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 Prosen. I'm a sitting

alongside the Casey Clap shut your mouth. He's here. He's in the building. Oh my God. Get

a coffee. Thank goodness he hasn't left the building in an Elvis sort of way.

I'm sitting next to Casey. Casey. He's disappeared into the vents. I am here. That's

actually I make my escapes. Usually I just crawl into the vents so I can get out and

no one knows where I am. Yeah. Every time you enter a new building, you ask the manager

about the vent work. Yeah. What kind of age fact do you guys have? Is it like four-star?

Can I have a map? Big stuff. Yeah. I'd like to check that out. Thanks.

Casey, we have no time to dilly-dally. We have none at all. We have several points of order

to get to at the top of the show. I will start and then you have something to do. But we

have something to do together here. Yes, we are. Which is a call to action, calling all

fungal associates. Everyone, you're very important to us. That's right. Without you, the show

would be nothing. That's true. And yet we come to you asking for a favor. If you listen to

this show, if you enjoy this show, if you're a fan of this show, Casey and I are asking you

to please rate and review. Oh, I, a bit of me feels like a YouTuber right now.

I know. You know, like, hey, like and subscribe. Yeah, this is the tacky unfortunate part of having

a algorithm. Yeah, exactly. We are part of the system, unfortunately. And we want more people to

listen to our show. We want to spread the word. And the absolute best way to do that is for

people to rate and review our show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, whichever platform you use.

You can even rate on a platform you don't use. That would be great. It feels so inclined.

Here's how it works. There's an algorithm that runs the entire world. We call it the matrix.

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