Hey everybody. Welcome to the Here We Are Podcast. I have a fantastic episode for you today and my co-host from last week. She's not the co-host on this episode but I thought

she'd have a little bit to say here because we mentioned last week that I

don't know a thing about plants and ecology and Sophia Rockland she's's the plant lady. She's joining me on the head talks to her traveling all around the country.

Check out Shane Moss MAUS.com to find out more about where we're going and within that travels we sometimes listen to some

audio books on libro dot fm and then we also sometimes go listen and take some classes. We've been taking some

courses plus classes and I have mine that I've enjoyed listening to, especially Robert

Sapolsky, which Sophia can tell you I'm always blabbing about Robert Zepolsky and how he's my hero and just reciting,

regurgitating things that I've learned from his classes on the great courses plus and we just

started a new one I don't know a thing about plants and it's called Plant Science

an Introduction to Botany like I said last week trying to start filling in the

gaps I want to start getting some botanists on the show and talking a little bit

more about ecology and that sort of thing that we don't talk about much on the podcast and this is how I

This is a big part of how I learn you can go and

Watch the great courses plus programs on your computer and get all the great

videos and everything and I often just don't have time for that because there is a lot of time in a car when you're touring.

Did you have any idea how much time you're going to be spending in a car this

year, Sophia?

A sore subject.

All right, that's not talk about it. Let's not talk about it. So our subject. Nervously laughing.

Let's not talk about it.

So we just started this plant science and introduction to botany.

And the great thing about great courses is there's a zillion different

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