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Mushrooms Many Way with Matt McInnis – Epi-3717

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Matt McInnis is a co-founder of North Spore. He joins us today to discuss mushroom cultivation as a great year-round source of food and medicine. And how mushrooms can provide high protein food, be grown indoors or outdoors in small spaces. Matt has been leading the creative vision and strategy of North Spore for over eleven years, producing engaging and informative video content for North Spore’s YouTube channel and Substack while leading a team of other content producers and running the business with his two co-founders. Matt is passionate about sharing his love for mushrooms with others, and inspiring them Continue reading →

Transcript

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0:00.0

there's a better way to do this

0:05.6

let me show you a better way

0:12.3

you don't have to be

0:17.4

and we are alive just one minute late

0:20.2

you guys know I don't like to be late at all, but sometimes it happens. I was having some pre-show conversation with Matt, which is an awesome dude. I think we're going to have a great show today talking about mushrooms. I found North Spore this year. I think I saw an ad for them on Facebook or something like that. And as you guys know, I've always been into mushrooms.

0:38.1

I love mushrooms.

0:39.4

I love to eat mushrooms.

0:40.7

I love to find mushrooms.

0:42.4

And I grew up in central Pennsylvania where mushrooms were everywhere.

0:46.8

I watched stuff come up online and I see people posting pictures so happy.

0:51.5

They found like chicken in the woods.

0:53.5

And I'm like,

0:54.0

it's a great mushroom

0:54.9

I missed the days when it was a second tier mushroom they were everywhere we used to go out and

0:59.4

get matakis which are head of the woods and morals and chanterelles and all kinds of stuff even

1:04.7

puffballs if you get them early enough and down here it's really hard so when I saw some of the

1:09.7

equipment that they offered that's what really turned me on And I was going to get a monotub, and I thought, well, maybe they'll sell me one of these boomrooms at cost. I reached out to one of their people on Twitter X, and they sent me a boom room for free just for reviewing it. That was about two months ago. I've grown more mushrooms in two months than the last two years combined, at least.

1:30.4

Now I'm getting mushrooms popping up in my garden because I'm throwing spent blocks in there.

1:34.0

I picked that up from some videos they did as well.

1:36.6

This is going to be a great show.

1:37.9

And mushrooms are awesome because you grow them indoors or out.

1:41.5

They're high in protein relative to other things anyway. They're not as high

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