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Completely Arbortrary

The Other Wood Talk (Alaska Yellow-Cedar)

Completely Arbortrary

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

A tree of many names, the Alaska yellow-cedar is a quintissential conifer with a plethora of identities. And in this episode, we discuss the wood of conifers, and how it differs from the wood of its harder, more broad-leafed counterpart.

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

0:09.6

trees and other related topics my name is Alex Croson and as always I am here

0:14.8

with mr. Casey clap that's folk master clap to you Alex

0:19.5

folk master clap listen to this jam right now and the crotones oh yeah it's

0:25.2

actually just you just went to caveman okay let's let's just dress up as

0:30.4

obviously there's a there's a little bit of suspended disbelief there a caveman

0:36.0

themed funk band I feel like is it really appropriate sort of theme don't you think

0:41.8

could you just imagine like none of the musicians do they don't make any faces

0:47.7

they don't get into the music they just look like they just look like caveman up there

0:52.0

right I'm I'm thinking sort of cartoonish

0:55.2

Fred Flintstone style caveman oh yeah okay yeah how about this funk master clap and the uggs

1:03.1

and the uggs caveman wearing very velvety boots okay what do what is uggs where does

1:10.3

that come from ugg is like a is like a very like a tropic kind of caveman sound

1:16.5

yeah I got you know well I can see it played really well yeah it's my test audience I like

1:23.2

I like the cronins better cronins okay yeah crotones yeah I like the crotones the best well

1:29.4

Casey unfortunately we're not here to talk about funk we are here to talk about a wildly named

1:36.8

I'm talking scientific name yeah tree what a curious what scientific name you have chosen for

1:43.4

this well you're about to find out my friend yes I am this is the episode on Alaska yellow

1:51.1

cedar correct calatropsis newt Kate newt katensis oh I see you chose cally tropsis yes

2:00.2

ketensis interesting choice now can I ask why did you not choose say can we sipperous

2:07.6

newt katensis or zanthos i peris newt katensis or capresses newt katensis okay see I have a

2:17.1

feeling this is a leading question no no something we'll talk about this episode potentially

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