what's up fungal associates welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about

trees and other related topics I'm one of your hosts my name is Alex Croce and

I'm a sitting I'm a sitting alongside a cross from the Casey clap that's me

Casey clap everyone welcome start your engines we're about to take a trip

down the california highway wow maybe we'll drive our car through a tree

oh that's destructive Alex well it's not what you think all right all right

hi Casey hi Alex how are you I'm okay how are you I'm happy to hear that I'm

also okay great this is our should we reveal pull back the curtain a little

yeah we should take the veil away this is our second record of the day our

first record is last week's episode yep the giant Sequoia Sequoia dendron

gigantic him that's right now this is a two-parter that's right I'm so excited

about this our first two-parter yes our first two-parter of the unseason

where we can do whatever the hell we want this is freedom so the two-parter

being the giant Sequoia and this week's tree sort of a two-parter of huge trees

that's the theme yes and more specifically the the rest of it is like I

wanted to make sure to try to split these two trees apart I wanted if we did

them right next to each other then we can compare and contrast right in front

of each other yeah and not have anyone be like oh yeah they did a thing on the

redwoods like no we did it on the giant Sequoia right this one we're just

gonna do both right off the bat so that way everyone is just gonna be like

okay yeah they did they did though that tree those trees and then those just

have to listen to the episodes figure out there is it that tree or those

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