Petey Mesquitey is KXCI’s resident storyteller. Every week since the spring of 1992 Petey has delighted KXCI listeners with slide shows and poems, stories and songs about flora, fauna, and family and the glory of living in southern Arizona.
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Two disgruntled and impatient Nebraska football fans have an unfiltered discussion of the Nebraska Cornhuskers season. Join your hosts Sam Fischer (Husker) and Petey Johnson (Jaysker) for some fun.
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All the sports
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In a world of chaos we need a way to anchor ourselves. Join me through anchoring thoughts, poetry, life events, and outdoor adventures.
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The All Petey Talk Show
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This is just a podcast where I bring on my friends and we talk about things we are interested in but a little bonus of something to help you the listener in life!
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When the Mesquitey family lived near Tucson I worked in a crazy wonderful nursery that was at the base of A-Mountain (Sentinel Peak) right next to the Santa Cruz River. It was there that I fell in love with the native Fremont Wolfberry, so much so that we propagated it at the nursery and I ended up writing song called When the Wolfberries Bloom on …
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I hope you’re getting a chance to do some wandering this spring…maybe your backyard or a nearby park or even out in the wild. I owe you an episode about pale wolfberry (Lycium pallidum) and I’ll do that, but this bright little annual that looks so much like a dandelion is abundant around out little homestead this April. I like the common name Fendl…
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Seems every few years I revisit this old poem/song of mine. It’s a true story. Oh, and the band I was in back in those Tucson days was The Dusty Chaps. The photos are mine of some of the desert that blew my mind back then and still does.Oleh Petey Mesquitey
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It is the ground dried fruit of Rhus coriaria that’s used in cooking throughout the Middle East. The fruit of our southwestern species of sumac is almost always used as a refreshing tart drink and you come across local names like Apache kool-aid, sumac-aid or Rhusade. And, it has been used that way by indigenous folks for centuries. Reem Kassis is …
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Penstemons are in the Figwort Family, Scrophulariaceae. There are about 250 species and the majority of them, 99.9999%…okay I dunno, but there is only one other species somewhere in Eastern Asia… are found in North America and most of those are in the western United States. Lucky us and yay! Oh, and here is a fun factoid: It was botanist David Mitc…
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*** SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE *** Who's Gonna Carry the Boats?
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In this special bonus episode, the hosts discuss the temporary suspension of Petey and the surprising departure of Trev Alberts, the former athletic director of the University of Nebraska. They express their initial reactions, disappointment, and anger towards Alberts, questioning his track record and leadership. The hosts speculate on the reasons …
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We love finding grinding holes in rocks when out traipsing in the wild. One of our favorite destinations when we lived in Tucson was the Coyote Mountains west of town. There was spot in one of the canyons where we found grinding holes and it became a family and friends gathering place. “Let’s meet at grinding hole rock.” You can find grinding holes…
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Quercus toumeyi Arizona Sonora border foothills oak The photos are mine.Oleh Petey Mesquitey
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Flora and Fauna Spring Celebrations...big and small
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I was mistaken about Arivaca’s vulture celebration. It is not early March, but later in the month. Apologies to them, but hey, the good news is that you can celebrate turkey vultures all of March. Yay! We’ll have some small flora and fauna spring celebrations at our home. Your home too? Hey, check your very local listings for flora and fauna spring…
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I have so many memories of hikes or journeys in southern Arizona that include walnut trees…sometimes up high in the mountains or as I mentioned in this episode, a riparian canyon cutting into the Sonoran Desert. They’re part of the flora and fauna that make the borderlands so diverse, beautiful and occupied, not vacant. The photos are mine and take…
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The etymology of the word mistletoe is all over the place and has been traced to Old English, Middle English, Anglo Saxon and old German…a mix of all of the above. I do like the meaning “dung on a twig.” And listen, mistletoe is really an excellent plant for birds, so why don’t native plant nurseries offer Phoradedron californicum for your ironwood…
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When I used to give talks I would always show photos and talk about our regional yucca species; Yucca elata, Y. baccata and Yucca madrensis… Yucca madrensis, by the way is the former Yucca schottii, but here’s what’s cool about this resident of the Madrean Evergreen Woodlands; it’s pollinated by a different moth species than Y. baccata or Y. elata.…
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I read in HORTUS THIRD that there are about 150 species of Vaccinium found in “cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere,” 40 of which are found in North America. In this episode I rattle off some of the common names I came across, but think of all the hundreds of names indigenous peoples must have given to these shrubs. Pretty cool. I love…
