3, 2. 1, and we're live.

Hello, Paul.

Hey, what's happening?

How are you, sir?

Very well, how are you?

And you have newfangled mushroom hat.

These are surprisingly durable.

So the thing about these mushroom hats, there, you would think, oh, it's going to fall apart in your fingers. But no, it's got, like, it's quite pliable.

It's quite pliable and it's known as German felt. And this allowed the Iceman

Otzi to be able to travel into the Alps.

It was a fire starter mushroom.

Really? And this actually revolutionized warfare because it helped Flint spark guns ignite the gunpowder.

Really?

So it's Amadu and it comes from a birch polypore mushroom which is a subject of much of our research these days.

Now when this grows in the wild what does it

look like because this is you've fashioned it into this hat or had someone

fashion. Some ladies it looks like? Yeah some ladies in Transylvania. Yes like yeah yeah it's called

Fomies from interiors it allowed for the portability of fire there's no doubt we all

came from Africa we went north and we discovered winter. This allowed for fire to be

carried for days and so your clan was absolutely dependent upon fire starting in order to

survive the winter and this mushroom allowed and enabled people to survive.

Wow, it's very light.

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