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Completely Arbortrary

Botreemian Sapsody (Kentucky Coffeetree)

Completely Arbortrary

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Oh, Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus), how we love you (please love us back). A tree living out of its time that makes every effort to thwart attention and interaction, the Kentucky coffeetree may be the most curmudgeonly tree ever discussed on Completely Arbortrary. Learn about indigenous dice games, ecological anachronism, poisonous parts and scarification—this truly is a tree that hurts to know and must be hurt to grow.

Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals

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0:00.0

What's up, Fungal Associates. It's welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about

0:09.2

trees and other related topics. I can be like a, my name is Alex Croason, by the way.

0:15.2

Hi, this is Casey Clap, continue Alex. I feel like I could, I could be like a local

0:21.3

kind of like independent wrestling announcer. Dude, you should do that. You know we have

0:26.2

a local independent wrestling crew here. Yes, I forget what it's called.

0:31.4

Gorilla something. Yeah, I guess I don't remember what it is either. Okay, but I've always wanted to

0:35.3

go. In fact, last week we thanked Rainy, my friend Rainy, who works with Nakamoto Forestry.

0:41.9

Yes. She likes to go to this local like like amateur wrestling night. Oh wow. She says it's a

0:47.3

bunch of fun. I bet it's a blast. Yeah. You know that it's that it's you know this show, right?

0:52.2

Yeah. Yeah. And so I like that they're like, well, we're gonna do it too, but it's like all

0:56.0

local people having a great time. Yeah. Yuckin it up and you're just like, yeah. That's a lot of fun.

1:00.5

It's like going to amateur baseball, you know? Yes, totally. You're just there to have a good time

1:05.1

and root on your pickles. That's it. Everybody raises the stakes for themselves because it's just

1:10.6

more fun that way. Yeah, exactly. If you just compare it to, you know, the MLB. Yeah.

1:15.8

It's like, yeah, this isn't that great. Right? No offense to any pickle players out there.

1:19.5

Hey, yeah, they're doing they're doing very great. Casey Alex. My friend, Dan. Okay.

1:25.5

A host of the podcast Dan Cable presents that I was on. Yeah. He is on a hockey team called

1:31.9

the Portland Pine Cones. I love that so much. And they have I think I think it's like their version

1:37.6

of like an MPV MPV. MPV? What am I trying to say? MVP. Okay. Yeah. I like most person valuable.

1:46.7

Most personable value. That is a hold on to your butts. It's a necklace. Yeah.

1:57.4

That they give to the MPV of a golden pine cone. That is that's that's copyright infringement.

2:05.8

I'm no longer his friend. We've sent our lawyers after that. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to take

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