Oh, hey, this is a Smologies episode, and what Smologies are, they are safe for kids, they're

g-rated, we cut them down, so they're much shorter, nobody swears in them.

If you want the full-length adult version, with more details and more swearing.

That is linked right in the show notes.

But for your carpool, for your classroom, here you go.

Smologies, let's have it.

Are you ready?

Okay, this episode will make you so pumped about trees.

You're going to be bummed about having skin and blood.

You're going to be so jealous of bark and sap.

And you'll have new Scrabble words,

and you'll start questioning if you should just string a

hammock up in the backyard and live outside like a big ape squirrel.

Okay, this is trees, you ready for trees?

Okay, so Dendro comes from ye old Greek meaning tree and if you're like that

why does that remind me of brain stuff? Well that's because the dendrite is a part of a nerve

cell that looks a lot like a tree.

So dendra. There you go, trees. So you've got trees in the brain.

You're going to have trees on the brain. After this, I'll tell you that much, you're going

to be pining for more arborist facts.

Okay.

So the term dendrologist is a little funky.

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