What's up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to the completely arboretum. The Patreon. Casey.

The place where dreams come true, Alex. That's right. Wow. Yeah, I've got you agreed with that.

If you didn't agree to it, I would have been a little bit hurt. Yes, and. Am I right? Yes, and. Oh, God.

It's not hyperbolic, Casey, because today we have a very special episode. We do tell us about it.

We have friends of the pod and podcasters themselves. Lizzy Falconer and Jen Thomas from the podcast. Shorts.

Hi, you guys. Hello. Hi. Hi. I have to admit, every time I say the name of your show, I want to say Schwartz.

Like, like, like Schwartz, the name, you know? Oh, like yogurt. Exactly. Straight from Space Balls, the movie Schwartz.

That'll be our spin-off show. Okay. Good. Are you just talk about the different themes of Space Ball movies and other things by.

Mel Brooks. Be a great one. Exactly. Anyway, I just wanted to share. Casey. No, we'll always take that creative feedback, Casey.

Yeah, I love it. Yeah, anytime someone wants an opinion, just let me know. I'm here. Casey's consulting on your next podcast idea. That's how we view it.

I invent the podcast idea, consult on it, then charge you for it. Wow. Absolutely. This is going well so far.

Hello, Lizzy. Hello, Jen. Welcome to the show. Why don't you, why don't we do this sort of open,

all a cart style and have you introduce yourselves? Lizzy, let's start with you.

Okay. Thanks. Thanks, Alex. Thanks, Casey. And hi, fungal associates. Hello. Nice to meet you all virtually via the pod.

My name's Lizzy Falconer. And I'm the co-host of Schwartz. I live in Portland, Oregon. And I'm super excited to talk with you guys today about this short story.

We're super excited to have you, Lizzy. Jen, what's up?

Well, I am the only person here who's not in Portland. So that's true.

I'm already feeling like I'm going to have to do some work here. You got to make up for the hipness.

There's none of that over here in London. We're not, we're not so hip. We've got other things going for us.

What have you guys ever led on? Mod? Was that a thing? That was hip. Oh, no. Oh, no. I have no one from the UK listens to this.

Do we not talk about mod? I don't know. I don't know. I don't even know what mod is. Shoot. Start the whole thing over.

I mean, I'm not going to sit here and just talk about like the queen, et cetera. But I can do if that's required.

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