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Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when the way of life that you evolved over millions of years was rendered useless in the blink of an eye? Something very similar to that happened to the Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera) at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, and it wasn't alone.

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 welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about
0:10.7	trees and other related topics I am one of your hosts my name is Alex Croson I'm
0:15.1	sitting alongside Casey clap Casey clap indeed you waved your hand at me I knew
0:21.1	that was my cue yes I gave you a sort of a no presenting now Casey now say
0:27.1	something hi different from my usual rapid up symbol yeah exactly usually
0:31.8	like Casey it's been three hours I have to edit this down to two yeah then
0:36.2	edit another hour off that anyway Casey how you doing Alex I'm doing great
0:40.7	I just feel nice how are you I'm okay yeah a little under the weather
0:45.3	well yes for a couple of reasons yeah it's true Casey we would like we want
0:51.8	okay we want to reveal something here everyone Casey and I have been a little
0:57.3	sick lately mm-hmm we had COVID COVID-19 yes the worst case and I got
1:06.5	COVID yeah right after the live show actually yeah so that we were both like
1:12.3	and then boom we're all like well now we're not gonna talk for about two
1:17.7	weeks yes Casey and I celebrated the end of the live show yeah he got a phone
1:22.4	call and immediately it was like I tested positive the energy was sucked from
1:27.6	the room yeah so Casey and I both tested positive we did our part I've been
1:34.2	inside for 15 days because right after I finished my quarantine I got
1:39.3	food poisoning yeah that honestly we were gonna get back together that day
1:43.2	because then we both we're done with our quarantine yeah oh well didn't happen
1:48.0	I I got back-to-backed there a bit and it's still has it's still it's still with
1:52.7	me yeah yeah yeah yeah and you know what the COVID still with me I think because
1:56.5	it's it's I don't know it feels it feels to me like it's just a lingering like
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