnson9223]

In most places you can also grow some native plants as vegetables. Foraging sites are a good resource for learning about those, but most will also focus on invasives (weed control by eating the weeds), so make sure you know what is what before introducing it. The "BONAP" program of the USDA might not be strictly up to date and accurate about distributions, but it has the most accessible (county based) range maps I know of for USA natives (& usually naturalized as well, color coded so you know which is which). Be aware that many vegetables are seasonal (e.g. asparagus among aliens, pokeweed in our own flora) and only edible at the right time and with the right preparation.

[@redbloodedbutterfly]

@@erikjohnson9223 Yes! I know of a few native plants that are edible here in Illinois. Ramps can be bought at a native plant nursery. There are several types of mushrooms that are native and can be cultivated. For example, oyster mushrooms and wine caps. Native fruits include species of raspberry, strawberry, plum, and of course, PawPaw. May I ask what other vegetables might be native to the Midwest?

[@craigroth4211]

got my kill your lawn hat in the mail today!

[@aaronwoodley9624]

🤟🤟🤟🤙🤙🤙🥏🥏🥏

[@Prairiehawkmn]

Homegrown national parks, Doug tallamy

[@lynneann9166]

❤

[@raystephens9550]

Biodiversity! Regional Biodiversity. Ya gotta Love it. The rational thing to do. Ask Voltaire per "Candide". 🦘🐧🦜🐊🦎🐋🪲 Love yer work. GFYS

[@timbow1356]

That's where my statue of some religious person went. 😤

[@cutratedrugs]

My best friend's dad used to make concrete statues when we where in school. We had a statue of St. Francis holding a bowl about the same size in our living room we used as an ashtray.

[@evilsharkey8954]

I got a lawn care ad right in the middle of the video. Glad they’re wasting their money on people who don’t want their sadness plants.

[@AdmiralBob]

And yet KZbin is considered a top corporate property for their ability to highly target ads for advertisers... Nice scam if you can run it I guess... I certainly don't see any evidence of precise targeting.

[@Grumpy_nurse]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. In my part of the world, toads are singing, Spring bulbs are pushing up, and the rampant wildness of my yard has more life at this time than any of the "normal" lawns. Keep preaching. 🤙

[@midwestplantgeeks8643]

I plant natives and expand the existing natives everywhere I can . You talk about politics, if I told them what I do in their parks they'd treat me like a criminal and if I asked them they'd say no. To date 36 introduced species now seeding populations that were once native to my area but I had to battle buckthorn et tal for 3 years prior. Still expanding and will until I die.

[@genericalfishtycoon3853]

The real heroes don't wear capes. Or do you? Either way, keep it up champ.

[@souljahaden6184]

I felt that part when he said “the dirty looks from squares that aren’t ready to kill their lawn”

[@Murdant]

I enjoyed this one so much that I watched it a second time.

[@icebiker3]

The area I live in has been experiencing a drought for several months. We got less than 30" of snow this winter when we usually get over 3'. The native plants are beginning to suffer, so I thought I'd try some desert adapted perennials. It will save on the water bills this summer if the drought continues.

[@oscarflip8561]

This is why I love having native plants in the yard. looking at the flowers is cool and nice(it’s especially interesting when things are oddities per genus or family), but what really makes it better than any tv show, is watching the life that comes with it. Sitting on a bench next to a Gaillardia aristata, taking pictures of all the different bees that visit, I.D’ing them later and learning how many of them are oligoleges(bees that can only use pollen from certain plants to rear their young) that only use native asteraceae species. Watching what Penstemon the hummingbirds seem to prefer, wondering if the verticillaster inflorescence on Penstemon rydbergiii is there to act as a landing platform for Lepidoptera, even if I have read Lepidoptera play a very small part in Penstemon pollination, etc. I’m basically just repeating everything you said in this video, but you’re so right!

[@amberino4240]

Hey, great comment, I'm really interested in this stuff too and my partner just got a gaillardia which id never heard of before. I'm from the UK so I want to learn about natives.. anyway, I googled that word.. oligoleges or something? I couldn't find what you meant, do you have certain words I could Google for my own research?

[@amberino4240]

Mostly to do with finding certain out which pollinators need a specific flower family in my area, not sure how to find out

[@oscarflip8561]

@@amberino4240 great that you want to learn. Try searching for ‘Oligolecty’ instead, which is the act of bees exhibiting a narrow, specialized selection for pollen. I don’t really know any good resources for the U.K, but I’m sure there’s some good lists out there. Usually just try and get a wide variety of natives from your area, with what we like to call ‘keystone species’ (plant genera or species that host the most life, whether that be as a host plant for Lepidoptera or specialist pollinators), and you’ll be providing for many of these species whether you know it or not.

