Hey everybody, Casey here. This is our fifth year making completely arbitrary. And to celebrate our

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What's up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to Completely Arbitrary Season X. Oh, it's the show about trees. Oh, he panicked. He got too intense. I had to switch back to my normal character. It's the podcast about trees and other related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Crozen. Of course, over there on the big green couch. We have Casey Clap. This is me. Normal character.

Alex, I have an existential question for you. Hit me.

If you are playing your normal character, is that a character? Or is that just,

you? That's a character. That's normal character.

So normal character is like, like you're the species variety. You're just, you're just, you're, uh, null hypothesis. It's called masking, my friend. Even when I am myself, I am someone else. No. Like Patrick, like Patrick Bateman. Who are you? Wow. Okay. I'm nothing like Patrick Bateman. Who's Patrick Bateman? American Psycho. Oh, I'm thinking Jason Bateman. Yes, of course. Huh. Not the guy I'm thinking of. Not psychotic. However, he is American. He has been known to do a more intense thriller type of things more recently. That's true. He's getting into that. Ozark. I heard Ozark is great. I've heard Ozark is great. I like Jason Bateman quite a bit. I know I'm from his best role, which is from Arrested Development. The best television comedy ever made. Yep. Say no more. Yeah. Casey, as much as I would fucking love it, this show is not about TV.

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