Chuck Bryant

They are a woodland tree, also could be called a shrub, and they grow in a pretty narrow area between, well, they're subtropical along the coastlines, first of all, but they grow between, literally between the terrestrial and the marine environment in salty brackish water.

Agreed.

They exist in 118 countries.

And here in the United States, in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, and I thought, oh, surely the Georgia coast is so close to Florida.

Surely they've got some mangroves.

Not quite.

I did see some people that were like, oh, so mangroves.

But it's not true.

It looks like the closest mangroves are about 40 miles from the Georgia border near the Georgia coastline.

So I was really sad that we don't have our mangroves.

That is sad.

But they do have them in Florida and Louisiana and Texas and in Mexico.

You've never stood on the equator.

And I think I should.

You can't be to blame.

Well, we should go sometime.

We should do a podcast live from the equator.

I know I will.

Yeah, I would too.

I'm melting this week.