[@oscarflip8561]

@@amberino4240 try looking up ‘Oligolecty’ instead. I couldn’t tell you what to plant or sources since I’m from The western/central U.S but I’m sure there’s some good resources for info on plants for a wide diversity of insects and other life in the U.K. As long as you include some of what we like to call ‘Keystone species’(plants that host the most life, whether that be as host plants for Lepidoptera or pollen specific bees, wasps, or beetles), and than just try and get a wide diversity of plants from your immediate area, and you’ll likely be supporting a lot of life.

[@setosiris9208]

Your Garden is fucking Amazing! So hyped on your preservation work. Amped.

[@ChimeraActual]

Yes, do kill your lawn. I'm about 10 years in, and love watching how it changes year to year here in Austin.

[@rprimeauableful]

Joey getting us all into Deep Ecology. Grow the living skin!

[@anaritamartinho1340]

Saint Francis Assis became poor and had love to nature🙂 there is a beautiful poem of Saint Francis...once upon a time i wanted to be like Saint Francis, but now i can t forgive the politics, politics make me ungry...is hard to forgive 😮‍💨

[@tripleaaakollektiv870]

was a Refusenik, Squatter and ascetic freak, sorta daoist

[@yusufalfyfer9415]

Another educational experience from the man brilliantly shown ❤❤🎉🎉

[@windyface9383]

those horse crippler flowers are gorgeous, I kind of want to paint them!

[@diegop2311]

I had to buy my mom a new Francis Assis statue after there was a fist fight in her backyard because yeah most Mexican back yard will have Francis Assis and our holy mother Virgin Mary . So after replacing it I through paint on that bastard for what you did to my indigenous people😂

[@erikjohnson9223]

Spanish Catholics, perhaps. Did Francis ever leave what is now Italy?

[@diegop2311]

@@erikjohnson9223 the mission systems named after him in California didn't help but we both know how to use Google 🧐😁 have a blessed day brother

[@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot]

" I don't really know a plant til I've killed it 3 or 4 times." - Leigh Nelson , former director of our local (Broome Co. Cornell Cooperative Extension) public garden. I.e. , DON'T_WORRY ;) I've tried to keep that in mind since I first head her say that (25? yrs ago), re a plant that didn't make it through winter . @15:58 , what's that in the lower left corner, with the white flowers?

[@ReallyBakedGamer]

As a child of this wonderful continent North America aka Turtle Island, you are an inspiration. You are doing Manitou's (Gahd's) work. Keep on keepin on.

[@ReallyBakedGamer]

I'm half Wampanoag and half Italian from New Bedford, MA, so I really relate to your content. I'd love to start a nursery and native plant reserve, God willing, one day I can. until then im just doing what i can in my little corner of the urban hellscape.

[@ReallyBakedGamer]

id love especiallay to have a large cactus terrarium style greenhouse where i can keep several southwestern and mexican/texan species in a somewhat natural habitat so idk pipedreams its just something extra id like to do in the future. i know its not so much a necessity since theres lots of people and organizations who are conserving wild cacti/succulents by either rescuing individuals or collecting seeds out in the bush. BUT id love to join the fun one day. im trying to get my tribe to start being more proactive about conservation efforts but sadly the state really wants us to pretend like they arent letting all our ancestral lands die slow horrible deaths. atlantic white cedar swamps especially are in critical danger of extinction, saving them is such a simple task but god forbid we keep land from development opportunists.

[@LSOP-]

I'm wondering. How many square meters of native Prarie grass has the equivalent carbon capture of a tree?

[@mrpieceofwork]

As much as my life has been absolutely crap for the past decade and more, through no fault of my own (not much, anyway) there HAS been a silver lining to the fact that I have been relocated 8 times in those past 10+ years. I have been introduced to 6-7 different ecosystems in TX, and OMG is there such an amazing flora and fauna here, native and otherwise (not condoning invasives and imports and all that, but some introduced plants and animals here seem to be fairly good actors) I give TX that much

[@mattmccallum2007]

Will you be watching the full eclipse next month?

[@fuxan]

I'll be in San Antonio area...might go to Enchanted Rock near Austin dunno. I know you were asking Joey.

[@mattmccallum2007]

@@fuxan asking anyone I suppose. I saw the one in 2017 and it blew my mind. I could not imaging living anywhere nearby and not trying my hardest to see the full eclipse.

[@Cp60448]

Going to Carbondale IL like I did for 2017. Amazing, but traffic going back to Chicago afterwards helped me to become a more patient driver.

[@MI-wc6nk]

Reminded me of a saying/dad joke - when is the best time to plant a tree (or cacti in this case)? 10 years ago. when is the second best time? now.