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Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. The first piece I wrote for a poetry class I took at the University of Arizona in 1969 was about groundhogs. I’ll spare you. Oh, and my friend Russell Lowes shot me a note regarding marmots in Arizona. A few years ago while backpackin…
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This is an episode about hearing my heart beat. I initially was going to talk about the noise made by ORVs, ATVs, SUVs and pickup trucks out in the deserts and hills. I fall in the “pickup truck” category. Don’t want you thinking I’m a holier than thou sorta guy…ha! Anyway, guess I’ll pontificate about all that another time. You’re welcome. So, thi…
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Surely I’m not the only person who sits around reading field guides by a warm wood stove. And our field guides do end up in the truck headed out to the borderlands. Hey, Jim Koweek and I met in 1980, hmm, maybe 1981, but yeah, it is an old friendship. And listen, besides Sonoran Desert Plant ID for Everyone, Jim is also the author of Grassland Plan…
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I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in Cochise County. I’m a terrible plant promoter I guess and the plant never really got popular, at least in my circles. It’s ironic because in California there are some named cultivars (nativars folks like …
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The photos are mine. Coatimundis can make you pretty happy…Oleh Petey Mesquitey
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I originally wrote and recorded the song Road Across the Grassland in 2005…well, maybe a little before, but listen, there really is a dirt road that starts about three miles from our home and that road will take you across grassland, through desert scrub and woodland and right to the Mexican border. I love it…I’m guessing you knew that. Thank you s…
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If I had wobbled up any higher on that rocky slope I may or may have not fallen by a ragged rock flower. It ranges from 1,800 ft to 4,500 ft in elevation across southern Arizona. I found a wonderful line in the plant description found at the site SEINet; “An unassuming plant with attractive flowers, often growing in out of the way places.” Sweet….a…
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There are sixty-five to seventy species of Fraxinus found around the world, so of course ancient Romans had a name for ash trees. Carl Linnaeus, the king of binomial nomenclature, used the classical Latin name fraxinus as the genus for ash trees and one hundred years later the American botanist John Torrey gave the species name velutina to the tree…
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What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. I love Condalia warnockii and friends who frequent the western deserts of Arizona love Condalia globosa…okay, me too. And now I’m adding Condalia correllii to my favorite spinescent shrub list…
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Sam and Petey review the Huskers season ending losses to Wisconsin and Iowa. Sam offers to send listeners the video of his debt paid after the Iowa game. The boys give a grade to Coach Rhule for the season and offer their most intense criticism of the Rhule era. CAUTION: LANGUAGE Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the willow jabbered about in this episode. It was the American botanist Carleton Roy Ball, a Salix specialist (geek), who honored Goodding with the species name. One of the things that caught my attention w…
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All the plants and their communities I was excitedly jabbering about are in the borderlands year round, but the sandhill cranes are only here for the winter months. You can google sandhill cranes and come up with some places to see them out in Cochise County. Here’s a few places where we look for them: the Whitewater Draw is probably the best known…
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Sam and Petey get into Petey's disdain for Iowa Hawkeye fans wearing their jersey to home Creighton basketball games when they normally cheer the Jays. Sam responds and advises Petey to simplify his life. Sam and Petey discuss the results of the latest loss to Maryland and evaluate the Huskers chances for the rest of the season and beyond. Quarterb…
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When Ms. Mesquitey and I gather acorns to plant we bag up hundreds, but I can never resist nabbing a few if I see some still on an oak…thus the acorns in my pocket. It would be hard to go into a woodland or forest in southeastern Arizona and not see acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus) or Mexican jays (Aphelocoma ultramarina)…they are quite …
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Sam and Petey discuss where the Nebraska Cornhuskers are at in the season after their win over Purdue and their loss to Michigan State. They give their thoughts on the Maryland game and beyond. They also give shout outs to Matt Rhule and Will Compton. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this particular population of Lemmon’s milkweed for a few years. I’m guessing that as long as we’re in the area, we’ll continue to stop by for a visit. And yes, I did grab a couple seed pods (follicles) from a pla…
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Sam and Petey catch up and compare notes after two consecutive Nebraska wins. Sam compares Petey's recent 30 mile Spartan race with Husker's season. Sam talks about taking a friend to her first football game and her impressions. Both the guys give their predictions for the Purdue game. Support the show…
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Sam and Petey review the Michigan game, and the season so far. A thoughtful conversation ensues about the state of the Nebraska fan psyche. Predictions are given for the Illinois game. And Bussin' for the Boys........we are coming for you! Support the show
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Sam and Petey discuss Nebraska's first win of the season over Northern Illinois. They dive into the quarterback controversy, the loss of top two running backs to injury, and what they thought of Thomas Fidone's shushing of the crowd. Score predictions are given for Louisiana Tech game. Support the show…
