Arboreal Corn (Monterey Pine)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What do you get when you treat trees like corn? A plantation, of course. And a whole lot of Monterey pine (Pinus radiata). A tree that grows stubby and wonky in its native range, the Monterey pine grows like a poster child for logging in New Zealand, where its stick-straight form makes it the tree of choice for an unthinkably large swath of logging land. But oh, that cone...

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0:00.0	What's up fungal associates, welcome to completely arbitrary, the podcast about trees and other
0:11.7	related topics.
0:12.7	I am one of your hosts, my name is Alex Croson.
0:16.0	And I am another host co-host, Casey Clap, they call me C-H-C-C.
0:22.9	C-H-C-C.
0:23.9	Honestly, I had to, I'm very petrified of doing anything with a cuss sound in it because
0:29.6	you know, it could be a K or C.
0:31.6	Right.
0:32.6	So I was like, Casey, say the acronym in your brain first before you say it out loud right
0:36.6	now.
0:37.6	It sounded a bit like the USS R.
0:39.6	Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:40.6	Or the C-C.
0:41.6	C-C.
0:42.6	Bank in the C-H-C.
0:44.6	Is that good?
0:47.6	That was a perfect Paul McCartney impression.
0:49.6	Oh, thank you.
0:50.6	That really is nice of you to say.
0:52.6	Are you a fan of the Beatles case?
0:54.6	I am not really, but kind of, you know, I don't know how to say it.
0:59.3	There are some songs that I really enjoy that, you know, there's good songs.
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