[@user-sm8j]

what a nice garden. Great endemics

[@ub-4630]

I was actually paying attention *and picking up what you're putting down. I really would like to watch your videos with notes.

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

yeah a lot of people dont know about blackie sweet potato plant variant until now sir maybe you can help it spread sir

[@joecorne5361]

3:06 From Catholic faith to Cactulic ferns.

[@robertmcmanus636]

Have you considered that the mosquitos might be there pollinating plants or perhaps performing other ecological services such as feeding birds that then pollinate your plants?

[@keeparizonawild156]

If you’re ever in Phoenix, we rip out lawns and install native pollinator gardens. We’d love to collaborate with you.

[@bdrexjr]

Love your vids AND your taste in Music!

[@residentenigma7141]

You're in a beautiful spot, judging by the #birdnoises

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Wasn't always beautiful, I made it that way by planting the absolute shit out of it with native plants! When it was concrete and lawn it was much less lively

[@rantillodesign]

Yo Joey - wondering if you all have thought about some kind of field number system with the Thornscrub Sanctuary...I'd love to buy seeds/plants someday with known localities of where/what they were saved from

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

the stems of parkinsonia texana looks so amazing!

[@raystephens9550]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5bKeqxmorRoY5Y Why Lawns Must Die. Our Changing Climate. 19th June 2021. 11:51 mins.

[@jasongarcia2140]

OH WHAT A YARD!!!

[@PlantNative]

Gorgeous!

[@coltlineberry2444]

This was a nice video. Thank you for everything you do to educate and motivate us. You've definitely inspired me to pay attention to the plant life in my backyard. I walk my dog around my hillside, several times a day. I've learned so much about plant life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

[@hubcitygirl1757]

What you look like compared to what I imagined in my head from your podcasts could not be more different! You’re at least 30 years younger in real life, lol.

[@jomo9454]

When I see some nice mammillaries I just have to leave KZbin and go to... uhhh... some other video site wink wink nod nod

[@AbeYoung]

I love your kill your lawn vids

[@andrewblack7852]

My yard is a jungle. My new neighbors accused me of malfeasance.

[@alisonburgess345]

Good old house flies are excellent pollinators! Possibly better than bees.

[@dasja9966]

Depends on the bee. Most native/solitary bees are very good pollinators. Honeybees are way less effective though. If you can, try to build some shelters for native bees. They suffer from habitat loss a lot and they can use your help.

[@erikjohnson9223]

Depends on the plant. Pawpaws here and stapeliads in Africa are pollinated by carrion flies (not usually house flies), but I don't think you will see either group of flies visiting Passiflora incarnata (large carpenter bees, sometimes also bumblebees) or traveling between two different (self incompatible) apple trees. Not sure houseflies migrate much at all--they just go to food, which doesn't help obligate outcrossers (most plants, because inbreeding isn't great). Both flies and bees are worthless for most hummingbird adapted plants (such as Ocotillo, Erythrina herbacea, Lonicera sempervirens, most red blooming Salvias etc). Flies will also feed at fireblight cankers, then visit flowers, spreading that devastating disease.

[@dasja9966]

@@erikjohnson9223 Agree. Different forms of flowers need different forms of pollinators. Can be very specific, to the point of one specific bug (or bird?) pollinating one specific plant. Didn't darwin predict the existence of a certain moth with a very long tongue based on the form of a flower he found? Anyway, even though houseflies and even more so hoverflies are pretty good at pollinating umbellifera and composites, they are ill equiped to pollinate other types of plants.

[@MandrakeFernflower]

I wonder if that sulfur smell from the roots could be from burkholderia or similar plant associated bacteria

[@myrmepropagandist]

Major ant action at kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5Cpd6WshNt0qK8 Could it be a Lasius species? They were moving awfully fast so I don't know... looks like they were moving nest, possibly their old nest was flooded, or disturbed. Efficiency!

[@myrmepropagandist]

Maybe they aren't moving nest, there was an ant collecting something in this part... kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5Cpd6WshNt0qK8 (I use one of those zapper rackets to collect food for my ants. They love fried food. ) ... There are at least two species of ants in this garden. They say a person can count their riches by counting how many ant species live in their yard. More ants? More rich. Lovely yard~ I live in NYC so I do not have a yard, but I do have a rooftop and I have many plants and many ants in my roof garden. I'm still learning about what the heck is native to NYC. It's very confusing.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

I live in the Prairie nice so I be touching grass and native plants at the same time 😎

[@RobinPlunk]

Do you have any tips for replanting cacti?

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

Redbars watching!

[@realdragon]

I would do it just because it looks pretty

[@BubuH-cq6km]

"DON"T STEAL" 🤷‍♂ You "LIBERATE" Instead 😉