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Eating Vegan Tacos with the Darkest Cowboy Alma Martyr Thanksgiving Special 2019. Featuring Eric Wagner Guitarist of Gatecreeper, and a 2019 modern day Cowboy. Recorded Wednesday November 13th at Taco Party in Somerville MA. Born and Raised in Tucson, AZ Being an Undeclared Major at University of Arizona until taking an “Arizona Plant Life” class by a rangeland manager. Math was scary, dyslexia Getting a Scholarship to go to Toronto, and scamming credits. What is a Rangeland Manager? It is ecology in areas where there is generally cattle ranching. How many cows can you keep in a certain area with out completely ruining the environment? Comes from Rangeland research. Burning the Amazon for cattle. Feedlot operations vs. the Way of Rancher. The wettest desert in the world: the Sonoran desert, yet Arizona is running out of water. The Central Arizona Project and how water no longer flows to Mexico Being a federal contractor, Yellow-billed cuckoos, and being out in the middle of nowhere. Stepping on rattlesnakes and being shot at on the Hopi Indian reservation. How borderland politics are dictated in Washington by people who know nothing of what it is like to live in the southwest. Finding bodies and drugs along the borderland, and the horrors of human trafficking. Thermal sensing lasers in the Obama era and how it to circumvent it with rock piles. Wild horses of Arizona starving to death because of Seabiscuit. Incorporating your environment into your musical sound: The Desert Muse. Telling the seasons by shadows and the Tucson Gem Show. Writing riffs by watching Kamikaze WWII videos. Gin Blossoms are the greatest band from Arizona not mentioned in this podcast. Scott Maynard and the haunted hotel in Jerome Arizona and the bad new TOOL record. Gatecreeper touring everyone in 2019 and 2020, go see them.