Never Tell Me The Odds (Koa)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Thick, thorough, and quite enjoyable, today's episode is all about the koa (Acacia koa) and its endemism on the 5 million year-old islands of Hawai'i. This special tree is unique in so many ways, we lost count: fake leaves, exploding bark, instrument wood... this tree's got it all. We also chat about Hawai'i, and the incredible odds of life landing, rooting, and thriving on these islands. After our discussion, we revisit some "night tree" quesitons from Alex's appearance on the songwriting podcast Honest Jams.

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0:00.0	What's up, fungal. Are you recording? Non-fungible associates? Non-fungible associates. What's
0:13.3	up, fungal associates? Welcome to completely arbitrary. The podcast about trees and other
0:17.8	related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Croson and I'm alongside as always
0:25.1	the indomitable Casey Clap. Thank you Alex. I appreciate being indomitable. I actually don't
0:30.6	know if I know what indomitable means. I honestly don't know if I do either. Well, it's
0:35.1	for another time, Casey. You know what? I usually like to think of is indefatigable. Indefatigable.
0:41.5	Yeah, it's basically like you are, you can't be fatigued. You're tireless. Indefatigable.
0:49.7	Yeah, it's like, it's like some big generals like indefatigable. I always keep pushing. Yeah.
0:55.5	That's how I've always thought about it. Indefatigable. And I feel like there might be like a name
1:00.0	of a ship somewhere that's like the indefatigable. Oh, wow. Okay. But I don't know. I could also
1:04.4	be not knowing just like you. There's just these big words that are complicated to say.
1:09.1	This could all be true or it could all be false. Yeah. Yeah. Who's to know? Well, hi everybody.
1:15.3	Welcome to our show. Casey. We got a big episode today. We do. We don't even have any time
1:20.6	to screw around. Yeah, let's give it 10 seconds. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm also good.
1:25.9	Wonderful. That only that took us a four. That was great. That's just fair. We're so efficient.
1:31.5	Yeah. Today we are talking about a tree as we are every week and this week. The tree is the
1:38.6	coa. Oh my god. Oh my coa. Casey, how many Hawaiian trees have we covered? Mango? Yeah. I
1:49.8	mean, I guess trees that can grow in Hawaii. Maybe more specifically. Maybe endemic trees.
1:54.8	Is this our first endemicly Hawaiian tree? No, we did cover the sandalwood. Oh, that's right.
1:59.9	Yes. That was Indian. Well, there are a couple different species. Oh, right. Okay. There definitely
2:04.7	is a native species to Hawaii. Got it. But allegedly, they've all been cut down.
2:11.8	So a lot of them are coming back for the sandalwood. But yeah, this is the, this is certainly one
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