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Sam and Petey review the disappointing loss to the Colorado Buffaloes. Sam goes into a rant about Nebraska fan expectations and has a special message for Sam McKewon at the Omaha World Herald. Sam and Petey give their predictions for Nebraska's game against Northern Illinois. Support the show
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Sam and Petey review the agonizing loss to the Minnesota Gophers, preview the Colorado game, and talk about the Nebraska Volleyball Day success. Support the show
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Sam and Petey walk through the 2023 schedule and make their preseason predictions for the 2023 Nebraska football team. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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Sam and Petey are back to discuss Nebraska football under the new regime of Matt Rhule. They talk about the spring game, recruiting, NIL, and other recent sports news. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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In the season finale, Sam and Petey discuss the Huskers win over Iowa, their appreciation for Mickey Joseph, their thoughts on Matt Rhule as the new head coach, a quick season recap, and their future plans for this podcast. Support the show
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Sam and Petey opine in absolute misery over the Husker's one point loss to Wisconsin. Discussion of failing in it's own Big 10 division ensues. Speculation of the coaching search and recruitment needs are discussed, And finally the Iowa game is discussed. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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Husker Fan is Tougher than Husker Player
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Sam talks about his trip to the Big House. Sam and Petey review the Michigan game, and talk about the coaching rumor du jour of Matt Rhule. Wisconsin predictions are made contingent on the Huskers starting quarterback. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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Sam and Petey discuss Nebraska's disappointing loss to Minnesota. They discuss how the loss may or may not effect Mickey Joseph's fate. They also discuss if Tom Osborne should have any say in the coaching process. They give predictions for the Michigan game and talk about Sam's plans to attend. Support the show…
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Where do Sam and Petey stand after the loss to Illinois? Are they still on the Mickey Joseph bandwagon? How will Nebraska do going into the most important month of the season? Who will the next coach of the Huskers? A quick listen will answer ALL the questions. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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Sam and Petey discuss the Husker's close loss to Purdue, their current thoughts on Mickey Joseph, the bye week, and their predictions for the Illinois game. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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You Fight One Bean, You Fight the Whole Burrito
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In this episode, Sam and Petey review the Nebraska win over Rutgers. They preview the Purdue game, and give their predictions. They also discuss the recent firing of Matt Rhule, and how he would fit into a head coaching role at Nebraska. As a bonus, they discuss the Chiefs close win against the Raiders on Monday night football, and the fallout from…
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Petey and Sam discuss Nebraska's first win by Interim Coach Mickey Joseph over the Indiana Hoosiers. They are cautiously optimistic about the direction of the program, and agree that Nebraska fans are pulling for Coach Joseph. They discuss some of the positive changes that they saw, and their guarded expectations for the future. They also discuss t…
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Sam and Petey discuss the Husker's loss to Oklahoma, and interim Coach Mickey Joseph's firing of Eric Chinander. Are the Huskers at the bottom of the barrel? Can Mickey Joseph make progress in the coming weeks? Does Mickey deserve a little patience? Support the show
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Frost Warning Expired; Clear Skies Ahead?
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Sam and Petey discuss their predicted outcome of the Scott Frost firing. They discuss their support of Trev Alberts and new interim coach Mickey Joseph. And finally they discuss potential new head coaches for the Nebraska football team and their prediction for Oklahoma. Support the showOleh Sam Fischer
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More Barry Sanders and less Tik Tok
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Sam and Petey discuss the Huskers victory over North Dakota, ending a 7 game losing streak. Discussion of areas of improvement and expectations of the Georgia Southern game are covered. Sam explains why the Huskers should be more like Barry Sanders and concern themselves with less Tik Tok celebrations. Support the show…
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Sam and Petey discuss the Nebraska Cornhuskers season opener loss to the Northwestern Wildcats in Dublin, Ireland. Predictions for Scott Frost and the rest of the year are also pondered. Support the show
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Sam Fischer and Petey Johnson walk through the 2022 Nebraska football schedule and lay out their expectations for the season and the podcast. Will Scott Frost prove them wrong? Support the show
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Petey’s Place #1 Baseball Positivity
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My friend Jake Richardson and I talk about baseball and positivity. This is the first episode, so I wanna say that this in a podcast based entirely on the interests of our guests. Hope you enjoy
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