Okay, Brad, did you see the mushroom story about the elves?

I'm just going to pull the curtain back.

You messaged it to me on Discord, but as a spoilered URL, saying, don't click on this, save it for next week.

This is cold open material.

In fairness, I originally sent it without the spoiler tag.

And then I edited the spoiler tag in immediately because I messed up the spoiler tag. Well, see, here I've spent the entire last week blaming Discord's notifications or maybe the Apple Watch's notifications. At any rate, the URL came to my watch unspoilered. Okay. So I got, I got, let's say, a little bit of a preview of whatever's going on here. But yeah, look, five days, especially in the Kermit climate, turns out to be plenty of time to

forget everything about that interaction.

So hit me.

Okay.

So this is from a BBC article that popped up in one of my feeds someplace.

And I was like, oh, this is cold open material.

There's a mysterious mushroom that grows in the Yunnan province of China that when you eat

it if it has not been cooked enough, everyone who eats it is hit with strikingly odd and

similar symptoms, which is that you see visions of pint-sized people marching under doors, crawling up walls, clinging to furniture.

The hospital in the region where these mushrooms grow treats hundreds of these cases every year,

and they grow on time trees and people forage for them.

And you have to cook them.

When you go to a hot pot place there, they set a timer for the mushrooms.

A, this mushroomologist, a mycologist, said, I was there, I heard about this. I went to the hot pot place, a hot pop mushroom restaurant, which, like, I'm going to tell you, I would be in for a mushroom hot pot restaurant, just mushrooms. Okay. But, but he's like, they, they, they set a timer and they tell you, don't eat this until the timer goes off or you might see little people. Wait. Yeah. It's a selling point to not see little people? I think generally speaking, hallucinating small people is a bad idea. I don't know. I mean, that was going to be my first question. Would you try it?

Oh,

hell yeah.

No,

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