What's up fungal associates welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about trees and other related topics I am one of your hosts

My name is Alex Croston. I'm alongside as always the incredible the edible

Spreadable Casey clap good afternoon everyone. It's a delightful day here on the Great Pacific Northwest

The kind of day that you think I live in the Pacific Northwest

That's right is extremely blustery and windy

Rain and rainy and cozy I might say quite mild though. I was outside and I wore a t-shirt. Oh, yeah

Yeah, yeah, and then the other thing we were talking about this right beforehand

So my aunt you I don't think you've ever met her. No, I have not yeah her name's Marty

She has a she has podcast. I can't believe like we're both this the silly singing family

She's an artist. She's a musician. I told you this that my uncle. He also plays the bass guitar. Yep

And I told him I was like I listen Andy. I can't sing and he laughed at me right in my face

And he's like you're a clap. Of course you can sing is this the guy who also like makes amps. Yes

Yeah, he makes amps from scratch really cool together super cool folks

My whole side of that family my grandma's a music teacher

But so she's got this podcast called Marty's music kitchen and I totally I'm remiss I failed to put it together

That she's just putting she's putting together cookbook right based on this podcast

Which is her she like finds these local musicians and before the pandemic they would get together in her kitchen

Or in their kitchen make a meal while listening to music and discussing music things. She's a jazz musician a jazz singer

So she's putting together this this cool cookbook and it just came out last month

So everyone should go check it out. We'll put a link

But it's a it's a cookbook and I figured well shoot we're doing an entire episode

Yeah, our final episode Alex about food and food trees

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